Description
- With some people the organs associated with the gastrointestinal tract will change in their ability to function normally and they will develop an intolerance to some types of foods. For example, the loss of competency in the functioning of the stomach may cause the inability to digest volumes of red meats. The reduced produc tion of bile in the liver may cause an intolerance to fats, or changes to the pancreas function may predispose people to diabetes.
- With some people, the immune system will lose competency in identifying and isolating the chemicals that compose our foods and cause allergies and autoimmune diseases. For example a person may develop a micro intolerance to proteins in peanuts and produce a life threatening IgE mediated response that swells their throat and threatens their life.
If we continue to eat the same foods that we ate when we were young, then when we are older, the chances of our being free of symptoms into old age will certainly be diminished. This will also occur if people blindly follow broad sweeping advice about healthy eating. Couples living together need to evolve different diets to experience really good health. Some older people know this.
My clinical observations over 37 years have led me to believe that the raft of ‘join-the-club-diets’ are too general to promote really good health as people age. Some people experience better health if they incline away from junk foods toward a vegetarian diet as they age, while others will have better health if they incline towards a keto diet, and some people need to additionally prop up their damaged digestive organs and im mune system to maintain adequate health. This book sets out how to go about testing which unique diet is best for you, the individual. There are comprehensive case studies throughout the book.
How do you decide which foods you can rely on throughout your life and which you need to reduce or aban don? All this is described in this book. It is based on more than 30,000 case studies over 30 years that tracked changes to symptoms with removal and reintroduction of specific foods, using graphs and controls.
Summaries of the Chapters
Chapter 1 The Spectrum of Human Diets
This chapter introduces the range of diets from: ketogenic to general hunter-gatherer; to paleo to vegetarian to 10,000 types of diets that mix proteins, fats and carbohydrates. (It introduces my experiences living for three years with traditional Australian Aborigines in the 1970s and the diets they ate). It presents some of the con cepts of evolutionary biology and human diets. Understanding the pitfalls of categorizing diets is also presented.
Chapter 2 Evolving Staple Diets
This chapter discusses the evolution from hunter-gatherer diets to farming diets (grain-based and tapioca based) to junk food diets. It introduces the grass-roots advice for a common sense approach to testing food 4 intolerances and micro-intolerances. The challenges of eating dairy produces are reviewed and the chapter finishes with a self-assessment of the reader’s current diet.
Chapter 3 The Challenges of Plant-Based Diets
This introduces the challenges that are created for all humans due to the naturally occurring defense, storage and communication toxic chemicals occurring in all plants, and their effects on our immune and digestive systems. Examples of the main toxins in a variety of our modern foods are presented along with an interesting case study.
Chapter 4 Entertaining Foods
Entertaining foods are a major problem for every person’s health as they age. Plant foods (and plant-derived drinks and drugs) are the entertaining foods, not the proteins and fats of animals. This chapter introduces the evolution of the large human brain and the need for the constant intake of high energy foods over 4 million years. It discusses table sugar and other carbohydrates and the diseases these chemicals cause if over in dulged. It introduces the link between mental/emotional illnesses and the hepatotoxic sugar known as fruc tose.
Chapter 5 Fructose—Satan’s Sugar
This chapter discusses the addictive nature of fructose (more addictive than cocaine in laboratory tests); the role of fructose in nature; the metabolism of fructose (aldolase A, B, C enzymes); fructose malabsorption and hereditary and partial fructose intolerance. It introduces how to self-test for fructose malabsorption and intoler ance using graphs and controls (eating plans are included). An in depth case study is also presented.
Chapter 6 Foods Don’t Change, We Do
This chapter clarifies digestion, the challenges to digestion, and how the digestive organs change with age.
Chapter 7 When Digestive Organs Dysfunction
This chapter takes the reader through the functioning of each of the seven digestive organs composing the gastrointestinal tract—from the mouth to the anus. Seven in-depth case studies are presented relating to the dysfunction of each organ type.
Chapter 8 Diets and Immune Function
This chapter introduces an overview of the immune system (adaptive, innate, blood systems) and its gen eral functioning. Discusses how immune uniqueness evolves with age in every person, and how the defense against toxic chemicals in foods and potential pathogens cause it to lose competency. The chapter introduces the 10 lifestyle influences that change immune competency (based on 10,000 case studies in the 1990s, con ducted in the Canberra Medical Ecology Centre). The average hierarchy of influence is presented: Emotional stress; Sleep quality; Plant food phytotoxins; Superantigen-presenting pathogens; muscular-skeletal-fascia imbalances; Industrial/commercial toxins; Inappropriate vaccinations; Poor micro-nutrition; Electromagnetic radiation; Gene-epigenetic influences.
The chapter also discusses how the immune system naturally loses competency with age, an presents an in depth case study of cancer and its connection with diet.
Chapter 9 Diets and Nervous Function
This chapter introduces the various major types of nervous systems in the body, and specifically the auto nomic nervous system. Discusses emotional-mental stress with respect to this nervous system (along with the gut-brain connection linking neurotrophic drug production in the colon transferred through this system to the brain) and its connection with directing adaptive immune system against cancer cell formation. This chapter introduces how to positive influence this nervous system for better mental health.
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Chapter 10 Diets, Allergies and Intolerances
This chapter introduces the classification of immune reactions to foods—to assist the reader when confronted with scientific literature. It clarifies microintolerance, intolerance and the five types of allergies (including all the autoimmune diseases). It discusses ‘delays’, ‘durations’ and ‘combination effects’ of symptoms that occur due to food allergies and intolerances.
Chapter 11 Diets and Chronic Diseases
According to the WHO, upwards of 75% of all deaths across the world occur from non-communicable diseas es. This is due to lifestyle. This chapter points out the three common causes of contracting non-communicable diseases (Loss of integrity of the autonomic nervous system; The natural, but toxic phytochemicals in all the plants we eat; Detrimental changes to the gut microbiome with age). The chapter discusses the ways to avoid early death from these.
Chapter 12 Self-Testing Your Signature Diet
This chapter firstly presents a comprehensive case study of a person undergoing their trials to determine their personal Signature Diet. It demonstrates the use of graphs to gather data along with the controls to make the data more accurate for the individual. This chapter presents the complete procedure to undertake a Signature Diet for the reader, showing how to use food plans, graphs, controls and what to avoid in eating out.
Chapter 13 Some Food Advice and Worksheets
This final chapter presents a health inventory, a graph and a control for the reader to use. It also presents specific anticancer diets; how to undertake a bowel saline flush; and an exercise tracker.
Chapter 14 Summary and Conclusion; Appendix 1 Glossary of Terms; and Appendix 2 Further Reading and References: are self explanatory and give a wealth of advice not discussed in the main section of the book.
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