— On Fri, 3/22/13, Rob Norris <rob@
Hi Tim
Loving the Over 40 series 🙂 thanks so much for your time and efforts.
It’s been a nightmare trying to source some of the ingredients for the fasting but where I couldn’t source the brand you recommend I have found something similar.
I have a couple of questions If you would be so kind?
A close m8 of mines Mum has Gout and psoriasis would suggesting to her to look into high dose Vitamin C be of any help?
I have a gift to thank you for your awesome work so far ( don’t get too excited pal 😉 ) where should I send it ?
All the best cheerio
Rob.
ANSWER:
You can send anything to the Monroe Ave address in Rochester at the bottom of each of the program’s emails. Address it to Maintenance Motions, they will forward it to me.
I personally would not use vitamin C for what you’re describing.
My opinions and research:
Psoriasis believed to be auto-immune. My opinion: Fungus/Candida and/or dietary issue with excessive oils/fats causing immune system interference. The dietary fats/oils amplifies candida regardless, as it would also alleged auto-immune issues. An eastern practitioner I know who has “cured” people who were otherwise not curable believes auto-immune diseases are misdiagnosed (he claims “do not exist”) and I tend to agree.
Gout: excessive uric acid. Meats in diet, acid-forming foods, acidity in the body will cause as will excessive fructose (which is why I promote total avoidance of high fructose corn syrup) refined sugars and poor circulation.
If it were me, for both conditions the first thing I would do is get all oils out of the diet, including olive oil, with just a little clean (raw or expeller pressed) coconut oil used for cooking purposes. Note oils are used in almost all processed/packaged foods. And/or do a raw food diet for a couple months, again keeping dietary fats way down along with lots of water.
And/or adhere to my new little chime: “P.I.K.”…Produce Is King. Getting accustomed to the produce department at the grocery store, “piking” (picking ;p) veges and fruits of my choice, raw or cooked but never with oils except a little coconut oil. Vegetable broth can be used for countless vegetable cooking applications when not going raw in place of oils. I’d never ever heat olive oil or other oils again except coconut. They’re all highly inflammatory.
If the dietary oils and fats are kept way down, one can eat as much fruit as one wants including smoothies and juices. Exercising to get the blood moving is a huge bonus. Organic cherries are anti-inflammatory and totally awesome for both conditions (unfortunately short season for them). Water foods/fruits are awesome, if eating dried fruits at all, consume even more water.
I’d use that same coconut oil for oil-pulling. I use Wilderness Family Naturals expeller-pressed organic cooking oil. A spoonful in the mouth swished/sucked/pulled around for 20 minutes or more a day, spit out never swallowed. A small miracle-making tactic out of India used for over 2000 years. Always raw or expeller-pressed, never the processed coconut oils. You can research it and experiment with other oils available to you, but I would never use them for cooking/food/etc, only for oil pulling purposes.
Let me know how things go, best to you…………Tim