Hi. I want to welcome you to the course on how to use nutrition, proper hydration, specifically to increase the success rate of addiction withdrawal, lower the relapse rate, help reduce medication needed for various mental illnesses. My name is Dr. Keith canter. I have a PhD in nutritional science. I was helped with this course by Dr. Diane Sherman, a PhD in organizational psychology and a behavioral specialist and an addiction specialist. I was also helped by Dr. Jeanne Westerfield, who has her PhD in neuro psychiatry and by Dr. Michael of an auskey an MD with it who specializes in neurology But we're gonna go over in this course is how proper nutrition and specific proper hydration will help with addiction and mental illness.

The first area is I'm going to go over the opiate receptors, nutrition, inflammation, which includes acidity, acidosis, and body Ph. And of course, all the mental illnesses, both substance abuse and the non substance abuse, mental illnesses. I'm going to spend a lot of time on the opiate receptors, where they are, what they are, what they do. And I'm also going to spend a lot of time on inflammation and nutrition and how it affects all the mental illnesses including substance abuse. This is the only program that specifically targets the opiate receptors, which cause all the cravings that our body has except for sexual cravings. The program also targets inflammation, which is created by acidosis, which I will go into in much more detail later.

The program only works in conjunction with medical and health professionals. Mental Illness and disorders not directly related to drugs and alcohol will also be gone over in the program. I believe we have 12 specific ones that we go over. And this is an important safe tool for therapists, clinicians, counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists to help them reduce and in some cases even eliminate the medications that their patient Sneed, which is a big win for everybody. I'm gonna go over how nutrition affects the body and why it's so important to substance abuse and the various mental illnesses. I'm going to go over some of the common problems in addiction recovery, like nutritional deficiencies, like forgetting that we're hungry.

Like specific chemicals that affect the various diseases that we can help with nutrition, how the blood sugar and a poor diet affect things like diabetes, the opiate receptors, which I'll go over in more detail, weight gain and inflammation, which again, I will spend a lot of time on. I'm going to go over the effects of substance abuse on the recovery of the body and how nutrition could help that And the important role that nutrition plays in mood, which affects both substance abuse and all the various mental illnesses. The different substances that I'm going to go over opiates, alcoholism, stimulants, marijuana, and then I'm going to go over what they call the power of hydrogen or the potential of hydrogen bounce, which is really another way of saying Ph. So when I talk about opiates, what I'm talking about is coding. One of the examples that I'm using are coding oxy cotton, heroin, and morphine.

How they affect the gas how intestinal system, know our gut basically, one of the common problems that you have from opiates is constipation. opiates lead to nutrient imbalances which could cause a lot of other problems in our bodies. And one of the ways to help it, of course, is a balanced meals high in fiber complex carbohydrates, healthy fats, and healthy proteins. And I'll go over that when I go over the menus. Talking about alcoholism, it's one of the major causes of nutritional deficiency in the United States. For most people that have an alcohol problem, 50% of the calories come from alcohol, and I think we could see how that will cause a lot of problems like nutritional deficiencies and vitamin deficiencies, one of which is what brain.

Alcohol alcoholism also disrupts metabolism and it causes damage To our organs like our liver and our pancreas, it causes an imbalance in fluids, which are important to be flowing through our body. It throws off our calories. It affects our proteins, other forms of nutrition and the electrolytes that are needed for neural transmission in our brain. other complications from alcoholism include diabetes, which I will go over in more detail later, even though it's not a mental illness, but it affects so many people. It causes high blood pressure, seizures, and the inability to process thoughts properly. It can cause permanent liver damage and pancreas damage.

It causes severe malnutrition, which we'll go over and ways to create correct that Once we're no longer taking the alcohol, it shortens life expectancy. And it increases the osteoporosis in females. When we talk about stimulants, we're talking about crack, cocaine, and methamphetamines. These reduce your appetite. They cause weight loss in a lot of cases and poor nutrition, which is going to cause vitamin deficiencies, which then cause other problems in our body, it'll cause a loss of sleep, and I'm going to go over asleep even though it's not a mental illness, because that's very important for almost like nutrition for proper health. I'm going to go over how it could cause dehydration and which will cause an electrolyte imbalance which affects how things are moving through Our body because we want it to move through the fluids to move through at a good pace, which helps remove toxins.

It causes electrolyte imbalances, which I already mentioned before, which affects the neurotransmitters in our brain. It causes organ damage. And it causes memory and recall problems with long term use. Marijuana, a lot of know why we go over marijuana but the reason I go over it is because now it's a lot stronger than when I was a child. It's approximately 50 times stronger in 2016, than it was in the 50s and 60s, although I just gave away my age, but increases appetite that causes weight gain. The causes that eat the wrong foods So you tend to have a large consumption of sugars and unhealthy fats.

It does stimulate the opiate receptors. It does cause inflammation, which the CDC says affects between 65 and 85% of all chronic diseases, but it affects substance abuse 100% and it affects mental illnesses, at least 85% it also causes or will cause you to take in excess calories. Okay, this is where I talk about what's called the power of hydrogen or the potential of hydrogen bonds. And that's what pH stands for. The two scientists who discovered it one call that the potential of hydrogen and one call that the power of hydrogen. The pH bounce improves the ability to beat addiction.

A diet hi Sugar, which is known as the standard American diet, or really the Western diet, the way we eat, throws the body's ability to optimize his Ph off because it has a regular buffering system. It keeps most people and almost everybody who has a substance abuse problem in a state of chronic low acidosis, which means our body has too much acid in it. And when we take a substances, alcohol or other drugs, the inflammation goes from a low grade to moderate or severe, and this throws off the whole mechanism of our body, especially our insulin mechanism. And when our insulin mechanism is thrown off, it increases the cravings for sugar. Sugar is one of the things I'll go over that stimulates the opiate receptors, which is going to cause cravings and our body misinterprets those signals of cravings for the abuse substance not for sugar or gluten are the other things that I'm going to mention that stimulate the opiate receptors.

So some of the things that stimulate the opiate receptors are simple carbohydrates, and sugars. When they stimulate the opiate receptors, it has the same effect that drugs and alcohol do. And let me step back here and explain exactly what opiate receptors are. opiate receptors are clusters of cells, mostly proteins. They're in our brain, then down our spinal cord and they're in our gastrointestinal tract, our gut. So that's where they are.

What they do is they're responsible for all cravings. That our body has except for sexual cravings which are created by other hormones. So things that stimulate the opiate receptors, if you don't mind me repeating for a second are sugar and simple carbohydrates. I'm sure a lot of us read the book or at least heard of the book, sugar is as addictive as cocaine. Well, there's truth to it, because it has the same effect, the same binding effect on the opiate receptors, which I'll interchange, binding and stimulating. When I talk about the opiate receptors that drugs and alcohol do.

Gluten stimulates the opiate receptors. My wife happens to be gluten intolerant, people who have gluten, even if they're not having a problem with substance abuse will take in more calories than people that don't have that don't take gluten, because the opiate receptors are stimulated dairy products that we call mostly milk protein, steaming opiate receptors. They also contain sugar, caffeine, and caffeine products, I coffee stimulate the opiate receptors, all these things, a stimulating the opiate receptors. And the opiate receptors don't know the difference between that. And when drugs or alcohol are stimulating the opiate receptors. So it gives our body cravings and our body assumes those cravings for the substance that we're abusing.

So what our job is, well, my job is is to suppress the opiate receptor response. And it's important because when we're going through a substance abuse problem, many of us will go to special clinics or doctors, psychologists, clinicians, counselors, where we'll actually stop taking the drugs or alcohol, but if we still stimulate the opiate receptors Once we're out of that environment where we start taking the drugs or alcohol, it's very easy to go back to it, because we kept the opiate receptors stimulated. And then when we go back to the same environment and we don't have a clinic or a rehabilitation center, or a psychologist working with us, it's very easy to fall back into the problem. So the body does react to sugar through opiate receptor binding, which I usually just call stimulation. The opiate receptor reacts to sugar just like it does addictive substances like drugs and alcohol.

I already mentioned the book that sugar is addictive as cocaine. Well, there's a lot of truth to that. And the sources of sugar aren't limited to just candy and desserts. It's simple carbohydrates. You have to look at the labels of products where it says high fructose corn syrup and things like that. All of those types of sugars stimulate the opiate receptors and cause cravings.

What we have to do is limit the amount of sugar. So we don't stimulate the opiate receptors and have a high fiber diet with complex carbohydrates. And that'll cause a slowing down of the processing of the sugar, which will keep us full longer and won't stimulate the opiate receptors. We also want to keep the insulin levels steady and level and that'll also decrease the cravings that we have for the drugs and alcohol. Artificial sweeteners also stimulate the opiate receptors so we want to avoid those all artificial sweeteners except for stevia stimulate the opiate receptors. I'm talking about saccharin sweet and low aspartame, sucralose, all those stimulate the opiate receptors.

Our brain recognizes the sweetness and stimulates the insulin production, which will then give us cravings for sugar will cause our body cells to release sugar which will then stimulate the opiate receptors. So it has the same effect. Studies show that people who use artificial sweeteners have higher weight gain and those that use regular sugar moderately. It's also linked to the consumption of artificial sweeteners is also linked to diabetes type two, and an increase in BMI which is your body mass index, which I particularly don't like that a method of rating bodies But that's what the insurance companies still use. And that's the case in both adults and children. So you want to stay away and you'll see when we go through the menus, that we don't use any artificial sweeteners at all, except to stevia.

Gluten also stimulates the opiate receptors, and it's becoming more and more common. My wife became gluten intolerant after she was 50 years old. Even though she says she's only 49 years old, but the gut, in our bodies in our gastrointestinal tract acts as a dashboard to measure our health. Actually, it's been proven through clinical studies that that bacteria in our gut actually speaks to our brain and back and forth through things like the neurotransmitters, so it's very important to have healthy gut bacteria and the gluten is not good for healthy gut bacteria. The glue Causes wear and tear on our guests, our gastrointestinal tract, our gut, and that will affect the gut flora, which is extremely important to our overall health. So gluten, processed carbohydrates, and it is preservative dyes, all those things are very common and gluten stimulate an opiate receptor response which will give us cravings.

So we want to eliminate the processed sugar, the flowers and the preservatives. This will help us with our health overall, but it will help with our substance abuse problem. It will increase our withdrawal rate if we do this and lower the relapse rate. Dairy is another product that has an effect on the opiate receptors. So we have to be real tafel and try to eliminate the dairy which you'll see I do through various methods when we get to the menus. Because dairy products will stimulate an opioid response or the opiate receptor response.

Most areas have sugar most dairy has sugar in it, which stimulates the opiate response. Even though some people have severe intolerances to dairy products, because the opiate response is so strong, they'll fight through those intolerances. And they'll still have dairy products. So you'll notice how many stay away from that we'll use things like almond milk and even soy milk and different even goat products to stay away from other dairy. They're willing at this point to sacrifice dealing with the uncomfortable feeling because the opioid response to the opiate receptor response is so strong from dealing with their and then increases of course a desire to drink milk and eat things like ice cream. Caffeine.

Now in the most of us find that in the forms of sugar but it's in all the sports drinks also has been proven to cause an opiate receptor response and opiate stimulation, or opiate receptor binding. And the binding to the opiate receptor receptors explains why we have such a high intake of caffeine, the average person has 24 ounces of caffeine a day. Caffeine also causes anxiety, which is one of the disorders we'll go over inflammation, which I will go over in some great detail. It causes sleep disturbances, which again, I will go over more when we talk about sleep disorders and it actually Causes adversely affects pain disorders. So eliminating caffeine. And as much coffee as humanly possible will reduce the opiate response increase successful with rural and lower the relapse rate.

So we're talking about lowering, suppressing the LP response. And the main reason we want to do it, I mentioned once already, but I'll mention throughout this course, is that even if we're not taking the drugs or alcohol, while we're under the care, you know, medical care, if we keep stimulating our opiate receptors, we just tend to transfer the addiction from one thing to another. We're taking the drugs and alcohol for specific reasons. That's why we seek a medical health and not just the diets and menus and Water that I'll talk about. But one of the reasons is because it affects our neurotransmitters and it'll cause like a dopamine to spike when we're not taking the drugs or alcohol will use these other foods that I talked about sugar, gluten, dairy, artificial sweeteners, preservatives, dyes to get that same feeling by making the insulin mechanism and our sugar go up and down.

So we don't want to transfer the drugs and alcohol problems just to a food problem. One of the things you'll notice if you ever went to an a meeting or a na meeting is the people eating a lot of candy, a lot of sugar, and almost everybody's smoking there. I think the real smoking rate in the United States is about 12%. But if you go to these meetings, it's like 80 90%. In this case, they transferred the addiction from drugs to foods, although most people would consider a tobacco drug also. So what we're going to do is we're going to have menus that are rich in dense, palatable, palatable foods.

We want to offset the effects of the opiate receptors. We want to give ourselves that feeling of satisfaction after a meal and that'll help reduce our urge to want more, which tends to be the foods that aren't healthy like sugar. It's going to require a reforming of our mindset on what's palatable, and I'll try to do that. I'll show you some recipes that I'll do that by using fresh herbs, spices, more fruits and vegetables will actually grill some of them, which makes them taste really good. We'll use healthy fats which are very tasty to improve The overall enjoyment of food and lower the cravings. And we want to have a lot of fish, meat and poultry, Cassano help the cells that have been damaged in our body by the substance abuse.

So, the opiate receptors have an overwhelming impact on our bodies and on substance abuse. And as you'll see later on, almost all the mental illnesses. The opiate receptors cause all the cravings in our body except the sexual cravings. before we're able to help suppress the opiate receptors, through nutrition and proper hydration, we will improve our overall mental health. We'll make our withdrawal easier and have a higher success rate with the rural will reduce the relapse rate rate, which right now is about 85%. And the studies show that using this program get to down to a little below 60%, which is still too high, but it's a lot better than 85%.

And it will increase the long term success of addiction withdrawal, and those damaged tissues can be and will be repaired with proper nutrition. So by using the proper nutrition plans, which I'll show you, the substance abuse, relapse is that a much more common in people that are undernourished, and have vitamin deficiencies will be drastically reduced because we're going to have a healthy nutrition plan. regular meals and snacks are important to counteract the tendency to forget that we're hungry because we're thinking about the drug to the house. All and when not thinking about the food. So we want to get the people used to thinking about having three meals a day, having a couple snacks a day, eating, having them if at all possible at regular time. And that helps a lot.

And we want to replace the substance cravings with the idea that we may be hungry and that'll improve our nutrition and vitamin and mineral intake and lower the cravings that we have for the others. We want to manage our dehydration, our body mistakes dehydration, sometimes for hunger. If we have a substance abuser, problem, sometimes it mistakes it for that. So we want to keep our body hydrated. And I'll spend a lot of time on this because I use this special hydroxide water. But hydration is important number one to give us a feeling of being full and helps ever move through our body at the regular rate that it's supposed to, which helps remove toxins from our bodies.

And it helps control the insulin mechanism. And by removing the toxins and controlling the insulin Mac mechanism, they'll help us repair the tissues that we need. So it's very important and I'll talk about a lot, you want to have one half of your body weight in ounces of water per day, and I use a hydroxide, whatever. explain shortly. And we want to be careful once were off the drugs and starting to eat properly, not to overeat. Because you know, you don't want to gain weight and then have other problems like diabetes and things like that.

So, we want to avoid junk foods. And again, if you've ever been to a meeting, or an NA meeting, you'll see a lot of junk. Food there. We we don't want foods that are high in calories and low in nutrition, you know, such as sweets, we want to choose nutritional density over calorie density or caloric density. In most cases, we want to promote weight loss to prevent health issues that are caused by having too much adipose tissue or fatty tissue, because it's hard to get rid of it once you have those, that that tissue tends to shrink, but it's very hard to actually eliminate the body fat once it's in our system, you know, it's part of our system. We want to follow through with the nutrition plans and the proper nutrition, the proper hydration all the way through the process, the recovery process, because it'll help with with withdrawal.

They'll help reduce the symptoms of addiction. They'll help repay our this issue the tissues and cells that have been damaged and the organs added damage, and it will lower the relapse rate. So like I mentioned already, we want to develop and we will develop a meal and a snack schedule that we could adhere to as a daily routine. So we're thinking about food, and not thinking about the substances that we were or are abusing. We want to aim to nine to 11 servings of fruit and vegetables per day, which I know sounds like a lot, but like a big apple account is three servings of fruit. So I'm not talking about a huge amount, but those are healthy, that have antioxidant in it, and it's obviously good for nutrition.

This next line you're going to hear 100 times, drink at least one half your body weight, in ounces of water daily. That's very important for everyone. thing for removing toxins for controlling our insulin mechanism for helping with the opiate receptor respond to a step helping staff opiate receptor response. And like I said, I use a hydroxide water but I'm going to mention this when I talk about every menu, because by doing this, it also helps with inflammation, which I tell you, the CDC says, adversely affects or is a causative factor in 65 to 85% of all chronic diseases. So we want to include a diet that's high in high quality proteins, complex, fibrous carbohydrates, hard healthy fats, not trans fats, but things like guacamole, healthy fats and hummus, things of that nature. Our brains is made up of almost all facts.

So we need a combination of all of these things to have a healthy nutrition plan. And I will go over this more specifically when I talk about the menus. Taking a vitamin or mineral supplement may be very helpful during recovery because it's hard to get all the foods we need. I'll also talk about amino acid therapy, a little bit at the early part of recovery, maybe even a little past data for which pieces even though I don't do with a shot, it gives us a real shot in the arm because a lot of people on Mount nourished that have substance abuse problems, or at least have vitamin and mineral deficiencies. We want to exercise regularly and I'll go over that with you. But when you exercise regularly, it's good for your body.

It's good for your health. We all know that It burns calories. It gets the fluids in our body moving, it releases endorphins, which are neurotransmitters and help the neurotransmitters. So that helps control the opiate response or help reduce the suppress the opiate response. It even helps with inflammation to exercise, although it can cause a little inflammation if we did it too much. In general, it helps inflammation.

We want to reduce caffeine and eliminate smoking. And my whole program and I'll say this a lot is that we want to seek regular contact and help from others counselors, clinicians, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists support groups, we need that this program by itself won't Do that. So this is important. This program is important to prevent relapse, which I already said is that about 85%. So when I talk about amino acid therapy, what I'm talking about is taking the specific amino amino acids that are used as the building blocks for all proteins, but they're also the building blocks of all the neurotransmitters, which go through our brain and throughout our body, and that those have huge effects on Substance Abuse and Mental illness. We're talking about things like epinephrine, norepinephrine, GABA, serotonin, serotonin, and dopamine.

And dopamine is extremely important in substance abuse, because that's what gives us the high the spiking and lowering of the day. For me, and that's what we're seeking from substance abuse. So it's very, very closely tied to addictions. So another reason to take amino acid therapy is to normalize the brain chemistry and restore the deficient neurotransmitters which we cause through the substance abuse. And amino acid therapy is most important during the early part of recovery because that's when people tend to be the most malnourished and have the most vitamin deficiencies. So this next page, which I know is a little bit hard to see, so you'll notice me stare at it because it's a lot to remember.

But, uh, these, this is a specific amino acid therapy that I use, and the one I use comes from a Dr. Kenneth bloom and Dr. blooms been around a long time. And he's one of the two doctors in the late 1970s, that discovered the addiction gene. And he came up with a way that I'll tell you about in a minute to use amino acid therapy where we do not have to take a shot. So I want you to take a picture of this. And but I'm going to go through it and I'll read it for you and just explain the high points of the TF. So some of the supplements and amino acid therapy, and again, you can read right along with me, but talking about a phenol lab, our own as an example.

And what that helps restore, and you'll see how the columns are set up, or the endorphins, which are very important for the neurotransmitters. And you'll notice the people that are having a problem with this are lacking in a penal colony of people that are hooked on or having a problem with heroin, alcohol. marijuana, and, you know, even talks about tobacco. And one of the things that you'll notice, the syndromes you'll notice are deficiency syndromes that you'll notice is called emotional Ward Deficiency Syndrome RDS. Which is really means that I have cravings for the substance. They'll be sensitive to physical or emotional pain, and they'll crave comfort and pleasure and the way they crave it is through the drugs and alcohol.

And there'll be a desire for certain foods and or the drugs. Now, by taking the amino acid therapy, we lower the reward stimulation syndrome. You know, we it gives you anti cravings in a sense, you know, by lowering it, it helps with mild anti depression. It gives you a mild improvement in your energy Focus, and it promotes pain relief. And it actually naturally increases the pleasure so you don't look for the drugs to get the pleasure. You're getting it indirectly through the amino acid therapy.

Another one is El fino El Nino. Try to see. And this works on restoring the nor epinephrine and the Delta mean which is extremely important. That's probably the single most important neurotransmitter when you're talking about a substance abuse. And the people who have this problem of those that have taken cocaine speed. marijuana and alcohol are the main substances even tobacco they say these people also have RDS will the emotional Ward Deficiency Syndrome condition, they have depression which you should be able to notice in them.

They have low energy, a lack of focus and concentration. And they may even have a DD or possibly ADHD. And by taking the proper amino acids, we'll see a lowering in the reward stimulation system. We'll see less cravings. We'll see less depression, increased energy and improved mental focus. And again, it's the power long here, but this is important.

That's why I'm pointing to it. And I want you to take a picture of it. The next one, I'll go over I always called Five HTP. I actually used to take that but it's called. We'll just call it five HTP zz right but hydroxide tried tropa pain. But what that works on is serotonin, and serotonin.

People that are low in that are people that take alcohol or ecstasy or marijuana, but serotonin I think they are Know affects our moods and our sleeping. And you'll notice people that have this deficiency have low self esteem, obsessive compulsive behavior here the ability, maybe even rage. They'll have sleep problems which you know we'll talk about the serotonin is very important for asleep. They have afternoon or evening cravings for certain foods or the drugs or alcohol. They have negativity they have heat intolerance. They may even have a pain problems like fibromyalgia and the winter blues which is cool, sad.

What we'll notice when they're on the amino acid therapy is again, the lowering of the RDS, lowering of the depression. They'll have a better time sleeping. It improves their appetite control so it controls those cravings and they It's an improvement in the mood, and other serotonin deficiency syndromes. Another amino acid is Gabba Gabba amino butyric acid, but we'll call it gap if it's not a lot easier. And gab is used to restore the gab and the people that have this problem are the ones that are usually taking value alcohol or marijuana, even tobacco. And what you'll see when you take the Gabba is they hear there's a feeling of them being stressed all the time and nervous all the time.

They're tense, even their muscles are physically tense, and they have trouble relaxing. That's how you should be able to notice it. And by taking it, we're again lowering the cravings. It'll lower the stress. It actually helps the blood sugar levels and the mood sort of like serotonin, and you'll have a, an enhancement in the mood and the GABA and it indirectly acts as a fuel source for the brain. Now, l glutamine is also a fuel source for the brain and the people that are deficient in this are those that are taking alcohol in general and you'll see them they're stressed out, they'll see mood swings, you might see hypoglycemia.

And by taking this you'll see, again, the anti cravings but an overall enhancement of their moods. And like I said, it's a fuel source for the entire brain. And one thing to note here, this is a perfect time to be taking the vitamin and mineral supplements, just take a good one in a national one. Now, I mentioned it before, but I'm gonna mention it Now, in a little bit more detail, a doctor, Dr. Kenneth Blum, who, in the 70s was one of the two doctors that identified or discovered the addiction gene came up with a nanotechnology and the company's called La vida, la VI ta rds.com, I guess. And since he uses nanotechnology, you could drink the amino acids. I think it's twice a day.

And it's fairly inexpensive. I don't make any money on it. I'm just recommending it because I know people don't like to take shots. And I know it's extremely good product. And I know the doctor and it's a product that I always recommend. And again, amino acid therapy is something that you would take usually in conjunction with dealing with health and medical professionals although with his you can take it yourself, but my whole program is designed To go through medical health professionals because that makes me feel more comfortable, because I don't want to ever give anybody the idea that this program is going to solve the problem by itself it won't.

It'll just increase the successful withdrawal, decrease the relapse rate and over a period of time, decrease the medicines that you need for the different mental illnesses that I'll go over. So this is the first menu and I suggest you take a picture of it. Now what I'm going to do to save some time because I know you that you want to spend all day watching me but I'll only go for a couple days for our for the menus, but I am going to repeat a few things seven times, so you're going to have to bear with me. All these menus are designed or the first three that will say to not stimulate the opiate per se That's the biggest kid. Because a lot of the people that are taking these menus or everybody who's taking these menus hopefully is under the care of a medical professional or actually in a rehabilitation center.

So we don't want to stimulate the opiate receptors while they're not taking the drugs or alcohol. So the menus are also designed to be 70%, alkalyn and 30%. acidic and that's to control the acidity which I'll go over in more detail right after I go through substance abuse. But take a picture of this because you'll notice the menus have no added sugar to it. No artificial sweeteners, except for maybe a little lost stevia, almost no dairy, no sugar substitutes, no caffeine and no gluten and all that is because I don't want to stimulate the opiate receptors like I said that 70% Taplin, and 30% acidic and that's to help control the inflammation which is very important because that in itself will indirectly stimulate the opiate receptors. So, again, I will say this is only the third time, drink one half your body weight in ounces of water per day and I use how hydroxide we want to manufacture here I even mentioned that the brand but that's just the one I like because it's concentrated and it's inexpensive compared to other alkaline water and hydroxide water works better which I will explain what that means if you weigh 150 pounds, you should be drinking 75 ounces of water or as close to that as you could get.

When you do that it keeps everything moving through your body. It helps remove toxins. It helps control inflammation, and it's good for your overall health. Now I'm just going to go through a couple day's worth of the menus. But take a picture of that because none of us are going to remember this. So using Monday as an example, yeah, quinoa oatmeal for breakfast.

For a snack, I have a quarter cup of almonds and walnuts. For lunch you have lettuce wrap with main lettuce with veggies and plain chicken or turkey make sure it's nitrate free and an organic salad dressing. For a snack again, you'll have an apple and that'll be two or three of these servings of fruits and vegetables. And for dinner you'll have a sorachi lime chicken and with roasted green beans. When again I'll show you some of the recipes but I'm not going to show you the 21 recipes for it because I don't want to get any hate man. want you guys to take the course on Tuesday and again The day doesn't matter as much.

It's the concept of having three meals and a couple snacks a day. But you have veggie egg scramble for breakfast. You'll have celery with some almond or cashew butter. You know, because we're trying to get the healthy fats in there that we talked about. We'll have chili squash boats for lunch will have coconut but dairy free yogurt. And then for dinner we'll have lemon, raspberry, chicken, and potatoes.

So one of the things you'll notice is this is pretty normal foods. So somebody's not going to look at these menus, or be served these menus and say, Oh my god, they've given me a substance abuse menu. They won't know if you didn't tell them. And again, you could see we have a tool seven days. So now I'm going to go through just a few of the recipes. I'll go through one breakfast, one lunch and one dinner.

Okay, this is an example of a breakfast. It's quinoa, oatmeal, the ingredients and again take a picture of it because we're not going to remember it later. The ingredients are one cup of cook quinoa, one quarter cup of blueberries, one tablespoon of non dairy protein, unsweetened almond or coconut milk. And before when we were talking about dairies that we usually substitute form is almond and coconut milk and the directions or add ingredients to a microwave, safe bowl or a stovetop pot and cook it until it's heated throughout. I mean it's pretty simple. Next is lettuce wraps I think those are becoming more popular.

Take two leaves of romaine lettuce, veggies chicken a turkey that makes sure the chicken and turkey is nitrate free, which You can buy now pretty easily. Use some salad dressing. Be careful on the salad dressing look at it. either get organic salad dressing or look and make sure it doesn't have a lot of artificial preservatives or artificial sweeteners in it that are going to stimulate the opiate receptors. assemble it like a sandwich on the lettuce ramps. It's not it's, you know, pretty simple.

The dinners are a little harder for us. This is almond crusted sea bass ingredients of one pound of sea bass. Now this is more than enough for one person, this is enough for a family or you could put it away and you could have it you know, a couple times during the week. You don't have to, you know, nobody's going to eat well. Nobody should eat a whole pound of sea bass, but it's made with one pound of sea bass, a half a cup, two, three quarters a cup of almond flour. You notice how we're staying away from The gluten type of flour, one teaspoon of paprika, a half a cup of Dijon mustard, and then Black pepper to taste.

Mix the almond flour nut paprika throughout pepper the sea bass the way you like it called it with the Dijon mustard coated with the almond flour, paprika mixture, Han fried and coconut oil for about three minutes on each side. Make sure it's done. And that's it. It's pretty simple. Okay, this is another with a substance abuse I use three menus, since that's an important part of this course. And for all the other mental illnesses I only use one week many again, half one half your body weight in ounces of water per day I use a hydroxide water.

Try to have the water before the meal 15 to 20 minutes and after a meal Now at least an hour or so after the meal, that's when it does the best and it does its best inflammation fighting you can have it during the meal, but it's less effective because it's dealing with the stomach acids. Okay, again I'll just go over monday tuesday but take a picture of it. It comes in nice and clear for you. You could have a pumpkin muffins and an egg for breakfast. A quarter cup of almonds and walnuts for a snack, black being salad with three ounces or you could go to four ounces even if a chicken breath a plum for dessert and one thing to know the daka the fruit, the less sugar it tends to have in it and then for dinner, but it's natural sugar at least. And then for dinner chicken pepper and onion pasta, gluten free of course with the dinner On Tuesday, and again, the data is a matter and some of the specifics don't matter.

It's the concept of theme that you have to stay with. You could not have a plum on Monday and have a coconut dairy free yogurt on Monday as one of the snack. It's the concept of thing that we're trying to stay with cannot stimulate the opiate receptors and not cause inflammation and give you the proper nutrition that you need. Because most people with substance abuse have nutritional deficiencies or even malnourished. So on Tuesday, it's an egg casserole. For a snack, it's celery with almond cashew butter to get those healthy fats.

The brain is made up of almost 100% fat and we're losing brain cells all the time. We need to replace them, especially when you have a substance abuse problem or mental illness. So you need healthy fats to do that. Quote quinoa berry salad for lunch. Coconut dairy free yogurt. Again, notice it's dairy free for a snack, and Asian sesame grilled chicken with quinoa or rice for dinner.

It's regular foods. Nobody's gonna say, Oh, it's a. This is an addiction recovery menu. There's no way somebody's going to notice this unless we tell them but you'll see there's no gluten. There's no non natural sugar. There's no dairy.

There's no sugar substitutes, there's no caffeine. So we're controlling the inflammation. We're controlling the opiate receptors. And we're having enough water since I mentioned it so much for you to keep everything moving and help remove the toxins. I'll give you a few samples of some recipes. Again, veggie egg scrambled is pretty easy.

It's two eggs. One cup of veggies of your choice here they use peppers, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms. I don't particularly like mushrooms, but uh, no. So the idea is just the vegetables that are like one ounce of soy and dairy free cheese is optional, like a vegan cheese or a goat cheese is very good. And the directions is simple scrambled together until the vegetables and tender and eggs are cooked throughout. It's pretty straightforward.

For lunch, it's a loaded sweet potato. The ingredients are a sweet potato, avocado, which is a super healthy fat, black beans, toasted pumpkin seeds, playing coconut yogurt and lying and chili powder and lime is for taste but lime is also very alkaline. And some charms directions a slice of sweet potato and half loaded with the toppings and he did a bake it for six to 10 minutes until it's done. And that's your lunch. Pretty straightforward. to dinner, it's a.

Again, Dennis a little bit more complicated. And again, you'll notice the dinners in general are not for one person, it's for a family or for you to have it. No for way more than one night. So it's Chipotle chicken nachos. You take one bag of the organic utility tortilla chips. Well, you could use a leafy leafy greens if you want to avoid the soul 16 ounces of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, which again is more than it's too much for one person so it's enough for a family for several nights.

One bottle of to pulse a marinade gluten free and MSG free they sell it a quarter cup of fresh salsa, a quarter cup of corn kernels ahead. I'm sorry, half a cup of both of those. A half a cup of black beans. One cup of shredded lettuce, shredded maximum Cheese is optional I prefer a goat cheese or a vegan cheese because I want to keep all the dairy out of there and some fresh lime juice to taste which helps again with the taste and it's also alkalyn marinate the chicken breast and the chicken in the AAA marinate cut the chicken into strips pan sia the chicken towards done lay the chips on a large platter top of with the chicken the corn the beans in the cheese. Bake the nachos in the oven until the vegan cheese a goat cheese or if you really use the Mexican cheese melts, top the nachos with lettuce in south and we have a wonderful dinner.

There this is the third menu for addiction recovery. again take a picture of it. Again, I'm going to mention have one half your body weight in ounces of water per day. So if you weigh 150 pounds, that's 75 pounds It's very important to fight inflammation it's important for our health. It's important for the whole program to work. Okay on Monday we have squashed pancakes and an egg.

For a snack we have a half a quarter cup of almonds and walnuts. For lunch we have a bunless blt turkey burger and it doesn't have to be bunless if you use a gluten free bun and a side salad for a snack, we have a cup of grapes and again I think he could see how you can make little changes in it but keep the theme the same for dinner we have grilled chicken with a wilted arugula and mushrooms. And again if you don't like to look at a regular mushrooms you could have green beings. The idea is to keep it healthy. And keep having the antioxidants keep having vegetables you know don't substitute a vegetable for sugar substitute a vegetable for Vegetable and we'll be okay. Tuesday we have an egg muffin.

For a snack we have celery with almond or cashew butter again healthy fats. For lunch we have butter squash soup and gluten free crackers. For snack we have a coconut dairy free yogurt. And for dinner we have orange glazed pork chops with sweet potato hash. Again, nobody's going to notice this is a substance abuse menu on the breakfast This is one of my favorites. It's a berry pomegranate smoothie.

It's eight ounces of chopped spinach you will not taste the spinach, two ounces of pure pomegranate trees, six ounces of plain almond or coconut milk you notice we stay away from dairy, a half a cup of frozen blueberries or quarter of avocado you really won't taste it takes away some of the sweetness from the pomegranate Choose and it's also an extremely healthy fat. One scoop of protein powder non-dairy. Place it all in a good blender and blended until smooth. Now I also add ice to this it makes it a little thicker and it makes it taste better. After lunch we have a pecan Berry and Google salad. It's two cups of fresh rubella, five ounces of raspberries, two ounces, which is approximately a quarter cup of pecans.

Two to three tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, which is also happens to be alkalyn and one tablespoon of foul Sonic vinegar. Roast up accounts in the oven for at about 350 degrees to eight to 10 minutes or until they're very fragrant, and the raspberries olive oil to Tama vinegar and a large bowl, tossing the ruler. Mix it up and Sarah nice plain simple For dinner we get a little more complicated. Again, this is more than enough for one person to stay using a whole pound of ground turkey. So this could be for the whole family, or it could be for several nights, but it's one pound of ground turkey. One half tablespoon of black pepper.

One min Scala Grove. One teaspoon of fresh ginger. One tablespoon of reduced sodium soy sauce at tomorry. Two tablespoons of 100% maple syrup, a local honey, two tablespoons of canola grape seed a safflower oil, and then your favorite Asian dripping sauce like pinata who signed the directions that combine all the ingredients and roll it into bowls. Bake it, grill it a pan fry it till they have cooked all the way through and served alongside sauteed veggies and your favorite Asian dipping sauce and serve on top of rice and noodles and steamed broccoli and add the sauce to the noodles, noodle mixture and it can be a great thing. nice simple and straightforward