Top 10 Natural Remedies That Harm #7: Bone Broth

3/12/2015

So, if you have been following this series of posts on Remedies That Harm, I am covering some holistic practices generally thought to improve health, enhance the immune system, and provide natural cures. The ones I have chosen to discuss are remedies that may be highly praised, but in light of New Biology (TM) and the study of Live Blood as a pH Miracle Certified Nutritional Microscopist, I am choosing to break the bad news on some things you may have been doing or consuming to improve your health that is actually harming your health. So far we have covered Coffee Enemas, Honey, Apple Cider Vinegar, Probiotics, Algae, Fungus, and now today...Bone Broth. In the last year or so I have seen more and more blog articles pop up praising bone broth and even passed on from people I greatly respect. SO, what is up with Bone Broth?

What is bone broth used for?
1. Gelatin content healing leaky gut
2. A boost to the immune system. (Did anyone else that has read the other posts in the series let out a sigh?)
3. Joint improvement
4. Great skin and hair

So, why do I suggest otherwise?
1. While gelatin may be on record for helping leaky gut (a disease in part characterized by gas, bloating, IBS, food sensitivities and other digestive problems and autoimmune disease) it would be far more effective to eliminate that causes of leaky gut. One of the primary triggers is gluten. Vaccination history could also play a part as a causative factor.
Of course acid, being a key factor in all disease needs to be eliminated in order to heal. In this case, the most inflammatory acids related to the condition such as gluten, other food allergens, and future vaccines being the primary acidic culprits, would be most appropriate to eliminate first. Getting rid of the cause of a disorder does far more than a soothing band-aid. In addition, supplementing with sodium bicarbonate orally and in enemas would help neutralize acid in the gut.

2. Immune system boost. Sorry, but no again. I feel redundant repeating myself (again) that an increase in white blood cells following your "immune boosting meal" is not a good thing. We talked about this in the honey post in more detail, but when your white cell count gets a "boost" it is because there is a lot of filth to clean up. Bone broth, being an animal derivative, is loaded with pathogens, bacteria, and filth. It just is, and it takes the body extra effort to clean it up. The vitamins and minerals, though? That should give an immune boost! Well, since it is cooked for 20 hours the vitamin content is destroyed.

3. Despite the fact that there will be minerals in the bone broth, the body will end up depleting itself of minerals to make the bicarbonates needed to allow this acidic liquid (which also has a touch of apple cider vinegar) to pass through the body without instant and severe harm. It has to pull minerals from muscles, joints, and bones to manufacture alkaline compounds to neutralize the acid.

4. Improved skin and hair. An alkaline lifestyle is the best way to have great skin and hair and after neutralizing the other arguments, even if it did offer pretty skin, is it worth it? There are always long-term consequences when we treat ourselves to short-term benefits from consuming acids and acid-forming food and supplements. After becoming a vegetarian at the age of 14, my dad noticed how amazing my skin became. So much so, that he termed it "vegetarian skin". He would actually approach strangers on occasion with fantastic skin and ask "Are you a vegetarian? I can tell because of your skin, my daughter has vegetarian skin!" (The ones he approached always were vegetarian...I love you, dad!)

So, have you used bone broth on purpose for its benefits? What do you think of it?

Here are some recipes that really will offer the benefits boasted above:

Awesome Garlic Green Shake
Moroccan Tomato Soup (Raw)

13 Comments

Blurb

9/23/2016 03:06:35 pm

This is what people have been doing for thousands of years. No recent study can prove thousands of years of success wrong.

Adi

2/14/2018 11:00:30 am

People have believed in the Helios (and then Sol) for thousands of years. do you?

Adriane

4/17/2017 05:41:25 pm

Do you have references for these assertions?

Courtney

4/17/2017 06:56:32 pm

No. These are my beliefs and only backed by what I have seen in and learned from studying live blood analysis and New Biology. Is there a particular assertion you'd like to discuss?

Artemis

5/10/2017 09:13:45 pm

I am curious as to why you think minerals can't survive being boiled for 20 hours but pathogens and bacteria can......

Courtney

5/10/2017 09:35:24 pm

Great question!
If you look at point 3 I do acknowledge that there are minerals in bone broth, but because it is still acidifying to the blood and tissues the body will rob itself of minerals to neutralize the acid. Some of the acid comes from the pathogens in the broth.
I'm not sure why boiling pathogens does not completely render them useless when we consume them, even though they are obviously much less dangerous when we do.
I do know what I observe during live and dried blood microscopy. When people consume animal products of any kind, even just bone broth, the blood shows it. It is full of bacteria storms, sometimes different types of bacteria are noted, and many of the cells are often starting to degrade.
I hope that's helpful.

Antoinette link

5/24/2017 08:21:35 am

Hi Courtney,
How do you account for the healing people on the paleo and Autoimmune Paleo Diet are experiencing drinking bone broth daily?

Here's a little context: I started out following AIP and recently switched to Body Ecology Diet, which is aimed at alkalinizing the body. Though the author doesn't mention bone broth in her book, she writes about here: https://bodyecology.com/articles/bone-broth, mentioning many of the benefits you dispel.

I definitely appreciate the science you discuss and want to know more on this topic, because as I looked back at a life of eating 'healthy' smoothies, lots of veggies, lots of fruit, etc., none of that prevented my hormones from spiraling out of control, resulting in Alopecia Areata, an autoimmune disease.

When I discovered the AIP diet -- which advocates nutrient-dense organ meats, bone broth, healthy fats from coconuts, avocado,etc., and animal fats, I realized that none of those was ever a part of my diet. And now you're saying alkalinity is the way....which I believe, but I'm testing balance between alkalinity and AIP.

So again, my original question is How do you account for the healing people on the Paleo and Autoimmune Paleo Diet are experiencing drinking bone broth daily?

Thanks, and keep up the counterpoints -- it makes for healthy discussion and reflection!

Antoinette

Courtney

5/24/2017 01:34:46 pm

Thanks for your question and encouragement!

I'll do my best to answer...

I think that often when people switch to a Paleo/Autoimmune Paleo diet they are cutting out a lot of items on a SAD diet or other acidic items. I think that some of the restrictions on a Paleo diet are great. And I think it takes several steps in the right direction as far as purity of foods. People will experience great strides as they make improvements to their diet. In addition, the series Remedies That Harm is based on remedies that do help - sometimes partly, sometimes temporarily, sometimes a lot - but not without impacting the body simultaneously in a negative way. Often the negative way is not noticed right away or ever connected to the remedy. In any case, my assertion is that for every remedy that harms, there is a pure alkaline solution that will achieve the same results without any negative impact.

Regarding the fact that bone broth can test alkaline, the bacteria/pathogenic content has an acidic effect on the blood and tissues. As the bacteria starts to degrade cells there is an acidic chain-reaction that is harmful to the body. I would not agree that just being alkaline makes it good for consumption. A great example is overgrowth of algae or bacteria. It tests alkaline but it has a very acidic impact on the blood and tissues. This is visible when a pool has an algae bloom.

Regarding your experience...I would say that when you were doing tons of smoothies that included lots of fruit that there is a possibility it was too much fruit for you. When in need of healing, a truly alkalizing diet eliminates sweet fruits and only includes non-sweet fruits such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, avocado, etc. Also, in order to be on a truly alkalizing diet, it needs to be very high in fats such as raw oils including coconut, olive, hemp, sesame, avocados, and many others. The diet also needs to be high in quality salts such as sea salt. It sounds like when you were consuming lots of fruit, and likely not enough raw fats and and salts (that would be present in bone broth) your body was deficient in some things it needed while purging the sugars from fruit it did not want.

There is a lot of misinformation out there regarding how to properly alkalize and you have no real reason to trust what I say over the next person. I just put it out there to help people and it sounds like you are intelligently considering the arguments on each side and drawing your own conclusions. I applaud that and welcome any future questions that come up! Best to you on your journey to great health!!

'rene

1/6/2018 02:30:36 am

Yes. There sure is a lot of misinformation. Way too many on this page.

I've two degrees in biological sciences; every single claim here on this page is completely physiologically nonsensical. This, by the way, is not a personal attack on you--even research scientists can be mislead by one particular set of results or study--at least, until they wait for verification of results by an independent lab that then moves the research forward. Your basic biology class in high school years ago likely leaves you ill-prepared for the onslaught of woo that is all over the media and many product advertisements.

Misinformation can be dangerous. I also know that all of the sciences have exploded with information in a very short period of time and that it is difficult for most people to keep track of genuine medical advances versus the pig slop of pseudoscience that is all over the web.

I'm sure your intent is not to accidentally cause harm to someone that might need actual medical attention?

I would be happy to read any peer reviewed research articles from *reputable* journals that support any of your claims.

cnm

2/17/2018 08:59:58 pm

I have had IBS as a child and generally very sensitive to Chinese food (I thought it might be the MSG) and sometimes red meat - my gut goes nuts for these. I tried Bone broth as a supplement for some back issues I’ve been having but found that my gut reacts similar to how it does to red meat or Chinese food. When I mix the bone broth with half a teaspoon of baking soda, I can see a reaction and when I drink the resulting mix, I don’t get any of the adverse reactions. I haven’t seen any studies that explain this but I’m guessing I might be nutralising the glutamic acid. I’m not sure if I’m also compromising the absorbability of the nutrients by this.

Jane

4/17/2018 03:50:14 pm

Try reading up on the Failsafe diet if you've never done so; esp about biogenic amines. Good luck.

Elizabeth McEwen

6/16/2018 06:14:53 am

Hi - I found this blog because I have two autoimmune diseases and was trying to resolve conflicting information regarding apple cider vinegar and some other issues. Robert Young's name has come up a couple of times both here and in another group I am following. This morning, I decided to look him up and maybe buy his book. I was very concerned however to read that he was arrested and convicted last year for malpractice. This gives me pause. I have read wonderful things about him on this website and on others.
But the testimony against him is deeply disturbing. What are your comments on this?
Thanks,
~Liz

http://sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-phmiracle-sentence-20170628-story.html

Courtney

6/16/2018 07:42:32 am

Thanks so much for reading and commenting! That’s a great question!!!

So, I can testify with firsthand knowledge. I worked with him directly and even got to visit him in jail and be part of his welcome home reception. He did not have a license to practice medicine. When visitors came to his ranch to learn about being alkaline, their diseases were reversed. Essentially, he was curing cancer (and many other things) without a license! Sometimes, after someone would leave the ranch they would return to their acidic habits and die. There were a few instances in which a person didn’t want to do chemo but didn’t alkalize properly after leaving (discipline can be hard, no judgment, just truth!) and they would go off the alkalizing protocol...and sometimes they die. family members can look at that bitterly and wish they had taken chemotherapy and blame Dr. Young for contradicting that. There was a family who wanted revenge and the DA was finally able to coordinate with someone against Dr. Young. There were 18 charges against him and all were dropped except 3 cases of practicing without a license.
It’s fascinating to note that there were about 180 cases/patients investigated during the investigation. I think it was 133 that we’re diagnosed with a terminal illness before going to Dr. Young. Of those, 18 died. Did you catch that?!?!!!! Only 18 died out of 133 terminal cases on his program!!!!!! How awesome is that?!?

His protocol works for sure. I spoke to the DA when he was trying to get me to testify against Dr . Young and told him that he should go after Oncologists instead who tell people their odds of beating cancer are dishonest because they twist statistics. Anyone alive after 5 years is put into the survival group. You could die at 5 years and 1 day of the same cancer after a miserable 5 years of chemo and radiation and surgeries, but once you pass that 5 year mark you make the odds of survival look more promising. That’s deceitful! The DA didn’t know that, and was more concerned with pursuing Dr. Young, who helped reverse terminal conditions. Craziness. I’m proud to be a personal friend of Dr. Young, he’s one of the most caring and generous men I know.

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A Holistic Health Practitioner and Instructor since 1997, pH Miracle Certified Nutritional Microscopist, and full time mom of 2 and wife dedicated to raising an alkaline family. Above all of that, my ultimate aim in life is to be a disciple of Christ.

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