4 Key Strategies to Help You Avoid Chronic Disease

How many of us nutritionists have encouraged you to favour these oils?

I was marketed this healthy concept of LA in 1995 in a University of Manitoba Nutrition for Health and Fitness class by a top Canola oil researcher.  I encouraged all my family at the time to use Vegetable oil (ironically containing no vegetables but soy, corn, canola and cottonseed).  I now see these as deuterium bombs for our precious mitochondria and avoid them as much as is possible.  I will be forever sorry to everyone I spread that message to ) :

This is why I believe it's possible eating Carnivore, Clean Keto, pH Miracle, and Medical Medium Diets in the right Latitude have reversed chronic disease.

Truth be told, I am a closet Carnivore/Ketovore podcast junkie.  I honestly get a dopamine hit hearing story after story of everyday people who were suffering a variety of severe symptoms of chronic disease transform their lives by changing their diet.  Now I understand why.  They stopped breaking their metabolic engines with Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs) like Linoleic Acid (LA) and keep their diets low in deuterium.  I guess it's my version of watching the Biggest Loser on TV, but in this case they all seem to have permanent happy endings (some as high as 8 years on a Carnivore diet).  This is unlike the contestants on the Biggest Loser that apparently all gained their weight back and more because they did not address their mitochondrial health.

I have also been fascinated by the pH Miracle/Medical Medium diets in my past.  They both restrict LA-rich processed food  But they have their challenges including a lot of plant defense chemicals and in the case of the Medical Medium diet, tropical fruits that can't be sequestered in a northern latitude.  Sadly, I stayed too long on these diets in my Northern climate and paid some health consequences, one as simple as freezing over winter.  When you come out of that deep sleep and know better, you do better.  Today, I avoid the dogmatic diets and prefer what I term a Quantum Sunlight Diet - local, seasonal and latitude appropriate to one's postal code (or local to where you are visiting).   It includes nuances like avoiding seed oils of course and other processed food that is high in deuterium, depending on the time of year.  I have been coaching my clients privately on this and publicly through my Quantum Nutrition workshop.

In the process of creating my Sunlight Protocol, Blue Light Protocol and Cold Thermogenesis Protocol Workshops, I began to stir out of my "REM" sleep and develop the next 3 strategies.

Strategy # 2 - Get Enough Sunlight

Sunlight Deficiency stops melanin production in the skin.  Melanin is a broad term for a group of natural pigments found in most organisms. The pigments are produced in a specialized group of cells known as melanocytes. There are five basic types of melanin: eumelanin, pheomelanin, neuromelanin, allomelanin and pyomelanin.  Melanin is a hot topic now  as we learn how much more it does for our health than help you tan.  Forget wanting to be a millionaire, you should be striving to be a melanaire, rich in all forms of melanin as that is the secret to optimizing health.

We need melanin to detoxify heavy metals. The most common heavy metal in the body is guess? … deuterium!.   One example of a high LA/deuterium diet is the Standard American Diet (SAD) high in PUFAs & processed food.  Another is restaurant fare as the oil used is the cheapest to use for every profit-driven restaurant owner.

If you are eating a high LA diet and are also sunlight deficient, you have low melanin and this leaves you defenseless from the deuterium bombs you are eating.  This scenario leads to both mitochondrial and metabolic dysfunction .  Make sure you are making time for safe exposure to sun. Again my Sunlight Protocol workshop teaches how.