Gluten Free/Paleo Banana Berry Nut Bread- Trust me

Something about being on a restrictive eating plan like the Ultimate Reset or the 21 Day Fix (BOTH  programs I do often) that makes me want to make yummy, nutritious, baked goods.  Something about masochism that I'm oddly attracted to.  Kidding.  Not that serious.  But the bad bananas were pilling up and I know how much my little duder likes his BREAD!!


Last night I threw together a bunch of ingredients and it turned out surprising well. ACCORDING TO MY FAMILY, of course!! :)


Ok, I'll get right to it because for real, do you really care about my story when you have banana bread to make??  If you're like me you scroll right to the ingredients anyway!

You'll need:

Wet:
4-5 overly ripe bananas (mashed)
8 eggs room temp
1/2 cup coconut sugar ( I was originally gonna use honey when I remember I bought a coconut/cane sugar blend)
1/2 cup melted coconut oil
2 tsp pure vanilla extract

Dry:
1 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp Himalayan salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder

Optional:
chocolate chips
walnuts
or  if you're like me....trail mix.

Simple.
Preheat oven to 350.
Mix wet ingredients with a spoon or hand mixer.
Whisk dry ingredients.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.

Mix again until all the flour is wet.  (Scrape the bottom!)
Fold in choc chips, nuts or.... I used a mixed nut, dried cranberry and chocolate chip trail



mix we had. (Soren loved it!)
Coat a loaf pan with coconut oil or almond oil.
I poured 3/4 the batter into the loaf pan. Filling it to about 2 inches from the top.
I baked it for 50 minutes.  We didn't let it cool long before I was serving it up to my lil guy.

Oh and I put a dollop of orange marmalade on it!!!

Easy Peasy!!! Enjoy!

Gall Bladder/Liver cleanse

It's funny, once you find out you have living creatures INSIDE of you, you desperately want to cleanse every organ of your body.

While in MN for a few weeks I visited a highly recommended Natural Doctor who BLEW MY MIND.  She knew SO much!!!  She shared so much. She had SO. MUCH. TO. SHARE!!  

Serioulsy, this natural health journey has been an unending (and slightly overwhelming) experience.  There is so much to know and do.

So basically, this insanely smart, knowledgeable and really cool lady hooked me up to what is called a BIO feedback machine. It hooks around your wrist, your ankles and your forehead.  It's cute! haha

See:

Well. this machine gives you a feedback on emotional trauma, pathogens invading your body, organ function, and MUCH MUCH more.

I got back a small list of many pages. Small is all I could handle.  I rather get the feedback in tiny doses.  It seems more manageable.

These were some my results: 

Weak liver
Clogged gall bladder
Tapeworm
Seeking peace and ease
Pinched vagus nerve
Leaky gut
High fungal 

WOW. Fun, right?


Dr. D gave me a few protocols to follow and I had an entire week of vacation left before I could get home and start my cleanses.  That was a LONG week.  Something about knowing a TAPEWORM is inside of me, chilling out, making my intestines his meal ( yes he's a he) is mildly disturbing.  I wanted him OUT!!!

This whole blog started because I wanted to share my first parasite cleanse.  And that cleanse worked.  So many ailments I was dealing with, were relieved.  But I wasn't 100% better. I knew there was a lot of work to be done. The PARASITE CLEANSE I did first, does NOT kill Tapeworm.  I actually have a more aggressive cleanse on it's way to home home right now. And I of course will share  the results when I do it. 

I also knew that before I could cleanse any other organ, a parasite cleanse was the first step.  Thankfully, I had already initiated that process and had completed a 6 week cleanse. 

This led me to my first organ cleanse.  The Gall bladder. In not so scientific terms ::  The gall bladder is a little sack that hangs off the liver.  The liver dumps bile into the gall bladder, the gall bladder adds enzymes and mineral salts to the bile, the new mixture is excreted into the small intestine to aid in the proper digestion of fats. 

This job is not performed well when the gall bladder is clogged with gall stones.  Basically, if our livers are overloaded with toxins from constipation, drug and alcohol use, or over consumption of highly processed foods, the bile in the liver can became extremely concentrated. The thickened bile dumped into the gall bladder forms deposits (or stones) impairing the digestion of fats.  

A few symptoms of improper fat digestion: 

gas and bloating
dry or peeling skin
bitter taste in mouth 
runny nose
chronic pain in the right shoulder near the blade or down the right side of the neck (me)
painful feet 
a sore tongue
rectal itching <--could also be parasites.  This stuff all goes hand in hand. 

So... we want to get the stones OUT. 

There are a few different protocols and I will be trying them all.  I've done one cleanse and will perform another one in 6 weeks. 

The following cleanse  is SIMPLE. Weird. Kind of gross. But effective.  You down?? 

Here's the deal: 

Two days before you cleanse, you will take 2-500 MG capsules of malic acid with 8 oz of organic apple juice (nothing added). Do this morning and night for 2 days. 


**TO FLUSH**  ((You'll want to do this on a weekend or when you have two days to CHILL.)) 








What else you'll need: 


5oz coke a cola (trust me)
6oz EVOO (extra virgin olive oil)
1/2 oz or 1 tablespoons lemon juice  (I did two, not sure why)

The night of the flush. Eat a LIGHT dinner, like a salad.  NO fried, processed or junk food. Eat a piece of sprouted bread like Ezekial to coat your stomach.















Add your ingredients (best if cold) to the blender and BLEND to mix the coke and oil. You DO NOT want to drink just oil. Gag. 

Drink quickly. Go straight to bed, lay on your right side, lift your right knee to your heart and go to sleep.  You want to be in bed by 8p. This may have to do with the  gall bladder rejuvenating between 9p and 11p. :) 

I was nauseous. 

The next morning upon waking, drink an entire 10oz bottle of Magnesium Citrate. I stuck a straw in the bottle and got it down as quick as I could. Lay back down. I was very relaxed from the magnesium and just feeling YUCKY from, oh I don't know... drinking FIVE OUNCES OF OLIVE OIL?!?!??

TIRED

The magnesium is used to get your bowels MOVING. And it will. It took me turning onto my right side, and I immediately had to run to the bathroom. 










Gall stones are GREEN and they float. So if you are like me and want to document things... get ready!! :) 

I sifted through and removed and rinsed a large stone and several tiny stones.  The more I went to the bathroom, the more stones that came out.  I did not remove any after the first time. Overall, I had 1 large stone, about 15-20 black-eyed pea sized stones, and 100's of really small ones. 

I LOVE the fact that I am getting these things out. I cannot say that I feel any different, yet, but I also know I need to do a few more cleanses.  I have a feeling the liver didn't really get touched. 

For the those who really believe in natural healing, READ ON. 

The liver is the anger organ, and stones are formed like little balls of anger. The day that I flushed, I was MAD.  Like downright angry.  I would suggest being alone when you do this. Do not make any decisions on this day, and if you can, don't talk to your spouse.  ahhahah  TRUST ME!! :) 

Happy healing!!!!