Today’s Oracle
My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:
375) There is a deep-seated
misconception that being intuitive is a gift. It’s not. There is no such thing
as a gift for intuition. I have finally realized that courage is the true gift,
and intuition is sharpened as a result. Either you develop the ability to
respond physically to what you are hearing, feeling, and sensing on the inside
– or you don’t.
Responding to others takes guts. What
determines whether or not you have those guts is self-esteem. It is a strong
sense of self. It is a willingness and ability to take charge of yourself.
You don’t need a lot of self-esteem. A
little bit goes a long way; suddenly you are generous enough to give up the
need to control other people.
You don’t need to become 100%
empowered. A 51% to 49% ratio will do this trick. Just get to the point where
you’re conscious enough to hold yourself accountable for your own feelings.
Just admit that you’re jealous, or
embarrassed, or that you could betray a friend. Just get a little bit honest
with your shadow. The moment you arrive there, you can really start dealing
with your life. - Caroline Myss: Invisible Acts of Power, Healing the Heart of
the World
You can use my Potent
Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your
heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. It
will be a response to your question. Play with it.
Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They
consist of distilled genius.
Cure Diabetes?
The number one best seller with the unfortunate title: Wheat
Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back To Health by William Davis, MD blew my mind.
It may also save your life or more likely prolong your happy years.
These paragraphs from the book set the stage:
After three months [being wheat
free], my patients returned to have more blood work done. As I anticipated, with only rare exceptions, blood
sugar had indeed often dropped from diabetic range to normal.
Yes, diabetics became nondiabetic. That’s
right: Diabetes in many cases can be
cured – not simply managed – by removal of carbohydrates, especially wheat,
from the diet. Many of my
patients had also lost twenty, thirty, even forty pounds. (My emphasis.
WW)
But it’s what I didn’t expect that astounded me.
They reported that symptoms of acid-reflux
disappeared and the cyclic cramping and diarrhea of irritable bowel syndrome
were gone.
Their energy improved, they had greater
focus, sleep was deeper.
Rashes disappeared, even rashes
that had been present for many years.
Their rheumatoid arthritis pain
improved or disappeared, enabling them to cut back, even eliminate, the nasty
medications used to treat it.
Asthma symptoms improved or
resolved completely, allowing many to throw away their inhalers.
Athletes reported more consistent
performance.
All that in three
months. Holy Cow.
Later he adds heart disease and other details to the already
impressive list of conditions that stopping wheat consumption affects.
I’ve been using the Slow Carb Diet from Four Hour Body for over two months.
(See my Blog
Post.) In that program, I didn’t eat
grains of any kind six days of the week and then I ate whatever I wanted on the
seventh day including grains, including wheat.
This was not a wheat free diet.
Just mostly wheat free.
In a second, I’ll tell you my blood results.
Hi my name is William, and I’m a recovering wheat eater.
Wheat can be addicting.
It is for me. When you digest the
gluten in wheat, it converts to gluteomorphin, which jumps across the blood
brain barrier and attaches to your opiate receptors, just like heroin and other
opiates. Yikes.
No wonder that the day after my pizza craving was consummated,
I wanted more, even though I was hung over from what I had just consumed.
The wheat you eat today is not the wheat of years ago. And certainly not the wheat of 9000 years
ago. About 50 years ago,
researchers and scientists started an intense program to hybridize wheat to
feed the world. They were successful in
that effort.
The mistake was thinking that all that messing with genes
wouldn’t effect the nutritional value of the wheat. They didn’t do animal testing or human
testing along the way before essentially introducing the new wheat into the
world where farmers grow it nearly exclusively.
A Naysayer
A naysayer says that this wheat sensitivity is overstated
and only applies to a small number of wheat eaters.
I disagree, but who cares.
It’s easy to test. You
just quit eating wheat and every food that contains wheat – and wheat’s in 100s
of things. Do that for a few weeks or
three months and see how your health improves.
If nothing changes, wheat wasn’t your problem.
Back to my Slow Carb Diet.
My blood test after two plus months found me more solidly in the happy
zone with my sugar levels. My heart risk
indicator which is based on my cholesterol profile was the best ever. My triglycerides were perfecto.
Was it wheat?
Probably. It was certainly better
carbs – substituting legumes for grains, Eliminating fruit and fruit juices.
Test it for yourself.
Read the book.
My research staff likes this one:
You can find other Wheat Belly books here.
Walk in beauty,
William
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