Health has to Start at Home

With all the noise about a national sickcare bill, the elephant in the room is WELLNESS. Taking care of oneself is a basic responsibility of freedom. Somehow, our food system in America got hijacked. Over several generations, we've replaced local, sustainable, homemade, fermented, fresh food and drink with an over abundance of boxes and jars and cans and tubes and tubs and pouches and bottles.

Brewing Kombucha - an inexpensive way to boost immunity

If we want to be a free people, we cannot depend on government to keep us healthy. We must get healthy at home. We've been trained to depend on health insurance for our "well visits", our "immunity shots" and our "co-pay sick visits". We have been led down a scripted path to "health" because we think it costs less money. All the while, we get sicker and sicker.

The so-called alternative ways of healthcare - chiropractic, essential oils, fermented foods, natural fats, natural meats, exercise, acupuncture - aren't covered under insurance.


Our primary care physicians often don't know about these options and patients don't know who else to ask. Americans must seek out a better way to stay healthy if they want to remain free.

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Every little thing we can do in our homes to be healthier will create lifelong habits for our children and help prevent disease. It was only a handful of years ago that I learned of the detriment of antibiotics on the human body and that we can help heal ourselves with PRObiotics. Starting as a teen, I was on a daily antibiotic for acne (deep cysts) for about 5 years. This kept the cysts away but ruined my gut health and led to annual illnesses that required more antibiotics. The kicker with the acne cysts is that I more than likely could have controlled the outbreaks, which were so painful and caused scarring, if I had only known that my body was reacting to my diet. Anyway...

I wanted to start healing my gut and our family began drinking GT's Kombucha. I was buying it by the case. While I got 10% off the case, it was still $42 a week in kombucha! I'd ration the brew between the 5 of us so that it'd make it through the week. Then I learned that my friend Cyndi made her own kombucha. She taught me how to make it and even shared her SCOBY with me.

I've been brewing kombucha on a weekly basis for nearly 3 years now!

What is kombucha you ask? It's a fermented sweet tea drink that is chock full of probiotics. Each week, I brew tea and add about 3 cups of sugar. I pour this solution into a large glass vessel with more water and then place my SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) on top of the mixture. The SCOBY eats all the sugar and ferments the tea into a delicious concoction. I leave the brew in the back of the pantry for about a week for Princess SCOBY to do her thing. Then it's time for the second fermentation... I funnel the brew into glass jars with fruit and leave on the shelf for 2 more days.

And Voilà!! My my labor of love is complete. Probiotic drink for the entire family for a week at under $5 and about 30 minutes of my time.

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GT's Kombucha is still my favorite store bought brew. There are different brands and flavors popping up everywhere and even at Farmers Markets. Make sure it's RAW and ORGANIC and check the sugar content. Some flavors are higher in sugar - skip those.