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Materials
- Ceramic Skillet with lid
- Knife
- Cutting board
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup onion, chopped
- 1 cup bell peppers, diced
- 2 cups potato, diced
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 1/2 cups sweet potato, diced
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 garlic clove, finely minced
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1 cup broccoli, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 cup asparagus, chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley or cilantro, to serve, finely chopped
Directions
- Add onion, potato, and sweet potatoes to a ceramic pan and cook for 3-5 minutes.
- Add water to prevent sticking as you are frying.
- Add 1/4 cup water to the pan and cover it with a lid. Cook 10-15 min until potatoes are tender. Stir every few minutes.
- Add the rest of the ingredients except the parsley or cilantro and cook for 5-10 minutes until everything is tender.
- Serve with finly chopped parsley or cilantro.
Tips
Stay with the pan as you fry with water and add more water as the onions may stick. When you add the water the onions should turn a little brown as a result like you are caramelizing them.
What Each Ingredient Does From Life-Changing Foods and the MM Blog
Please continue reading to find out what each ingredient does for us from Life Changing Foods by Anthony William the Medical Medium. I’ve copied these from my previous blogs with more resource links attached to the original blog. This information was taken from the books and the MM Blog. Sometimes I supplement another website for more information as well.
Potatoes pgs. 158-161
Potatoes have been wrongly accused of being a disease-causing food when they are in fact healing if you don’t have them with a ton of fat, oil, butter, and cheese. The reason potatoes have got a bad rap is because of the oil, fat, and butter that is usually added to the potato in the traditional diet. The fat combined with the carbs is the true cause of insulin resistance and a bad A1C count. It is the fat, not the potato! Potatoes are naturally fat-free!
The skin of the potato which can be red, brown, gold, blue, or purple, is filled with amino acids, proteins, and phytochemicals. Potatoes both inside and out “draw some of the highest concentration of macro and trace minerals from the earth.” (p159).
They are high in potassium, vitamin B6, and amino acids. One bioavailable amino acid is Lysine which is a “powerful weapon against cancers, liver disease, inflammation, and the viruses such as Epstein Barr and shingles. These viruses are responsible for many autoimmune conditions.
MM also mentions in Liver Rescue that Lysine creates a smoke screen in the liver so the viruses can’t see. The liver’s immune system can then start attacking the virus and it helps the liver a lot.
They are antiviral and antifungal which help with strengthening kidneys, soothing nerves, and the digestive tract which can reverse Crohn’s, colitis, IBS, or peptic ulcers.
They have nutritional cofactors and bioactive compounds that keep us healthy and help with stress. Potatoes can also keep us grounded and centered because they are a brain food. The potato can spring to life when you put it on the counter in a cup of water. This is a powerful potato!
I wonder if he says more about potatoes being a brain food in Brain Saver!
Emotional Support
Potatoes reorient us and ground us. They offer these things especially if we are feeling troubled or adrift in our lives. They can calm down a consuming ego and ignite the humble confidence within. They can help calm toxic emotions that can keep us from getting to our goals. They can help us feel grateful for our experiences and help us make grounding and stable decisions.
Spiritual Support
Potatoes are so grounding because of the way they grow. They grow in clusters and have a large network, kind of like an extended family. They come in large numbers kind of like a large family of loved ones fighting for us!
The potato is a great food to turn to when you feel like the underdog and overlooked. It can help you energetically feel grounded and like you belong. So much of us is beneath the surface, and we are supported and witnessed, and we deserve to “unearth our true nature and share it with the world!” (p160).
Tips
Seek out organic if possible due to their absorbing nature when they grow. The best way to prepare the potato to keep all the nutrients intake is to steam them. You can batch-steam them and pull them from the fridge to add to recipes throughout the week.
Put a raw potato directly on a cold sore for relief.
You can put a potato on the kitchen counter or somewhere else in the home to help absorb negative effects of signals from wireless internet, cell signals, and EMF. They can also soak up and neutralize negative emotional energy we can pick up through the day and bring home to us. If you leave a potato out, don’t eat it and toss it after 5-7 days.
Potatoes can also help support and sustain happy emotions from a celebratory event like a wedding or special occasion. Be sure to include them on the menu for these things!
Sweet Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes feed good bacteria in the digestive tract. They starve unproductive bacteria and mold that hang out there. They enhance the body’s production of B12 because they get rid of these bad things. It reduces megacolon that can happen from bad bacteria and helps prevent the narrowing of the intestinal tract that can happen with Chrons and colitis.
They have MANY vitamins and minerals including carotenoids and beta-carotene and lycopene. The phytochemicals are very powerful and can help your skin look sun-kissed if you eat enough of them.
The lycopene and amino acids present in sweet potatoes help pull out radiation from the body. The phytochemicals prevent cancer. They help regulate hair growth by making it grow and inhibiting it where you don’t want it to grow.
Sweet potatoes are phytoestrogenic which rids the body of unusable and destructive estrogen. This estrogen interferes with the body’s hormone function. They come from plastics, pharmaceuticals, food, environmental toxins, and the body produces more estrogen than it needs to do eating estrogen-producing foods.
The excess estrogen sits in the organs and inhibits the endocrine system from working at its full capacity. The phytoestrogenic qualities help rid the body of excess estrogen and make way for the good stuff!
They help with insomnia and other sleeping disorders because the form of glucose they provide stimulates neurotransmitters to make glycine, dopamine, GABA, and serotonin. All of these neurotransmitters help you sleep better.
Emotional Support
Sweet potatoes are the ultimate comfort food and can help us block out the world around us in hard times. This can make us feel safe and soothed like “you are getting a hug even if no one’s there to give you one so that you can draw up the strength to deal with hard times.” (p176)
Spiritual Support
We tend to overindulge in the sweet potato by adding butter, sweet cream, and more to it for traditional recipes. The sweet potato bubbles up and drips down the sides on its very own because of how sweet it naturally is!
Sweet potatoes help us appreciate the gifts we have received when we think it isn’t enough. It teaches us to look at where we are adding unnecessary toppings in life.
Tips
Try to eat one sweet potato a day to get the most benefit! If you crave creaminess with the potato, try adding avocado instead of butter.
Cook the sweet potato in bulk by either steaming or baking them and store them in the fridge. Add sweet potatoes to salads to help the body assimilate nutrients even better from the salad. You can also have a few bites of sweet potato in the middle of the night to help you sleep if you can’t sleep well.
Rubbing raw sweet potato on a scar can help it heal and reduce scar tissue. Instead of using cucumbers under the eye; try steamed sweet potatoes to bring back a youthful look!
Eat a sweet potato if you are sunburned to recover faster. If you have a lot of scar tissue in the body from surgeries then eat two sweet potatoes daily for one week. Then eat 1 sweet potato daily for three weeks. Repeat until scar tissue improves.
If you are going to watch a scary movie or action-packed film, eat a sweet potato beforehand to support your adrenals.
Onions
Leeks, chives, ramps, scallions, red onions, yellow onions, white onions, shallots, and other alliums are nature’s antibiotics. The sulfur in them makes them antibiotic. If onions cause you discomfort when you eat them, you could have a large number of unproductive bacteria in your digestive tract that the onions help eliminate. That die-off can result in an upset stomach.
They help kill unproductive bacteria throughout the entire body which also helps the body produce B12. People dealing with SIBO will benefit from adding this to their diets in a large way!
If you are sensitive to onions’ cleansing power, try adding them to the diet slowly and increasing them over time.
The sulfur in onions pulls out radiation from the body. It also pulls out viruses, pesticides, herbicides, and toxic heavy metals. The sulfur also alleviates joint pain and repairs connective tissue and tendons. It also slows iron loss in the body.
Onions are high in trace minerals zinc, manganese, iodine, and selenium. They rejuvenate the skin and protect the lungs.
Onions can help with shortening flus and breaks up mucus from the stool and soothe the intestinal tract. Onions are medicine against pathogens of all sorts.
Emotional Support
Onions purge anger from the body. They “loosen up resentment, fury, vexation, and disappointment so you can be free to live your life.” (p153)
Spiritual Support
Onions help us appreciate people who work hard to alleviate a problem but mistakenly get the blame, like a parent pointing out how to fix homework to a child. Onions get the blame for bad breath when in fact they are helping the breath by eliminating bad bacteria. “The next time you’re in a situation where you’re quick to point a finger, keep in mind the plight of the onion, and take a moment to analyze every angle.” (p154).
Tips
Don’t soak the onions because that lessens the medicinal qualities. If you do decide to eat an unhealthy item; be sure to put raw onion on it to counter the bad.
When ordering out at restaurants, order things with onions to avoid picking up viruses. When picking onions at the market, make sure they are firm and not sprouting green. If they have fresh greens from them because they were just picked, this is different and they are very beneficial.
To break up sinus congestion, cut an onion into a bowl of hot water and put a towel over your head and the bowl to breathe in the steam. This will help break up the congestion and mucus.
Onions eaten daily can increase circulation of the body and help with cold hands and feet.
Bell Peppers
Bell peppers are not in the Vegetable section of the Holy 4 food groups. You can however find a blog post about the benefits of bell peppers on the MM blog. The link is in the “more information” section.
Physical Support-
Bell peppers help lower cholesterol and have anti-cancer compounds that help lower the risk of certain cancers. They help with memory and concentration in the brain. The fiber in the bell pepper can help keep you full to curb your appetite which in turn aids in weight loss.
The green bell pepper is unripe so go for the red, orange, and yellow versions of this pepper to get the most vitamins and minerals. These peppers help in general with the immune system as well.
Eating unripe (or overly ripe) fruits or vegetables can lead to a stomach ache!
Their sweet crunchy taste makes them perfect to snack on or to have in salads or wraps as well.
Aromatic Herbs (Oregano, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme)
Aromatic herbs pose high levels of minerals and disease-fighting phytochemical compounds. They release an antifungal compound through their roots that earthworms love. The earthworms help fertilize and aerate the soil as they eat this compound helping the wild plants thrive.
Oregano is antibacterial. Oregano oil is also antibacterial and effective against E.coli and ringworm. Oregano can help fight H. pylori, Streptococcus, and E. coli which minimizes SIBO.
Rosemary is also antibacterial and can help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria like Streptococcus and much more.
Sage fights fungus. It can also remove heavy metals from the intestinal tract.
Thyme is antiviral and can fight viruses that are in the herpetic family that cause neurological symptoms. Thyme can cross the blood-brain barrier which can help it attack viruses that have started to attack the brain or spinal cord which results in neurological symptoms.
Emotional Support
These herbs can help level you out. They “break the cycle of feeling consistently overstimulated, so that you can take what comes on more of an even keel”, especially during stressful times. (p183).
Spiritual Support
These herbs help us connect with our most essential selves. They have been around since the beginning of humankind and have adapted with us through the ages. They help remind us who or what is there in our lives to connect us to ourselves. (p183)
Tips
Add these herbs to your daily cooking to get them in your arsenal. Try using essential oils of these herbs to help clean the mind, body, and soul. For example, you can add rosemary essential oil to a bath to purify it.
Garlic
Garlic is antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, anti-mold, anti-parasitic, and rich in phytochemical allicin, a sulfur compound that prevents disease.
Bad bacteria run on a positive charge, draining us of energy because humans run on a negative charge. Garlic helps kill the positively charged bacteria in the gut and helps the negatively charged bacteria in the intestinal tract and gut. Garlic has anti-pathogenic properties that run on a positive charge. This likeness rids the body of positively charged pathogens.
“It can help fight colds, flues, strep throat, pneumonia-causing bacteria, and viral-related cancers. It also extracts heavy metals in the colon and gives you a powerful immune boost.” (p194)
Emotional Support
Turn to garlic when you need protection and shelter, especially when starting new things or being exposed to new things.
Spiritual Support
When garlic is harvested, it needs time to rest in the garden bed to build its immune system from all the things that attack plants when they grow. They get strength through the growing season and can pass that on to us. We need to take a cue from garlic and take time to rest and be away from pathogens so we can prepare for our growing season. (p195).
Tips
Garlic is best consumed raw. Try mixing it into dips and dressings to get it into your diet. Try to get one clove a day of fresh raw garlic to get medicine and protect yourself from pathogens. If you feel like you are getting sick, mash a clove into a banana or ½ of an avocado or some cooked potato. Do this three times a day and consume to feel better.
Paprika
This is not in the book but it is on the MM blog: https://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/paprika .
Paprika is high in vitamins A & C. It has many bioflavonoids, antioxidants, and carotenes. Paprika can relieve sore throats, runny noses, congestion, and headaches which are symptoms of the common cold.
The capsicum in this spice is the same found in chili and bell peppers. Its unique flavor can range from very sweet to very hot. This quality has pain-relieving properties.
Paprika has a very high amount of vitamin C which does many beneficial things for the body. Vitamin C helps the body assimilate iron, strengthen the immune system, and protect against cardiovascular disease including heart attacks and stroke.
It can aid in digestion and improve circulation. It can also normalize blood pressure and feed the cell structure of the arteries, veins, and capillaries to regain elasticity. It is a great internal warmer in cold weather.
It is antibacterial and can protect from salmonella and E. coli in the digestive tract. It can also help fight common infections in the body.
Add paprika to your food like soups, salsa, guacamole, roasted veggies, potatoes, and cauliflower. A pinch can be added to a smoothie as well to get all the benefits mentioned above.
Broccoli, Red Cabbage, and Green Cabbage
Broccoli, red cabbage, and green cabbage are all in the Cruciferous Vegetables in the Vegetable section of the Holy 4 food groups. They are found on pages 136-141 of “Life-Changing Foods” by Anthony William the Medical Medium.
Other cruciferous vegetables include brussels sprouts, kale, broccoli rabe, arugula, and mustard greens.
Physical Support-
Cruciferous vegetables can ignite hidden healing abilities of other foods when eaten in certain combinations. One of the four combinations mentioned in the tips section is asparagus and broccoli. When eaten together, the broccoli activates cancer-fighting compounds in the asparagus.
Cruciferous vegetables can pull out radiation from the Thyroid that most likely got there from dental work. They are also good for lung health because of the two different types of sulfur in them. They can help restore and stimulate the growth of lung tissue. (p136)
Red cabbage can reverse scar tissue in the liver. Broccoli is like an all-purpose multivitamin that is amazing for the immune system. Broccoli can help every organ, gland, bone, nerve, and more! Green cabbage supports the joints and can reverse osteoporosis.
Emotional Support –
Cruciferous vegetables will help with confusion in general. Sit with a bowl of these vegetables to gain clarity.
Spiritual Support –
Cruciferous vegetables help make room for patience and thankfulness for ourselves and others in our lives. If you have had anyone stab you in the back, take comfort in the fact that these vegetables have been caring for our bodies for a long time and have had recent attacks on them about harming the Thyroid. In fact, they help the thyroid, not harm it. We need to honor those that have helped us, not turn our backs on them.
Red Pepper Flakes
Red Pepper Flakes are a hot pepper! MM mentions in Facebook and Instagram posts that hot peppers help stimulate a stagnant and sluggish liver. They also help to reset the liver.
Asparagus pgs. 128-130
Asparagus is the fountain of youth! All the single stalks of asparagus were on their way to become small trees and they have so much life force and energy coursing through them. It is similar to when we were at our peak age and performance as well. When we eat young shoots, their energy is transferred to us. This propulsive energy keeps us young and helps us recover and prevent all kinds of symptoms.
They contain phytochemical compounds such as chlorophyll and lutein that help clean the organs well. They get deep into organs and scrub the toxins out. The chlorophyll in them, when bonded to amino acids such as glutamine, threonine, and serine, provides heavy metal detox as well.
Some of the phytochemicals present in asparagus inhibit toxins such as DDT, other pesticides, and heavy metals that may be new to our bodies which helps prevent them from taking residence in the organs. This toxin inhibition helps fight all types of cancers.
It attacks new toxins and other parts of the asparagus scrub the old stuff that has gone deep into organs out!
Asparagus has a lot of easily absorbable B vitamins. When we are under a lot of stress the body uses a lot of B vitamins. The high amount of these vitamins in asparagus helps us reestablish proper levels of these nutrients so we don’t become deficient.
The silica and trace minerals such as iron, zinc, molybdenum, chromium, phosphorus, magnesium, and selenium help the body support the adrenals. These glands are pushed to the max when we consume caffeine, are under stress, or are dealing with pretty much anything that isn’t peaceful!
Finally, asparagus alkalizes the body by flushing out unproductive acids. Disease flourishes in an acidic environment and we get acidic in our bodies with things we consume and all the toxins and pathogens we are faced against. That is why it is important to turn to alkalizing foods like asparagus and parsley.
Emotional Support
Look to asparagus if you struggle with shyness, self-consciousness and concern over what others think of you. Asparagus can help you gain the confidence you need to claim your place in the world!
Spiritual Support
We harvest asparagus as a sprout. If we let it grow it would get woody and inedible. Farmers have learned the right time to pick the asparagus for optimum taste. We can apply this to our own lives by recognizing cycles and growth throughout our lives. We need to see when things reach their peak and know when to head things and harness the energy and power of that cycle. Doing this ensures the best possible outcome.
CILANTRO
Cilantro removes heavy metals from the brain because the mineral salts like sodium, potassium, and chloride present in the living water of the leaves and stems can travel through the bloodstream, lymph fluid, spinal fluid, and blood-brain barrier. The brain likes to suck up these mineral salts.
When cilantro’s phytochemical compounds are attached to the mineral salts, they can remove the heavy metals and oxidized residue from neurons in the brain helping the brain work better overall!
AW speaks of the cilantro aversion here as well and tells us that it is from the oxidation of heavy metals and the toxic runoff goes into the lymphatic system and the saliva. This runoff doesn’t mean there are more toxic metals, but a certain combination causes toxic runoff. If you don’t like it, it probably means you need it.
Cilantro is antiviral and antibacterial. Pathogens and parasites don’t like the taste of it! It can extract heavy metals from every part of the body including the liver! It helps the adrenals, balances glucose levels, and helps with weight gain.
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
Cilantro helps us to find out our path in life without getting distracted by others’ behaviors or other options.
SPIRITUAL SUPPORT
Cilantro never stops pulling out heavy metals from our bodies. This teaches us that in life we can pull out negative emotions as well. If people in our lives need help; we can help them move past their problems by just lending a sympathetic ear. We can also purge negative self-talk and beliefs that don’t serve us as we heal! (p191)
Parsley
This herb has all the elements of the other aromatic herbs, but it was listed on its own in Life Changing Foods because of its power to alkalize the body. The mineral salts in parsley help make it alkalizing. It can help alkalize all systems in the body rather than just one or two especially if you consume it in your daily routine. These properties help drive our acidity; and diseases such as cancer thrive in an acidic environment.
It is an all-pathogen fighter and can pull out herbicides and pesticides. It has B vitamins including folic acid, traces of B12 coenzymes and vitamins A, C, and K. It is remineralizing from the trace minerals including magnesium, sulfur, iron, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, chromium, selenium, iodine, and calcium. It can also help the adrenals.
Emotional Support
Parsley can help you balance your state of mind and being. If you feel like people around you or you are on an emotional roller coaster, offer them some parsley.
Spiritual Support
Parsley teaches us to not ignore things that could ultimately help us. People miss out on these health benefits because they don’t like the taste. When people don’t like the taste they tend to stay away from it.
