Spices can prevent bloating

A variety of spices helps to relieve bloating by improving gut motility, stimulating digestion and relieving gas

Fennel seeds are considered a natural remedy for digestive disorders, including heartburn, bloating, gas and even chronic conditions like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Ginger also has a long history of use as a natural digestive aid, useful for relieving nausea, indigestion, bloating and more

Cumin essential oil has even shown promise for relieving the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, including stomach pain and bloating

Pepper is traditionally used as a carminative agent to help relieve gas as well as stimulate gastric secretions

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The health benefits of Astaxanthin

Astaxanthin is a potent antioxidant with broad-spectrum, system-wide health benefits, offering protection against radiation and promoting skin, eye, brain and heart health

A potent anti-inflammatory, astaxanthin is useful for virtually any inflammatory condition, from joint problems, such as rheumatoid arthritis, to cancer

Key differences that sets astaxanthin apart from other carotenoids include the ability to handle multiple free radicals simultaneously, protect both water-and fat-soluble parts of the cell, and the inability to function as a pro-oxidant
 

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Your body needs carbon dioxide !

CO2 is typically thought of as nothing more than a harmful waste product of respiration, but it’s actually a driver of mitochondrial energy production, and it improves the delivery of oxygen into your cells

One of the simplest ways to optimize your CO2 is by breathing properly. Most people tend to over-breathe, which causes you to expel too much CO2. Proper breathing involves breathing less and breathing slower. Both of these allow CO2 to build up, and that appears to be part of why breathwork has such wide-ranging benefits

To have sufficient CO2 production, you need healthy mitochondria because CO2 is produced exclusively in the Krebs cycle in the mitochondria. If you have mitochondrial dysfunction, if you're hypothyroid or have high levels of inflammation, then you will not be producing enough CO2

When your CO2 is too low, your body reverts to an “emergency” vasodilator, nitric oxide (NO). Drawbacks of elevated NO include peroxynitrite species formation and pseudohypoxia. NO also damages the polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs) in your cells, and inhibits energy production

CO2 combats cancer development by lowering the pH of the cell, thereby allowing extra water to be excreted. This is the opposite of linoleic acid (LA) and estrogen, both of which suck water in and cause the cell to swell. Cellular swelling is a feature of cancer cells

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Spore probiotics improve your health

Spore-based probiotics, or sporebiotics, consist of the cell wall of bacillus spores, which has a long history of successful use as an immune modulator

Sporebiotics dramatically increases immune tolerance and is often capable of resolving food intolerances in autistic children and those with neurological disease such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, ALS and Lyme disease

Since sporebiotics do not contain the actual live bacillus strains, only its spores, they are unaffected by antibiotics and offer excellent microbiome support when you need to take such drugs 

Most people are under daily assault from EMFs, pesticides, airborne aluminum and other highly inflammatory environmental factors. Sporebiotics work on all levels as an antidote to those assaults

The bacillus genus converts sugar into vitamin C. It’s also involved in producing vitamin K in your gut, which works synergistically with vitamin D

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Harmful fake food on your plate

Dutch investigative journalist Elze van Hamelen reports on the “tsunami of fake foods” being rolled out by the biotech industry

Fake meats are not about your health or the environment’s; they’re a tool to phase out farmers and ranchers and replace them with an ultraprocessed food product that can be controlled by patents

Making lab-grown meat is “insanely expensive” and plagued by bacterial and viral contamination

Despite the pharmaceutical-style manufacturing, lab-grown meat isn’t considered a pharmaceutical product, which means no human testing is required

Van Hamelen recommends directing your food dollars not to corporate supermarket chains or fake food products but to small farmers growing real food 

Winston Churchill, 1931: “Synthetic food will, of course, also be used in the future.  The new foods will from the outset be practically indistinguishable from the natural products, and any changes will be so gradual as to escape observation.”

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Removing water from the ear

Using the laws of gravity, a vacuum and evaporation are two ways to get rid of water in your ears

Never use a pen, bobby pin, crochet needles or even your fingers in your ears in an effort to extract water as it could perforate your eardrum or cause an infection 

Swimmer’s ear is the most common type of ear infection in adults and should not be confused with otitis media, the common type of childhood ear infection

Pain, inflammation, crusty skin and a watery discharge are all symptoms of swimmer’s ear, caused most often by contaminated water in swimming pools, hot tubs, water parks, fountains, lakes, rivers or oceans

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Salt, High blood pressure & Insulin resistance

Over 95% of the country is metabolically inflexible, and insulin resistance is a causal driver, with hypertension a frequent co-morbidity

According to conventional thought, salt induces high blood pressure by making your body absorb more water. Excess sodium in your blood absorbs water, thereby increasing the amount of blood filling up your vessels. As a result, your heart must work harder, hence your blood pressure goes up. However, the increase in blood volume is not really an excess sodium problem per se. The problem is that too much sodium is being retained due to excess insulin (insulin resistance)

Lowering your sodium intake isn’t the answer. In the long run, that may result in higher blood pressure, because your body has a built-in rescue mechanism that responds to low sodium in ways that results in vasoconstriction and increased stress, both of which ratchets up blood pressure

Oftentimes, a deficiency in the other electrolytes (calcium, potassium, and magnesium) are part of the problem. Your sodium-to-potassium ratio is particularly important for healthy blood pressure

Estrogen dominance is also pervasive and frequently contributes to high blood pressure by interfering with carbon dioxide production, thereby lowering blood oxygen levels. Estrogen can also interfere with your body’s production of progesterone, a hormone that helps maintain normal blood pressure by regulating your blood sugar level and reducing inflammation

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