Diet: Six Don'ts and one Do

Demand

Yes, a small (under 80 kg) male endurance athlete may need to consume way over 6000 calories per day in order to maintain his physical peak performance. And while it doesn’t make much sense to count calories on daily basis, some prefer to monitor that they consume 50-150 grams of carbs per hour in order to stay in shape. Now if we jump to the other end of the spectrum, bodybuilding, it is usually the amino acids that are counted and of what people wake up to swallow in the middle of the night in order to stay in shape.

In both of these cases, the training and exercising are actually the fun part, the pleasure, and all that food preparing and eating the hard work. Therefore it is only understandable that the continuous cooking isn’t too exciting anymore and that the quality of the foodstuffs doesn’t necessarily have a noticeable difference in a short-term as the biomachinery seems to burn everything and all it seems to require is significant quantities. The key words here are seems and short-term.

The biological demand is much more that just the burnable fuels or the building blocks for muscle tissues for example. The primal building blocks of everything, including the enzymes that execute pretty much everything in biochemistry, are elements. And if you want to burn oxygen, monosaccaharides and/or -carboxylates, cofactors are needed. So the formula for ATP isn’t just the oxygen logistics + monosaccharadies, it includes elements, enzymes and cofactors like thiamine for example. Therefore one way to increase your capability to produce energy and biological performance is to provide your mitochondria/bacteria the much needed elements and cofactors in addition to the fuels.

I do not deny it, there are always big bags of sugar on my table, car etc. But there is a significant difference when consuming the mentioned 50-150 grams of sugar with dyes, water, or with real home juiced fruit/berry/veggie juices and/or milk. That difference comes partly from the elements, potassium and calcium in these latter cases. Calcium lifts biologistics, your metabolism and turns on your thermostat for example. And potassium can be seen to act a bit like insulin, improves cellular logistics. And if we think about the fuels, galactose (in milk) is THE premium monosaccharide, whereas fructose (in fruits etc.) is superior compared to the glucose for example. So sugar (and leucine) should be seen as supplements that are taken with foods, not a food per se.

Reality check

Today, your capability to produce ATP etc. isn’t just about the availability of the goodies, but more and more about the availability of the baddies. It does not take many minutes with a search engine to get the idea of what aluminium, arsenic, bromide, cadmium, glyphosate, lead, mercury etc. do to A. the general capability of your mitochondria/bacteria to produce ATP, B. to the capability of your neurons and myelin to function, C. to the capability of your cells to produce enzymes, and therefore D. to your capability to recover, build bioperformance, tissues and success.

Millions of tons of extremely toxic elements and chemicals are released to the air we breath, water we drink and foods we eat every single year and at ever increasing pace. Therefore you do not have to be a genius in order to do the math, estimate the aftermaths of this. ADD, ADHD, anxiety, anemia, Asperger’s, Autism, Alzheimer’s etc. are not coincidences, they are built just like everything else. And the primal builder is ignorance of biological realities. So if you do not care about this but consume toxins filled and nutritionally poor stuffs like those commercial chips, chocolate, candy, soft drinks etc., in order to get those calories, how is your performance going to be after a decade of doing so? What may seem to work just fine in a short-term, may not work in a long-term in this biological reality we are living right now.

As I have dug metals from my tissues for decades now at professional level and even competed in this, my own metabolism is comparable to the top endurance athletes. And to make it clear, it is not because I train like an endurance athlete. It is because I aim to optimize the operational environment and biological capabilities of my cells, myelin and mitochondria. So there are at least two approaches and paths to the same daily problem of needing to eat all the time in order to perform like one wants. While I am not willing to cut that many corners by swallowing the things that blunt my biological performance and metabolism by increasing burden, I’m not suggesting that my approach should be yours. But what I want you to be aware of are the current biological realities of today and make better choices. See it is not that difficult to avoid the most toxic, burdening and detrimental things like:

-Fish & seafood: High amounts of mercury, other heavy metals, dioxins, PUFAs etc.

-Fish and veggie oils: PUFAs, pesticides and other contaminants

-Tap water: Aluminium and heavy metal nanoparticles, fluoride, drug residues, industrial chemicals, microplastics, nanomaterials, -components etc.

-Chocolate: Natural phytotoxins (blunt liver, metabolism and hormone production)

-Tea and hemp leaves: Aluminium etc. (neurological and biologistical issues)

-Grains/flours/bread/rice/soy: Bromide, arsenic, other heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, natural bioweapons, anti-nutrients and phytoestrogens

It is hard to imagine biologically more absurd food choice than sushi. In the terms of ingredients, we got parasites and their eggs(raw seafood), mercury(seafood), arsenic(rice), PUFAs(mayo, oils, fish), bromide(seaweed), plastics(seafood) and so on. If the desert happens to contain cacao (chocolate, nips, oil etc. (phytotoxins and PUFAs)) and a cup of tea, it is highly unlikely that you could reach your peak performance anytime soon. Your biological resources are used to handling the toxins and minimizing the damages, not optimizing your performance and thrive.

Superfood

It is one thing to avoid loading the system with trouble, and another to load it with something precious. Today the term superfood is used to market all kinds of stuffs that have been shipped in bulk from Asia and packed and labeled close by with fancy claims. Your biology does not thrive with dried and powdered Uzbekistan kale, Taiwanese chlorella, Vietnamese veggie oils, Indian herbs, Chinese mushrooms, nuts, dried berries etc. fundamentally absurd and somewhat toxic, no matter what the blogger says or what sort of certificates the company has bought.

The real superfood in the biological standards is goat milk. It is worth to remember that whether it is a baby human or animal, it’s brain and body develops and grows with milk, meaning calcium, galactose, rather optimal amino acid profile, and in the case of goat milk particularly, retinol. Every viking had at least one goat, an own McDrive with him. And the same can still be seen in the more primal and rational parts of the world. As our biological features, tendencies or demands haven’t changed in the last thousand years or so, goat milk is still the number one food choice and primary source of nutrients for a man.

I have never met a person who wouldn’t benefit from drinking one to three liters of sterilized, predigested and somewhat natural and grass-fed goat milk a day. And while sheep milk and African low fat A2 cow milk are fine alternatives, goat milk is the real deal, our primal superfood. So here you got six things to avoid and one thing to top up. Not a difficult task to experiment and see how you feel and perform.