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EMPOWERING YOU TO OVERCOME ACID RE-FLUX!

9/13/2024

Stomach Acid Is Vital for Your Health
Analysis by a Midwestern Doctor

In the U.S., 66% of adults are estimated to have at least one prescription, and the average person has nine filled annually. As an awake physician, one of the most depressing aspects of my work is seeing patients, especially the elderly, weighed down by numerous prescriptions that frequently do more harm than good.
Many commonly prescribed medications are given to patients despite the risks often outweighing the benefits.

Acid-suppressing drugs are among the worst offenders, with their overuse fueled by a lack of understanding about the crucial role of stomach acid throughout the body or that acid reflux is due to too little stomach acid (as the stomach acid of digestion gives the stomach’s opening a signal to seal and not let any more food in).

Deficient stomach acid causes many chronic health problems (e.g., macular degeneration, a myriad of autoimmune disorders such as asthma, and less overt forms of reflux that cause many common diseases of the ears, nose, and throat such as allergies,coughs, and sinusitis).

Acid blocking medications cause a variety of severe side effects, including a 19% increased risk of death and a comparable increase in cardiac events, kidney or liver disease, numerous infections, and bone damage.

Thankfully, many safe natural treatments can effectively address acid reflux and many of the complications of a chronic stomach acid deficiency. For example, as I showed here, statins provide a negligible benefit (e.g., at best, taking them for five years extends one’s lifespan by 3 to 4 days) but create significant side
effects such as severe muscle pain and cognitive impairment for 20% of users.

This tragic situation is best demonstrated by a 2007 study...

IT'S AN INTERNAL PRESSURE WASHER CLEANING OUT TOXINS.

8/13/2024

YOU MUST ATTEND TO THIS VASCULAR SYSTEM IF YOU WANT TO OPTIMIZE YOUR HEALTH!

Dr David Jockers educates us on the power of the lymphatic system.
Are you familiar with the lymphatic system? If not, let’s get you acquainted.

Your lymphatic system consists of lymph nodes, a network of travel vessels, bone marrow, thymus, tonsils, and your spleen.

If you want to feel great, burn fat, have a healthy immune system and have great looking body…you need to support your lymphatic system.

Your lymphatic system serves 3 main functions:

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF GREAT HEALTH!

7/31/2024

Are you feeling as great as you really want to?
Wondering how some people seem to manage life without breaking a sweat?
They must be doing something special right!

“These Six ‘Oh So Simple’ tips are imperative.
You’ll feel better immediately by applying even just one of them.”
POTENT TIPS TO GET THE HEALTH RESULTS YOU WANT

ITS NOT RIGHT NOR IS IT REAL!

6/11/2024

I speak real talk and I support REAL. I have for a very long time.
REAL TALK - REAL FOOD - REAL HEALTH - REAL PUSH BACK

What am I referring to? There are so many things to address yet we we can only begin with one. Today, it's this article I saw posted in CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENCE
I share an excerpt with the link to the full article below.

"Knowledge enables better decisions". T.Gentes
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‘Techno Foods’ Won’t Feed the World — But They’ll Make Tech Entrepreneurs Richer

Foods invented in laboratories and produced in factories won’t improve the quantity or quality of our food supply, so who benefits? The business entrepreneurs who see food as a commodity to be patented and profited from.

When greenhouse gases from livestock farming were shown to be contributing to climate change, a Silicon Valley company, Impossible Foods, claimed it could reduce the carbon footprint of meat production by making it in laboratories.

They created the Impossible Burger, which was fake meat made from an assortment of highly processed ingredients, including soy leghemoglobin derived from GM yeast and 46 additional yeast proteins — some of which were unidentified and untested for safety.

by GMWatch June 6, 2024

SNACK ATTACK! CRUSH the CRAVING with THESE FABULOUS OPTIONS!

6/4/2024

12 SOLUTIONS when you are hit hard with a snack attack, and standard choices get a little, or a lot, 'too' indulgent.

Over-indulging comes with a price most of us don't want to pay. Sure all is well during the indulgence and then a dreaded remorse sets in. Sound familiar?
This is why I arm my clients with great ideas so they can set themselves up to indulge without fearing the extreme bulge.

No FOMO as well. The choices below are delicious and you can choose between sweet and savory, creamy or crunchy, spicy and or salty. I aim to cover all the bases and even include bitter option. It's a bit of a fave for me to combine all the above.

Read on to see what I mean...

VEGAN ESSENTIALS

4/3/2024

EATING A PLANT BASED DIET IN TODAY'S WORLD

Years ago I wrote the article below on eating a vegan diet. Now, more appropriately eating this way is coined, a 'whole-food, plant-based diet'. It means just that;
Eating 'whole' foods from the plant world.

I'll clarify upfront - this way of eating has been going on a long, long time, and it has nothing to do with the current climate agenda and push to eat bugs, nor GMO faux meats. I am all for eating real-food, made from real ingredients in a real kitchen, prepared by a chef/cook and not in a factory by scientists manipulating products deemed as ingredients and concocting fake food or food created from insects. This is not what I advocate in any way. With sustainable, regenerative farming practices and working with nature, we take super care of our environment.

Now, if you wish, please continue to read on for the article from 2018 (with updated information and statistics) emphasizing the need to consume a balanced, whole-food diet and just what this means. If you are leaning into eating plant-based, this is info you need to know.

THE BEST of SWEET BREAKFAST BOWLS and SEXY PARFAITS

4/3/2024

Here is your Peek at this 'work in progress' The Best BREAKFAST BOWLS

Recipes will be added over time so watch for them and then it'll be SAVORY BREAKFAST BOWLS.

QUINOA PORRIDGE BREAKFAST BOWL
w/ Caramel Jam and Cashew Butter

Oh this bowl! It's one of those breakfasts where you can eat it again for lunch. Not that I suggest this. Just saying! I get my quinoa from Raw Elements and if you order from them use the code Teri10 to save money on your orders.

Click the image or here

PUMPKIN BERRY, NUT CREME BOWL

Quinoa is a fabulous high protein ancient grain choice. Adding in star anise, a cinnamon stick, and a few smashed cardamom pods is another great flavor and nutrient infuser.

Click the title for the recipe.

STORE BOUGHT, HOME-ENHANCED FABULOUS FOODIE IDEAS

2/29/2024

Attention all busy food lovers -
Here's how can you keep it simple yet make food more sensational!
With little time to cook it all from scratch and you still want delicious, good-for-you, foods, yet how the h@@l can you do it?
Infuse it darl'n, w/ herbs, spices and quality ingredients including something fresh and pair it up with other great items you have on hand.

Those days when you need to rely on some store-bought items cuz time in tight,
I have some grand ways to take the store-bought 'commercial conveniences' and make them better. So very much better.

Read on for some really easy ideas you can put into play right away.

COFFEE - What's good about it?

1/3/2024

Coffee fans, good news, there are a lot of redeeming qualities to coffee consumption when it comes to health benefits.

If you are a fan, rest assured, a healthy relationship with coffee, just like everything else, can be a very good thing, My suggestion is to brew yourself a cup, sit down and enjoy this wonderfully expansive exploration into this midnight brown elixir.

Yes I am an appreciative fan of organic, quality brewed, rich, strong black coffee.
It's gotta be good or I can easily pass it over for a great mug of tea.

What you need to know about coffee – its all here in this fabulous article from
Food Revolution - a great resource for all kinds of wellness related information.

The overview: Coffee is one of the most popular beverages worldwide, but whether or not it’s a healthy choice has often been the subject of debate for a very long time. In this article, we’ll look at some surprising coffee health benefits, potential downsides, and how to enjoy coffee in ways that are healthy, ethical, and sustainable.

Just what you need to get a better nights sleep!

12/14/2023

Getting a Better Night’s Sleep
We need sleep for our health and prevention of more serious diseases, and sleeping medications come with risks and harmful side effects themselves. Begin to embrace and implement these suggestions below to help ensure a good night’s rest.

AUTHENTICITY DOESN'T GUARANTEE LIKEABILITY

12/8/2023

Can you speak your truth?

Most of us are raised to be polite, socially acceptable and politically correct.
We learn how to fit it, be liked and accepted. Our addiction to this incessant need to be liked is as common as our issues with unworthiness. Both are epidemic mental and emotional diseases wreaking havoc on our health and happiness - our very ability to enjoy this gift of life. Perhaps worst is the fact this 'need to be liked' issue impacts so many. How does this happen?

GOOD SLEEPERS HAVE MORE FUN and are MUCH MORE FUNCTIONAL

11/20/2023

Infographic from Dr. David Jockers

TIPS TO IMPLEMENT FOR A BETTER NIGHT'S SLEEP
It's a brand new week and often a great time to set new intentions so how about improving on your sleep hygiene.

Sleep truly is your rest and repair time and it's integral to your health. Some very basics practices as those suggested here can help you get a great nights sleep.

SYNTHETIC FOOD - REALLY! How crazy are we?

11/9/2023

The best, evidenced based, dietary approach is consumption of well-balanced, plant strong, whole-foods!

And, spoiler alert - There are no miracle foods.
While, many foods are far more nutrient dense than others, consuming a balanced, varied diet is shown to be extremely beneficial to our gut health. ‌ ‌
In addition, eating is meant to be a joyful experience and if we're blessed with access to good quality food, we are extremely fortunate and do well to embrace this. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

So what is this talk about synthetic foods?

In a newsletter from the informative Organic Bytes, association with their mission "To protect and advocate for consumers’ right to safe, healthful food and other consumer products, a just food and farming system and an environment rich in biodiversity and free of pollutants." the article below was featured.

"Italy is set to be the first country to ban synthetic food!
Why aren’t U.S. lawmakers talking about this?

New genetically engineered Frankenfoods made with synthetic biology (what the industry calls “precision fermentation”) are already being sold in stores. They’re different from Monsanto’s first GMOs, the Roundup Ready crops that were tweaked with bacterial DNA that made them impervious to the herbicides that would normally kill them.

Roundup Ready GMOs grow from seed like normal crops. They look and taste like regular corn, soy, canola, etc. (even though they contain proteins human beings had never eaten before).
The new GMOs are 100% synthetic. Instead of growing in living plants, they are spit out of genetically engineered yeast or E. coli. Instead of having foreign DNA from another living organism, their molecules and DNA might be totally unique structures not found in nature.

These new synthetic Frankenfoods could be toxic or trigger allergies, but companies like Perfect Day, a maker of “dairy identical” synbio GMOs, say they’re just like real food.
Buyer beware! Back in the 1980s, when a manufacturer of the amino acid tryptophan decided to produce it with genetically engineered bacteria, 37 people died and 1500 were permanently disabled.
This dangerous technology shouldn’t be used in food!"

TAKE ACTION: Tell your lawmakers to ban genetically engineered Frankenfoods made with synthetic biology (so-called “precision fermentation”)!

Read on here.
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Let's band together and speak up against the corruption in industry and constant attack upon essentials such as access to whole-some 'real food' brought to us by 'real farmers' with integrity. They are hero's and they need our help and support from corporate pressures to industrialize and taint food quality.

Teri Gentes

A full-fledged health and wellness nerd, intent on helping you optimize your health and well-being and in turn, fully honor Mother Nature and this planet we share.

CHRONIC INFLAMMATION IS HARMING US ALL!

10/31/2023

INFLAMMATION! It's plaguing most of us and clients are constantly reaching out for information on how to manage this. Below is a brilliant insight on this - a must read from Deepak Chopra.

The email with the link to this article came to my inbox under a name I didn't recognize and I almost ignored it. Thank heaven I didn't for its so profound I just have to share it with you. It's called...

If the World is on Fire, So are we
written by Deepa Chopra, MD, FACP. FRCP

"How do we explain a world that seems to have exploded in violence, war, and populist hatred of “the other,” particularly when the other is part of a flood of refugees and immigrants fleeing intolerable conditions at home?
Before settling on an answer, consider a notion that runs through the world’s spiritual traditions: The source of violence “out there” in the world lies “in here” with ourselves.

This notion is hard to accept in the face of the rationales everyone uses to avoid looking inside. Most of these rationales are some form of blame — violence is social, connected to poverty, a family history of violence, rooted in age-old grudges, or somehow the product of collective insanity. Along with blame goes the usual moral judgments that treat violent behavior as a personal failure of character.

If you can set aside these explanations for a moment, it makes more sense to connect violence holistically to physical and mental health. A step was taken in this direction by an article in the International Journal of General Medicine with the surprising title, “Global Correlations Between Chronic Inflammation and Violent Incidents.” The findings from several studies revealed a strong correlation, up to 80%, between markers of chronic inflammation in a person’s blood and incidents of increased anger, aggression, and hostility."

NEWS TO KNOW ABOUT NOW!

9/27/2023

Apeel and Edible Coatings: Your Questions Answered
Info from www.cornucopia.org
"If you’re one of the many organic consumers with questions or concerns about the food preservation product called Apeel, Cornucopia has answers. We believe consumers have the right to know what they are eating, not only to protect themselves but to support agricultural practices deserving of their investment.
We've done extensive research to cut through misinformation and marketing copy.

Read our guide, which includes some tips on what you can do to demand transparency around an ingredient you may not even know you’re eating."
What is Apeel? What are food coatings?

Read all about it here:
https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/07/apeel-and-edible-coatings-your-questions-answered/

SEPT 2023
BEFORE YOU GO - KNOW THE DETAILS ON THE RESEARCH.
Uniformed decisions are DANGEROUS to your well-being!

"Pfizer’s testing of the reformulated monovalent shot against XBB.1.5., only involved 10 mice. Moderna’s version has been tested on 50 adults, one of whom required medical attention due to an adverse event, giving us a potential serious adverse event ratio of 1 in 50."

At a glance from the article:
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

September 11, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it had approved reformulated monovalent COVID shots by Pfizer and Moderna for the fall for use in individuals 12 years of age and older. The agency has also issued emergency use authorization (EUA) for use of the reformulated jabs in children aged 6 months to 11 years
The updated mRNA injections contain a single modified RNA said to correspond to the Omicron variant XBB.1.5., which was the dominant variant in the U.S. for most of 2023, but which has since been replaced by other variants. XBB.1.5 accounted for just 3.1% of the circulating strains as of September 2, 2023
According to authorities, this strain is different enough from the strains in any of the previous shots for them to recommend everyone take it, regardless of your previous COVID jab history
Americans are fed up with the COVID boosters, so federal officials have recast the new booster as an "annual immunization." However, certain groups will require up to three doses of this new shot. So, they’re basically just restarting the whole injection series all over
Pfizer’s testing of the reformulated monovalent shot against XBB.1.5., only involved 10 mice. Moderna’s version has been tested on 50 adults, one of whom required medical attention due to an adverse event, giving us a potential serious adverse event ratio of 1 in 50

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From Teri Gentes:
Your well-being is always at the heart of my work, my intentions. Enabling you to take the best care of yourself as possible is my mission. Embrace your power for self-care and cultivating optimal health with education from sources that show you their research and their funding.

DICK'S SPORTING GOODS has joined a growing group of retailers that have decided per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are too dangerous to human health and the environment to continue allowing them in their clothing lines.

PFAS are typically added to fabrics to make them water- and oil-repellant and to prevent stains and sticking or wrinkling. PFAS are coined as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down, and besides polluting the environment, they show up in the blood of people and animals.
“State leaders are excited to see companies like Dick’s Sporting Goods demonstrate leadership,” Sarah Doll, national director of Safer States, an alliance of U.S. environmental health organizations, said in a statement to Environmental Health News. She also stated, “States from California to Colorado to New York have stepped up to protect communities by banning PFAS in textiles. It is gratifying to see companies follow suit.”

SOURCES: Environmental Health News June 15, 2023 | ATSDR November 1, 2022 Click here for article.

One million human deaths linked to factory farming,
set to double by 2050

NEWS PROVIDED BY World Animal Protection 07 Apr, 2023, 12:00 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE

The true toll of global deaths, sickness, and economic loss caused by antibiotic overuse in meat production is laid bare in study by World Animal Protection

NEW YORK, April 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The excessive use of antibiotics in factory farming is causing the premature deaths of nearly one million people and $400 billion in global economic losses each year, according to a report titled Global Public Health Cost of Antimicrobial Resistance Related to Antibiotic Use on Factory Farms published today by World Animal Protection.
The report calculates the deadly impact of antibiotic overuse specifically by international meat and dairy producers and pinpoints their share of the blame in the global superbug crisis.
Around three-quarters of the world's antibiotics are used in farmed animals, including pigs, chickens, and cows, though it has been unclear what impact antibiotic overuse in factory farming has on human health – until now.

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