Spicy Lentil, Coconut and Coriander Soup

1 ½ tsp cumin seeds
1 ½ tsp coriander seeds
2tbsp Coconoil
1 red onion, diced
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 leek, diced
2 carrots, diced
175g red lentils
900ml vegetable stock (ensure it is yeast extract/MSG free if using ready made.)
200ml coconut milk
Himalayan crystal salt and freshly ground black pepper
Handful of coriander leaves, freshly chopped

Toast the coriander and cumin seeds in a dry pan (not non-stick or with other coating) until they start to smell spicy, moving them around the pan consistently, to prevent burning.
Grind the spices to a fine powder, using a pestle and mortar or coffee grinder.
Heat the oil in a pan and add onion, garlic, leek and carrots. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables soften slightly, then stir in the cooked spices.
Stir in the lentils, coating them with the spicy oil, then add stock and coconut milk. Season, bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook for 10-15 minutes or until the lentils are tender.

Beetroot and Avocado Salad

4 medium raw beetroots
1 small red onion, thinly sliced
3tbsp cider vinegar
4 tbsp Udo’s oil, plus a little for finishing
1/2 tsp agave nectar
1-3 tsp chilli sauce or paste (eg Tabasco)
1tsp Himalayan crystal salt
Freshly ground black pepper
2 medium avocadoes, peeled and thinly sliced
10g coriander leaves
10g mint leaves
20g pea shoots (or lamb’s lettuce)
150g broad beans, blanched, refreshed and skinned (or soya beans)

Peel the beetroots and slice them very thinly (2-3mm.) Boil for 3-5 minutes, until semi-cooked. Drain and put in a large bowl.
Add red onion, vinegar, oil, agave nectar, chilli sauce, salt and pepper to t he beetroot bowl and toss everything together.
Leave to one side for 10-15 minutes, then taste.
To serve: spread half the beetroot mixture on a large platter or in a shallow bowl. Top with the avocado, mint, pea shoots and broad beans. Add the rest of the beetroot and arrange the remaining ingredients on top.
Drizzle with a little oil and serve.

Gain Health, Lose Weight Part 1

“Don’t Train Unless You Can Gain”

When clients come to me with the goal of weight loss, then my goal with them is to gain health. You will never see a healthy fat person. Period. My first question to them is:

“how much stress is going on in your life?”

If, on the scale of one being the lowest and 10 the highest, the client gives me an 8, my plan for health and weight loss evolve very quickly around walking, jogging, swimming, outdoor boot camps, yoga, meditation and vegetarian 80% raw food diet.
Imagine this client to be a very highly strung businesswoman, lots of stress at work, 2 young children, plenty of sleepless nights, husband doesn’t pull his weight around the house, financial difficulties and to add to this 5 coffees a day just to get her through the day.

This is a very typical scenario, as we all know. I meet people like this every day. Can you imagine adding more stress to this lady by giving her 3 weights sessions per week?! This lady spends 90% of her time indoors and then training in a health club (which should be renamed, in my opinion, to death club,) is going to further stress her.

You must remember that exercise is stress. Only prescribe it when the client can take it and adapt to the stress you prescribe. When you become an expert at prescribing stress, which is what exercise is, your results will improve enormously.

This is a bit different to how I would have approached it 10 years ago. It would have been a case of’ just get on with it.’ I would have put this lady on a high protein diet with lots of weight training to build up the muscle, because as we all know ,you can’t burn fat unless you build muscle. Well, what you must realize is this you can’t build muscle when you are stressed, period. Training at a high intensity, which is what is required when you want to put on lean muscle tissue, is impossible when you are stressed mentally.

The problem of the high protein diet and weight training approach to weight loss is that it increases the stress of the human organism enormously. A high animal protein diet: reduces oxygen within the body. Causes a highly acidic state which causes your blood to become very sticky. Changes the internal terrain to become favorable for disease- promoting microorganisms. Increases putrefication in the bowels, which causes autointoxication… I could go on and on. REMEMBER THIS: cancer thrives in LOW OXYGEN and HIGH ACIDITY. That’s exactly what high protein diets and anaerobic training manifest. I will cover this again in future articles.

When you are mentally stressed and you keep trying to push your body physically, the straw that can break the camel’s back will eventually happen. As I keep telling my athletes/clients

” Don’t Train Unless You Can Gain.”

This means that unless you can give 100% to your training session, you are wasting your time. in my humble opinion, after training the human organism for over 25 years.
When I approach a training session personally, and I pull up outside the gym or the start of a run - unless I can give it 100% and enjoy it as well, I cancel the session.
Remember this: you either get better or worse, you never stay the same. If this session is not going to make me better, then I need more rest and would rather go for a massage, swim or walk over the mountain, get fresh air and sunlight. I do anything to de-stress. When I arrive for my next session, I can then truly give it 100% and stimulate a result.

If you are going to be able to give 100% to the training session and get the results you deserve for your efforts, you must make sure you work at reducing stress in your life and improve your health. Drink Green Life and Alkalising Salts. Eat organic foods, eliminate animal protein from your diet and get adequate sunlight and sleep .
My second question to my client is

“how much mercury do you have you in your mouth?” and

“are there any root canals in there?”

This may seem a strange question to the misinformed person, but let me tell you where I put this on my priority list: I would not even consider training an athlete/client if they had mercury fillings or root canals if they weren’t going to get them removed. Why? I will explain this in great detail in part 2 of this series of “Gain Health Lose Weight."

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Enzymes are energized protein molecules found in all living cells. They catalyze and regulate all biochemical reactions that occur within the human body. They are also instrumental in digestion.

BETWEEN 60 – 80% OF THE BODY’S ENERGY IS USED TO MOVE FOOD THROUGH THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.

Enzymes break down proteins, fats, carbohydrates and fibre, making it possible to benefit from the nutrients found in those foods while removing the toxins. Enzymes turn the food we eat into energy and unlock this energy for use in the body.
There are three types of enzymes. Our bodies naturally produce two types, digestive and metabolic enzymes, as they are needed, while food enzymes can only be consumed orally.

Metabolic Enzymes speed up the chemical reaction within the cells for detoxification and energy production. They enable us to see, hear, feel, move and think.
Every organ, every tissue, and all 100 trillion cells in our body depend upon the reaction of metabolic enzymes and their energy factor.

Metabolic enzymes are produced by every living cell. However, the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and other organs play a vital role in their production.
Digestive Enzymes are secreted along the digestive tract to break food down into nutrients and waste. This allows nutrients to be absorbed into the bloodstream and the waste to be discarded. Human digestive enzymes include ptyalin, pepsin, trypsin, lipase, protease, and amylase

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Metabolic Enzyme Formula Description
It's a simple fact that systemic enzymes are important to our health. Systemic enzymes are absolutely essential to maintaining a healthy body and an active lifestyle.
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Metabolic Enzyme Complex Capsules
200 capsules
Active Ingredients: Typically per 3 capsules RDA%
Pancreatin 900mg †
56,000 USP-units protease (pancreas)
(Sus scrofa)
Papain 450mg †
492 FIP-unit
(Carica papaya)
Bromelain 300mg †
675 FIP-unit
(Ananus comosus)
Trypsin 45mg †
2,160 FIP-unit (pancreas)
(Sus scrofa)
Chymotrypsin 3mg †
900 FIP-unit (pancreas)
(Bos Taurus)
Rutosid
(Rutin) 381mg †
Curcumin Std extract 300mg †

*Recommended Daily Allowance
†No RDA Established
Ingredients
Pancreatin, Papain, Bromelain, Rutin, Curcumin, Trypsin, Chymotrypsin.
Allergen Information
None
Food Supplement
A supplement containing enzymes.

Metabolic Enzyme Formula Directions
Take two (2) tablets three (3) times daily, at least 45 minutes before meals or as recommended by your health care professional.

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Pancreatin is a digestive enzyme that is used to supplement loss of or low levels of digestive enzymes, and is often used in people with cystic fibrosis. It has been claimed to help with food allergies, celiac disease, autoimmune disease, cancer, and weight loss. Pancreatin is also known as pancreatic acid. Pancreatin is made up of the pancreatic enzymes trypsin, amylase, and lipase.

Papain has been used for years by those who endorse natural healing methods. Many European countries use the papaya between courses of gourmet meals to cleanse the palate and to help the digestion of heavy meals. The enzyme papain has been extracted and has proven beneficial in the digestion of proteins. Proteins are much harder to digest than any other food by the body. Papain has been used for many years by holistic healers as an aid to digestion. It has also been used to help with problems such as indigestion, acid reflux, heartburn, and irritable bowel syndrome.

Papain was also found to be very beneficial in its anti inflammatory properties. Studies have shown that this enzyme was beneficial in reducing the inflammation in certain diseases such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid athritis. These enzymes are able to reduce the severity and the nature of these diseases. Respiratory diseases that are caused due to inflammation of the bronchial tubes such as asthma have been helped by using this enzyme. Papain has been used to help certain skin conditions and has been helpful in the healing of certain skin problems.

Bromelain is a mixture of enzymes found naturally in the juice and stems of pineapples. Called a proteolytic enzyme, bromelain is believed to help with the digestion of protein. Some bromelain appears to be absorbed by the body intact, so it's also thought to have effects outside the digestive tract. In fact, bromelain is often marketed as a natural anti-inflammatory for conditions such as arthritis. It's one of the most popular supplements in Germany, where it is approved by the Commission E for the treatment of inflammation and swelling of the nose and sinuses due to surgery or injury.

Trypsin and Chymotrypsin - Having read through the research papers published by Dr Ernst Krebs, Dr Dean Burk of the USA, Dr Hans Nieper of Germany, Dr Ernesto Contreras of Mexico, Dr Manuel Navarro of the Philippines, Dr Shigeaki Sakai of Japan and others, Dr Binzel reports that these researchers found that cancer cells are coated with a protein lining, and that it was this protein lining (or covering) that prevented the body’s normal defences from getting to the cancer cell.

They found that if you could dissolve the protein lining from around the cancer cell, the body’s normal defences, the leukocytes (white blood cells) would destroy the cancer cell. They found that the dissolving of the protein coating from around the cancer cell was done very nicely within the body by two enzymes: trypsin and chymotrypsin. These enzymes are secreted by the pancreas. Thus, they said the enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin formed the body’s first line of defence against cancer.

Rutoside, which is more commonly known as Rutin but also called quercetin-3-rutinoside and sophorin, is a bioflavonoid obtained from buckwheat, flower buds of the pagoda tree and the leaves of several species of the Eucalyptus. Rutin is actually a form of Quercetin. Quercetin, one of the most common and abundant flavonoids, occurs bound to sugars in the form known as Rutin or Rutoside. Rutin is generally found in apples, onions, and tea among others. This ingredient is said to strengthen capillaries, as well as lower "bad" cholesterol and reduce the incidence of heart disease in humans.

Curcumin, also known as diferuloylmethane, is a photochemical found in the spice turmeric. It is a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, and may help prevent the development of a variety of conditions related to oxidative and free-radical damage, including cataracts, heart disease, and cancer.

Laboratory studies have shown that curcumin inhibits the production of lipoxygenase and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), two enzymes that are involved in promoting and maintaining inflammation in the body. By reducing the effects of these enzymes, curcumin may help relieve inflammation symptoms of arthritis sufferers. Indian researchers found that turmeric (the spice in which curcumin naturally occurs) was as effective as prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) when used to treat joint pain and swelling in people with arthritis, without side effects such as abdominal bleeding or stomach upset commonly associated with prolonged use of NSAIDs.

Curcumin is currently being studied for its possible use in preventing or slowing the progression Alzheimer’s disease. (It has been theorized that Alzheimer’s may be caused, at least in part, by inflammation in the brain.)

Curcumin helps prevent the DNA mutations that can lead to cancer. In one study, smokers that took just 1 teaspoon of turmeric each day for 30 days had lower levels of cancer-causing mutagens in their urine. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that curcumin also inhibits the growth of H. pylori, a bacteria believed to cause stomach and colon cancer.

Curcumin keeps the heart healthy by preventing a plaque build-up in the arteries, which can lead to atherosclerosis. In one study, participants taking just 500 milligrams of curcumin each day significantly reduced their cholesterol levels in as little as 10 days. Preliminary research indicates that curcumin may also help lower blood pressure and prevent blood clots.

A natural detoxifier, curcumin helps protect the liver from the damaging effects of alcohol, toxic chemicals, and even some pharmaceutical drugs. It also stimulates the production of bile, which is needed to digest fat, and kills salmonella bacteria and protozoa that can cause diaorrhea. Commission E, a group of experts that evaluates the safety and efficacy of herbs for the German government, approves the use of turmeric for indigestion.

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Phil Richards' Events Calendar

PRP Nutrition Internships

2011

January 17th - 21st

Swansea

June 20th - 24th

Dublin

November 21st - 25th

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PRP 5 Day Strength and Conditioning Internships:

February 21st - 25th 2011

August 22nd - 26th 2011

The Gut/Brain Connection

A one-Off Special Course

November 26th - 27th 2010 Swansea

Exercise of the Week: Shaun Payne Squat Step up

Phil Richards Strength and Conditioning Workshop

Phil Richards Strength and Conditioning Private Internship Training

Phil Richards Strength and Conditioning Internship

The Gut/Brain Connection

The Brain Gut Connection
2 Day Workshop
Swansea: 26th- 127th Novemberber 2010
With Phil Richards & Dr Nigel Plummer

The colon is a sewerage system, but by neglect and abuse it becomes a cesspool. When it is clean and normal, we are well and happy; let it stagnate, and it will distill the poisons of decay, fermentation and putrefaction into the blood.
It then poisons the brain and nervous system; we become mentally depressed and irritable. It will poison the heart so that we are weak and listless. Even the lungs are affected, so that the breath is foul; the digestive organs are distressed and bloated and the blood is polluted so that the skin is sallow and unhealthy.
In short, every organ of the body is poisoned. We age prematurely, look and feel old, the joints are stiff and painful, we get neuritis and dull eyes, a sluggish brain overtake us. The pleasure of living is gone.

Death Begins in the Colon

"According to the Royal Society of Medicine U.K - 90% of all chronic diseases are due to infection of the gastrointestinal tract"

Why do we get butterflies in our stomach before a performance?
Why does indigestion produce nightmares?

It turns out that both our gut and our brain originate early in embryogenesis, from the same clump of tissue which divides during fetal development. While one section turns into the central nervous system, another piece migrates to become the enteric nervous system. Later, the two nervous systems connect via a cable called the vagus nerve -- the longest of all the cranial nerves whose name is derived from Latin, meaning "wandering." The vagus nerve meanders from the brain stem through the neck and finally ends up in the abdomen.

There's the brain-gut connection!

The colon is a sewerage system, but by neglect and abuse it becomes a cesspool. When it is clean and normal, we are well and happy; let it stagnate, and it will distill the poisons of decay, fermentation and putrefaction into the blood.
It then poisons the brain and nervous system; we become mentally depressed and irritable. It will poison the heart so that we are weak and listless. Even the lungs are affected, so that the breath is foul; the digestive organs are distressed and bloated and the blood is polluted so that the skin is sallow and unhealthy.
In short, every organ of the body is poisoned. We age prematurely, look and feel old, the joints are stiff and painful, we get neuritis and dull eyes, a sluggish brain overtake us. The pleasure of living is gone.





All this is overwhelming. How can you help yourself, your family and loved ones to avoid this devastation?

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This two day workshop allows you to: fully appreciate the importance of gut health and disease prevention, give the brain the right building materials for you to function at the highest level possible.
There are many toxins today in our food, water and environment. These are causing major problems with both our brain and digestive system.
Find out what you can do to achieve optimum health. This course brings you two world leading experts in the field of health and nutrition.
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All who attend the course will be given a certificate of completion.

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“Dr Nigel Plummer graduated from Surrey University in 1983 with a BSc (Hons) and PHD in microbiology. He started his career at Pfizer as a senior research scientist and moved on to set up his own company in 1995 specialising in research, development and manufacture of probiotic bacteria. Dr Plummer also lectures extensively around the world especially North America, Canada and Europe, to doctors and members of the public on all aspects of nutrition and the contribution diet and lifestyle makes to health and disease.”