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Sauerkraut RecipeOrganic ingredients
Basic recipe: 1 Organic Cabbage ½ Red cabbage 2 Carrots Handful of parsley 2 Tbsp Himalayan or Sea Salt (do not use table salt) Shred all ingredients into large bowl. Kneed, rub, massage mixture until it breaks down and produces juice. This usually takes 5 to 10 minutes Put into sterilized Anchor jars. Store in cool, dark place for at least two weeks, a month is better as it produces more probiotics, two months is even better. Once you open it, keep it in the fridge. Curtido Recipe: Hot and Spicy Salvadorean Sauerkraut 1 Large Organic Cabbage 1 Onion 2 Carrots 2 Jalapeño peppers – cored, seeded and diced 2 Tbsp oregano ½ to 1 Tsp red chilli peppers 2 Cloves garlic 2 Tbsp Himalayan or Sea Salt Chop or shred these ingredients. You can use a food processor or chop with knife as I did. Shred all ingredients into large bowl. Kneed, rub, massage mixture until it breaks down and produces juice. This usually takes 5 to 10 minutes Put into sterilized Anchor jars. Cover in liquid before you seal. Store in cool, dark place for at least two weeks, a month is better as it produces more probiotics, two months is even better. Once you open it, keep it in the fridge. Enjoy!! |
Probiotics for
Gut Health A healthy gut is a healthy immune system. It was recently reported that sauerkraut topped the charts of probiotics, surpassing that of over-the -counter probiotics purchased. Dr. Mercola sent his sauerkraut off to a lab and reported the findings of probiotics saying, “We had it analyzed. We found in a 4-6 ounce serving of the fermented vegetables there were literally ten trillion bacteria.” 2 ounces of home fermented sauerkraut had more probiotics than a bottle of 100 count probiotic capsules. In The Gluten Summit, 2013, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD, told Dr. Tom O’Bryan, ““With every mouthful of sauerkraut you’re consuming billions of beneficial microbes which will be killing the pathogens in your gut driving them out and replenishing the beneficial flora in your digestive tract.” The probiotic count of store-bought, shelf stable sauerkraut does not compare to home-brewed sauerkraut. People who do have unbalanced gut flora with an overpopulation of bad gut bacteria pathogens experience die-off symptoms such as diarrhea, rash, cold-like symptoms, flu-like symptoms, etc. Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride recommends starting with one teaspoon and looking for die-off symptoms then gradually increasing the amount daily or weekly depending on what your body can handle. Stick with it, it will be worth the effort. |
Fermented Foods Improve HealthDr. Natasha Campbell-McBride is a formally trained Russian neurologist developed what might be one of the most profoundly important treatment strategies for a wide range of neurological, psychological, and autoimmune disorders.
Her Gut and Psychology Syndrome, and Gut and Physiology Syndrome (GAPS) Nutritional program is vitally important for MOST people, as the majority of people have such poor gut health due to poor diet and toxic exposures. Abnormalities in your immune system are a common outcome of GAPS, and such immune abnormalities are at the root of virtually all degenerative diseases. "Why is that? It's because about 85 percent of our immune system is located in the gut wall," she says. "This fact has been established by basic physiology research in the 1930s and the 1940s. Your gut, your digestive wall, is the biggest and the most important immune organ in your body. There is a very tight conversation and a relationship going on between the gut flora that lives inside your digestive system, and your immune system... Your gut flora—the state of the gut flora and the composition of microbes in your gut flora—has a profound effect on what forms of immune cells you will be producing on any given day, what they're going to be doing, and how balanced your immune system is." How Your Gut Flora Directs Your Immune System. There are two primary "arms" in your immune system: Th1 immunity is responsible for normal reactions to anything in your environment, from pollen to animal dandruff, dust mites, chemicals, food and anything else you come into contact with. Th1 is kept robust and healthy by your gut flora. As long as your gut flora is normal, you will have no adverse symptoms when exposed to these types of environmental influences, but if your gut flora is abnormal, your Th1 become increasingly disabled Th2 immunity is designed to address immune functions inside your body, and is not equipped to handle environmental influences. However, it will try to compensate if your Th1 becomes disabled. Unfortunately, since it's not properly equipped for this job, it ends up dealing with environmental influences like pollen and foods in an inappropriate way; the end result of which is allergies and intolerances. It's important to realize that food allergies and intolerances are a very different group of allergies from the more acute anaphylactic allergies. Food intolerances caused by disabled Th1 (due to abnormal gut flora) are not mediated by the same immunoglobulin as the true allergies are. The key to resolving your health issues is NOT to determine which foods you're reacting to in order to avoid them. Rather you need to focus on healing your gut lining, because this is the most likely root of your problem. Focus on healing and sealing your gut lining instead. Then these food allergies and intolerances will disappear, and you will be able to eventually start eating foods that you could not tolerate before." The immune system gets quite a lot of this toxicity, so... we have a poor immune system—it is malnourished; it is intoxicated; it is unbalanced, and, at the same time, it is challenged with a huge amount of work to do. Of course, it cannot function properly. Of course, it cannot react appropriately to various things. Autoimmunity is the result of that." Unfortunately, conventional medicine is largely ignorant about this research, and does not view autoimmune disorders as digestive disorders, which Dr. McBride is convinced is the case. The Importance of Fermented Foods Fermented foods not only give you a wider variety of beneficial bacteria, they also give you far more of them, so it's a much more cost effective alternative. |