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  Natural Biblical Health

How to Stay out
of a Nursing Home

HOW TO STAY OUT OF A NURSING HOME .

    Not  all  nursing  homes  are  disasters.  I  know many senior citizens who ended up much happier in a home. But for the most part, most seniors wish to  stay  at home. In  order to  avoid a nursing home you need to achieve and maintain a few goals. You need to move about freely.  You need to  maintain your ability to use your mind  and memory.  And you need to maintain a reasonable degree of good health.  Of  these,  your bones  and  your mind represent the two major factors sending most seniors to a home.

Maintaining Healthy Bones

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  Good  bones  and joints  can  be  achieved  and maintained at any  age. Healthy bones  and joints can be summed up in three words:  diet, exercise, and  supplements.  Your diet must contain  mostly healthy  foods,  with a third eaten raw.  This  will provide the raw nutrients  and enzymes your body needs to build, replace, and maintain strong bones.

    You  must  exercise,  both  to  maintain  your bones,  but  also  to  maintain  strength,  flexibility, and stability.  And exercising means resistance exercise or weight-bearing exercise. The very best is the Slow Burn technique.  You can accomplish all your strength exercising with this technique in one 30-  to  45-minute  exercise  session per week!  aerobics  can be  a brisk walk several  times  per week.

    And what are the benefits? The most significant of any form of therapy known to man. Weight lifting will put more calcium into your bones than all  the  drugs,  calcium,  boron,  magnesium,  and vitamin  D  combined~four times more.  And  if you take raw bone supplements while exercising, your results will be even greater. The raw bone supplements of choice for those with thinning bones  are from Standard Process the  only  company  I know  that can  make  these products  and  maintain their life force.  They  are Biost  at a dose of one taken three times daily, and CalciFood Wafers at a dose of two to three chewed up three times  daily  with meals. Once your bones are stronger and stable you can reduce your dose to a maintenance level  of one Biost  and four Calcifood Wafers daily.
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Muscles and Connective Tissues

    Joints  are  not made  only  of bone. You  have muscles and connective tissues like ligaments, tendons,  and cartilage to keep healthy too. Exercise will  do this  automatically. The proper diet along the lines of a low~carbohydrate Mediterranean diet will supply plenty  of the raw materials needed to maintain healthy muscles and connective tissues.
    For  those  of you  who  do  not  get  adequate amounts  of quality protein  (meat,  eggs,  fish, poultry etc. ) you would do well to add a supplement called Protefood from Standard Process. Take one with breakfast and one with dinner (or whichever meals provide protein). This  amino  acid supplement will complete the amino  acid profile of the foods you consume.
    This will allow you to utilize protein to build muscles and connective tissues for healthy joints;  a strong,  stable  stride;  and  good maneuverability  to  help  you  avoid the  nursing home. Keep in mind that your body requires adequate digestive acids to utilize nutrients and minerals to maintain strong bones.  So if you are chronically using antacids, you will have to correct your digestion and quit these acid soppers. You can easily normalize digestion with the correct procedures.

Your Mind, Fats, and Vitamin B

    No matter how strong you are, if you lose your mind and memory, you will not be able to avoid a nursing home. Without some mental capacity, even in a nursing home you will be relegated to daily doses of mind–numbing, zombie-producing drugs. When it comes to your mind,-the major factors are blood flow to the brain and the proper nutrients in your diet–especially proper fats.

    Today  there  are  more  mental  and  memory problems than ever. And why not? Americans are on  a low-fat craze, and have been for years.  The fats  that  most people  eat  are  abominations  of chemical compositions, having no resemblance to the normal dietary fats the body and brain need and crave. Babies are perfect examples. It's funny how we all start out as babies in diapers, and often end up pretty much the same.

    It is ironic how much we can learn about fatty nutrition from babies. Depriving infants of the fats they need results in a baby that is unhappy, frantic, chronically crying, and unable to have any mental relaxation and normal behavior. The medical profession  calls  this  colic.  Yet  within  48 hours  of restoring adequate fats and nutrition to the baby's diet, his or her mind settles and calmness and normalcy return. This is a powerful lesson because the same response happens for adults and seniors.
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    The fats you need are the ones doctors tell you should be avoided–meats and stews, dairy, butter, eggs,  and real oils. These are olive oil, cod liver or flax oil,  and even coconut oil.  So stop all this low, fat junk and eat whole, healthy foods. They will contain the nutrients your brain so dramatically demands. Without these fats your body and brain will take up  all the artificial and chemical concoctions in their place. And this can spell disaster.

    All  the membranes  in  your body  and brain have their nutritional basis in fat and cholesterol. When you deprive yourself of these foods you are adding insult to injury. First you are depriving your body of the membrane-building materials needed to  transmit  signals  throughout the  brain.  And second  you  are replacing these nutrients  with chemicals that are producing reactions  we don't even understand.
    Get off this low-fat, fake-fat bandwagon and eat whole foods  with  a third raw.  Take  a tablespoon  of flax  or  cod liver oil  daily  as  a supplement. And tell your doctor you don't want cholesterol-lowering drugs just because your cholesterol reading is over 200. Real cholesterol scientists  and experts  realize  that  a reading  of 200  to  275  is normal as long as your HDL and LDL fractions are good.

    In addition to proper fats, be sure to get your B vitamins.  Again these will be tough to get if you are taking  antacids.  It  is  my  opinion that every person over age 65  with mental problems  should take two  supplements from  Standard Process  to help maintain a healthy heart and proper B vitamin nutrition. They  are Cardio-Plus  and Cataplex B. For normal seniors three of each daily  (one each per meal)  will suffice.  If you  have any kind  of heart problem, increase this  dose to  six  of each daily.

    If your brain is already faltering be sure to get adequate vitamin B12. There is  already  a lot of research indicating that low levels of folic acid and vitamin B12 can contribute to Alzheimer's. In fact double-blind studies  are now being conducted on this  concept  in  the UK.  One tip  here is  a high homocysteine level.  Homocysteine is  an  enzyme by-product that is converted back to useful form by folic acid and B12.

    Without these nutrients, homocysteine builds up in the blood. It is a strong indicator of heart disease.  and also a tip-off of potential brain problems and  Alzheimer's  down  the  road.  So  keep  your brain  and  heart  healthy  by  making  sure  you  get adequate B12 in your diet.

    And remember that this vitamin is best utilized in combination with folic acid and intrinsic factor, which  is  found in  the  stomach  of healthy  individuals.  Standard Process  makes  the  premier B12 supplement called Folic Acid B12. It is B12 combined  with  folic  acid  and intrinsic  factor.  Three daily (one per meal) is a good dose. All this B  vitamin nutrition will  also  go  a long  way  to  ensuring proper circulation to your brain.

Avoid Unnecessary Medical Risks

    My  grandfather was  a healthy.guy.  He  practiced all kinds  of natural dietary habits.  He ended up in a nursing home when he was  old because he lived far away from family and needed someone to tend  to his  needs.  He  was  happy  there  and  got along fine until  a doctor talked him into having an old hernia repaired. The surgery was a success, but the patient died.

    Remember what I have said  about achieving and maintaining good digestion while avoiding antacids and worse-yet–”digestive surgeries”. The latest is for the treatment of severe  gastroesophageal  reflux  disease (GERD).  Of those people having this  surgery more than a third suffer relatively  severe side effects-mostly in the bowel. If the surgery is  successful, you will be trading heartburn for diarrhea, bloating, fecal incontinence,  and more.  GERD is  a symptom,  not  a disease.  It is easily  corrected  with our protocols.
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    Doctors, drugs, and surgeries can be a Godsend when  needed.  Or they  can  kill you for no  reason, like my grandfather.  As you get older,  avoid elective  surgeries.  Stay  away  from prescription  drugs except  for  minimal  use.  Be  especially  wary  of gallbladder surgery. This is  another "digestive surgery"  that is  only necessary on rare occasions,  but it is  for the most part symptom  surgery that can have profound and detrimental effects on seniors.

    I have dozens  of letters  in  my file where the patient went straight downhill  following gallbladder  surgery.  No  one  is  able  to  explain  this,  but perhaps  it  is  the permanent alteration in fat metabolism that follows this procedure.  Simply keep in mind  that this  often-elective  procedure–-while seemingly  innocuous  and  most often  explained to you  as  harmless-can  kill  you.  If it  happens  to you,  no  one will  be the wiser,  and no  one will be chided  or reprimanded for having started you on  a downward course to debilitation and death.

    Rather than  surgery  for nausea  and  vomiting, use our protocols  to  correct the  underlying condition.  This  is  often  as  easy  as  a three-week liver gallbladder  cleanse  and  a  digestive  supplement called AF BefaFood by Standard Process taken two to three per meal.  A more advanced case may  also require  a  liver flush  which  will  purge  stale bile, gravel, and even gallstones from your system.

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    You probably know  someone  who  never ate  a vegetable,  drank a quart of whiskey daily, smoked three packs  a  day,  and lived  to  be  100.  I do.  Just understand  that  these  are  the  exception.  It just makes  sense  to  do  everything  you  can  to  stay stable  and  independent  to  the  end.  This  also requires a good attitude.

    When you  start consuming proper fats,  your attitude  will  change  automatically.  Most  grouchy old  men  or  women  are just  suffering  from  fat starvation  and "brain pain." In addition, keep your mind  active  and  your  attitude  good  with  companionship,  games,  reading,  and  volunteer work. Nothing works better to ease your problems than to help another human being.
    Use these basics  to  enjoy  a healthy  senior life. If you  want to  avoid  a nursing home these are the keys.  And they  are actually fun,  provide excellent social contact, and will make you healthier, younger,  stronger,  and  more  stable.  That  sounds  like  a recipe for avoiding a nursing home to me.

Health Alert Dr Bruce West MD Vol 20 issue 8
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