Low Burden Diet 

 

We can say so many things about diet.  Some dietary guidelines, like my diet for autonomic nervous system imbalance, are manipulative.  Some are nutritional. Some are based on various principles which may be sound.  There is one goal which simply must be accomplished for anyone to enjoy optimal health:  

Each person must eat well below the threshold of his or her gut and elimination powers!  

 

Regardless of choices or preferences, no one is ever healthy if their liver cannot keep up with the burden, if the lymphatic system is overloaded, if the enzyme production is exhausted, if the compensation for inflammatory particles is insufficient, etc.  

For this reason, when it comes to the optimal diet, the first discussion that anyone should have is the one about burden on the body and THRESHOLD!!!  

 

I like the word threshold because it allows us to remember that it is unique for each person.  Forget about what you think you should be able to eat or do or be exposed to.  The only thing that matters is that you stay well-below the threshold where you stop healing and start just trying to adapt to the stress of food.  

 

There are two important partner concepts:  

 

1.  Increasing the threshold.  
By improving liver action, taking Zypan with every meal and snack, and/or using cayenne pepper in water 15 minutes before each meal, or by drinking hot carminative teas with meals, we can increase the body's ability to manage the stress and load placed on it.  

 

Exercise helps move digestion, fluid and energy and helps increase the threshold most of the time (though we have people with slow, congested livers who are stressed, rather than helped by exercise).  

 

Chi Gong exercises for organ function and digestion helps to increase the threshold.  

 

2.  Tools for staying below the threshold.  
The things to think about when lowering burden on the body are these:  

 

Chemicals, including: chemicals sprayed in your house, chemicals on your skin and hair, chemicals on your laundry.   Avoid all chemicals you do not absolutely need.  Dryer sheets, for example, are harmful and totally unnecessary.   Pesticides can be sprayed around the house pretty effectively, they need not be sprayed inside the house.  GMO foods are loaded with chemicals which need not be ingested if you just choose non-GMO options.  

 

Enzyme rich food: Note: there is no way to supplement with enzymes and match the efficacy of enzyme-rich food.  It is ludicrous.  Instead, we must eat raw, ripe fruits and raw vegetables with enzymes intact.  Raw food can be initially a little stressful because of the cleaning of the mucus membranes.  It can also be hard to keep the stomach working, which is why we normally do not do 100% raw, or we use hot carminative teas with meals to improve stomach activity.  One can also simply take Zypan with every meal and snack and will insure that the stomach stays warm and working.  
 
The most enzyme rich food and the fastest way to develop a surplus of enzymes (which will lead to just feeling good, flexible and pain free all the time), is fresh, ripe fruit.  A little ginger powder and perhaps cloves will help with this.  

 

Some foods create a lot of inflammation.  Because of this, many secondary activities take place which are normally not needed.  These will deplete enzyme stores and gradually weaken and deplete the body overall.  For this reason, I recommend strict avoidance of the following:  

 

Modern wheat  
Dairy protein of all forms  
Soy and all soy products (especially soybean oil)  
Corn and all corn products (including corn starch but especially high fructose corn syrup)  
Peanuts  
Chocolate  

 

While the last two might be okay, experience has taught me that it is best to avoid the whole list in the beginning.  
 
I have mentioned it before, but scrupulously avoid all GMO foods.  

 

Also, all chemical non-foods should be scrupulously avoided at all times, forever.  If the food is full of chemicals, obviously, do not eat it or drink it ever.  

 

In general, we should avoid all packaged food also and anything that seems to have an unrealistic shelf life.  Many things we use as preservatives or stabilizers for food are enzyme inhibitors.  This may be part of why you can go to Paris, as I have, and eat whatever authentic local food you want to and never get inflamed.  But you come back to the states, have two bites of a pastry and you are miserable!  We think this is due to enzyme inhibitors freely used in packaging and commercial products (like glaze, flavorings, cream cheese, etc.), which may not be in the ingredient list.  In fact, packaging may have chemicals sprayed on the inside to sterilize it before even really healthy food is put into it.  The result is healthy food being harmful!  

 

Simply put, we mostly want fresh produce, real meats from organic, wild, and grass fed sources (avoid farm-raised fish, for example), bulk supplies of nuts, seeds, dehydrated herbs, etc.  We avoid anything in plastic packaging if we possibly can.  We learn how to shop for what in cans and boxes.  If we must make bread, we do not do it often and use heirloom grain (spelt, kamut, einkorn) to make very sour sourdough bread (note this is not sourdough flavored bread like California sourdough is, but the real thing, normally made at home).  

 

70-90% of all food intake should be raw fruits and vegetables.  

 

Simple meals are far better than complex ones. Too many different kinds of things will always spell disaster in the body.  Keep it simple.  

 

Finally, when talking about threshold and burden, the obvious subject that should be discussed is volume.  Too much food is too much food.  Regardless of how much you should be able to eat, if you cannot handle that much, no matter the quality, the official recommendation is to eat less!  Learn when your gut is sedated and overloaded and avoid that sensation always!  For many people, this might mean fresh juice for breakfast, a light fruit salad a couple hours later and then a raw salad with some protein (fish, sprouted and low-heated lentils) for lunch.  Then just fresh juice again for the evening meal.  Adding Jurassic Green to the juice will make it last a lot longer as far as energy and satiety is concerned.