This first ancient foundation principle to practice is your most important.
Look around – how many people do you see eating crap? Right, and they don't care, and they're not going to change. Fine.
Do you also see plenty more folks eating freaky-deaky weird diets. Sure you do, and they won't shut-up about their virtues. Been there, done that.
And are either of these types thriving on the playing field after 30, 40, 50 years of age?
No, no freakin' way... they might still look good, but they're a shadow of their previous, more formidably competitive self:
- Our modern foods are full of fake processed crap, shelf-stable chemicals, pesticides and all those don't-give-a-shit eaters won't go the distance; and,
- Carnivores, omnivores, vegetarians are also susceptible to all kinds of crazy exclusion diets, lost in food disciplines wrongly focused on calorie balance and devoid of nutrients necessary for disease prevention, let alone thriving on a competitive playing field against folks half your age.
Did you want to join these above folks and limp along a full several zip codes away from your personal best?
OR, would you prefer to get better immediately and enjoy yourself dialing back the years until you're playing pain-free back out on the pitch again?
Don't take my word for it, do some homework you lazy bastard (this endearing term is addressed only to my fellow old guy soccer players).
You'll eventually realize food determines much more than your energy level and ever expanding waistline. It also jiggers your:
- metabolic rate
- effective fitness under load
- fat storage and mobilization
- chronic and acute inflammation
- immune system function or failure
- cellular renewal (autophagy) and longevity
- speed of healing and thoroughness of renewal
- periodicity of tissue reconstruction and growth (biosynthesis)
- epigenetic fitness to current landscapes we live in to wellbeing or dysfunction.
And guess what happens to any complex organic system if you jigger it too much... spilt milk, baby: "Sub, sub! I need a sub!"
I eat simply to live fully and play competitive league soccer at 58 years of age against punks half my age, AND do it while I've got a 3 year-old son and 6 year-old daughter. Yes, I'm sleep deprived.
And it's in this crucible where I've learned how TREMENDOUSLY important high-quality foods are, they determine:
- gut microbiome health
- rapid healing and rejuvenation
- improved hormone production
- disease immunity and enduring wellbeing
- molecular building blocks, strong joints and durable ligaments
My cheat sheet is not hard to learn, so listen up and you'll get all the details for free:
- feast only on whole, nutrient dense and naturally edible foods;
- avoid all processed food and chemically manufactured foodstuffs (if our great, great grandparents simply ate it, then we can simply eat it too); and,
- feast within – don't eat from the plate for sufficient lengths of time – and invite the body to eat up stored inventory (body fat) and effortlessly purge itself of accumulated wastes and damaged cells.
In case you didn't realize it: you are always eating, all the time, every day – either off your plates or off your body. Yes, yes, yes – you eat yourself – humans are designed that way, ding dong.
And the human body has evolved to work far more efficiently by feasting off body stores of fats, vitamins and minerals within, and not off our plates.
Unfortunately, since we don't eat high-grade quality foods off our plates, we don't have enough high-grade quality food elements stored on our bodies!
You can evolve your food choices as fast as you can; allow me to repeat and refine:
- High grade quality food on your plate means unmolested, whole, nutrient dense, naturally edible foods in season; and,
- High grade quality food on your body means correctly balanced Omega 3 to Omega 6 essential fatty acids pooled throughout your tissues and blood.
Oops, what's already stored in your blood, bone and tissues is going to take some time to flush out. You're going to have to work to reclaim whatever level of youthful rejuvenation you desire. But you can, fast or slow...
Regardless how fast you go, start now with the highest-grade quality food for your plate, because:
Daily food is destiny!
Want a better destiny – eat simply.
Some free pro tips and structured guidance for you is here, so start now at any speed...
Your body and mind will thank you!