The health in America should already be declared a state of emergency.
We are talking about getting out of the Nutrient Famine and living in the Blue Zone. The Blue Zones are Communities in the world where people have an average life and health span of over 100 years.
We have been talking about the importance of water for health. The water source for most farm plants weather industrially grown or organically grown and let’s not even talk about foreign grown, you would never drink. But you drink that water every time you eat most vegetables and fruits.
Last week, we talked about the importance of water and obesity.
Our bodies need two things to turn fat into energy, enzymes and you know it, water. Obesity is not about blame and shame, it’s about chemistry and culture. Drinking a large glass of cold water before each meal could burn more than 100 calories.
For the next several weeks, we are talking about the Gut, the second brain. Several months ago, the surgeon said my 30-year-old relative was 2 hours from dying with a hole in his intestine or gut. He had a belly ache for a week. He went to the doctor and they sent him home twice with some pain pills. The same thing happened when he went to the emergency room at his local Hospital. Fortunately, we got him into a Raleigh Hospital. After two surgeries and 3 months, he is almost functioning normally.
Each year, there are an estimated 48 million cases of foodborne illness in the U.S., affecting one in six Americans. More serious cases—around 128,000 per year are admitted to the hospital, and roughly 3,000 die.3 Worldwide the latest report by the World health Organization reports 600 million cases with over 420,000 deaths. Besides water related illnesses, bad food is the next killer. Since half of our vegetables and fruits originate from foreign suppliers this is particularly concerning.
The onset time of symptoms after digesting contaminated vegetables and fruits is usually not a few hours but 8 or more hours and generally takes days for the symptoms to manifest.
But as you understand the gut, you will see that the condition of your gut is a top determinant of health and longevity.
A few facts:
1. The gut flowing from your esophagus to your anus is full of ridges and curves. If you flatten it out it has more surface area than a tennis court.
2. According to researchers at Stanford, the body replaces itself with largely a new set of cells every 7 to 10 years, however, the intestine is the most highly regenerative organ in the human body, regenerating its lining, called the epithelium, every five to seven days.
3. While there are 37 trillion cells in the body, a healthy gut has more 300 trillion good bacteria. Those bacteria weigh as much as twice that of the brain.
4. You may remember that human beings have roughly 20,500 genes, which is less than the water flea and genetically, every person in the world is 99.9 percent the same. In a 2019 Harvard study, 3,500 human microbiome samples, mostly poop samples, produced a "staggering," 46 million "non-redundant genes." In other words, while 99.9 percent of human genes are the same, each person has a huge array of gut bacteria that is as unique as a fingerprint. What your microbiome or gut bacteria fingerprint looks like and how it functions is based on what you eat, and drink and your environment.
This series will convince you; the gut impacts your life from death to birth. And just like the known plant nutrients have gone from a few thousand to over 25,000 in 5 years, the explosion of health information and especially the gut is changing everything we thought we knew about health. Your mother was right when she said,” learn to follow your gut!!!”
Life in the Blue Zone is a choice
The Creator gave us choice. And that choice extends to our health and longevity.
Learn how to get you and your family out of the nutrient famine in America and into the Blue Zone.
Next week, the Gut, and your Brain