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Diet Controversies by David Wolfe October 2011

Copyright2011 David Wolfe and New Horizon Health, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Page 1

Diet Controversies & Cellular Energy MechanicsDavid Wolfe at The Longevity Now Conference Costa Mesa, California

What a weekend, right? There have been many great presentations and

so much incredible information. We are going to roar into the night!

Some of you are going to stay for the Master's Workshop tomorrow.

Tomorrow I'm going to show you how we make chaga tinctures. Ill take

you through the whole process how you can make medicines at home

out of wild ingredients, which are essentially almost for free. The alcohol

is the only thing that really costs anything. We are going to do that

tomorrow, and I'm going to take you through a bunch of pictures of reishi

and chaga and power spots that we were referencing earlier.

But right now we are going to get into the diet controversy. I mean, I have

never seen a vegan stab a punching bag until today! It's kind of

interesting. Not just Mac Danzig, but a lot of the MMA fighters are actually vegans and raw foodists.Recently I started following one of my favorite female fighters, and she immediately pinged me back

and said, "I'm a superfoodist raw foodist. Here's a picture of me with your book." She's one of the

top in the world. Nick Diaz, one of the top guys, has basically been a raw vegan since he was 15. He

eats a little fish, some eggs occasionally, and they asked him why. He said, "There's no way I could

train like I do if I ate other stuff." So we are going to get into the ins and outsthe pros and cons of

different diets.

To begin, we have to talk about the whole nature of diet and this idea that you can change your diet.

That's a fascinating idea, that you can change your diet. And we are going to talk about our

ecosystem and what could be carved out of that ecosystem. We take it for granted that I can talkabout chaga mushroom, or that I even know what it isthat I know all the research history of chaga

mushroom. That information was not available to Native Americans. That was not available 1,000

years ago; it was not available 100 years ago. So a luxury that we take for granted, that we can

change our diet, is a major factor in diet.

We are going to go through all the different diets, the pros and cons, and then we are going to talk

about live-its. You guys want a live-it or die-it? A friend of mine said, "Cooked food is in the past. Live

food is now. You can't be in the now if you are eating cooked." I thought that was an interesting

analogy. But then, what about the problems? For some people,

raw doesn't feel right; it doesn't work. They do it for five years

and it's not working out for them. So we are going to get into

thatthe pros and cons, the ups and downs.

Generally, I agree with Kevin Trudeau. I'm kind of easygoing. I

don't care what anybody eats. I really don't. Some people say,

"Oh, you've got to be a vegetarian because of the ethics," and

some people say, "It's okay to eat meat because that's our

given right and we can do it and it's okay and" you know,

whatever. I definitely feel like the major problems are what

Kevin pointed outthe toxicity in the food supply, the toxicity

in our environment, the electromagnetic pollution, and oursedentary lifestyles. Those are major issues, for sure.


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Like the water quality and what's going on with water. I'm a total water snob, obviously, so when you

come up and ask me, "What's the best water purifier" Is that the worst question ever or what?

"What about the Kangen water machine? Which one should I get? What about shower filters?"

First of all, if you don't get a filter, you are going to become a filter. You need to get filters on

everything. If you are on municipal water, you've got to get filters on everything so that you are not

getting exposed to the chlorine, the fluorine there are something like 70,000 different chemicals

that have shown up in our water supply. Almost as much as what we've dumped into the

environment. It's almost that high. So now we've got to back up and ask, "Okay. How do we protect

ourselves?" Get filters on everything.

Is your body your junkyard or templewhich is it? The soul is in the temple. The body is the temple

of the soul. So all that processed food and junk food, food that has to be frozen, anything like that

all of a sudden, that's a big issue, isn't it?

The development of the technology for drying superfoods and herbs

comes out of China. Historically that's where it was all really comingout of. They had the greatest civilization for the longest period of time,

and this idea of doing dried herbs and being able to ship them a

thousand miles all comes out of China. Now we know exactly what the

best drying techniques are and how to get that from A to B to youso

that you don't have to suffer from macronutrient deficiency or the

other big part of all this diet controversy, which is micronutrient

deficiency.

We love diet controversies. Everybody loves controversy. That's the

hottest thing. Weird Hollywood diets. Ive got to read about that. Ive

got to know what stars are really eating. We finally got into

Hollywood. That's amazing. After all those years, fifteen years we've

known each other from back in the old days, all the way to right now.

We finally got the raw foods and the superfoods into the conversation.

The possession of the concept of a diet.

How blessed we are that we even know that we can change what

we eat. In the old days, here is what happened. When a group of

people moved into a certain area, a shaman figured out what they

needed for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and for all stages of the lifecycle from young baby all the way to ninety. That would be

sussed out over a period of maybe 100 to 150 years by the

medicine men of the tribe, or the medicine women of the tribe.

And that would be it. People would get locked into a diet pattern

that would be in place for 1,000 years. There was no luxury of

knowing that maybe they could eat something else, or that maybe

there was another way to go about it. But we have that luxury. It's

one of the greatest luxuries that we have.


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There is a little nation in South America called Suriname. It was a

Dutch colony about three hundred years ago. When that area was

colonized by the Dutch, they brought black Africans over; and after

a while, some of the Africans said, "Forget this. We're skipping

slavery. We're out of here." And they literally took off into the

jungle. They are called the Maroons.

The Maroons developed a completely different lifestyle from that of

the Native Americans and the Dutchdiet, herbal medicine system,

way of living, way of constructing their shelters everything. So in

this little area for hundreds of years there have been at least three

races of people all living out of the same ecosystem, but on a

completely different diet, on completely different nutrients, on

completely different herbs, with different ways of building shelter,

different ways of bathing themselves, everything.

I bring that up because we have a presupposition oftentimes thatthere is only one way to do it. "There is a forest; there is the

mushroom, that's obviously our medicine, that's the only way to

live." But is that the only way to live? The answer is no. We can

carve a number of different ways of life out of a certain ecosystem

as they did in Suriname. What is interesting is that, upon reflection

and upon scientific analysis, the Maroons actually developed a

superior herbal system than the Native Americans had there in the

same ecosystem. The Dutch didn't have any really sophisticated

system, but the Maroons and the Native Americans did.

With the development of scientific inquiry, we figured out that we

could catalog these plants and find out what they are actually doing.

Thats how scientists found that the Maroons had the most

sophisticated knowledge in that ecosystem even though they

were latecomers into the ecosystem.

So we could relook at our whole environment whether that

environment is Southern California, Northern California, North

America, the boreal forests of Canada, the Hawaiian Island chain,

Europe, Russia, South Africa, Indonesia, or Asia and reassess. Wecould make a whole other way of life out of that same ecosystem.

That's the luxury that we have, and that's what's possible now.

One size does not fit all.

So as we go into these diets, I will reiterate what Kevin was saying,

that not one size fits all. Know there is some adaptability and malleability where you can change

yourself. You can change your diet, and change the expression of your phenotype. Do you know what

that means? Some people are like, "Phenotype. Change the expression of your phenotype. I know

what that means. Honey, what does phenotype mean?" That's the way your genetics expresses itself

to become you. So it's how you look. It's how you breathe. It's the twinkle in your eye. It's the way

you digest food. It's the structure of your organs. That's your phenotype.


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Interestingly, the reason we have this new perspective is because of travel. Traveling changed it all

around. Before, you were just on foot, and that was as far as you were going. When the horse was

developed as a mode of transport, we got into the horse and buggy, and then roads, and then

eventually trains and cars and planes.

Mark Twain lived during that period when all of a sudden the iron horse came into being and there

was a little bit more ability to go places. He believed that traveling is the best education. Travel is

fatal to bigotry, prejudice and narrow-mindedness." Because through travel you start realizing, "This

is amazing over here," and then "these people are amazing," and you can see genius manifest in

many different ways. With travel, I can see how other people live. I could go over to China and check

out their whole herbal system and see what we've got similar to that growing on this side of the

ocean.

The Maroons their genius about herbs is unmatched, probably in the whole world. The level of

genius of those people in that particular area is outrageous as much as any genius in computer

science. It's as much as any genius in our Western paradigm of government, as much as any genius in

any area of inquiry.

The speed of communication determines the level of technology.

The faster the communication, the greater the technology. What determines a resource? The state of

technology. So when somebody says, "We've got peak oil," they're probably trying to sell you

something. "There's only a certain amount. It's going to peak off and thenThey are probably trying

to raise prices on you. Aren't they? They are! Do you think we've hit peak oil? No way. There's

probably thousands of years of oil in the Earth or more at the current pace of usage.

Not that I'm into that or want to do anything with that. But ultimately, what's going to flip us out of

that oil production is a technological innovation. Technological innovation has been retarded

purposefully we know that now. But people have already come along and figured out how to

create flying machines that move with no friction, people like Viktor Schauberger. Do you remember

when the Nazis flew out of Germany in those flying saucers? Who developed that technology? An

Austrian water wizard by the name of Viktor Schauberger. He figured out how you can move a plane

without pushing it you actually screw it into the future. You screw it into the future, the double-

spiral, and it's like a tornado. You tornado it into the future, where you create a suction in front of

the craft that "whooooohw!" pulls it forward.

All that stuff has been created. It's all here now. Just because the conventional discourse doesn't

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Eventually, what's going to happen is

there's going to be a little free energy

device available to you in your home that

you can replicate using plans that are on

the internet.

Is free energy possible? First you have to

believe it. What did Napoleon Hill say?

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive

and believe it can achieve." I can conceive

and believe in free energy, so it must be

possible, and there must be a way to

achieve it.

Folks have actually figured out how to achieve it, and all that has to be done is to scale it up. All you

have to do is get a wheel turning indefinitely, like a bicycle wheel. We already have that technology

in every home. Everybody has a bike. So all you have to do is to be able to get that thing turningindefinitely and you have free energy. If you can get one bicycle turning indefinitely, then you could

get ten, then you could get a hundred. You could scale the whole thing up get flywheel technology

going, where you get so much momentum going so fast that you are not going to be able to stop it.

Flywheel technology for automobiles was totally suppressed in the 1950s. What's a flywheel? It's a

big wheel that has a high amount of weight on the outside, and once you get that thing spinning, it's

"szu-szu-szu-szu," spinning so fast there's nothing that will slow it down. All this stuff is already here.

And the speed of our communication is now making it possible for us all to become aware of it.

In the diet field, what's happening is we are starting to be aware of all the possibilities. In the old

days, you would go to the doctor and they'd give you a doomsday reportbreast cancer, you have to

do this, this and this. Now you can say, "Hold on a second, doc. Let me get on the internet." So you

go online and find outI can have the best day ever, I can smile, I can laugh, I can do yoga, I can take

the best tonic herbs in the world, I can do a raw food diet, I can eat superfoods, I can walk every day,

I can get in the sun, I can drink the best water ever, I can bathe in wild mountain springs, I can fly

anywhere in the world with medical tourism and get any treatment I want. Communication allows

that to be possible. The internet allows this. And that's magic.

When Jesuit priests and all different kinds of white

people came into the Amazon and they started going

upriver, they found a group of Native Americans whohad figured out a cure for malaria which is quinine.

The white people took that plant and showed the

Native Americans downriver, and they were like, "Well,

you figured it out." The locals actually thought that the

Jesuit priests had figured it out that the white people

had figured it out! But actually it had been figured out

just up the river. So what was really the problem was

there was no transfer of communication. If there is

enough transfer of communication we can figure a lot

of stuff out, fast.


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We are going to get into in these diet controversies, looking at the pros and cons, bringing us up to

speed, to where we really are in our own ability to adapt, to know what really works for us, and

working on what it is that we uniquely need at the macro level and at the micro level, too.

Macronutrients and micronutrients.

In the overall picture of dietary choices and look at all the choices. We pulled this picture off the

internet. Can you believe raw foodism was actually in there? I mean, that's shocking to me. Some of

you are new to this, so you're like, "That's always been around, right? Raw foodism. Everybody

knows about that." Not in the old days!

I remember having to fight like heck with Erewhon Natural Foods to get them to put a raw food

section in their bookshelf. There were no raw food aisles fifteen years ago at Erewhon Natural Foods.

There was no raw food anything. The guy didn't want to do it. And I was like, "What do you mean you

don't want to do it? Just put a little sticker right there. We'll put three books in there." I did the same

at Mother's Market. I went over there and fought like heck to get them to put that together. Drivingaround in that little Honda Civic. The seats were stained with orange peels and my God back in the

old days. Step-by-step-by-step, we got all the way to where we are now.

Anyway. So you can see all the choices that we're faced with: the Zone Diet, the Slimfast Diet, the

Atkins Diet, the Kind Diet, the South Beach Diet, the Spectrum Diet, the 80-10-10 Diet, the Weight

Loss Diet that lasts, the Acronym Diet. Did you like that one? That was good: KFC, Mickey D's. He

forgot about the MSG, right? And the rBGHthe bovine growth hormone. So Acronym Diet, that was

pretty good.

These choices are in front of us all the time, so we are going to go through those choices now and try

to makes sense out of all of it, because we know that one size does not fit all. What can we learn to

advance things further? If we are still caught in one size fit all, we are not going to advance anything,


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anywhere. If our belief is, "Everybody should be able to do this, and we can't see anything else," then

we have blinders on. So we have to take this whole thing one step further. We have to understand

that not everything works for everybody.

Energy and cellular mechanics have to do with

the production of ATP. This is a really interesting

area that I think I first heard about in

microbiology class when I was in 8th or 9th

grade. It has to do with the mitochodria, which

are the production energy units in the cell. You

have DNA in the nucleus of each cell in your

body, and also in the mitochondria of each cell in

your body and they're different. They carry

different instructions. The mitochondria have to

take all of the fat, protein and carbohydrates

that you eat and run them through a citric acid

or Krebs cycle in order to produce energy

packets that your body understands and uses as

energy. Interestingly enough, your body actually

doesn't use sugar, like glucose, fat from avocado, or protein from spirulina as food. It doesn't use it

as energy. It has to convert it into an energy currency that it understands.

Imagine going to a checkout counter in America and trying to pay with British pounds. They would

say, "Well, we don't take that money here." "No, no, no. You take it." "Well, actually we don't." If you

are putting the wrong energy currency in, then you are not going to be able to get anything back out.

I'll revisit that over and over again.

It turns out it's the ratio of carbs to protein to fat that determines how much energy gets spit out on

the other side. And that's determined by your mitochondria. I'll say that again. It's the ratio of the

carbs to protein to the fats and oils that you ingest. Ratio not amount. It's ratio that determines

how much energy comes out on the other side. And that's the ATP that gets spit out the energy

packet that is used to produce energy in your

body.

There are also other things. There is GDP and

ADP and other versions of those nucleotides,

those energy packets, but the most well

known is ATP.

Here is the Krebs cycle or citric acid cycle from

a very complex alchemical/chemical

perspective. The final product of that cycle is

ATP, adenosine triphosphate. Of course there

are others, but that's the main one. When we

get into different diets, like the Atkins diet, or

a raw animal food dietthe high-protein diets

what we are going to find is that if we

require high protein to produce energy, thenthese are good diets for us. Not everybody can


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handle that. That's important to know. If you are trying to eat a high-protein diet and your body

needs a high-carbohydrate diet, you are going to get into real trouble. You will end up with colitis,

ulcers, or damaged kidneys; or you are going to end up with ammonia being produced by your body

to balance out the hyperacidity.

This is interesting, because now we are starting to see that some people require high protein. It's just

the way they are. And it's metabolic. So we better meet those protein requirements as best we can.

Protein pros and cons.

One of the pros of a high-protein diet is that we can lock onto something that is really good for us,

that actually causes us to lose weight and to come into perfect shape where everything works, we

have energy, and we are firing on all cylinders. But the big con is that it creates too much toxicity in

our world today if we are sourcing that protein from cow, from chicken, or from fish. We don't know

what's behind it all. We don't know what Tyson Chicken is doing, we don't know what Perdue's

Chicken is doing. We don't know what is going on in those battery chicken farms. We have no idea if

they are really free-range chickens. We don't know if they are really wild cattle out there in thedesert, or if they are in a factory farm off the I-5 in central California at San Joaquin Valley. We don't

know.

People come to me all the time about the blood type diet, and they say, "I'm a blood type O. That

means I have to eat meat." Have you heard that? The research shows exactly another relationship. If

we go strictly by the research, then if you are a blood type A you should not be a carnivore. That's

what the research shows; not that if you are a blood type O you shouldbe a carnivore. If you are a

blood type A, you should notbe a carnivore.

Out of all the statistically significant research on blood type, the

biggest point is that if you are a blood type A and you try to be a

carnivore, you are actually going to die twenty-five years sooner than

everybody else. That's a big deal. Isn't that interesting? I find it

interesting how we take something like that and we flip it around and

go, "If you are a blood type O, you have to be a carnivore." There is no

research, really, that supports that. The research supports that if you

are a blood type A you should notbe a carnivore.

How many different blood types are there? Well, we hear there are

four, but then there is O-positive and O-negative. They're different.

There's A-positive, A-negative; there's B-positive, B-negative; there'sAB-positive, AB-negative, and then there are Rh blood groups that are

also associated with that. So there are actually probably about

thirteen or more. Sixteen. There we go. Sixteen different blood types.

So that's something, toosome of these books get too simplified, to

dumb it down so that we can sell people a South Beach Diet or whatever.

By the way, I am going to get to the South Beach Diet. Oh my God. Have you read it? I did. It was an

abomination. We were driving down the road in New York in New York City, in Manhattan and I

threw it out the window. We were on the way to meet Richard Pine who is the agent behind the

South Beach Diet, so I figured, "I'm going to go meet this agent; I better see what this guy's up to." Itwas so appalling. I don't want to jump ahead of myself. We'll get there in a second.


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Let's look at blood type O real quick. Blood type O is generally considered high-protein hunter; blood

type A, vegetable, no red meat, more agrarian; blood type B, dairy is okay, more of a nomad; blood

type AB, more mixed. So I want to put that out there.

There is great information on blood type diets that is not in those blood type booksit's actually in a

book called The Answer is in Your Bloodtype, which is based strictly on research. They are not trying

to sell you a diet; they are just trying to give you statistically significant correlations about what you

should eator what you could eatbased on your blood type. It is 100% research-based, and that's

important because a lot of the stuff that shows up in D'Adamo's book is skewed. It's not 100%

research-based. It's trying to sell you a diet. I just want to know what the facts are based on science.

Not that science is the only way of knowing; but we want to get into a statistic-favorable position and

stack the odds in our favor whenever possible.

With all this diet stuff we have learned about, every herb we have ever heard about, every superfood

we have ever talked about, every water filter, water type, pure water whatever we have ever

mentionedwe just want to stack the odds in our favor using any of that stuff, to favor our health

and our family's health. We want the best that's possible under the conditions that we're in.

Now, the Zone Diet. I always thought, just like you guys, "Oh God, it's

another super-lame, massively ridiculous diet." But I read the books,

and they are actually very good. I have to say they are actually very

good. First of all, they admit that vegetarian diets are possible. That's

huge. You can be a vegetarian, apparently! The Hindus knew that for

5,000 years. Most diet books don't admit that that's even possible. So

that's good, because it's showing you that there are different types of

diets that can fit into the Zone.

The idea of the Zone is that you figure how much protein your body

needs; and you need to figure out how many carbs your body needs,

and how much fat your body needs, so that you can get the ratio right,

so you can produce energy. Because that's ultimately the point of all

this stuff.

The idea of the Zone Diet and the research that's there and it's an

extensive amount of researchis indicating that if you get the ratio right, you produce more energy.

I have definitely found that to be true in my life. I have experimented with it. I have eaten only fruit

or high-fruit diet; high-protein; high-fat. And I found that for me, personally, the Zone for me is

moderate-to-high fat, moderate-to-low protein, and moderate carbohydrate. If I eat that way, Iproduce energy and I don't have any problem. If I don't eat that way, then I don't produce energy

correctly and I'm up and down and crashing left, right and center.

[Question from audience] Blood type O. I'm a blood type O.

So now you need to kind of figure that out for yourself. You need to look at your daily routine and

you need to go, "If I get up in the morning and eat only bananas, where am I in an hour?" You could

do the glucose response test, which is a medical test, to see if you are hypoglycemic or diabetic. If

you eat a ton of fruit in the morning and you're up and everything is great, but an hour later you are

crashing hard, you know that there is only a certain amount of carbs that you can have in your diet interms of that ratio. It can't be an 80% carb diet.


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Now let's say you get up in the morning, and you put water out and you throw a bunch of chlorella in

your mouth and chomp that down, and spirulina, and you are still sailing on that eight hours later.

That's protein. You're a protein person.

Now let's say you go, "Look. I can just eat a handful of nuts in the morning, and I'm flying all day

long." You're a fat person, right? [Audience laughter] Some of you got that.

So the pros here. The Zone Diet is variable meaning that it admits that there is variability within the

human race in the ratio of required carbohydrates, protein and fat. That's a major discovery. A con of

the Zone diet is that it only focuses on macronutrients. What we are really doing now, and where I'm

at, is taking from the macronutrient idea carbohydrates, protein and fat in the macronutrients

and saying, "Okay. Let's also consider also the micronutrients."

What do I mean by micronutrients? Trace minerals. What do I mean by micronutrients? Essential

fatty acids, like omega-3. In fact, this guy Barry Sears realized somewhere in his research that there

was actually a huge missing piece on omega-3 and wrote a book about omega-3 fatty acids one of

the best books written on the subject, which you should read if you get a chance. And it gets into thedifference between ALA, DHA, EPA, and DPA.

DIM, I-3-C. Those are micronutrients, and those are very important. So this is a macro idea that

needs to be complexified a little bit so that we can see a greater and deeper picture of what nutrition

really looks like. Because if you go into a standard grocery store and say, "Okay. What's for dinner?

There is the chicken, there are the peas, there is the wilted lettuce," you are not getting the same

stuff that is in reishi. And we did that for years. I remember being on TV dinners for years.

High-carbohydrate diet. This is by far, in my opinion, the most dangerous type of diet. Why? Because

statistically it works for the smallest part of the population and for that reason is more likely to cause

problems. It's great if you need high carbs in your diet. It can cause immediate weight loss, it can

cause you to feel high, and a release and relief, and you're like, "Wow. This is the greatest thing

ever." That's the good side of it. But the other side of it is that if it's not right for you or if you go

too whacko and eat only plums and bananasthen what can occur is demineralization.

You can cause tooth damage, you can cause osteoporosis. A lot of people just fall for it and then all

of a sudden they get two years down the road or ten years down the road and they have done

irreparable damage to their teeth. That's why you have to be very

careful with this kind of thing. It also can lead if you get really deep

into high-carbohydrate and it's not right for youyou can start getting

cuckoo. You can start developing neurological problems. Orthorexia iskind of a neurological problem. That's the term now for people who are

fanatic about their diet to the point where they are actually jerks about

it. You know, where they freak out so hard that it's actually like, "Whoa,

dude. You must be on an unhealthy attitude diet or something."

The South Beach Diet. Geez! What oh my God! Here's what it says:

everything you eat at a restaurant is great, don't worry about anything;

just keep doing what you are doing. What a great idea for a book! You

don't have to do anything. You don't have to change anything, you

don't have to do any kind of flip-around, like buying organic food. Infact, organic food is not even mentioned. Doesn't even exist.


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Vegetarians? No way. There is no such thing as a vegetarian. They are not around. We don't even

know that that is. And then there is this weird discussion in the book about your heart that basically

says, "Well, you know, some change in the diet might be good for your heart. But we're not really

sure, so don't worry about it."

There is no mention of enzymes. Vitamin C is not even mentioned. Not even in there. Doesn't exist.

This kind of stuff is just like it just boggles my mind. How could anybody actually fall for this?

Doesn't it boggle your mind? So if you bought that book, it was a complete waste of your time,

energy and money. Sorry.

Now. Let's talk about calorie restriction. This is a really important area of

research and a big discovery that was popularized by Dr. Roy Walford out

of UCLA. The discovery was that the less you eat, the longer you live. It

came out of animal research. It has been found to be true with every

single fly, every single worm, every fish, every monkey, and every human

that's tried it. If you just eat less, you will live longer.

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. Have you seen that film? There are millions

and millions of Americans in that zone right there fat, sick and nearly

dead.

Another great story is Luigi Cornaro. He had been drugging, drinking, eating massive amounts of

stuff, and he was almost dead. There were no diet books back in the 1500s. There was no internet

back then. Halfway through his life when he was about fifty, he realized, "Okay. I've been drinking

too much, I've been drugging too much, and I've been eating too much. Let me cut all that down to a

certain limit. I bet if I cut it back, the problems will go away." So he limited the amount of food he

was eating to like 10 ounces of food a day, 12 ounces of beverage a

day, got off all the drugs, got off all the alcohol to the best of his

ability, and he ended up living to be 102. And he wrote a famous

book. It was one of the most famous health books in the history of

the world, actually.

So the less you eat, the longer your live. No matter what it is that

you're doing, the ratio is not going to change based on the amount

you are eating if you don't want it to. It's not the amount. It's the

ratio.

Let's say your thing is 40-40-20. So, 40% of your diet needs to be carbs, 40% protein and 20% fat andoil. You could eat less and keep the same ratio, couldn't you? Or you could eat more and keep the

same ratio. So the idea of this is that you keep the same ratio but you eat less. That's the idea. Then

you start getting really smart about what is going to fit into every category.

We have to start getting really clever about what is going to fit in. What kind of protein are we going

to get into? Are we going to get into factory farmed chicken? Are we going to get into factory farmed

cow? What about chlorella grown next to Fukushima? [laughter] Oh, by the way, all the chlorella in

this building comes from Taiwan so it's not in the fallout zone. Chlorella is grown completely

indoors. It's grown in a completely controlled environment.

We can take the protein from different places, so you can start optimizing what your choice is. That is


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what we are learning from all this. And then what about fat and oil? Should you be having massive

amounts of rancid cottonseed oil? What do you think? Is that the worst idea ever? What about

partially hydrogenated soybean oil? It's still fat and oil, right?

These books really don't differentiate that. That's what we have to do. We have to. If I'm going to

have anything, I could have DHA and EPA in the right balance. What about that? Now we're more

optimum for that particular category. Whenever you single out one of these ratios, you can decide,

"Well, actually I want to switch that out with this," and upgrade your operating system from Atari to

the first Macintosh to the first laptop computer, all the way to to what? Where are we at? The

iPad. And the iPhone. Look where it is now. Look at this. This is a million times more powerful than

Atari.

That's where we are. Look at that transformation in technology. That's visceral, it's real, it's easy to

understandbecause you can see it, you can feel it. But when it comes to nutrition, some people are

still on Atari. Aren't they? Nutrition is where you have to look into upgrading your operating system.

Let's say you are thinking, "Okay. Carbohydrates. I like bread." What are we going to do there? Well,we are going to get off Wonder bread and go to seven-grain bread; then we go to Essene seven-grain

bread and then we go to flax crackers; then we go to chia crackers. You just work your way up the

chain. It's the same thing.

You can make the same sandwich. When I was a kid the sandwich every day was Wonder bread,

Hellman's mayonnaise, Oscar Meyer baloney,

Velveeta cheese, Lay's potato chips, and a little

bit of iceberg lettuce. That was every meal.

Somebody's got to figure out how to make a

raw sandwich with that crunch of biting into the

Lay's potato chips. That was exceptional, I do

have to say. That was really good. If there is one

thing I miss, that's it.

Is that where we are now? Think of where we

are now. You have your chia crackers. Your

mayonnaise is 50% coconut butter and I'm

talking good coconut butter like we passed out

the other day.

What is this? Superfood Tonic Recipes? As compared to the old days of Minute Maid orange juice.That's where I started in 1974 1/2 when I was with my uncle, now gone. My Uncle Norman actually

showed me how to use an Osterizer blender. You know which one that one iswhip, frappe, liquefy,

blend. That one.

What I love about the Nutri-Bullet is that you can't get a kid's hand in there. Theres no way. Vitamix?

You can get a kid's hand in there. But not in a Nutri-Bullet. It's sealed off. You can't even turn the

thing on while its open, so there's no way a kid's hand can get in there. I really like that particular

way it is set up.

So anyway, we were taking Minute Maid frozen orange juice which fits into the carbs category. We

were blending that up with ice, and I thought I was at the top of the world. Now what are we doing?


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We are taking coconut water carbswe're taking medicinal mushroom mycelium carbswe're

taking blueberries carbs we're taking raspberries carbs and we're blending that up. It's the

same, but different. That's the upgrade in the operating system. That's where it goes. That's how it

changes. So we move it forward in that same category.

Walford, if I recall correctly, actually got a nervous

system disease. And this is a real problem if you do

not get enough fat and oil in your diet. When you

get into calorie restriction, you have got to be

careful that you get the ratio right for you. If you

cut oils out of your diet, you can actually expose

your nervous system to a very toxic environment

which is what we are living in. So you have to

make sure that your nervous system is protected.

You can actually start demyelinating your nerves.

You start getting nervous.

Pros of calorie restriction: weight loss, control of

erratic eating behavior, creates some order out of

chaos. Cons: not organic, usually difficult for

vegetarians to really be able to do, can lead to

micronutrient deficiencies, and also you have to

make sure you keep that ratio correct for you. Thats a key idea. In terms of figuring out what is ideal

for you, that can be done by a doctor. You can do a glucose tolerance test to figure out what your

response is to carbohydrates. You can also do it at home.

The original first thing that really started creating order out of chaos for me is when I went to collegeand started buying all my own food. I realized, "Something in this food is not agreeing with me. I only

buy twenty things. Let me just see what it is." So in the morning I'd wake up and have this, and it

wouldn't give me a problem; the next morning I'd wake up and I'd have that, that wouldn't give me a

problem; the next morning I would wake up and I'd have something else, and all of a sudden I'd have

a problem.

So I narrowed it down. It was either going to be Grapenuts cereal or milk. So one morning I got up

and I had just Grapenuts cereal; no problem. Next morning I woke up, I had just milk; problem. That's

how I realized it was milk that was doing it to me all along. So I got off milk right then, and that was

how this whole thing started. That's why I'm here right now. Just from figuring that out. So you need

to get a little bit of sensory acuity about what's going on inside your body and what's right for you.

The thing about animal products is that the ratio of the oils and fat might be ideal for you. It might be

40/30. So it's a good mixture of fat and protein for you, and you might go, "Well, you know, I don't

know. Nuts..." Anybody here ever eaten too many nuts? Anybody ever eaten a whole jar of nut

butter? Anybody ever gotten halfway through the jar of nut butter and thought, "I might as well just

eat the whole rest of this"? Has that happened to you?

First of all, the whole idea of almond butter. I grew up on Jiffy and Peter Pan. When I went to a

health food store and discovered almond butter, I was like, "What?" So I started eating that raw

almond butter. And then of course I got halfway through it, ate the other half and went through allthatlike a brick in my stomach.


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There's another thing too your carbohydrates may actually be cellulose-rich vegetables. All of a

sudden, all our vegetables fall into that category. There is a certain amount of carbohydrates your

body can process including cellulose, which is a carbohydrate. What kind of carbohydrate? That's

right. It's a polysaccharide. Cellulose is a polysaccharide. Just like beta-glucan is a polysaccharide; it's

a sugar.

You might want to also be thinking, "What if we want to optimize in that category of sugars and we

have candida or cancer?Do you go to glucose, fructose and sucrose? No. What would you do? Let's

say you need 60% carbohydrates but you have candida and cancer. Then what do you do? Vegetable

juices, broccoli, mushrooms, xylose (like xylitol), aloe vera, seaweed. Are you guys getting this now?

Now we're getting it. Now we're seeing the bigger picture of it. That's optimization. Now we have

more tools of understanding in all this.

So let's jump back. I'm a vegetarian. That's a choice that I make, and I make that choice because it

feels good to me and it feels right and that's where I want to be. I also have faith that if Dr. Dave

comes up here and he says, "You need DHA, and

you need EPA, and 7,000 research studies havenow proven that you have to get it in this ratio,"

and blah-blah-blah, I know that we'll find a way to

get enough EPA and DHA and DPA from a

vegetarian diet and from vegetarian sources.

There has got to be a way. So I know we will find

a way. And that's where I choose. I know that the

evolution towards a vegetarian diet is probably

part of our future.

So this is what we developed, right here. The EPAand DHA. It doesn't have as much EPA as fish oil, but it does have DPA which is one off from EPA; and

you can convert DPA to EPA a lot easier than you can convert DHA to EPA. Do you want me to say

that backwards twenty times faster? DPA is one off from EPA. It's docosapentaenoic acid instead of

eicosapentaenoic acid. You can convert DPA to EPA dramatically easier than you can convert DHA to

EPAwhich takes a whole enzymatic trace mineral back-flip in order to get over there. Some people

can't do it metabolically. So that's where we are now. That's a vegan product.

Look, I don't really care what anybody eats. I really don't. But I also don't want any, what are they

called? They're called abattoirs. That's where they kill animals. Those are slaughterhouses. That's

what an abattoir is. I don't want anything to do with any of that. I don't want anything to do with

animal experiments or anything like that. But I'm

not an animal rights activist. People say, "Oh yeah.

You're a raw foodist, a vegetarian. You're an

animal rights activist," and actually I'm not. I love

animals, but I'm not an animal rights activist and I

don't want all that fanaticism ascribed to me. It

has nothing to do with me.

Because, look. I don't want any of that stuff. None

of us want any of that stuff, I'm sure, but I don't

want any of the fanaticism associated with likecrazy people on that trip where they're chasing


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you down. I don't want to have

anything to do with that. The same

with diet stuff. I'm not a fanatic about

diet. I don't want anybody chasing me

down or anybody else down or

cornering me in a health food store.

You know how they corner you in a

health food store? Truth Calkins did

this to me. That's how I got turned

onto reishi mushroom.

I'm a vegetarian for my own reasons,

reasons totally specific to me, and I

think that's where we are in the

spiritual discussion of all this stuff. It's a completely personal choice. There are pros to vegetarianism:

you don't get involved in killing. And you are eating low on the food chain, so that means you are

getting less exposure to toxins down that chain. We know with radiation it accumulates up the chain.

We know that DDT accumulates up the chain. We know with PCBs and dioxins it accumulates up

the chain. We know that every pesticide, larvicide, fungicide, herbicide, and suicide accumulates up

the chain. We know that every single toxic environmental contaminant that we have thrown into the

environment accumulates up the chain. So we might as well eat way lower on the chain. That's one

of the pros of a vegetarian diet.

What are the cons? How are you going to get into that ratio that's right for you? How are you going

to get the effect that you want? Maybe it's easier for you to eat animal food because the ratio is

easier to find and you're like, "Look. I don't want to eat anymore nuts." I understand that, because

I've eaten more nuts than practically any human in the world over the last twenty years. You know,sometimes I just look at cashews or pistachios and Imlike, "No." Does this happen to you?

There's another thing too, and that is if you eat low on the

chain, you may not get enough minerals. Animal food is

substantially richer in minerals. It's more dense. It's like

seaweed as compared to lettuce. There's a big difference, isn't

there? It's like 25% mineral versus 2% mineral or 1% mineral

which in a short period of time doesn't make much difference,

but over a long period of time you can start getting

demineralized.

That's where the superfoods come in and are very helpful

because they can give you that density of nutrients. And the

same could be said of the superherbs. They can give you

nutrients that are not usually available to you in the plant world.

Actually, with all the tools that we now have, it's easier to be a

vegetarian than ever before in the history of the world. Ever.

Now that we understand this whole thing that Dr. Dave is bringing forward about the DHA and EPA,

we know what we are going for. Now we know what we have got to hit, because of the research that

has been done from a vegetarian perspective. That is not to say that you have to be a vegetarian. Youcould do fish oil. That's fine. But for me, I have to find another way, because I don't do fish oil.


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Another thing is the fat-soluble nutrients, vitamins A, D, E and K. Those are the fat-soluble nutrients.

Vegetarians can be deficient in fat-soluble nutrients, and those are neuroprotective nutrients. I think

where we are going and you can reflect on it yourself is where the bottom line is not so much

"I'm a vegan," or "I'm a vegetarian," or "I'm not." The bottom line is, "I live without killing" or "I live

with it." That's the bottom line. You determine that for yourself.

So for me, I choose to live without killing. But I'm okay with deer antler. It doesn't involve killing. I'm

okay with non-fertilized eggs. It doesn't involve killing. I don't eat thatbut I'm okay with it. If you're

a vegetarian and you have problems with DHA, then that's a great option for you. If you don't get

enough sulfur in your diet, that's a great option for you. If you don't get enough fat-soluble nutrients

in your diet, that's a great option for you.

If you want to be a vegetarian but you want to make sure you do it right, there are way more choices

on the table right now and we've got more understanding and more clarity about what the issue

really is. What about raw dairy products? That can be done without killing. What's interesting is now

people are like, "Well, the goats are enslaved." Look, when that goat's got a full udderhas anybody

ever had a goat? They are screaming, right? Because they are so full, you have got to go out thereand milk them. They love to be milked.

Or the other one. This one drives me crazy: "You

have a bee farm. You're not a vegan. You're killing

bees!" Here is what we do at NoniLand. We have

a phone number that sits on different billboards

all throughout the islands, and when people call

us because they have a bee problem in a corner

of a warehouse, or something like that the bees

have set themselves up there we go out thereand take the hive out and we bring them to

NoniLand where they have a whole new home.

What's not vegan about that? We take them out

and we give them a nice little home, and then we glean the honey from them. "You're taking their

food!" They produce way more food than they are ever going to eat. Anybody who has ever gone

into old barns knows that. When you start knocking down walls of old barns, they will be filled with

honeycomb with the best honey youvehad in your whole life.

We actually brought some of that honey to this event, by the way. At the Longevity table there is

honeycomb that came out of an old barn in Pennsylvania. And that's wild honeythe real stuff that'sbeen stuck in those walls. Bees overproduce by at least a factor of 60%. So you can pull 60% of the

honey out of there and there's still enough easily for the hive to survive.

In the conventional bee industry they got greedy and they are taking out 80-90%. They're replacing

the honey with sugar water for the bees. Greed. If you run a farm, some of it's going to go to the

animals. That's the way it is. I'm not going to get all my papayas. Some are going to get eaten by the

birds. There are going to be deer coming into my farm in Canada and they are going to eat our celery.

That's just the way it is. And so you've got to just be in that. The insects are going to get some of it,

the deer are going to get some of it, the birds are going to get some of it but they are not going to

get more than 50% of it. So all these problems that we see in agriculture like pesticides and fencesand all thatis just greed. They can have 50%. It's good. They're happy. Everybody's happy!


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I'm into farming. I love farming. Nothing could be more fun in the world than farming barefoot. And

here's what's amazing. I've got this thing that I wear when I'm gardening, so it's not actually too close

to me; and I can be doing everything I like to dotending my plants, digging holes, making up soils,

transplanting different stuffwhile doing business on the phone. One of the things I think I've done

pretty well is Ive actually taken advantage of the technology we have now, because this allows me to

be anywhere I want to be. I could be at the top of a mountain. No problem. I can answer the phone. I

can text. It's really fascinating what we can do now. You don't need to be in an office anymore. If you

want to send a message out, you can text it out. Send a message; leave a voicemail; send an email.

Raw vegan diet. I don't really like the word vegan because there are a lot of fanatics who are vegans.

I try to disassociate from that word. I really am a vegan but the fanaticism bothers me. People ask,

"You're a vegan then, right?" "Aaah. Kinda." I get that on the radio shows all the time. "So you're a

vegan, right?" My answer is, I live without killing."

What's the benefit of a raw vegan diet? Well, there is high vitality. There is something that has to be

said about all these diets we have looked at, and that is I that have never seen anybody who says,

"You've got to cook your lettuce," who is glowing with vitality. Never. I've been looking for it, buthave not seen it. Twenty years looking for it, haven't seen it. So there is something to be said for the

vitality of raw food. There is a strong

vitality element that will have you saying,

"Whoa. We are living!" Living food, living

bodies, living cells where you feel the

life force energy moving; where you are

drinking vegetable juice and you are like,

"This is totally outrageous!"

I mentioned the other day that when theO. J. Simpson case was happening in 1994

we were drinking vegetable juice. We

were on the juice while the Juice was

being chased. That's how long I've been

on it. We were doing mega-amounts in

the early days whole 60-ounce vegetable juices every two hours. That gets the vitality going. That

will revive you. If you think you are done, done for, out of it, dead broke, dead get on vegetable

juice. We'll check in with you and see what happens.

I really feel like the two most powerful things you can do to revitalize yourself is vegetable juice on

the one hand, and then the superfood/superherb smoothie on the other hand. Give it that

superfood/superherb one-two punch. The superfood preloads your immune system, and then the

superherb is what becomes your immune system. Something you can try at home.

In the '70s when they told us, "Do not try this at home," I al ways was thinking, One day I'm going to

be in front of an audience saying, Try this at home. So the high vitality, the cleansing, the power,

the purity of raw food, right? Pure, authentic, real connection. But what are the cons? After about

half a year of living on just vegetable juice and I've known people who have done this you don't

have any oil in your system. We need oil for our nerves, and we need to protect our brain. A lot of

vegans and raw vegans get into trouble with not having enough neuroprotective omega-3 long-chain

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How about the vitamin B12 issue? Vitamin B12 isn't really a vitamin; it's 100 times the molecular size

of any vitamin. It's really a building block one of the key building blocks of red blood cells. That's

actually what vitamin B12 is. It got lumped into a weird category with B vitamins, but really it is its

own unique, special thing.

What do we know about B12? We know that the more B12 that you have, the less homocysteine

that you have. We know that the higher your homocysteine is, the more risk you are in for a heart

attack and stroke. So B12 has got to be there in

significant amounts. We know that stress

depletes vitamin B12and B vitamins in general.

What do we know about the B vitamins from my

other talk? They are methyl donors, and so they

add methyl groups to your liver. They detoxify

you. What does that mean? It means that if we

are stressed out and we burn through all the B

vitamins, we become toxic. If we are estrogenic,then we are dealing with estrogen toxicity. The B

vitamins actually help our liver process the

estrogen and detoxify us. That has really changed

my mind about B vitamins.

Now I'm a really big fan of B vitamins. I'm also a big fan of Dr. Marshall, who I was having lunch with

today. He has an amazing B vitamin product. Liquid B vitamins. What an amazing product. Now we

are not only in the right ballpark and we're swinging the bat, but we are able to actually run the

bases.

Another thing the biggest thing I've ever faced in my own diet, for sure is managing calories

without excesses of fat, sugar, and protein. Too much protein is not really a problem on a raw vegan

diet. The only way you are going to do that is if you are guzzling chlorella tablets which I have done.

Like on the road, for example, when somebody passes the chlorella tablets and you eat a ton of

those; and then it goes around the car and again, and after a while you have eaten 250 grams of

proteinwhen your body can handle like twenty. That's happened to me.

That managing of calories is super-important, especially so we don't get an excess of sugar or fat.

Thatsone of the reasons why somebody can be a raw vegan or somebody can't. One of the reasons

why people swing from one direction to the other is that if you are actually 100% raw vegan, its hard

to manage your calories so that you can get enough fuel, but not so much fuel that you are gettingtoo much sugar or too much fatmore than your body can handle.

What does the word calories really mean? What I mean by calories iswhen we're hungry, we've got

to eat something. I'm running up to my room and there are the pistachios. So I ate some, but then I

just said, "No." I am trying to manage my calories to not have too much of any one thing that will

throw me out of balance. Too much fat, in that example. Or let's say you're a raw vegan, and all of a

sudden you are doing two pineapples a day, fifteen bananas, thirty plums, two cherimoyas, five

apples, six oranges, and ten tangerines to meet your calorie needsbut you are a person who needs

low-carbohydrate diet. What's going to happen to you? It's going to be a roller coaster ride. You are

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When somebody gets into a high-carbohydrate diet and it's actually the right thing for them but they

start getting demineralized even if it's the right thing for them what has happened is they are

probably getting into a fascist consciousness that thinks, "This way is the only way and every other

way is wrong." That's fascism. I have said for over a decade that diet fascism is related to

demineralization or mineral deficiencies. So the fascist consciousness which says, "Our way is the

right way; everybody else is wrong," has to do with mineral deficiencies. We've got to be careful if

we are raw vegetarian or raw vegan, that we make sure we get enough minerals and enough trace

minerals, enough major macro minerals and also enough ormus minerals.

Then we get to the raw animal food diet. One of the things about fire is it's going to block the karma

or something. If you put a steak on an open flame, you are not getting the direct hit of the animal.

But when it's not on an open flame and you just open up a packet and start eating it that goes on a

lot. A lot of people are doing that. And I've known people who died that way.

My friend Jonathan Cole is dead. He turned me on to Rich Dad Poor Dad, if you remember that book.

That guy, Robert Kiyosaki, did a really scathing piece on the whole world banking system

Conspiracy of the Rich. This guy is brave, putting that out there. But anyway, Jonathan Cole was areally good friend of mine. I'd stay with him when I'd go to London and do events. He's dead now.

Why? He was a raw vegan, and somebody said, "You need to be eating meat." He ate meat and he

died. Why? Because of the bacteria. Why do we cook it? To kill the bacteria. Some people will say,

"No, no, no. You need the bacteria." I don't know. I've seen people die. Maybe we don't need to eat

the bacteria.

Anyway, if you have raw dairy products, even raw fish, it's neuroprotective. No question about it.

That's the benefit side of it. The con side of it is that you are really connected to the killing. Youre

very close. That's my perspective. But you try it out for yourself. You try it cooked and raw and you

will determine that definitely the raw has more energy in it. Itsmore powerful, it hits harder butcooked is mitigated in some way so you don't have that direct effect of the karma of the animal.

We live in a very polluted ecosystem. In a polluted ecosystem there are more pa-pa-pa. Would you

say parasites? I thought that's only south of the border. That's what they keep telling me. That's what

I read in scientific journals. In Mexico they have tapeworms, but in America? No. That's what they tell

you. Liver flukes? That's South America. We don't have that here.

Raw fish has a definite connection with the tapeworm life cycle. No

question. You do your own research on that. Get a book called

Parasite Rex. Get that book. That's another reason why I'm a

vegetarian, is I don't want that stuff like coming into my body. Idon't want that stuff in my sink. Do you know what I mean? I don't

want them on my cutting board. I mean, I don't know what that stuff

is. So that's another thing to consider there are dramatically fewer

pa-pa [Audience: parasites] in plant food versus animal food. If we're

really aware of all this stuff and looking at it all, if you have pa-pa

[Audience: parasites]what do you take? Do you take more animal

food to get rid of it, or what do you do? You take herbs. You take

plants to get rid of it. Good to know about that.

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out for yourself. That's your mission over the next year, or until the next time we see you here to

figure out that ideal ratio for you, and to feel what that does for you. Really feel it and lend an ear to

it. And once you find it, minimize the amount: same ratio, lower amount. Start looking at every

individual thing the carbohydrate, the protein, the fat and optimize there. What are the most

optimal oils that I can be taking in? What's the most optimal protein I can be taking in? What is the

most optimal carbohydrate?

Now we have gone through all this, and we have seen the

different types of carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables,

seaweeds, and mushrooms. We've seen all these different

proteins in superfoods, and we've seen different fats. We know

that cooked food and raw dairy is part of the picture, so you

have to figure out where that goes. Generally when I say

protein, I'm talking about something that is protein-dominant.

It is still going to have some fat in it; it's still going to have some

carbohydrate in it usuallynot always. It's going to have a ratio

of these things. So things that are fat-dominant are also going

to have protein and carbohydrate. Things that are

carbohydrate-dominant may still have protein and fat; it's just

what dominates in the equation which is usually pretty

obvious.

Overall though, the way our world is going and where we are all

going to end up, we have got to start thinking about not just

this internal ecosystem but also the greater, external ecosystem

and that's where we have got to turn to a wise use of

resources. That's why I like to choose low on the food chain because I want to use the resources of the world wisely. To

bring every superherb, superfood, and everything from China

over here is nothing compared to bringing one automobile over

here. The creation of one automobile uses 100,000 gallons of

pure water. The creation of one automobile. Just the creation of it, let alone the weight, the

shipping, and everything else to bring it over here.

So if we are going to ship anything around the world in my opinion the thing we should be

shipping around the world is chocolate. Chocolate, honey, olive oil, cinnamon, garlic. That's a pretty

interesting list. Superherbs and superfoods. If we are going to ship anything, that's what it should be.We don't need more cars. There have been five billion cars created. Five billion cars. They are sitting

in landfills; they are on the roads; they're off on the side of the road; they are rotting on empty

parking lots; they are rotting on the side of people's houses. So we don't need any more of that. If we

are going to move goods and services around, lets movenutrition. That's what we want.

Downtown Los Angeles is not how it used to be. You know what

downtown Los Angeles used to be? And do you know why downtown

Los Angeles is where it is? When I was a kid I wondered, "Why is

downtown Los Angeles over there? Why isn't it next to the ocean?" Did

you wonder that too? Was I the only one? Why is it over there? Well,

that's where the vortex point is; and what comes up at the vortex point

is springs. So all of downtown Los Angeles was springs. Thats what was


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there 500 years ago when the Spanish showed up. The Spanish brought in olive trees. So they grew

olives, figs, and mulberries in what is currently downtown Los Angeles, and it became the cultural

and economic hub of Southern California for that reasonbecause that was where you could grow

food.

And then over time they started plugging up the twenty-something springs that were downtown Los

Angeles, put the concrete on, put the buildings on top of it, and now you're asking, "Why is

downtown Los Angeles over there?"

We were on the east cost of America driving up and downClearwater Springs, Saggy Springs, Spring

Street. What's the idea of a street? Or a road. In the old days you got on a ship. Your ancestors got on

a ship, they went to New Zealand, they went to Australia, they went to America, they went

wherever, or they came from Africa to America. Then you were in a little town that was near water

and there was a road that would take you to the spring. Spring Street. That's where it comes from.

We forgot that, because now we're in cars and we're driving around and all this stuff is in the way.

What's worth going on a road for? You've got everything in your little town, your little fishing village,everything is perfect, everything is great. What do you need a road for? Oh, to go to the spring. The

idea that we are talking about here the wise use of resources is what we are talking about

throughout this whole conference.

Look, I don't need to farm corn. I couldn't give a damn about wheat. But I'll farm astragalus. I'll grow

ginseng. I'll take schizandra berries and try to grow that. I'll grow goji berries. I'll take the most

powerful herbsrhodiola, I've got that growing. Noni? We're onto that. We've got cacao with vanilla

in the tree. We've got cacao trees we've

grown from a seed and then we grow vanillas

in those because it's an orchid. The vanilla

survives in the cacao tree and they

symbiotically grow together. Now that

interests me, and it should interest you

because what we are really putting on the

table, if you read between the lines, is we're

not just growing lettuce, tomato, onions and

cucumbers in the backyard anymore. You

could be growing astragalus, ginseng,

rhodiola and goji berries in your garden.

What do you think?

To sum up, we are extremely blessed with the amazing knowledge that we have, that we can create

choices within the context of everything just discussed; that we know there is a ratio of fat to protein

to carbohydrates that is unique to us and our being. And it can be altered. For example, if you have a

child, your own personal metabolism can change. It can be altered if you are in an accident, or you go

through a serious illness, but generally it is pretty much the same all throughout your life.

We now know that there are tremendous opportunities to optimize what we put into the

carbohydrate, protein and fat category. We now know that the less stuff we eat, the longer we are

going to live. On top of all that, we now have the option of taking all the greatest foods that really

work for us and growing them at home instead of the old story of just tomatoes, lettuce, onions andcucumbers. Isn't that the best news ever?


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