After conducting quite a bit of research (on the web, reading books, watching documentaries, talking to people, and listening to podcasts) and sampling different products I have decided to compile a list of my favorites here. If you have a suggestion in any one of these categories please feel free to share it. Just click on each item/link to learn more. Check back for updates!
Best Juicers/Blender
Favorite Certified Organic Farms
- West Wind Farm (for raw milk/cheese, grass-fed/pastured meats and eggs in West TN)
- Windamere Farms (Memphis)
Favorite Magazines
- Living Without (the magazine for people with allergies and food sensitivities)
More of my favorite health products:
- Manuka honey (powerful natural antibiotic for wounds, infections and colds)
- Organic, virgin coconut oil (Super Food especially for the brain)
- Jovial brown rice pasta (delicious gluten-free, dairy-free pasta)
- Coconut palm sugar (delicious, nutritious, low glycemic index)
- Earthing pad (enhanced sleep, inflammation and EMF reduction)
- Qlink Nimbus (Reduces EMFs – harmonizes and calms)
- Wetter Water Reverse Osmosis System
- Water Wise Home Water Distiller
- Himalayan Salt
- IQ Air – Whole house filtration system
Best Whole Food Supplements and Nutritional Products
- Metagenics
- New Chapter
- Integrative Therapeutics,
- Dr. Mercola’s Products
- Baseline Nutritionals
- Jedwards International (for organic, virgin coconut oil and krill oil)
- Azure Standard: Quality bulk and Natural Foods
- US Wellness Meats
Favorite Books
- Gut and Psychology Syndrome
- Deep Nutrition
- Natural Cures
- Healing the Gerson Way
- 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth
- Lessons from the Miracle Doctors
- The Maker’s Diet
- Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life
- Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
- Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
Best Skin Care
Best Health Documentaries
- Food Matters
- Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead
- Healing Cancer
- Food Inc.
- Under Our Skin (Lyme Disease Epidemic in the USA)
Best Grocery Store for Organic Produce in Memphis
- Whole Foods
- Fresh Market
- Collierville Meat Market (for organic, grass fed beef and free range, organic chickens)
Best Bentonite Clay for Detox – Mississippi Miracle Clay
Best Free Nutrition/Prevention Advice
Best Natural, Preventative Health Care Provider in Memphis – Dr. John Smothers
Best Site for Learning about Vaccines – National Vaccine Information Center
Best Herbs and Superfoods – Dragon Herbs, Gaia Herbs
Best Cleanse/Detox Programs – Arise and Shine, Detox Safely, Candida Cleanse
Kim’s Health and Wellness Wish List:
- Arise and Shine – Full Body Cleanse
- Rebounder – N.A.S.A. found that rebounding was 68% more efficient than treadmills or other forms of exercise. N.A.S.A. also found rebounding to be helpful in rebuilding the bone mass and muscle mass that astronauts lose in the weightlessness of space.
- Magnetico Sleep Pad – This pad was designed and constructed to enhance recuperative sleep and turn your current mattress into a therapeutic, stress relieving sleep environment giving you a deeper, more relaxed and restful sleep. The mattress pad is shown to promote nerve stimulation, accelerate the natural healing process and relieve pain and discomfort in certain patients. Magnetic therapy increases circulation, blood flow oxygen levels and helps supply energy to the body. Click on this link to learn more about magnetic therapy – http://www.thebestdayever.com/news/podcast/podcast-88-david-wolfe-and-dr-dean-bonlie
- Ewater Revitalizing Shower Filter – SIX TECHNOLOGIES including stronger far infrared & magnetics, are sequenced with carbons and KDF for structuring, energizing, chlorine and metal reduction, and powerful water flow. Provides an average 12-15 months of superior bathing and showering per cartridge. A strong water flow with no need to back wash.
- Complete Home EMF Protection Set – Stetzerizer-US is the US distribution for Graham Stetzer Stetzerizer products. The Stetzerizer product line consists of 3 products: the Microsurge Meter, the original filter, and the dual-filter powerstrip/surge-suppressor. Are you interested in cleaning up dirty electricity in your environment? Then you have come to the right place.
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Favorite Detox Fast: Accelerated Fasting Detoxification Program: Liquid Fast (By Dr. John Smothers)
Day 1: Juice 2 quarts of Organic Apple Juice with lemon
- Drink fiber shake, Colon Plus (2 tablespoons) mixed in apple juice or water.
- Consume 2-4 tablespoons of of vegetable oils per day (flax seed oil, coconut butter, olive oil)
- Water, green tea (no sugar or honey) organic vegetable/fruit juices and bone broth are also allowed during the fast.
- Use herbal laxative with fiber if not having 2-3 bowel movements per day.
- Healthy Option: HydroColonic to help irrigate toxins and waste from Large Intestine
Day 2: Drink 2 quarts of hot stock broth.
- Drink fiber shake, Colon Plus (2 tablespoons) mixed in apple juice or water.
- Consume 2-4 tablespoons of of vegetable oils per day (flax seed oil, coconut butter, olive oil)
- Water, green tea (no sugar or honey) organic vegetable/fruit juices and broth are also allowed during the fast.
- Healthy Option: HydroColonic to help irrigate toxins and waste from Large Intestine
Day 3-5: Drink 2 quarts of organic vegetable juice.
- Vegetable Juice Recipe – (8oz) 70% Carrot, (2oz) 20% celery, (1/2oz) 5% beet, (1/4oz) fresh ginger, (1/4oz) garlic and (1oz) wheat grass.
- Drink fiber shake, Colon Plus-2 tablespoons mixed in apple juice or water.
- Consume 2-4 tablespoons of vegetable oils per day (flax seed oil, coconut butter, olive oil)
- Water, green tea (no sugar or honey) organic vegetable/fruit juices and broth are also allowed during the fast.
- Healthy Option: HydroColonic to help irrigate toxins and waste from Large Intestine
- Olive Oil Flush: Day 4 of fast.
Mix 4-8 oz of extra virgin olive oil, 4-8 oz of fresh squeezed orange juice, 1-2 oz of fresh squeezed lemon juice. Mix well and drink at bedtime. Go immediately to bed and lay on your right side, with your right knee pulled close to chest for 20-30 minutes. Drink Fiber shake upon arising the next morning.