The book I am basing my organic way of life on is called The Maker's Diet. The author is Jordan S. Rubin, a naturopathic doctor and a nutritional consultant. Dr. Rubin almost died from Crohn's Disease until his father encouraged him to try to supplement his diet with soil organisms, while simultaneously eating holistic, healing natural foods. In addition, Jordan also followed his Jewish dietary laws, avoiding foods that were not considered kosher.
Jordan not only had a true turnaround of medical health, but he has been disease free for years now. In his book, he gives compelling scientific evidence that the modern day foods we eat have been stripped of nutritional value through pesticides, fungicides, synthetic fertilizers, and herbicides. This has led to producing crops in soil that is barren and stripped of essential soil microorganisms (called HSOs). These HSO's are key to maintaining a healthy internal immune balance of good "friendly" bacteria to fight off disease and infection. He quotes the scientific study showing that the microorganisms found in dirt influence maturation of the immune system so that it is either functional or dysfunctional. Dr. Rubin credits his turnaround in medical health by adding these HSO's back into his diet. In The Maker's Diet, he promotes the use of supplementing your diet with HSO's to help regain an immune balance and treat the so called incurable disease process, whether it is Crohn's or another autoimmune disease you are experiencing.
Dr. Rubin also talks about the way our meats have been produced and have contributed to our widespread diseases faced today. Unless the food you are purchasing has been specifically marked as "free-range", "grass fed" or on a "vegetarian diet", as well as, "organic, with no antibiotics or hormones used", it has been liberally "enhanced" by the use of steroid and hormonal injections to grow larger animals to sell (think bottom line- larger profits for the meat industries). A cause of concern with Dr. Rubin is the antibiotics that have been consumed in mass quantities by these animals. In one of the many research studies Dr. Rubin talks about in his book, it has now been estimated that drinking just one glass of commercially processed and packaged milk from your local grocery store will provide you with the residues of up to one hundred different antibiotics. A daily exposure to these antibiotics has paved the way for the new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacterias and super bugs that are difficult to treat. While these antibiotics can be helpful in killing off bad bacteria, they also will blindly kill off all the good bacteria as well. This creates an internal imbalance as the normal "good" bacteria in your body is destroyed. This beneficial bacteria in your gut has the key purpose of defending your body against foreign harmful substances which lead to disease.
Dr. Rubin also goes into great detail to promote the use of a kosher diet. This diet is based off of Old Testament Biblical laws that under the New Testament we are no longer legalistically bound to follow, BUT if we study the why behind the reason God gave us these laws in the first place, we will see they were actually for our own good. The kosher laws that are recorded in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 show which animals are considered clean to eat and which animals should not be eaten. In other words, animals that have a cloven, split hooves and chew cud (cows, sheep, goats, oxen, deer, buffalo and more) are clean. Animals that do not fall in this category are horses, rats, dogs, monkeys, pigs, etc. Dr. Rubin makes an excellent point by pointing to the fact that many truly heinous disease such as Ebola, AIDS and SARS have come directly from the transmission of eating these animals. Other guidelines cover seafood, and can be found more in detail in his book. Dr. Rubin also points out how the Jewish Nation was the only nation in the entire world that escaped the bubonic plague. Over one-fourth of the entire population in Europe did not survive this devastating illness, while the Jewish people remained completely unscathed. Perhaps, there is more to the kosher dietary customs than God just banning food to be overbearing and controlling.
In a nutshell, the widespread use of stripping our soil of HSO's and injecting meat with added steroids, antibiotics and hormones (with no added benefit to the consumer) has led to many people having an imbalanced immune system, with very little beneficial bacteria left to fight infection and disease. The added food options in our diet that do not conform to kosher dietary laws, has really only served to bring more disease to our already faltering immune system. Dr. Rubin speculates that this diet is the beginning of the cause of wide spread diseases such as Crohn's, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Cancer and many other diseases that are autoimmune in nature. In his book, he goes into great detail, using many studies that are both horrifying and provocative to read. If you have not already read it, I would encourage you to get a copy of it at the store or your local library. It may change your life...or save it!
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