I’ll get into details with links to studies in another post or perhaps in a free ebook that I’ll post a link to. Each one of these affects all of the others. If one is mismanaged, the others will compensate. The body is resilient and there’s is no need to obsess over these. However, if either is mismanaged too much for too long, the others will eventually fail to compensate which will result in “diseases” such as COVIDs/flus, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, literally every chronic illness. In such cases, it is absolutely important to (with minimal stress) obsess over all of these.
These are The Five Things:
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Stage IV REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, the deep and restorative phase of sleep.
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Inputs. This includes what you eat and don’t eat including chemical residues. It also includes regular and proper fasting and everything you inhale and absorb through your skin—almost all “skincare” and bathing products are poisonous—and mucous membranes like your eyes and in your mouth. Of course, this includes all drugs including pills and injections. Almost all of the food in the grocery store is poisonous. The only healthy food comes from organically managed farms, pasture-raised/grass-fed livestock, the wilderness, and the ocean. The healthy food you eat should be as raw as possible. Most seed oils, even organically produced ones, are poisonous when ingested especially after high temp cooking (like deep frying) but some are beneficial internally and topically. Fruit oils such as olive oil and avocado oil are best for cooking, if you must cook. If you must eat grains, they should be whole, organically grown, and sprouted.
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Radiation. Direct sunlight exposure is critical for proper immune function. This is technically an input but so very important on its own. Microwaves, X-rays, and gamma rays are harmful. Some radio waves can be harmful, too. So is some nuclear radiation.
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Stress. While long-term stress causes immunodeficiency and thus “diseases”, short-term stress can be protective as it prepares us to deal with challenges, mitigating long term stress.
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High intensity interval training and/or strength training. It should hurt (but not injure) and you should push through it. No pain, no gain.
That’s it. As mentioned, I’ll go into detail with citations and links (or perhaps a free ebook) on a future date.
There is a sort of “prerequisite” that greatly enhances healing and disease prevention primarily via stress mitigation but also by providing a sense of purpose or meaning which causes one to thrive maximally:
Be your spirit conscience and not your flesh.
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Now go and do the things.
Edit: Thanks for sticky, mods! Thou art gods. :)
Also, minor edit for clarity on seed oils (much more detail to follow) and added emphasis regarding the body’s resilience.
Edit 2: Wow the shillbots (with alts?) with random/obvious bot names are out in full force! Notice they offer nothing in their pseudo-rebuttals? Still, all feedback is greatly appreciated! As mentioned, I’ll provide much greater detail including links to rigorous scientific studies in a future post.
“If you must cook” made me lol.
A little extreme my friend, I sincerely appreciate the dedication to a lifestyle and respect the promotion of this since it’s obviously a very healthy way to live. If there were actual data/studies that showed life expectancy/quality of life eating like you presented vs people that do use canola or veg oil routinely, do cook their food, and do eat produce from the grocery store, that would potentially show what? That people who eat healthier live longer and more disease free lives relative to people who don’t eat as relatively healthy?
I’m nit picking over the food comments no doubt, I just feel like it’s probably the one where you can have a little leeway more than other areas. if you have a bag of twizzlers while on vacation or something you’re not going to get Alzheimer’s from that, I think I just read this post that way and took it as a little extreme. You are only here to help it seems and dead on about the other 4 in my mind. You need sunlight, sleep, excercise, and challenges to overcome (short term stress) to keep life moving forward
For some it isn't about living a longer life, just living a life with less illness, pain, disease, etc. I'm 38, healthy weight, but a year ago my diet was awful and for years I suffered from allergies, IBS, severe bronchitis, asthma, anemia, frequent colds, skin issues, extreme fatigue. I cleaned up my diet (I do 80/20 and don't deny myself anything but 80% of my food is organic and plant based) now I feel great, still working on gut health, but took a year for my body to adjust and clean out the toxins from the years of abuse. I have energy to play with my kids and function again. This alone is a reason to eat healthy, so you can live a more fulfilling life.
I think he missed this part:
Jack Lalanne believed in not eating or drinking anything hot or cold. He lived to be 96. He believed hot and cold foods shocked the body's ability to maintain its optimal balance. His philosophy consisted of a body of former practitioners that seemed to live healthy long lives. There appears to be something to it. So much so. The FDA banned the sale of raw almonds. Raw foods must be irradiated for commercial sale. The argument against this was irradiation destroyed vital enzymes.
Did you know humans are the only mammals that doesn't create its own vitamin C?
Did not know that, but that dude not only lived to be 96, but he was STRONG until late in life. I remember that on his 77th birthday, he swam (in SF Bay, I think) towing 77 rowboats behind him. He was jacked doing only calisthenics.
There must be a reason why humans do not produce vitamin C. I have read that vitamin C's primary role is to regulate blood sugar. This is mostly needed when one eats plant foods, and especially fruits, which are almost pure glucose. That's why vit. C is highest in fruits.
This would indicate (not prove) that humans do not (should not?) eat plant foods, which all have high amounts of glucose (carbohydrate).
The biography on Jack Lalanne is worth investigating. The man deserves more far recognition than what he has gotten.
It's one of many 'curiosities' that strikes me to give pause and think about. Here are other oddities.
♰ Humans are the only mammals to which the adult human brain shrinks.
♰ Mammals produce Galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (α-gal) (Alpha-gal) sugars. However, humans do not have naturally occurring Alpha-gal coating their cell membranes like other mammals do. Galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (α-gal) is a sugar structure found in glycoproteins and glycolipids from all mammals except humans and some old world primates. Is this the reason why humans are not on the predator's menu list? We taste bad? There's common knowledge that human meat tastes bad.
♰ Humans cannot breathe while drinking. Primates can. The plumbing is completely different.
♰ Compared to other mammals including apes, humans are frail and completely lack robustness like all the other animals of the Earth.
♰ Nearly half of humans have back problems. This is not found in primates or other mammals. Gravity itself seems to wear us down.
♰ Hip problems
♰ Knee problems
♰ Astronaut’s circadian clock changes to circadian clock of Mars.
There's far more to this than what I listed. Makes one think as to whether we are we originally from this Earth?
My grand parents ate everything. Maman lived to 95. Poppee lived to 90. I think it's more of a genetic thing. Can changing diet and living healthier extend life expectancy? Maybe but it depends upon so many variables.
You said it. Genetics is one of those variables. However, it is not the dominant one in a sea of toxins and other perils.
"Did you know humans are the only mammals that doesn't create its own vitamin C?"
This is not true, although not terribly far off.
The odd mutation occurred somewhere in our evolutionary past as all gorillas, chimps, orangutans, and some monkeys cannot perform the final step of synthesizing ascorbic acid. There are some other non-primates that can't, guinea pigs being one of them.
This mutation in our ancestors is still a bit of a mystery from what I understand. On its face, it's an incredibly unhelpful mutation and scientists still aren't sure why this mutation became prevalent.
"Our evolutionary past as gorillas, chimps, orangutans, and monkeys," You sir, may have indeed "Evolved", from a monkey. I, however did not evolve from a monkey, a fish or anything else. Man was created, by the Lord.
sigh
I already regret using that language in my comment, so I guess I'll just go for broke now.
Can't evolution be the "how" and not the "why"?
The theory is that it was a mutation just like 'evolution' is a theory being taught as fact. Virology is a theory too. Don't take my word for it, it's what the academics themselves say.... "Germ theory".
Twizzlers are poison. So you are saying that a little bag of poison now and then is ok. Carry on
Some people are fine with every once in a while type of moderation. I’m not going to hell if I eat candy, and this extreme approach to life is admirable and beneficial to many people
Also, no one mentioned hell although I imagine that God would question why you chose chemicals, GMOs, poisons, etc. when He literally provided everything but the relatively small amount of labor involved in catching/gathering (or paying/trading labor for) His natural food-medicines.
Not a big deal either way man this is a legit post overall, just a tad extreme for the majority
Say it aint so...pllleease
I understand the skepticism about vegetable oils, as we have just undergone a 75 year propaganda machine telling us the wonders of vegetable oils. It is embedded into us. To undo this brainwashing, please read the very scientific book, "Deep Nutrition" by Dr. Catherine Shanahan. She does a fantastic job of explaining this.