The Great Protein Fiasco

  
Yessss! Once again Dr.Greger is droppin gems! We cannot be protein deficient, in fact most people eat an excess of protein everyday! An over excess of protein does more harm than good to our bodies, especially if we’re getting it from animal sources. 

To figure out how many grams you should be getting, take your weight x 4 and divide it by 10. So for me 130 x 4 / 10 gives me = 52 grams, and I can even get away with ten grams less than that amount or even less than that! I eat a vegan diet and I hit that amount and sometimes more on a daily basis! I like to keep my macro levels to where I’m hitting 80% of calories coming from carbs, 10% of calories from protein & 10% from fat. I’ve found eating high carb low fat vegan to be the healthiest and most balanced way to live. My digestion is top notch, my skin benefits greatly (less itchy & dry, more hydrated from the inside out, less red, less inflammation, wounds heal faster & better rest at night!) and I feel lighter and more energetic throughout the day (*note to self, need to make a blog post on this soon! 😜). Eating lots of fruits gives me all the carbs and energy I need (remember our bodies run on sugar 😉 the sugar in fruits are not the enemy!)

• Check out Dr.Greger’s article by clicking the link: The Great Protein Fiasco and make sure to subscribe to his YouTube channel nutritionfacts.org
• More info on protein HERE
• Simple Steps to Going on a Plant Based Diet 
• Here’s an example of my meals in the link below. This is an older post, and as I mentioned my diet has changed more to an 80/10/10 style (and currently I’m eating raw vegan). In this post I got waaaaay too much protein, and with my macro breakdown you can see exactly the sources I got it from…What I Eat in a Day – Vegan

Feel free to shoot me an email if you have any questions or need advice on transitioning to a plant based diet, or if you need advice in general on naturally healing eczema! eczema.holistic.healing@gmail.com

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Recipe! – Watermelon Juice

🍉🍉🍉Try out this super hydrating, refreshing drink!🍉🍉🍉

Fill up your blender with…

• fresh watermelon
• add a handful of fresh mint (Great herb for the digestion)
• the juice from 1 lime (balances the ph in the body with its high alkaline ash residue)
• and about a 2×2″ or 3×3″ square of fresh aloe (soaking it in water for like 20 min or so takes down the bitterness)***
• add a few cubes of ice…

Blend and enjoy! 😋😋😋

***Aloe is great for the skin, it helps support the immune system and helps to regulate your digestion! It also has antioxidant and antibacterial properties!

This pic was from day two of “watermelon island”. It’s basically when you do a mono meal of a fruit for an extended amount of days (a fruit fast), I did two days on “watermelon island”…watermelon goodness allll day long! It’s a great way to cleanse the body because fruits are super hydrating, and very easy on the digestion. They clean out the system because of its water content and fiber. You can do a banana (“banana island”) fast, grape fast etc. Fasting with easily digestible fruit like watermelon (digests in like 30 min or less) allows your body to only use a little bit of energy on digesting and the rest on healing the body! Just doing the 2 days alone gave me more hydrated, less itchy and red skin! For even deeper cleansing I could’ve gone 3-5 days or even a week or more! Check out this Dr.Morse video on Fasting with Fruit! Also check out the ebook The Fruit Cure by http://www.DeHappy5.com on healing eczema with a raw food diet!

️Change.org Petition – Stop Steroid Use Nationwide!!!

Check out this petition that awesome eczema warrior, Ashlee Christine has started! Let’s make our voices heard and make a difference! Her goal is to reach 100, let’s make it hit into the thousands! 

Click HERE to go to the link and sign! 

Seeking Eczema & Psoriasis Patients for Paid Research Program

Hey guys, 

I received an email to be apart of an online panel on OTC treatments as well as topical steroids for eczema and psoriasis patients. They contacted me from seeing this blog. I think this is a great opportunity for us to get out the word of our personal experience with these medications, and let our voice hopefully have an impact on how they prescribe meds. If selected for this panel you can earn $200, just for your input! Check out this link HERE for more information. Be quick! They need the applications in before June 20th!

Take care,

-Jen

A Little Reminder…

I think instead of asking “why is this happening to me?” when we switch it to the understanding that “this is happening FOR me” we realize that it HAS to happen for us to be in our best possible state of health. It HAS to happen FOR me to be eczema free. It can be hard to think this way, but I know when I switched up the way I was speaking my words into existence, a clarity and calm came over me and I knew no matter what I’d be ok. Sending healing vibes to all 💜✌️💛

Simple Steps to Going on a Plant Based Diet!

As I mentioned before in the acid/alkaline page it is best to avoid animal products and processed foods to heal your eczema and to stay eczema free. Animal products are highly acidic, and take forever to digest in the body (anywhere from 24-72 hours!) which that energy could be used on healing the body. Optimal digestion is so key in healing your eczema, as our gut holds 80% of our immune system and is one of the main channels of elimination. Alkaline foods (plant based foods) give us all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals and energy our body needs to repair and restore from our organs, bones, tissues and skin!

This post is to provide some easy tips to make a transition to a plant based diet fool proof. It’s not as hard as you think, and once you get the hang of it, it will be like second nature!