July Special at MTCAM!

MTCAM is featuring the Youth Encouragement Services for the month of July.  YES works with inner city children and has both summer and after school programs.  They are now gearing up to prepare backpacks for children so they will have new school supplies for the school year.  Please help us get as many items as possible to give back to the children to make sure they have a good start when they go back to school!

 

Donate 4 of the following items and receive $10 OFF your visit that day!

--One package of notebook paper (wide ruled)

--One spiral notebook (wide ruled)

--Two folders with pockets

--One package of standard #2 pencils

--One large eraser

--One box of 24 crayons

--One small plastic bottle of white school glue

--One small bottle of hand sanitizer

--One 1 foot ruler

--One three-ring notebook binder (2 inch wide)

 

All of the items above will be used to pack one backpack for a child!  For more information and how to further help this organization please visit http://youthencouragement.org/.  Thank you in advance for all your donations!

Deep Moisturizing Treatment with Coconut Oil

Another use for coconut oil is that it can be used as a deep conditioning treatment for your hair!  I did this a couple months ago and it made my hair so silky and smooth... it was wonderful!  All you need is coconut oil and a shower cap.

When you hair is dry completely cover it from roots to tips with melted coconut oil.  Make sure you massage it in the scalp too.  Once your hair is all greased up put on a shower cap for an hour.

When you shower make sure to put shampoo in your hair before you get it wet... it is VERY IMPORTANT not to get it wet before you wash it because you will have a heck of a time getting all of the coconut oil out.  You will have no problem getting the coconut oil out of your hair if  you put shampoo on it before its wet.  I washed my hair like that once and followed up by washing it one more time to make sure it wasn't greasy. 

After that my hair was soooo smooth and it helped my split ends.  Try it and see how it works for you :)

Bug Bites?

Now is the season for bugs... Yay!  I just wanted to post a couple things you can do to relieve the itching and help heal them faster.

First- Put Tei Fu Essential Oil on the itchy bug bites.  This helps to quickly stop the itch!
Second- Put Silver Shield Gel on the bug bites to help them heal faster!

Both are available in the office or online through Nature Sunshine.  The Tei Fu Essential Oil stock number is (1618-7) and Silver Shield Gel stock number is (4950-1). 

Hope this helps against all those pesty bugs out there!

Homemade Noodles!! Only 4 Ingredients! Great for People on Candida Clear!

One of my patients on Monday gave me this great recipe for noodles.  It was a huge success!!  Many people miss pasta during the Candida Cleanse and those who battle candida in general.  I have to stay away from it because whenever I eat pasta I seem to bloat up and gain a few pounds... fun stuff.

There are only 4 ingredients in this pasta... which makes it so incredibly easy to make!  They are quinoa flour, water, olive oil and chia seeds (which can also be substituted for eggs but I used chia seeds since I had them).  I have had quinoa flour for a long time and used it only a few times.  I have never had much success with it because of the taste... seems pretty earthy... but with the pasta you don't notice it at all! I was so excited to have a recipe to use my quinoa flour!


Ingredients

2 cups of quinoa flour

2 tablespoons chia seeds with 6 tbsp hot water, soaked and stirred until a paste forms

2 teaspoons olive oil

1/2 cup warm water

Mix up ingredients until you get the dough.  I found it easier to mix with my hands.  It is a fairly dry dough so don't be alarmed. I put it in a gallon baggie and sealed it up for 20 minutes to let it set.  Online they said wrap it in plastic wrap for 20 minutes but the gallon baggie worked great.  Then I took it out and rolled on a cookie sheet and sliced up into thick noodles (the picture may not look pretty but they tasted great!).  I didn't have a pasta machine to make noodles so I sliced them myself.

Put them in boiling water for no more than 3 minutes.  Take out and drain water and enjoy!

Look at this blog (link below) for much prettier pictures and a better description.  It can also be made with an egg instead of the hot water and chia seeds but I just followed her recipe.  You can cut the noodles thin or thick or with a pasta slicer if you have it.  Possibly use these to make as lasagna too!

I also want to thank my patient who told me about this recipe!  I am sooo happy to share it with everyone :)

http://pinchofme.com/2013/01/23/quinoa-pasta/

 

Pic of noodles in the strainer

Heavy Metals... Where do we get them from?

At the office one of the things I test people for is heavy metals.  I typically do not go into detail about where people can get them from so here is a list to think about...

-Vaccines (even if they were many many years ago)
-Aluminum in deodorant (Look at a previous post for my deodorant... works amazing and cheap to make!)
-Metal fillings in teeth (This is a constant source of heavy metal exposure.  If you can't afford to get them taken out it would be a good idea to take a supplement each day that helps your body detoxify and get rid of it.  This prevents mercury in the fillings from depositing into organs or areas you don't want to.)
-Seafood
-Aluminum cans
-Cookware
-Antacids
-Air pollution
-Insecticides
-Paints
-Food preservatives
-Car exhaust
-Our water supply

That is just a short list... they are in many other things too!  This list is not intended to worry you or make you feel like you have to quickly change everything.  Instead just be aware and take small steps to eliminate as many as you can.  Any change no matter how small or large will help tremendously!

Bored of Water... Try this!

Here are a few tips to try and spice up your water!

-Chop up and soak a cucumber in a large container of water over night and enjoy in the morning!

-Add fresh lemon or lime with mint leaves

-Add fresh basil to your water

-Let frozen berries melt and add the run off juice and melted berries to your water

-Get a new bottle to drink out of... sometimes a new change is all your need!

-Add a tablespoon of liquid chlorophyll to you water... it tastes like mint! I LOVE it! Its AMAZING for you too! (It supports intestinal and circulatory health and tastes good! Available in office or online through Nature Sunshine)

-Add a drop or two of peppermint oil to your glass of water (Available through Nature Sunshine and probably Whole Foods or other health food stores)

My favs...
**Cucumber water
**Liquid chlorophyll (Pic below)
**Couple drops of peppermint oil (Pic below)

Trouble Loosing Weight? Try these 2 tips

A lot of people come into the practice and one of their top 5 concerns or issues typically has something to do with weight.  99% of the time a Candida issue has something to do with it as well as an underlying thyroid issue (our metabolic control center).  Once these things get taken care of people notice significant changes in their weight and energy levels as well as mental clarity.  I wanted to also give you 2 simple tips to try as well!

1) Drink a full glass of water immediately upon waking in the morning.  Set the glass of water on your nightstand and have it ready to drink right when you wake up.  This gets you hydrated right away in the morning and jump starts your metabolism. 

2) Stop eating after 6pm.  This gives your body more time to break down food instead of trying to process it during the middle of the night when your metabolism is the slowest.  If you set a time (even if it is not 6pm) and decide you are not going to eat later than that it will help keep you from wandering into the kitchen looking for snacks and mindless eating (which most people do not because they are hungry... but instead out of routine). 

Try these 2 EASY things and see how much it helps you!