Dr. Terry Wahls shouldn’t have been able to stand. Let alone give a Ted Talk at Iowa City.
Ravaged by M.S., all the latest drugs only made her decline faster. In 2007, she was so disabled, she couldn’t sit in a normal chair. If she wanted to walk, she needed 2 canes – and even then, she couldn’t go far.
Yet now she was standing effortlessly. She looked so healthy…so vibrant. Her audience must have wondered…
“How has Terry radically turned the tables on her disease?”
If the doctors’ advice didn’t work, and the latest drugs didn’t work, and the expensive therapies didn’t work, what did?
Terry found the answer in her cells’ mitochondria.
It sounds complicated, but it’s not. Your mitochondria exists in all your cells. It’s what fires them up. When you eat something, the mitochondria converts it into energy your body can use. Your health, your energy, your ability to concentrate…everything is affected by this.
“We are alive because of complicated chemical reactions,” Terry warned her audience. “If you are not providing the building blocks, those reactions cannot happen properly…You set the stage for chronic disease.”
Worse, your mitochondria wears away as you age. While the free radicals in your body increase, your cells’ defenses fall. This weakens them even faster.
It’s why rates of congestive heart failure double every decade after 50.
But you can feed your mitochondria NOW and give your cells the energy needed to stay young
You don’t even have to wait long before noticing the difference.
>> Within 3 months, Dr. Wahls was able to walk with one cane.
>> After the 4th month, both canes were in the dustbin.
>> By month 6, she was able to ride her bike again – the first time in a decade!
>> And after 9 months, she rode it 18 miles.
Yet feeding her cells was amazingly easy. Wahls simply switched back to the ‘hunter-gatherer’ diet – the same diet our ancestors ate as foragers.
What’s incredible about hunter-gatherers is they existed all over the world. An Inuit diet is very different from a forager’s in Africa. Nevertheless, Dr. Wahls discovered ALL hunter-gatherer diets exceeded America’s recommended daily allowances by a minimum of 2X. Often, they contained 10X the recommended allowance of vitamins and minerals.
How to eat like a hunter-gatherer and recharge your mitochondria
Here’s Dr. Wahls daily meal plan to re-energise your cells…
>> Eat 3 cups of leafy greens:
As you get older, your digestive system becomes less efficient. You cannot absorb as many B-vitamins. And these are essential to protect your brain cells and mitochondria.
“A vitamin B12 deficiency develops very slowly over many years and oddly, often affects the brain and nervous system entirely and nothing else,” says Dr. John Lindenbaum.
You need to get more B-vitamins from your food now.
Want to save time – and stomach space? Eat kale. This has the most nutrition to calories of any plant on Earth.
>> Eat 3 cups of sulphur-rich vegetables:
Your mitochondria sucks up sulphur like a sponge. What’s more, your brain’s synapses use it to send and receive messages.
You need it to stay mentally sharp.
All cabbage vegetables are rich in sulphur. That includes cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts and cauliflower. You can also get sulphur from onions and mushrooms.
>> Eat 3 cups of bright coloured vegetables and high-quality protein:
These are loaded with the most potent anti-oxidants you MUST eat to prevent aging.
Coloured fruits and vegetables include carrots, red cabbage and berries.
For your proteins, eat salmon and herring – both rich in omega-3 fats. You should also eat organ meats and grass-fed meats.
“Yes, it will cost more,” Terry Wahls admits.
But I assure you, you are going to pay the price. You will pay the price now – for food that restores your health and vitality. Or you pay the price for doctors’ visits, prescription drugs, surgeries, missed time from work, early retirement and nursing home care.
I know which I’d prefer.
In fact, I have only 1 problem with Dr. Wahls’ diet…and it’s not money
No, it’s time.
Some days, I just don’t have enough of it. So here’s what I also take daily to keep my cells’ energy topped up.
1. If you do nothing else, take a multi-vitamin.
This is the easiest way to boost your immune system. A simple 24-vitamin pill was shown to boost immune response 64%.
“Even older people who consume pretty good diets experience enhanced immunity by taking a multivitamin supplement,” says Dr. John D. Bogden.
2. Take vitamins C, E and beta carotene
These vitamins are CRUCIAL for staying young. And most multi-vitamins do not have enough. Here’s why you should supplement these right now.
3. Supplement Coenzyme Q10.
This miraculous vitamin restores energy in your heart mitochondria. This is where you need it most.
As you age, your body’s heart cells weaken – exposing it to an onslaught of free radicals. If you’re healthy, take around 30 milligrams a day and fight back.
4. Supplement Omega-3
You need around a 50/50 balance of omega-3 to omega-6 fats.
Trouble is, most western diets are loaded with omega-6. It drastically throws off the balance, sending you hurtling towards a life of disease.
Omega-3 is the largest vitamin deficiency in America. Around 80% are not getting enough. Supplementing omega-3 helps protect you from brain degeneration and heart failure.
5. Drink this juice…
What should you do if you haven’t time to eat a plate of fruits and vegetables?
Drink them.
Juicing should never be a total replacement for food, but it does give you a power-hit of nutrients when you’re in a hurry.
Here’s my mitochondria-boosting, hunter-gatherer juice. It follows the same plan which transformed Dr. Wahls’ health.
1 handful of parsley
1 handful of kale
1 carrot
1 beetroot
1/2 a red pepper
1/2 a cucumber
A decent chunk of ginger
1 celery stalk
If you find this juice is too bitter, replace the cucumber with an apple. This sweetens it up nicely. Just be sure to use a large glass. This is one big hit of nutrition.
What’s the easiest way to eat all these vegetables? Drink them!
This is the juicer I use – the Jack La Lanne Harmony. It’s one of the cheaper juicers, but I think it offers the best value for under $100. I’ve juiced a farm’s worth of vegetables with this and it’s still going strong.
