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Alkaline Ionized water, its benefits and science and its stories
As my readers are aware, both Cassie and I are on a ketogenic diet, A.K.A. Alkaline Paleo Diet. We have a good friend in Chicago battling her own brain cancer on a ketogenic diet, recommended by her doctor.
This quite detailed video below is really worth persisting with.
I found this article on Joe Mercola’s site, even though Cassie and I have been also researching ti for a long time. Here’s the link to Dr Mercola’s quite excellent summary.
“Dosage Matters – speaking of wellness, so many leaders I know are suffering from the influenza. In a new study, HIGH dose Vitamin C and D reduced symptoms 85%. With the onset of symptoms the researchers administered 1000 mg orally (1 gram) per hour for the first six hours and then 3 grams per day thereafter, a protocol I’ve followed for years, even with our children (I take 9 grams per day normally; dogs and cats produce a body equivalent weight of 15 grams per day as a comparison). Most studies that claim Vitamin C has no impact on the common cold use such small dosages I’m never surprised of their poor results. Dosage matters with traditional pharma products, same with vitamins.Vitamin C.”
Dr. Steven Gundry is one of the top heart surgeons and researchers in the world. My friend Jimmy Moore is the most prolific blogger and podcaster on the paleo/low carb diet scene, with 250,000 followers. Here’s a link to an amazing interview between the two.
If you’re teetering on the edge of going Alkaline-Paleo, this is for you.
I thought this was a very good summary of why we fall off the wagon as dieters. Dr. Jessica Bartfield,MD, internal medicine who specializes in nutrition and weight management at the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care says that despite that fact that two-thirds of Americans say they are on a diet to improve their health, very few are actually decreasing in size. “Dieting is a skill, much like riding a bicycle, and requires practice and good instruction, ” says Dr. Bartfield. “You’re going to fall over and feel frustrated, but eventually you will succeed and it will get easier.”
Top Four Reasons Why Dieters Don’t Lose Weight
According to Dr. Bartfield, here are the top four reasons why many dieters fail to lose weight.
1. Underestimating Calories Consumed
“Most people (even experts!) underestimate the number of calories they eat per day. Writing down everything that you eat- including drinks and “bites” or “tastes” of food — can help increase self-awareness. Pay attention to serving sizes and use measuring cups and spoons as serving utensils to keep portions reasonable. Food eaten outside of the home tends to be much larger portion sizes and much higher in calories. Try to look up nutrition information of your favorite take-out meal or restaurant and select a healthy meal before picking up the phone or going out to eat.
2. Overestimating Activity and Calories Burned
“Typically you need to cut 500 calories per day to lose 1 lb per week. This is very difficult to achieve through exercise alone, and would require 60 minutes or more of vigorous activity every day. A more attainable goal would be to try to increase activity throughout the day and get a total of 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise most days of the week. Buy a pedometer and track your steps; try to increase to a goal of 10,000 steps per day. But be careful — exercise is not an excuse to eat more!”
3. Poor Timing of Meals
“You need a steady stream of glucose throughout the day to maintain optimal energy and to prevent metabolism from slowing down. Eat breakfast every day within one hour of waking up, then eat a healthy snack or meal every three to four hours. Try not to go longer than 5 hours without eating a healthy snack or meal to keep your metabolism steady.”
4. Inadequate Sleep
“Studies have shown that people who get fewer than six hours of sleep have higher levels of ghrelin, which is a hormone that stimulates appetite, particularly for high- carbohydrate/high- calorie foods. In addition, less sleep raises levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, which can lead to weight gain.”
David, our resident brains trust located this excellent scientific report on the de-acidifying effect of our water. he was researching an article on alkaline ionized water and the paleo diet, which I’ve added below.
by David Kirby
AlkaWay Alkaline Specialist
The Paleo Diet, or Stone Age Diet, is based upon what human hunter-gatherer ancestors commonly ate in the Paleolithic era of pre-history. They relied mainly on a high-protein diet of meats and saturated fats for the majority of their energy. Lots of vegetables, some seasonal fruit and weight-bearing (carrying hunks of dead mammoth) exercise are also key parts of the Paleo Diet, but grains and processed sugars must be avoided.
According to “Contemporary Nutrition: Functional Approach” by Gordon Wardlaw, there are still some indigenous peoples today who are considered hunter-gatherers, and many studies reveal their robust health, strong bones, and low incidents of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, depression and even dental caries. The Neolithic era began after the Paleolithic and is marked by farming and agriculture of grains. But based on fossil evidence, human stature and health conditions reduced after this change, despite some of the advantages of growing domesticated crops.
The Paleo Diet is based on a large variety of scientific research, although there is a concern that high-protein diets not balanced with lots of vegetables can lead to over-acidity in your body, or acidosis.
Paleo dieters need a constant balance of;
(a) the amount of protein consumed – excess protein turns to metabolic acid and
(b) sufficient greens – a daily recommendation is up to 7 cups of greens.
(c) carbohydrates – the aim of the diet is to remove carbohydrates from the body for many, many reasons including their acidifying effect.
Too much protein causes the body to revert to glucogenesis; the body’s production of glocose. The aim of the paleo diet is to convert from a glucose-fuelled metabolism to the natural template of ketogenesis.
Sufficient greens counter this by neutralising acids including acids caused by glucogenesis production.
.Acidosis is quite simply when the pH of the blood falls below the bottom end of the healthy pH range (normal range is 7.35-7.45).
The greens are a natural detoxifier, alkalizer and antioxidant. Given that many Paleo dieters are also high performance athletes, a regular supply of antioxidants keeps inflammation at bay. However the ability of most people to manage 7 cups of greens a day can be difficult.
Acidosis can be an acute condition (develops quickly) or it may be a chronic condition. Acidosis may not cause any symptoms or it may be associated with nonspecific symptoms such as lethargy, depression, nausea and vomiting.
Acute acidosis may also cause an increased rate and depth of breathing, confusion and headaches, and it can lead to seizures, coma, and in some cases death.
Luckily there is a simple and easy solution to this issue. Recent studies at the
Department of Urology, El Mansoura Urology and Nephrology Centre, MansouraUniversity, have shown that in animal experiments that acid/alkaline parameters improved significantly after using ionized alkaline water compared with the conventional water treated with reverse osmosis (RO). Similar results were observed in urinary models. There was significant improvement of both the partial pressure of carbon dioxide and serum bicarbonate after oral ingestion of alkaline water. The University quotes “Alkaline ionized water can be considered as a major safe strategy in the management of metabolic acidosis.“
The University is about to start experiments in the very near future to confirm this issue in humans.
Therefore combining the Paleo Diet with drinking Alkalised Ionized water can be critical to better long term health benefits.
It may also help with the weight loss issues by helping neutralise acids that are normally stored in body fat to protect the body from over acidity.
References:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19527469
http://www.livestrong.com/article/540219-paleo-diet-acidosis/#ixzz2EtnEs6AD
http://www.labtestsonline.org.au/understanding/conditions/acidosis/
When I was growing up my parents – having lived through the Great Depression – always reminded me not to waste food. As I grew older and away from their influence I kept their admonition in my mind. I hated wasting food.. BUT I ate anything on the table. I was a real ‘hungry ghost as the Buddhists say. Of course, who was I to know that my eating habits came from a state of food addiction firmly in control of my psyche and behaviour, fed by two staples of my diet – bread and sugar; now both proven narcotics. Yes, you heard me, narcotics.
So it is with no small degree of self-satisfaction that I can report my turnaround. After a year on Cassie’s Alkaline Paleo Diet, my hungry ghost has gone. I can skip a meal easily, whereas in the past I’d turn nasty if I was hungry. I eat far less and don’t even bother scanning the table for more. I have NO craving for sugary treats, and after trying out our new Ketosis test meter yesterday I can report the reason. My body is now officially in a ketonic state. It feeds on ketones rather than glucose. Hallelujah!
That’s not all. Cassie and I attended our regular skin clinic yesterday. As an old surfer and fisherman I did a lot of damage to my skin in my wild days. Recent years prior to my new diet have witnesssed regular eruptions of precancerous keratosis all over me. Well, my rate of eruptions has slowed to a trickle! Tim Hawkins, our skin doc was surprised at the difference in both Cassie and my skin health. I’ve done nothing different except the diet, and Cassie puts it down to a complete ban on bad oils, and a changeover to good oils. WE eat no oils with trans fats or hydrogenated oils like Canola… and there is mounting evidence that these oils remain in the body – especially subcutaneously.
So.. good news!
But.. I’m only human – and I did just return from a culture whose God is coffee, whose day revolves around and begins with coffee, so give me a break if I failed to abstain for six months in Italy. After all I did manage to eat NO PASTA and NO GELATI for six months and remain ketogenic on our alkaline paleo diet…
So.. here’s a pic of my morning coffee. It’s a huge thing in the US Paleo community right now, using an organic mould-free Guatemalan coffee bean, but whilstIi didn’t even know there was mould in coffee, I couldn’t say our specially imported Bulletproof coffee was different from Vittoria.
However… take a look at my morning coffee. Strange look, right? That’s how a dessert spoon of coconut oil looks in a long black. We drank long blacks in Italy – Cafe Americano - because we were both off dairy. What we found to our surprise was that the fat in the dairy in the cappucinos slowed down the caffeine effect. Now if that’s what you like.. that’s fine, but once we became accustomed to long black, we found a ‘high’ we’d never had before, and in my case without the big ‘downer’ I experienced with a normal capuccino. (Reading this post to Cassie, she disagrees: she says it’s my Alkaline paleo diet that had cured me of my ‘angry hour’ downer I used to have with coffee. yes, I believe she’s right! – as usual!)
Of course everyone’s reaction to coffee varies, but why the coco oil? Well, you know I’ve been rattling on about the goodness and health benefits of saturated fats ever since Cassie weaned me off the alkaline diet’s sugar secret stash.. and I have learned that good saturated fats are the BEST energy powerhouse food you can give to yourself. So a dessertspoon of coco oil in my long black is the fuel that takes me into orbit once the caffeine blasts me off. Yes, it takes a few cups to get used to it, but one thing I’ve learned in my Alkaline Paleo diet is that my food preferences are very weak when challenged with a substitution, and it’s my MIND that is the problem more than any perceived bodily reaction. In fact I have changed so many of my food preferences on the diet, recognising as I changed that so many of them were not ‘preferences’ but addictions.
BTW, If you haven’t grabbed Cassie’s new (free) Alkaline Paleo Diet food list, click here.
This infographic explains the ‘why’ of the paleo diet that caused Cassie and myself to give up the alkaline diet as you see it on the net and to incorporate it into the Paleo diet.
If you’ve been following Cassie’s Alkaline Paleo Diet Blog, you’d have read her latest post on my broken leg, atherosclerosis and Alzheimers’.
It’s all good news, but the big news is that I gave up my coco oil supplementation because I couldn’t get it here in Italy. Usually, this is bad news because within a week my symptoms re-emerged, but this time I remained sharp of mind.
So what was the difference?
The BIG difference is that I am fully into my alkaline paleo diet and have made the leap to a ketogenic state of metabolism. The alkaline paleo diet naturally allows you to change from feeding your body and brain with glucose to naturally produced (by the body) ketones. I’ve sighted studies that postulate that ketones are the natural food of the brain and that amyloid plaque may actually be the result of the oxidating effect of glucose in the brain.
But that’s not even the BIG news. I have just finished listening to Jimmy Moore’s (Living the Lo-Carb La Vida) interview of Philadelphia physician Dr. Colin Champ
Dr Champ is currently involved in studying a topic that is very near and dear to his heart. The hot topic is “Ketogenic Diets & Cancer” which is gaining a lot of traction amongst researchers looking for nutritional solutions to this horrible disease.
Dr. Champ is completing his specialty training in radiation oncology and has a keen interest in the dietary effects of carbohydrate restriction on the prevention and treatment of cancer. The connection between our modern American diet, obesity and cancer has been quite remarkable, and Dr. Champ hopes that the work he is doing can help people fight all three.
I got very excited when he began talking about the work of Dr Otto Warburg, becasue Dr Warburg, Nobel Prize winner, has stated that cancer cannot live in an alkaline environment, and much of Dr Champ’s talk relates to Warburg’s work, and I began to see all sorts of connections with and Cassie’s my diet . You may have already read his recent review article published in the scientific journal International Journal Of Breast Cancer entitled “Weight Gain, Metabolic Syndrome, and Breast Cancer Recurrence: Are Dietary Recommendations Supported by the Data?” and we’re seeing some truly incredible health benefits from carbohydrate-restricted diets for people dealing with this terrible disease.
Dr. Champ took on so many excellent questions about how ketogenic diets may play a role in the treatment of cancers. Listen in to hear what Dr. Colin Champ had to say about ketogenic diets and cancer here.. and I’d love to hear your comments.
A little about Jimmy Moore: he runs the biggest low carb blog in the world, all on donations, with 2.5 million visitors per month. He has his own recovery story and is on his own ketogenic diet. And here’s some more news. He is coming to Australia, and even to little Byron Bay. Here’s his schedule. I suggest if you want to see him, and talk to Australia’s best paleo, low carb and ketogenic diet experts.book soon because Dr Rod Tayler, who is organising it, tells me it’s filling fast..
Just Breast cancer?
Hmm. what about underpants that detect prostate or testicular cancer?
A trendy chapeau that detects brain cancer. A scarf that detects throat cancer, or an undershirt that detects lung cancer?.. any other great ideas? or.. what about living a life that isn’t making you a statistic? Our friend Lillian Davenport is recovering from breast cancer with the assistance of her enlightened doctor, Tom Cowan who has followed his years of personal experience and recommended paleo diet rather than the usual virtually unworkable Gerson diet. So why don’t we know about the paleo diet and cancer?
Because – as usual – no studies have been done.. and as usual the ‘why’ is in the fact that the corps can’t make money from a diet.
It appears that we the people have to take our future health into our own hands, and a small investment in good research that creates outcomes for the people rather than the corporations is the way to go. Cassie found a great initiative put out by these folks to make it happen for the paleo diet. We’ve donated $100. Care to match us? With only a couple of thousand of like minded future-lovers we can achieve great things for all people.
