0The Provita Plan.............................................................................................
After many years of researching nutrition, I finally found a low stress eating plan
for sensitive conditions like kundalini awakenings, and for life in general. It works
with the body’s pH biorhythms for the best utilization of proteins, carbohydrates
and fats, while producing the least amount of toxins and free radicals and wasting
the least amount of energy.
The system is laid out in Dr. Jack Tips, book “The ProVita Plan, Your Foundation
For Optimal Nutrition.” Following Stu Wheelright’s 5+5 meal plan, it is essentially
focused on eating protein and vegetables for breakfast (preferably between 7-9am)
when the body’s pH is in an acid cycle. This leaves the body ample time for protein
digestion, utilization during the day when we are moving around so lymph can
bring amino acids to the tissues for building. Then overnight the body is cleansed
more thoroughly and sleep is better, because the body is not made acid by protein
intake later in the day.
The ProVita way is to not eat protein after 2pm and to not eat it with
carbohydrates. The carbohydrate portion of the diet is eaten later in the day as it
produces serotonin, which tends to make us sleepy anyways. Some people have
their evening meal as just fruit salad, which is after all the most cleansing and easily
digested thing to eat before night. Instead protein is eaten along with vegetables in
a 5+5 fashion. One cooked protein source and 4 raw proteins are eaten along with
one cooked green vegetable and 4 raw vegetables.
“The point about timing the major meal is quite simple. Protein foods are best introduced
to the body early in the day, so they become available when we want to be active and
productive. Carbohydrates and alkaline foods are best eaten in the meal preceding sleep,
because they are more sedative in their effect. These foods also support the cleansing of
the acidic metabolic wastes during sleep.” Jack Tips, The ProVita Plan, p.174
It takes approximately 8 hours for proteins to be digested, assimilated,
humanized by the liver and made available to the cells, provided that the liver
is healthy. So exercise is best taken 8 hours after the protein breakfast meal. The
lymphathics can then deliver proteins to the cells during the building cycle, which
lasts till around midnight, and then the body switches to cleansing cycle. Proteins
eaten later in the day interfere with the cleansing cycle, create hypoxia during
sleep, have missed out on the building cycle and become toxic wastes which the
body has to expend a lot of energy and resources in order to get rid of. Then with
the extra toxic load the body tends to want to continue cleansing till 11am the next
day to cleanup the residue from yesterdays maldigestion.
The 8-hour metabolic cycles proceed as follows:
7am—3pm: Process nutrients (eat, digest)
3pm—11pm: Use nutrients (build, exercise)
11pm—7 am: Cleanse cellular wastes (rest)
The Pro-Vita system builds strong protein metabolism, strong adrenals, avoids
blood sugar fluctuations and makes for a higher energy, more productivity and
positive emotions. Eating carbohydrates for breakfast works against the body’s