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 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!
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.
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!
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I love that you listed some of these things as MSM, Shilajet and Acerola are on my detox – up the anti – list for the next few months. Although I am not doing coconut kefir – but strongly considering it now, I use coconut water and meat in my “elixir” smoothies. Thanks for the info, support and motivation!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/may/13/health.healthandwellbeing1
Care to dispute this is all BS?
Hey Christian – what a fantastic and generous post! thanks so much for the info and the links. I look forward to trying them all in the future – i’m on a wheatgrass cleanse right now. much love and hugs to u and yur Queen! onelove sofree
Thank you Christian for all of this valuable information.. WOW..
So Enjoyed this 🙂
Off to take my MSM .. ( especially have a hard 5 mile run tonight)
Caitlin, I would love to dispute this one, hehe. Man, that article is just designed to confused people. The fact is we do need therapeutic amounts of vitamins and minerals. That truth is the MAIN thing that the mainstream medical establishment is hiding, actually. And those nutrients need to be in a perfectly balanced bioavilable form as well. Enter: superfoods. Superfoods and wild foods are the two categories of raw foods we as a growing movement of health conscious people need to be focusing on, not fearing. Also, the title of that article Forget superfoods, you can’t beat an apple a day proves that the author has no idea what they’re talking about, as they are referring to hybridized sugary apples which didin’t exist a few thousand years ago when there was only sour wild apples, a medicinal fruit with a slightly different medicinal value. The marketing phrase “An apple a day….” is the same as “Got Milk?” in that it is attempting to fool the masses into eating an aberrant food as a staple. The truth about food and the way our body can function optimally is only beginning to be revealed to us. Let’s enjoy the ride!
Glad to support and motivate you on your up the anti list, Marni!
Thanks Sofree! You reminded me to start juicing the wild grass we have on our property!
Brothah! you be flying off the charts with this one. Finally a recipe blog that makes First Aid sense! Yes. Most definitely on point with these vital protocols 4 life.
Might I add lemon being a great activator of the MSM sulfur uptake (I love this drink of the 4 you mentioned with whole juiced Meyer Lemon {Green Life juicer or Single auger or even champion juicer if that is all you have} whipped in. BioCeutical synergy is a plus to alchemize back into whole protein colloidal chaperon LIFE!
Dream awake
The author of the article is not making claims of their own they are quoting professors and dietitians who debate the claims made by practitioners and advocates of the “superfood movement.” The title might be stupid, but it has little to do with the actual content of the piece.
In regards to apples, the apple tree was probably one of the earliest to be cultivated by humans, and the hybridization process has been used for thousands of years to produce desired characteristics in apples. In “The Botany of Desire,” Michael Pollan argues that this hybridization is both beneficial to humans and the crop, which allowed it to spread through Europe and into the New World precisely because apples were so easily manipulated to produce sweetness, tartness, or whatever other characteristic was desired of them. I don’t know exactly what you mean by “medicinal fruit with a slightly different medicinal value,” but surely just because the apple has propagated itself through its willingness to adapt to human desire doesn’t negate its current nutritional benefits, regardless of its sour origins.
I don’t think that people, myself included, “fear” superfoods, but perhaps your blog would be more useful if you could actually point to peer-reviewed articles from reputable academic sources verifying the claims are you are making, especially since the supposed benefits of “feeling like a warrior” or “boosting energy levels” are difficult claims to substantiate.
Caitlin, cool, gotcha. I am going to defer to everyone doing their own research on the ancient and recent information on these substances, as well as experiential. Shilajit and C-berries go back thousands of years tried and true in Ayurvedic and Amazonian medicinal traditions. I love this page on MSM testimonials: http://www.riverflow.com/msm/testimonials.html. Here are Kefir testimonials: http://www.rejoiceinlife.com/feedback/kefirTest.php
Atom,
Yes, we love spring water – lemon – MSM – sea salt – camu drinks!! With ice!!! And a glass straw!!!
Great post.
I’ve been taking MSM on a daily basis since 1992. It is an essential part of my every day life. MSM has helped me maintain vibrant health an wellness for quite some time. I personally think that everybody should be taking MSM.
Shilajit is a recent addition to my daily routine. I’ve been taking it daily since 2008. This fulvic acid mineral complex has quickly become a favorite. It really does feel like it gives you “life force energy”.
As the saying goes: It’s all about the minerals! 🙂
Hey – this is great information! I’ve been pounding the msm lately (probably good to get lots of sulfur whilst getting mercury fillings removed. I take close to a tablespoon in a pint of warm water morning and evening. With some lemon juice and a tiny dusting of stevia to cut the bitterness. When I first started doing this, I craved it! (My poor husband, he thinks it smells like battery acid – between that and all the garlic I’m eating and then sometimes I get fasting breath – he’s been such a trooper with all my stinkiness!)
I’ve tried shilajit courtesy of a friend a couple years ago. I like it, but am put off by how expensive it is. Am afraid to start camu etc because of yeast issues (but they probably have less sugar than tomatoes, so I’m probably fine).
For Caitlin’s point about Pollan’s point about apples: I think that that is actually part of the problem, the symbiotic coevolution between humans and apples. At the most basic level, ‘appealing to humans’ means ‘extra sweetness at the expense of fibers, minerals and vitamins,’ which is why wild superfoods are so much more powerful foods. It’s a shame that it’s hard to find peer reviewed studies ‘proving’ this – there isn’t much of a market for doing these kinds of studies. And yet often the results when you experience them are their own proof.
Hey Ela,
Camu seems to be very low glycemic. As is amla. Acerola seems to be the sweetest of the high vitamin C berries. I consume it, but not in large amounts.
I agree with you on the apples, etc. issue.
Thanks!~
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hi there. I’m 41. and looking to get healthy..quit smoking 3 yrs a go..abused my body over the years. and recently started talking small doses of msn..99.9 pure from germany crystal form…any way…I feel liked hell..really considering seeing a doctor because msn has made my sik..why is this..when all I see is good things about it.plz help