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My friend’s 3 year old child undergoing speech therapy?

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My best friend’s child is undergoing speech therapy.  He says his boy is already 3 years old and not talking yet.  What’s worse is that speech therapy sessions cost P 5,000 + per week!

I had the obvious suggestion.  Stop watching television.  He says his son doesn’t watch television.  I said one time at lunch I saw the nannies pop up a DVD and let his children watch some kiddie film.  He says they do watch videos.  I said, videos are just as bad.  The conversations are scripted and require no involvement from the children.  Children should be having natural conversations with adults, never television… including videos… it’s not just the television advertisements and the inane topics, it is also those kiddie videos that are harmful… especially for growing minds.

Children’s minds are blank… they have to network and build while growing up.  Watching a television screen is unnatural… they need personal, face to face, adult contact so they can participate in real conversations.  Take a look at those poor children watching a movie or a video or a tv program… they are hypnotized zombies.  Their minds are shut down and stunted.  Same for adults.

I don’t consider myself really much smarter potentially than other people in the realm of health… it’s just that I don’t watch television so my mind is free to grow and learn.  Stop watching television and you will see how simply logical and methodical cancer cures and other disease cures are.

Nannie Slips and Falls Bad, Chiropractor to the Rescue

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Our number one nannie slipped in the dressing room.  Very bad fall.  She hit her lower back in a step of stone.  Too much pain.  They called for the nearest local massage expert “aling Betty”.  Not much she could do, maybe some relief.

My wife got an appointment with the Chiropractor Dr. Brush.  Luckilly he had a slot available and last Saturday afternoon I drove our nannie to the chiropractor.  Dr. Brush said it was truly a bad fall.  A big dislocation and nerve pinching as a result.  He was able to move the dislocated part, but it needed a second visit to finish the job.

So last Tuesday our driver drove our nannie to the chiropractor again.  This time the nannie said it seems Dr. Brush has fixed everything.  All she needed now was some few days rest.

Note that Dr. Brush has raised his consultation fee from P 1,600 per visit to P 2,000 per visit.

Is raw paleolithic diet better than cooked paleolithic diet?

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Question: I heard that going raw on Paleo is even healthier. I would never be able to follow that diet, but is that statement true?

My Answer: I get better results with raw paleo for myself.

My diet trajectory was:
– SAD
– raw vegan (2 months) – not enough, getting too skinny
– raw fruitarian (2 months) – not enough, cold, getting too skinny
– raw paleo, wai diet – raw fruits + raw egg yolks + raw ocean animals (January 1, 2008)
– raw paleo diet – raw fruits, raw vegs, raw animals (ocean + land) (March 1, 2008)
– cooked meat paleo diet – felt awful compared to raw paleo diet (May 1 to May 30, 2008)
– raw paleo diet , high raw fat, low carb (June 2008 to today Feb 2009)

I was always focusing on raw because I was recovering from what the MD’s said was an incurable eczema… which I cured spectacularly… my story is here… http://www.eczemacure.info

Maybe since my focus was always on curing diseases, all the gurus I read always recommend raw: the raw vegans, the raw fruitarians, Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Henry Bieler, and it was only with raw that I was getting best results. It must be my sickly background and as well has helping the more sickly like the cancer stricken where all teachers I stumble on say if your disease is truly terrible 100% raw is the way…

I do eat some cooked animal food for socials but I know it is less than ideal than raw, but I can take it nowadays because I’m now healthier than I’ve ever been in the past 20 years.

I think cooking introduces pollutants to the food as well as it transforms the fats and the protein. So when I cook my meat, I make stock broths (4 hours+) or pan fry in ghee (clarified butter) quickly. I have children to raise and feed so I need to learn clean paleo cooking for them.

There are times my kids get to eat raw animal food like: raw fish sashimi, raw liver, raw bone marrow – taken with soup, raw squid.

But this is just me.

See the ongoing discussion in the Caveman forum.

3 day Sinusites congestion cured instantly with Cayenne Tincture and Quantum Minerals Plus drops

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This afternoon my father in law complained he had been suffering from sinus congestion for 3 days, it was frustrating for him.  I said I had remedies that can cure him of his problem instantly.  It must have been pretty bad, he was receptive to both of my suggestions.

First suggestion was to use Quantum Minerals Plus drops.  It was in the kitchen counter ready and waiting for anyone to use.  I shared his own daughter’s discovery, my sister in law, that a few drops of Quantum spread on the forehead and nose bridge will immediately clear sinusitis.  So my father in law did so immediately, it only takes a few seconds to put it on.

Second suggestion, use the cayenne tincture I just recently made last January 27.  It was not mature yet, but it will have to do for now.  All you need is 1/2 teaspoon under your tongue and your entire body will heat up, blood will flow, and mucus will flow.  My father in law took to the cayenne tincture immediately without any hesitation, the sinusitis must have been that bad.

A few minutes later he was all smiles.  All that suffering for 3 days, now his sinusitis was gone instantly!

Cayenne tincture helped save my 98 year old grandfather from pneumonia, so what’s a little sinusitis?

The cause of his recent sinusitis, he recalls it must be his recent business trip and he stayed in a new hotel.  Maybe they sprayed the hotel room with one of those irritating disinfectants, or artificial odors.  Maybe.  The imporant thing is this sinusitis is history.

Cheese is constipating, address it with virgin coconut oil

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Last month a late Christmas gift arrived for my wife.  3 different types of round Dutch cheese and a big slice of another kind of Dutch cheese.  Hmmm… I have fond memories of european cheese.  I remember my trips to France and in a buffet I would rather stuff my face with the various French cheeses rather than the main course.  Now I remember, I became constipated in France too!

Anyway, curiosity and fond memories led to experiment with this dutch cheese.  Experimenting is easy for me.  My current diet is a raw paleolithic diet: raw organic fruits, raw organic animal food and at a high raw fat low carb ratio.  So I’m all well and fine and healthy.  In comes the dutch cheese, 1.5 table spoon size every evening , and to hopefully prevent suspected constipation, I eat my cheese with 1 tablespoon yellow grass fed butter.  I had a wonderful and happy flashbacks savoring the cheese.

Results came in fast.  After 3 days I felt the familiar signs of constipation.  This Friday morning upon waking up I took 1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil.  Then drank lots of coconut juice and lots of coconut meat.  I felt the reflex of wanting to poop.  Uh oh… the 1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil was inadequate.  I suffered in the toilet bowl for some 15 minutes.  Very bad.  I got back up and took another dose of 1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil and more coconut juice and walked around.  The next round of poop came in and I found relief.

So lesson learned is it takes 2 tablespoons of virgin coconut oil for me to be relieved of constipation.  And cheese really is constipating.  I transferred the cheeses to the other refrigerator and gave it away to the maids.  I am certainly not giving any cheese to my children.  I can cope with constipation problems  easily.  I’m a big boy.  But the children?  Spare them, please.  When a new food arrives, parents should try it themselves first before giving it to their children.

Made a new batch of Cayenne Tincture this New Moon of January 2009

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Today is new moon day.  January 27, 2009 just after Chinese New Year.  Nice day for me to have picked to make a new batch of cayenne tincture.  I still have my old batch of dried cayenne pepper and a new batch of fresh ripe cayenne… the Thai variety, very cheap at 80 pesos per kilo.  I also bought some cheap vodka, Cossack Vodka at 60 pesos per 0.7 liter bottle at 80 proof x 3 bottles.  I also got 2 RC Cola 1 liter bottles, had to buy the cola and gave it to the maids to drink.  They appreciate junk food.  I appreciated the new bottles.

The method I did was to:

1) fill 1/3 blender container full of dried cayenne pepper.  Put in enough vodka to just a little above the line of the dried cayenne pepper.  Close the blender jar. And pulse.  Pulse. Pulse.  Then pour the blendered dried cayenne and vodka into a pitcher.

2) fill 1/3 blender container full of fresh ripe cayenne pepper.  Put in enough vodka to just a little above the line of the fresh ripe  cayenne pepper.  Close the blender jar. And pulse.  Pulse. Pulse.

3) Pour the blendered dried cayenne pepper with vodka into the blender again mixing it with the blendered fresh ripe cayenne pepper.  Then fill up with more vodka.  Pulse a few more times.

4) With a funnel, pour mixture into empty bottles.  I used 4 bottles this time.  Filling each with approximately 1/2 liter of the cayenne tincture pre-mix.

5) Store the 4 bottles in the wine cabinet and we will wait for at least 1 month before bottling them in little bottles with droppers.

Why time my cayenne tincture making during the new moon?  Experience by herbal tincture makers say your cayenne tincture will be more powerful if you make it during the new moon.  So I did.

I felt better, more confident once the job of blending the cayenne and the vodka.  With new cayenne tinctures waiting to just ripen.  It feels good that we are again ready and prepared for any problem in the future,  whether it be breathing difficulties, heart attacks, strokes or severe colds.

My previous and very first batch did very good things when I gave it away as a christmas present to many friends and relatives.  The best reward was when I gave a whole bottle to my 98 year old grandfather who was dying of pneumonia but me and my cousin helped save him and the cayenne tincture was part of that success.

My 7 year old has tummy ache, reported a worm in poop this morning

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Last week it was my 7 year old boy’s turn to have tummy ache problems.  He missed 2 days of school,  Thursday and Friday.  At first sign of tummy ache, I gave 1 teaspoon of Barefoot Herbalist dewormer in 1/4 cup of water every morning before breakfast.

His tummy ache symptoms would subside.  But I made the mistake Friday evening when I arrived just after he had a dinner of chicken arozcaldo (chicken and rice porridge), I got to taste a most wonderful avocado, the first good avocado of the season.  I got him interested and he got half an avocado and combined it with honey.  Immediately afterwards his tummy ache worsened again… bad food combination this time.

During the times he had tummy aches I would implement mono eating on my boy and that made him feel better.

One early morning at 3am when he felt hungry, his mom made the mistake of feeding him fish and rice.  Which he vomitted a few hours later.  3am is no time to feed anyone hard to digest things.  It is not the correct time for eating.

Since Friday every early morning my boy would wake me up at 4am to poop.  He comments that the dewormer was strong and it makes him poop.  This Monday morning at 4am he woke me up again to poop.  Before I washed him he said he saw 1 black worm about less than 1 inch long writhing fast in the toilet bowl.  I looked for it but he said the worm sank.

So after washing my boy I thought it was time for some deworming again.  This boy had taken humaworm for 30 days 2 years ago.  Last year he took barefoot herbalist dewormer for 30 days.  And we have barefoot dewormer as stand by for suspicious parasite related symptoms like these lately.  So around 6am I ordered another batch of dewormers from humaworm.com: 1 batch for myself and 1 batch for my boy.  It arrives in 7 days.

I would like to add that in my surfing for opinions on dewormers I found an insightful comment from Dr. Kenneth Sutter as he does not make dewormers, he merely uses them:

Humaworm is great stuff but 30 days is NOT enough. Do Barefoot’s DeWormer for the 90 days between of Humaworms protocol. Flush every two weeks. Stay on Humaworm every 90 days though it’s a little better at getting the parasites outside the digestive tract. In other words do them both.

That quote and idea applies to me. I think I’ll do that. I’m thinking about it. In the meantime I’m formulating my order for a new batch of dewormers plus other items from Barefoot.