Assimilation 101

[Roger B]

For us old people, assimilation is a very important issue. As our ability to assimilate nutrients goes down, so also does our health go down. And your ability to assimilate nutrients will go down as you age.

My wife and I make soups. If you took all of the ingredients in a homemade soup and ate and drank them, without making them as a soup, it wouldn't come close to the nutritive value of the soup itself. According to the chemical, shallow view of health, the ingredients should be exactly the same as the soup. But the making of the soup releases nutrients into the water, especially minerals, which are so lacking in our diets anyway. These nutrients in the water are highly absorbable, unlike the supplements that we buy.

Blending, even soups, increases the assimilation of nutrients.

Juicing increases the assimilation of nutrients.

All three of the above also make available more water, water that does NOT dilute one's stomach acid.

There is no guarantee that commercial soup makers make their soups properly as described above. And then there are all of the evil things that they add to increase taste and shelf life and etc. With a well-crafted home soup, taste and shelf life are not issues.

For busy people, slow-cookers are great. You can set your slow-cooker in the morning to low filled with veggies and a little blended up meat, for example, and when you come home at night, you have a really healthy and tasty dinner.

I do not use any grains as they increase the carb count along with the phytic acid and lectins. Veggies, blended and not blended, meat, blended and not blended, go into the slow cooker.

Salads are good, but soups also have their place because of the release of nutrients with the cooking.

Supplements that aid digestion are also advisable.

Thank you, class, for your patience. There will be a test. The test will be whether you can avoid going to a nursing home. (:->)

Sincerely,
Professor Roger Bird, RNE (renegade nutrition expert)

[Ellen Madono]

Hi Roger,
Nice information. This is basically traditional cooking. Food was of a high-quality, but it was not plentiful. So traditionally people made soups out of whatever they had. They didn't throw things away. If you cook in a traditional way from any place in the world, you make soups. Except except maybe the desert and snow-covered places with no fuel.

The modern aspect is you can take Raw foods and eat them raw but cut them up small so they'll be easier to assimilate. That's the juicing in the blending.
Ellen Madono

[Ellen Madono]

Roger, I opened your email because I thought you thank you talk about assimilation of us old folks in the homeopathic community.

Assimilation is important for a lot of people in poor health.

Best,
Ellen Madono

[Roger B]

One good thing about being an old person is that I can honestly say that I have had great success with homeopathy for 44 years. Younger people can't say that. (:->)

Do you know the difference between old and elderly? One word answers, only, please.

Roger
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: ellen.madono@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:35:28 +0900
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Assimilation 101
Roger, I opened your email because I thought you thank you talk about assimilation of us old folks in the homeopathic community.

Assimilation is important for a lot of people in poor health.

Best,
Ellen Madono

[Ellen Madono]

Dear Professor Roger,

I would think we should be talking about upping assimilation, that is reversing aging. Isn't that cell salts are supposed to do? I never got into them, so I can't attest to anything, but isn't there something that we can do as homeopaths besides increasing the amount of a nutrient that is plentiful in our food.

Best,
Ellen
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[Roger B]

I am also ignorant of cell salts and I don't like it much. So I will correct the situation and study cell salts. (:->)

Roger
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: ellen.madono@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:32:10 +0900
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Assimilation 101
Dear Professor Roger,

I would think we should be talking about upping assimilation, that is reversing aging. Isn't that cell salts are supposed to do? I never got into them, so I can't attest to anything, but isn't there something that we can do as homeopaths besides increasing the amount of a nutrient that is plentiful in our food.

Best,
Ellen
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