2026-02-18
The main message here is something that I wholeheartedly agree with, having spent years combatting health problems that one has been encouraged to put down to "aging".
In one respect that's correct - it is true that in one's youth one can get away with eating badly rather better than one can get away with it when older. Bad habits catch up with us over time.
Cell voltages deteriorate as alkalinity declines and acidity advances. The immune system may eventually go into some sort of extreme overdrive because it can't cope any more. It flails about. And the symptom may have little to do with the underlying cause. The doctor will treat the symptom but not the underlying cause because they are not trained in nutrition. A drug may bring temporary relief but it's short-lived.
What to do?
I eventually succumbed to a modest "middle-age spread" and went down with random bouts of urticaria. Later these morphed into asthma. I recognised that the doctor was clueless and I was forced to do something ... anything ... but what?
I went on a crash diet eliminating everything that I had rightly or wrongly associated with bad health - so I ate mostly fresh raw fruit and veg and avoided meat bread and anything fermented. I lost weight like mad and had aches and pains (from detoxing toxins that my body had sequestered out of the way in fat because it couldn't excrete them fast enough ... ouch!) but it worked and I felt much better after a few weeks. Well, months actually. Ideally though, consult a nutritionist (if you can find one!).
It worked for me but there must be better ways of doing this.
So the earlier we can start to unlearn the eating "inaccuracies" that we were told in our youth and revert to eating more natural traditional and unprocessed unadulterated foods (and "nothing out of a packet"!) the better. One's health really does progress by leaps and bounds. I've done it. I'm still learning. It's not necessarily simple, because we are all different in various ways, so what worked for me may not work exactly for everyone.
Whilst one can unlearn bad habits, learning the right new habits is a tedious process - do your kids a favour and train them in good habits from the start!
Nevertheless some general advice applies.
Avoid pharmaceutical products - we were never designed to need them. Stick to simple wholefoods that have been processed minimally. Avoid modern wheat (I bake with organic spelt and rye flours - organic to avoid glyphosate, and ancient grain varieties because modern wheat has been engineered for industry purposes rather than for healthy eating). Organic butter cheese dairy cream (watch the video!), organic cold-pressed olive oil, coconut oil and coconut butter (good in coffee!) can be safely used for cooking (avoid smoking high heat) or used cold. Eliminate other cheap seed oils entirely (esp rapeseed) but try to find some Omega 3 oil (butter, flax seed oil, hemp oil, cold pressed organic) in small volumes, not for cooking! Fresh vegetables meat and offal (organic if available) are in principle healthy but the "garbage in = garbage out" principle applies to livestock too. What was that porker fed?
Cholesterol is your friend - your brain thrives on it! There's a reason Alzheimer's is thought to be incurable ... Eat fats that are solid at room temperature (coconut butter tastes great in coffee!). If you've had your gall-bladder removed then supplementary measures may be required to help digest fats.
A couple more important factors - the body must maintain slight but vital alkalinity. Fresh fruit and vegetables (ideally raw) are ideal for this purpose. Don't skip. (Incidentally, cancer requires an acidic local environment). The body will if necessary strip nutrition from your very bones to maintain alkalinity. Don't drive it to that extreme or osteoporosis or worse may ensue ...
Most other foods are acidifying rather than alkalising. Don't panic, it's a balance that isn't hard to maintain once you realise the need. In particular, refined sugars and starches should be avoided as they spike blood sugar levels and create acidity. So most sugars and cheap white bread from modern wheat are deprecated! (But coconut butter in tea and coffee can replace both milk and sugar 😎).
Sounds complicated but makes shopping pretty simple. Costs a bit more but no need to eat so much!
And what price your health?
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For more on healthy living, see Jerry Tennant on YouTube and decide if you really want that root canal treatment.
For more on healing joint problems, see Andrew Tunstall on YouTube and decide whether you really need that knee / hip replacement.
NB: All of the above is anecdotal, and therefore scientifically worthless.
