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“Of course, we must have a school, but the building is less important than the teacher. It is the teacher who makes the school, no matter how magnificent the building. “A school is wherever a man can learn, Mr. Shafter, do not forget that. A man can learn from these mountains and the trees, he can learn by listening, by seeing, and by hearing the talk of other men and thinking about what they say.”
― Bendigo Shafter
― Bendigo Shafter
“Remember this, Bendigo, that it is the work a man does that matters. Many men who have made mistakes in their own lives have created grandly, beautifully. It is this by which we measure a man, by what he does in this life, by what he creates to leave behind.”
― Bendigo Shafter
― Bendigo Shafter
“Another bacterial genus largely lost from most modern people is Oxalobacter, bacterial species that can dwell in the colon and that enthusiastically consume oxalate, a common naturally occurring compound in foods such as nuts, spinach, beets, and chocolate. In contrast, the majority of indigenous people such as the Hadza and Yanomami carry plenty of Oxalobacter species. As more modern people lose these species, they develop painful calcium oxalate kidney stones, especially following exposure to antibiotics. Most concerning, there has been a major increase in calcium oxalate kidney stones in children, especially after taking a course of antibiotics.”
― Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
― Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
“humans have been consuming wheat and grains for less than one-half of 1 percent of our species’ time on this planet.)”
― Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
― Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
“There are numerous toxic components in the seeds of the grasses—grains—that humans mistakenly adopted as food twelve thousand years ago: the gliadin protein (within gluten) disrupts the intestinal barriers and initiates autoimmune diseases; gliadin-derived opioid peptides are potent appetite stimulants and impair intestinal peristalsis; the amylopectin A carbohydrate raises blood sugar higher than table sugar; and phytates bind essential minerals such as iron, zinc, calcium, and magnesium and cause them to be swept out of your system and into the toilet. Banishing all wheat and grains therefore begins a powerful journey back to health.”
― Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
― Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
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