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Superhuman Reset

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Aka “Medicinal, Raw and Wild Pesca-Paleo (MRWPP)”

30 days of consuming entirely raw, organic fruits and vegetables plus strictly wild seafood (not wild caught and definitely not farmed – only the real, natural thing) mixed into fiber-dense smoothies and salads using only select cold-pressed plant oils (primarily olive and avocado), vinegars, salt and spices for flavor. The added sauces and dressings are a major culprit in the Standard American Diet, as they’re almost uniformly based upon cheap, inflammatory oils, especially soybean oil, and packed with high fructose corn syrup and unnatural preservatives. Initially, consume as much as you want per day. There’s no counting of calories, only a strict quality maximization, allowing absolutely nothing linked to chronic inflammation and disease.

Rules of the Reset:

  • Big mixed salads containing only raw organic fruits and vegetables and wild seafood (‘Super Salads’) plus smoothies and snacking on raw fruit is the whole diet, with only water, coffee, tea and low sugar kombucha allowed as drinks. My favorite strategy, especially for breakfast, when I can best utilize the resulting relatively high blood sugar, is to pair such a salad, with greens and mixed veggies and satiating wild seafood, with a smoothie based upon bananas and other fruits, and sometimes spirulina powder, raw ginger, turmeric and other ‘superfoods.’ It’s a “Smoothie and Salad” version of Superhuman, or “SS” for short. In fact, I sometimes abbreviate this entire dietary strategy as ‘SSS’ in my health journal: Seafood, Smoothies and Salads.
  • No drugs or alcohol permitted the first month of the reset, with moderate wine allowed after (I don’t recommend consuming grain-based alcohols). And I don’t consider P. cubensis a drug, but medicine.
  • Once you’re comfortable with what you’re eating, and can sustain it, begin introducing the benefits of intermittent fasting, which have been well studied and documented (see, for example, Longo’s work at USC). While seemingly counterintuitive, the fact is that when you eat less often your body is given the opportunity to commit its limited energy and resources normally expended through digestion and all associated physiological processes, like waste elimination and energy shuffling and storage, to activities of healing, fortification and rejuvenation. The potential benefits are too numerous to list here, but intermittent fasting has been connected to improved metabolic and neurological functioning, as well as staving off disease risk (including cancer) and improved results in illness recovery.
  • It’s a sad but necessary truth to learn that the only way to become your fullest self and guard against all disease and dependency and protect the planet and eat morally is to be the slimmest of customers, ‘just saying no’ to all conventional industry foods (and to primary care doctors – go to naturopaths) that cost us our lives, forcing us to forfeit our true, natural selves. For the truth is that the entirely unscrupulous, greed-is-God nature of the industrial food supply is such that their goal is always to amplify and sell to your weakness, to your gluttony and impulsivity (chemical flavor enhancers that artificially exaggerate your appetite are standard additives in all prepackaged and fast foods), whilst simultaneously misleading you with the sales scheme of the packaging, designed to make you focus on the wrong thing and make the ‘food’ seem better for you than it is. Ignore everything but the list of ingredients. Better yet, only buy food that isn’t packaged or pre-prepared, and is entirely unprocessed. The sad, albeit unavoidable truth is that if you want to really be your complete self you MUST go to war with convention (and not just when it comes to diet), and that, largely because the standard food supply is predicated upon rampant propaganda amounting to making you miserable for profit, that this requires an extraordinary level of education and discipline that, tragically, less than 1% of the population will be able to muster, leaving 99% of people unaware of their fullest forms of self. This is NOT hyperbole, this is an unavoidable fact.
  • The Superhuman Reset is a ‘food is medicine,’ ‘all health begins in the gut,’ maximum micronutrients per calorie, gut health rehabilitation model, with absolutely no inflammatory compounds, and high ethics owing to its low carbon footprint and no allowing of suffering foods produced in toxic environments. The vast majority of meat is CAFO and toxic, and most of what constitutes SAD (the Standard American Diet) is in some way unnatural to the human body, with unnatural cause always leading to unnatural effect. ‘Return to nature’ is the wisest creed, and is reflected herein by the recommendations not only of this dietary template, but of using natural medicines in lieu of toxic pharmaceuticals, as well as incorporating as many activities in nature as possible, including cultivation.
  • Raw organic foods are the focus for many interconnected reasons, including the toxic skin layer and agricultural run-off produced by non-organic produce, the nutrient and enzyme loss caused by cooking (especially at higher temps without water), and that cooking is the primary means by which food is denatured, and by which a fattening condensing of calories is created, and, through gastrointestinal leukocytosis, by which the body’s immune system is activated during digestion, triggering cascading inflammation. Generally speaking, if it can’t be consumed without cooking or other forms of processing, through a pure, evolutionarily-grounded, pre-agriculture, gatherer-fisher approach, it probably shouldn’t be consumed at all. That said, you may add select cooked foods back into the diet post-reset, and most of the benefits of this reset will be sustained.
  • Daily administration of herbal medicines in the alleviation of stress and symptoms is not required, but is highly advisable, as it mitigates stress and puts the body and the mind in a state conducive to revitalization. Incalculable quality of life improvements may be garnered by leaning on herbal medicines as a shield against the common contemporary contagions of stress, anxiety and depression instead of leaning on alcohol, recreational narcotics, prescribed pharmaceuticals and ‘comfort feeding.’ The difference between these two general forms of treatment is, of course, that the former is sustainable, and achieves its benefits free from deleterious side-effects, whilst the latter, more common forms of ‘self-treatment’ trade their short-term reductions in stress, anxiety and depression for the worsening of these symptoms in the long run, by the cause of gradually degrading bodily function and capacity. But to successfully employ the former you must commit yourself to a course of exploring and experimenting with the cornucopia. I tend to have at least a dozen such medicines in capsule form alone at any one time (before teas and tinctures etc.) that I mix and match, and consider that to be a rather paltry number considering what’s available. I also make what I call a “Restorative Tea,” simmering in a non-dairy ‘milk’ for an hour the following whole organic medicines: three parts Oat Straw + one part each: Skullcap, Damiana, Bacopa Monnieri, St. John’s Wort, Gotu Kola and Maca + honey to taste, then filter out and compost all the solids, and enjoy. This is, of course, but one of an infinite number of combinations of the thousands of medicinal plants whose combination, dosage and means of administration should constitute an ongoing basis of experimentation and self-improvement for the evolved modern human being freed from doctors.
  • And when it comes to animal products, especially meat itself, toxicity, carcinogens, environmental ruin and inhumanity run rampant. Watch a single film on CAFO’s. Eating their ‘food’ is supporting evil. But even for the amoral consumer caring nothing for the hell his/her consumption unleashes upon these feeling animals, the stress hormones and toxicity especially concentrated in the fat cells of CAFO animals raised in such feces-and-urine-stewing environments will increase all risks of contracting disease for those whom ingest it. In stark contrast, wild seafood is far superior in that its fat is not only far less likely to be toxic (depending upon the waters where the seafood was sourced, and, when it comes to mercury risk, to how high it is on the food chain) but brimming with the highly salubrious Omega 3’s sourced from the aquatic plant base of the marine food chain, plus the environmental cost is far lower, both in that it has a much lower carbon footprint than CAFO animals and that it doesn’t produce the toxic waste and cascading, polluting, riparian-poisoning runoff of evil CAFO operations.
  • Simply stated, this one month reset (ideally leading to a longer term approach; keep reading) maximizes all the beneficial elements of true, evolutionarily-sound food, and takes a strict exclusionary approach to all of the detrimental false ‘foods’ inextricably linked to every form of ‘lifestyle disease’ by which primary care providers and Big Pharma are enriched through human misery. You’d be hard pressed to find any form of disease that isn’t greatly alleviated, or even healed, by this diet.
  • Necessary fat is provided by avocado, olive (both the oils and the whole fruits) and wild seafood. Necessary protein is provided by the wild seafood, the spirulina, and what’s naturally in produce. And functional energy is provided by the fruit you snack on, in addition to your body learning to more efficiently convert fat into energy through such a lower-carb approach (relative to SAD). Keep in mind that the protein ‘requirements’ of conventional recommendations are grossly exaggerated, and that high animal protein diets are linked to many diseases, especially when that protein is derived from concentrated animal feeding operations.
  • It’s not a perspective, but a fact, that whatever satisfaction you sacrifice in terms of food enjoyment to make your food more healthful/medicinal will be delivered back to you many times over in terms of the far longer-lasting satisfactions of greater vitality, energy and personal ability. So, as a part of the practice, rather than thinking about the short-term satisfaction sacrificed by the diet as a loss, as something you’re ‘missing out on,’ think of it as a savings and reinvestment that rewards massive dividends. Satisfaction isn’t wasted, it’s reinvested in something far more valuable in the long term.
  • Don’t focus on what you can’t have, focus on what you can. Exploring the near boundless realm of fresh organic produce is invaluable to anyone the least bit exploratory that really dives into it, and represents the best possible gateway into the culinary arts; arts that begin with sourcing, knowing and appreciating the best ingredients, which, of course, means the plant world. With practice, you’ll find that the enjoyment of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, vinegars and select cold-pressed oils exceeds any other dietary modality; that is, when you’re cognizant enough to notice and add together both the direct enjoyment of the diet and the sustained enjoyment of feeling better, and being more capable, than at any other time in your life.
  • All you need is the strength to stick with this plan for 30 days, with zero justifications or excuses for going off of it, and you’ll be effectively reborn. Keep in mind that the only thing that all human beings are experts in is unjustifiably justifying their bad habits. If you can overcome this ‘expertise,’ you’ll be rewarded with what few know: their truest selves.
  • After the first reset month, you can add in eggs if you can find actual free range eggs (not just ‘cage free,’ or any other misleading term; most egg operations are the most unnatural and unethical of all CAFO operations), as well as nuts and seeds, as long as they’re not flavored with anything problematic, like soy and preservatives, and select Paleo-approved sauces (the Primal brand is a good choice). You may also begin cooking some of your produce, but it remains highly recommended that, in order to avoid leukocytosis, that you keep at least half of every bowl or plate as consisting of raw food. Finding local(ish) suppliers of wild seafood and true free range eggs is highly recommended. You can also add back controlled quantities of red wine at this point, but, again, I don’t recommend drinking more inflammatory grain-based alcohols.
  • Note that while I reference this dietary approach as ‘superhuman,’ this term is only relative to the way in which most people living in the ‘advanced nations’ of overabundance eat. The sad reality, of course, is that this approach is actually the Human Diet; the way that human beings naturally evolved to eat for peak vitality and capacity, and is only ‘superhuman’ in the sense that most modern humans living in said ‘advanced nations’ eat so unnaturally as for their diets to gradually render them subhuman; unnatural, reduced, sick versions of themselves.
  • As a final note, please take heed of the fact that this dietary approach is based upon decades of intermittent academic study and TONS of personal empirical data, and includes principles sourced from and shared with innumerable books and documentaries, including work that’s classified under the Paleo, Whole 30 and Wahls protocols.

Also highly recommended during this: cultivate, study and develop a relationship with plants, generally, but especially those with known medicinal qualities (i.e. those with known, established human relations)

P.S.: If you really want to clean house, follow this with what I call the “Transcen-Dance Purification:” A 3 week cleanse in which you ONLY consume:

  • Water

  • Matcha

  • Kombucha

  • Fire Cider (medicinal-plant-infused ACV)Fresh-squeezed citrus

  • Blended plant powders (like spirulina, maca, and beet powders)

  • Medicinal teas (infused spices and herbs)

  • P. cubensis: opening and closing 2g, with micro dosing in between (0.25-0.5 g daily)

  • With lots of music, dancing, singing, hiking, wildcrafting and, if possible, lots of sex as well, and ideally on a property surrounded by the majesty of nature