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A Cure from the Sea.
Alternative health,food,medicine and ageing
Pollution, stress, fatigue and bad eating habits all affect the body. This leads to vitamin and mineral deficiencies that can result in illness and disease.
Seaweed’s contains more than 64 minerals and trace minerals in chelated, colloidal forms. Most enzymatic functions in our body’s depend on minute amounts of these bio available trace minerals. The major minerals are instrumental in all kinds of life-sustaining activities.. Our body can not produce any minerals and they have too come from outside through our food.
The decline in the minerals content of many plants is the result of a steady deterioration in soil, air, and water quality. Environmental changes that have lead to an increase in depletion of minerals and other inorganic compounds from our food. The 1997 edition of Food Composition Handbook shows a 25–50% decline in the vitamin and mineral content of foods since the last survey done in 1975.
In general, eating a variety of fresh, whole (unprocessed) foods has proven hormonally and metabolically favourable compared to eating a monotonous diet based on processed foods.Bio-organic, macrobiotic, vegan. Basically,fesh wholefoods provide higher amounts and a more favourable balance of essential and vital nutrients per unit of energy, resulting in better management of cell growth, maintenance, and cell division as well as of appetite and energy balance.
Optimum nutrition is the medicine of the future.
Definition:*The optimum nutritional micro-environment of every cell in the body is vital to achieve or restore optimal health; deficiencies in this environment cause the body to be more susceptible to diseases and degeneration.*
Comparisons of population groups have demonstrated a close and consistent relationship between the adoption of this affluent diet and the emergence of a range of chronic, non-infectious diseases, such as coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, various cancers, diabetes mellitus, gallstones, dental caries (cavities), gastrointestinal disorders, and various bone and joint diseases (World Health Organization, 1990)
Daily use of a small amount of milled seaweed/capsules might help to balance your food/diet. This is important because so many people are hard pressed for time, time needed too preparing a meal of whole foods.
Although medical drugs are used large scale to manage to stop these diseases, more and more people are becoming aware that the post-war modern lifestyle (e.g. poor choice of foods, less physical activity, stress and environment) the primary cause is of these so-called lifestyle-related diseases. Despite this realization, lifestyle- and obesity-related diseases are becoming increasingly prevalent all around the world, changing lifestyle an utopia.
Pharmaceuticals/Medical drugs.
Although medical drugs are used large scale to stop chronic, non-infectious diseases, such as coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, various cancers, diabetes mellitus, gallstones, dental caries (cavities), gastrointestinal disorders, and various bone and joint diseases persist. Not only the costs are very high but there are no sign of abating. Our health systems close to collapse. People have to wait before getting treatment; other groups are excluded altogether like the poor ones and increasingly the elderly ones too. Practical all capacity is being used leaving little to no capacity for any major calamity.
Past:
For a long time the people in the western world believed that most treats to your health and wellbeing would come from outside, bacteria, viruses, accidents, calamities, force or nature. That for any disease and illness there would be a tablet or powder.
More and more people are realising that it is not the case. In many cases illness and disease the result of human activity and interference with nature. (Society/Environment)Pollution, destruction of natural habitat, the way we live and organise ourselves, war, conflict, ideology, politics.
A shift from treats from outside into treats coming from inside. The way we live, lifestyle and environment. Please have a look at Health&ageing
Pharmaceuticals
The world biggest, powerful and most profitable industry we know. Well established and as such working closely together with governments and other professional groups in the community. An industry with reputation of trying to dominated or monopolising the health sector and waging war on all kind of alternative treatments.
For the first 6000 years of civilization, humans relied heavenly on foods and herbs for medicine. Only in the past 65 years have we forgotten and abandonned our medicinal "roots" in favor of patent medicines. The traditional healers used/advised these food an herbs because they believed to be vital elements which would act in harmony with the human body helping to archieve health again. The healer the assistant of sick person, his advisor.
At the root of the use of these foods/herbs the believe that health/healing is part of a system and more than a single contributing element. Like a pill, tablet, drink etc. It differs with the current system of healthcare which we call Western Medicine. The users of the old system classified as stupid and the healer/advisor prosecuted
Folk use/treatments ’ in coastal zone’s as Ireland, Iceland, Scotland made extensive use of a variety of different seaweed species and kept on doing so.
The believe: that health/healing is part of a system and more than the single contributing elements.
After World War II a hidden epidemic gradually emerged where non-communicable endemic illnesses began to flourish, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity to name a few. Medical drugs are used in large amounts to treat these illnesses, generating big profits by the makers of the drugs. Little was done to prevent or stop the spreading of these diseases. The more people would get sick the bigger the profit to be made. Prevention/research a low priority.
Western medicine.
For the treatment you need you have to relay on an outside expert who decides about the treatment and as a result if it now even life and dead. Increasingly part of these powers are given/ transferred to insurance companies in an attempt to cut costs.
Drugs.
For scientist/pharmaceutical companies it is very difficult to except that plants and seaweed may have valuable properties. Health/healing are part of a system and more than the single contributing elements. The properties of plants and herbs have to fit into the current theories/profits system otherwise will be discarded or even banned.
Scientist will start to measure, dissect, analyse, before accepting that any plant or organism has valuable properties .Occasionally, and with great reluctance, study these herbs even if they have been used for millennia. Always be surprised when they have to admit that herbs/potions do work.
Next step an elaborated, high tech chemical analysis to identify the active principle/chemical. Always finding/developing a synthetic (patented) copy what will does better en gets approval from the authority. Most of these synthetic chemicals produced are highly toxic, addictive, sometimes leading to changes in the micro cosmos. (Environment).
The other compounds mostly a cocktail of substances within the plant discarded as impurities. There is little profit to be made in selling herbs/medicinal plants/products. New approved substances are introduced and approved faster and faster but disappearing as fast as well. Leaving a question mark about there real value. However it is the patent which opens the road to a potential fortune through control of the market.
Fortunately, the pharmaceutical industry’s cannot patent an entire plant unless genetic modified and therefore cannot make a dime on them, you can still receive amazing health dividends by consuming it and other natural products. Nor do you have to wait. They’re available now at natural food stores (health stores) and can be order by mail. Use the conventional wisdom of the past.
A Cure of the Sea
Folk use/treatments ’ in coastal zone’s as Ireland, Iceland, Scotland made extensive use of a variety of different seaweed species.
These Seaweeds are rich in minerals like magnesium, potassium, iron and zinc, all of which Because they have a complete spectrum of chelated minerals,(64) which makes them easier to absorb.
Contain 10 to 20 times the minerals and vitamins of land vegetables. They are higher in vitamins and minerals than any other class of food. The minerals are available in chelated, colloidal forms that make them especially available to the bodies of humans and animals ,“bioavailability.”
Have a reputation for ability too detox your body and antibiotic properties. When we think of the sea, we think of health, invigoration, the feeling of being alive, peacefully, relaxation and rejuvenation.
Not only minerals and vitamins but more than 150 other biological active nutrients.
For information on seaweed, kelp, kombu,nori,fucus,dulse and more have a look at:
National library of Medicine(Entrez PubMed)-
Type In Search Box: “Seaweed”, kelp, laminaria, nori, or fucoidan.
Or go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.ib.gov/entrez/query.fcgi http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
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