MOFO Mission Assignment #3: Eat Ancestral Foods (Breather Episode with Brad)

Assignment #2 of the MOFO Mission was Clean Up Your Act, and now we’re delving deeper into this concept with Assignment #3: Eat Ancestral Foods. Once you’ve ditched toxic food like grains, sugars, and industrial seed oils, it’s time to replace them with ancestral-approved foods and emphasize a nose-to-tail approach. Also consider incorporating superfoods like liver, pastured eggs, grass-fed pasture-raised meats, and oily, cold water fish into your diet. 

The best way to start this new diet is to establish a zero tolerance policy - these toxic foods really are that addictive. Another important element of this assignment is fasting. Obsessive over-feeding represents the essence of the Standard American Diet - most people’s days revolve around regular meals and constant snacking in order to maintain energy. Contrastingly, an ancestral eating pattern puts fasting front and center as the centerpiece of your diet. 

A diet can seem restrictive if you focus on what you’re taking out, but what about reframing it to instead focus on what you’re gaining? You get to choose from a wide variety of the most nutrient dense food on the planet, the food that literally fueled human evolution. I’m talking about meat, fish, fowl, eggs, produce like seasonal fruit, nuts and seeds, and certain modern foods that have good health benefits, like organic, whole-milk (never reduced fat!) dairy products and dark chocolate. 

Dr. Peter Attia says: “Just eat stuff that your great-grandmother could have eaten, and stay away from the stuff that didn’t exist - even back a few generations.” Also, if you suffer from autoimmune or inflammatory conditions, why not try out carnivore? Many devotees of the carnivore diet experienced incredible results after cutting out plants from their diet. Could it be that the antigens/antinutrients present in plants actually do more harm than good? If you’ve got a sensitive system or any underlying conditions, then yes, that does seem to be the case. This diet has gained a ton of attention, and quickly, because of the enormous health and healing benefits followers have experienced. If you suffer from any nagging symptoms of an autoimmune or inflammatory condition, it’s worth just trying out 30 days without plants to see if you feel any positive difference, because the gut microbiome is critical to all aspects of health, including mental health.

Try testing out a “carnivore-ish” approach - what I’m doing right now is really just emphasizing the most nutrient dense foods, most notably liver and different organ meats and sardines, as they are true nutrient superstars. And of course, fasting. All aspects of hormonal, immune, and metabolic function work better when you’re fasting, but there are still so many people who don’t know this, and unfortunately have no idea that if they ate less often, they’d get healthier. The health benefits you get from fasting (autophagy, apoptosis, cellular repair and recycling, protein repair and recycling) vastly exceed the benefits you get from any known superfood or dietary/meal pattern. Aim to break your fast at noon, but be careful about not going so long without food that you feel tired or loopy or out of it: Simply sit down to enjoy a meal whenever you naturally feel the actual sensation of hunger, and make sure you are eating in a relaxed environment, and truly enjoying it. Being present in all aspects of your diet - from the planning to the prepping to the actual moment you sit down to enjoy this meal you’ve prepared with such care - actually has a real effect on how well you’re digesting your food. 

Enjoy tackling MOFO Mission #3 and stay tuned for #4, coming soon!

TIMESTAMPS:

Make space in your diet for the good stuff by ditching those grains, sugars, sweetened drinks, and industrial seed oils. [01:33]

If you have already been on the right track of ditching the junk, you need to consider getting rid of the lower ranked foods in the ancestral categories. [03:02]

You may want to investigate fasting as well. It’s really good to have fasting as the centerpiece of your diet. [05:08]

When it’s time to eat, you can choose from your favorites of meat, fish, fowl, eggs, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds. [07:05]

The emergence of the carnivore movement has produced some amazing testimonials from people who have seen improvement in their health. [09:22]

When you are fasting, you are working at your highest human function. [13:17]

When you are fasting, you are lowering insulin production. [16:08]

Eating well also entails environmental factors. Eat in a stress-free situation. [18:00]

Again, it is so important to source the superfoods. Don’t forget the SMASH family of fish from the local sources. [20:45]

What is in an ancestral power breakfast smoothie? [21:24]

Recovery from your workouts is especially a good time to look at fasting. [23:21]

Listen to your appetite. [26:54]

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Brad Kearns MOFO

Dr. Art DeVany

Dr. Peter Attia

Dude Spellings

Mark Sisson

Dr. Cate Shanahan

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