“If you ancestors ate it, it’s probably good for you. If scientists invented it in the twentieth century or later, it’s probably poison.” – Dr. Philip Ovadia
It’s a strange time. Civilization is at the height of knowledge and technology. Yet people have seem to have accepted:
Over 60% of adults are on prescription drugs.
Chronic diseases are more prevalent than ever, even though over 80% of them are preventable.
Longevity is decreasing.
Birth rates are falling.
People have come to accept they will spend the last decades of their life declining in health, slowly dying, in a nursing home.
None of this is normal. Only a few generations ago, these realities were unknown and unthinkable.
What happened?
We have abandoned common sense, and centuries of healthy eating, in a few decades. Inexplicitly, we’ve left our health up to other people. The problem is, virtually none of what we’ve been told is rooted in biology. Government standards and recommendations are driven by money (corporate influence), not science. The evidence is in the results: The more we have followed their health advice, the worse off we have been, yet they still double down on their failed recommendations.
How do we know what to believe when it comes to knowing what to eat? It really isn’t that hard, and Dr. Philip Ovadia’s quote at the beginning speaks to that truth.
Eat what your body is designed to eat.
It’s not made to eat processed, factory foods. It needs relatively little sugar, carbs, and fiber to survive. Humans are classified as omnivores, but our biology is designed to operate optimally by primarily ingesting animal-based foods. As Dr. Ovadia has said, the food pyramid is completely upside down.
Our abandonment of basic biology has had other devastating effects as well. Molecular geneticist Michael Nehls has written:
“More and more people under the age of sixty-five” are seeing signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. “…age is not the cause…hippocampal dementia takes time due to an unhealthy lifestyle…dementia or Alzheimer’s disease is a modern phenomenon or a modern disease of civilization.”
Healthy lifestyle maintains brain function well into old age. One cause comes from the upside down food pyramid, which gives us a serious, macronutrient deficiency: Lack of protein. As Dr. Gabrielle Lyon details:
“Your bones, ligaments, tendons, liver, brain, skin…are all built from proteins…Proteins are the master regulators of all that is happening in your body, controlling function in all tissues and organs…Proteins facilitate critical cellular functions, including balancing hormones, and serve as vital immune-system mediators…protein [is] critical for longevity, metabolic function, and quality of life.”
Yet government RDA for protein is basically at the bare minimum for survival.
Neither the government, nor corporate or medical culture, is concerned about your health. On purpose, captured by profit motive, or both, it doesn’t matter. The result is the same. Miserable health and compromised longevity for all of us. You don’t have to accept this as your fate. Dr. Ovadia writes:
“You can live healthy your whole life and die in your nineties. We shouldn’t have a ten- to twenty-year period of our lives where we’re progressively dying day by day and miserable the whole time.”
Science and common sense are our weapons to win this war.
We already lost too many battles. Time to turn the tide.
Darrick Dean 