Protective Diet Class #335

Food Additives Inhibit the Microbiome: Clean Eating Made Easy

This class ensures that your daily diligence is getting you the results you expect. A Protective Diet creates a thriving microbiome, but foods and medications touted as healthy and harmless can impair it, leaving you with vulnerabilities, discomfort and slow progress.

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Vocabulary

Action Steps for

• Build a Diverse, Healthy Microbial Population
• Trillions of resident microbes influence our life experience far more than DNA does.
• Microbes control our health, fitness, mood, energy, metabolism, digestion, appearance, food cravings, preferences, and intolerances. Healthy microbes tighten and repair epithelial junctures, creating an impassable barrier against viruses, bacteria and other pathogens that destroy immunity. Within minutes of feeding, healthy microbes work to bathe the brain and body in calming, anti-inflammatory butyrate. The microbiome is the foundation of health.
• Challenges of an impaired microbiome include: difficulty digesting/absorbing nutrition from our food, constipation, bloating, low energy, cravings for junk, frequent illness, hormone imbalances, weight gain, inflammation, and disease.
• Healthy gut microbes survive exclusively on plant fiber and polyphenols. Protective Diet recipes are designed to give protective microbes their favorite fuel every day to keep them multiplying and thriving. A healthy microbial population causes us to crave whole plant foods instead of the fast food drive thru. This is a sign of healing. Protective Diet lifestyle recipes are designed to eliminate microbe impairing chemicals from our home environment, skin, clothing, and mouth.
• Remove off-plan foods, chemical cleaners, and self-care products. Use Protective Diet recipes as a guide to replacements.
• Drink protective beverages—healthy microbes love polyphenols in PD beverages. NOTE: sparkling water should be in a glass bottle—not aluminum cans—and contain only mineral water, no flavors or additives.

• Protect Your Healthy Microbes
• Be aware that the following will impair your microbiome. Protect the microbes you are populating by avoiding these items.

• Make Clean “Fast Food”
• With your Workplace for Wellness set up, a microbe-friendly meal can be assembled in 30 minutes or less.
• Find five favorite Quick Prep recipes you love. Stock your pantry with those ingredients, and post the recipes inside the cupboard door above your meal prep station. Make those five recipes until the techniques feel natural and familiar.
• Julie Marie demonstrates a protective fast food meal for two:

Cooking Tips

• Protective Diet recipes and cooking techniques are innovative and even weird. The recipes are thoroughly tested and written simply enough for a novice. Be sure to read the complete recipe and follow directions to avoid user error.
• Always remove the pot from the base before pouring liquids into an Instant Pot. Separating them first will ensure that you never reflexively pour into the base before you notice the pot is absent, as well as keeping the rim of the base clean.
• PD Day Fasters eat one meal a day (OMAD) with ease for neural health, to lean down, and a host of other health benefits.

Encouragement

• Follow through fulltime every day. Don’t “play around Protective Diet” (PAPD). Don’t make up a whole new program because you can’t give up your avocados. You can do this if you focus on what you are going to get out of it.
• Fight through those urges the first 30 days on a Protective Diet. The bad microbes will starve and die. They will scream and squeal that third and fourth week when they’re dying off. They’re not as strong as healthy microbes. They’re easy to kill off. Starve them out! Don’t give them what they want. You’re the boss of your body. You control who populates it.
• As you progress and your microbes populate, you will automatically prefer a Yogi Bowl instead of cake. I promise.

“Populate and protect healthy gut microbes and they will cheer you on

 in choosing healthy foods.”