Author: Dale Maxwell

Ivy Asks Dale:

I have eczema and none of the drugs the doctors have given me help. What do you recommend?

Dale replies:

You are so far out of balance that the liver is not able to keep up and eczema is the result.

The correction is as follows:

The repair of the gut will take some lifestyle changes and some friendly bacteria.

This portion of my response was written by Bonnie O’Sullivan about 2005.

Dr. Alene Christiano states in Lifestyle Induced Dysbiosis Syndrome (LIDS), 2003, that LIDS is a set of symptoms or effects that are triggered when the number of beneficial flora decreases enough to alter the pH balance of the digestive tract. This imbalance of the gut microflora first sets off an imbalance in the digestive system, which effects homeostasis in every system in your body.

Dysbiosis was first identified and named by Dr. Elie Metchnikoff, a Russian physician. Dr. Metchnikoff believed that the toxins secreted by harmful organisms in the digestive system caused diseases and that beneficial bacteria could prevent many of them. He based his theory on the observation that the truly healthy, long-lived people of the Balkans ingested fermented milk products, such as freshly made yogurt and unprocessed buttermilk daily. That seemed to be the only difference in their lifestyle and the lifestyle of the rest of the people he observed. (Note: Yogurt is an effective way to replace the friendly bacteria in the body, if you do it the same way it has been done for centuries. It must be made daily with unprocessed milk and an active culture of live bacteria, and eaten immediately.)

The rest of my review of Dr. Alene Christiano’s book is in the form of an analogy:

Our intestines are like a football field with a game in progress.

The opposing team’s offensive lineup is made of Candida albicans (in its yeast form, preferably) and bad bacteria [E. Coli (cystitis), H. pylori (ulcers), Salmonella (food poisoning), Streptococcus (tonsillitis and other infections)]. All are normally found in the body, and our friendly bacteria is in charge of keeping them from harming us.

The opposing team’s defensive lineup is made of stress, antibiotics, processed food, junk foods, sodas, sugar, excess salt in food, synthetic food additives, agricultural chemicals, antacids such as Tums® or Tagamet®, anti-inflammatory drugs, steroids such as Prednisone®, pain pills, anti-anxiety pills, anti-yeast pills, anti-fungal pills, anti-seizure pills, cholesterol-lowering pills, high blood pressure pills, birth control pills, other prescription medicines, anything “medicated,” chlorinated water, chemically treated water, air pollution, polluted living and working environments, household chemical products, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

The home team’s offensive lineup is made of the friendly bacteria that are always in our gut in varying amounts: L. acidophilus, L. rhamnosus, L. salivarius, L. casei, L. plantarum, L. lactis, L. bulgaricus, L. brevis, L. paracasei, L. gasseri, B. infantis, B. bifidum, B. lactis, B. longum, B. breve, and Streptococcus thermophilus (as supplements, these bacteria need refrigeration, are fragile and are easily damaged by heat or extreme cold, and excessive light, plus, when swallowed, they do not survive the acids and enzymes of the stomach).

The home team’s defensive lineup is made of:

Bacillus Coagulans

1. Supplementing daily with Flora-G Plus AKA Bacillus Coagulans (L. sporogenes), the ingredient in Flora-G Plus, works by keeping our intestines slightly acid, which keeps Candida albicans — the yeast that becomes aggressive fungus when the pH of the intestinal environment is alkaline — in its harmless yeast form.   L. sporogenes is not damaged by heat, extreme cold, or excessive light and has consistently shown that it survives the acids and enzymes of the stomach without losing bacterial count, and reaches the intestines ready to begin its work. L. sporogenes must be taken daily, as it does not live long in the body.
2. All of the following: avoiding everything in the opposing team’s defensive lineup (some exceptions are tolerated if you are taking Flora-G Plus), distilled water, eating organic food (whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and less than 5% of your calories in lean meats and poultry or fish), eating slowly and chewing food well, including in our diet 20 to 40 grams of fiber a day (lack of fiber causes the entire digestive tract to become sluggish, ideally the fiber will be coming from your primarily whole food diet), being active at minimum walking 30 minute per day (lack of exercise leads to a decrease in digestive enzymes and HCL), stretching often during the day to maintain healthy digestion, avoiding stress at mealtime (stress stops or slows the digestive process and disrupts the body’s natural rhythms), supplementing with digestive enzymes and or HCL tablets if needed (most older people have decreasing amounts of digestive enzymes and gastric acid), and supplementing with vitamins, angstrom size colloidal minerals, and fish oil. Also, if you often feel you are “stressed out” you could try; Acupressure, Meditation, Stress Counseling and/or Yoga.

• If the opposing team wins the game we are subject to; irritability, anxiety, sudden mood changes, Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), foggy thinking, sudden energy loss, aching muscles, chronic fatigue, depression, heartburn, constipation, diarrhea, bloating or belching, bad breath, sugar cravings, leaky gut syndrome, allergies, eczema, tingling feelings, numbness, traveling joint pain, Fibromyalgia, chronic/recurring bacterial and fungus infections, vaginal infections, Athlete’s foot, liver problems, kidney problems, obesity, infertility, high cholesterol, prostatitis, gastritis, gastroenteritis, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), , inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), colonic polyps, ulcerative colitis, Chron’s colitis or “Chron’s Disease,” diverticulosis, diverticulitis, and colorectal cancer.

Diseases of the colon and rectum that require surgery occur in more than 600,000 patients a year in the United States. The goal of colon surgery, or a colectomy, is to remove sections of the large bowel (colon) that are diseased and/or damaged, and linking the remaining sections together. Many times, after surgery, the patient is left with a temporary or permanent colostomy pouch.A colostomy is a surgical procedure that involves connecting a part of the colon onto the anterior abdominal wall, leaving the patient with an opening on the abdomen called a stoma. This opening is formed from the end of the large intestine drawn out through the incision and sutured to the skin. After a colostomy, feces leave the patient’s body through the stoma, and collect in a pouch attached to the patient’s abdomen, which is changed when necessary, usually once or twice a day.The amount of time it takes for the home team to win the game depends on how much of your intestinal tract (the length of the gastro-intestinal tract is between 28 and 30 feet, with a surface area of nearly 6,000 square feet) Candida albicans, in its fungus form, has taken over control and how determined you are to withstand any die-off symptoms you feel (tiredness/flu like feelings) as it dies off and reverts back to its yeast form. You can change the Candida albicans in your intestines from fungus to yeast gradually, with few die-off symptoms,  taking 2 Flora-G Plus capsules am and pm, gradually increasing to 4 Flora-G Plus capsules am and pm over a 2 to 3 month period. Continue for life.

And  the 21-day detox Clear Multivite All IN ONE Vanilla  (will take three)

Can you advise me regarding the food while traveling? It will be impossible to control oil in food and ill be eating in restaurants all the time.

Most restaurants will accommodate your requests quite willingly especially if you contact them in advance.

Focus on minimally processed and seasoned foods. Lightly steamed or raw.

• Potatoes (baked) are a good option.
• If you are using the same restaurant over and over they may be willing to bake yams or sweet potatoes for you
• Bean dishes

Do not stress yourself when you stray from your diet a bit, enjoy.

 

 

This post was inspired by Nawal when she provided the diet info:

I also eat a big bowl of salad (lettuces, cucumber, watermelon cubes or sweet melon cubes, shredded half green apple, pear, peach) I add two type of fruit each time as available. My dressing is celery juice with some lemon and dry herbs and salt added to it for taste

Some people can do well combining and other so so well. I would encourage you to log your results and do the following testing to see if you feel stronger and more satisfied by  separation, with that my general observation with this meal is that it is not a green salad but a fruit salad.

Greens are generally fine in combination with most everything.

• Greens and beans

• Greens and fruit

• Greens and grains

• Greens and any starch

This post was inspired by Nawal when she provided the diet info:

Then I eat a mixture of nuts almonds, walnut, cashew, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds.

The digestion challenge with nuts and seeds is their inherent survival design, they are meant to create a new copy of the plant or tree. They survive burial and then sprout into a plant or tree.

The have enzyme inhibitors to keep them from decomposing.

So you must do the following in order to get all the value from nuts and seeds:

• Soak overnight in distilled water
• Rinse well
• Physically break them up

I use running then through vitamix along with greens and cooked oatmeal

You may want to turn them into  a paste or otherwise breaking them up into a butter consistency.

Consuming each individually or in combination will be a different taste and texture so mix it up and enjoy.

Please note that this also holds true in most every other grain and seed.

Corn heating briefly will help with digesting and breaking them up well with be critical.

Most people have been trained to soak beans and now you know why.

Ask by Several People

Why do you recommend  a diet of 95 % whole food plant based 5% animal – no free-flowing oils?

Time to document why I recommend this diet for most cancer recovery success.

I personally recommend a 100% plant base diet but if you cannot manage this then go for the 95% plant and measure everything carefully at first because the 95% is the calorie count and most people, at first, until they carefully measure and learn are guessing 5% when their numbers are way higher.

The science and research is clear to me and here are just some of the experts:

Plant Based Diet Education

Study these 3 Experts:

John McDougall MD

Books http://www.road-to-health.com/go/mcdougall

John McDougall MD Video: The Starch Solution – John McDougall MD

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Colin Campbell Phd

Book: http://www.road-to-health.com/go/china

and

Caldwell B. Esselstyn

http://www.road-to-health.com/go/caldwell

For Amazon Prime and other Video To TV Services:

http://www.road-to-health.com/go/bluray Player with Youtube also
And
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DVDs

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Enzymes

http://www.road-to-health.com/how_many_should_I_take_with_each_meal.php

http://www.drkelleyenzymes.com/325

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Interviews http://www.holistichealthchannel.com

http://www.oneanswertocancer.com

Probiotics

Aloe
http://www.road-to-health.com/aloerd.php
Detox:

http://www.drkelleyenzymes.com/detox

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