Oddly enough, I started one version of this Naturopathy page as a response to someone with certain symptoms who asked, 'What should I take?'.  In response, I provided suggestions as to what lifestyle changes might be
appropriate.   I got no 'Likes' to that post.  But here they are anyway.  lol

Can I list a few things you should not take?  You know, 'You cannot dry off under the shower', so you have to avoid/eliminate habits, situations, or consumption that are continuing to aggravate.

How about: do not consume any sugar or sweeteners; do not consume any form of alcohol, at all, ever.  Do not slather yourself with hand sanitizer or subject your lungs and cranial cavity to conventional disinfectant sprays.  Do not consume cigarette smoke; do not consume unfiltered water (I personally drink distilled).  And if you were hoping that Reverse Osmosis (RO) eliminated glyphosate?  no - not likely.   Although, fermented food (sauerkraut, kombucha, kimchi) do help break it down.

 

As for tobacco, the nicotine is one dangerous culprit.  Nicotine is actually a stimulant.  When you try to stop taking that stimulant you find out how much you were dependent upon it.  And then you get withdrawals.  It's bad stuff, taking you on a downward spiral.

Eat only organic - except maybe foods on the Clean 15 list (see Environmental Working Group).  Some foods may  be considered 'safe', but these days it's all a matter of degree. 

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And don't forget your local Farmer's Market.  They need your support.  And we need each other.  Even if their food is not 'Certified Organic', it may well be as organic as you can get.  The certification process may not be so easy for them to justify.

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But it turns out that even if animal products are labeled as 'organic', if they are fed conventional grain products, then you are eating the linoleic acid that the animals ate.  So, only eat grass-fed and grass-finished beef.  Chickens is the same.  Yes, the feed may be all organic seeds - all high in linoleic acid.  So, your chicken and eggs are making you sick also.

 

But don't just stop there.  Grow your own food.  I would like to find a good gardening site for reference here - maybe Farmer's Almanac.

 

But don't just stop there either.  Grow your own dirt.  You are using  commercial toxic  materials to grow your garden?  Or maybe you just didn't read the bag.  Grow your own worm farm, your own dirt, composting and recycling from your kitchen waste; and create rich nutrients for your plants.  Yes, I have good links and amazing information for this.

Eat only foods for your Blood Type.  For now, look to this when you want to talk about gluten sensitivity.

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Avoid linoleic acid - found in seed oils.  Cook mainly with organic and regeneratively fed butter or ghee.  Coconut oil is an option.  The half-life of linoleic acid is 2 years. 

 

Despite olive oil's healthy image, most olive oils are adulterated with cheap, oxidized omega-6 vegetable oils.

They’re also composed of oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat (MUF) that is still prone to oxidation, especially with heat or light exposure. In large amounts, MUFs disrupt mitochondrial function and increase oxidative stress, making olive oil a questionable long-term staple.

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According to Dr. Joe Mercola, supplementing with calcium alone isn’t enough to protect your bones or heart as you age. To get optimal results, you need the synergy of nutrients that work together to guide where calcium goes and how it’s used.

• Vitamin D and K2 work together to manage calcium properly — Vitamin D plays an important role in helping your body absorb calcium from the food you eat, but you need vitamin K2 to make sure calcium ends up in your bones — not your arteries or kidneys.10

• Vitamin K2 keeps calcium out of soft tissues and directs it to bones — Vitamin K2 acts like a traffic director for calcium in your body. It activates proteins that move calcium into your bones and teeth, where it strengthens your structure. At the same time, K2 prevents calcium from building up in soft tissues like blood vessels, where it hardens and blocks circulation.

Without enough K2, the extra calcium will actually harm you, even if you’re getting plenty of vitamin D.11

• Magnesium works behind the scenes — Your body needs magnesium to convert vitamin D into its active form, so it turns on your calcium absorption. Magnesium and vitamin K2 also complement each other because magnesium helps lower blood pressure, which is an important component of heart disease.

While no precise guidelines exist, magnesium helps keep calcium in your cells so they can do their job better, and most experts recommend a 1-to-1 ratio of calcium to magnesium.12

• Optimize your levels through a healthy diet — It’s important to understand that magnesium, calcium, vitamin D3, and vitamin K2 must be properly balanced for optimal heart and overall health. Your best and safest bet is to simply eat more foods rich in calcium, magnesium, and vitamin K2, along with sensible sun exposure.

• If supplementing, make sure to balance these nutrients — If you're taking vitamin D or calcium, make sure you're also getting enough K2 and magnesium. Aim for around 150 mcg of K2 daily, ideally in the MK-7 form, along with a magnesium supplement.

To find your optimal magnesium dose, start with magnesium citrate, as it has a laxative effect that makes dosing easy to gauge. Gradually increase your dose until you experience loose stools, then reduce it slightly — that’s your ideal daily amount. Once you’ve identified the right dose, switch to another form you prefer. I recommend magnesium threonate for its brain and nervous system benefits.
 

Get sunshine early in the morning to stimulate your pineal gland.  If interested, here's a link to an external site on Melatonin.

Get fresh air.

Go to bed early and do not eat anything three hours before you sleep (only your nightly supplements).  

Limit your eating to an 8-6 hour window.  Your body exerts, from what I have heard, up to 80% of its energy solely in the digestive process.  By limiting the time that your body is involved in the digestion process, you allow it
much more energy to devote to living and healing.  Another advantage to this technique, which is called intermittent fasting, is to switch your body in and out of ketosis.  (I heard something like they exumed Mathama Ghandi, and at age 87 they found his organs to be that of a 47 year old?)   A 72 hour water-only fast (distilled water) is said to stimulate apoptosis and actually generate stem cells.

And sleep in darkness and quiet.  Be calm.  Do not think about any projects.  Just allow the parasympathetic mind to take over.

Avoid stress. 

Everything is not always about taking pills, although CBD and GABA have been used..

Break your coffee habit (and BTW, non-organic coffee is likely supremely toxic).

Chew your food.  Thoroughly.

Eat according to digestive order: do not combine fruits with any other food (let it digest for an hour before another type of food); do not combine meats and grains.  But you can combine vegetables with either.   As for meats and fats (avocados, nuts, oils), allow up to 4 hours to digest these before combining with incompatibles.

Dairy?  Well, camel milk is the least harmful, followed by donkey milk.  Gorilla milk is harder to come by - I can't say for sure about that one. Here's a link about Milk.  I will have more to say about that.

Dental health:  Get rid of your dental amalgams - you know, the ones with 55% mercury?  They won't even allow a dentist to dispose of these in the trash.  They have to be sent to a hazardous waste site.

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Curtail your EMF (electro-magnetic frequency) exposure. 

 

Other strategies include:

   Liver/Gallbladder flush - link to Dr. Foster

   Lymph Detox - link to MicrobeFormulas

   Parasite Cleanse

   Colon Cleanse

   Vitamin C and/or Magnesium flushes

   Coffee Enema

   Magnesium salt baths

   Chelation/Binder implementation (see also 'Suppositories'):

• BioActive Carbon

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   Liver massage

   Suppositories

• Glutathione + EDTA - Binder

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   Sweat

   Exercise

   Nutrition

   Supplementation

Vitamin C

Magnesium

Vitamin D - preferably sunshine

Vitamin K

B Complex

   Essential oils

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Some Marketing Hype:

• Non-GMO? That still does not mean that it is not sprayed with glyphosate, it just means that the seeds were not genetically modified.  Don't fall for it.

• Organic?  Really?  The water supply is organic, or is it  biosludge?

• Gluten Free?  All grain has gluten. Rice, Oats, Rye, they contain gluten.   As for Wheat, though, it is the wheat protein that people are sensitive to.   A permeable intestine allows this protein to pass through.  The body attacks the wheat protein as foreign.  You've got this foreign protein passing through a 20' tube containing villi and crypts the area of a football field.  It overwhelms the immune system, to say the least.

 

Since I mentioned Vitamin C, what food do you suppose has the greatest antioxidant capacity?  Prunes come in 2nd place at about 1/10 the antioxidant effect.  Try gogi berries, a.k.a. wolf berries.

Those are some basic components of a healthy living lifestyle.  I will post more, and links, as time permits.