We are fearfully and wonderfully made. Our bodies are complex and intricate but its needs are quite simple. We need two things only: the taking in of nutrients and the removal of toxins. Nutrients are primarily animal foods, some plants, and sunshine. For the removal of toxins, we need a lot of sunshine, especially morning sun, clean, natural water, nature and community. Every symptom we have is but a communication to add a nutrient or remove a toxin. For example, anorexia is asking for zinc, PCOS is asking for the removal of sugar.
Through the work that Weston A. Price and Mary Ruddick have done with modern tribes that still maintain their traditional lifestyle and diet, we witness the potential of human health. These people have zero chronic, physical or mental illness and die in their sleep in their 90s and 100s. With just the introduction of maize and corn oil, they begin to experience parasites and infections in one generation, living in the same exact environments before those two industrialized “foods” were introduced.
Genetics
Our DNA has no idea that we are no longer hunter-gatherers or small, community pastoral humans. Our bodies expect the same lifestyle that the modern, ancestral tribes hold on to. We have introduced disease by not eating and living the way that our bodies require. Everyone’s root cause for their condition is being disconnected from nature, from reverence, food, singing, sunshine, community, soil, the frequencies in nature, fire, forests, movement throughout the day in the form of hunting, farming, dancing, walking, working with our hands, etc. Nature was made for us and it holds the keys to our health.
We are all made up of 90% non-human cells. Those cells make up good and opportunistic microbes and pathogens. As long as we are eating very local to our area and our food comes from living soil, we are feeding the good and opportunistic microbes which have a symbiotic relationship, we need both kinds. Once we introduce starch and sugar, we are creating and feeding overgrowths of the opportunistic microbes which demand more starch and sugar (it is NOT your willpower that fails you when you swing by Krispy Kreme, they are VERY demanding), then release toxins causing mental and physical illness. Eating ancestrally does not mean eating WHAT our ancestors ate, it means eating HOW they ate.
Needed and Unneeded Foods
We need a lot of animal fat, a good amount of protein, and it is nice to have some seasonal and local vegetables and fruit. We learn which plants are good for us and which ones cause illness like nightshades and no mammal can safely eat corn without it going through a 5-step preparation process called nixtamilization. We learn that insoluble fiber is very difficult for a person with a compromised microbiome and that some soluble fiber (low lectin) can clear our bile of toxins including recirculating hormones. We use meat stock (not bone broth) to literally rebuild the gut and gut lining. We remove high oxalate and lectin foods, the former accumulates in the soft tissues of the body causing us to not absorb nutrients and build up as one of the cause of plaque in our arteries. We remove a lot of foods temporarily so that we can heal and eat what we choose in the future, learning how to prepare food safely in the future. For example, bread should only be made with ancient grain, sprouted, dried and milled, then fermented for 72 hours or more. This brings the gluten down from 72,00 PPM to 12 PPM. The ancients knew this was the way, the sourdough in the Bible was fermented for 7 days. No human can break down gluten and 72,000 PPM is impossible. We remove sugar, seed oils, grains and some starches. All of these are inflammatory and when we spike our blood sugar with sugars, grains and some starches, we suppress our immune system for 24 hours. The three foods of cancer are Omega 6 (seed oils), glucose (from the standard American diet) and glutamate (stressful lifestyles and processed foods). Cancer, like all chronic illness is reversible with the proper nutrients in and toxins out.
98% of genetic disease is reversible. Genes do not express, ever, without the proper environment and energy. Even if a person is born with an illness like Cerebral Palsy or Down Syndrome, optimal food and lifestyle can give them a wonderful quality of life. And in future generations, these illnesses will become obsolete. The Big Four (Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes Type 2 & 3, Chronic Respitory, and Autoimmune) would disappear by eating and living ancestrally. Mental illness and learning disabilities would disappear. They not only WOULD but DO, everyday when someone changes their food and environment.
We need high cholesterol to clear inflammation and to make our hormones. We need to LOWER triglycerides. LDL and HDL are not cholesterol, they are lipoproteins that carry cholesterol to do it’s job. We want high cholesterol on a healing journey, it is healing us! The number for cholesterol used to be 300 an with the invent of statins, they lowered it to 200. But much higher is also fine as long as we are not eating processed carbs, improperly prepared grains and sugar.
Red meat is the only single food you could live off of and thrive for the rest of your life. Raw milk has it’s own natural defense mechanism and never goes bad. Pastured eggs are a super-food. Sunshine restores hormones and 50% of our micro-biome. Fermented dairy and plants repopulate the good microbes in and on our body. Natural water provides minerals and detoxification. Being bare foot in nature and in healthy community raises our electrical charge, detoxifying and reversing symptoms.
We are currently in the largest famine in history. Our people are overweight but starving. The Great Chinese Famine took 3% of the total population. We lose 70% to chronic illness every year and the second leading cause of death of people ages 14 to 34 is suicide. We need immediate and widespread education so the people know how to live and how to eat. We need a mass exodus back to an ancestral lifestyle.
Toxicity
The modern human is generationally toxic. We have had metals, parasites, plastics, chemicals and trauma passed down to us in our bodies. Your nervous system was formed in your maternal grandmother’s body. For the last 200 years, there have been a lot of things that our bodies have never had to deal with before and we are seeing the results of it! But there is no reason to worry because we can detox, our bodies were made to detox! We reopen our detoxification pathways and if needed do targeted cleanses after we see what the body releases on it’s own.
Hobbiton
Imagine the human that lived in a rural setting more than 500 years ago. This is what we want to recapture and apply to our modern lifestyles. Our autonomic nervous system had no idea we are no longer this ancestral human. The Industrial Revolution has brought about great change that neither our microbiome nor our nervous system understand. Being indoors all the time affects our nervous system the same way being at war does, it thinks we are sick or hiding. Email notifications, driving, flying, stress at work are all seen as a predator attack to our nervous systems, it does not understand words or thoughts, it only knows emotions and reactions. So many modern humans are stuck in chronic fight, flight, freeze, or fawn and stay in sympathetic dominance. The term “stress” was not used to describe how we feel about our lives until the 1920s or 30s. The truth is that we are no longer resilient. It is not the stressor that is the problem, it is how resilient the person is going through the problem. Two people can go through the same event, one can handle it well and the other not so much. Humans beings ill with overgrowths, metals, pathogens and toxicity are inflicting trauma as well. Addiction is microbial, mental illness is a lack of nutrients and a toxic load. It is a cycle that we can all break for ourselves and our future generations. We learn how to calm the nervous system of which 70% is in the gut. You cannot separate the two!
In fact, we regenerate the entire body as a system, not different systems. We restore the microbiome, regulate the nervous system, balance the hormones and the immune system happily follows along. Your body always wants to restore and it is always trying to bring you back to health, every symptom you have is a communication from your body telling you it needs support. We will learn to listen and restore our intuition.