Nature's Secret Therapies

22/11/2025

And there may lie the answer to my issue, and a preferred choice to regularly upgrading the prescription lenses in my glasses at $1000 a time.

Thank you William Wallace

A "simple" guide to vitamin A

Vitamin A is essential for vision, immunity, skin, and growth. Your body can get it directly from animal foods, or make it from plant pigments like β-carotene. Here’s how it works:

1️⃣ Where It Comes From

Vitamin A (retinol, retinyl esters): in milk, butter, liver, kidneys, eggs, cod liver oil.

β-carotene (pro-vitamin A): in carrots, sweet potatoes, leafy greens, apricots, tomatoes.

🟢 Example: Carrots don’t have vitamin A directly — your body converts their orange pigment (β-carotene) into vitamin A.

2️⃣ Absorption

Vitamin A and β-carotene are fat-soluble, so they need bile and pancreatic enzymes to be absorbed in the intestine.

🟢 Example: Eating carrots with olive oil boosts absorption of β-carotene.

3️⃣ Conversion and Storage

Inside intestinal cells, vitamin A is esterified and sent to the liver.

β-carotene is split and converted into vitamin A (a process supported by thyroid hormones).

The liver stores vitamin A and releases it into the blood as needed.

🟢 Example: The liver is like your vitamin A “bank account,” saving it for when intake is low.

4️⃣ What It Does

Vitamin A supports vision (especially night vision), skin integrity, growth, and immune function.

5️⃣ What Happens if You’re Deficient

Night blindness (trouble seeing in low light).
Xerophthalmia (dry, damaged eyes, Bitot’s spots).

Growth impairment.

Hyperkeratosis (rough, scaly skin).

🟢 Example: Night blindness was one of the earliest signs of vitamin A deficiency discovered in history.

You get vitamin A directly from animal foods or indirectly from plants as β-carotene. It’s absorbed with fat, stored in the liver, and essential for healthy vision, growth, skin, and immunity. Deficiency can cause serious eye problems and impaired growth.

22/11/2025

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For those wanting answers & looking to heal after agreeing or feeling cohursed into have it. I will always look for answers so you may be the healthiest version of yourselves ❤️‍🩹

21/11/2025

20/11/2025

Your body is running dozens of supply chains at once… and you never notice.

Some nutrients get stored for the long haul.
Some get used immediately.
Some get locked away in specific tissues so they’re ready the moment you need them.

And all of it happens silently, every hour of every day

This chart shows:
• Water-soluble vitamins that rarely stay in one place
• Fat-soluble vitamins that tuck themselves into liver and fat stores
• Major minerals that keep cells functioning
• Trace minerals that your body guards with surprising precision

If you’ve ever wondered why some deficiencies show up fast, while others take months or years to appear, this is why. Different nutrients follow completely different storage rules.

Here are a few details hidden in the diagram:

🔹 Vitamin B12 is stored mostly in your liver, enough to last years, which is why deficiency creeps up slowly.
🔹 Vitamin C, B1, and B2 don’t store well at all, your body uses them immediately, so daily intake matters.
🔹 Vitamin D and Vitamin A hide in fat and liver tissue, creating long-term reserves your body draws from seasonally.
🔹 Iron, zinc, copper, and selenium are tucked into bone marrow, organs, enzymes, and immune cells, ready for rapid deployment.
🔹 Electrolytes like potassium, sodium, chloride, and magnesium sit in fluids inside and outside cells, controlling everything from heartbeat to muscle contraction.
🔹 Iodine concentrates in the thyroid, because regulating metabolism can’t wait.

Most people never see how all these storage pathways interconnect, but once you do, nutrition stops being random, it becomes strategic.

If you want a single picture that explains why diet, absorption, stress, illness, and supplementation affect people so differently… this is it.

Source: unknown. if you know it, please let me know

20/11/2025

This is the REAL reason you feel tired… or energetic… or mentally sharp… or completely drained.

Every second of your life, your cells are doing one thing above all else:
➡️ Turning the food you eat into energy (ATP).

This diagram explains the whole process in a way anyone can understand.

Your body isn’t powered by calories (at least in that form), it’s powered by ATP, the molecule your cells burn for everything: thinking, lifting, healing, digestion, immunity, even staying alive.

Here’s what this chart makes clear:

🔵 Step 1: Glycolysis (Quick Energy)

Happens in the cytoplasm.
Breaks down glucose fast.
Creates a little ATP.
This is why carbs hit quickly: rapid fuel access.

🟢 Step 2: Krebs Cycle (Clean Energy)

Happens in the mitochondria.
Breaks down the leftovers from glycolysis.
Releases CO₂ and loads up the electron carriers.
This sets the stage for the real payoff.

🟣 Step 3: Electron Transport Chain (Big Energy)

THIS is where the magic happens.
This step makes about 90% of your ATP.
This is why mitochondrial health = actual energy.

So what’s the practical takeaway?

Your body isn’t just “tired," your cellular engines are underperforming.

Want more natural energy?

🔥 Move your body → activity stimulates mitochondrial biogenesis
🔥 Eat enough protein & micronutrients → they’re required to run these pathways
🔥 Get sunlight → supports mitochondrial signaling
🔥 Prioritize sleep → mitochondria repair while you rest
🔥 Control stress → chronic cortisol suppresses mitochondrial output
🔥 Breathe deeply → oxygen literally feeds the final step of energy production
🔥 Avoid ultra-processed foods → they disrupt the pathways shown in the graphic

When people say “boost your energy,” THIS is what they’re talking about, improving the most fundamental process your cells use to stay alive.

The more your mitochondria thrive, the better YOU feel: mentally, physically, emotionally.

Energy isn’t motivation.
It’s cellular metabolism.
And you can support it every single day.

20/11/2025

Proteins aren’t just something you eat; they’re the actual machinery that keeps you alive.

Once you see how many layers of structure a protein has to go through just to work, it makes sense why biology is as precise (and fragile) as it is.

At the top, you’ve got the basics: long chains of amino acids that start folding the moment they’re made. But it’s the details that matter:

α-helices: Tight spirals held together by hydrogen bonds. One wrong amino acid, and the whole helix can fall apart.

β-sheets: Flat, layered structures that can be incredibly strong, or incredibly dangerous if they misfold (prions are the best example).

Loops and turns: These short segments look unimportant, but they often decide what a protein can actually bind to.

Domains: Bigger “modules” inside proteins. Each one has a job.Binding DNA, grabbing metals, recognizing signals, folding other proteins.

Motifs: Repeated little patterns (like zinc fingers or beta hairpins) that show up everywhere in nature because they just work.

And then there’s the tertiary structure, the full 3-D fold. This is where hydrophobic pockets, ionic bonds, hydrogen bonds, and disulfide bridges lock everything into place. If any of these forces weaken, the protein stops doing its job.

And here is why it matters

A single amino acid change can break a protein.
Heat can unravel one.

Mutations can twist one into a shape that does the wrong thing.
And nearly every disease you can name involves proteins misfolding, malfunctioning, or being produced at the wrong time.

When you zoom out, proteins really are the “architecture” of biology: part structure, part machinery, part communication system.

20/11/2025

Creatine made simple: how your body builds and uses its energy buffer

Creatine is a molecule your body makes naturally to keep energy flowing smoothly, especially in muscles and the brain. Here’s how the system works:

1️⃣ Where It Begins

Creatine starts in your kidneys, where the amino acids arginine and glycine combine to form guanidinoacetate (GAA).
🟢 Example: This first step is like assembling the base structure of a battery.

2️⃣ The Liver Finishes the Job

Guanidinoacetate travels to the liver, where it’s methylated by S-adenosyl-methionine (SAM), a reaction that converts it into creatine.
🟢 Example: The liver adds the “charge” that activates creatine for energy storage.

3️⃣ Creatine Travels to Muscles
Once made, creatine moves through the bloodstream to muscles, the heart, and brain, where it acts as an energy reserve.
🟢 Example: About 95% of your creatine is stored in muscle tissue, ready to recharge your cells when energy runs low.

4️⃣ The Energy Exchange System

Inside muscle cells, creatine and ATP (your cell’s energy currency) are in constant exchange:
When energy is plentiful, ATP donates a phosphate to form phosphocreatine (stored energy).

During activity, phosphocreatine donates that phosphate back to ADP, quickly regenerating ATP.
🟢 Example: This is your body’s “instant energy buffer” during sprinting or lifting.

5️⃣ Creatine Recycling and Excretion

After use, some creatine converts into creatinine, a natural byproduct filtered out by the kidneys.
🟢 Example: This is why creatinine levels are used in blood tests to check kidney function.

6️⃣ Why It Matters
Creatine supports:

Rapid ATP regeneration in muscle and brain.

Cellular hydration and stability.
Methylation balance, since it uses SAM in its synthesis.
🟢 Example: Supplementing creatine doesn’t just enhance performance, it supports cellular metabolism and brain health too.

Creatine acts as the body’s built-in energy recycling system. Made in the kidneys and liver, stored in muscle, and constantly recharging ATP, it’s one of the most efficient energy buffers biology ever designed.

19/11/2025

Chronic Prostatitis (CP) can be debilitating, causing pain during urination, difficulty urinating, and pelvic pain. Researchers used multi-omics to evaluate the effects of lavender EO on CP. What they discovered was that the EO doesn’t just mask the issue—it goes straight to the source. The EO essentially hits the OFF switch on the master inflammatory cascade: the PI3K/AKT/NF-κB pathway. Linalool and linalyl acetate were identified as the active constituents, primarily responsible for this activity due to their binding affinity to key inflammatory proteins that leads to dramatic reductions in swelling and enhanced healing of damaged tissue. These findings suggest that lavender EO is a promising natural solution to manage CP.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41108926/

19/11/2025

If school biology had been explained like THIS, half of us would’ve become scientists.

This single page somehow summarizes EVERYTHING your body does, how life evolves, how ecosystems survive, how immunity works, how reproduction happens, and even how microbes shape your health. All in one insanely clear cheat sheet.

If you’ve ever wondered why biology felt overly confusing, this chart suggests it wasn’t you…
it was the way it was taught.

Look at how much you can learn in 30 seconds:

🧬 Cells:
Why bacteria are simple, why your cells are complex, and why mitochondria are your power plants.

🧬 Genetics:
DNA → RNA → Protein.
The one flow that builds every hair, muscle, hormone, and trait you have.

🧬 Cellular Processes:
How your body repairs itself, moves nutrients, breathes oxygen, and makes energy.

🌍 Ecology:
How organisms → populations → ecosystems → biomes all fit together.
AKA: why a bee disappearing can affect your grocery bill.

🦠 Microbiology:
The difference between germs that hurt us and gut bacteria that protect us.

🛡 Immunity:
How your body launches a full military defense the moment a pathogen touches your skin.

🐣 Reproduction:
Asexual vs. sexual, internal vs. external, plants vs. animals

🌱 Biotech:
GMOs, cloning, PCR, vaccines… the stuff that actually runs modern medicine and agriculture.

This isn’t just a study guide — it’s a reminder of how ridiculously interconnected life is.

And honestly?
It should be posted in every classroom, gym, kitchen, doctor’s office, and maybe even on your fridge.

Because when you understand biology,
you understand your body,
your health,
your food,
your environment,
and the system that keeps every living thing alive.

18/11/2025

🌿 The Reality About Worms, Parasites, and Your Health

(What they are, where they hide, and how we remove them naturally)

Most people are shocked when they first learn how common parasites and worms actually are — especially in meat. But the truth is:
you don’t have to be “unclean” or “unhealthy” to have them.
They’re simply part of the modern food chain and digestive environment.

Here’s the reality in simple terms:

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🍖 1. Worms in Meat: Yes, They Exist

Many types of worms and larvae naturally appear in raw or undercooked meat. Even when cooked, the eggs and spores can survive, which is why so many people experience:
• bloating
• cravings
• brain fog
• unexplained fatigue
• skin issues
• digestive problems
• recurring infections

Worms aren’t just in pork — they can occur in beef, chicken, fish, turkey, and even processed meats.

This isn’t scare-tactics — it’s biology.

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🧬 2. What Worms and Parasites Do Inside the Body

Parasites can:
• feed on your nutrients
• create toxic waste
• impact digestion
• suppress the immune system
• irritate the gut lining
• contribute to mucus and inflammation
• make detox harder
• drive cravings (especially for proteins and starches)

They thrive in a congested, acidic, mucus-filled environment — exactly what most people have before detoxing.

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🍉 3. How We Remove Them (The Natural Way)

Inside my course, we teach parasite removal in a gentle, fruit-based, lymphatic way:

✔️ Fruits

Parasites struggle in an alkaline, hydrating, electrically charged environment.

✔️ Herbal Parasite Protocol

Black walnut hull, clove, wormwood, and strong GI formulas help break cycles and clean the intestinal tract.

✔️ Kidney Filtration

We support the body in removing acids and waste so the lymphatic system can finally move parasites out.

✔️ Cleaning the GI Tract

When the bowels move well, parasites lose their home.

✔️ Hydration + Astringency

Grapes, citrus, berries, melons — all help pull, flush, and clean internally.

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🌿 4. Why We Talk About Parasites in the Course

Because true health transformation requires a clean, unclogged, parasite-free environment.

In Health Transformation Simplified, we go deep into:
• what parasites are
• where they hide
• how they affect symptoms
• how to remove them safely
• which herbs we use
• how to rotate parasite cycles
• how fruit helps detach and eliminate them

Once parasites begin to leave, many people report:

✨ clearer skin
✨ better sleep
✨ fewer cravings
✨ calmer mind
✨ cleaner digestion
✨ more energy
✨ less bloating
✨ a stronger immune system

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✨ Final Thought

This isn’t to scare anyone — it’s to empower people.
Parasites are real… and so is your body’s ability to remove them.
Fruit + herbs + proper detoxification is one of the most effective and gentle ways I’ve ever seen.

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Certified Regenerative Detoxification Specialist
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18/11/2025

18/11/2025

🌿 Food & the Lymphatic System: What Helps… and What Hurts?

A Fun, Science-Backed Guide to Eating for Better Lymph Flow 🍏✨

Your lymphatic system is like the quiet hero of your body — moving waste, inflammation, hormones, toxins, and immune cells all day long.
But here’s the secret: your lymph LOVES certain foods… and absolutely hates others.

Let’s break it down in a fun, Lymphie-approved way! 💚

🍃 Top Lymph-Loving Foods

These foods support drainage, reduce inflammation, and keep your lymph flowing like a river instead of a traffic jam.

🥒 1. Hydrating Foods (Your lymph is 96% water!)
• Cucumber
• Celery
• Lettuce
• Citrus fruits
• Watermelon
• Bone broth
Hydration = thinner fluid. Thinner fluid = better flow.

🍋 2. Citrus & Vitamin C–Rich Fruits

They break down sticky proteins that clog lymph fluid.
• Lemons
• Oranges
• Grapefruit
• Kiwi
• Pineapple (bromelain reduces swelling!)

🌿 3. Bitter & Liver-Supporting Foods

Because the liver filters lymph!
• Rocket / Arugula
• Dandelion greens
• Bitter melon
• Kale
• Broccoli sprouts

🔥 4. Anti-Inflammatory Herbs & Spices

These reduce the inflammatory load that overwhelms the lymphatic system.
• Turmeric
• Ginger
• Fenugreek
• Oregano
• Cinnamon
• Garlic

🫐 5. Antioxidant-Rich Berries

They fight oxidative stress that thickens lymph fluid.
• Blueberries
• Raspberries
• Blackberries

🥑 6. Healthy Fats for Hormone Balance

Remember: lymph carries hormones, so the cleaner they are, the better.
• Avocado
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Salmon
• Walnuts
• Chia seeds

🫘 7. High-Fiber Foods (crucial!)

Fiber removes toxins through the gut so they don’t get dumped back into the lymph.
• Oats
• Lentils
• Beans
• Quinoa
• Apples
• Flaxseed

🛑 Foods That Clog, Slow, or Overload Your Lymphatic System

These foods thicken lymph, increase inflammation, and create extra waste your body struggles to clear.

🍞 1. Highly Processed Carbohydrates

They spike insulin, increase inflammation, and cause fluid retention.
• White bread
• Pastries
• Chips
• Crackers
• Processed cereals

🧂 2. High-Sodium Foods

Salt pulls fluid into the tissue → swelling → lymph overload.
• Fast foods
• Processed meats
• Packet soups
• Takeaways

🧀 3. Dairy (major lymph thickener)

Dairy increases mucus formation and is inflammatory for many people.

🍗 4. Processed Meats

Increase inflammatory cytokines that directly thicken lymph.
• Bacon
• Sausages
• Ham
• Salami

🍰 5. Sugar (the lymphatic enemy)

It causes:
✔ Inflammation
✔ Immune suppression
✔ Lymph stagnation
✔ Hormonal imbalance

🥫 6. Seed/Vegetable Oils

These create a high omega-6 environment that worsens swelling.
• Sunflower oil
• Canola oil
• Corn oil
• Soybean oil

🍤 7. Deep-Fried Foods

Heat-damaged oils + poor circulation = lymph traffic jam.

💚 Fun Lymphatic Plate Formula (Lymphatica Style!)

Build every meal like this:

🥬 40% Veggies (raw + cooked for enzymes and fiber)
🍗 30% Lean Protein (fish, eggs, chicken, beans)
🥑 20% Healthy Fats
🍓 10% Fruit or Low-GI Carbs

And drink 1.5–2L of water daily + herbal teas like ginger, dandelion, or green tea.

If your lymph could talk it would say:
“Feed me clean foods I can move through easily… and don’t dump garbage into my river.”

Nourish your lymph → reduce swelling → boost immunity → better hormones → better YOU. 💚