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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 salads using only select cold-pressed plant oils (primarily olive and avocado), vinegars, salt and spices for flavor. 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.
Big mixed salads containing only raw organic fruits and vegetables and wild seafood (‘Super Salads’) plus snacking on raw fruits is the whole of the diet, with only water, coffee, tea and low sugar kombucha allowed as drinks. My favorite personal 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 and 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-tracking journal for Seafood, Smoothies and Salads.
No drugs or alcohol permitted the first month of the reset, with moderate wine allowed after.
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. If you want to really be your complete self you MUST go to war with convention. This is NOT hyperbole, this is an unavoidable fact.
This 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.
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 temperatures without water), and that cooking is the primary means by which food is denatured, and by which 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.
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’ equals supporting evil.
Simply stated, this one month reset (ideally leading to a longer term approach, see below) 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, or dis-ease, that isn’t greatly alleviated or 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 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). The protein ‘requirements’ of conventional recommendations are grossly exaggerated, and high protein diets are linked to many diseases, especially when that protein is derived from the aforementioned CAFO’s.
It’s not a perspective, but a fact, that whatever satisfaction you sacrifice in terms of food enjoyment to make your food more healthful 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 satisfaction sacrificed by the diet as a loss, as something that you’re ‘missing out on,’ think of it as a savings and reinvestment that rewards massive dividends. That satisfaction isn’t wasted, it’s reinvested.
All you need is the strength to stick with it for 30 days, with zero justifications or excuses for going off of it, and you’ll be effectively reborn.
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), as well as nuts and seeds, as long as they’re not flavored with anything problematic, like soy and preservatives. You may also begin cooking some of your produce, but it remains highly recommended that, in order to avoid the aforementioned leukocytosis, that you keep at least half of every bowl or plate raw. Finding local(ish), direct suppliers of wild seafood and true free range eggs is highly recommended. The Superhuman Diet may also be described as a ‘Produce-Centric Wild and Raw Pesca-Paleo Protocol.’ You can also add controlled quantities of red wine at this point, but grain-based beers and spirits aren’t recommended.
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 filmed documentaries, including the work generally classified under the Paleo, Whole 30 and Wahls approaches.