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Essential Bone Broth

by Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen
(Your Easy Immune Health Host)

This Beautiful Bone Broth Photo<br>Shows a Delicious Beef  Bone Broth Recipe

This Beautiful Bone Broth Photo
Shows a Delicious Beef Bone Broth Recipe

Bone Broth is an amazing addition to your diet. Full of calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur, collagen and trace minerals -as well as the stuff that builds glucosamine and chondroitin. And this is only the beginning.

Bone Broth also contains amino acids to make strong hair and nails as well as very absorbable nutrients that make for strong bones, cartilage, tendons and all of the connective tissue in the body.


We are Supposed to eat bone broth!!


In the 'olden days', meaning anywhere from 50 to 10,000 years ago- we ALWAYS used every part of the animal. A bone broth recipe was ever present and ever changing as animal scraps would go into the eternal pot simmering on the stove.


While this was mainly for the economy of having meat when there was not much of it, people understood that these bubbling pots contained important nutrients that you just can't get elsewhere.


In fact, some nutritionists believe that Bone Broths were (and still are) an absolutely essential for building bones and connective tissue in cultures that don't drink milk.

So, start making a Bone Broth Recipe today!


A Bone Broth is simple and doesn't take much time. If you have a crock pot, they are even simpler as you just throw the ingredients in and leave them for a day or two.
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Basic Bone Broth Recipe


* Depending upon your preference, take the carcass of a chicken or go out and buy the MARROW BONES and Knuckle Bones of Beef from the butcher. Everything MUST be Organic, Free Range, No Hormones, etc.

* Put them in a large stew pot or crock pot with water to cover at least 2 inches over the top of the contents.

* Bring to a boil.

* Turn down to simmer and leave it alone.


* Cook for 12 to 24 hours for Chicken Broth OR
24-72 hours for Beef Bone Broth.


* Pull all of the large pieces out with a slotted spoon, then strain all through a fine mesh strainer, a coffee filter or cheesecloth. Discard the chunks, compost them or feed them to a pet.

* Refrigerate for several hours and skim off the fat when it is cool


*You can refrigerate the broth for several days or freeze for several months. Freeze the broth in ice cube trays then transfer to zip loc bag for ease of use.


* Season as desired and use to make soups and stews, Miso Soup or use as a base to make rice or any other grain that requires water to make.














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organic in Vancouver?
by: Anonymous

I'm on the lookout for an organic supply but all I can find is what's called "all natural"????

The butcher can't seem to tell me how the beef is bred, raised, or treated but it is labelled "all natural".

Anyone know of an organic supplier in Vancouver BC, Canada? For personal use not large quantity.

fantastic stuff
by: Anonymous

Bones makes my vegetarian soups less animal friendly- but my tendons are not grouching about that!

paul

wales near london, england

sources for bones
by: Anonymous

You want grass fed beef bones. Find a Weston Price chapter leader in your area and he or she can help you locate a leader. Go to Weston A Price.org and you will fine a list (somewhere on there) of chapter leaders. Weston Price was big on broths of all kinds.

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Making Bone Broth...
by: Nina and Matt

We are wanting to make the beef bone broth but we're a little concerned about leaving the crock
pot on for such a long time if we're not home.

Would we still get the same nutritional value from the bones if we cooked them for an hour in a pressure cooker? We'd love any feedback you might have.

Thanks again!

Nina and Matt

Bone Broth in a pressure cooker...
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

Hi Nina and Matt,

That's a great question and certainly a valid concern. There are definitely pluses and minuses to doing it this way. So, the IDEAL way is to do it in a crock pot. You can make really large batches, too, and freeze the extra for later.

So the ideal time to make it would be on, say, a rainy weekend when you are mostly staying in and/or a weekend when family is all around.

But I understand that this certainly isn't always a possibility. Joshua and I asked the same question and we have successfully made bone broth in a pressure cooker, although I think that the taste is not quite as good as when it's slow cooked.

Clean Water for Immune System Health


When we asked this question, we looked it up and found ONE concern about cooking it in a pressure cooker and I'll add one more.

ONE: Someone brought up the possibility of a higher amount of 'free glutamate' because of the high heat used. Free glutamate is a toxin that is released when meat is cooked at very high heat. Before that, I had only heard of free glutamates from cooking meat in pans- and particularly when you 'brown' meat.

So, no one has ever done a study to check for this that I know of- but it sounds plausible.


TWO: The higher heat that you cook anything at, the more nutrients and enzymes are destroyed. While I don't have any data regarding what nutrients are destroyed at what heats for how long, etc (although I'm sure that someone does). There is the possibility that you are destroying some nutrients and/or enzymes that you would not want to be destroyed.


Again, both of these are merely hypothetical situations and I don't know if they are true or not.

Joshua and I continue to make bone broth in a pressure cooker if we happen to, say, have a Turkey carcass and we're going to be out of town the next day, we'll use the pressure cooker. But we prefer to slow cook it.



Kerri Knox RN Immune Health Queen

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Easy Immune Health.com

Thank You!
by: Nina and Matt

Hello Kerri,

Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments! We really appreciate it!
Phew - we just cooked up a batch in the crockpot for 3 days!!! (We've never experienced that before.) So we did it. We'll see how it tastes after we doctor it up. Matt's a bass player and I'm a massage therapist - and we both have work related / tendon issue body pains. We've been inspired by your suggestions and by Joshua's. We'll let you know how it all works out. Again we appreciate your feedback and your suggestions!

Nina and Matt - Seattle,WA

Magnesium Oil for Tendonitis
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

I don't know how much you have read over at The Tendonitis Expert, but a really great strategy for tendonitis in the wrists/hands is rubbing Magnesium Oil right into the wrists and hands.

Dr. Carolyn Dean, author of The Magnesium Miracle makes special mention of using magnesium oil for musicians!


Good luck and let us know if you have any other questions.


Kerri Knox RN Immune Health Queen

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Easy Immune Health.com


PS. We have chicken broth going in the crock pot right now!

pork?
by: Anonymous

Does pork work as well?

Pork
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

I've never tried using pork, but I don't see why it wouldn't. Just make sure that you are using organic pork.





Fish DEFINITELY works, and fish heads contain the thyroid glands- which (I'm told) impart some of the thyroid hormone into the soup and therefore can help hypothyroid folks.

While I can't confirm that, organ meats DO have powerful properties (as I just finished a bowl of chicken and rice flavored with the chicken giblets). And these are things that our ancestors would have eaten.

Joshua Tucker, The Tendonitis Expert was looking over my shoulder while writing this and said, "Whatever it is, just put it in soup and get the nutrients from it!"


Kerri Knox RN Immune Health Queen

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

Can I bake first?
by: Anonymous

Hi!

What I'd like to do, is roast the whole chicken and and then make a broth out of the cooked chicken bones, bits stuck to said bones and any giblets included with the chicken.

Does the broth work as well if I roast my organic chicken first?

Or does it defeat the purpose if the bones are already cooked?

Thanks!

Bake it, broil it, etc...
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

Hi Anonymous,

Bake it, broil it, roast it, fricassee it, rotisserie it, sun dry it... it doesn't matter. The idea is to just take everything that you DON'T eat from the chicken or pig or cow or sheep or deer... whatever.

Throw it all in the pot and get the nutrients out of it that would have just gone into the trash.

Joshua and I usually start out with bones and oxtail (because they are mostly bone). We throw them all in the stew and take the meat off the oxtail when it's tender, then make a meal of the meat that first night, then make stew the next night with the leftover meat from the oxtail, the bone broth that has been simmering for 24 hours and whatever vegetables we have around.

We'll just as easily use the carcasses from the thanksgiving turkey and ham and throw them all together in the pot along with the giblets, herbs and bits of vegetables, the outsides of the onions and the potato peels.

It's ALL got nutrients in it, don't throw it away. Make soup!


Kerri Knox RN Immune Health Queen

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

Stock/broth
by: ELBSeattle

I'm delighted to see that bone broth is good for you. I've made my own stocks from turkey/chicken carcasses for years. It always makes the most flavorful base for soup.





One thing I've done since finding it in Cook's Illustrated is roasting the bones before cooking them into stock. Put them in a pan into the oven at 450-500? and roast them for about 10 minutes. You don't want to burn them. This imparts a really nice roasty flavor to the stock.

I am going to the store now to get an organic chicken to make into soup.

And on my way I'm going to the supplement store to see if they have Magnesium Oil.

Thanks all

elb in seattle


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Note from Kerri:

They probably won't have it, but you can get Magnesium Oil here!


Kerri

canned broth
by: Anonymous

I really cannot cook at all. But I do know how to warmup soup from a can.

So....can I buy canned broth and get the same benefit?

Thanks for the article and the help!

Ummm. Really no.
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

The whole point of this bone broth page is to show the difference between canned soup and real food. Canned soup broth are a bunch of chemicals that are designed to taste like real broth that your grandmother would have made (ie: bone broth).

So, if you feel that opening a can of soup is the best way to get your nutrition and that cooking food is too difficult, then I invite you to join the growing population that is getting the PREVENTABLE diseases of:

Heart disease
Cancer
Diabetes
Obesity
etc, etc.

from eating the crap that most people call 'food'. Good luck with that.


Kerri Knox RN Immune Health Queen

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

Bone Broth with Gout
by: Tim

How would this broth affect my condition of gout.

I have tendonitis issues and try to eat smaller portions of meat because if I eat to much, I get a gout attach.

How would this broth affect gout sufferers?

Bone Broth and Gout....
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

Hi Tim,

While I don't have any solid data on that, I DO know that gout is actually less a problem of meat and meat products than it is a lack of magnesium, b6, vitamin c and other nutrients.

New research has shown that those with gout tend to have lower vitamin c intakes- which correlates with a higher level of 'acidity' in the blood which promotes the formation of uric acid crystals.

Vitamin C and magnesium can help to put the uric acid crystals into solution. So, theoretically, the uric acid from the meats would go into the broth, but I learned about bone broth via the Weston A. Price Foundation and the cookbook 'Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats' and there are plenty of anecdotal cases about people's gout being relieved on this 'paleolithic' diet.

And here's a quote from Dr. Thomas Cowan who actually uses bone broth to treat his patients with gout!

"In In my years of treating patients with gout, a program of decreasing protein intake along with liberal use of all the usual animal fats and the regular use of gelatinous stocks has been the key to preventing uric acid buildup and further attacks of gout."

So, using bone broth as well as increasing magnesium, b6, Vitamin C Supplements and cherry juice could actually solve the underlying problem of why you are forming gout crystals in the first place!


Kerri Knox RN Immune Health Queen

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

 


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Can You Recommend Something for Me?
by: Carol

I am a long time vegetarian. In the last year I have become hyperthyroid. I am also being bothered by tendonitis in my right ankle.

Any advice? (If I was starving I know that I would drink bone broth.

However, I am not starving, --just being highly irritated).

Tendonitis..
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

Hi Carol,

For your ankle tendonitis, you can go to my partner's site at The Tendonitis Expert and he'll help you with your ankle tendonitis.

As for your hyperthyroid, if it's an autoimmune issue then take a look at my pages on Gluten Sensitivity and Increased Intestinal Permeability to see why these problems are often much of the root problem in autoimmune disease.

And if you have any questions, open up a thread on those pages as I'll try to keep each thread on topic- and since you won't eat bone broth, then let's get you off of this topic quickly... ;)


Kerri Knox RN Immune Health Queen

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

 


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How much per day?
by: Anonymous

Hi,

I just found your site and I am going to try the bone broth. I have very painful tendons from my feet, hips, shoulder biceps, wrists, fingers, under the chin and rib pain. Sometimes it flares up all at the same time and I'm desperate to try anything. I would like to know how much should I eat for best results. Thanks for the info.

Ginger

There's no dosage. It's food...
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

My partner and I get asked about how much we should eat all of the time. There is no 'dose', it's food.

Just make the bone broth and eat/drink as much as feels good to you. When I first started eating bone broth, I CRAVED it and wanted it all of the time and ate it 3 and even 4 times per day for the first month or so.

But then my desire for it 'calmed down' and I don't eat it nearly as much any more. Maybe once a week or even just a couple of times a month. Just let your body tell you how much to eat.

But I don't think it sounds like tendonitis is your problem. You don't get 'all over' tendonitis. You have 'body pain' and that's much more likely to be a combination of a couple of problems:

Vitamin D Deficiency

and/or

Magnesium Deficiency

and/or

Gluten Sensitivity


You have a 'systemic' problem and NOT a 'localized' problem. Tendonitis is a 'local' problem such as carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, etc.

So, you're going to have to do more than eat bone broth if you want to get rid of your pain. When you Sign Up For My Newsletter, you'll get my book called 'The Essential Guide to Lasting Pain Relief'.

Follow the instructions in the book and you'll likely feel a heck of a lot better.


Kerri Knox RN Immune Health Queen

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

 


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3 rotator cuff surgeries
by: lld

I have had 3 surgeries on my right shoulder. When one heals the other tendon goes. I've also had tendonitis with surgery on both elbows in the past 12 years. I am only 50 years old. I am not overweight 5'6" at 123lbs. Like to play sand vollyball, bike and walk. I am willing to try anything to get back to having fun. Any other suggestions besides the bone broth (which I will try) will be helpful.

Outta My League...
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

My partner's website would have better information for you and he's also got a Q and A that you can ask questions on as well.

Go to the Tendonitis Expert's Shoulder Tendonitis page to see some great information that will help you out. Then ask Joshua a question about your shoulders if you don't find the answer you are looking for.


Kerri Knox RN Immune Health Queen

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

 


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