Superfood Evolution Ezine -- Issue #005

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Table of Contents:

1. Why Cleanse Your Body?
2. Top 5 Cleansing Diet Tips
3. Turkey Tail Mushroom For Cancer Treatment!
4. BOOK REVIEW: The Mushroom Cultivator
5. Recipe of the Month
6. Announcements
7. Film of the Month

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Hello friends,

Welcome again to Superfood Evolution! A big thank you to all my Superfoods-for-Superhealth site visitors for your attention and support! Here we go with my monthly newsletter #5. Many of you expressed great interest in learning more about superfoods, superhealth and achieving optimal states of aliveness! So, here it is by popular demand! It is my intent to uplift and empower your true health potential to create the best life ever for you and your family. "You are what you eat" is the first rule of thumb here, the rest just falls into place!

Why Cleanse Your Body?

Once in a while it is good to cleanse the body just like you would do some deep cleaning in your home to get rid of residue and dirt build up. The body also tends to accumulate waste materials that stick to the walls of the colon. This is especially the case when the diet is not completely pure or healthy. We are all exposed to environmental toxins, no matter how hard we try to avoid them, so even someone maintaining a super healthy diet could also use periodic cleansing.

Once or twice a year it is highly recommended to do a liquid juice fast of some kind in which you take a break from solid foods, meat proteins, and fats. It is a chance to letting go of the "old" energy and make room for the "new". It really becomes a necessary part of our own evolution to change and grow in new and better ways. The body tends to store old emotion in old waste material, so this release also helps to let go of "the pain body" and negative patterns of thinking. You will notice you have clearer, happier thoughts after a cleanse.

Top 5 Simple Ways To Cleanse The Body

1) Begin with increasing your water intake. Many people are chronically dehydrated and don't even know it. You need water to not only to hydrate the cells and organs, but also to detox and flush out various toxins that are apart of every day life. Add a sqeeze of lemon to help the liver do its thing.

2) Start taking some kind of algae on a daily basis. In the morning with your glass of water add one tablespoon of blue green algae, spirulina, or chlorella. Add a few drops of marine phytoplankton for even greater cleansing effects.

3) When you go to a cafe or restaurant instead of a caffeinated drink or soda get a green juice instead. Many places now have a juice bar offering many different kinds of juice selections. Pick one that appeals to you, but avoid overly sweet fruit based varieties that are less cleansing to the body.

4) Begin adding more of the medicinal mushrooms to your daily regime. The caps can be broken open and stirred in a hot drink or you can just pop them straight. I enjoy tasting them and this also activates the bitter qualities in the mouth and provides for greater absorbsion. Medicinal mushrooms are great immune system boosters!

5) Drink cleansing herbal teas throughout your day. This will help out your liver and also provided necessary nutrients that you may be missing in your diet. Herbal teas are a great way to clean out and you can use fresh wild edible herbs that might be growing close to your home. See recipe below.

Turkey Tail Mushroom, Successful Use With Cancer Therapy!

Paul Stamets is a well know miocologist, studying the effects that various medical mushrooms have on the human body. His research reveals many ground breaking results within the field of cancer treatment. Today many medical doctors endorse the Corioulus or Turkey Tail mushroom as an immune boosting cancer therapy adjunct to patients undergoing traditional treatment methods.

I recently heard an amazing story told by Paul Stamets himself at the Longevity Now Conference this early spring in California. His story begins with a phone call from his 80 year old mother who was diagnosed with the most serious stage of breast cancer and given only a short time to live by medical doctors. Paul immediately puts his own mother on high doses of turkey tail mushroom to help with treatment. A great story with a happy ending, as his mother not only survives but rids her body of the cancer completely.

You can watch the video for yourself to hear his incredible story.

http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2010/04/12/paul-stamets-on-medicinal-mushrooms-and-cancer/

BOOK REVIEW:

The Mushroom Cultivator, A Practical Guide To Growing Mushrooms At Home

by Paul Stamets and J.S. Chilton

Do you want to learn the art of growing your own medicinal mushrooms. You can actually grow many varieties like shitake, oyster, lions mane, reishi, agarius and many more. It just takes a small space and a few basic supplies and spores to get you started. This book explains the science behind mushroom cultivation with an emphasis on composting techniques. A great book to have in your medicinal mushroom growing collection that is the work of one of the most well known researchers in the science of Mycology.

Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home

Recipe of the Month:

Cleansing Herbal Tea Blend

In some spring time locations around the world you can find many wild edible herbs growing in prolific abundance. So why not use the freshest quality herbs available. Get to know where they are growing and you can return year after year to seek the cleansing effects of many wild spring herbs.

Red clover is a number one favorite of mine and perfect for a nice cleansing tonic brew.

• 3T dandelion root (decoct for 20 minutes)
• 1/2 C red clover (preferably fresh) or 3T dried
• 2T dried nettle leaves (or a handle fresh)
• a few leaves of yerba santa
• Add any flavorful herbs like peppermint, lemon verbena or fennel

Make your tea brew in a one quart mason jar. Add 6 caps of Coriolus (turkey tail) mushroom for additional super cleansing effects. Use this cleansing tea in any recipe, shake, smoothie, or just drink it straight when fasting or cleaning out.

1. Stay tuned for the upcoming links to David Wolfe's Health and Longevity Home Study Course. A collaborative effort with teachings from Donna Gates, Dr. Mercola and Paul Stamets....just to name a few!
2. Visit our Superfoods Blog with weekly or bi-weekly posts and links to new pages. Bookmark them using the orange RSS feed button on any page to get instant updates.

Film of the Month:

The Gerson Miracle, An Epic Story Of Hope

by Steven Kroschel and Charlotte Gerson

A 2004 documentary film revealing the amazing work of Dr.Max Gerson and his successful cancer therapy treatments that were documented in 50 case studies in the book A Cancer Therapy. Through a system of juice fasting and enema therapies Gerson was able to achieve great success in the field of "curing cancer".

Now his institute, called the Gerson Institute is famous for healing many cancer patients from all parts of the world. The film begins with the statement, "A cure for cancer has been discovered". Max Gerson testified before the U.S. Senate in 1958 with the results of his work, but was promptly dismissed as "quackery" and seen as a threat to the medical establishment at that time. The film stresses the two key factors in which "the underlying cause of cancer are deficiency and toxicity." It is a must see revealing the other side of cancer therapy that is well hidden in the main stream medical world.

The Gerson Miracle

Until next month...

Here's to your Superhealth!

Much love,

Shira