Holistic Lifestyle

By Yadevinder Mutta

Holistic lifestyle is a personal journey through congestive heart failure, renal failure, renal transplantation, elevated blood pressure and cholesterol levels, hip replacement, ongoing prednisone, and other prescription medications. Over the last 15 years I have spent countless hours and dollars trying anything that would help in my personal health journey.

I thought I was living a healthy lifestyle when I was eating good. However now I realize that eating is just one part of the equation. How can I eat vegan but use fluoride as an example. Or how can I claim to care about my children if I continue to use fabric softener. I realized very quickly that it is an uphill battle, but I am committed.

This book provides simple and easy introductions to help us with whatever health challenges we have and wherever we are in our personal journey. It is divided into three sections that I feel help make a healthy life: Nutrition, Lifestyle and Wellness.

This book is a quick reference to labels and additives, toxins and chemicals, complimentary and alternative medicines, health technology just to name a few.

I hope this helps you as much as it has helped me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Yadevinder Mutta
• Release date: Jul 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9780995228702

Yadevinder Mutta

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Holistic Lifestyle

40 IN 1

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

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Yadevinder Mutta

Holistic Lifestyle. Copyright © 2016 by Yadevinder Mutta.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Section 1: Nutrition

-Introduction to Section 1

-Diets

-Food Additives

-Top 40 Additives in our Foods

-Commercial Processing

-Pantry Staples

-Homemade From Scratch

-Nutrition Strategy

Section 2: Lifestyle

-Introduction to Section 2

-Unnatural Chemicals

-Toxicity

-Pharmaceuticals

-Natural Health

-Chemical Awareness Strategy

-Toxic Free Home Strategy

Section 3: Wellness

-Introduction to Section 3

-Continual Learning

-Education

-Complimentary and Alternative Medicine or Therapy

-Health Technology

-Wellness Strategy

Conclusion

Sources

Foreword

This document has been a long time in the making. There are countless people; mentors, patients, doctors, friends, family, books, movies, documentaries, websites, blogs, newsletters etc. that have assisted in numerous ways to help me, complete this white paper. My hope is that the readers will be compelled to certain sections, and start there. This is just a loose configuration of the complex lives we live.

I have tried to keep this document as current as possible, but new scientific discoveries are made daily. When it comes to science, what we knew yesterday, may not necessarily be true today. There has to a true, conscious effort, to balance corporate profits and participating as an active and responsible community member. There is a collective awakening, occurring globally. There is a growing global movement and commitment to be responsible for our lives, our families, our neighbors, and ultimately humanity and Earth.

There is a great amount of information available to us. It is our job to discern and apply that information to our lives. I hope this document is able to help clarify, or introduce that information.

I hope you don’t take my word for it and believe me, but go and research any and all of this information for yourself. Please. Don’t believe me, research and ask questions. Ask hard questions. Then you will have the truth and that can’t be taken away or forgotten.

Wikipedia is a great starting place, and leads us into some great detailed searches and opinions.

I have not intentionally omitted anyone or any source. I did my best to try and include all that I could remember and identify.

Please forgive any omissions.

The journey of a thousand steps begins with just one.

It all begins with a choice.

Wilt thou be made whole! John 5:6

Introduction

The year was 2003 and my life changed drastically. I walked into a hospital, on a cold night in winter. I was complaining of not being able to breathe. I was 28 years old. I was barely married for 4 years.

All I remember is walking to the nurse and complaining about not being able to breathe. She took my vitals and told me to have a seat. I stole a glance at the digital screen. 250/190 was my blood pressure, with a heart rate of 192. I thought it was strange but never really gave it a second thought.

As I walked towards a chair in the ER, I distinctly remember a doctor running towards me. You come with me, is all he said very sternly.

My wife and I followed him. He immediately told me to open my mouth. I remember something like - this won’t be pleasant, and you may will have a headache. He gave me a pill which he explained was nitro. It was to open all my arteries arteries would allow blood to flow freely.

That’s all I remember of that night.

When I awoke in the morning, I was transferred to another hospital.

When I arrived at the new ER. I remember nurses and doctors saying repeatedly, oh, so you are the famous one!

I was admitted into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF). I was told I was experiencing all this because I was at End Stage Renal Failure. My where kidneys functioned at 5-10%, maximum. I would be starting dialysis very shortly. A shunt was immediately put into my thigh. Dialysis started. A week later a central line was put into my heart.

Dialysis began the second day, and for the next year and half, my life changed drastically as I started dialysis treatments three times a week. My wife and I jokingly referred to dialysis as my part-time job.

I love cooking, and so began my obsession with food and its curative properties. While on dialysis I was afforded the time to watch and read for hours at a time.

In 2005, I received a donor kidney from my mother. This started an entirely new chapter in my life.

My search for answers, as to what happened, led me to examine different areas of my life. I never realized how interweaved and delicate, life really is. I never realized how diet effects health, or how stress affects cholesterol levels. I never realized how closing my eyes to meditate could bring focus. I didn’t understand how prayer life can bring balance into my life.

I searched everywhere. I examined everything. I talked and interviewed so many people, I can’t remember all of their names. I slowly began to examine every aspect of my life, and how it relates to my health. It is a long journey and I repeatedly thought I had arrived. Now I realize it is a long term commitment to a life long journey of healing. A healthy lifestyle begins with a choice. The choice is to be healthy. I choose to be healthy, no matter what the cost. No matter what the truth. I committed to examine it all. No holds barred and no prejudices.

In the beginning there was no YouTube content. I relied very heavily on people that I crossed path with. There were some books, some articles, some medical reviews. I pieced foods and diets together like a jigsaw puzzle. I tried so many things. I was my own test subject. I experimented in drastic measures. Everyone around me thought I was mad. I tried things that I didn’t know had names. Over the course of the next 15 years, I cannot remember the exact number of diets I tried.

To be honest, initially I thought I could reverse my condition. It took a while to settle into my skin.

I started with the renal diet. Moved to the diabetic diet. Became vegetarian, vegan (that was real hard), Atkins, protein, no protein, carbs, no carbs, gluten free. I tried fasting, dry fasting. I bounced around a lot. My family thought I was crazy and gave up trying to keep up.

I did this for over 10 years but never came to a balance. What I was beginning to understand was I needed to make a long-term commitment to a lifestyle change.

One winter day in 2014, I decided I wanted to create a product that would be nutritionally superior. It should contain as much nutrition as feasibly possible. I was not looking to replace a meal but a product that would supplement my diet. I took 52 different diets and started to look at the common denominators. I was left with roughly 40: fruits, vegetables and herbs.

I knew that juicing would be the only real way to consume this large number of produce.

So this led me to the Super Angel, my slow, cold pressing juicer. I started. I made super concentrated juice, without much fiber, but high in vitamins and minerals, antioxidants and phytonutrients. I went on a 30 day juice fast. I lost weight, but more importantly my mind cleared up and I felt ten years younger.

My clinicians tell me to be careful, as transplant patients should not consume large quantities of juice or liquids. Meanwhile they remove one of my blood pressure medications from my daily onslaught of medications.

I have learned that diet is the fuel that makes my body go. I have witnessed the direct connection in my mind and body, of good food sources and bad food sources.

This document is divided into three sections; Nutrition, Lifestyle and Wellness.

Nutrition, in my opinion is not blind consumption of food or food like products. I try to make an educated decision to source good, local and nutritious ingredients. Using superior ingredients and producing great tasting and healthy homemade meal options. As a part of a bigger family, we need to take a hard look at factory made, food like items. We cannot outsource the majority of our diet. We must be actively involved in these dietary choices, and constantly adapt.

Lifestyle, in my opinion is not just waking up and doing as much as you can before going to bed. I try to use a balance between current scientific expansion, common sense, and ancient lifestyle practices. I want to live by faith but grow my awareness of my environment. There is a cost of lifestyle convenience. I cannot ignore them. If I intend to live right, it is a balance of a healthy body and the pollution of my body, home, and environment. I have to voice my opinion by the power of my dollar in this mass hyper consumer cycle. This is one category I struggle with on a daily basis. I am committed to making a slow but continual change to lower my carbon footprint.

Wellness, in my practical implementation of where nutrition and lifestyle meet. I am committed to be attentive to this body and treat it like a temple. To investigate and implement technologies as they take a play a larger role in our daily lives.

This white paper is my journey over the last 16 years. My ups and down as I struggled, lived and survived End Stage Renal Failure. I am a Renal Transplant recipient. I hope this can help other’s achieve their breakthroughs, in their personal health opportunities.

It all begins with our thoughts. We can stack those odds in our favor once we choose to take control of our life.

We are in the driver’s seat of our life.

Section 1: Nutrition

Introduction

Diet plays an important role to our body because it is providing the energy required for all the chemical reactions. A healthy gut, nutrition and good clean food growing practices are all important parts, of a balanced nutritional approach.

The gut is an amazing part of our body and is usually neglected. Recent information has led to amazing information as to how our gut directly affects our health. The gut comprises of 100 trillion bacterial cells, 10x as many cell that make up the human body. There are over 100 million brain cells in the gut which is three times more than the brain and all those neurons lining our digestive system allows it to keep in contact with the brain via vagus nerves which often influence our emotional state. Gut flora have around 100x as many genes in aggregates as there are in the human genome.

The colon microbial ecosystem represent between 300 and 1000 different species of bacteria and 99% of bacteria come from 30 or 40 species which make up 60% of the dry mass of our feces.

Enteral nutrition therapy (EEN – tube down the throat to the stomach) nutrition in liquid form is administered without taxing digestive tract and may be more beneficial than corticosteroids. This therapy is used primary on children however it is used exclusively in Japan on adults. This treatment provides sustenance of easily digestible vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and small amounts of fats, so the bowel has the opportunity to rest and heal.

Gut microorganisms benefit the host by collecting the energy from the fermentation of undigested carbohydrates and the subsequent absorption of short-chain fatty acids. The primary gut flora in infants born by caesarean section may be disturbed for up to six months after birth, where as vaginally born infants take up to one month for their intestinal micro flora to be well established.

It is shown repeatedly that bacteria in the gut thrive off of sugar.

Gut flora is directly effected by the use of antibiotics, consumption of dairy in its various forms and stress.

Antibiotics kill native gut flora and harmful infectious pathogens alike and is associated with inflammatory bowel disease. Antibiotics also affect the host’s health and ability to digest food. Increase in numbers of antibiotic resistant bacteria founds after usage cause illnesses that are difficult to treat with antibiotics. There is a reduction in native bacterial species and antibiotics disrupt their ability to inhibit the growth of harmful species

Dairy farms and farming is a great concern for the usage of antibiotics. For more than 51 years we have known that the administration of antibacterial agents promotes the growth of farm animals to