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For most people, everyday overindulgence can leave you feeling sluggish and dull as you try to accomplish seemingly simple tasks...
But it’s not just overindulgences that tax our liver and leave us feeling low. Every day we’re exposed to a barrage of assaults from the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the chemicals we come into contact with.
Our modern world, a toxic soup, and we can’t help but bathe in it.
And while many people choose more “drastic” measures (like a multi-day juice fast) to help counteract the damage, there’s a more practical way to lighten your liver’s burden and cleanse away occasional culinary sins and environmental toxins...
Drink bone broth!
The Non-Essential Nutrient That’s Essential for Detoxifying
Bone broth is rich in a wide variety of nutrients, including the amino acid glycine. Glycine is the simplest of all amino acids and is considered “non-essential.” That means that it can be produced by the body.
But when it comes to detoxification, glycine is absolutely essential. In fact, without enough glycine, your liver’s ability to do its job comes to a slow grind.
You see, glycine is one of several starting compounds needed to make the body’s most powerful antioxidant and detoxifying agent: glutathione.
The Most Miraculous Anti-Aging Substance (Your Doctor Hasn’t Heard Of)
Glutathione is made up of just three amino acids bonded together – glycine, cysteine and glutamic acid. And while glutathione is a very small and simple molecule, its function in the body is extremely diverse… and unquestionably vital.
It’s so important that more than 89,000 medical articles have been written about it!
The first way that glutathione works its healing magic is by recharging the other antioxidants in your body. These include vitamin C, vitamin E and lipoic acid. Without glutathione, free radicals would overwhelm your antioxidant defenses and cause rapid physical deterioration.
But this amazing substance is also an essential part of your liver’s ability to detoxify the blood.
Here’s how it happens...
Glutathione: Your Body’s Crucial Cleanser
First, the blood is filtered by the liver. Think of this as the deep cleaning phase. Toxins and other unwanted chemical junk are removed from the blood and converted into water-soluble chemicals (called conjugates). These conjugates are then reduced to smaller fragments, which can then be more easily neutralized and excreted.
The next step is called phase II detoxification. This is where enzymes and antioxidants – including glutathione – step in to neutralize the metabolic debris and free radicals that were gathered or generated in the first phase.
Day in and day out, your body performs these complex housekeeping tasks. But this internal “maid service” does not come without a cost – each and every time the body cleanses compounds from the blood, glutathione and other vital nutrients are depleted.
And the more toxins you are exposed to, or the longer the exposure, the more costly this “housekeeping” becomes from a nutritional standpoint.
This is exactly why you need to...
Detox Weekly... Not Yearly!
Humans are in contact with more toxins today than ever before in history. From radiation to the tens of thousands of chemicals we’re exposed to in our food, water and air – your health depends on being able to continuously and efficiently detoxify.
The best way to achieve this is to provide your body with a constant supply of the nutrients that facilitate internal cleansing – including glycine.
And bone broth is the best and easiest way to incorporate the glutathione-boosting benefits of glycine into your diet.
Of course you have two options when it comes to bone broth...
- Make your own
- Purchase premade
Paleovalley's 100% Grass Fed Bone Broth Protein is the only one of its kind - made from truly grass fed cows raised on pesticide-free, grass pastures. The cows are never fed GMO grains (or any grains, for that matter).
So you can rest assured knowing you are getting top-quality collagen-rich, bone broth protein into your body faster, easier, and without having to source grass-fed bones then simmer them for 24 hours or more...
And the best part... you can use their bone broth protein powder in smoothies, baked dishes, coffee and more! So, you can reap the benefits of bone broth in a number of ways.
But, if you do decide to make your own bone broth, we have some quick tips to get the most:
- Cook Slow & Low or Add Pressure: Longer cooking times at lower temperatures help to ensure maximum extraction of glycine and other important nutrients in bones. To make bone broth simply add 4-5 large bones to a slow cooker and fill three-quarters full with water (you can add salt, seasonings, onions and vegetables, if you wish). Make sure you have enough water
in the pot and cook for 24 hours on low to create a nutrient-dense broth.
- Add Parts: Marrow bones are the standard for making bone broth, but you can get more glycine if you add parts like chicken feet.
- Consider the Fat: If you make a bone broth predominantly from beef bones, the fat will be saturated. However chicken parts will produce more omega-6 fats. For this reason, you should consider scraping (if it’s cold) or ladling the fat from top of bone broth made from chicken.
- Make Gelatin Cubes: If you won’t be using or consuming all of your nutrient-rich bone broth within four to seven days, simply spoon or pour the amount you want to store into ice cube trays and freeze. Then pop out the cubes and store them in a zip-top bag for quick individual use. They can be added to soups, stews and sauces or just gently heated for a soothing,
cleansing drink.
To lighten your liver’s load, you should also avoid processed foods and chemicals, limit your alcohol consumption and engage in regular exercise.
But for the toxins that inevitably make their way into your body, boosting glutathione and other key nutrients goes a long way to protecting your health. And consuming glycine-rich bone broth is one of the best ways to do that.
To Your Health,
Kelley Herring
Healing Gourmet
P.S. Paleovalley created 100% Grass Fed Bone Broth Protein to make getting collagen-rich, bone broth protein into your body faster, easier, and without having to source grass-fed bones then simmer them for 48 hours. While we love bone broth, sometimes we
just want something simple to add to an organic smoothie, or cup of coffee, or even into our keto and paleo baked dishes...
References
- N.R. Gotthoffer. Gelatin in Nutrition and Medicine.
- De Rosa SC, Zaretsky MD, Dubs JG, Roederer M, Anderson M, Green A, Mitra D, Watanabe N, Nakamura H, Tjioe I, Deresinski SC, Moore WA, Ela SW, Parks D, Herzenberg LA, Herzenberg LA. N-acetylcysteine replenishes glutathione in HIV infection. Eur J Clin Invest. 2000 Oct;30(10):915-29 (PubMed)
- Nuttall S, Martin U, Sinclair A, Kendall M. 1998. Glutathione: in sickness and in health. The Lancet 351(9103):645-646 (PubMed)
- Fidelus R.K., Tsan M.F. Glutathione and lymphocyte activation: a function of aging and auto-immune disease. Immunology. 1987 61:503-508. (PubMed)
- Wellner V.P., Anderson M.E., Puri R.N., Jensen G.L., Meister A. (1982)Radioprotection by glutathione ester: transport of glutathione ester in human lymphoid cells and fibroblasts. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81, 4732. (PubMed)
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HEALING GOURMET: HOW IT ALL BEGAN…
As one of the longest-running online publishers in the field of nutrition, health and wellness, we are often asked how and why Healing Gourmet was founded.
It’s an important question. After all, if you’re going to follow the advice of someone on the internet, it is best that you know who they are and understand their background and philosophy.
The short story is that Healing Gourmet was founded in 2000, with the mission to educate on how foods promote health and protect against disease.
Our founder and CEO, Kelley Herring, was thrilled to combine her passion for nutritional research with her love for cooking and recipe creation.
And her youthful enthusiasm must have been persuasive because one of her first accomplishments was to secure a partnership with McGraw Hill – one of the largest publishers in the world.
We'll let Kelley tell you the rest about Healing Gourmet's beginnings and the foundations that underlie our ideas and advice about nutrition and health...
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At the time, I was 26 years old and used my only credit card to book the flight to New York (I didn’t have the money to buy the ticket). I can still remember the butterflies in my stomach as I stepped out of the taxi and tilted my head back to take in all 51 stories of McGraw Hill's corporate headquarters.
I will never forget the feeling of excitement when the executives on the other side of the table reached across to shake my hand... and agreed to publish not one, but a series of four books produced by Healing Gourmet!
We immediately began to curate a team of doctors, nutritionists and chefs from world-renowned institutions. And for the next two years I led this team as we created educational tools, meal plans, and recipes designed to prevent and treat the most pressing health concerns of our day.
I’m very proud of the books we produced with McGraw Hill, including Eat to Fight Cancer, Eat to Beat Diabetes, Eat to Lower Cholesterol, and Eat to Boost Fertility.
But along the way, I learned some downright shocking things about...
WHAT PASSES FOR MAINSTREAM DIETARY AND NUTRITIONAL ADVICE
During those years, I worked very closely with doctors from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, the Cleveland Clinic and the University of California... as well as representatives of the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and US public health agencies.
And while I have great respect for the individuals we hand-picked to contribute to our books, I can’t say the same thing about those institutions claiming to be our “guardians of health.”
Here are just a few things I discovered when I got an inside peek at modern medicine. I discovered that:
- Politics and money often trump research and that the goal of mainstream medicine is not to make people healthy – the goal is to make a profit.
- Medical institutions and government health authorities don’t want answers to the health and obesity crisis… they want answers that fit a certain paradigm.
- Bad science, flawed studies and unproven theories had become the “gospel truth” of conventional wisdom. Just one example led to healthy foods (like eggs) being demonized, while unhealthy foods (like vegetable oils and cereal grains) were touted as healthy.
- Most of what we’ve been taught about health and nutrition is just plain WRONG. In many cases, the advice is not just the wrong thing to do... it is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the right thing to do (like recommending a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet to diabetics and cancer patients).
I also saw rampant conflicts of interest.
For example, did you know the former Chief Medical & Scientific Officer of the American Diabetes Association, Dr. Richard Kahn, once made the following statement?
"What is the evidence that sugar itself has anything to do with diabetes? There is no evidence. None. There is not a shred of evidence that sugar per se has anything to do with getting diabetes."
The ignorance of this comment is astounding. But it makes sense when you consider that just weeks later, the ADA announced a multi-million dollar alliance with Cadbury-Schweppes – one of the largest manufacturers of candy and sweetened soft drinks in the world.
Dr. Kahn also said, “Diabetes prevention is a waste of resources.”
After all, why bother trying to “prevent” the disease, when you can simply “manage” it with toxic and expensive drugs!
Of course, conflicts of interest cross all borders.
For example, Theresa Glanville, PhD. is a university professor who sits on the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Council for Food and Nutrition. In an interview with the CBC, she said: “Research shows that even when 25 percent of calories come from sugar, it’s not bad for your health.”
Actually, Dr. Glanville, the research does NOT show that. But my research DOES show that you have served on the scientific advisory board of the Sugar Institute of Canada!
I could go on... but you get the point. The field of health is awash in myths, misconceptions and outright lies.
And perhaps the biggest lie of all is that there are no cures for chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, macular degeneration, COPD, digestive disorders, and the list goes on.
If you cannot cure a disease, then you can only treat it... and without the cure, the “treatment” can last a lifetime. Quite a profitable racket, wouldn’t you say?
The truth is that...
NATURAL CURES DO EXIST... AND WE’D LIKE TO SHOW YOU THE WAY
In most cases, your risk for chronic disease has very little to do with your genetics.
It has almost everything to do with the decisions you make, including:
- Foods you eat (and those you don’t)
- Toxins, hormones and chemicals you consume (or rub into your skin)
- Levels of physical activity… fun and play… stress… and the quality of your rest
It is these factors that will determine whether you’re bound for disability and chronic illness... or abundant health and good times for a long time!
You see, while most chronic conditions look very different on the surface, they are actually just physical variations of the same five underlying causes of disease:
- Inflammation
- Glycation
- Oxidation
- Depletion
- Toxification
The great news is that all five of these forces can be controlled by what you put in your mouth and how you live your life.
Healing Gourmet's mission is to help you make the choices that take you toward a life of vitality, abundant energy, and optimal health!
We believe – as Hippocrates did – that your body already has the blueprint for perfect health.
Abundant proof exists that the human body can make disease simply vanish when it has the building elements it needs in the right amounts and is not assaulted by toxins and a poor diet.
TURNING RESEARCH INTO MOUTHWATERING MEALS
Here at Healing Gourmet, our recipe for health is very simple... and rigorous research is always the “main ingredient.”
First, we take a healthy dose of research on compounds in foods and their effects on disease... then we combine these scientific findings with culinary finesse to whip up mouthwatering recipes and easy-to-use meal plans that deliver as much taste as they do nutrition.
We have also produced dozens of books (including our ever-popular Keto Breads and Keto Desserts recipe books), free reports and hundreds of articles, filled with
practical steps to achieve a lean body and vibrant health – with the greatest enjoyment and least sacrifice!
And here are some of the things you won’t find at Healing Gourmet...
- You will NOT get the same “politically correct” nutritional claptrap you’ve been deceptively dished for decades. That means you will NEVER find recipes or menus based on the fatally-flawed, commodity-crop-pushing USDA pyramid.
- You will NEVER hear us talk out of both sides of our mouth. We can’t tell you how many “food bloggers” claim to promote health... and yet on the very next page, they are promoting sugar-laden recipes, toxic artificial ingredients, harmful cooking techniques, hormone-pumped meats and pesticide-ridden produce. Yuck!
We take our responsibility to you very seriously.
After all, when you really think about it, these are matters of life and death.
You see, we believe that food is a lot more than “calories.”
It is information that programs your genes… it is cellular fuel… immune support… free-radical defense… detoxification… hormonal balance… and glowing, supple skin… all wrapped up in a delicious, disease-fighting package.
That is - if you are eating the right foods!
And with Healing Gourmet's guidance, you'll find eating the right foods isn't just easy, but delicious too.
So, with that, we hope you'll stay tuned to our email newsletters... and take advantage of the hundreds of science-based articles on our website, and you will make some of our delicious healing recipes...
And that you’ll share with us your achievements as you move toward YOUR optimal health!
To Your Health,
Kelley Herring
Healing Gourmet
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