Dramatically improve your health by eating foods filled with dynamic probiotics that supercharge your body! Ordinary foods become powerful health agents in a few easy steps using ancient wisdom and time-tested techniques such as natural fermentation. Author and educator Donna Schwenk tells her compelling story of how she transformed her family’s health by creating foods that conquer sicknesses, including diabetes, high blood pressure and IBS. Hundreds of families have attended Donna’s seminars and renewed their health, changing their lives forever! After numerous requests from her seminar participants, Donna has provided this compilation of over sixty delicious recipes that were the key to her own success. With her simple step-by-step instructions, you too can learn to make delicious probiotic foods that will create wellness and restore your health.

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Cultured Food Life: The Conscious Food You Should Be Eating Imagine people who have bodies that are so specially designed that they have acquired unbelievable health and longevity. They express incredible joy and well being as they go about their daily lives. They are the type of people that you watch and wonder what is it that they have and what gives them such an advantage. These special people are equipped with hundreds of trillions of cells that are not of human origin. These cells govern everything they digest. They break things down in their bodies and make fatty acids, vitamins and hormones, and then send them on their way to create the wellness that seems to radiate from within. There are so many of these special cells that they would cover the surface area of two tennis courts inside the body, and yet they seem to work in perfect harmony knowing just what to do to create wellness. These people do exist! In fact, these people are supposed to be you and me. However, few have experienced the joy and well being that our bodies were designed to give us. So I set out many years ago to discover the secret to living in agreement with the way our bodies were designed and how to gain the full benefit of these amazing unseen cells, called bacteria. The number of bacteria is greater than the number of cells in the body. There are hundreds of trillions of bacteria in the body! Yet they seemed to be ignored except for the times that the harmful bacteria make themselves know through disease. They call out to us when the number of bad bacteria out numbers the good bacteria. Yet in all their attempts to seek balance the body’s beneficial bacteria are destroyed and left to fend for themselves. My quest was to discover how to live in harmony with the beneficial bacteria that our bodies need to thrive. So this is where my story begins; a journey that has filled me with understanding, ancient wisdom, and much joy. Welcome to your inner world which goes on mostly without your understanding, but longs to work in harmony with you. Learn as I have to create wellness through special foods that feed this consciousness within, and that governs your beautiful body. Welcome to the magical world of beneficial bacteria and yeasts; they have been waiting for you. Finding Your Harbor of Healing As this journey begins for you, it is my heartfelt desire that I share with you what has been so freely given to me. I am not offering theories, but real stories that include my close friends and real events that are dear to my heart. My hope is that these stories will encourage you on your own healing journey. Cultured foods have been an incredible gift to me. I am continually amazed how these powerful cultured foods reproduce themselves for a lifetime and cost very little to make. I have also heard and witnessed many stories about cultured foods, and I am always surprised by the diversity of problems they seem to help. I have often said that there is more going on here than I can explain. These alive cultured foods seem to help more problems than I could have ever imagined. As the years pass, the stories of their magic grow. I hope you will learn to love these foods that have meant so much to me. Thanks for reading and I am confident you will find your own harbor of healing.

Donna Schwenk is the Kansas City Chapter leader for the Weston Price Foundation, a worldwide organization comprised of people dedicated to restoring nutrient dense food to the human diet through education research and activism. She is continually teaching classes in the Kansas City area, seeking to share what she has learned with others. She has been making and eating cultured foods since 2002. The dramatic change in her health and that of her family has given her a sense of well-being that has been incredible. After years of research, life experience, and teaching classes to help others, it is her pleasure to share it with you.