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11/07/2021

Because of circumstances out of our control the Healing Touch Wellness Center needs to say goodbye to Cochrane. We will be moving to Calgary to work from our home office.

10/19/2021

G went to see a naturopath last week and got a food plan. Everyone who deals with autoimmune has their own food plan to start to begin healing the leaky gut. Dr. Keesha has her own plan and rationale. I think you need to decide whether their rationale makes sense to you.
Some takeaways from my reading so far:
1. Every achievement starts with small steps.
2. This is not a “must do in totality” regimen. Even a small change
will help improve your recovery and optimize overall health.
Stress contributes to the development of allergies,
hypersensitivities, digestive disorders and other health
problems. How quickly your health improves is proportionate
to your adherence to the program.
3. Make it easy on yourself. Change your eating habits at your
own pace.
4. Have fun and experiment with ingredients and foods you don’t
normally eat.
5. Be patient you will lose interest in the unhealthy food choices
and acquire a taste for the new foods.
6. If you fall off the wagon and make some poor food choices
one day, just get back on your regime. Improving your
nutrition is an investment in your health.

Different Dietary Regimens – some advocate only some and others all.
1. The Hypoallergenic diet consists of foods that are less likely to
produce allergic or sensitivity reactions or aggregate the
digestive system.
2. The Elimination Diet excludes all foods inclined to trigger
sensitivity and intolerance reactions in our bodies. It also
eliminates foods causing other adverse reactions.
3. The Diversified Diet advocates incorporating a broad variety
of foods not usually in our diet. New foods are used to replace
any offending foods.
4. The Rotational diet requires us to rotate the foods we tend to
most often consume. This diet directs us to eat a particular
food every 4 days. The goal is to give the body a break from a
particular food.
5. The Natural Diet requires the exclusion of all foods which have
been irradiated, processed, chemically preserved or otherwise
altered. This includes junk food, fast food, and canned foods.
6. The Organic diet proposes eating organically or at least
naturally grown foods. No GMO foods and the result will be
cleaner food with more nutritional value and better taste.
7. The Blood Type Specific diet stems from the presence of cell surface sugars called lectins. These are specific to different foods and depending on your blood type can produce adverse reactions.

Let’s focus on the Hypoallergenic, Elimination, and Natural Diet first.
1. Alcohol
2. Apples
3. Bananas
4. Beans - Lima, kidney, flava.
5. Buttermilk
6. Cream
7. Corn
8. Cheese
9. Citrus Fruits
10. Canned foods
11. Chocolate
12. Coffee
13. Chemicals added as flavouring – any Foods with Additives,
Artificial colouring
14. Dried Fruit
15. Eggplant
16. Eggs
17. Fried or Fast foods
18. Junk food
19. Juices – all fruit and vegetable
20. Goat milk and sheep milk and products
21. Legumes – to be added in later.
22. Margarine - Trans fats and Shortening – partially
hydrogenated
23. Milk
24. Mushrooms
25. Natural Sweeteners from coconut, maple, rice, dates, agave,
stevia and xylitol (In the beginning only)
26. Nuts and seeds (in the beginning only)
27. Peanuts
28. Processed and packaged foods
29. Peppers – all bell and hot
30. Potatoes
31. Sweet potatoes
32. Soy and soy products
33. Sugar – fructose and other artificial sweeteners
34. Shellfish
35. Tomatoes
36. Wheat and wheat-based grains- kamut, semolina, spelt,
couscous, Bulgar, triticale
37. Yams
38. Yogurt
… and all other foods you suspect to be aggravating. (Listen to your body)
You may find that you have already eliminated some of these foods because of either food sensitivity or intolerance. Some surprised me like Yams and vegetable juices since we like to juice celery. I will get into the rationales in further postings. It forces us to buy fresh ingredients and cook again. No more already prepared meals to heat up. Meal Planning becomes essential so you have the ingredients in the house. Empty your pantry and fridge of all condiments unless they are homemade with the ingredients that are allowed and start making your own. Remember have fun and don’t feel stressed. It is time to be adventurous with new foods.

10/16/2021

We are looking for 2-3 volunteers. Is that you?

10/14/2021

We support everyone and do not Discriminate.

10/13/2021

How to Reverse Autoimmune Disease - from the book by Dr. Keesha Solving the Autoimmune Puzzle.

Functional Medicine Doctors or Naturopaths are the professional that will get to the root causes. They will not give pharmaceuticals to mask symptoms. They look at your health story. Starting with your mom’s pregnancy, childbirth and all the sicknesses you have had in your life. Downside you have to pay for their expertise. Some benefit plans cover this service. G is going to a naturopath this week. He already told him there would be a diet change and that if he followed his diet plan G would experience success.
Once you have developed one autoimmune disease you are 75% likely to develop another. Autoimmune disease is a disease of an autoimmune system that has become hypervigilant. The most common tissues and organ systems affected are the:
skin
Joints
Endocrine or hormone system
Red blood cells and blood vessels
Connective tissue
Muscles
Of course that doesn't mean it doesn't effect other organs. In G's case it effected the eyes.
80% of all autoimmune disease is diagnosed in women. Now G is in the 20% of males that have autoimmune. Up to the present he has had 4 separate autoimmune diseases. He has healed them all through diet except his eyes. According to the literature your autoimmune system will attack the weakest link.

Root Causes
1. Childhood trauma
2. Genetics
3. Toxins
4. Leaky gut

1. Childhood trauma
The immune system will mirror the mental the mental system. If the mind is reactive the immune system will follow ACE Questionnaire – see attached.
Emotional stress plays a huge role in autoimmune. It is often triggered before the onset of symptoms.

2. Genetics – This gives you a predisposition towards. So if it is in your family you are more likely to develop the disease with the right triggers.

3. Toxins

Thoughts
Foods
Medications
Skin care products – face cream, lotion, sunscreen, mosquito
repellent…

4. Leaky Gut – Leaky gut is also known as intestinal permeability
syndrome. When your intestinal lining becomes porous,
undigested food molecules, yeast, toxins and other waste
products that would not normally get through what is
supposed to be a contained system. They escape freely into
your bloodstream. 70% of the immune system is contained in
the gut so having a healthy digestive system is vital.

Main Culprits
1. Medications
2. The Canadian Diet
3. Toxins
4. Low stomach acid and digestive enzymes
5. Gut infections
6. Stress
7. Food sensitivities
8. Infections
9. Hormonal imbalances

Leaky gut can also be caused by medications including antibiotics, steroids or over-the-counter pain relievers like aspirin and acetaminophen, which can irritate the intestinal lining and damage protective mucus layers. This irritation can start or continue the inflammation cycle that leads to intestinal permeability.

10/08/2021

Some Practitioners from the Global Energy Healing Summit with new therapies for wellness.

Truth and Reconciliation Month - Discounts for our Indigenous Friends

10/06/2021

The owner of the Healing Touch suffers from Auto-immune. This summer he had a wake- up call. He spent most of the summer in the hospital due to one of the drugs he was taking long-term. The cascade effect became evident. The meds led to Ulcers which caused bleeding and low hemoglobin. Then blood clots in the lungs caused pressure on the heart and difficulty breathing with the least bit of physical exertion. One hospital visit and 4 hospital stays later he finally seems to have stabilized. Twenty-five days in the hospital, he now is 14 days out of the hospital and his hemoglobin is rising. Did you know your doctor can order a mobile blood lab service? Who knew?
We would like to chronicle his journey to heal his auto-immune in hopes that we can help those in G’s position that need to get off those drugs before they actually kill you. We know that autoimmune disorders are being diagnosed daily. Western Medicine’s approach is to put you on drugs whose side effects eventually lead to illness which is apparent in G’s case. His wake up call is to approach his health with in an entirely different way and go drug free. We want you to join us on his journey and heal yourself along the way.
There is a hereditary link to autoimmune. 80% of the autoimmune populations are female. G’s mother had Crohn’s Disease. He passed the gene to our daughter. He has been healing himself for years. His asthma and colitis are no longer symptomatic. This was all done by eliminating foods from his diet. He no longer eats dairy products and gluten. We know that how foods are grown can make a huge difference so now we eat only organic. We have gone grain free, meat free, sugar free for periods of time. He has been clearing away trapped emotions and negative beliefs. He has worked on healing his leaky gut with Dr.Gundry’s Total Restore. We are now using Bio-Tuning to reduce the inflammation in the body by using the frequency of gold. So what else to do?
This summer we happened upon a Global Energy Healing Summit and when buying the all - access pass there was a summit on Autoimmune offered as well. Now this wake- up call had some direction. We are going to start with spending time with Dr. Keesha Ewers who hosted the summit. She has a book called
Solving the Autoimmune Puzzle: The Woman's Guide to Reclaiming Emotional Freedom and Vibrant Health.
I bought a kindle edition on amazon. We are listening to some of her talks and will pass on anything new we plan to try. Again thanks for joining us on our journey and I hope you can help yourself or others close to you suffering.

10/02/2021

Wise Words.

10/02/2021

To Support our Indigenous Friends

10/02/2021

Invest in yourself and heal.

09/15/2021

Bio-Tuning an excellent non-invasive therapy.

08/25/2021

So many benefits!!