Anti-Inflammatory Butter Recipe

To my delight, the Potsdam Food Co-op recently had a basket full of wild turmeric root*. Before I could discover it, I received several messages from personal clients and Co-op members... "Hey Paula, guess what I found at the Co-op?  AND, what do I do with it now that I have it?"

Suggestions:

• grate into soups, stews, and stir fries
• add to grated root veggie slaws
• grate into butter and nut butters
• grind into smoothies** if you are a smoothie person (See eBook information below)
• add to yummy chai tea

Keep in mind that turmeric is absorbed and used more efficiently (healing & nutritionally speaking) when it is eaten with fat. Some plant constituents (the natural chemicals in plants) are better broken down, absorbed, and assimilated into your cells when fat is part of the equation. Healthy fat is also a great help in weight loss, healing body cells, and creating vibrant health.

So... I decided to make Wild Turmeric Butter!  No, this is not local butter but I was out of Kriemhild Butter and I get tired of stock piling the plastic containers it comes in. Time for me to special order some of the 1 lb. rolls that are wrapped in paper. Hmm, they do sell a 50 pound block!    :) 

Wild Turmeric Butter Recipe

Into the vita-mix I threw: 

• 1/4 pound (1/2 cup) of cow's milk butter, see image above
• 1/3 cup raw, local honey
• 2-3 tbsp. of organic, extra virgin olive oil (always make sure it comes from a virgin!)
• 1/3 cup organic, raw, unrefined coconut oil
• 1/3 cup raw coconut butter (this contains all edible parts of the coconut not just the oil)
• 6-7 small pieces of wild turmeric root
• 2 tsp. Ceylon cinnamon
• 1 1/2 tsp. dry ginger root powder (next time I will use a piece of fresh, organic ginger root)

Then I blended it thoroughly. This took using the vita mix plunger to keep pushing the mix of ingredients into the blades. I also shut off the blender twice to scrape the sides down with a rubber spatula until all was well blended.

The next time I make this decadent and scrumptious butter I will use only cow's milk butter with the honey, turmeric, cinnamon, and ginger. I was down to my last 1/2 pound block of butter. Being without butter in my home is a tragedy!

Looking into the vita mix

Turmeric butter on toast with a fried duck egg from Nature's Storehouse in Canton.

Finished Turmeric Butter in it's jar

*Curcumin, turmeric's most active ingredient, reduces the formation of fat tissue. Turmeric suppresses the blood vessels needed to form new fat tissue (it is an anti-inflammatory herb and excess fat formation is an inflammatory response) and therefore may help prevent fat build-up. Curcumin use, from turmeric, results in improvements in insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and other inflammatory symptoms associated with obesity, metabolic disorders, and even cancer.

**Smoothies:

Courtesy of: BeHealthyToday

Your Best Medicine

As an herbalist student of Rosemary Gladstar, I have great respect for her healing ways. This quote could not be nearer or dearer to my heart. Truly, the way we live our lives, every day, IS the best medicine we can give ourselves.

We have a powerful choice, every day, in the food we feed our body, mind, and soul with. 

Whole foods feed our bodies; feed our cells for vibrant health and healing.

Whole, positive thoughts (our own and those we invite into our lives) feed our minds for happy living.

Whole, deep spirited energy feed our souls for compassionate living and loving from our hearts.

I hope 2016 is your best medicine year yet! 

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Disease... genetics or lifestyle? Am I doomed?

Words I more often hear than not in regards to a person's individual health around:

• heart disease
• cancer
• diabetes
• obesity
• kidney disease
• auto-immune diseases
• basically all dis - ease that can interfere with individual human health...

The words I am speaking of:

"Oh, there is nothing I can do about it. My mother (father, grandparents, etc.) had this disease. It is in my family. 2 of my 4 siblings already have it. It is just a matter of time and I will have it as well..."

Can I please tell you that nothing could be further form the truth? Your body is unique. Sure, you may have inherited genetic tendencies towards certain dis - ease states BUT those genes are not set up to play out. Your lifestyle choices have a huge impact in how your body's genetic code plays out over your life time. 

Choosing Healthy Living is the Path to Disease Prevention and a Lifetime of Wellness.

Let's look at cancer as one dis - ease of the body.

• All cancers are the result of multiple gene mutations. The risk of cancer is estimated to be based only 5-10% on inherited genes and 90-95% on lifestyle (unhealthy lifestyle choices can create further gene mutations and also affects the activation of genes - or not). Across all cancers, the risk of the same active cancer dis - ease between all twins was found to be about 10%. Between identical twins and breast cancer the risk was only 20%. Your lifestyle has a huge impact on how your genetic code plays out in your life time.  (Genetic cancer risk information from the New England Journal Of Medicine.)

The environmental factors Dr. Craig Venter speaks of are our day in and day out lifestyle choices. You are in control of whether your body becomes diseased or not.

My work in this world (for 3 plus decades now) has been to teach, support, and role model healthy living choices that promote long-term wellness and prevent disease. 

To make my life's work more accessible to all I have created online courses to:

• bring easily understandable information to you,
• in the comfort of your home,
• on your time, course work can be listened to and learned whenever & wherever is convenient for you (although I do not recommend late nights, burning the candle at both ends, to view course materials... plenty of sleep, every night, is one of your body's best healing mechanisms, and
• at affordable tuition.

Each mini-course gives you a deep look into the root causes for health problems and the specific lifestyle choices and strategies you can invite into your own life to prevent disease and heal your body from any current ill health challenge, dis - ease.

My eCourses I offer to you and your vibrant health are listed here:

http://www.paulayoumellrn.com/online-classes-1/

My wish for you, and why I do my work in this world, is for health that shines from your each & every body cell! Cheers, Paula

Comparing Your Health To An Antique Table

Antique table and your health? What could they possibly have in common?  

You Do NOT Need Me is another thought I had for this post's title. What possible connection could these 2 titles have? I will get back to all of this and hopefully the concepts will be clear.

To heal your body from most of the ills we suffer all one has to do is switch to a whole food diet. Eventually the body will recover its health:

• your gut flora will return to normal,
• blood chemistry profiles stabilize to normal,
• body cells recovery their health,
• hormone levels balance,
• DNA & RNA repairs itself,
• and the list goes on & on.

All of this repair stuff happens just by feeding your body real food*.

Most packaged food stuff, made in factories, is loaded with

• artificial ingredients
• genetically modified organisms
• preservatives
• chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, and
• so many more unnatural ingredients that were never meant to be part of your body's cellular health.

Each time we eat this unnatural food stuff we are chipping away at our body's health. The food we eat is responsible for the health of our body cells. Doritos and soda (or any packaged foods with fake ingredients) every day and you are seriously chipping away at your innate health.

Real Food = Real Healthy Cells

Crap Food = Crappy Sick Cells

If I was to take a vegetable peeler and every day chip a tiny bit of my antique table away what would my table look like? After days, weeks, months, and years of slowly chipping away on my table, the table's value, beauty, and function would suffer. 

The same thing happens to your health every time you chip away at it with food stuff that nature never intended us to take into our bodies under the pretense that it is real food. You read about this in my 80/20 Eating Plan Deception. You are chipping away at your health and your innate beauty, function, and vitality suffers.

So why is it You Do Not Need Me (possible post title #2) and my Wise Woman Nurse educational services?  

Just eat real food. It is that simple.

Feed your body food that nature gave us and avoid the stuff made in factories. If you must buy some factory made foods: read labels and make sure every ingredient in the product is natural, unrefined, non GMO, etc.

Be good to your body cells.  If you want to speed up the healing process... there are many ways to aid the body in recuperating from a non-whole food diet. This is where I can help you weave a bit of magic and make the whole food eating and healing plan happen faster, accelerate the body's return to health! 

Toss out the junk food and the vegetable scraper. 

Save your body cells and the antique table today!

*real food: food in its whole state

1. If a plant based food, the food is grown:

• as it would have grown in nature
• without GMO seeds
• without use of agricultural chemicals: fertilizers pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, etc.
• preferably with crop rotation and biological methods of maintaining soil fertility

2. If an animal based food, the animal is raised:

• in open space free to roam, eat, play, love, and live as closely as it would have if it was a wild animal
• not fed unnatural foods (grains and soybeans to cows, goats, pigs, etc.)
• no steroids, antibiotics, growth hormones, and/or agricultural chemicals
• treated with loving care by the farmers

Because I have used the words... "You CAN heal your own health problems," I will add this disclaimer to CMA.  Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.  

Longevity Recipe

The Greek man above has an amazing story of health, healing, longevity, and defying medical hexing. To read his incredible story of being diagnosed by US doctors with cancer and given 9 months to live and his story of unintended healing success, click this LINK.

Longevity Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Human with desire for vibrant health

2. Real food: http://www.paulayoumellrn.com/whole-food-feeding-your-cells/

3. Garden and/or connection with amazing local farmers

4. Vibrant lifestyle habits in mind, body, & spirit

5. Update 2/28/21 Connection to a loving community

It is really this simple: feed the body real food; real food for body, mind, and spirit.

In a recent conversation with a client a comment was made to me when speaking about healing:

"People do not want to believe that food is the problem."

To which I replied:

"Food, real food, is not the problem. The problem is factory made food products brought to you by Nabisco, Kellogg, Post, Betty Crocker, Pepsico, Tyson, Kraft, Nestle... on and on the list of food product manufacturers goes.

Real food feeds body cells for vibrantly healthy regeneration. Food products detract from body cell health, depleting nutritional stores, and degenerating body cells contributing to degenerative diseases. (Degenerative diseases are a body composed of degenerative body cells.)

As a culture we observe the world and look to emulate those countries with a better health and longer longevity:

• The French Paradox

• The Okinawan diet

• Mediterranean diet

Importing their culture's specific foods is not the answer. Cultures who stick to their traditional diets: food grown locally & naturally and then prepared through time honored home cooking methods are the cultures who thrive with vibrant health. No importation of foreign foods needed. Simply grow food, team up with neighbors to share the different foods you have grown and raise, and befriend local farmers who grow real food in time honored and sustainable ways... keep those farmers farming through purchasing their food and supporting their work in this world. Your health will soar, local food economy will soar, life will be vibrantly good.    http://www.gardenshare.org/

Reverse these time honored practices and instead eat processed, packaged, factory made food products and your body cells suffer. To digest and get rid of these products (detox, methylate) your body must rob nutrients from your cells. Keep robbing from your cells and the cells degenerate further and further and degenerative diseases are now the norm. 

Cultures who have always eaten their locally available and traditional foods create pregnancies with healthy babies who are developing with a firm foundation of healthy body cells. Feed those newborn infants (and their breastfeeding moms) real food and the baby's bodies develop with cellular health intact. Continue this good food, real food trend through the childhood and teen years and you grow up young adults with their cellular health intact. A lifetime of real food, whole food eating and you have a natural prescription, a recipe, for vibrant health and longevity.

The same feeding process for embryos, infants, teens, and all humans in general with processed, packaged food products and the reverse happens: cells degenerate and degenerative diseases are the norm.

Take a peak at the current US population... As a whole, We are NOT vibrantly healthy people.

Junk Vs. Real... Vibrant Vs. Degenerative Body Cells

Bottom Line: Eat Real Food, Eat Whole Food and THRIVE for the Long Haul of Life!

Whole Health Lifestyle Choices create vibrant health & longevity, click to learn more.

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This is a no sweat, straight forward class on making simple herbal medicines and 3-5 herbs that enhance each specific body system for your vibrant health. 

I look forward to sharing this time honored, wise woman wisdom with you, Paula

Get Moving!

Jessica Jones photo, SUNY Potsdam Student

Get your body moving

A whole food, seasonal eating plan can do much to re-balance your body weight, heal your body cells, and put you on the path to radiant whole health.  Simple body movement, every day, can take your wellness plan to a whole other level. 

Think about this:  if you have a sedentary lifestyle, weight gain and an unhealthy body (unhealthy body cells)  is pretty much a sure thing. Instead of reaching for the remote, pick up some hand weights. Instead of the elevator, take the stairs. Get your body moving every day. Work up to 30 minutes every day, you will feel the benefits!  Ask for my hand out on the mind, body, and soul benefits of exercise.

Regular exercise increases your metabolism and your ability to burn fat, improves your mood through the release of endorphins (endorphins are a human's best friend, natural anti-depressants!  Who doesn’t like that movement benefit?), and helps to keep your heart in top notch condition. And as a stress reliever, it can't be beat. A simple 20-30 minute workout has the ability to quiet our mind, make us more present in our body and in the moment, and helps us to relax - important components for a whole health lifestyle.

Think that exercise has to be boring or drudgery? Think again! Most of us can find some type of exercise that motivates us to get into action, make friends, and have fun. What did you like to do as a kid to run and play?  What made you laugh and lose touch with time? Re-introduce yourself to these movement activities. Prefer the solitude of going it alone?  Perfect, get your shoes on and hit the trails.  Wood walks are a perfect place to exercise and find peace.  Exercise doesn't have to require expensive trainers, gym memberships, or a $2000 home gym.  It only requires movement and the commitment to you and your long-term health & vitality.

Here are a few suggestions: -- Do what you love. Be it hiking, rowing, running or belly dancing.  It's important to find exercise that's motivating to you. What will get you up off the couch and/or away from those sedentary screen lifestyles?

-- Get walking. Unlike running, walking is easier on your joints and is one of the simplest forms of exercise. It is free and easy!

-- Find a partner. For many people, exercise can be even more fun if you have someone to help motivate you. Who could you partner with on the road to better health?

-- Buy an inexpensive exercise DVD. Without having to belong to a gym, you can get the benefit of instruction and motivation in the comfort of your own home. You will lose weight, tone your entire body, and increase your balance/flexibility/strength  - all within manageable time frames.

--Stand or use a stepper when you work at your computer.  Your body will feel better when not sitting for hours as the human body was designed for movement, not sitting in chairs.  I still encourage you to get outside and move every day.  The added benefits of natural light and fresh air ramp up the endorphin benefits.

What are your life movement plans?

23 Benefits of Exercise, Movement Magic