You Know Your Body Better Than Anybody Else

"Never a dull moment. If you're doing it right, baby, never a dull moment." Karan Smith

Listen to your body. It will tell you alot. No need to delegate what your body needs to others. Instead, bring on a team of players: put yourself at the top of the team list, your health food store, your chiropractor (optional), your medical doctor , and/or any health practitioner or nutritionist you may want to work with who can answer your questions and assist in coming up with the perfect combination of actions and remedies to bring your body into balance.

If you end up in a doctor's office for any reason, be prepared. A doctor will diagnose, prescribe and often recommend surgery if you just show up in her office WITHOUT a pad of paper, list of questions, or an Internet printout on your symptoms or possible disease...be informed before you walk in. Learn their perspective, then take that information to help form a plan of action. Keep listening to your body. The answers are there waiting for you....

Sometimes it is simple. With a little tweaking....it can be a matter of eliminating foods that contain additives and preservatives, making fruit and veggies 40-65% of your diet(so dang low-cal, too!), increasing the good fats especially your intake of Omega 3s found in fish, walnuts, flax seed (freshly ground or in oil form), fish oils, olive oil and organic coconut oil, breathing deeply, taking walks, portion control, reducing carbs, drinking moderately if at all, staying lean, and drinking lots of water-- at minimum, half your body weight in ounces.

What about probiotics?
Keifer ( pronounces by some kef fur, by others like me, keeeef fur) is one: a sparkly, thick, yogurt-like liquid loaded with protein, calcium, and fiber as well as ten or more live and active cultures including acidophilus to enhance the health of your intestinal track, boost your immune system, and help control high cholesterol levels. Keifer is the cousin to yogurt--adding appropriate bacterias where yogurt feeds those bacterias. Keifer's roots trace back more than 2000 years in Europe.

I like to make a Keifer shake in the morning to start my day. Here is what I do:


In my commercial, high performance blender I throw in the following:

1/2 bunch org. green kale (did I mention KALE is the queen of all dark greens and a great life enhancer loaded with calcium, folic acid, vitamins A, C, D, E...you can't go wrong with KALE--make her a true buddy soon if you haven't already)

2 cups org. plain keifer ( keifer can be bought at the health food store or you can make your own by combining keifer grains and milk and leaving them on your kitchen counter for a day or two--ask me about keifer grains--I can get you some!)

1 stalk of org. celery

1/2 org. cucumber

1/2 org. green bell pepper

1 tsp. org. fresh ginger

1 T. org. flax seed oil--flax seed oil, loaded with Omega 3's is more readily absorbed through the cells when taken with a cultured product like keifer--it becomes water soluable and can penetrate through the cell membrane more efficiently. You get more bang for your buck, in other words, when you combine flax seed oil with keifer.

1 T. org. virgin coconut oil--this mid-chain tryglyceride boosts the immune system, increases metabolism and endurance, helps control inflammation making it beneficial for the cardiovascular system and over all health.

Blend well....enjoy the ultimate green goddess breakfast drink for all those potent and powerful!


PS There are so many reasons to eat organic food over conventional. For your health and the environment, eat organic food whenever possible. Remember, pesticides can permeate throughout veggie and fruit membranes and love to hang out in the crevices of berries, broccoli and lettuces. We can debate organic vs. conventional til we are blue in the face, but as the apple god told me recently, it is like the discussion about religion...in the end, everyone will believe what they want to believe and that is ok.