Traditional Foods I am EATING THIS WEEK to Keep My Immune System Healthy PART II

So, alas I am going to tell you what I have eaten this week, and *more than that* I'd like to tell you a little bit about the prayers, meditations, yogas and exercises I did almost every day as well, since I consider these VERY critical forms of nourishment, without which I strongly believe I wouldn't be able to maintain the spiritual-energetic imprinting necessary to acquire and be *grateful* for these incredible nutrient dense foods!

This week I was really feeling the need to restore my healthy immune system to an even healthier state, so I of course concentrated on gentle rebuilding with my usual diet of extremely nutrient dense traditional foods, as always. I will state upfront that my traditional diet is indeed highly omnivorous, just as the diets of nearly ALL of the traditional isolated *exceptionally healthy* indigenous tribal societies that Dr. Weston Price studied and chronicled in his book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" (refer to Part I of this article for more on that and these universally teeth-n-bone-healthy tribes).

Many vegans and vegan-leaning folks may be put off by this statement (and may more likely be put off by the foods I eat throughout the week below hah), but my research-based opinion is: veganism is not a diet that sustains health indefinitely in MOST of the human population--the key words being "indefinitely" and "MOST" (in the realm of biodiversity there are always exceptions to an observable pattern)--clinical studies *many years in the running* show that long term veganism results in very many degenerative conditions for MOST of the population, especially in old age. These degenerative diseases include osteoporosis and other osteopathologies (i.e. osteopenia), as well as [believe it or not], yes: cancer. Clinical studies aside, what I eat every week has literally saved my life and prevented my dying of AIDS, and veganism not only didn't/couldn't do that, but actually hurt my chances during my period of exploration to try to find myself a life-saving and thriving-producing diet.

At times, veganism caused me to lose even more muscle mass and seemed to increase gut dysbiosis farther and farther, when what I so desperately needed to stay alive was quite the opposite. Veganism has wonderful detoxification implications for me and many others, and is therefore something I do on a very occasional basis, but it simply does not keep most bodies and brains built and running at peak efficiency and numerous scientific and clinical studies confirm that. Please visit http://www.westonaprice.org/tour/vegtourindex.html if you need the hardcore scientific data to confirm what I am stating in this regard. I have seen numerous cases of people experimenting with (and then cyclically falling of the bandwagon of throughout several-years-time-period) veganism and especially raw veganism, which follows exactly the pattern described by these long-term studies.

THAT SAID, here are the results of ALL my studies and personal experiments, which have not only saved my life, but have me feeling like a Raj generally most of the time:

When being awake arrives first thing in the morning, and I am conscious of the fact "I am awake," I curl up under the covers in fetal position and put my hands in prayer in front of my third eye and I pray to God/dess. Sometimes I call He/She/It the many other names it is called by all the religions and cultures of the world, but that's not the point, and I am not the point either. God is, because God is love.

I pray to be merged with the divine consciousness that radiates through everything and everyone and I pray to be attuned to the highest possible purpose of this life on this day which is about to begin-- the highest vision of mindfully being present in the moment and compassionate manifestation and sacred activism that the divine source of love and light has in mind for the unfoldment of my one small, meager human life on this day. And I pray that that unfoldment may touch as many loved ones (blood family and global family) as possible, that the divine may touch their lives through mine and through all things everywhere and always, and that I may help the true progress of compassion and understanding on this planet. That's the basic gist. Thankfully, however you do it varies, as we are all 100% unique. You definitely know what I mean, even as an atheist (feel that desire to act to help others? that's what I'm referring to).

After my amen, I stretch my body in a few different directions while still under the covers to crack some of those subluxations that have built up along my spine throughout sleep. I push my head up from behind to pop my cervical subluxations (subluxations are actually little pockets of trapped oxygen, so when you do this you're oxidatively prep'ing your body for better anti-oxidizing and therefore USE of antioxidants from your food!). And I take two yoga twists, one to one side of my body and one to the other, while still on the bed. I don't even get up off the bed until I've done this, and then things feel right to stand up (see below).

Once I stand up off the bed, almost every day this week (and on so many others), unless I need to go to the bathroom first, I then take the yoga pose (on one of my two yoga mats which is right next to the bed parallel to it) which I lovingly refer to as "back over the bolster." This is a rather simple pose, which perhaps I'll soon post a pic of here. If you don't have a yoga bolster (which you can get any number of from any number of yoga shops), you can do what I do and take *a rolled yoga mat* which you then roll up inside a thick folded army blanket or something equivalent of that nature. The point is you're trying to make a cylindrical, fairly-hard-yet-cushy object to lie your mid-to-upper back down on top of. You are going to place this object so it's perpendicular to the length of your body so that one side of it extends from underneath your left or right shoulder blade to underneath the other one (so that your body together with the bolster makes a cross). You're going to put your legs together, throw your arms back, and let your abdomen and heart/chest be fully opened by the stretch. This opens what Eastern mystics call the heart chakra, what Western mystics call the center of Christ consciousness, and what anatomists know is the center of the immune system since the thymus lives there (and this allows the blood to flow there). I also do the head pushy-uppy thing with my hands folded behind my head in this pose again, while it's dropping back there, which pops even more neck vertebrae into a perfect location, thus releasing even more of those trapped bubbles of oxygen called subluxations, so that anti-oxidizing (which is really just the prevention of the "rusting" of the body) will succeed even better.

If I have a lot to do on this day, which most days I do, I then take a downward dog, a child's pose, another downward dog, an uttnasana/standing forward bend, a plank pose, an upward dog, another downward dog, and another child's pose, maybe a few more of those in that same pattern. Some days, if it is time to rest and luxuriate (i.e. typically Saturday or Sunday or whatever other day of the week is rest time for you), then I don't do this series of poses known as sun salutations, since it doing it (and much of non-restorative yoga asanas) absolutely everyday can burn you out. This is a much more comprehensive topic than I can address here, but all that yoga takes no longer than 10 minutes most mornings. My good friend Kalidas has created a wonderful website on this subject, which brings forth many of the deep mystic truths of yoga for the general public: http://yogawithkalidasa.com/.

I simply don't have time for a full hour of yoga every day (although I do have time for that once a week, in which case I might as well get the guidance of a teacher in the Iyengar yoga studio nearest me--i.e. someone as deeply spiritually knowledgeable on the subject as Kalidas ;) ), but I do the poses I find most uniquely valuable to my body almost every single day. On some more rare days, I do chi-gung instead. Your needs in this regard will vary. As for me, my taking a nice long walk for more generalized aerobic exercise is yet another part of my schedule (late afternoon prior to dinner, most of the time).

It puzzles me how people can stand living or breathing in their human bodies without yoga or something like it aimed at making *the body* feel awesome, and if you don't do some everyday and are thinking about starting as the result of what you've read here, trust me: your life is about to get A LOT better no matter who you are. The knowledge is really accessible now, and the best place to learn is IMO your nearest certifiable Iyengar yoga studio, which there is now one of practically everywhere there is a population (just do a google search for the name of your city or town together with "iyengar yoga" i.e. "dallas iyengar yoga" "oakland iyengar yoga" etc.). Iyengar is a very middle-road approach, not too heated, not too aggressive, yet not too passive; steeped in wisdom and responsible body-based self-inquiry. I am concerned about many kinds of yoga I've experimented with which over-lubricate the joints, as this has pretty obvious bio-mechanical implications for long term osteopathologies--some of these yogas leave you feeling REALLY awesome, but like many things available to consumers that leave you feeling that awesome, I have to wonder about the long term results (which I believe I have observed in myself and others). Iyengar is a very scientific approach, one which brings deep long-term clarity and unification of mind-body-spirit as opposed to some kind of super-duper-high that one gets addicted to chasing after over and over again--been there, done that.

At this point in my morning, I fill a glass of water. That water is Reverse Osmosis water. I could write a whole book on this subject alone, and many have already done so. My conclusion here is a result of reading many of those books as well as not becoming prey to spending two or three thousand dollars on water filtration technology (most of which is based on unprovable science anyhow). Reverse Osmosis is simply the cleanest water you can get, yet not as dangerously clean as distilled water, and you don't have to buy a filter since the filter is already housed in your nearest health food store. Just get some reasonably non-leaking containers (probably sold next to that thing in your nearest health food store or organic-leaning grocery store) and lug them there to fill them up from that thing on about a weekly basis (i.e. I fill up two 3 gallon containers every week and that's my water for the week and sometimes a little longer). If you're drinking tap water or plastic-bottled water (even worse than tap water a lot of the time), this is a change you need badly.

I usually put a little lemon juice in that water and a little clear stevia liquid in that water, to make it more enjoyable and palatable. Stevia gets you the sweetness of a tablespoon of sugar in just ONE EIGHTH a teaspoon of stevia, and has NO GLYCEMIC INDEX (in other words, it has NO sugars in it). It's also been proven to actually be good for your pancreas! If you're trying to get off sugar, get stevia.

Adding lemon juice to one's water protects your stomach acid from not being doused by alkaline water, and believe it or not you NEED your stomach acid for high body alkalinity. This is a subject often misconstrued and misunderstood in raw vegan circles as well; high stomach acid is actually VERY desirable. Conditions like acid reflux (a.k.a. GERD, gastro-esophageal reflux disease) are actually not caused by TOO MUCH acid, but too little. It's having too little that causes harmful micro-organisms like Helicobacter Pylori and Candida Albicans to paralyze the pyloric valve between your stomach and esophagus, which is what causes what little acid you DO have to rise up past a frozen-open valve. This is a very critical point amidst all of my health material and my book contains much more information pertaining to how high stomach acidity is desirable since it is in fact what creates high body alkalinity (there are many fascinating biochemical pathways worth knowing about if you want to try to prove it to your relatives by demonstrating your knowledge of how food moves from mouth to anus). The big picture of the anatomy of digestion is not anywhere beyond your ability to understand it, because it's actually quite a lot simpler than many doctors may try to lead you to believe.

In the middle of drinking that glass of water, which rinses and preps my kidneys for the day, I reach for the bottle of Fermented Cod Liver Oil and pour out a small spoonful. The aftertaste is not the greatest, so I swish it back with more lemon-infused water. I've written at great length about this wonder food as well, and suffice to say it is a big piece of keeping me not only alive, but functioning with high brain capacity. It is extremely high in vitamins A and D for starters, vitamins you just don't really get from pills. These vitamins, along with vitamins K and E, are only possible to assimilate from FAT like cod liver oil. And fermented cod liver oil delivers 30,000 IU of vitamin A per tablespoon. That's not just any fermented cod liver oil though, so don't go running to the health food store (it's not there). It is however, here. More on fats in a few words.

Another thing I take before making breakfast, is a product I've now made available for sale with FREE SHIPPING here on my website, TAS-alpha, or Targeted Antioxidant System-alpha. TAS-alpha is a major glutathione precursor with clinical case studies to confirm its efficacy (email me for the studies). Something of this nature will be critical to regaining a healthy immune system from serious diseases of immune compromise. Glutathione is essentially the "master antioxidant" in the body. No glutathione, death. High glutathione, life. Studies demonstrating this fact are much more conclusive than those on vitamin C, although TAS-alpha will support your uptake of vitamin C, amongst very many other mechanisms. By the way, another of those aspects/mechanisms of TAS-alpha, which very many people are attesting to, is its ability to bring an end to herpes outbreaks for good.

Breakfast. AH! This could go a few different directions, as it did this week. One direction is like this: smoothie consisting of 2-3 raw egg yolks from farm fresh eggs (and I don't mean those *supposedly better* "cage free" [whoop-dee-doo] eggs, I mean the farmer's market straight-off-the-farm product-of-insect-eating-chickens' eggs, a.k.a. FREE RANGE eggs), with coconut milk, maybe some cinnamon and nutmeg, a cup of beet kvass, a cup of kombucha (what are these nutrient dense foods, and how ON EARTH do I make them?!), maybe some blueberries or a little banana if I'm feeling intelligently hedonistic. And as with all my meals, there's a cup of nutrient dense bone broth from FREE RANGE cows or chickens (brand-label corporate-taken-over "organic" will not suffice for making this broth), heated upon my stove. That balances the temperature differential from the somewhat colder smoothie too.

Another way breakfast could go is the farther-proteinous direction, especially if I just did more yoga or even some very-slow weight resistance training with dumb weights (yet another topic too vast to cover here, but one which would benefit your production of growth hormone, SEX hormones, and many other things ;) ). The more proteinous direction requires that the whites of those same eggs be cooked somehow (otherwise the body doesn't assimilate the albumin protein stuff), usually scrambled, often with a whole sauteed onion.

The fats that I saute that onion in are critical, and the subject of much political controversy. After years of researching and debating this subject, I'm practically ready for martyrdom in service of my understanding of this fats issue. The fact is: saturated fats, especially saturated animal fats from free range animals (those with no factory conditions and therefore no hormones and antibiotics) like lard, tallow, and raw butter, are BETTER FOR YOU. It's no wonder the isolated cultures Dr. Price studied always ate them and almost no other fats. They are better for your heart, better for your brain, better for sex, better for cancer prevention, better for teeth and bones, better for childbearing, and better for human life in general. Numerous piles of studies confirm this scientifically beyond a shadow of a doubt, and I am only one member of a very sizable growing body of emergent, defiant researchers who are equally ready for martyrdom on this issue, since it is SO simple and SO provable. We are certainly at risk of pissing off many billion-dollar vested interests with this material, but "thou shalt not tell a lie."

Great works on this issue are those such as Mary Enig, PhD's book "Know Your Fats" or even more revolutionary and helpful to many who are trying to lose weight: "Eat Fat, Lose Fat" by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig (or my book for that matter ;) ). It turns out that the more saturated fat we consume from free range, authentically pure sources, the easier it is for our bodies to BURN stored fat! I know this from personal experience, and have seen these biomechanics at work on literally everyone I've gotten on this diet: eating only saturated fat actually BURNS body fat like nothing else (not only that, it makes it virtually impossible to store body fat in most cases, no matter how much more grains are consumed, i.e. myself). You don't need to run yourself to death on a treadmill. Just switch to all high-quality saturated fats.

Another key point (really the same point biochemically speaking): SATURATED FAT IS PHYSICAL ENERGY AND PHYSICAL ENERGY COMES FROM SATURATED FAT. Eat only saturated fats, and I can attest to the fact that your body will literally become an energy-producing power plant. Here I have to credit the raw vegan movement (and yes, there are other points on which to credit the raw vegan movement which I'm getting to), which has been espousing to the value of non-refined virgin coconut oil for a very long time. There is one very profound reason that coconut oil is such a healthy fat (aside from the fact that it contains capryllic acid, which fights candida overgrowth and is therefore essential to AIDS): it is 94-96% SATURATED. The cell wall of each of your human cells is about 40-60% saturated fat. Lard is also 40-60% saturated fat. Butter is 40-60% saturated fat. Tallow and mutton are also 40-60% saturated fat. Getting the picture? Our cells need 40-60% saturated fat to continue being 40-60% saturated fat, and all kinds of pandora's-box-dimensions get opened up by messing with this natural state of affairs. Dr. Weston Price's studies are the ultimate proof here, with the health of isolated indigenous peoples as the ultimate proving case study (especially in regards to their near-total lack of heart disease and death from cancer).

Here's another tidbit for you: researchers have proven that vitamin K, which only comes from RAW BUTTER (NOT margarine), prevents heart disease. Got heart disease? Get rid of the margarine! Go back to butter (or other raw milk products, which is far outside the scope of this post btw, but vastly covered in "Immune")! It's truly nature's way, and an army of profitable interests is trying to keep you out of the loop. Another soldier in that army is cardiology. Get the real skinny on fats: cholesterol is actually GOOD and PREVENTS heart disease. Go back a few words and read that again, please. It's the warrantless attacks on this supposedly risky-labeled situation by cardiologists, both from a pharmaceutical and a lifestyle angle, which are actually for the most part creating the risk of heart disease in the first place. AND GET THIS: every year, the testable cholesterol markers the cardiologists use to determine your risk actually put people FURTHER AT RISK, as they jack the "dangerous levels" lower and lower to increase the pool of people that they can thereby push statin drugs to (which have also been proven to CAUSE heart disease)! See http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/fats_phony.html for starters on this profoundly critical new research. Dr. Joe Mercola is also an excellent source of research on this key issue.

Saturated fat is energy and disease prevention. Hopefully, this part of my post will produce some comments, and at least some new inquiry. It may be hard to read/hear, but I put it here with unshakable faith in its truth (as the result of now years of research and personal testing), and in how sexy and awesome good saturated fats make the human body and brain feel on an everyday basis. :)

Anyhow, I scramble or fry those eggs in one of those fats (coconut, raw butter, and free range lard are the three I keep in constant rotation), along with a sauteed onion sometimes (very useful for fighting candida), and perhaps with many carb-containing steamed vegetables. My diet is what many people would mistakenly refer to as Atkins diet. I want to be very clear about this: my diet is NOT Atkin's diet, although it is a low carb diet. Atkin's knows almost nothing of fats or of proper sourcing of animal fats and proteins, and although people do indeed lose body fat on a no carb or low carb diet, they do not get the energy they need from saturated fats with Atkins, for the most part. Atkin's diet is provably dangerous in that regard and others! My traditional diet on the other hand is full of caloric, ketogenic energy (from fats) and actually does have plenty of carbs from where nature intended them: starchy seasonal vegetables, roots, and tubers, like squash, yams, zucchini, and potatoes. Farmer's markets are absolutely essential for these kinds of foods. Many times at breakfast, I steam a zucchini or a squash or something of the sort to get my carbs. And you may be thinking "but I wouldn't feel full if I did that." That's because you are saturated fat DEFICIENT (and therefore vitamin A/K/E/D deficient as well). As one adjusts to this new way of eating, one realizes: fat was intended to create that feeling, and the energy it provides isn't a short burst. It's a LONG, STEADY STREAM of kinetic energy that will last you until the next meal or even the next day. Btw, it also enables the uptake of vitamins and minerals to happen SLOWER AND LONGER!

There are many more very critical ingredients to this breakfast, and each is critical to maintaining a healthy immune system and optimal health for many different provable reasons. One of those ingredients is salt. And only one salt will do in delivering the 130+ naturally occurring God-given minerals that salt is SUPPOSED to contain. That salt is pure primordial Himalayan salt from the Himalayas. My book is actually admittedly slightly out of date on this one minor detail: celtic salt is no longer provably as good (nowhere near the same mineral content). This salt is necessary for the steady pumping of the heart, aside from the steady flow of neurons and neurotransmitter chemicals in the brain and very many other critical biomechanical electricity-involving processes. Furthermore, if you're suffering from acid reflux, increase your salt (oh, and email me for supplements to harmlessly increase your naturally occurring, helpful stomach acid on a regular basis)!

And yet again, this is another region of truth that very many medical professions have tried to trample and quiet with great success; when people are advised to cut down on or remove salt from their diet, this can only be referring to FAKE, NASTY, CHEMICAL SALT. The kind you get in little packets at fast food restaurants or in table salt containers most anywhere is NOT SALT. Nature's salt contains over 130 minerals, not just ONE flimsy sodium chloride molecule (as is the case with plain ol' chemical table salt). THAT IS NOT SALT!

A very critical side dish to my breakfast and every other meal of the day: SOME kind of lactofermented food. "Lacto what?!" It's really profoundly simpler than it sounds. Pickles, kim chi, sauerkraut, miso, nato, chutney--all of these were once raw lactofermented foods, and all traditional food-consuming societies consumed them regularly throughout millenia. The levels of vitamin C and digestive juices-protective nutrients you get from these foods is unparalleled. Don't go running to your grocery store to get a jar of pickles or just any sauerkraut. Why? Because they KILLED it with pasteurization (believe me, look much closer at the ingredients). Pasteurization, along with what it does to protect us from the dangerous bacteria *created by factory farming in the first place*, also kills all the HELPFUL micro-organisms which, before industrialization, we were getting literally every day of our lives. And indeed we have suffered, not just from our own lifetimes of not getting any of these foods, but from genetic inheritance from FOUR OR FIVE generations of ancestors (in most of our cases) of people no longer getting these vital probiotics and enzymes.

Guess where the first dose of bifidus probiotic micro-organism comes from in our lifetime? Mother's milk (if we were fortunate enough to get it)! And guess what? If she's deficient in gut bifidus, guess who doesn't get good bifidus? The infant. So genetic-environmental inheritance in this circumstance is fairly simple to understand. We are now suffering from GENERATIONS of damage in this regard. That first spray of bifidus determines that infants' WHOLE LIFE of healthy immunity and robust health and development. :(

These nutrients from lacto-fermented foods protect the gut wall in ways that are intrinsically valuable to literally every process in the body, including the very ABILITY to assimilate nutrients from food, information I now have dozens of pages of scientific research to confirm. "How do I get these protective micro-organisms back if myself and my ancestors haven't been eating these non-pasteurized, RAW lacto-fermented foods all our lives?" you may be asking. The answer is: you take a very powerful homeostatic probiotic supplement along with that lacto-fermented-food-containing breakfast, one which will help your body HOLD ON to those probiotics and start USING them again. This has been proven to have an impact on ALL KINDS of diseases, from autism to alzheimer's.

There is only one homeostatic probiotic sporulating (a.k.a. "attaching") product I can vouch for, which is why I've just decided to start selling it from right here with FREE SHIPPING. Chemically speaking, if a probiotic label tells you it needs to be refrigerated, then it IS NOT HOMEOSTATIC. Any truly homeostatic highly-colonizing probiotic will remain homeostatic at ROOM TEMPERATURE. As I said, I am now offering this probiotic for sale on my site, and if you'd like to see studies (which include studies done on malnourished, nearly dying third world folks in Ecuador, where traditional foods are nearly unobtainable), just email me and I'll send you the PDF's. Many of these studies, unlike with any other probiotic you can get at the grocery store, health food store, or anywhere else on the Internet, are *clinical double blind placebo-controlled studies*.

The probiotic is called Prescript-Assist, and I take it with literally every breakfast. This probiotic has done more to return me to the birthright of vibrant, optimal health than a bucket full of other probiotics that I experimented with for years. Do you EVER have diarrhea? Guess what? It's not supposed to be that way! I haven't had diarrhea now in about two years (you may be thinking TMI, so my apologies, but certainly you ARE into pleasant bathroom experiences, yes??) You are likely severely deficient in helpful micro-organisms if your gut is that disturbed at any regular interval so you are definitely in need of Prescript-Assist. Key to Prescript-Assist is that, as I briefly mentioned previously, it is what ALLOWS your body to HOLD ON to those more TRANSIENT bacteria such as lactobacillus and bifidus. Without it, you can take all the lactobacillus and bifidus in the world and it'll just come out the other end. Sorry for yet more TMI ;b , but I actually mailed my feces in a lab-safe shipment one week to a lab in North Carolina to confirm this fact. If you're taking straight lactobacilli and bifidus supplements and you're low on the deeper-layer sporulating (a.k.a. attaching) organisms you get from Prescript-Assist, it's very likely that those supplements are going straight down the toilet bowl, literally! Ok, I'm done with the pitch, but folks this is seriously "good shit" (sorry, I couldn't resist). ;b

Lunch and dinner this week, just like breakfast, contained the same basic components, biochemically speaking, but just highly varied in MANY gourmet multi-ethnic ways to keep flavors and enjoyability at an all-time epicurean high. Carbs from veggies and starchy root vegetables and tubers and squashes all drenched in fats, maybe with a little raw local honey, fats and proteins from animal and non-animal highly saturated fats, himalayan salt with practically everything, a small serving of lactofermented foods (whether it be pickles or kim chi or Indian pineapple raisin chutney or many other things), always at least a cup of bone broth (whether it's in my soup, or other meaty dishes with Farmer's Market-obtained veggies) and practically every few days I switch ethnicities. Last week I had classic American free range beef chili, enriched with bone broth. Oh, and it was enriched with BEEF LIVER and HEART. Oh my God, he didn't just write that.

Yes, I did. Isolated, indigenous societies that ate nutrient dense traditional foods (which were in truth all isolated indigenous societies, originally) always consumed an adequate portion of animal organs AND glands at regular intervals, either weekly or seasonally in the case of some glands such as adrenal. These organs and glands deliver many critical nutrients that you simply DO NOT get from anything else, and which you will feel ALMOST IMMEDIATELY after eating them, especially if you're daring and eat them raw, in which case yet again: truly free range/pastured sourcing is critical. Most telling is that beef liver is extremely high in B6 and 12, vitamins you are going to FEEL if you're able to get this organ from a free range/pastured source (and therefore a very sustainable and eco-responsible source, by the way). Furthermore, if you think you're experiencing adrenal fatigue, it is critical for you to get these foods, as they are what can solve your problem permanently! Just think about the fact that those cultures Dr. Price studied and how often they ate organs and glands (i.e. every week) and how now, we mostly haven't had these foods our whole lives. There's some making up to do for sure here! By the way, I generally don't taste these foods at all thanks to how I disguise them in my soups and hamburgers and hot dogs now, so not to worry. However, if you really wanna feel like a rock star with raw organs (and believe me, you will), then you'd really dig my raw liver smoothie recipes.

So many of my lunches and dinners this week consisted of yummy classic American chili, pickles, hamburgers (also enriched with liver and heart) from free range/pastured source (seeing pattern yet?). In the middle of the week, I started in on several stored quarts of orange-ginger beef soup with mung bean threads, the broth of which was of course bone broth. As my meatier thing thrown in here and there I also had roasted pork belly. Bone broth (also known as STOCK) tastes great btw, and is what your grandma or great-grandma used to make soup with, so no worries there, believe me.

The other night I made yam hash browns fried in raw butter with salt and raw, local honey as a dessert. Another night I had an ice cream made from coconut fat (email me for details). Today when I went to Farmer's Market, I picked up a pint of farm fresh blueberries, came home and blended them in a can of coconut milk, with some clear liquid stevia, as an afternoon "blueberry milkshake" (gawd, it was SO good).

As a meatier thing, many lunches and dinners contained roasted pastured pork belly with star anise and peppercorns, and another lacto-fermented dish consisted of *smoky and spicy* sauerkraut. MMMMM, that was good with the Southeast Asian-ish orange-ginger beef soup with mung bean threads. I'm looking forward to going back to Thailand soon (figuratively) with lemongrass, coconut vinegar, coconut milk, pastured chickens (upcoming Tom Kha, YAY!).

So the basic pattern is always there: bone broth and lactofermented foods (I'm talking ONE PINT of that stuff lasts a week, you only need two-three tablespoons with each meal at most), maybe some cooked high-vegetable-vitamin leafy greens like kale and collards in there along with all the aforementioned vegetable-based carbs and starches, and ALWAYS the true foods of strength, energy, endurance, and all else that is good and true: highly saturated fats and himalayan salt. And Prescript-Assist with at least one meal of the day to continue on the path to glory.

You may be wondering: what about dietary fiber? I do not ascribe to high dietary fiber as a helpful aid to health. Yes, I know, more controversy. But if you need the research that myself and hundreds of other slowly emerging researchers are more and more thoroughly beginning to publicly defend on this matter, read Konstantin Monastyrsky's work of scientifically stellar research "Fiber Menace" ... turns out fiber ain't so hot clinically speaking! Truth be told, what fiber the body really needs needs to come mostly from lactofermented foods. Fiber, after all, rinses and flushes the gut. And guess what that rinsing and flushing action takes with it? YOU'RE PROBIOTIC ORGANISMS that line and protect the gut! So what food is optimal to get your fiber from? Raw fermented sauerkraut, raw fermented kim chi, raw fermented delicious snappy pickles, raw fermented chutney (with all this mention of chutney I think it's time for a mango chutney-making operation shortly), and other truly lactofermented foods. That's how our ancestors thrived with fiber for millenia, and the truth remains.

One more facet worth mentioning, which survived my years of raw vegan experimentation, is juicing. Juicing is excellent for its high enzyme contents. Any successful battle against cancer is going to contain this element of high enzymes, as long as it's not FRUIT you're juicing, which is indeed SUGAR (sure, not just any sugar but it's still sugar, especially the juice!), and as long as the juicing is the product of a juicer that does not heat the juice to juice it (which destroys the enzymes). Many afternoons I juice celery or cucumber and add a little lemon juice and stevia, and also maybe a little naturally sparkling mineral water, for a pick-me-up (not the kind they just pump full of CO2, be careful to read those labels), for a kind of sparkling lemonade. This goes a long way to keep your metabolism flowing, and feels GREAT. Oh, and did I mention how it protects stomach acidity?

Finally, you might be wondering: how on earth do I obtain the ingredients for and make foods like these on a regular basis, with my exceptionally busy schedule, and at reasonably low cost? Look no further. Why continue to suffer at the hands of multiple bodies of highly conflicting information about the scientific truths and practical-do-it-yourself know-how of nutrient dense foods, continually cycling from one version of the supposed truth to the other (whether that be distributed to you via various fringe foodie movements or the USDA or school lunch programs)? I've done the sorting and searching for you, and compiled the results of that exhaustive search in a centralized location, with step-by-step instructions aimed at making your transition relatively easy.

Generally speaking, the difficulty here is: this food does not come in a PACKAGE. It will be a sourcing mission of sorts, and I've noticed it takes people who read my book awhile-post-reading it to finally move against the programmed cultural conditioning of "well, which box is it in in this store?" necessary to actually TAKE ACTION, but I can promise you: this is a gift that keeps on giving in more ways than one, to you and all those around you.

I beat AIDS in my own kitchen with this sacred knowledge, pressed by the urgency and weight of potential death and my parents having to bury their son. Just imagine what these foods can do for you!