CHAPTER ONE
Understanding Our Species
I
am constantly being asked what my secrets are for regenerating and making
the physical body vital again. There have been hundreds of books written
about health and nutrition, most of which are variations on other people’s
hypotheses or old ideas, which never seem to change. Some are plainly
foolish. On the shelves of your local bookstore you will find books on blood
types, mega-dosing with vitamins and minerals, high protein diets, and the
like. Some of these programs are highly toxic to the body, in my experience,
and actually kill many people each year.
I think health is much less complex than these books indicate. My
approach is simply: Eat the foods that are biologically suited for your
species. This might seem to be oversimplified or plain confusing, but let’s
take a moment to explore and determine just what type of species we are.
Imagine yourself standing somewhere in the plains or jungles of Africa.
Look out over a vast landscape and see elephants, giraffes, deer, hippos,
silverback apes, chimpanzees, snakes, birds of all kinds, lions, cheetahs, and
many other animals. Now if I ask you one simple question: “Which of these
animals do we ‘homosapiens’ look like?” which one would you pick? The
primates, of course. These are frugivores, as we are. Now some might say
that this is far too simplistic a comparison on which to build our case. Okay
then let’s kill (I would never) one animal from each species and bring them
back to the lab. Let’s dissect each animal and look at its anatomy and
physiology to determine which one we humans most resemble, internally.
The list that follows designates the four classes of vertebrates (carnivores,
omnivores, herbivores and frugivores), highlighting the differences among
them.
NOTE: Remember to check the Glossary for unfamiliar terms.Anatomical and Physiological Differences of Vertebrates