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HEAL YOURSELF 101
by Markus Rothkranz
RAW CHOCOLATE
Chocolate comes from a coffee-like bean called "cacao" which is the same as cocoa.
Why they reworded it into that stupid new lettering is beyond me. Anyway, you can buy
the beans in their raw state, or as nibs- which is the bean without it's bitter paper-like
shell and broken into bits, or as powder. In it's natural state, it is bitter pure 100% dark
chocolate. Some die-hards eat it straight. Most take the nibs, grind it into powder at
home in coffee grinders, mix it with coconut oil, some kind of sweetener and a few other
ingredients and make their own chocolate. They simply mix the ingredients by hand,
put the pot in the freezer to make it hard, and an hour later break off pieces and eat it. I
have an awesome recipe on my website. Or maybe I'll put it later in this book if I
remember.
This chocolate is not bad for you. It has GOOD oils and fats. Commercial chocolate
has bad oils and fats (hydrogenated) so it can stay hard at room temperature and have
a long shelf life. The oils in raw chocolate melt at room temp (they are liquid in your
body and don't clog your arteries) and therefore need to be in the freezer to be hard
until you eat it. You can also take raw chocolate powder and put it into smoothies, and
other dishes to make raw chocolate ice cream, desert pies etc.
See? Raw food doesn't have to be boring. Some of this stuff is downright addictive.
THE SUPPLEMENT SECTION
If this was the 1800's, then maybe we wouldn't have to stop here. But all the produce
we buy in grocery stores nowadays (even organic) is grown in soil that is way depleted
of valuable nutrients. To get the same amount of iron from a bowl of spinach from 1950,
you would have to eat FIFTY bowls of spinach nowadays. Magnesium, without which
our body cannot absorb calcium is so low in today's soil it's almost not even there.
Without magnesium our hearts stop working. Without magnesium, our nervous systems
becomes frazzled stressed-out toast. There is no more iodine in the soil. Without it, our
thyroids stop working. In nature, we would eat a plant with soil organisms on it- that's
where we get B12. But store produce is washed clean of all that. So off to the
supplement section we go.
Three quarters of the products in the supplement section are useless. It's the same
useless dead chemical isolates repackaged under different company labels, but most of
it comes from the same places. I looked into it when Matt and I were formulating our
own herbal ideas and wanted to sell them. We found the bottling companies source
their ingredients from giant warehouses were ingredients are stored for years and
years. They are dirt cheap and useless. Almost all the pill bottles you see on the shelf
cost no more than 2 dollars each to make- that's the bottle, the capsules and the
ingredients. On the other hand- I wanted organic wildcrafted herbs in my formulas, and
that raised the cost by as much as TEN times. That should tell you how cheap all that
other stuff is. Don't be fooled by fancy labels or company names that make you think