ARP: Week 1

Focus: Getting to know the body, its simple needs, and things it does not need.
Repetition: It is a miracle to be here. I am a Sacred Universe of Microbes. I am willing to learn and apply all things right and just to steward my Universe well.

You may eat anything in the On the Menu food list starting at week 1 until prompted to change.

Make Meat Stock

Make meat stock, using our meat stock recipe. Bone broth should not be consumed while healing. Your stock does not have to be perfect. Use one quart of filtered or spring water per 1 pound of meaty bones¹. To lower cost, ingredients can be reduced to just meat and mineral salt. Using chicken leg quarters from the grocery store will be easy and very inexpensive. Do not worry about buying conventional meat if that is what your budget allows, but do always buy organic vegetables.

Try just a tiny sip if it is your first time or if you know you have high histamine issues. Give your body time to tell you how it receives the new food. This is the first of your core foods. It is the food that will heal and seal the gut and is a major “building food“.

…and Fermented Cabbage Juice

Fermented cabbage juice is high in vitamin C and is a powerful probiotic.

• Chop one medium head of cabbage into tiny bits
• Place in large bowl and add 6 T of mineral salt and mix to distribute salt
• Cover with a kitchen towel overnight
• Fill glass jars 1/3 with cabbage and salt
• Fill to shoulders of jar with filtered or spring water
• Lid and ferment for 9 days

If you have never had fermented food before, put a drop in your meat stock added when at a temperature that is cool enough to eat. If you have histamine issues, add to a glass of water. You can begin with a speck by dipping a toothpick or knife tip in the juice and then in the water. Increase slowly until up to a tablespoon. Try a drop on your tongue. Increase slowly until you can have as much as you like. You will drink this 20 minutes before every meal. It can be useful if you experience nausea.

You can wait 6-12 months before introducing ferments if you have an intolerance because of histamines. But still make them now, and as the histamines reduce with time the ferment will become easier to tolerate.

All ferments can get a white film on top that looks like bits of styrofoam or looks cheesy. This is a harmless kahm yeast. But if your ferment smells rotten, has a film of mold that is white and fuzzy or is colored (with or without fuzz), you can toss the ferment. Lacto-ferments and dairy ferments will smell tangy and strong but not rotten.

…and Sauerkraut

• Chop cabbage into small bits
• Pack into quart jar, using a wooden spoon or your knuckles to pack in tightly
• Add one tablespoon of mineral salt
• Fill to shoulders of jar with filtered or spring water
• Fill jar to shoulders with filtered
• Lid and ferment for 9-12 days

Electrolyte Recipe

Begin drinking this early in the morning and before bed. You may increase electrolytes as needed and can have up to 1 tsp baking soda in the morning and the evening.

If needed in the future for combating high acidosis, you can have 6 tsp of baking soda in divided doses for 1 day. The next day you can have 4 tsp, then 3 tsp the day after, then stay at 2 tsp until your energy systems heal.

Ingredients

• 1/4 t mineral salt
• 1/4 t potassium citrate
• 100-200 mg magnesium citrate (not for MCAS²)
• 1 t baking soda³
• Drops of pure stevia extract⁴
• Squeeze of lemon (if not having viral issues)

Note: If you can’t be bothered to make this recipe, Dr Berg also has an electrolyte powder that you can buy online. LMNT is also available, and the ratios present are better for strep overgrowth.

Supplementum

If you are well beyond this stage in your journey, this week is the week for you to make a recipe with an organ meat you have never tried before! Alternatively, take one hour every day to work on a project that is purely for joy and uses your creativity. Remove all seed oils, sugars, and grains from your kitchen and your diet. This includes any packaged food that contains these ingredients. Do not drink liquids for thirty minutes before eating or two hours after. Only drink refrigerated or ice-cold liquids occasionally.

You are doing amazing work, and I am so proud of you!