Dr. Blaylock

Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life
Harness your body's natural healing powers.

Food journey has forced me to research, take notes, and highlight key sentences and words. Below is a section from Dr. Blaylock's book Health and Nutrition Secrets. Once I read this section, I understood that I simply could not give up. I needed to unlearn what I knew in order to move ahead in my food journey. The spell I was under with modern food was totally amazing. I slowly started to put things together thinking about all possibility, looking at how we went from hunter gatherer to agriculture farming. The understanding of agriculture framing was a very important part of my journey knowing that farming and eating grains would effect the health of the millions of generation to come. I could not believe how the consumption of grains could have played such a big part of my poor health. Once I understood how the grains were effecting me in such a negative way and learning that grains are loaded with anti-nutrients like Phytic acid would help to explain so much.                                                      

What About Adults?

One of the great concerns of those who have reached middle age is, have I deteriorated so much that things are hopeless? As a result of this way of thinking, most people will just eat what they enjoy and live out what life they have left. What many of these people do not consider is that they won't just die after they've finished enjoying themselves: the lucky ones may suddenly die of a heart attack or get hit by a car, yet for most of us, that will not happen. 

I remember walking through a hospital with a doctor friend of mine, a fellow in his middle years, when he suddenly stopped and peered thoughtfully into a ward full of sickly looking elderly people. I stared with him at the elderly patients scattered about the room, with their emaciated legs wrapped in tangles of stained sheets, mouths open in perfect ovals, sunken eyes staring off into some netherworld, unaware of little but their pain and humiliation.
IV bags could be seen dangling from metal poles and catheters coursed from under the stained sheet, attached to bags of cloudy urine, filling the room with a heavy smell of death. The doctor slowly shook his head back and forth, looked up at me with doleful sadness and said, These are the golden years.

You see, most of us will not be spared the pain and suffering of age. Rather than dying that death we all dream-about going peacefully in our sleep-we will instead undergo a series of health crises, such as multiple heart attacks with years of medication and limitations on our activity, maybe even a loss of employment. Or, we may suffer from a stroke that leaves us paralyzed and unable to speak, dependent on others for the simplest things, such as eating or going to the bathroom.

Frequently, we may suffer from slowly progressing arthritis, undefined aches and pains, unexplained weakness, headaches, deteriorating vision, difficulty concentrating, and a memory that fails us more often than not. Still others will be crippled by diabetes or a neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's dementia. Unfortunately, all of these so-called disease of aging are now occurring in younger people, not just the elderly. We are seeing Parkinson's disease in forty-year-olds and type II diabetes in teenagers.

This will require discipline. It has been said that the undisciplined life is not worth living. We now know that the undisciplined life will also be short and full of misery.
Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D. 

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't like, do what you'd rather not.
Mark Twain