Yoga Master Fred Busch shares his thoughts and wisdom on Health, Yoga, the Environment and Current Events.
Fred is the founder of Miami Yoga and Brickell Hot Yoga in Florida, USA.
FRED Busch is director of HOT POWER Yoga Teacher Training in studios in Miami, New York, Denver, London, Malta, Moscow, Lima, and Bogota. Power Yoga Teacher Trainings and retreats are also offered at FRED Busch's Salamadhi Ranch in Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
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Many who worry about Alzheimer's disease because a parent suffered from this disabling type of dementia are told that because it’s genetic there’s nothing to do but wait and see. Well it turns out there’s a lot they can do and it all has to do with diet – especially the elimination of saturated fats. Saturated fats are found primarily in animal foods - in meat (including chicken and other poultry), whole-milk dairy products (cheese, milk, yogurt and ice cream), eggs, and (although to a lesser degree) seafood.
A heavily plant-based diet will offset anyone’s chances of developing dementia, even if they are supposedly “genetically predisposed” to get the disease. Here’s what Dr. Barnard has to say...
"The key theme with the food topic is that eating more intelligently is not difficult, and that people don’t have to eat 100% different or change in any kind of major way; in fact, if they just change a little bit at a time, that is called a positive feedback cycle, and it is has snowball effect. So if only one time someone were going to grab a candy bar but instead they grab an apple or a banana and that only happened once in the next 55 years, don't think that is insignificant. One of the big mistakes that we all make in our life is assuming if we are not doing it all the way, why do it at all, and that is one of those mental traps where we are not able to do anything that's anything intelligent because we just think that if we don't do it so perfectly, we better just skip it. The fact is, if we just do very small things, it makes a huge difference, not a small difference. It's positive feedback cycle, you do one smart thing, it makes you stronger mentally and physically, giving you the potential to do another smart thing later on, and it builds up like a snow ball and eventually it just becomes very easy to act more intelligently.
"The body works in a way that it is constantly using a vast majority of its vitality or the vast majority of its energy is dedicated into the digestive system and the organs of simulation, intestines and stomach, basically absorbing 70% of your energy in your daily life. The reason is, we are all eating food that we are not biologically adapted to eat. And so we end up living a lifestyle where most of our energy is being diverted down a different stream not really being used for our own benefit. Your organs repair themselves when you eat less. When you don't eat, your body begins to detox and cleanse itself."
Highly recommended that you set aside some time to watch the following video...
The ultimate natural cure for many diseases common to our advanced culture is largely related to the presence of enzymes in raw food. The lack of enzymes in processed and cooked foods often causes these foods to become a burden to our bodies and this ultimately results in a variety of health problems. This article and the video that follows addresses this very important health issue.
Enzymes are an extremely important key to a healthy life; actually they are essential to life itself. No enzymes, no life. All the digestive enzymes in our food are destroyed by processing, cooking and baking, and when we eat these foods the body has to draw the necessary enzymes to digest this “dead” food from the body organs which in turn become unbalanced. Most of the processed foods available in our supermarkets are void of enzymes. Research has shown that this can cause conditions that support a host of degenerative diseases. Fortunately, by eating raw food and/or taking enzyme supplements helps to restore our health and then maintain a state of optimal health.
Natural enzymes from living food work directly with the body's pancreatic enzymes; when we don't have an abundant supply, our digestion is impaired. The more processed foods we eat, the fewer enzymes we have and the more difficult it becomes to properly digest and assimilate the food we eat.
living foods contain living enzymes.
Think of enzymes as the 'spark of life'. Without enzymes, our bodies do not properly break down food; for that reason we do not absorb the necessary vitamins, minerals and amino acids which are the basis of optimal health. Our immune system, bloodstream, liver, kidneys, spleen and pancreas are especially dependent on sufficient enzymes for proper digestive function. Without enough enzymes, our white blood cells try to duplicate the function of these missing enzymes, usually leaving one feeling tired or lethargic after eating; a common response to compromise the immune system. Enzymes are responsible for every single biochemical reaction that occurs in living matter. All living things depend on enzymes.
In the above video Fred Mentions AFA (Aphanizomenon flos-aquae) which literally means "invisible living flower of water" in Greek. If you would like more information on this product contact American Nutrition Institute directors by visiting this page.