Paleo Quick Tip of the Daqy #15- Chill out with Magnesium, and become a Paleo Sunshine Vitamin D Superman!

Paleo Quick Tip of the Day #15- Chill out with Magnesium, and become a Paleo Sunshine Vitamin D Superman!

PQTD #15  Chill out with Magnesium, and become a Paleo Vitamin D Sunshine Superman!


I’m sure you can tell, just by hearing the above, that Vitamin D, the “sunshine Vitamin”, since that is how we naturally synthesize it, is not only necessary for health, it is is critical!!  But magnesium, the mineral, is just as critical, and works in synergy with Vitamin D to our benefit.

Everyone in the modern world is indoctrinated with the belief that, yes- calcium is needed for bone health!  But, if you are eating a paleo type of diet, such as is recommended in Paleo Quick Tip of the Day, with a big green Paleo smoothie or two per day, full of raw leafy whole greens, and also consume a big salad most days, along with Greek yogurt and kefir in your smoothie- you have plenty of calcium!

You also have some magnesium, but even you, Paleo person, are probably short of magnesium.

The reason is that, nowadays, our soil is so depleted of nutrients through chemical fertilizer bases over-farming, that most of the magnesium that used to be in our soils is...GONE!

Now when little PaleoJay was growing up, 60 years ago, our soil was still chock full of the very necessary nutrient... but NOT NOW.  Just as we have introduced the perverse fluoride poison into our water, we have eliminated most of our sources of magnesium- and, ironically, fluoride binds with magnesium, and drains it from our bodies!!
Talk about a double insult!

What to do?

Continue with all the steps you’ve taken thus far, like eating a real, God made food, veggie rich, Paleo Smoothie per day whipped up in your Vitamix blender...sleep well, 8 hours per night... exercise as outlined in previous Paleo Quick Tips of the Day...

AND supplement with Vitamin D3 and Magnesium!

I am not one who would be big into supplements- but these TWO are critical!

Unless you spend at least 15 minutes per day in a bathing suit, at high noon, outside in the sunshine- get some Vitamin D Liquid!    A couple of drops per day, in your smoothie or right on your tongue will do it- it’s cheap, tasteless, and very, very effective!

I like Liquid Vitamin D3 by Seeking Health, 2000 IU per drop!  On Amazon, and very economical indeed!

And you also need Magnesium- the product Natural Calm, also on Amazon, is amazing, inexpensive, and easily available on... Amazon!  Also from many other vendors...  And Magnesium Oil, available from Ancient Minerals, also on Amazon, is another easy way to supplement- just spray the liquid onto your skin, after your shower- it soaks right in, and loads you up with magnesium, easily.




But just why do you need these two incredible supplements?  Well, if you have high blood pressure, difficulty sleeping, depression, anxiety, rheumatoid arthritis- the list goes on and on- you are probably magnesium and/or Vitamin D deficient.  They work together, eliminating, in many cases, migraine headaches, and diabetes...  and also, especially in the case of Vitamin D- CANCER.

It has recently been released that darker skinned peoples, especially, in the Northern hemisphere are MUCH more, at least 30% more likely to die of ALL types of cancer that fairer skinned individuals- specifically because they produce less Vitamin D from their skin.  But lighter skinned people are at nearly as much risk, because we have all become so sun averse- we are all afraid of skin cancer!


Ironically, however, Vitamin D, usually derived from the sun itself, is the most protective vitamin, along with magnesium to prevent skin cancer!!

I know, this is quite a truth bomb to absorb- but, if you get out in the sun, eat lots of green veggies, and supplement even MORE with Vitamin D and Magnesium-

YOU WILL BE WAY, WAY HEALTHIER!

As usual, it seems, conventional medical advice is ...WRONG!

Check out this episode!

Paleo Quick Tip of the Day #8- Resistant Starch, and other TOP additions to your Paleo Life!

We have been on weekly, gradual introduction of the Paleo lifestyle for beginning on 8 weeks now!  By now, if you have maintained your elimination of gluten and most other grains, gotten a good 8 hours of sleep per night, added in some virtual,
visualized resistance exercise daily- Wow!  I KNOW you’ve seen some real improvements in how you look, how you feel, and also how others see you in a dramatic way…

If you’ve also added in a daily, green, Paleo smoothie using the recipe at this link at www.paleojay.com-click here for the recipe itself-    http://www.paleojay.com/search/label/perfectly%20paleo%20smoothie, then I KNOW you are looking and feeling amazing!  AND, if you’ve sourced a local farm or ranch for grass fed beef and pastured pork and poultry, and also started meditating…

I KNOW you are looking and feeling FANTASTIC!

But I want to get back to the smoothie, since that is really the lynchpin of this way of life: the easiest, most inclusive, and also the most foolproof way to maximize you health!  

Perhaps you’ve followed the recipe on paleojay.com, or perhaps you’ve just “winged it” and made your own version of the smoothie.  If so, good for you!  That’s how I started!!

But I really, really want you to consider adding in a few things to your smoothie that I think are absolutely critical for maximum health and fitness:

Iodine












Vitamin D3

Resistant Starch
Raw, free range eggs from a local, reputable source

Let’s start with the last first:

Most eggs today are produced in factory, confined animal feeding operations, or CAFO’s, that have chickens in tiny cages so tight that they can’t even turn around, eating substandard food not fit for even chickens, and laying sick eggs, which are what you would expect to come from abused, and really tortured birds!  You do NOT want these “concentration camp” eggs- they are really not true eggs, packed with vital nutrition- you want free range chicken eggs- eggs from healthy, happy chickens that are free to run around on green pasture, eating real chicken food like bugs and worms, and realizing their true “chickin-ness”!!

Eggs (and the meat!) from such happy chickens in wonderful, and the eggs, in particular, and probably the single most nutritious and healthy food for you and yours in the world!  Be sure to add a couple to your daily green Paleo smoothie!

Next, let’s address Resistant Starch:  Within our bodies are BILLIONS of tiny microbes, residing primarily in our intestine, or gut.  What they do for us is incredible- they digest things for us, they secrete hormones that we rely on, they improve our mood and sleep, they even are essential for the health of our brains!  It sounds fantastic, but think of this- there are more gut microbes within our bodies, living with us symbiotically, than there are human cells!  THAT is how tied together we are with out little gut “buddies”, and always have been!

The problem with our modern diet is that, eating refined and processed foods, the gut buddies don’t get fed!

They need a “paleo” type of diet, just like their ancestors did, and that included lots of resistant starch….
Foods that were NOT digested by us, and went right to them, through our stomach, into the intestine!  Things like stems, grass and veggie fibers, bark and twigs, green unripe vegetables… in other words, things we no longer eat!

Enter Potato Starch, the simplest, easiest, cheapest way to make your gut buddies happy and healthy, right away!

Just got to your local store, and get a bag of Bob’s Red Mill Potato Starch- it’s very cheap, about $4.00 a bag, and start adding it to your daily Paleo smoothie, dude!  Start with a T, and work up to 4T- the only side effect, at first, can be digestive upset, since you are not used to it.  I will say, I had none of that, and the benefits started right away!  I started sleeping REALLY well, my mood improved, and I began having very vivid, colorful, compelling dreams!! REALLY !   You can also add a green banana to your smoothie for resistant starch, and another addition to your diet that is great is Uncle Ben’s parboiled or converted rice!  Just eat that- not so great in the smoothie- just use potato starch for that- it is tasteless, too!!

The last two are just as crucial, and much more straight forward:  Iodine and Vitamin D!
Get each in liquid form; I get mine from Amazon.  Vitamin D is actually a hormone, and something that we ALL lack in the modern world, especially if we live in the North!! In the summer, I make a point of being outside, shirtless and in shorts for short periods most days, but in the Winter, particularly THIS winter, I just add in a dropper or so of Vitamin D liquid!  Vitamins D is crucial for health, so add it in!  Mental health in particular!!

And Iodine-  Lugol’s solution is the best, liquid form, and very inexpensive, just like Vitamin D and Potato Starch. Most Americans are woefully short of iodine in their diets, since they don’t eat seafood like the Japanese, in large quantities.  The latest data shows that iodine, when taken in large amounts, (Again, like the Japanese) not only prevents diseases of deficiency like rickets…

When taken in large amounts, protects against cancer and heart disease in a huge way!

About 75% of Japanese men smoke, and heart disease and cancer are almost nonexistent among them!!
It is the iodine that they consume, by eating fatty fish and lots of seaweed that protects them- so, do likewise, and supplement with iodine!  A few drops of liquid iodine replicates the Japanese intake.

In addition, there are studies that show that when an expectant mother is consuming a high level of iodine, the child that she delivers has an IQ of 20-30 points HIGHER than either of the parents!  So, if you are thinking of having a child- supplement with iodine!!    THAT is a no-brainer!

And so, there you have it- 4 things that, even if you DON’T use a smoothie, you should incorporate into your healthy lifestyle for SURE!  But, the smoothie does it all, easily, and one simple, easy step to solve multiple problems is another…NO-BRAINER!!  

Just get a Vitamix!  Do it!  Go to paleojay.com, click on the Vitamix link for free shipping, and get one!  Or buy one on Ebay, or on Craig’s list… but GET one!!

It really will change your life, and the health of your family.  Just stick here with me, every Wednesday, and we’ll continue our journey towards health, one Paleo Quick Tip of the Day at a time!