Approximately 90% of the calories consumed by Americans come from processed foods, which are the primary driver of the chronic disease epidemic. The more food is processed, the more likely it is to cause metabolic damage, mitochondrial dysfunction, and systemic inflammation
Seed oils (soybean, corn, canola, sunflower, safflower) are the single most destructive dietary component in the modern food supply. Soybean oil consumption increased more than 1,000-fold from 1909 to 1999, and linoleic acid intake rose from under 3% to over 7% of total energy — driving a parallel rise in heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and neurodegeneration
Any therapeutic approach to health — whether food, supplement, or medical intervention — should be grounded in the foundational biological reality that humans evolved with over millennia. When you deviate from this principle, the law of unintended consequences is virtually guaranteed to apply
Sent from my iPhone 11+max :-D))
Begin forwarded message:
The fundamental philosophy of health is alignment with nature. For generations, humans thrived without pharmaceutical intervention.
Many of today’s common health issues share a similar root - a growing gap between modern habits and the conditions your body evolved to expect over thousands of years.
A study of 50,359 participants (with hundreds completing brain imaging tests) has found a direct link between higher levels of this and lower ‘brain stress’ linked to hardening of the arteries and increased blood pressure.
What You Can Do: Returning to Ancestral Health Principles
The path forward isn't complicated. It requires discipline, not complexity. The foundational steps are:
1. Eliminate seed oils — Remove soybean, corn, canola, sunflower, safflower, cottonseed, grapeseed, and rice bran oils from your kitchen and your diet. Replace them with stable saturated fats like tallow, ghee, butter from grass fed animals, and coconut oil. Read every label. Seed oils are in virtually every packaged food, restaurant meal, and fast-food item.
2. Eat unprocessed food — If it comes in a box, bag, or wrapper with an ingredient list, it's processed. Build your diet around whole foods — properly raised animal products, vegetables, fruits, and grass fed dairy. Cook at home. Know what you're eating.
3. Minimize pharmaceutical dependence —Work with a qualified health practitioner to address root causes of any health conditions through dietary and lifestyle modifications before resorting to pharmaceutical interventions. This isn't about rejecting medicine categorically — there are rare situations where drugs are necessary and lifesaving. But those situations represent a tiny fraction of current pharmaceutical use.
If you're currently taking prescribed medications, don't reduce or stop them without direct supervision from your prescribing physician. The goal is to work with your doctor to reduce pharmaceutical dependence over time as dietary and lifestyle changes take hold.
4. Support mitochondrial function — Your mitochondria are the engines of cellular health. Support them through targeted nutrition — including adequate B vitamins, CoQ10, magnesium, and C15:0 — while eliminating the primary mitochondrial toxins: seed oils, alcohol, and ultraprocessed foods.
5. Respect the evolutionary template — Beyond what you eat and what you avoid, your body expects a set of environmental inputs that were constant throughout human evolution. Get adequate sunlight exposure. As explained in my SSRN preprint paper, research suggests that sunlight does far more than trigger vitamin D synthesis — it directly influences mitochondrial energy production through photoreceptor pathways in ways we're only beginning to characterize.19
The same principle applies to the other biological signals your body evolved to expect. Move your body daily. Sleep in alignment with circadian rhythms. Manage psychological stress. These aren't lifestyle luxuries — they're biological requirements that your body was calibrated to expect.
The chronic disease epidemic isn't a mystery. It's a predictable consequence of a population that has systematically departed from the biological inputs its bodies were designed to receive. The solution is to return to them. Nature has the answers. It always has
No comments:
Post a Comment