Happy Australia Day!
So, I found this little video on gut flora very interesting. It only goes for about 9 minutes and worth watching.
It's something that the Paleo way of eating focuses quite strongly on. Bone broths, fermented vegetables like sauerkraut, kimchi and some relishes and pickles, kombucha tea, coconut yoghurt and coconut kefir, as well as good quality probiotics.
All of that, combined with organic fruit and vegetables and grass fed proteins go a long way to healing your gut and keeping it's health strong, which in turn, means that your body's immune system is strong enough to fight diseases and illness.
It also builds a strong, energetic body that can maintain good muscle tone and strength and can repair itself rapidly after prolonged physical activity such as marathons, 2 hour football matches, 4 hour tennis matches etc. A good example of how effective this way of eating is, can be seen in this list of elite athletes who follow the paleo lifestyle:
- Novak Djokovic - world number one tennis player for 4 out of the last 5 years. He finally broke through to number one, the year that he changed to Paleo.
- Gary Ablett Jr - AFL player. Two Brownlow medals and two Premierships.
- Melbourne AFL football team.
- Wests Tigers and Roosters NRL football teams.
- James LeBron and Kobe Bryant - champion professional basketballers in the NBA.
- Kelly Slater - 2011 World Championship surfer.
- Eva Twardokens - Olympic Skier.
- Phil Mickelson - golfer with too many achievements to list here.
- Frank Mir - two time heavyweight boxing champion.
As you read my post, we are remembering this day three years ago when our town was damaged by a tornado that whipped a path of destruction from one end to the other. You can read my post from 30th January 2013, which was the first date after the event that I had internet access long enough to post, HERE.
I spent THIS Australia Day at the Boat Club with Reality TV Queen and Suzy's Mum, whose name was drawn out to compete in a 'damper' making competition, which she did not win. There were crab races for which the winner won a carton of beer AND their mud crab (which was cooked for them after the race). There was also live music that had everybody (except me) up dancing on the dance floor.
We had lunch before all of that fun started and it was a good day.
The lady's luncheon is tomorrow, so I need to sleep now.
Nite all.
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