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1. Don't Deprive Yourself Over the Holidays
2. A Fatty Liver Spreads to All Organs
3. How to Shop for Meat by Know the Cause
4. What is Idiopathic Neurpathy?
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Don't Deprive Yourself Over the Holidays
Hard to believe that you can indulge during the holidays AND stick to your low carb diet.
I know this time of the year, people are more interested in Christmas Cookies then health, but...
We have a page of low carb Holiday Recipes
And some more - pie recipes (brought to you by Dream about Food)
Gooey Keto Pecan Pie - Seriously. Gooey. Pie.
Kentucky Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie (aka Derby Pie) - A perfect marriage of warm chocolate chip cookies and pecan pie. This one has it all!
Pumpkin Cream Pie - a fun twist on the holiday classic. Light and airy but so decadent.
Chocolate Mousse Pie - for the diehard chocolate lover!
Cranberry Cheesecake Pie - cheesecake and pie together? Yes please!
Coconut Cream Pie - for those who don't love pecan or pumpkin!
A Fatty Liver Spreads to All Organs
Reduce Liver Fat, by Dr. Eric Berg
When you have a fatty liver, fat spreads to the surrounding tissue and organs like your kidneys, heart, and pancreas.
When your organs are affected by excess fat they can become inflamed, as well as losing functionality.
Excess fat in your liver alone can lower your ability to produce bile, detoxify, produce proteins, create clotting factors, and much more.
The best way to combat the effects of a fatty liver - and decrease your likelihood of cirrhosis - is to go on a low carb diet. Watch my educational video to see more.
How to Shop for Meat by Know the Cause
On The Kaufmann Diet (anti-fungal diet) or the Health Keto Diat, you are encouraged to eat a variety of fresh meats. These include beef, chicken, pork, bison, etc. Meats are great because they are void of the carbohydrates and sugar that would potentially feed an underlying fungal infection. However, the kinds of meat you eat still matters; so how do I shop for meat?
Modern farming operations often use things like hormones and antibiotics in animal cultivation. These drugs subsequently often wind up on our plate and can deter the diet program from being as effective as possible.
What You Should Look For
When shopping for meat, there are some specific things that you should look for. These are a guide; These are good parameters to stick to when possible.
Beef, Bison, Lamb
Look for beef that is grass-fed and organic. Grass-fed beef is going to have more nutrients and a healthier fat profile––including more omega 3 fatty acids––than conventionally raised beef. Conventionally raised beef is fed a diet of corn, and these animals are often given hormones and antibiotics. Conventional meat is much more likely to be contaminated with mycotoxins. If you cannot find grass-fed beef, organic is best. Organic beef will at the very least contain no hormones or antibiotics.
Bison and lamb products should be organic when possible.
Pork
Some people prefer to avoid pork and that is totally fine; you don’t have to eat pork products if you do not like them or wish to avoid them. If you do enjoy pork, opt for organic.
Chicken, Turkey
Ideally, pasture-raised, free-range eggs and poultry products are ideal. Organic is best when possible, as these products will not contain hormones and antibiotics.
What You Should Avoid
There are some specific things that you should avoid on while shopping for meats.
Deli meats should largely be avoided. These often contain ingredients like sugar and wheat, and most are extremely high in sodium.
Cured meats should be avoided. Some types of cured meats are at high risk for mycotoxin contamination. Others are cured with sugar and contain ingredients like sodium nitrite. Bacon falls into this category; if you must have bacon, opt for organic, uncured, and sugar free bacon.
Breaded and fried meats should be avoided as these contain flour, corn, and are often cooked in unhealthy types of fat and oil.
What is Idiopathic Neuropathy?
A patient will go to their doctor with certain symptoms. These can include numbness, tingling, and pain, unsteadiness when standing or walking and muscle weakness other symptoms may be feelings of faintness when standing. They may be vague or strange sensations (paresthesia), inability to feel pain, touch or temperature. Some other symptoms can be lack of coordination, loss of reflexes, muscle weakness, loss of muscle control, muscle twitching, cramping or spasms, difficulty walking or moving limbs.
There are even symptoms related to the autonomic nervous system such as dizziness, fainting, sweating abnormalities, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abnormal heart rate or blood pressure and sexual dysfunction.
The doctor does a series of tests and the diagnosis is neuropathy. Sensory neuropathy is the pain, numbness, and tingling resulting from damaged sensory nerves. The unsteadiness and muscle weakness means a motor nerve has been damaged – in other words, the nerves which relay the orders from the brain to the muscle to get them to move isn’t working well.
The doctor will next look to see what caused this problem, as in order to help the patient, whatever caused it needs to be identified and brought under control. For example, in a diabetic, it is the blood sugar that causes the damage and thus the blood sugar needs to be normalized. Sometimes the neuropathy was caused by trauma – a car accident, sports injury or even surgery. Nothing more needs to be done as the trauma is over. Of course, someone who continues to have injuries might make the neuropathy worse.
There is no known reason?
Sometimes the peripheral neuropathy seems to happen for no particular reason. There is no diagnosis found.
Medical Doctors call this disorder "idiopathic", which means "of unknown cause." Typically, idiopathic peripheral neuropathy occurs in people over 60 years old, but not necessarily. It may progress slowly, or may not progress at all, after the initial onset.
As with all neuropathies, it can be very disruptive to someone's normal life and lifestyle.
What to do? *
It doesn’t make sense that there is no cause for this problem. Nerves just don’t get damaged on their own. As with any medical condition or disease, there is always a cause.
If you are told you have idiopathic neuropathy, you should continue to look for a cause. A specialist might be able to track down the cause, or a nutritionist might be able to find what deficiencies are causing the nerves to deteriorate
Here is a list of causes that we have found and compiled in hopes that you can figure out what is causing the problem and eliminate the cause to improve your condition.
Causes & Risk Factors of Neuropathy
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