Leaky Gut Syndrome

This is a picture of Leaky Gut syndrome. Microscopic tears in your gut can cause all kinds of toxins and food particles to enter your body and deposit in all kinds of places from your joints to your brain.

How does this happen? The most often talked about culprit is antibiotics. Antibiotics kill the good flora in your gut along with the bad, nasty bacteria you are trying to get rid of. This good flora protests the lining of your gut.

An important thing to know about your gut, is that it is a living, ever changing thing. All of life as you live it each day, begins there....seriously. Think about it. If you stopped eating, or if your food could not be digested, could you live for long? NO!

Yet, we all underestimate it's importance. If you see a holistic chiropractor, I can promise you that they not only do NOT underestimate the importance of your gut, they WILL make the necessary connections between your gut health, nutritional deficiencies and your illnesses. And that is what you want, isn't it?

Inspiration of the Day: One must eat to live and not live to eat. Moliere

Joke of the Day: Just when I find the key to success, someone goes and changes all the locks.

Easy Recipe of the Day:

Salad Dressing

I am combining todays' topic, leaky gut, along with our inspiration and our joke. If your doctor finds out that you have leaky gut, you will probably have to go on an elimination diet, and then a rotation diet in order to allow your gut to heal. If so, todays' inspiration will come to you EVERY DAY you are on the diet...you are eating to live and not living to eat (at least not for a wee bit, till your gut heals). And you are going to think you can't do it, because your dietary mainstays have inevitably been the microscopic food particles that have crossed your leaky gut and deposited themselves in all kinds of places, creating all kinds of problems.

One of these dietary mainstays could well be corn. It is for a lot of folks, because any more corn is in EVERYTHING if it is processed. How? High fructose corn syrup. This includes salad dressing. If I can teach you how easy it is to make your own salad dressing, perhaps you will feel empowered to stick to your diet.

Which brings us to the joke of the day....ah the key to success, when cooking, is often in a bottle of salad dressing dumped on fish, fowl or meat as a tenderizer and easy seasoning. With this recipe I am giving you a new lock to this easy key to success in cooking.

• In short, ALL salad dressings are three parts oil and one part acid. This acid can be vinegar, lemon juice, lime juice, apple cider vinegar, balsamic vinegar, etc. Add salt and pepper and any seasonings. It is that simple. I keep a little glass jars to make my dressings in so that I can eyeball measure, mix and then store the dressing in the refrigerator.

Luby's Clear French Dressing ( you will find this on most of their salads)

• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 3 tablespoons prepared mustard (used as an emulsifier, who knew?)
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 cup plus three tablespoons vegetable oil (OK, this is a little more than the three to one oil to acid, so if you are dogmatic, remember the three to one is a guideline and not set in stone)
• 1/3 cup white vinegar

Dump all this in a glass jar, screw on lid tightly and shake like mad. Absolutely wonderful ;-)