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7 FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH

1

Water

As we all know, your body consists of between 70-75% of water. Do yourself a favour and think about this for a while. Draw an imaginary line across your chest and imagine that everything below that line is water. That is about 75% of you! Every system in your body depends on water. You have water in your eyes, skin, joints, glands, brain, and in your blood that flows through out your body.

One of the biggest causes of headaches worldwide is dehydration. One of the biggest causes of constipation worldwide is dehydration. One of the biggest causes of fatigue worldwide is dehydration. Preventing dehydration is one of the most powerful ways to anti-age your skin. By changing this simple aspect of your lifestyle, can have major affect on your health.

The Essence of Life

How Much Water do We Need?
  • Your body needs between 2.5 – 3 liters of water for the average (70kg) adult on a daily basis. 2.5 liters on a cold winter’s day, 3 liters on a warm summer’s day.
  • Endurance athletes can increase this by at least 10% for every hour of exercise a day.
  • Young infants: 150ml/kg of body weight daily (Infants younger than 6 months should only drink breast milk or formula, not water).
  • In the world of health there is a saying: “you are what you eat”, this certainly applies to water as well. The quality of water that you put into your body is essential. We recommend using a simple ceramic filter that removes heavy metals and toxins from the water and keeps the water rich in minerals. Always choos alkaline water over acid whater, optimal PH for adult consumption is around 9.5
  • Filtration systems that acidify your water.
  • Filtration systems the remove the minerals in the water without replacing them.
  • Drinking water from a plastic or aluminium water bottle.

What about Coffee and Tea?

  • Ceylon tea (i.e. regular English breakfast teas) – If you are a coffee or tea drinker, have no more than 1 cup daily.
  • Although coffee and Ceylon tea in the right quality and quantity can have advantages like weight loss for example, they can also dehydrate your body.
  • Drinks like coffee, normal tea, green tea contain caffeine which may dehydrate the body.
  • Drinks like alcohol, fizzy drinks, carbonated water, coffee and Ceylon tea do not function like water, can create acidity in the body and should not be counted as water.
2

Omega 3, 6 & 9 Oils

One of the first things that a gynecologist will give to a pregnant woman is an Omega 3, 6, 9 oil supplement. The foetus needs it to grow. These oils are in the skin, eyes, joints, brain, nerves, glands, the membrane of every cell and they lubricate the body. It is essential not to stop after the baby is born. Their joints need to grow; the brain and eyes need to double in size. Adults need it to sustain the function of their moving joints, to lubricate their colon and to keep their brain functioning optimally. These oils are potent anti-aging and moisturising agents.

Body's Lubricating Energy Source

What do We Need?

We at Optimum Care recommend:

  • 3 OmegaCare capsules to be taken at night for adults and 1 capsule for persons under the age of 15 years.
    (click here to buy our OmegaCare)
  • 2 tablespoons of cold-pressed seed oils daily for persons older than 15 years and 2 teaspoons daily for persons younger than 15 years.

The body gets enough Omega 6 and 9 oils from the diet, so we recommend an oil high omega 3 and low in omega 6 and 9.

  • Supplement 3 capsules before bedtime
  • Feel free to cut the capsule open and squeeze the oil into your smoothies
  • Feel free to cut the capsule open and squeeze it in your baby’s formula
  • Mix it into or over your meals
  • If liquid, drink it neat
  • It makes a great salad dressing mixed with lemon, salt and pepper
  • Do Not Cook with it
3

The pH of the Body

The pH of the body should be between 6.8 and 7.2 roughly, this will assist your body to sustain chemical balance. It is very easy to understand using a swimming pool as an example: The swimming pool is clear all year round if it is at the right pH balance. If the pH moves out of this delicate balance it will turn green over night. This is because the pH of the swimming pool now supports the growth of bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungus. Your body reacts the same, too much acid in your mucus membranes and you will wake up with green or yellow mucus in your nose and a head cold. Too much acid build-up in your big toe will give you gout, in your fingers, arthritis and in your stomach, heart burn or a stomach ulcer. Cancer grows in an acidic body and not in an alkaline body.

The Source of Balance

It is more important to understand how to sustain the right pH than to know what your pH is at any given moment, so before spending lots of money on testing the pH of your blood, urine, saliva and other body fluids, rather learn how to maintain the right pH balance.

By drinking fresh cold pressed vegetable juices, you will alkalinise the pH of your body. Always eat 80% “alive” or alkaline forming food i.e. raw fresh vegetables and fruit and not more than 20% “dead” or acid forming food i.e. protein and carbohydrates.

How To Prepare Foods

How Prepare Food

Alkaline Ways:

  • Raw foods, salads, steaming of vegetables for 5-15 minutes (in a vegetable steamer not in a microwave)
  • Cold-pressed juicing (click here to buy our cold-pressed juicers)

Acid Forming Ways:

  • Microwave, fry, boil, roasting, processing, centrifugal juicing (heating up the veggies in the juice by using the wrong machine.)

Examples of Alkaline Forming Foods:

    • Apples
    • Papaya
    • Avo
    • Broccolli
    • Almonds
    • Beets
    • Legumes
    • Quinoa
    • Lentiles
    • Mushrooms
    • Spinach
    • Herbs
    • Seeds
    • Beans
    • Ginger

Examples of Acid Forming Foods:

  • Alcohol
  • Eggs
  • Certain Dairy
  • Grains
  • Some Fruits
  • Vinegar
  • Carbonated Soft Drinks
  • Processed Foods
  • Caffeine
  • Sugar
  • Protein Powders
4

Supplements

Your body uses vitamins, minerals and antioxidants as fuel for energy. Your body also uses them as ammunition to fight off viruses, bacteria and fungal infections. It forms the base line of your immune system. Vitamin supplementation should be done daily. Every day that you supplement, you anti-age and every day that you don’t supplement your body gets weaker.

Vitamins, Minerals & Antioxidants

Using Tablets
  • One of the biggest dilemmas patients are faced with is walking into a health shop with rows of supplements and not knowing what will and won’t work. We at Optimum Care recommend whole food vitamins. It is what your body was designed for. It is in a format that your body knows, understands and absorbs optimally. In the MultiCare vitamin and mineral supplement that we recommend (click here to buy), you will find: concentrated forms of natural beetroot powder, carrot powder, barley powders, grape seed extract and resveratrol to name a few. These form the building blocks of your body. MultiCare is conveniently packaged in sachets which make it easy to travel with, to put in a lunch box or to put in your pocket on the way to work.
  • Many vitamins are purely chemical, containing colourants, flavourants, fillers, sweeteners; some even contain aspartame, which has been linked to the development of certain cancers. We recommend that you avoid these. We do not recommend any effervescent vitamins as these have a negative effect on the acid alkaline balance of the body.

In our opinion, one of the most beneficial investments you can make for your health is a good quality cold pressed juicer (click here to buy). These machines keep your juiced vegetables alkaline. In our opinion, it is absolutely the most optimal way to supplement your body. Everything is raw and alive and easy to absorb. Drink the juices straight after making them while the enzymes are alive and alkaline forming. Although there are many juicing recipes, our most used recipe for optimal health and immune support is:

  • Carrot: excellent for your eyes
  • Beet: acts as a laxative
  • Spinach: high in iron and folate
  • Celery: joint and kidney detox
  • Wheat grass: Super food, one tot glass of wheat grass has the nutritional content of a kg of spinach
  • Radish: natural antibiotic
  • Ginger: natural antiviral
  • And Apple: electrolytes and taste
5

Sunlight

15 minutes of sunlight a day forms a vital step towards health and wellness.

Life's Energy

The Benefits of Sunlight
  • Better sleep
  • Vitamin D production
  • Lowers blood pressure
  • Promotes stronger bones
  • Improves mood
  • Improves mental state
  • Reduces stress & depression
  • Enhances cognitive functions
  • Natural Anti-inflammatory and immune regulating vitamin
  • Sunlight kills bacteria
6

Sleep, Rest & Relaxation

Rest and repair time is vitally important to the long term health of your musculoskeletal system, nervous system, hormonal system, digestive system and your skin. We recommend 7-8 hours of sleep per night for adults, and 10-12 hours sleep per night for children under 12.

Tranquility Changes Habits

The Benefits of Sleep, Rest & Relaxation
  • Reduces stress
  • Improves mood
  • Improves overall focus
  • Increases creativity
  • Repairs your body
  • Restores energy
  • Improves your immune system
  • Improves metabolism
  • Relieves chronic pain
  • Strengthens your cardiovascular system
7

Food Sensitivity

Phone us on 0129918701 (Pretoria) or 0114636667 (Joburg) to book your food sensitivity BEST TEST and know which food works best for your body.

Vitamins, Minerals & Antioxidants

In our more than 3 decades of joint practice experience between the Optimum Care doctors we have helped hundreds of children suffering from asthma, eczema and other allergy-related diseases purely by identifying which food to avoid in their diet. Similarly with adults, by identifying the right and wrong foods for their bodies, we have assisted to cure conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome to name a few. Fuelling the body  with the wrong foods will cause inflammation, irritation and pain. These foods are not recognised by the body, neither are they digested, absorbed or eliminated optimally. They can remain in our body for 6-8 weeks after consumption, causing discomfort and disease.

Bio-Energetic Stress Testing System (BEST TEST)

Our Optimum Care doctors use the BEST system to test for various food allergies and we recommend patients young and old to have themselves tested to understand how to fuel their bodies correctly. 

Bio-Energetic Stress Testing System, more commonly referred to as the BEST Test, is a device that we use in our Optimum Care practices to accurately test food sensitivities and the functioning of organs and tissues of the body. We have had great success using the BEST Test and we’ve helped hundreds of patients due to its preciseness and effectiveness.

The BEST Test is a biofeedback device that uses nerve endings and acupressure points in a patient’s hands and feet. It is non-invasive and it is painless.

This system is used to test the entire body, notably:

  • the lymph drainage points that represent the immune glands and lymphatic system around the head and neck in cases of the common colds, flu and sinusitis;
  • the reproductive system and hormons
  • the adrenal, thyroid and pituitary glands also referred as the endocrine system
  • we also test the condition of organs such as liver, colon and kidneys.

We also use the machine to test for individual intolerances, sensitivities and allergy reactions to food and environmental substances. We can then use this information to customise an eating plan that includes nutritional choices and supplements best suited to each individual patient.

The BEST Test is an incredible tool that tests and treats the body as a whole system. It finds the areas of the body that are out of balance, and then enables us to bring the whole body back into balance.

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