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🔥 The Inflammation Terrain - PART 5: COOLING INFLAMMATION WITH RHYTHM, NOT RESTRICTION
You have learned what fuels inflammation: seed oils, processed foods, a leaky gut, foods your terrain cannot handle. You have also learned that anti‑inflammatory foods can backfire when your terrain is not ready. But removing inflammatory triggers is only half the work. The other half is creating the conditions that allow your body to cool the fire on its own. Those conditions are not found in a supplement or a superfood. They are found in rhythm. Your body operates on predictable daily cycles. When those cycles are intact, inflammation naturally settles. When they are broken, inflammation smolders. Why Rhythm Matters More Than Restriction: You can eat the perfect anti‑inflammatory diet. You can avoid every trigger food. But if your daily rhythm is chaotic, your inflammation will persist. Why? Because your immune system, your liver, your gut, and your stress hormones all follow circadian rhythms. When you eat at random times, sleep irregular hours, and live without predictability, your body stays on alert. The alarm never turns off. Rhythm signals safety. Restriction signals deprivation. Safety cools inflammation. Deprivation adds stress, which fuels inflammation. There is a time and place for fasting, but your body should be stable! The Rhythms That Cool Inflammation: 1. Eat at Consistent Times Every Day if Your Body is Struggling - Your digestive system and liver expect food at predictable intervals. When you eat at the same times each day, your body prepares for digestion. It releases the right enzymes at the right times. It does not panic. When you eat randomly, your body is constantly surprised. It stays in a state of low‑grade alert. That alert is inflammation. What this looks like: Breakfast within one hour of waking. Lunch at the same time each day. Dinner by 7 PM. No grazing. No random snacking. 2. Finish Eating Three Hours Before Bed - Your liver does its deepest repair work at night. Between 10 PM and 2 AM, it processes toxins, clears inflammatory compounds, and resets your immune system. If you are still digesting food, your liver cannot do this work. Late eating is one of the most powerful drivers of chronic inflammation. It keeps the fire burning while you should be asleep. What this looks like: Finish dinner by 7 PM. No food after. Only water or non‑caffeinated tea.
1 like • 28d
Great info Mechelle, thank you!
Cleaner Kids' Snacks
What can you do when you're stuck in the car with a toddler screaming "I'm hungry!" ?? Any parent knows how important it is to have snacks at the ready. But with all the options out there, how do you find good snacks? Clean meat sticks like Archer or Chomps are great as the protein will tie them over longer! However, for those "better" swaps, I've also included some sweeter fruit based snacks as well. What would you add to this list?? Pure Organic Fruit Bars (Walmart) Fruit Crisps (walmart) Solely Mango Gummies (Target) Bear Fruit Strips (Target, HEB) Archer Mini Beef Sticks (Walmart, Costco, Target, HEB) Simple Mills Peanut Butter Cookies (Kroger, HEB) Perfect Mini Protein Bars, contains some dairy, (Target) Larabar Fruit and Nut Bars (Walmart, Kroger, HEB, Target) Simple Mills Cheddar Puffs (Target, HEB, Walmart)
Cleaner Kids' Snacks
The most confusing thing in the natural, functional medicine field...
You think you’re opting out of a corrupt food system… You ditched the processed garbage, you started reading labels, you found brands you trust…​​ But you may have been unknowingly funding Big Food this whole time. Big food corps are quietly buying up health brands you trust... and I mean quietly! Here's what's happened in recent years: - Nestlé acquired Atrium Innovations for $2.3 billion in 2017, handing them control of Garden of Life, Pure Encapsulations, and Douglas Labs in one transaction.​ - Then in 2020, they acquired a majority stake in Vital Proteins - America's leading collagen brand - completing the full buyout in 2022​ - And in 2021, Nestlé paid $5.75 billion for The Bountiful Company, which owns Nature's Bounty, Solgar, Puritan's Pride and Osteo Bi-Flex. So Nestlé - the company that sells poison like Cheerios - now controls some of the most trusted names in the supplement industry. That’s the irony of all this… The most health-conscious people in the world are some of Big Food's most loyal customers. It doesn't stop there either... Clorox - the BLEACH company - owns Natural Vitality CALM, Rainbow Light, Renew Life and Neocell. Kellogg's paid $600 million for RXBar in 2017. Kraft Heinz acquired Primal Kitchen in 2019. The list goes on! Because here's what these corporations DON’T advertise... Once acquired, they typically aim to reduce operating costs, streamline production, and cut expenses - changes that can compromise ingredient sourcing and quality control. For instance, the founders of New Chapter attempted to maintain the brand's integrity after being acquired by P&G, but had to eventually cut ties, explicitly because P&G was too profit-driven for their original vision. After Nestlé acquired Garden of Life, consumer reviews started flagging real changes. People who had bottles pre-buyout reported later versions contained less of each micronutrient and less of the raw food and probiotic blend… They also added stevia to protein powder lines - no opt-out, no announcement.
3 likes • Apr 29
@Myrnalyn C There's a website called "You Snuck" that monitors this. To catch what ingredients brands "snuck" in. I'll link it here: https://www.yousnuck.com/, but I am unsure as far as something that simply lists updated trusted brands. Will let you know if I find something! :)
Recipes
Wondering what to cook for dinner? In our classroom we have a section with recipes for you to try! Let us know what you think! Do you have some go-to recipes? Comment some of your favorites below :)
Recipes
2 likes • Mar 5
@Jana Starr Loved chatting about this today, now I'm definitely going to give it a try!! :)
Thank you & Information Overload
Thank you Dr Serg and MBS team for your passion and conviction to see many lives changed through healthy suppliments and natural body detox. I am praying for you & team - especially as we as a society face information overload. All the time, we have to listen to Holy Spirit, learn His ways of speaking to each of us individually and hear His specific R/X for our particular needs. Word & Worship (Information Detox) can be great Keys- as it is so easy to have information overload in an AI world. May He grant you great wisdom like Solomon. 1 Corinthians 10:23 (& 1 Corinthians 6:12) : "Everything is permissible"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"—but not everything builds up.
1 like • Mar 4
Welcome David!
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Gretchen Accola
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