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Healthy Eating
How This Makes Sense
This information on this site is comprised of various sources and experiences. All my experiences have come down to a simple solution: stay away from the modern American diet.
If you look at the pre-20th century diet, our food did not have vegetable oils, processed wheat, and sugar. In the second half of the 20th century, food evolved into having these ingredients as staples for practically every product in the grocery store and food not made at home. So, let’s go pre-20th.
Pre 20th Century
Let’s go back to simple foods eaten in their natural state. Instead of using vegetable oils (all of which are highly processed and are essentially poison to our bodies), use butter, lard, and/or tallow – natural oils and fats. Avoid wheat and corn and all other foods grown with glyphosate (Round Up). Do not add sugar to food. And… eat organic vegetables, grass fed and grass finished beef, and range raised chicken and chicken eggs. And avoid antibiotics unless absolutely needed.
Once we make these changes in our diet, then we can repair the damage done. Our bodies literally live off the gut biome. As such, we need to focus our efforts on protecting the gut and providing the gut with an environment in which the biome can thrive.
Side Note...
Virtually all modern health issues are related to a poor functioning gut: all metabolic diseases (diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, fatty liver, atherosclerosis, etc), autoimmune disease (Celiac disease, Crohn’s disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Inflammatory bowel disease, Lupus, Psoriasis, Rheumatoid arthritis, etc), and many cancers (those which thrive on a high glucose environment).
It's All About the Mitochondria
Perhaps the most important factor related to the gut biome is mitochondria throughout the body. Mitochondria exist in every cell in our body and are responsible for creating ATP – the energy the body runs on.
The gut microbes and mitochondria communicate via signaling molecules (postbiotics) which pass between the gut lining into the blood stream, and even through the blood-brain barrier. The gut microbiota directly regulates the physiological and pathological functions of the brain through the mitochondrial pathway, and the nervous system regulates the composition of gut microbiota through the mitochondrial pathway – it is a two-way path. These signaling mechanisms have an effect on all the modern diseases listed above.
Therefore, it is crucial that the gut lining is healthy and working correctly. A leaking gut results in chaos in the lining with immune responses, bacteria entering directly into the bloodstream, and inefficient communication with mitochondria in the body. Leaky gut also leads to persistent and constant inflammation in the body ultimately resulting in autoimmune diseases. This is also a reason why keto or low-car diets often result in fatigue and brain fog. Bad communication.
Mitochondria are also susceptible to oxidative stress which damages the ATP “turbines” destroying mitochondria leading to cancer in the cell or cell death. PUFAs (polyunsaturated fatty acids – vegetable oils) wreak havoc creating an extreme amount oxidative stress. These oils destroy the mitochondria and force the cells to convert to fermenting glucose to create ATP, which was the pre-mitochondrial way of creating energy. These damaged cells easily become cancerous, and this is why cancer thrives on glucose (sugar).
See...
You can start to see how important gut microbiota and the maintenance of the gut lining is to a healthy body. Mitochondria are the foundation to good health and the two-way reliance between the gut and the mitochondria throughout the body are essential.
What We Are Going to Do About it
To get our gut biome back in order, in addition to adjusting our diets as described above, we will need to re-introduce bacteria that have been killed off by antibiotics, vegetable oils, and glyphosate, and may be introducing for the first time to those who were born via cesarean section.
The process is summarized here. See the details on the The Program page.
- Clean up the gut, fix SIBO/SIFO (Small Intestine Bacterial Outbreak / Small Intestine Fungus Outbreak) via the use of natural antibiotics: essential oils, Curcumin, and Berberine.
- Change the diet, removing damaging foods and working into a timed eating window (intermittent fasting).
- Repopulate the gut with yogurt (fermented dairy)
- Add fermented foods as a regular competent of your eating routine.
Timed Eating
Get onto an intermittent fasting schedule. You should work towards an eight hour eating window or less.
A cup or two of coffee is a wonderful way to start the day (Coffee has polyphenols). The coffee needs to be black of course, no sugar or cream which would break your fast early. It is also a good time to take the Quercetin.
I find it easiest to break my fast around 1:00 PM by taking a shot of olive oil, make and eat lunch, then around 6:00 PM, take another shot of olive oil, then make and eat dinner. Usually, one meal a day will be a big meal and the other a light meal. I try to eat fat with lunch and take my vitamins at that time.
I drink at least two liters of water with Electrolytes daily.
Let's Do This!
Head on over to The Program page and let's get our healthy bodies going!