This is a wonderful opportunity for you to learn more about the details of achieving and maintaining an alkaline body pH.

Digestive disease expert, Jini Patel Thompson interviews pH body balance expert, Maraline Krey, for things we can easily and simply add to our daily lives to improve our pH body balance.

Maraline Says: “If you can shift your perspective of food and water from simply being fuel and hydration, and develop your understanding of “you are what you eat” meaning “maintenance and healing comes from what we ingest”, you will begin to understand why we, as a world, have become too acidic.

Fortunately we can control our own environments, the key is to know what is most important, how to convert acid into acid busters, and simply make “Small Changes That Make The Biggest Differences” – that you like better, taste better, and are better for you. You can balance using shortcut products, shortcut tips, knowing about alkaline/acid foods and drink. How quickly you become balanced depends on either your discipline or your budget – or a combination of both. This process can be the most fun you’ve ever had, nothing tastes as good as good health feels, and we have ways you can trick your brain into thinking one thing, but getting something healthy instead – honest!”

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A while back I posted about Jay “CrohnsBoy” Baluk’s success using my Probiotic Retention Enema.

Well, since then, both Jay and I have had a LOT of requests from people who don’t want to get my comprehensive Listen To Your Gut program, they just want Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema and Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol instructions.

Many of them are currently on the SC Diet and don’t really want to change anything other than their gut flora. So whilst I feel that healing digestive disorders needs to be wholistic, I also feel that each of us needs to be in charge of our Healing Journey.

So, In that spirit, I am making these two key protocols available on their own, without having to buy the complete program.

So, just click here and I’ll send you both Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema and Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol, in E-book format, for only $14.95

For those of you who haven’t heard about these protocols before, here’s what each of them does:

Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol

This protocol is based on Inflammatory Bowel Disease being an infectious disease (or having an infectious component). Think of how often gastroenterologists prescribe antibiotics like Cipro and Flagyl/Metronidazole – sound familiar?

There are two ways to eliminate infectious microorganisms: Antimicrobial drugs or substances, or high doses of probiotics. Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol is unique in that it combines the two methods, using 100% natural substances, for maximum effectiveness in both eradicating infectious microorganisms, maintaining a healthy bacterial flora during antimicrobial supplementation, and maintaining a healthy gut environment ongoing, for continued long-term health.

This 3-Phase protocol is designed to eliminate infectious microorganisms (like mycobacterium, fungi, bacteria, yeast, viruses, parasites, etc.), provide a moderate level of detoxification, and restore beneficial gut flora. By healing the infection we also heal inflammation. Other supplements referred to in my Listen To Your Gut book (such as MucosaHeal, George’s ‘Always Active’ Aloe Vera Juice, L-Glutamine, etc.) are then used to heal ulceration, bleeding, and repair the intestinal wall and mucosal lining.

Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema

This retention enema, which delivers very high dose probiotics directly to your colon (and lower part of your ileum) can provide dramatic healing results. As the name suggests, this is not a cleansing or flushing enema, but rather it is an implant or retention enema – where the goal is to hold the mixture in your colon until the liquid is completely absorbed.

Many people use Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema during severe inflammation and bleeding for quick healing, whilst others prefer to wait until things have calmed down a bit and they’re tolerating the probiotics well orally first. You really have to just follow your own body wisdom (intuition) on when would be best for you. Even people who have not seen great results from oral probiotic supplementation (it takes longer and can be more difficult to colonize via oral supplementation) see significant symptom clearing following this retention enema.

Enjoy!
Jini

Just a reminder that now that it’s wintertime, you really do want to make sure you and your family are taking daily vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) and Cod Liver Oil.

As Adrian Gombart PhD, Oregon State University, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics writes:

“Vitamin D prevents the “adaptive” immune response from over-reacting and reduces inflammation, and appears to suppress the immune response. However, the function of the new genetic element this research explored allows vitamin D to boost the innate immune response by turning on an antimicrobial protein. The overall effect may help to prevent the immune system from overreacting.”

Cod Liver Oil contains the elongated omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA. EPA is the precursor of important prostaglandins – localized tissue hormones that help the body deal with inflammation; and DHA is extremely important for the development and function of the brain and nervous system. Cod liver oil is also a good source of vitamin K – which is important in maintaining blood and bone health.

Since cod liver oil naturally contains vitamin D, it is my belief that it is best to take vitamin D TOGETHER with cod liver oil to improve absorption and utilization in the body – and of course, both must be in the proper form, with healthy extraction and filtration methods used.

Here’s the brand of natural-source vitamin D3 I recommend, in an oil base (vitamin D needs to be taken with oil to be absorbed and the natural D3 form – also known as cholecalciferol – is the only one you want to use for maximum effectiveness).

And here’s the cod liver oil I recommend – from pristine waters off Norway, all contaminants filtered out using natural filtration (no heat or chemicals), and with measures in place to prevent overfishing. These gelcaps are a delicious lemon flavor, so the kids and I just put them in our mouth along with the vitamin D gelcaps, chew it all together (it actually tastes nice!) and then spit out the empty gel casings – except for my youngest, who thinks they’re like gummy bears and just swallows them. We take them first thing in the morning, with breakfast, and then we’re good for the day.

There are varying recommendations for how much vitamin D you should take and some suggest getting your vitamin D levels tested using the 25 (OH)D test – since dosage varies according to weight, age and skin color – the darker your skin, the more vitamin D you need, children need less than adults, overweight people need more, and people in disease states (especially IBD) need more.

To give you a rough guideline, here’s what my family takes:

Medium-Brown Skin Adult Female (me):  6,000 IU vitamin D per day and 4-6 capsules cod liver oil

White Adult Male: 4,000 IU vitamin D per day and 4 capsules cod liver oil

My kids (1/4 Indian, 3/4 white, aged 3 – 6): 2,000 IU per day, and 2 capsules cod liver oil

For my friends (mostly white females) with no serious health issues, I usually suggest they take at least 3,000 IU per day for maintenance.

For people with IBD/IBS with white skin I would recommend 4,000 – 6,000 IU vitamin D per day and 6 capsules cod liver oil.

And please note that we live in the Pacific Northwest – a very rainy climate with very little sun during the winter. If you are in a warmer place and can get out with your skin exposed to the sun for even 20 minutes per day, you will need less vitamin D in supplement form, since you can get it from the sun.

If you want to find out exactly how much vitamin D you need, this article by David Rostollan BSc is very clear and simple, yet addresses every point you need to consider.

I’ll be putting up a video soon about my complete Winter Immune System Protocol, so will post here when it’s available. But in the meantime, you can get going on these two most crucial components.

Soar Higher,
Jini

After a very lengthy process of weighing up the pros and cons of getting a vasectomy – which principally boiled down to potential immune consequences vs. strength of desire not to have another baby – my husband Ian decided to go ahead and have a vasectomy.

I said “Ian decided” because whilst I helped with research and discussion, there’s no way I would ever tell anyone to have surgery. I made it clear that I would be 100% supportive of whatever he decided.

His main deciding factors were that our last two children had been conceived whilst using birth control. When I got pregnant with Hugo (our last) both the doctor and the midwife said, “I don’t know how you got pregnant!” I said, “We don’t know either, we’re calling it the Immaculate Conception.”

So, Ian weighed up our incredibly high fertility against his extremely strong, robust body and immune system – he’s never had anything more than an occasional flu bug his entire adult life – and decided that for him the mental/emotional benefits of a vasectomy outweighed the physical risk. And he went ahead and had a vasectomy

Needless to say, I took one look at the traditional medical post-vasectomy care procedure (drug painkillers and antibiotics) and devised him a holistic one. When he went in for his first post-vasectomy checkup, the doctor (who has two clinics and ALL they do is vasectomies) was astounded. Ian had no pain at any time and the doc said he didn’t even look like he’d had a vasectomy. He asked Ian what he did and when Ian told him, the doctor requested a copy of my protocol to hand out to his patients, to give them the option of medical vs. holistic post-vasectomy care.

So, in case you are considering a vasectomy, here is that exact same protocol:

1.  Rest & Ice

Immediately following vasectomy, lie down on the couch or bed for the entire rest of the day with an ice pack (or ziplock bag filled with ice cubes) on top of the incision site. You can have your penis up or down, whichever is more comfortable.

Before placing the ice pack, remove about half of the gauze and place it in a clean plastic, ziplock bag, for later use. Otherwise the gauze pad is too thick and the cold cannot penetrate the tissues adequately.

Your body and psyche have undergone a significant event. So you need to just lie back on the sofa (read, watch tv, nap) and just rest like a king for the remainder of the day. Even eat your meals reclining on the sofa so there is no compression or downward pull of gravity on your genitals.

2.  Arnica

Take a homeopathic remedy called:  Arnica Montana 30CH

Take 5 pellets under the tongue, every three hours for the first day.

Then take 5 pellets, 3 times per day for the next two days.

Do not touch the pellets with your fingers, just tip them from the cap directly into your mouth.

Do not eat/drink anything really aromatic like coffee, mint, eucalyptus, wild oregano oil, etc. for 20 minutes before or after the dose, as this interferes with the remedy.

Also apply Arnica cream or gel (the cream is recommended, as the gel tends to make the pubic hairs sticky) directly to the scrotum. Don’t rub in, just apply with light strokes twice per day for 4 days. Don’t skip this step as the effect is really remarkable.

Arnica is used for any bruising, sprains, strains, post-childbirth, sports injuries, etc.

3.  Wild Oregano Oil

If you’re concerned about infection, or just want to take something as a preventative, then wild oregano oil is the strongest herb you can take. It is also an anti-inflammatory. I offer a free report on wild oregano oil on my HERBS page (scroll down) if you want more information.

Get either Joy Of The Mountains brand, or, North American Herb & Spice brand in the 1 ounce liquid dropper bottle.

Shake well and take 5 drops orally (shoot to back of mouth and then follow with lots of water), 3x/day for one week. Best if taken on an empty stomach, but not necessary. If you use for longer than two weeks, then you must follow with probiotics. See my video on YouTube for the easiest way to take wild oregano oil.

If it looks like infection is developing, then also apply diluted wild oregano directly to the scrotum. Dilute 8:1 with organic olive oil (8 drops olive oil to 1 drop wild oregano oil) shake well and apply topically 4 times per day.

Wild Oregano Oil is antiviral, antibiotic, antiyeast and antifungal. It is also anti-inflammatory. However, it has a very “hot” sensation when touching any mucous membrane (that lasts about 2.5 minutes), hence the video provides a way to ingest it with no discomfort. Diluting it with olive oil makes it comfortable for applying directly to genitalia.

Note: My husband followed steps one and two, but as his immune system is very strong, he only took 5 drops of wild oregano, 3x/day on the first day only. He experienced no swelling whatsoever and no pain.

4.  White Willow Bark

It is likely that just from following steps one and two above, you will not experience any pain. But if you do, then use white willow bark instead of drug painkillers.

Aspirin was actually derived from white willow bark, which has traditionally been used by First Nations people (brewed into a tea) as an effective analgesic. Take two capsules for any pain. Up to 4 times per day. Best if taken with some food.

NOTE: The herbs listed in this protocol should be available at any good quality, natural health store.