Different Diets for Different Seasons
The diet we align with if we were living in nature is the one which serves us best.
We would be grazing ripened fruits according to our growing zone, harvesting vegetables that appeal to us, steeping or chewing herbs when in need of medicine or fortification, and most likely killing animals in emergency to avoid starvation. Getting back to this diet in the same way it would serve us if we were in nature is unrealistic- we are much too far "evolved" to benefit in this way and we almost require concentrated food-as-medicine strategies (i.e. carnivore, fruitarian, tinctures) in order to reverse the damage done from our stray from nature. This has resulted in the consistent development of different dietary strategies to attempt to return us to wellness. It should be simple, but it is now complex because our toxicity and weakness is complex.
And it's causing conflict, which is distracting us from the ultimate common goal.
Let’s ponder how each food effects the body…
Carnivore:
Pros: increases metabolic rate, stimulates organs and overall feels like a hormonally beneficial high, often incorporates some degree of fasting which gives the body opportunity to regenerate (or at least recover from all that stimulation so that it can stabilize and not become too exhausted), removes starch (complex sugars) from the equation- the cause of fungus, focused on a caveman diet.
Cons: extremely limited options compared to modern day life, not sustainable to our modern bodies (even if it was our "original" diet), avoids plants due to natural defense mechanisms which is a terrain problem and not a food problem-everything we eat has natural defenses, avoids fruits due to sugar, which moves the lymphatic system and powers every gland without stimulation.
Keto/Low Carb/Atkins
Pros: "Buffers" (suppresses) acids to neutralize acidity of toxins circulating, creating inflammation relief from high fats, reduces fungus in the body from low carbs (complex sugars), focused on a non-inflammatory lifestyle.
Cons: suppresses detoxification, poorly food combines (resulting in fungus/fermentation/putrefaction anyways), burdens the bowels- the primary elimination pathway-- this means though fungus is less fed in the diet, it is still burdening the lymphatic system and not being eliminated-- and still provided a home with a high mucus diet (biofilm), also has stimulants and supplements hormones with animal sources, which degenerates endocrine function over time.
Paleo
Pros: "Buffers" acids much like Keto AND facilitates a little detox depending on what the order of eating and food combining looks like in each day, reduces fungus in the body from low starch (complex sugars), and no longer adds mucus to the body from dairy, a major source- which slightly reduces pathogenic load (reduces their ideal terrain, a mucus environment), focused on a nature-based hunter/gatherer lifestyle.
Cons: requires a lot of digestive energy, so healing is slow. Has stimulants and supplements hormones with animal sources, which degenerates endocrine function over time.
Whole 30
Pros: creates awareness and food intuition as the ultimate goal by removing all inflammatory foods on restrictive diet without makeshift alternatives for 30 days, likely improves the entire body systemically, focused closely on a truly nature based diet.
Cons: long-term restrictive, still applies animal stimulants (and this is why the body is able to eliminate some of the weight and waste during the 30 days).
Pro-Metabolic
Pros: balances the endocrine system with a combination of stimulants and animal hormones, strict about seed oils, protein and fat again suppressing detoxification, and resulting in temporary improvement because acids are buffered/suppressed in areas of weakness, focuses on whole foods and is similar to Paleo.
Cons: no digestive rest, which means regeneration of the endocrine system (where metabolism imbalance root cause is, doesn't get a chance to rebuild itself), avoids carb crashing at the expense of poor food combining, which is a bandage to a blood sugar problem (aka bandage to metabolic weakness that needs regenerated), mucus-producing with dairy, fungal with grains, stimulating to human glands with animal organs and eggs (acts as a glandular, like coffee to the adrenals).
Vegan WFPB (no fake junk)
Pros: cleanses the GI tract, moves the bowels, hydrates the lymph, raises vibration with all the life/angstroms coming into the body, provides both high amino acids and enzymes for healthy built muscle and higher parasitic and pathogenic combat, lots of herbs eaten.
Cons: often has a lot of starch which is feeding fungus, and little stimulation of organs and glands because there are no animal sources- which leaves the body recirculating the acids that it's moving and leaching life from the body over time (a catch 22 because it's naturally so good for building materials, but we can't benefit from it with so many acids circulating)-- which brings vegans often to the other extreme of Carnivore, seeking stimulation and "protein/muscle" again, often uses too much yeast for cheese flavoring, lots of salt used- which is a stimulant to the glands.
Mucusless
Pros: inhibits the growth of pathogens and parasites and reduces the terrain in which they thrive, ideal for detoxification and regeneration- especially of chronic illnesses, removes cravings from the physical body, abides by simple food combining guidelines which again keeps the pathogenic load in check and creates digestive freedom to regenerate, high in enzymes which can eat up pathogenic load over time.
Cons: doesn't actually remove the pathogenic load without deeper cleansing or autophagy- it just goes dormant and feeds off tissue and minerals (much like veganism over time), restrictive diet with mostly ancient and tasteless food list, not sustainable unless regenerating because acids will move and not eliminate (like veganism).
Raw Vegan
Pros: same as the two diets above and offers ample living enzymes, high vibrational effect for life and spiritual connection, offers lymphatic hydration to the degree the lymph is now moving, little digestive energy required offering ample energy for regenerative healing, usually very low starch (fungus).
Cons: vegetables are difficult to digest and oxalates- and this does not improve unless regenerating the GI and elimination pathways simultaneously, often includes fungal-nut based sauces, limited sources of fats which can provide relief to acids that may be recirculating, acids damage tissue if the body is not simultaneously regenerating organs and glands which play a role in elimination pathway success.
Fruitarian
Pros: the spiritual diet- a great way to get into alignment/reconnect with God quickly, thins and moves lymphatic waste rapidly, excellent for detoxification if the body is strong enough and/or well supported with therapies and regenerative medicine.
Cons: extremely limited options compared to modern day life, not sustainable to our modern bodies (even if it was our "original" diet), burns the body up because regeneration often cannot be achieved fast enough in generational weakened glands and organs to provide enough elimination support to drain the waste which is moving.
In conclusion, the body's physiology- your weaknesses generationally- are different from your neighbor's, so this returns us to the mentality of "different diets work for different people."
One thing is true, though. To cleanse the body and regenerate we must follow some major guidelines.
*This collection is merely to share observations of how food effects the body in each diet example.
You can see then how some diets serve some bodies in different seasons of life
and how many are not the answer long-term.
So eat always from the table of God: the fruits of the trees, the grain and grasses of the field, the milk of beasts, and the honey of bees. For everything beyond these leads by the way of sins and of diseases unto death. But the foods which you eat from the abundant table of God give strength and youth to your body, and you will never see disease. For the table of God fed Methuselah of old, and I tell you truly, if you live even as he lived, then will the God of the living give you also long life upon the earth as was his.
-The Essene Gospel of Peace