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The Methuselah Diet

Fascinated by the idea of achieving advanced longevity, I spent some time digging back into historical records, which were based on basically biblical textual accounting of Methuselah’s long life of 969 years, and thought this would feel like I had achieved a long life if I were able to reach 900-plus years.

What did Methuselah eat?

        • Fruit
        • Vegetables
        • Meat

and for flavor,

        • Leaves
        • Flowers
        • Bark
        • Insects

Especially in a day and age when we are living between 75 and 77 years of age, we celebrate immensely if one of us makes it to 100, and no one makes it to 110. Yet, there are these records indicating that people lived to be 900-plus-years back in the day when Methuselah lived (3319 BC to 2350 BC) before “the flood.”

The flood happened suddenly and occurred sometime between 2350 BC and 2459 BC, and the jury is still out on a more precise date that historians can agree on, and many archaeologists don’t even acknowledge that there was a flood at all. This is due to the fact that the flood is interpreted as being worldwide, and there is no archaeological record verifying that the earth was totally submerged in water (and I agree with them).

People just like to argue and assert their knowledge over someone else’s, whereas a little humility may lead to being open enough to see that there is truth in the information that we have available to us somewhere, but you have to look to find it.

I hang around a lot of smart, well-educated people, and when they hear about using religious texts for anything, they start to freak out, citing the vast difference between science (fact) and religion (fiction). Yet, as we continue to dig into the secrets held beneath the surface of the earth, we are finding evidence that aligns with various religious texts. This is a thing, and it’s happening more often now, so maybe there is more fact in those texts than my scientific peers would like to admit.

We’ll see, if they will be open to new data, leading to revising their truth of the past, as it unfolds beneath us.

Back to my observations of Methuselah and longevity. He and his contemporaries lived extremely long live, pushing the boundaries of a thousand years. Methuselah did not give a thought to his diet. He just ate what was put in front of him, without care. My vegetarian friends maintain that Methuselah ate a strictly vegetarian diet.

I respect them and support the vegetarians and vegans, but I believe that Methuselah ate a natural diet that included fruit, vegetables, leaves, flowers, bark, and even insects, and he did eat meat on occasion (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals). Food was prepared both cooked and uncooked, and Methuselah ate it all, sparingly, not in excess or in a gluttonous fashion.

I mention the flood because following this event people began to live shorter in their number of days, regularly until they reached a ripe old age of 70 years old by 1000 BC, the age of King David at his passing. And the only big changes I can see in the diet are more meat and grain.

Methuselah’s diet had evolved from the very same diet that is still preferred by the only species that we share most of our DNA, the chimpanzees, and bonobos. This appears to be the right kind of diet for humans that promotes long life spans.

The only thing is, even if we duplicated Methuselah’s diet to the strictest detail, we do not have access to that primitive uncontaminated nutrient-rich raw food to create our meals from.

The answer to longevity via food selection is much more complicated than “what to eat” because the quality of the food that most of us have access to is highly processed and has very little nutrition in it. It’s like we can barely survive for the years we can eek out on what we have access to as food these days.

Submitted by David M Masters

 

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Diet and Disease

When you start thinking about adjusting your diet in modern America, you might like to take into consideration what diet your body is best suited for. Your body, the human body, is perfectly matched to run optimally on a specific fuel or food set. If you were to only partake of that fuel to which you are best suited to run on, you can enjoy the benefits that come from such a lifestyle, including a long, healthy life.

The primary key factor to longevity, real extended high-quality years of living, is the reward of maintaining the highest regard, care, and maintenance of one’s circulatory system.

If clean and alkaline states can be maintained for both circulatory and lymphatic systems, one will not be threatened by looming diseases, which do not actually exist. The medical community refers to certain lists of complaints or systems as “disease” for ease in processing patients en masse. In this way, it is easiest to ascertain that a particular list of complaints can be muted by an easily matched prescription drug. Case solved (according to modern medical practices).

Certainly, a sale is made of a high-profit pharmaceutical agent, while the problem has not been addressed. The problem, the particular set of complaints or symptoms, is the human body’s way of letting the body’s owner be aware that something is not right in the circulatory or lymphatic system(s).

It was discovered in the 1800s that if the circulatory system gets bogged down with debris, human cells possess egg-like organisms called microzymas that transform into whatever type of scavenger will best clean the cell and the cell’s environment, then send the toxic debris packing, passing it out via the excretory system, instead of allowing these materials to bog down the life system.

When this defensive action is taking place, the host, you, the body’s owner, start to feel that something is not right. And this not-good feeling is not coming from the transformed scavenger microzymas doing their clean-up, it shows up in different ways as the waste product from the trash they are eliminating is looking for a way out via the excretory system. The more there is to get rid of, the more severe the ill feelings will be.

We can see this outside of ourselves by observing nature. When something dies in nature, it becomes the food for something that derives its fuel from dead things. This is nature’s way. Some organisms are designed to thrive on certain living things to which they are perfectly matched, in some cases a whole species can benefit from the predatory nature of some things, while other things are a match for thriving on dead or waste material.

For instance, an eagle and a vulture may look similar as they glide through the air, while one is a predator, the eagle seeks to find live food to eat, and the other, the vulture looks for dead flesh to devour. It is all in perfect balance. So it is, therefore, the same inside the human body.

Left to itself, the human body can be an exceptional finely tuned machine and closed system. The trouble comes from introducing material to which the human body is not well-suited, which begins to clog up the system.

Our bodies are so exceptionally designed to survive in almost any circumstance, that we can continue to prolong life for a while when ingesting food that is not a good match for us, or even full of dangerous toxins. Our bodies can survive through such adversity in hopes of making it through a drought or disaster long enough for the environment to become alive enough to provide us with food that is healthy for us to eat again.

Then our bodies can go about healing themselves from what we have had to endure during a time of crisis. This is how we are uniquely designed for survival.

Now we come to the unfortunate state of the average human diet, if you are buying food from supermarkets where the aisles are lined with “food” packaged in pretty boxes that make these products appear to be desirable, and once you’ve purchased such an item, wait until you taste it. It has been chemically altered and engineered to at the very least excite your taste buds and pleasure sensors, if not create an addictive attachment to the item. You can easily see how profitable this system of supply to the masses might be.

These items are created with ingredients that are not matched for our bodies to break down as food and are often made with toxic material that was never intended to support human life.

On the other hand, they often mimic the tastes and smells that would normally be found in real human food.

These ingredients can be so foreign to the human body that the body cannot possibly recognize the material or even begin to process it, so it sees it as an attack on the system, and the threatened cells launch microzymas to clean the material and excrete the remains.

As the body tries to defend itself against the harmful material in the food and tries to clean the body of the inert toxic material, the body starts to feel symptoms, and ill feelings, associated with the removal of the ingredients that are threatening the life system.

So, a patient goes to see his doctor because he or she is not feeling well. The doctor creates a list of complaints and matches the list to a pharmaceutical that will cover up and alleviate the discomfort.

Examining the blood at this stage can be problematic, in that the eyes of the beholder can identify the transformed microzyma(s) in the form of, let’s say, an identifiable bacterium. Not knowing the true origin of this “bacteria” (microzyma), the observer incorrectly identifies the bacterium as a foreign entity attacking the body, just as he has been taught in medical school. The observer has no idea that this is actually a microzyma that exists only to protect the organism from toxic debris.

No one could blame any medical professional for following their training. So, after identifying the microzyma as a danger to the human body, and incorrectly concluding that it is not cleaning the system of toxic threats but has itself become a threat to the host, goes about trying to discover ways to kill the microzymas.

It would be like a city having no way to dispose of garbage that could make their residents ill. Mother nature sends a swarm of rats to clean up the rotting debris lining the streets. The city officials declare war on rodent infestation, and this is similar to what modern medicine does in our bodies when they kill the cell’s scavengers.

Our society has trained us to believe that disease can develop in one person and may be passed from one human to the next, based on theoretical science that promotes a pharmacological agenda. But there is no actual basis for this.

It may appear to be that way from a distance as you may witness groups of people developing similar symptoms, but a closer look will reveal that they are all essentially drinking from the same well and eating similarly destructive diets.

Submitted by Dr. Herb Roi Richards

 

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Foods That Heal and Foods That Kill

Herb “Roi” Richards

By Dr. Herb “Roi” Richards, Ph. D.

The biggest problem in the world today is that over 3 million people die every year. Why do you think that is? If you ask the government center for disease control, they will tell you that most people die from heart disease, cancer, or Alzheimer’s. And if that’s not enough, they will tell you most of them today died from the deadly COVID virus. All lies.

The number one killer in the United States is the inclination of the average American to subscribe to a style of life that I call the “Get By Diet.”

Have you ever wondered why so many people are unhealthy in one way or another? There is a problem with our eating habits that have never been explained in a way everyone can understand it. I will use a simile so there is no miscommunication.

We all know that if you fill the gas tank on your regular car with diesel fuel your car will only run a few feet. If, on the other hand, because there is a gasoline shortage you put in 2 or 3 gallons of diesel fuel to fill your tank, your car will run, but just not as well.

In other words, you are running your car on “get-by fuel.”

Humans also require a special fuel to operate at full performance, but can run along for 50, 70, and sometimes even 100 years with arthritis, diabetes, cancer, etc. the results of living full-time on “get-by fuel.”

Sometime in the far past, we have almost all switched to “get-by fuel.” Maybe there was a natural disaster, ice age, etc. that caused human fuel to not be available for long enough (several generations) that people forgot what human fuel was?

Our human intellect has gotten in the way of rediscovering it as a civilization.

There have always been a few who have discovered foods that are healthy but only the inertia of habit, traditions, family recipes, and cookbooks seem to keep them from being widely known.

Science has proven that the great ape has almost the same physiology as humans.

You could set a picnic table with the finest rare prime rib, best pizza, greatest Mexican food, and a huge bowl of various kinds of fresh fruit in the center and the ape will ignore all of those special goodies and chow down on any and all of the fruit. The ape recognizes the correct fuel. Are we really the intelligent ones?

What can you do to just say, “No,” to the “Get-by food?”

The information on how to change over to true human fuel follows.

First, you must be able to wrap your head around the idea that living this life (what little of It most of us unknowingly subscribe to) is not a crapshoot and should not be taken for granted. The “taking life for granted” approach to life is the first mistake made by the average human. Doing so limits your quality of life and longevity.

Second, if you’re a human whose body is in a state of degeneration after the age of twenty-five or so, you have been trained to believe this is the natural course of life, that it’s Mother Nature’s way of making way for fresh generational stock. It is understood that as we age we are expected to lose energy and agility, and passion for living, as we expect to be victims of disease and death, with our highest expectation being to smoothly fall into lifelessness in our sleep. Most oi us fail to understand foods that are healthy eliminate disease and realize that there are foods that can kill you.

We’ve all believed this “get by diet” we’ve been on since birth is what we were supposed to eat. The idea that pizza, steak, and tater tots were not proper human fuel never even entered our minds. Lies: Taught about the 4 basic food groups in school have only reinforced our belief that we were using “human fuel” when we were not eating foods that are healthy.

That concentrated food diet we’ve been on almost since birth has caused all of our cells to store up waste materials that would never have existed if we ate the fuel we were designed to eat.

That stored-up waste material is what attracts the pathogens to us to picnic on our trash.

While they are eating our trash they in turn leave toxic waste in our body we call diseases.

So, there is no way we can be poisoned back to health by adding more toxic waste (drugs) to our body.

We can’t even go directly to our proper human food but must have a transition period called a “mild food diet” to slowly release stored waste from all of our cells.

I know, like most of you, I thought when we defecated and urinated, we dumped all the trash and that would be true if we ate a human diet. The “get by in tough times diet” we’ve been on makes several times too much waste for regular trash dumps. Following is what we can and can’t eat during this body cleanse period. It will take about a year to safely clear the trash out of the cells with various symptoms disappearing as we take the food away from the bacteria, viruses, etc. If we went straight to the “all fruit and nut diet” our body craves, too much poisonous trash will be dumped into our bloodstream and could kill us. So, that’s why the transitional mild food diet.

Mild Food Diet

List of the mild foods we can eat

  • Fruits and vegetables, all as nearly raw as possible
  • Fruit juices, raw, frozen, or canned
  • Vegetable juice, but it must be raw
  • ‘Natural food oils, not hydrogenated, heated, or messed with, simply natural and cold-pressed
  • Sprout, all alfalfa, beans, grain. Sprouting changes them to useable natural sugar that requires no body processing (a lot different from the factory-made sugar in packaged food)

List of all the concentrated foods we can’t eat

  • Unsprouted grain (all kinds)
  • Sugar or commercial sugar-containing foods
  • Dairy products
  • Butter
  • Eggs
  • Unsprouted legumes
  • Meat (all)
  • Peanuts, because they are actually not a nut but a legume
  • All junk food

Remember this – Bacteria & viruses are bottom feeders and would not even move into your body unless you have their favorite food stored in your cells (trash, waste material, poisons, etc.).

The great thing about the change over is that it will only take about a year for our bodies to drop all the brand-name diseases along with the parasites they attract that plague us on our “traditional” Get-by diet.

It’s entirely up to you! If you decide to stay on the concentrated factory-designed foods you were taught were proper since birth you have effectively signed up for all the diseases that go with that lifestyle.

If on the other hand, you decide to go through a few days of withdrawal as you change to nutritious mild foods and start to cleanse and rebuild your body in a year or less, most of the problems you’ve been told were genetic, etc. will only be memories.

As the year goes along, you can eat more and more fruit as you feel better and be fully on the human diet by the end of the year.

The cleaner your body gets, the less you will hunger for concentrated foods.

That has definitely been my experience as I changed to human food,

Any time you eat one of those concentrated foods your cleansing will be stopped and you will feel lethargic until the body can get rid of it. So, you are fully in charge of your health or the lack of it.

Isn’t free will neat?

Submitted by Dr. Herb Roi Richards