Over 4 dozen diseases have been linked to gluten, the protein found in wheat, rye and barley. It's estimated that almost all of the people that have either gluten intolerance or celiac disease are never diagnosed and as much as many as 45 million US citizens is gluten intolerant. Are you one of them.

Symptoms of Gluten Intolerance

• Gastrointestinal (GI), stomach, and digestive problems. These can include one or more of the following: gas, bloating, queasiness, abdominal cramping, constipation, diarrhea, or an alternating combination of both - IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome).

• Headaches and/or migraines.
  
• Diagnosis of an autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, lupus, psoriasis, scleroderma or multiple sclerosis.
  
• Emotional issues involving chronic irritability and sudden, irrational, mood shifts.
  
• Neurological issues. This may include dizziness, difficulty balancing, and peripheral neuropathy affecting nerves outside the central nervous system and resulting in pain, weakness, tingling or numbness in the extremities.
  
• Fatigue, brain fog, or feeling tired after eating a meal that contains gluten.
• Diagnosis of an autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Ulcerative colitis, Lupus, Psoriasis, Scleroderma or Multiple sclerosis.
  

Most of these symptoms are common to other health issues and diseases. That's why identifying symptoms alone and trying to tie them to gluten intolerance is difficult. 

Am I Gluten Intolerant? 

The best way to determine if you are indeed gluten intolerant is to go on a gluten-free diet for 60 days. If you feel you can't or won't, that may already indicate you're addicted to gluten. We are often addicted to things we're allergic to. 

That gluten-free diet would include wheat, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, oats, and triticale which are grains with gluten. Quinoa, buckwheat, and sorghum grains are gluten-free. So is rice. 

How to treat gluten intolerance? 

Eliminating gluten 100% from your diet means 100%. Even trace amounts of gluten from cross contamination or medications or supplements can be enough to cause an immune reaction in your body. 

Or you can treat yourself with The Allergy Kit, a home remedy that uses energy medicine to eliminate the intolerance. I don't know about you, but eliminating wheat from the american diet is almost impossible. 

If there was a protein in wheat that makes you hungry "ALL THE TIME" would you still eat it.

The world's most popular grain is also the deadliest for the human metabolism. Modern wheat isn't really wheat at all and is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist, author and leading expert on wheat. 

Approximately 700 million tons of wheat are now cultivated worldwide making it the second most-produced grain after maize. It is grown on more land area than any other commerical crop and is considered a staple food for humans. 

At some point in our history, this ancient grain was nutritious in some respects, however modern wheat really isn't wheat at all. Once agribusiness took over to develop a higher-yielding crop, wheat became hybridized to such an extent that it has been completely transformed from it's prehistorical genetic configuration. All nutrient content of modern wheat depreciated more than 30% in its natural unrefined state compared to its ancestral genetic line. The balance and ratio that mother nature created for wheat was also modified and human digestion and physiology could simply could not adapt quick enough to the changes.

Allergies create stress and stress causes allergies. That's the reason why we include a stress vial in our kits. When we eliminate the stress of everyday life (you can use the stress vial whenever you feel stressed), the adrenals are able to strengthen and repair.

If you can't afford to buy organic fruits and vegetables, these fruits and vegetables have more pesticides than any other and are part of the dirty dozen.

If you can't afford to buy organic fruits and vegetables, these fruits and vegetables have less pesticides than any other and are part of the clean 15. Buy them even if they aren't organic.

Candida, also known as candida albicans is a yeastlike, parasitic fungus that can sometimes cause thrush. Stick out your tongue. If you see a white coating on the tongue, you could have the beginning stages of thrush. 

Candida lives in the digestive track along with probiotics. Probiotics help digest the foods so that the nutrients can be absorbed easily. Candida is like a weed and does nothing beneficial.  

Imagine a garden representing your digestive track with beneficial bacteria (probiotics) whose main job is to break down the foods that you eat into nutrients that is used to sustain you. Between the rows of probiotics are weeds (candida). Most gardens have weeds. Only when the weeds overcome the good bacteria, do you have a problem.

When the weeds (candida) get out of control, it crowds out the probiotics and diminishes the nutrients that can be absorbed through proper digestion and the body ceases to function as a healthy vibrant organism.

Why does this happen? What causes this imbalance and overgrowth in the first place? 

ANTI-biotics kill both the negative and positive organisms at the same time. It makes our infections go away but at a cost. It also reeks havoc on our digestion track by killing the bacteria that break down the foods and extract the nutrients from them. Like weeds, the candida and comes back with a vengeance. The candida thrives because there are no probiotics to keep the candida in the proper balance.

The candida has great survival skills. It has learned through the years how to get what it needs to grow and sustain itself. It's sugar. It's pretty obvious just by the name. Candy and Da.  Sugar is the main food of the candida. And what is so ingenious is the way the candida creates cravings in the body that demands that you eat more sugar. Kinda self-sustaining. And the candida crowds out the beneficial bacteria and causes all kinds of digestive problems. 

Sometimes these digestive problems cause too much acid in the gut, sometimes the opposite occurs and food rots in the digestive track. Either way, there is a probability that either action will cause small pinholes in the gut. These pinholes allow food to pass from the gut into the bloodstream. Food particles belong in the gut, not in the blood. This triggers the immune system to eliminate it from the blood. When this happens, allergies are created. Leaky gut syndrome and allergies and candida are related and depend on each other to survive. To get your health back, we must do three things at the same time.

1. Eliminate food allergies
   
2. Reduce and control the candida
   
3. Repair the gut
   
4. Then eliminate the allergies again.
   

It's very important to get the gut balanced with less candida and more probiotics, an optimum balance of about 80-20%. For people that have allergies, candida is a major concern. 

• It stops the body from digesting nutrients from the foods.
  
• It causes sugar cravings and weight gain.
  
• It kills off the probiotics and the digestive process suffers.
  
• It causes allergies.
  
• Foggy Thinking
  
• Lack of Energy
  
• Depression
  

How do you know if you have candida?

There is an easy test to see if you have candida. When you first wake up in the morning, before you drink any water or anything else, spit in a glass of water. That's it. Let the water and spit sit for about 5 minutes and look at the liquid. If you see milky stuff and strings in the water, bubbles on top of the water, you have candida.  If it looks just like it did in the beginning, just spit in the water, you don't have candida. 

If you do have candida, there are a number of foods out there that have powerful anti fungal properties. Here are the ones that I recommend:

Coconut oil is a potent Candida killer, and one of the most potent anti fungals there is. It contains Lauric acid and Caprylic acid, which both help prevent Candida overgrowth and strengthen your immune system. 

Coconut oil can be used in cooking because it doesn't break down when heated, so it’s an ideal oil to use for frying and cooking. It's also cheap to buy and has a much longer shelf life than other oils, so there’s no excuse! You can also take 2-3 tablespoons per day for candida control. And since it has medium fat chains, you will not gain weight. We fry a lot in our house and the only thing we use is coconut oil.

Other foods that can help with candida are, garlic, onions, cayenne pepper, seaweed, almonds, pumpkin seeds, ginger, olive oil, lemon and lime juice. 

Eliminating allergies is the first step in your journey to good health and it's easy using The Allergy Kit. 

There are many candida killers. Some medicines work, but I like a more natural approach. There are enzymes that can digest the candida and diets that will help get the candida under control.

And the leaky gut can be helped with predigested fish protein. It heals the pinholes in the gut and since it is pre digested, it is easy to assimilate.

And the hardest thing to do is to stop eating sugar, high fructose corn syrup and any other sweet stuff. It just feeds the candida. Remember, candida is not your friend. Eliminate it at all costs.

"One in ten calories consumed by Americans comes from high fructose corn syrup."

This study did not look at the health impact of high fructose corn syrup itself, but at the levels of mercury in foods made with high fructose corn syrup.

One third of the products tested had detectable levels of mercury. In another study, one half of the high fructose corn syrup tested had detectable levels of mercury.

How have these processing practices been allowed to continue?

We use coconut oil in just about everything. When we  have a smoothie, we add a couple of tablespoons of organic coconut oil. It gives it a smoother tastier taste and is good for you. We also fry with it and, and could you believe it, it's good for you. I put it on my skin when I go out in the sun. It's acts as a sunblock. My wife puts it on at night to soften her skin. And it must work, because she looks really good. And it also serves as a healing agent when I get a burn or cut, I apply coconut oil to the Booboo. Heals in half the time.

There are so many good qualities about coconut oil, if you don't have some in you cabinet, you should run out and get some.

Coconut oil is a "good" saturated fat and you shouldn't be scared of it. You should embrace it.

Coconut oil works great for:

Fat-burning. A study, actually, there are 2 that show that taking just 2 tablespoons helps to eliminate that dreaded belly fat. Not only does it look bad, but it is the most unhealthy fat you can have.

Brain Booster. A now famous study, published in 2006 in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, showed that the administration of medium chain triglycerides (most plentifully found in coconut oil) in 20 subjects with Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment, resulted in significant increases in ketone bodies (within only 90 minutes after treatment) associated with measurable cognitive improvement in those with less severe cognitive dysfunction.

Believe it or not, it kills head lice.

Not only does coconut help the healing process, coconut oil has been demonstrated to have anti-inflammatory, analgesic and fever-reducing properties.

If you have a fungal problem, put some coconut oil on the effected area. It works as good as the more expensive anti fungal drugs on the market and is a whole lot cheaper.

If you are worried about whether coconut oil is good for you, the ulcer you might get from worrying can be successfully treated with coconut oil.

If you need a push in the bedroom, coconut oil was found to reduce oxidative stress in the testes of rats, resulting in significantly higher levels of testosterone.

Coconut oil also helps to reduce swollen prostate in tests.

 Coconut oil consistently improves the LDL:HDL ratio in the blood of those who consume it.  Given this effect, coconut oil can no longer be dismissed for being 'that saturated fat which clogs the arteries.'

Coconut oil was recently found to be superior to safflower oil in enhancing tomato carotenoid absorption.

Coconut oil has been shown to reduce oxidative stress within the bone, which may prevent structural damage in osteoporotic bone.

So, if you miss eating fried foods and avoid it because it is unhealthy, you have been misled. If you fry with coconut oil, not only is it yummy but it's good for you.