Everyone is aging, it's unavoidable. But many of the difficult and uncomfortable symptoms of aging ARE avoidable, like the fear and anxiety of getting older. On this episode of the Modern Aging Podcast, Udo and host Risa Morimoto discuss how
If you’re confused about conversion of omega-3 ALA into the omega-3 derivatives EPA and DHA, you’re not alone. I get at least one question about conversion each week. And I know that if one person is asking, there are probably
Recently, I had the honor of appearing on one of the most popular health podcasts out there: Food Matters.
Take a listen to this episode where I talk about:
The processing issue of our food products.
How oils can
If you've been following me for a time, you know that it is most important for me to help people find the peace that exists – and has always existed – in them. After all, you are unconditionally loved by
In this conversation with Haze Schepmyer and Peter Willis, I discusses our deep connection to nature and to each other – and how our power and peace comes from the indestructible energy that lives in all of us.
You can
If you you've been following my work for a while, you know that I am passionate about a whole food, plant based diet for total health. And I am equally as passionate about a plant based diet when it comes
I get thousands of questions every year through social media and my customer service inbox from people looking for clarity on oils and omegas. If you are new to oils and omegas, you most likely can find the answer
After being poisoned by pesticides in 1980, I seriously turned my passion and attention to health. I obsessively studied literature, created a method for making oils with health in mind, developed the first ever flax seed oil, authored several
For years, the Western world demonized coconut oil for supposedly increasing cholesterol and causing heart attacks, even using full-page newspaper ads to do so. It turned out that the soybean industry used this advertising ploy of dissing the
Olive oil has become very popular over the past few decades. It is recommended by health gurus of every description. Why has interest in olive oil skyrocketed? Extra virgin olive oil is popular for two main reasons.
First,
May I digress for a moment to give you a bit of the history of my involvement with the topic of fats and health? 1981 was only one year after I had
Been poisoned by pesticides
Fats and oils come in two completely contradictory forms. There are fats/oils that heal, and there are fats/oils that kill. The truth is that to make good choices for better health, you have to know which is which, and
Health is the natural state. It is what is normal in nature and in human nature. Life created several different parts of the natural state of health, one for each of the parts of nature and human nature.
Last week, I shared the first reason that I believe people lie. In today's post, I'll cover the next 3 reasons.
Second, people may lie out of fear of punishment and pain. You want to avoid pain or other
‘You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.’ Most of you have heard this quote from the New Testament. But what does it mean that the truth will make you free? Truth makes you free
By nature, all human beings want the best for their life. You ask, hope or pray to be relieved of pain, but you never pray to be relieved of your happiness. You’re biased for joy. A preference for ‘better’
When I hate my dismal existence, and feel depressed and in misery, I don’t feel like I have energy to do more than the bare minimum. Then taking care of myself is asking too much. So I don’t take
This question puzzled me for some time, and I think that I found an answer. It applies to most people, including you and me. It’s based on how we feel about being alive. It’s based on how inspired we
Health is both a precious and a fragile gift. To unpack and to enjoy this gift, you need to know and live by, or adhere to, its principles. To maintain this gift, you need to consistently take specific actions
Are fats bad? I get that question all the time. The truth is: Fats are like people. Some are bad and some are good, based on their behavior.
Bad fats are bad. Good fats are good. Bad oils
There’s another compelling reason why you should limit your intake of carbohydrates. It has to do with pesticides. Farmers have been trained to spray many unripe grains, corn and beans with glyphosate, commercially known as Roundup, to ripen them
Excess carbohydrates MUST be converted into fats, which get carried to and stored in your cells. That is the law in your body. It’s important for survival. Chronic over-consumption of carbohydrates MUST lead to fat deposits, then to overweight,
How do carbohydrates make you fat? You make or order food and eat it. By habit, you may like one or more of the following: grains, bread, flour, pasta, potatoes, fries, chips, noodles, corn, muffins, barley, yams, squash, grain-based
In every one of your body’s 60 trillion cells, you have several genes for fat burning and you also have a gene for fat production.
When they’re turned on, the genes for fat burning in your cells’ furnaces
I’m not much of a coffee drinker. Coffee, after all, is made from roasted (burned) coffee beans (and by the way, neither coffee beans nor cocoa beans are actually beans). Burning changes molecules from natural to unnatural. Any food
How often do you change the oil in your car? If you care about your car, you do it on a regular basis, right? You drain out the dirty oil, and you replace it with clean oil.
When
Fat consumption figures are based on the fatty acid content of oil sources in their natural state. They cannot give accurate correlations between LA nutrition and disease trends, for instance, because these figures fail to show how much LA
Between 1910 and 1980, many changes took place in the kinds and amounts of fats and oils that people ate.
Total consumption of all fats increased by 35%. Our total fat consumption rose from 32% of daily calories to
30% of our adult population is chronically constipated. Constipation leads to many other problems: hemorrhoids, varicose veins, toxin reabsorption, bad breath, liver damage, and even aneurisms from straining. Most constipation has one of three nutritional causes that can be
Iodine increases metabolic rate. Its richest source in our foods is kelp, other seaweeds, and seafoods. Iodine can also be supplemented. Caution: Supplementation with iodine requires supervision, because too much iodine can be toxic. Supervised iodine supplementation should be
Omega 3s serve as building materials for series 3 prostaglandins, some of which help our kidneys get rid of excess water held in tissues. The excess weight of some overweight people is largely retained water (edema). Omega 3s help
This may be hard to swallow, but about 65% of North American population is overweight, including about 30% obese. By 2020, expect 75% of the population to be overweight. And, you can expect 85% of the population to be
I was skeptical but decided to check it out. On the slim chance that he COULD show me that peace exists within me, I wouldn’t want to miss it, and if he couldn’t show me, I’d just keep looking. That
At 17, I remember first feeling an intense ache in my chest. I didn’t know what it was, and I couldn’t shake it by any of the physical, mental or outside distractions that I pursued. The ache was always there.
‘Sexy’ is the word most people use to denote presence, vitality and appeal. What most people don't realize is that health is the foundation of ‘sexy.’ Total sexy health is a system that, once you understand and apply it, you
In 1980, when pesticides poisoned me and the doctor had no remedy, I realized that my health is MY responsibility. I also knew that the bodies of most animals and all humans in nature are made from food, water, oxygen
Breaking your word when more interesting, profitable or shinier possibilities come along saddles you personally, relationally and financially.
Breaking your word and trust is the cardinal social sin. Why do people do it? Why does anyone break an agreement
To complete the chapter on social health, consider the importance of your word. In most situations, you are a free agent, free to give or to withhold your word. You can promise, commit or agree to something, or you can
Western civilization, culture, government and religion were built largely on the insights and teachings of two masters, Socrates and Christ, and on efforts to understand and live by these teachings of self-knowledge for self-mastery. Educated, ‘powerful’ people have also misused
Another consideration of social groups involves looking at the nature of their books of rules and constitutions.
First, all sets of rules and all constitutions are flawed documents. Why? They’re flawed because they’re products of human minds, which are
Self-actualized people all speak in personal ‘incorrect’ ways, spontaneously, without memorized sets of stories, texts and explanations. They don’t stick to only a few limited scripts. They encourage you to convey your own experiences uniquely, and welcome you to give
The psychologist Alfred Adler suggested making a distinction between people, who are worth caring for, and unacceptable behavior, which has to be addressed. “I love you but your behavior is unacceptable, and I expect you to change it for the
Social pressure can’t get to your central core. You are free in that core even when your body is being pushed or pulled around, negative words are used, and others speak to you in demanding or demeaning tones. It’s good
When you are not in touch with the wholeness that comes from the feeling of belonging to life, you are vulnerable to social manipulation. Others can deceive, coerce or bully you to submit to their specific personal or social agenda.
Even when you are strong, some people may still be toxic for you and you may be wise to exclude them from your circle of daily interactions. However, avoiding such people does not mean that it’s okay for you to
What price do you pay for membership? Do you give up personal independence and freedom to become and remain a member? Why are you willing to do so? When you’re only weakly committed and unaware that you most truly belong
One of my inventions has made it around the world, far broader than I could have ever done alone, simply because others stole it. Theft of ideas does not diminish me. It enhances me, and that’s sexy. After all, thieves
Look around. Yours is an extremely diverse, complex, complicated human world. I’m in Los Angeles right now, in a hotel room, with desk and chair, toilet and TV, shower and windows, my computer and a cell phone that connects me
Accept your whole being. You are life. You are sexy. You’re not
What you’ve felt
What you were forced to believe as a child by bullying adults who themselves had gotten lost
What you’ve thought
What you’ve said
Imagine a social group in which the members unconditionally accept and celebrate the talent, uniqueness and contribution of each individual. Is that even possible? It is, and it’s super-helpful in a world in which you live surrounded by strongly held
Social health involves membership in groups larger than your individual self. On the negative side, groups enable you to let others lead you. They can give you a sense of belonging before you’ve discovered that by nature, you first and
Social ease and connection is the sixth key part of Total Sexy Health Designed By Nature. A few years ago, a credit card company ad trumpeted, ‘Membership has its privileges.’ It’s true, and membership also has limitations, disadvantages and restrictions.
An average adult U.S. male eats about 2.7 kg (5.9 pounds) of food per day. Less than 1000 calories, which usually result in weight loss, are contained in 2.7 kg of broccoli but over 10,800 calories, which must result in
How can we change the fat content of our body? To increase the amount of w3 EFAs in our fat tissue, which is desirable for both beauty (they make skin soft and velvety) and health (they decrease our risk of
The fatty acids profile of body fat can vary greatly as a direct consequence of differing contents of saturated, monounsaturated, and essential fatty acids (EFAs) in different diets. The percentages of linoleic acid (LA, 18:2w6) and alpha-linolenic acid (LNA, 18:3w3)
Our body’s fat content tends to increase with age, although this is not inevitable. Old natives of South Sea Islands are as slim as their young, and as active and child- like. Their use of unrefined foods, active life-style, simplicity,
Next to water, which makes up about 70% of the total weight of a human adult, and 84% of that of a newborn infant, fat is the most abundant substance found in our body. We may not like that, but
Suppose that you choose not to practice getting present to your own magnificence. You continue to let the world come at you fast. You continue not to have your essential calm presence meet and stand up to the world. When
Stress is the great global disease of modern times and the root of much of what ails us. I’m in a hurry. You’re in a hurry. Everybody is chasing around, cutting corners, trying to get stuff done. Human beings turn
No matter how well you plan your days, projects, journeys, company trajectories and life, something unexpected always happens. An unforeseen emergency emerges. You don’t see it coming, so you’re not prepared, and it can easily become dangerous or deadly. You
Change triggers your survival mechanisms for both attraction and protection. How does it work? To determine whether a situation is danger or opportunity requires you to check it out. When nothing in your environment changes because there’s nothing going on,
Survival smarts is the fifth key part of total health designed by nature. You contend daily with survival issues that take place between your body and a friendly or unfriendly outside world. Survival issues include protection, safety, clothing and shelter.
Plants make enzymes that ‘insert’ a double bond into (desaturate) fatty acids at positions w3 and w6 to make w3 and w6 fatty acids, but humans do not produce these enzymes. This means that LA and ALA are not essential
To unfold some of their functions, LA and ALA must first be converted into EFA derivatives, or into prostaglandins. These conversions require vitamins B3, B6 and C and the minerals magnesium and zinc. Other vitamins and minerals may also modify
In ways that are poorly understood and require further study, EFAs seem to be involved in electron and energy transport. EFAs are involved in the transport (esterification) of cholesterol. ALA and its derivatives can lower elevated blood fats (serum triglycerides)
EFAs are part of all cell membranes. They help hold proteins in the membrane by the electrostatic attractive forces of their double bonds, and thus they are involved in the traffic of substances in and out of our cells via
Much is still unknown about the functions of EFAs in our body. Of the two, LA has been studied far more extensively than ALA. Both are difficult to work with, because they are easily destroyed, but ALA is five times
The usefulness of LA and ALA in our body results from their chemical properties.
EFAs attract oxygen. This property made EFA-rich oils useful to the paint industry as ‘drying’ oils, which dry and harden when exposed to air. Oils commonly
In our frenzy to avoid killer fats, we can easily forget the fats that heal – those fats that we must obtain from foods in order to be healthy. The key components of healing fats are the essential fatty acids
As life, you’re fearless. You are courageous, powerful and independent. You are also real, full, generous and kind. You’re rich, beautiful and true. You’re light. When you know yourself as life, there’s nothing missing. You’ve always been, are now, and
Life, which is energy, which is light, sound, feeling and taste, is so whole that it can never break down, sicken or deteriorate.
Fire cannot burn the energy of life. Wind can’t blow it away. It can’t be bent,
Your senses perceive and measure energy because energy is the power that creates incessant change in the physical world. Using your senses, life monitors these changes to alert you to threats and invitations.
Life looks through your eyes and
Life, the energy that powers every human being and other creature, is weightless and immaterial, but not unimportant. Without it, everything physical and mental breaks down, and you lose the integrity of your form. When life and body part company,
Life is a catalyst. What is that? A catalyst enables something to happen but is not itself changed or affected by what it makes happen. Life is the catalyst that creates your DNA program of 20,000+ genes. It powers the
Life energy is perfect health. Why is life perfect health? Life is energy in formless flow. It can’t be created or destroyed. Energy feels no pain, never gets sick, and does not degenerate. Life energy is beyond death. As life,
Minerals
Mineral supplements are available in the form of inorganic salts, organic acid salts, and amino acid chelates. All three forms have merit. Inorganic phosphates, sulfates, and chlorides are important for electrolyte balance; organic ascorbates, acetates, and citrates are natural
Impressive work is being done with vitamins, minerals and EFAs in the treatment of degenerative diseases. Much is being learned, and people are being relieved of degenerative afflictions that resist treatment with drugs, surgery, and radiation.
Gaps in Knowledge
Although
Since deficiencies are widespread, we might well ask why this is so. Without going into a long explanation, let us examine what happens when whole wheat grain is turned into white flour. The following table shows the percentages of essential
One might expect that diets in affluent industrial nations would also be nutritionally affluent, but this is not the case. Even though we have the necessary technology, money is not usually a problem, and we have both time and choices,
To tell the complete story of nutrition, we must acknowledge all essential nutrients required by our body for health. Nutrients cannot work in isolation. All essential nutrients work as a team to build and support health, and to repair damage.
I am the source of inspired creativity in my world, my personal sphere of influence. You are the source of inspired creativity in your world, YOUR sphere of influence. Large or small, each of us is the center of a
Every inspired human being is creative. It’s an inherent part of the life you come into the world loaded with. You’re creative in countless personal, private and exclusive ways, in lofty, global and inclusive ways, and in constructive and destructive
Inspired within a solid foundation in awareness and life, it’s normal and natural for you to use your creativity to upgrade quality of life as much as you can, for you, all others and all of nature.
Some people
Human beings are creative by nature. Life created us with a mind that enables us to think and even more special, to imagine. It’s what makes us so creative. We use life’s powerful gift of mind to develop thousands of
Inspired constructive creativity makes physical existence more enjoyable and less painful. Inspired destructive creativity improves life for some at the expense of others. Dreamers, visionaries, poets, composers and storytellers are some of the people whose inspired creativity serves social growth
Inspiration is the third key part of total health designed by nature. Inspiration is the non-material bridge between your life and the world you live in, and leads to creativity. In fact, inspiration is the driving force behind vision and
Linoleic acid and Alpha-linolenic acid are Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) that are essential to our health. They are also very temperamental. Light, air, and heat destroy them. Nature packages these oils in seeds that keep out light, air, and heat.
What is poison, and why is poison poisonous? Poison is any substance (or energy) that blocks, inhibits or derails natural interactions between the molecules that build and run the biochemical architecture of your body. They are poisonous because they interfere
18 minerals, 13 vitamins, 8 amino acids and 2 fatty acids are ‘essential’ by a specific definition developed by researchers. Essential nutrients are those that fit the following definition.
Life can’t make them from anything else in
Fresh whole raw organic food is delightful. Fresh, whole, raw, organically grown, toxin-free, in season, local, sun-ripe, mostly plant-based food is nature’s health mandate for humans. Eat mostly that way to have the longest and healthiest physical existence.
Since
In my last article, it was all about oxygen. And, as much as oxygen is so important, fresh water is miraculous. Of all of your body’s molecules, water is the most precious and important one. Animals require oxygen to exist, but
Fresh air is healing. When you stand near a waterfall, you breathe in negative ions produced by water falling through the air. Although it is by nature colorless, tasteless and odorless, you can almost smell that fresh charged air.
In my last post, I talked about how discipline and follow-through are healthy. Now, here’s a trick to help your shape. In 30 minutes, you can eat more food than you need, and it takes 30 hours of exercise
In Part 1 of this series, I talked about how to use your body. Part 2 is all about how living with your body in line with nature is natural. Out of line with nature, you get sick. You can
Your body–fitness, food and more–is the fourth key part of total health designed by nature. But let’s begin with a slightly larger context. As life, you’re creator and instructor on how to use your body. As body, you’re a
My last article covered additional issues caused by sugar overconsumption. In this final article in the series, I'll talk about the history of sugar consumption.
Many researchers consider sugars to be the major dietary cause of degenerative diseases. Some
In the last article, I went into more detail about carbohydrates and disease. In this article, I will examine other problems caused by excess sugar.
Sugars feed candida (yeasts), fungi, other pathological (toxin-producing) organisms, and cancer cells.
Sugars
In the last article, I talked about fatty acids, and how they can both heal and harm us.
Refined sugars are digested and absorbed into our bloodstream with uncanny speed, and raise blood glucose levels too high. This is
In the last article, I discussed how how sugars and starches can keep us healthy and make us sick, and can even kill us. I'll go into more detail on that in today's post.
Some fatty acids found in nature can heal
In the last article, we discussed how sugars and starches can keep us healthy and make us sick, and can even kill us.
Children who lead inactive, TV-addicted lives while consuming popular, sugar-laden, nutrient-poor junk food diets often have weight and
Carbohydrates are the hidden parents of the fats that can kill us. Refined dietary sugars almost always turn into fats, and starches can also turn into saturated fats. Let’s see how sugars and starches can keep us healthy and make