 Hey guys, Marylee Johnson here again with the 21 Convention 2014. Dr. Paul Jaminé just did his talk and it was all about nutrition and sleep cycles and everybody had so many questions for you and I'm going to read a few that they didn't get a chance to ask because I'm sure if we want to know then all you guys out there want to know because just sleeping and diet is so important and something that we do every single day. I wanted to ask if you want to eat healthy but you don't necessarily like healthy foods like maybe somebody wants to eat but they don't like salmon or they don't like eggs or they don't like organ meat, do you just force yourself to eat it or do you substitute it? Well there are workarounds but it's really good to learn how to make them palatable and develop a taste for them. So often people will dislike a food like liver but when they find the most palatable way to eat it and then they start eating it the brain learns to like it and most people have gone through this with coffee, it didn't taste great the first time or beer, it didn't taste great the first time but before long people really enjoy them and you can do the same things with liver or eggs or some other foods. So I would say that's the best way to approach it because there aren't really good non-food substitutes for these things. One thing that some people do resort to in terms of liver is they'll cook it, then they'll chop it up into pill sizes, freeze them and then they'll swallow the pill with the yogurt you know as if it were a supplement and you know so that can work too then you don't taste it. That person really wants to eat the liver. Liver is very important, you should eat your liver. I had a question about you said that your body craves what it needs especially salt but what happens if I'm craving donuts? Well now your brain is very flexible, it can learn in lots of ways and your brain in its natural form came to expect that certain nutrients would accompany certain flavors and you know when it gets carbohydrates it thinks it's eating a plant food and it's getting all the nutrients that come with plant food and so when you taste carbohydrates like in a donut it thinks it's getting lots of other things and then if you're ate the donut it's going to be disappointed so then you'll get hungry again and it'll say go back and get more of that thing because you just didn't eat enough. You have to bring a little bit of intelligence and it really helps if you take the point of view that I'm going to eat a natural whole foods diet I won't eat all of these industrial foods like donuts you know so then you will be getting you know the nutrition your brain expects to accompany it so your cravings then will be directing you in a good direction. That's the most important thing and then if you can bring a little bit of intelligence to think about alright what is a balanced diet and compare how I've been eating to that what's missing and if you can start supplying the things that are missing then you're much more likely to address those cravings and eliminate them. Great so that answers fully answers my question and at the end of your talk you were talking about antibiotics and germs and you said something about you know trying to avoid foods that that certainly have germs on them and washing your hands are we taking it too far though should we be not trying to avoid the germs so much but build our immune systems more. Well you want to do both so and the way you build your immune system is in the ways that I talked about in the first two thirds of my talk with diet and nutrition and with lifestyle circadian rhythm and treatment so a lot of immunity happens at night you need to entrain circadian rhythms to get it and immunity is very nutrition dependent on vitamin A so you need to eat your liver vitamin D you need to get sunshine so you know so building up your immune system very important building up your beneficial bacteria very important with fermented foods but once you're doing that the hygiene is really important as a third element so if you think of how do you ferment vegetables in order to make them beneficial to you you're creating an environment that very much resembles your colon and you're giving them food the vegetables similar to what you're eating and so that's an anaerobic environment no oxygen it's an acidic environment the ferments are not safe to eat until they become acidic it's a it's a salty environment and you know so it's a very specific environment which breeds beneficial bacteria and what you're getting out in the general environment with lots of oxygen it's much more likely to be pathogenic to us and you know so hygiene and you know every time you wash your hands the odds of it helping you are relatively small but if you keep doing it over a lifetime you know it could add a year to your life or something like that something we all want to do usually you said something about heart heart attacks and heart disease are caused by infection but I've always been told that it was due to high cholesterol well and there are multiple causes to you know all the chronic diseases so they're definitely dietary elements and high cholesterol will contribute to our curio disease but so what happens is our white blood cells both have the function of removing infectious microbes and also dealing with toxins and removing toxins and our cholesterol is a sensor of toxins and infections and when you have high the high cholesterol basically alerts the white blood cells to the presence of infections when you have high cholesterol you're alerting your white blood cells all the time often to the fact that you have lots of toxins from food or gut bacteria you know little fragments of gut bacteria that have entered your body and so you're giving all these false alarms to the white blood cells and you can end up really damaging the white blood cells turning them into what's called foam cells that build up atherosclerotic plaques and and those ultimately end up giving you a heart attack so there's a lot of things you can do to promote heart disease risk but if you never got an infection then your white blood cells would deal with all of the other things pretty well and you'd be heart attack free so you know so you really need generally speaking in order to get a disease you need to do more than one thing wrong and and usually one of the things that goes wrong is an infection of some kind so I think you cover most of this in your book I've read your book and I love it and it's the perfect health diet and if people want to read more about you or attend one of your retreats where do they go well go to our website perfect health diet.com and you can read there about our retreats we're also putting up information at perfect health retreat.com and so the book is is a great summary of how to eat but the best way to learn everything we know and we're constantly trying to learn and update all of our advice is to come to our retreats it's in a luxury location on the beach we provide fantastic food and and lodging we've got two hot dogs two heated pools and and a gorgeous beach and and lots of great people also so it's a really good experience and and we're hoping to prove that the people who come can cure their diseases and extend their lives by many years and this is the first time you've spoken at the 21 convention how are you finding it oh I'm I'm enjoying it's a terrific group of people and really interesting information interesting speakers and and I've had a great time thank you so much for coming thank you for your speech you guys will get to see that speech soon and this is Mary Lee Johnson signing off for the 21 convention 2014 with Dr. Paul Gemini thank you thank you