THINK ZINC Link

 

Think Zinc Link! Thyme to let your immune system shine! It’s high time we return to a reliance upon our God-given first line of defense as found within our innately strong immune system! 

In my books I write that Tarzan obviously knew something as he thumped on his Thymus! Zinc is essential for the Thymic Hormones that regulate the bodies immune defenses. Zinc supports the Thymus’ gland function! Along with production of many other hormones ~ think Prostate health and its link to zinc! 

🍫 Dark Chocolate  🍫 

Zinc is Not a new nutrient hitting the market and should not be new in your medicine cupboards! Zinc goes far beyond an immune building Vital essential mineral nutrient supporting and providing anti-viral properties. 

🎃 Raw Organic Pumpkin Pie Seeds 🎃 

In a blink let us look at Zinc and it’s primary and secondary applications that maybe linked to: wound healing, Tissue growth and repair, macular degeneration, diabetic complication, PMS, acne, ulcers, reduced stiffness in joint inflammation and Cellular Repair. Research shows that Zinc is a link to digestion and essential to the function of over 200 human enzymes. And zinc is necessary to synthesize your DNA and RNA! 

Beans 🫘 Legumes 🍜 

Studies have shown zinc may help you smell the stink again! By correcting possible zinc deficiencies, many folks regained a sense TASTE and SMELL!

Thyme to Treat Food As Your Medicine 

The point is; like all nutrients in Nature’s Apothecary there is a plethora of what I refer to as Primary Applications as well as “possible” Secondary lessor known Benefits! I enCourage you to get involved, get inspired, dig deep to learn and re-educate yourself! 

🎄 Free Range Grass Fed Beef 🎄

It is no longer a secret that zinc is an amazingly beneficial mineral for young and old. It is also well documented that the human body does not naturally digest zinc easily. A more bioavailable, zinc may be chelated, which means it is bonded to another compound to make it absorbable.

Sesame Seeds, Shell Fish, Rice + Avocado all have zinc 

So here’s to my nod, my wink to zinc. It’s a fact that not all zinc it created equal. My choice of zinc is Picolinate or Chelated. Cheaper forms are known to create stomach upset or may leave a metal taste on your tongue. Theses disturbances are common and an indicator that excessive zinc is passing through the body, unabsorbed. That is, not available for the body to use! Zinc Gluconate, Sulfate or Oxide may also be good choices to consider. 

🥚 Free Range Eggs 🥚 

For cold and flu seasons, consider zinc gluconate lozenges for it ‘may’shorten illness duration and severity! Consider zinc gluconate lozenges. Since 2020 my purse holds a supply lozenges with 23 mg of elemental zinc. That is, If “Cold and Flu season ever returns to our vocabulary?!? Things like the total disappearance of cold and flu season naturally makes a 

curious person go hmmm?!? 

Curiouser and Curiouser

Humble beans and gluten free rice is nice 

Though, whole-food sources are preferred in a perfect world; it’s sadly well known that our soils are deficient globally! This micronutrient is lacking due to food processing and/or nutrient-poor soils ;( 

🥚Organic Cheese, Milk + Eggs🥚 

Here’s a hint between you me and God! My favorite form of zinc; I’ve raised my family on has been and will remain organic raw pumpkin seeds and Cocoa, always on hand! Though not my cup of tea the king of zinc is 1 Oyster with its 8.+mg of zinc! 

🧀 Poutine’s Cheese Curds done my way 🧀

Grass fed beef would take second place along with shellfish especially crab and lobster. Next in line comes all legumes, Seeds and most nuts Followed by free range eggs, organic dairy and whole grains. As much as I love my avocado, vegetables and fruits, they really do come in last place when it comes to the zinc link. 

🥛 Organic Dairy 🥛 

FYI ~ here’s to ‘cya’ ;( 

“Please consult your medical advisor when considering proactive therapeutic protocols.“ 

 A general rule of thumb may look like this: 

Most zinc supplements contain 15–30 mg of zinc per serving. Keep in mind Tolerable Upper Intake Level of zinc is around:  

-38 mg per day for adults

-3 to 7 mg per day for infants

-7–23 mg per day for kids, and 23–34 mg per day for teens. 

That being said here goes the dreaded and wretched  Disclaimer! and I quote “Statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the FDA and I’m not intended to diagnose, treat, cure,  or prevent any disease or health condition.” 

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IF 2020 and beyond has not motivated you to take back your responsibility... well you most likely stopped this read a while ago eyes rolling back into your head! We must Do our own due diligent research! I implore you to go further than the all too easy, misguided tampered with ‘goggle university” to educate yourself! 

For decades we have incorrectly called this “alternative medicine.” When in fact, for tens of thousands of years this is how those that walked before us cared for themselves and their beloved ones!  I have dedicated a lifetime of work to Learn the nature of Nature; which we are naturally part of;)

The Power of Weee calls this 

Original Medicine 

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We must Find + Stay Calm to Carry on

🙏 “God Bless Us, Everyone” 🙏

An apple a day, and now “The rest of the story.” The Medical Journal actually studied this. Here’s the results:  “The study tells us that the ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’ aphorism was coined in 1913 but was based on the original form with a different rhyme, some 149 years ago in Wales: ‘Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread,’ went the proverb in Pembrokeshire. The daily apple eaters in the study  were more likely to successfully avoid prescription medication than the people who did not eat apples.”

🍎  “How do you like them apples?” 🍏

“Will wonders cease to exist?” 

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Talk about Original Medicine 

     🍏Thyme to Upset the apple cart…🍎

That being said, here goes the dreaded and wretched Disclaimer! And I quote “Statements regarding dietary supplement meds, have not been evaluated by the FDA I am not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition.”

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Garden of Giardiniera

Most Americans know that is was the Italian immigrates who taught us how to eat;) 

This post is brought to you by my daily love of fermented foods as Original Medicine, which is  found in GIARDINIERA. And no, it’s not just the Chicago thing for this Chicago girl. Italian, Giardiniera is also called sottaceti. Sottaceti translates to ‘under vinegar,’ which is the commonly used term for pickling foods.

 A little personal Reveal here when I say, it’s true you can take the girl out of the city but you can’t take Chicago out of the girl. Though I made my way at the tender age of 18 to Key West for two years, and then to San Francisco to cut my teeth. Ending up in Florida to raise a family. I have not returned to my hometown but for visits. And still, I am recognized by my anecdotal Chicago classic accent and easy laugh. Six decades later, many adult traditions stems from being born on the Southside of Chicago to a Greek butcher.

As a shout out to my childhood stomping grounds, please humor me with a little indulgence here. It was the early 1920s that giardiniera started to make a name for itself in the communities of Italian immigrants in Chicago. Giardiniera grew in popularity throughout the city. This vegetable relish is chopped fine, producing the crisp, tang found on Chicago's beloved Italian beef. 

Chicago’s condiment is as boisterous as the city itself. This relished relish is mostly pickled carrots, cauliflower, celery and peppers. It is submerged in oil, with fiery bites of Sorento chili peppers, also known as sport peppers. Think Chicago dog once again with a salad on top, featuring sport peppers. Legend has it this pepper was named sport because of the hotdogs sold in the baseball stadiums. I grew up with this Chicago ‘condiment’ version that ended up on our famous Italian beef or Sausage sandwiches. Whether you buy your Italian beef on a street cart or in your kitchen it is topped with Chicago’s Giardiniera.

This condiment relish is a go to in my hOMe. We raised a family of four, on a musicians budget. Needless to say, I have been known not to waste a single drop in my kitchen. That includes the vast vats of pickles bought for my children Ross and Rose and their sport teams. We didn’t just eat the pickles. Some of us drink the juice while mama cooked with pickled juice in such things like potato salad. But in a pinch, I’ve been known to throw my blanched summer vegetables in the leftover pickling juices for quick pickled veggies and even eggs. 

Giardiniera is not just a Chicago ‘thang!’ Though come to think about it; the other destination to this culinary delight is in New Orleans. History shows many a Chicagoan musician looking for their rising star, southbound on a train to relocate 

to N’Awlins.

Well... this food connection … 

Found its’ way through the Blues and Jazz music scene. New Orleans found trainloads of hungry musicians establishing the Chicago connection in the heart of the French quarters. I can well imagine these hungry musicians finding a days worth of food in the portable Muffuletta with the back home Windy City flavor profile of giardiniera as the ultimate comfort food to feed the soul,

 I know I do ❤️

In my kitchen, there’s not a big difference between these two relished relishes. Often the growing season dictates what goes into my garden in a jar. Although I do appreciate the difference between the two taking a little from both and blending them. I appreciate, Muffuletta’s reliance on olives and addition of capers in their Olive spread.

 But I also like the garden in jar approach of Giardinera. I rely on my garden as well as my palate as I marry my two favorite condiments together. I put my garden in a jar dictated by the natural ways of season by season. Always making it my own with the pucker power of a 

heavy bite of a blend of vinegars. And of course Chicago’s feisty bites of sport peppers, 

Serranos or pepperoni. 

WHY IS GIARDINIERA part of 

my ‘Garden-Of-Eaten’ 

Giardiniera means “from the garden” in Italian. 

This concept credited here has a long history in Italy. Though in my writing the point is often 

made that all of humanity depended upon fermented foods across the lands, 

cultures, and has withstood the test of time. 

It was the way of all societies, before we     ‘plugged’ into refrigerators and lost 

this valuable daily nutrient based 

Biome, Friendly Flora or Probiotics! 

Rich in antioxidants, such as beta carotene and vitamin C. And by now we are all well, aware of dietary fiber’s ability to possibly improve blood pressure, colon health  and kidney function. In this day and age, it is a well-known fact of the many benefits of capsicum as found in our pepper family. But that’s another Book. lol.

The possibilities are limited only by your imagination, garden and pantry! Fresh vegetables and herbs and spices are brined and pickled in marinades as a way of preserving it for the winter blues! You may want to double your batch for this is diversity in a jar. Use as a relish, condiment, sandwich, salad or pizza topper. My home favorite is a picnic style antipasto platter!

If it all begins in the shopping cart Central Groceries in the French Quarter of New Orleans, is a must stop! Each and every time I visit this Diverse eclectic culture! It never disappoints, in nearly a dozen visits in 4 decades and 

2 Mardi Gras! The Muffuletta is my go to sandwich piled high with Italian deli meats, on round Sicilian sesame bread  to capture the crunchy, vinegar tang of their famous Olive Relish. Stepping into Central grocery is stepping back in time, unchanged and unwavering in its preservation. 

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For a deeper dive into my writing and/or ways consider my book reflecting 44 years of dedicated service in the healing arts. Written to be used as a personal journal of your journey! Categorized as a Reference Book. Now Available in Hard Cover on Amazon or any Brick and Mortar Bookstore. This little gem went global all the way to India, on its’ own merit global all on its’ 

📚 own merit 📚

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We must Find + Stay Calm to Carry on

🙏 “God Bless Us, Everyone” 🙏

That being said here goes the dreaded and wretched  Disclaimer! and I quote “Statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the FDA and I’m not intended to diagnose, treat, cure,  or prevent any disease or health condition.” 

How do y’all like my ‘cya’ small print?