3 Foundational Keys to Fix Your Nutrition
Most people just eat what feels good & buy random supplements that have flashy marketing. That is a recipe for failure.
In my nearly 20 years in the nutrition realm, it never ceases to amaze me how complicated people make eating healthy out to be. By the same token, we easily fall for oversimplified meatheadedness and bro science. Carnivore is the new veganism. Creatine loading is the new collagen-cures-all-ills.
Instead of hype and scare tactics, you can overhaul your health by changing your source blueprint. Here’s how:
1. Eat real food.
Outside of some supplements and bulk items, opt for things that look how God made them and only need your personal touch: meat, fruit, vegetables, and things that spoil. When buying whole grains they should actually be whole (or close to it)– wheat berries, steel cut oats, long grain rice, etc.
Know your farmer. Plant a garden in your yard. But for starters, stick to the outer aisles of your grocery store. Anything processed by someone outside of your home is going to be nutrient-deficient at best, and loaded with chemicals and a glycemic spike at worst. This means nothing in a box, can or package, or as little as possible. Reduce your microplastics and increase your nutrition.
Go to the farmers market. Join a CSA or raw dairy co-op. Buy locally-raised meat. Eat seasonal produce. Support regenerative US farms.
When eating out, choose restaurants and food where freshness is king and servings aren’t massive to make up for quality. Options can be slim, so this typically looks like authentic Japanese food or restaurants that advertise their focus on local ingredients, like grass-fed beef and fresh greens.
2. Focus on high protein & antioxidants.
If you hit one macro every day, make it protein.
This looks like lots of eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, wild fish, poultry & red meat. And clean protein shakes, aka they’re made from whole food and are biologically complete. Be a heritage American and a Biblical nutritionist- eat all the food, especially animal protein– but not exclusively.
Protein also includes good plant sources like chickpeas and pinto beans. True whole grains like einkorn, spelt & kamut are also higher in protein, with fiber & B-vitamins for satiety & energy. If your wife mills these at home, you won’t be able to eat too much because the nutrient density will fill you up on less.
When it comes to your fruits & veggies, don’t skimp.
Eating fresh fruit first thing in the morning or as a pre-workout snack is ideal. Raw sprouts on your eggs or with your dinner, or a packed protein salad for lunch. Seasonal veggies should always be on your dinner plate. If you want to have less diseases and live to see your grandchildren, you must not omit the first foods God gave us to eat. Just avoid old, artificially-ripened, pesticide-ridden and franken-food versions of these things (this includes GMOs & chlorinated baby carrots).
3. Supplement with whole food concentrates.
This may be a shocker, but good marketing videos on Instagram, hired labcoats, athletes that make a living off sponsors, and good keywords on Amazon do not an integral supplement make. Those may not be red flags, but how on earth can you know that what’s in that plastic container is actually a living nutrient that will benefit and not harm your body?
This is less of a problem in nations that have European standards and whose health agencies have a functional definition of “natural” other than: “exists on planet earth and at some point came from a natural compound”. Algae, krill, petroleum, rocks, and pine bark are natural, but they are not part of the human food chain. Fluoride, metal shavings, glyphosate, pond scum and turpentine have no place in your cupboard.
Convenience is your ally if you don’t sacrifice integrity.
Concentrated nutrients are the most effective way to ensure you hit your micro and even macro goals in the age of real food being hard & expensive to come by. But hoping something will fill a gap is not a strategy. You need to be SURE before you put a tablet or capsule into your body, your spouse, or your kids. Here are 3 criteria to determine if a supplement is safe, effective & worth your money:
Beyond-organic raw ingredient standards: made from GMO-free whole foods.
Human clinical proof with 3rd party verification in peer-reviewed literature.
Time-tested: company has been in operation for 5+ years with no lawsuits.
That is not an exhaustive list of criteria. Other factors include being publicly traded vs. family-owned (you want the latter), made in America or Europe instead of China, marketing vs. R&D budget, and retail markup vs. direct-to-customer pricing.
Thats why we’ve trusted the same family-owned 7-decade old whole food nutraceutical company for 15 years in my famil
y. Their business model is multi-generational and integrity first. And their regenerative ingredients are beyond-organic & human clinically proven, packed with concentrated amounts of nutrients that are scarce in even an organic diets: healthy essential fats, hormone & immune-building compounds, all 22 amino acids, chelated minerals, complete families of vitamins, and the micronutrients your body needs to heal itself.
Only your God-designed body knows precisely what it needs for the most important daily functions. That’s cellular nutrition. You can’t just fix what you think it needs based on compartmentalized challenges. Give it what it needs to do its job.
When you give your body all the nutrient families in pure forms, it becomes a self-regenerating, disease-beating, energy-producing marvel. The human body is the pinnacle of creation. Choose wisely.
Trash world calls what God made good bad, and what’s not human-natural good. Satan’s first lie entailed the distortion of food to cause death. The Liar’s children who control our food and medical industries are no different. Don’t fall for the lies.