by cory hedgepeth – How do you start your day? With one of your coconut oil recipes?There is no one way, but there are many wrong ways. If you are eating cheerios, that’s kind of wrong. Stay away from additives and added sugars. One thing is for sure though, if you do breakfast (nothing wrong with skipping it), it’s a perfect opportunity to get some healthy fats, minerals and proteins in. Here is one example of what I do and what the benefits of it are.
This is organic liver sauteed in grass fed butter, cold pressed coconut oil, topped (after) with cayenne pepper, tumeric and himalayan salt.
Coffee with grass fed butter, cold pressed coconut oil, organic cinnamon.
Himalayan salt water shot (1/2 teaspoon).
3 very simple to make items boasting a huge amount of nutritional and metabolic power.
Lets discuss further.
This site is all about cold pressed coconut oil, so the benefits have been largely discussed here, but lets talk a few specifics here. When you sleep, your body goes into a fat burning mode. It begins to pull energy from fat rather than carbs. When you wake up in the morning and have carbs, like most people do, you kill that process. When your breakfast is coconut oil and protein, this process accelerates. Now, does this mean carbs in the morning are bad? No, it’s what works for you. It means crappy sugars and additives are bad for you. It means pancakes are bad. It means jelly is bad. Does it mean oatmeal is bad? No. I make oatmeal with coconut oil and grass fed butter all the time in the morning, it just depends on your goals. If you are trying to shed pounds, the recipe in this article is a powerful start to that process. Also, skipping morning carbs in lieu of this recipe means less cravings for lunch, the fat burning situation compounds. Also, coconut oil will help kill candida fungus (you really should research candida fungus unless you have been on a primal diet your entire life). Candidas feeds off sugars, with this breakfast, you have no sugar for it to feed from plus you have coconut oil and cinnamon killing the fungus. Translation, you are winning. Coconut oil will provide great stable energy, your mind will focus on task more efficiently.
Grass Fed Butter. So the term “grass fed” is already starting to irritate you. It’s just for hipsters or uninformed diet elitist. No. It means the cow it came from ate on it’s natural diet of grass and pasture. Most of the meat and dairy you get, unless otherwise stated, comes from cows that were forced to eat corn because that’s how the meat and dairy industry can make a profit from you. Big deal? Yes, huge deal. Corn is a high omega fat heavy produce. Omega 6 is fine, you need it, but not in overload which is what’s happened to the Standard American Diet. You need balance between omega 3 and 6. I think the American diet has people at like 20 times more omega 6 (Google around, stats are everywhere and it’s scary). So now, this grass fed butter, it’s balanced between omega 3 and 6 because your cow was eating what it should eat. What does this mean? It means if you used this diet, you walked out the door with a great omega fat balance. Grass Fed means CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) content is at least 3 times higher than in corn fed butter. CLA is amazing for your heart and its heavily linked to the suppression of tumors. Yeah, that’s right, you walk out the door fighting tumors like superman. Read this article out of UMass if you want more, these people are freaking smart. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/441/ (fyi, ruminant would imply grass fed in the article). Oh, and grass fed butter is a fat, it’s burning fat, so there is that.
What about this himalayan salt stuff? First, lets get some clarity here, not all salt is the same. Table salt (even under the guise of “sea salt”) isn’t good for you. It’s processed garbage. So don’t get confused into thinking it’s in the same class as himalayan salt. Himalayan salt is salt extracted from the soils of the himalayan mountains, it’s typically pink in color and it’s a health mineral bomb. What benefits does it have? It reduces signs of aging, balances your PH levels, good for sinuses and intestines, improves the libido, helps blood pressure. http://credence.org/ECpages/?page_id=674 So why do I take the water shot and is it necessary? I just find it easiest to do it that way. Yep, you can put it on food (after it’s already cooked, cooking can kill nutrients). I like the water / salt balance I get in one shot. That’s a personal thing, it works for me.
This salt is loaded with minerals at over 80. It’s high in iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium. There are traces of selenium, copper, zinc. Yep, this sh!t is rad. On an anecdotal note, I eat mostly primal, which doesn’t yield much in salt. Before I used to take himalayan salt, the cells around my mouth would fill with water causing my mouth are of the face to feel heavy. It made shaving hard (lots of cuts). The himalayan salt balances the water, it pulls water from the cells (unlike potassium). If you drink lots of water, eat a primal infused diet, and take this salt, your body will feel amazing.
Cayenne can help speed up your metabolism. Tumeric has a lot of great anti-cancer benefits. Cinammon and Candida Fungi are bad roommates, they can’t live together, so Candida will typically have to move out.
Oh yeah, that organic chicken liver. How gross! Organ meats are the healthiest, most nutrient dense meat you can eat.
“But the liver will have all these toxins in it! Gross!”
No it doesn’t, the liver detoxifies the body, sure, but it doesn’t keep the toxins.You want B vitamins? Liver and all organ meats are loaded with it. B12 comes in solid amounts, not too mention a few others. Protein is very dense in organ meat. Hey, it’s meat, if you don’t get organic, you run into the same issues you would have with other meats, so there is that. But unlike conventional grain fed cheap meats, organ meat is cheap. Everyone thinks it’s gross, so the price is low. It’s a steal for your health. Chris Kresser has a great chart for it’s vitamin content. And liver gives you tons of energy. Google “chicken liver energy,” be amazed.
“But isn’t the taste gross?”
No, it’s really good. I like it better than most any other meat. Open your mind. Stop letting your fear to change drive your health decisions.
Now, how did you start your day?
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