Making Your Own Ghee Is Easy To Do & Healthy For You

Store bought ghee is often contaminated with mold and fungus. 


Mold growing on food is not always visible. To learn more about mold on food here are two links.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/molds_on_food/index.asp

http://www.healthtree.com/articles/allergies/types/mold/

I finally learned how to make ghee on Christmas Eve.

Ghee is often used in East Indian cooking. Ghee is suppose to be healthier for you than butter. Ghee is clarified butter that has been cooked longer to remove all the moisture. The milk solids are browned (caramelized) in the fat and then strained out and removed. This gives ghee a delicious rich nutty taste. Ghee is superior to butter because it does not contain the impurities butter contains which are the saturated fat & milk solids. Ghee is said to contain phenolic antioxidants, which bolster the immune system. Ghee has a higher smoke point than butter. That is a big advantage when cooking with ghee.

Ghee is an important part of Ayurvedic Medicine. It is said to aid digestion, memory loss and inflammation. 

I have watched videos on youtube before of people making ghee in a huge pots on their stove and it always appeared to be difficult to make your own. One of my friends told me it is also messy to make so I always bought mine even if my favorite kind of ghee was rather expensive. A 32 ounce jar is $39.50.

My health practitioner called me recently. She is incredibly intuitive and very often psychic. She told me my cholesterol was high. I was a bit shocked and then I realized I was leaning on a giant jar of ghee I had bought when she told me that. We both laughed and she said it was the jar of ghee. I don’t think she knew what ghee is before because another time when I mentioned ghee she did not know what it was. She then said. “Do not eat anymore from that jar of ghee it is full of mold and fungi.”

That statement did not make me happy. I am trying to follow a candida diet so eating anything that contained more mold or fungus was the opposite of what I wanted to achieve. Most people with Lyme disease have candida even if they have not taken antibiotics as part of their treatment. I took antibiotics for probably about two years. One of my idiot doctors had prescribed some Cholestyramine for me to help with mold exposure. I took the CSM for days before I noticed it contained fructose. Fructose feeds candida fungus and mold and it obviously was feeding my candida because my skin became itchy since had I started taking it. That was a huge mistake!

My friend told me a few days after my health practitioner called that store bought ghee can often be contaminated with mold. I asked her where she heard that and she replied: “I read it in the Gut And Psychology Syndrome book and in The GAPS Guide....it's also emphasized on the GAPS website I believe.”

After two messages that store bought ghee might contain mold I knew it was time to learn to make my own ghee using organic butter. I wondered if I could. I love ghee and make dal which is East Indian spit mung bean soup often. The recipe I use requires ghee. I tried making dal with coconut oil and another time with olive oil and it just did not have the same wonderful flavor as it does when I include ghee.

Ghee is a healthy fat. Dr. Klinghardt recommends ghee as part of his HPU/KPU kyptopyrroluria protocol.  If you would like to learn more about HPU/KPU and how it can affect people with Lyme disease or Autism go to this link. This video is lengthy yet fascinating.

http://planetthrive.com/2010/04/hpukpu-protocol-for-lyme-and-autism/

Dr. Klinghardt recommends ghee because it contains omega-6 oils.

http://www.forresthealth.com/kpu-test.html

Dr. Mercola recommends eating extra ghee for constipation. 

Here is a recipe my friend shared with me for making ghee in the oven. This recipe was super easy and to me seemed much easier than making ghee on the stovetop not that I have made it on a stovetop yet.

http://tinyurl.com/27tv44a

After the butter was done cooking in the oven I strained it through cheese cloth with the use of a wire strainer. Next time I would let the butter cool first. You can find many more ghee recipes online and watch videos on how to make it on youtube.


Some tips on making ghee written by an East Indian woman. They are discussing ghee made on a stove:

“Ghee, of course, has to be made right. When the moisture is fully evaporated from the butter, you are left with butter fat. The result is liquid gold, emitting a nutty aroma. This is strained, removing the toasty solids that settle on the bottom of the pan. These solids are flavorful and edible, especially with rice. The filtered fliud is Ghee. Just store it in a clean, dry stainless steel/glass/ceramic container with a fitting lid. The ghee solidifies in the cold and can be scooped. In the summer it stays fluid. Just remember to use clean, dry utensils while spooning ghee out.

Ghee will become solid at room temperature and is best stored in a glass jar. Do not pour your ghee out of the saucepan until it has cooled to a warm temperature that is safe to touch. When we make ghee, we usually make a large quantity by using 3-5 lbs of butter. The shelf-life of ghee is 6 months to many years. If your ghee would become moldy in the next few months, then the water and milk-fat were not fully removed and the ghee should be discarded.”

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080206151521AAmlqTd

To sum up this blog on ghee because I can tell from the comments I have received on facebook about it people are not really reading the whole thing. Store bought ghee is often CONTAMINATED with MOLD & FUNGUS. It is easy to make your own ghee in the OVEN. A link to an easy recipe for making it in the oven is included. 

Just Don't Eat The Plums On Plum Island ~ Lies More Lies & More Denial From the Chicago Tribune

Recently there was a disturbing article written in the Chicago Tribune negating persistent Lyme disease. If you have nothing else to read while in the loo or are clean out of TP you might want to print out a copy of the article. 

Here is a link to the article written by dubious reporters Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-chronic-lyme-disease-20101207,0,5671843.story?page=1


They need to stick to reporting about subjects they are familiar with like cupcakes, cakewalks, bake offs, Oprah and celebrity love affairs. Topics they might actually be able to lie about with out appearing to be so transparent. 


The facts in their article about Lyme disease are far from the truth. I believe they are meant to be misleading and are continued myths about Lyme disease generated by the IDSA. The IDSA is the same organization that is suppose to care about the public's health not harm it further with misinformation.  


The ghost of Betty Crocker might appreciate the Chicago Tribune article but anyone who has suffered with persistent Lyme disease in a cold world where medical insurance claims are turned down daily and unfairly I doubt would. Most people dealing with persistent Lyme disease have spent a majority of their savings for various medical treatments while trying to obtain health. Persistent Lyme disease is often not recognized by doctors or our society. I often hear the comment "But you look well". Rarely does anyone in my local community ask me how I am doing in regards to my disease. I am given no support of any kind including emotional support locally. Healthy friends just don't understand what I am going through. It is not like some other well known disease that they understand more about. 


Lyme disease and the co-infections that often come with the disease are very difficult to diagnose due to the purposely misleading guidelines  written for diagnosing by a corrupt IDSA and the CDC. The IDSA recommends unreliable testing. I know because it took thousands of other patients and myself years to get correctly diagnosed while suffering with life altering horrific symptoms in the mean time. 


I experienced intense neurological symptoms, panic attacks, nonstop anxiety, and insomnia just to name a few of my symptoms. I often had agoraphobia and was afraid to leave my home. I had no idea what was causing me to feel like I was losing my mind. I often felt like I could not breathe. If I had known borrelia spirochetes were causing my symptoms it would have been a huge relief from the unknown. I had doctors blame me for having anxiety. Try living with the shame that comes from feeling you are going crazy. You feel like you are mentally ill when in reality you are not. You just have spirochetes wrecking havoc in your body and in your brain. You can't do anything about it because you don't know what is causing the horrific symptoms. If only I had been diagnosed years earlier it would have saved me years of suicidal thoughts, shame, humiliation, and mistreatment by family members especially my sister who relished in the fact that I was not doing well because it made her feel better about herself. She took delight in telling me I was crazy. The whole time my sister's boyfriend was probably also suffering with Lyme disease after his MD refused to test him when he went to his office while presenting with a bulls eye rash. He suffered from deep depression along with suicidal thoughts. After he and my heartless sister were married he died at age 53 of a brain tumor. According to Dr. Klinghardt Lyme disease can often mimic a brain tumor. 


The misinformation Trine and Callahan included in their article will make it even harder for other patients to get correctly diagnosed if any of their lies are believed by readers. Here is a link to just some of the reasons why it is a hard disease to diagnose.  


http://onlinenewswebsite.com/medical/lyme-disease-the-facts-revealed/10777/


Sadly thousands of other people world wide are walking around improperly diagnosed and not getting their answers because many countries use our CDC guidelines for diagnosing. 


Here is H's story about the shocking road she had to take in order to get diagnosed. No one should have to spend time in a mental hospital instead of being properly diagnosed. We need to bring this disease out of the dark ages before this happens to anyone else. 

http://iamnotlymedisease.blogspot.com/2010/12/heathers-lyme-disease-is-not-idsa-lyme_6182.html


Regarding the purposely biased reporters Patricia Callahan and Trine Tsouderos who wrote the latest delusional piece for Chicago Tribune's article on Chronic Lyme Disease all I can say is who is paying them to weave such purposely misleading information the IDSA, the CDC, our military, or government, Big Pharma, insurance companies that don’t want to pay out for long term healthcare or corrupt politicians or all of the above? 


According to Dr. Stephen C. L'Hommedieu “Trine's sister, Danielle, has co-authored several studies with the FDA's Robert Ball”

For starters here is a link to Trine Tsoudero’s bio which is worth a laugh and read where she proclaims:

“I have covered Hurricane Fran, Tennessee Walking Horses, Oprah, Jennifer Lopez's (now defunct) relationship with Ben Affleck, cupcakes, freak bikers and the honeymoon suite at the Ritz.”:

http://bio.tribune.com/trinetsouderos

Trine Tsouderos  appears to have reality issues not only with Lyme Disease and Autism but XMRV virus as well and has spewed her lies and negative spin on all subjects in numerous articles and tweets.

I think more than one person out there in cyberspace is on to the disinformation they have attempted to brainwash the public with.

“Relevant questions I pondered about Trine Tsouderos were: How did she escalate from food and restaurant columnist magnifique to crack Medical and Science reporter; and how did she suddenly become an authority on OSR#1, chelation, autism and vaccines? Could it be she operates in collaboration with undisclosed biased personal connections with an agenda? Investigative research posted on the Age of Autism website by “beyond disgusted” provides some insight.”

You can read more about Dr. Stephen C. L'Hommedieu opinion on Trine Tsouderos at this link. 

http://www.newswithviews.com/L'Hommedieu/stephen100.htm

The article Chicago Tribune article is full of misinformation. Here is one of the article's most blatant lies:

“Many of these ideas are central to the chronic Lyme movement, which has gained such momentum that support groups have popped up in just about every state, even though infected ticks live mostly in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Northeast.”

I guess the ticks that infected me with Lyme disease and co-infections in California never took the time to read the Tribune article yet nor the ticks that have bitten the rest of the patients infected with Lyme disease in California and my small town. The pharmacist in my town asked me to start a Lyme disease support group here because she saw the need. I wonder why if Lyme disease is only found in “Minnesota Wisconsin and the Northeast”?

One needs to ask themself if Lyme disease is so rare, hard to catch and easy to cure as the “Medical” *snicker* reporters from the Chicago Tribune would have us believe then why all the tweets and articles made to discredit persistent Lyme disease?


Just one among many reasons why the media is trying to spoon feed us lies about Lyme disease. 


"A document on the website of Colorado State University revealed that Lyme was being studied in a top-security BSL-3 lab there. (4) Biosafety Level 3 is used for some of the most dangerous pathogens known, which additionally pose a major biowarfare hazard because of transmission by the airborne route. It is only one step down from BSL-4, the highest level of containment, reserved for those agents for which there is no known vaccine or treatment."


You can read more about the fact that Lyme Disease is a bioweapon at this link.

http://www.elenacook.org/lymebw_accidental_release_info.html


Just don't eat the bogus cupcakes or plums from Plum Island. 

If You Have Lyme Disease There is a High Probability You Have Mold Issues

Dr. Klinghardt believes environmental mold toxins can often be part of the health puzzle when dealing with both Lyme disease and autism.

Have you tested your home for mold yet? You can have mold spores that are making you ill or adding to your dis-ease state without seeing any signs of water damage or without ever having experienced any water damage.

The air we breathe indoors often contains harmful mold spores. Dr. Klinghardt says even new homes contain mold by the time they are finished being built because new homes are constructed like a cardboard box wrapped in plastic.

I was told that mold collects in the walls in a building that contain the most geo stress. Geographic stress can happen naturally. Some of the causes are underground running water, fault lines and certain mineral concentrations. Geo stress is often said to also be caused by electro-magnetic fields from computers, wiring and appliances. You can read more about geo stress at this link. http://thegeomancer.netfirms.com/geopathicstress.htm

My practitioner had me make mold samples on Home Depot mold testing plates which I sent to her along with 4 photos of the different walls of the outside of my home. She used the sample plates and photos to treat the mold in my apartment using remote Rife frequencies. I still need to buy some new testing plates to make sure the mold is gone and has not returned.

It sounds strange but we treated the geo stress in my home by putting aluminum foil down on the floor in various locations for several weeks before treating my apartment for mold.

Mold can cause a lot of symptoms that can be very similar to Lyme disease. Here is a rather complete list. You can find other lists online.

http://moldrecovery.blogspot.com/p/symptoms-of-biotoxin-illness.html

You do not have to have all these symptoms to have mold issues.

Dr. Klinghart recommends diffusing propolis. You can purchase a propolis diffuser at this link Bee Healthy Farms. http://www.beehealthyfarms.com/

You might also want to pick up a diffuser for your car because 50% of cars are said to contain mold also.

My healthcare practitioner recommends using a Lightening Air Plus as an air purifier. Your MD or ND might prefer another one so ask. I like the Lightening Air Plus so when I leave home even for a couple of hours I can blast my home with ozone.

Most homes are going to take more than a diffuser and a good air purifier to make them livable if your have a bad mold issue in your home.

You can find a lot of information on mold by just googling the topic. I did try to read a copy of Mold Warriors by Richie Shoemaker but honestly became bored with it so I gave the book to a friend. The book seemed to repeat itself and of course the subject matter is rather dry.

I have heard from more than one person that if you hire a mold inspector they may not really be that good at detecting mold. Some are of course better than others.

There are different ways of testing your body and home for mold. If you do have Lyme disease or any persistent disease I urge you to test for mold. I have told more than one person I thought they had mold issues and months later when their practitioner finally has them test for it they realize that they do have a mold issue.

If you have been exposed to mold in the past and or present there are different ways you can treat yourself for mold. Some of the ways are with the use of Grapefruit Seed Extract, Peach Tree Extract or Cholestyramine. Personally I find Cholestyramine a bit to harsh. My Tibetan MD warned me against using it. I wish I had listened to him. In Tibetan Medicine they believe in nurturing the bile not dumping it. My Tibetan MD warned me I would be cold for months after using CSM and he was correct. I don’t know if it really helped my mold issues or not. I do know that my MD wrote me an Rx for CSM which contained  sucrose which was truly moronic. Had I checked and known it contained sucrose at the time I would have refused it. The sucrose it contained caused my candida count to shoot up and actually made me feel sicker in the long run and was counter productive. You can find CSM that does not contain sucrose. Currently I am taking GSE capsules to help with past mold exposure. At some point I will probably try taking Peach Tree Extract.

Many people including myself go into denial over mold – it is a difficult subject to deal with and hard to wrap your mind around the fact your home, school or car could be making you ill.

Links to further reading on the subject of Lyme disease and mold. The first link contains helpful testing information on how to test your body for mold exposure.

http://biotoxin.info/docs/GordonMD_ILADS_Biotoxins_RS_9_5_08.pdf

http://www.biotoxin.info/biotoxinsources

http://betterhealthguy.com/joomla/topics/mold

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