Nutrition & GNM
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ― Hippocrates
Many people tell me that they eat a really good diet. Here’s the thing: 95% of the people who walk out of my office or say good by at the end of our video session realize that what they thought was a good diet, really wasn’t.
They also had an incorrect idea as to the real role of nutrition in our health.
There’s so much confusion and political hype: eat low carb, eat high carb, become a vegetarian, you’ll lose weight eating meat, you’ll get heart disease if you eat meat, eat lots of protein, become a vegan, eat whole grains, go Paleo, etc.
Truthfully, it’s difficult to know the best way to eat, thus, we do the best we can. We think we’re eating healthy…..and yet we’re not healthy.
Weren't we taught that if we ate a "good diet" we'd be healthy?
Many people tell me that they eat a really good diet. Here’s the thing: 95% of the people who walk out of my office or say good by at the end of our video session realize that what they thought was a good diet, really wasn’t.
They also had an incorrect idea as to the real role of nutrition in our health.
There’s so much confusion and political hype: eat low carb, eat high carb, become a vegetarian, you’ll lose weight eating meat, you’ll get heart disease if you eat meat, eat lots of protein, become a vegan, eat whole grains, go Paleo, etc.
Truthfully, it’s difficult to know the best way to eat, thus, we do the best we can. We think we’re eating healthy…..and yet we’re not healthy.
Weren't we taught that if we ate a "good diet" we'd be healthy?
Paradigm Shift
Well, folks, here's a paradigm shifter for you: Your diet does not prevent or cure disease.
What?? (you're probably thinking I'm crazy right about now).
It's true: what you eat doesn't prevent or cure anything and once we understand the Five Biological Laws of German New Medicine, we realize how true this statement is. This little tidbit is what has been missing from discussions about diet and nutrition for the past few hundred or so years.
- Have you ever tried a diet to lose weight because your neighbor lost 40 lbs with a certain diet only to find that you gained 5 lbs on it?
- What about that star athlete who eats all the "right" foods and drops dead of a heart attack in his early 40's?
- Or what about that restrictive diet (Paleo, Atkins, vegan, macrobiotic, _________ (fill in the blank)) that your best friend is always trying to get you to try and s/he seems so super healthy and yet when you try it you feel awful?
I know many people who fall into these categories; maybe you do, too.
Here's what I know: Understanding biological laws that are true for all living beings gives us a different perspective on nutrition and diets.
Very few people are currently combining German New Medicine with Nutrition on the planet today.
But I am.
New Role of Nutrition
So, is diet important?? Absolutely! But not necessarily for the reasons you may think. I cover all this in my online program, Beyond Holistic Medicine: The Biological Wisdom of German New Medicine.
It's important to know: There is not one diet on the planet that is correct for all people, all the time, which is why I tailor programs depending on your current symptoms using my extensive background in nutrition.
I have personally followed many different diets (carnivore, omnivore, vegan, vegetarian, raw foodist, Living Foodist, Paleo, WAPF, GAPS, high fat, low fat, high carbs, low carbs, high protein, low protein, South Beach, and probably a few more I'm not remembering) and I've taken training or been certified in many of these.
More factors that play a role
Here are a few additional factors I use in determining diet:
1. Bio-individuality
2. Lifestyle
1. Bio-individuality
- We no longer live in groups of people of the same ethnicity, staying healthy by eating native foods our ancestors have eaten for eons. Indeed, we don’t always even know what our ancestors ate! That is how far removed we often are from our own roots. America, in particular, has become a melting pot of genetic differences. Our genetic differences and our beliefs about our genetic differences can play a factor in choosing certain foods over other foods.
2. Lifestyle
- Do you tend to live on screech, running from a full-time job to carpooling the kids to soccer practice and piano lessons, to picking up pizza for dinner, to exercising, to…..and so on and so on? Or do you sleep deeply, awaken naturally, eat properly prepared organic whole foods in a quiet environment savoring every bite, get fresh air daily, commit to several hours per day of meaningful work, seek out our friends for deep conversation, and engage in spiritual practices on a regular basis?
The first lifestyle depletes the body of protein, vitamins A, B complex, C & E, cholesterol, essential fatty acids and essential minerals.
Several years – or decades – of this depletion weakens the body which means we may have more complicated Healing Phases (what is traditionally known as "being sick").
Chronic issues begin to pile up because our system is not strong enough to finish its biological programs. We may even chock them up to “getting older.”
It doesn’t have to be this way.
3. Toxicity
Several years – or decades – of this depletion weakens the body which means we may have more complicated Healing Phases (what is traditionally known as "being sick").
Chronic issues begin to pile up because our system is not strong enough to finish its biological programs. We may even chock them up to “getting older.”
It doesn’t have to be this way.
3. Toxicity
- American food is grown in deficient, chemical-laden soil producing nutrient-deficient, chemical laden food. It is sent to huge factories where it is altered beyond recognition and then boxed or bagged. It is shipped across the country where it will sit on a shelf….sometimes for a very long time.
- Please know this: there is no such thing as junk food! There is junk……and then there is food. Period.
- This junk weakens the body over time; it does not support it.
4. Other factors:
- Age: As children, our nutritional needs change frequently as we grow. As adults, our nutritional needs often change approximately every ten years if there are no mitigating factors such as being pregnant, gaining or losing a great deal of weight, chronic stress, etc. Is your diet keeping pace with this?
- Gender: Let’s face it: while men and women are all human, they are different, and thus, may have different nutritional requirements.
- Finances: A difficult fact, yet true. Real food costs more than junk. Real food lays the groundwork for real health. Junk weakens the body and makes healing more complicated and expensive.
A Plan For You
- In a consultation, we develop together an eating plan of food your body needs to fit your current lifestyle taking into account your age, your gender, your desire (or not) to cook, your finances, your unique biochemistry, & your ancestry. I will repeat:
There is not one diet on the planet that is correct for all the people, all the time.
Regardless of whether you want to eat meat, eat Paleo, be a vegan, be a raw foodist, be a vegetarian, eat gluten-free, or keto or any other diet you can think of: I can help you design the best plan for yourself.
I ask everyone to be open to embracing new ideas because the best plan for your health may not be the plan you desire. Sometimes it works out that way and other times what you want to eat is exactly what you need to eat! (Bacon: here I come!) ;)
To learn more about the best nutrition for you, contact me now!