Christian Bates

Archive for April, 2010

If you are reading my blog then you have probably dabbled with certain superfoods, or you might be well on your way to incorporating a whole superfood program to your best-ever fun and healthy lifestyle. We can make a difference in our health by trying all the big superfoods out there (raw cacao, blue green algae, maca, goji berries, marine phytoplankton, etc.), but I want to talk about 4 of them that you might not have realized can change your life, your body, the radiant vital health of your tissues….if the dosage is high enough!

MSM Powder

MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane) is an organic sulfur molecule that is found in plants, in rain, in your body, and just about everywhere but the Standard American Diet. Most people are seriously deficient in sulfur and suffer the constipating impermeability of their cells and tissue as a result of such deficiency. Taking MSM not only plugs sulfur in where it is biologically needed, but greatly opens up your body from the inside-out, detoxing you and allowing more nutrition of what you are already eating to go deeper into you cells. This promotes more vital tissue function, flexibility and growth, including having hair and nails grow in stronger. MSM can reverse allergies and speed up recovery after exercise, but most importantly it simply is key to going to a newer level of health. We go on MSM programs of having a daily half gallon drink of water that contains over 10,000 mg of MSM (1 tablespoon of MSM powder, 1 heaping tablespoon of MSM crystals). When one first does MSM, spread your daily dosage out over the whole day not having more than a couple thousand mg at once, or it might feel detoxingly-weird. Then within a month, full dosages start to feel really good. We use OMICA’s new MSM Crystals.

Shilajit Powder

Shilajit is a resin found in the Himilayas where it oozes out of walls of rock. It is the product of eons of the Earth pressing plant and soil matter, creating an edible coffee-tasting concentrate of minerals and fulvic acids. Considered the best “herb” of Ayurvedic medicine, the fulvic acid content can pull out heavy metals even when one is already taking zeolites. We recomend getting it in powder extract form. You can blend in 2 tsp of it to a sweetened nut mylk for the best “latte” ever! Again, you gotta do this one everyday for days in a row to push the best health ever button and experience the results!

We have already had half of this batch of coconut water kefir in the last 2 days!

Coconut kefir is a drink made from taking coconut water and kefir grains and fermenting them for two days into an effervescent sugar-free probiotic-rich soda. We recommend taking 3 large packs of ONE brand coconut water (word is this product is the best quality and is pasteurized at a raw temperature below 120*F) and mixing the coconut water with a small bag of kefir grains (purchase kefir grains organic and vegan from eBay), let sit in a towel-covered lid-open gallon glass jar in warm area. When done, blend the kefir with some vanilla and stevia to make the best soda ever! This substance makes me smile with my first sip as my ecosystem of good bacteria in my body light up as new friends come aboard. We need a lot of probiotics because we are supposed to have pounds in our gut, and we all come from a toxic background where everything we ate had some antibiotic poisonous bad-bacteria and yeast promoting trait. Taking small probiotic capsules usually aren’t enough, and to take an efficacious amount of capsules is not a good bang for your buck. Doing a daily regimin for weeks at a time with coconut kefir can reverse the sad symptoms of residual vitamin B deficiency and probiotic deficiency, as well as boost digestion to no end! If you have any yeast issues, your solution may center around coconut kefir.

Amla berry extract powder

High Vitamin C Berries: These berries include Camu, Acerola and Amla. The tissue-healing, immuno-modulating, feel-great qualities of taking these daily in large dosages is perhaps necessary for health. Just having the vitamin C from eating oranges is really only enough to prevent scurvy. We want to have wild amounts to get the results we are looking for. Daily blenderfuls of water, couple teaspoons of camu or amla powder or a couple tablespoons of acerola powder combined with a pinch of salt and stevia will get the job done.

Now if you can somehow get all 4 of these substances in large doses most days for the next 3 months, then your next level of health is imminent and uncapped. Stay tuned: Bethanne and I are creating a tonic elixir recipe ebook soon that will show you how to make high dosage drinks with these superfoods in the tastiest way ever!

I want to hear from you! Please respond to this post if you have any success stories or any healthful results you have experienced from taking any of these 4 magical superfoods. I read all comments. Thank you!

I just described how to make my “special no-refridgeration-needed 50%-wild-food cabbage-nori-pate-saurkraut burrito!” in part 2. It was a savory recipe. We also need sweet recipes for traveling…Chocolatey sweet! I am going to give you a guideline formula so that you can create your own raw truffles – cacao covered superfood nougat – that you can munch on while traveling and get your nutritional needs met. This is my specialty. After creating the first two flavors of WildBar 4 years ago, I have figured out how to teach people how to make their own rich treats without giving away my precious trade secrets.

Truffles are great because the outer raw chocoalte coating can be very high cacao content which means it won’t melt until it reaches 90*F (the point when cacao butter goes from solid to liquid), and then a much creamier inner nugget which gets soft at a lower temperature but is held in place by its hard chocolate exterior. Melts in your mouth, not in your car, bag or whatever warmth your traveling might lead you to.

First pick your favorite nuts and seeds, soak them 12 hours and then dehydrate them. A good dehydrator can fully dehydrate larger nuts in 12-36 hours. I love brazil nuts (because they are wild) mixed with pumpkins seeds and anything else (macadamisa, walnuts, pecans, pine nuts, almonds, sunflower seeds and hemp seeds). Note that hemp seeds don’t need to be soaked and dehydrated.

Fill a food processor half full with your dehydrated nut and seed choices and add a handful of chopped cacao butter. Blend until warm and creamy. Don’t let get too hot. Feel free to write down the exact recipe you’re using so that you can tweak it with your future artisan formulations.

Add a couple spinkles of salt, a small amount of sweetener (low glycemic is better, you might try: a sprinkle of xylitol and a few spoonfuls of yacon syrup or Jerusalem artichoke syrup.) Then definatly add a couple small dashes of the NOW brand of organic stevia extract powder. If you have had problems with stevia in the past, this is your solution. This stuff is enzymatically pre-digested to remove the chemical-like aftertaste of the stevia, resulting in a much more neutral creamy sweetness. Place in bowl and stir in all your superfood powders: spirulina, blue green algae, shilajit, mucuna, vanilla, mushroom extract powders, etc. Then add some crunchy whole nuts and seeds. Drizzle into ice cube trays and freeze until hard.

To make the raw dark chocolate: Melt a bunch of raw cacao butter and put equal parts cacao butter and cacao powder together in a blender. Keep warm and act fast. Most importantly, don’t let any water droplets make their way into your dark chocolate formulations or it can mess up the texture (or “temper”) of the finalized hard chocolate. Add vanilla powder, a tiny pinch of salt and sweeteners of choice. A little NOW brand stevia again and small amount of xylitol is all it takes as this chocolate can be bittersweet. Pour into narrow bowl or large measuring glass.

Pop the nougats out of the ice cube trays, hand dip them in the liquid chocolate, and place on wax paper or dehydrator sheets. The chocolate will very quickly harden around the new frozen centers. Chow down immediately to enjoy your personal travel-able decadence. Have the best superfood travels ever!