Guide to Optimal Health
How to get started on a Protective Diet
- Register a free membership or login and upgrade to a premium membership
- Join our free Official Support Group – Protective Diet Living
- Complete the steps listed in the Guide to Optimal Health (below)

Guide to Optimal Health
Level #1Complete the Protective Diet 30-Day Detox and Taste Bud Reprogram with the guidance and support of Protective Diet Education
Eliminate physical food addiction, cravings and awaken your taste buds to natural foods while you set up your Workplace for Wellness and learn the science supporting a Protective Diet.
Guidance Tools:
- Class #01 – Starting a Protective Diet
Begin navigating your way to optimal health starting with this lesson
- Class #07 – Understanding the Endothelium
Learn what the best diet is to promote our endothelium and optimal health. You will leave this hour feeling nutritionally confident in a Protective Diet.
- Class #08 – Understanding Cholesterol
You will gain a better understanding why your doctor said to raise your HDL and the greater importance of your total cholesterol score. We will also address other factors that contribute to an increase in cholesterol besides food.
- Class #32 – Stocking Your Kitchen For Efficiency and Savings Part 1 – Pantry Staples
Stocking Dry goods monthly to save money, time and effort during the week
- Class #33 – Stocking Your Kitchen For Efficiency and Savings Part 2 – Spices, Vinegars, Extracts and More
Keeping it PD simple and getting organized bringing Zen to your kitchen
- Class #16 – Inflammatory Disease – Acidic & Alkaline Foods
What is inflammation? How is it related to disease? How can we eliminate it?
- Class #34 – Stocking Your Kitchen For Efficiency and Savings Part 3 – Refrigerator and Freezer Staples
Learn what items are essential in your refrigerator and freezer
- Class #82 – Mastering Label Reading
Learn to identify additives confidently and independently
- Class #87 – Pantry Par Stocking System
Creating a simple inventory system to re-stock your pantry, keep food bills low and never find yourself out of an essential ingredient at dinner time.
- Class #96 – Kitchen Set-Up for Efficiency
Organizing your space to make meal preparation and kitchen management a simple pleasure
- Class #108 – Whole Food Detox and Taste-bud Reprogram
How to manage common detox symptoms of fatigue and reduce bloating and gas during your transition to a whole food plant based diet.
- Class #118 – SUS – Set-Up For Success
Making meal prep easy, stress-free & delicious
- Class #125 – Kitchen Tools – Beginner Essentials
Setting up a plant-based kitchen
- Class #128 – Vitamins, Sunscreen and How They Work
- Class #35 – Search Box Dinners & Meals Without Planning
Class #35 - Search Box Dinners & Meals Without Planning
- Class #145 – Cutting Food Costs & Improving Food Quality
- Class #164 – Eliminate, Heal and Achieve Optimal Health
Diets that add do not heal
PD 50/50 Balanced Plate Practice
This practice focuses on balancing two out of three daily meals with starch based energy and the antioxidant protection of colorful non-starch vegetables featured in PD-Ed lesson #72, PD Practice Check-Up
Level #3
PD Mindful Eating and Eliminating Food Obsession with the 21 Meals to Mastery Challenge
This is the third and final step to mastering a Protective Diet
Guidance Tools:
What is emotional eating? Why do we do it? How do we put an end to this self abusive reoccurring practice?
Has emotional eating become the excuse for not achieving your goals? Old eating habits die hard. Now that it’s working, let’s break it.
Perfectionism with dieting, are you either bingeing or starving? Successfully finding a comfortable and rewarding middle ground.
Are you constantly thinking about food? Do you panic if you aren’t prepared for the week with a stocked freezer? Do your friends think you are obsessed? Realize there is always an option, you have this under control and you needn’t stress.
If you are just getting started or have been practicing a Protective Diet for years this class is for you. It is a check-in and check-up from the neck up. Designed to reassure newbies & reboot PD Lifers to take full action producing life changing results.
PD 30 day checkup from the neck up results
Are you afraid of a Protective Diet’s delicious looking recipes? Some fear and avoid certain recipes because they resemble problematic foods.
Resetting your natural calorie tracker to achieve maximum weight loss and meal satisfaction; while saving you time and money.
When Mindful Eating becomes second nature
Idle time and ready made meals can reduce satiation, numbing your body’s natural calorie tracker sabotaging your ability to practice Mindful Eating.
Getting started with Mindful Eating
Master Practice
You have achieved your health goals
You confidently continue your practice of a PD and enjoy the high energy lifestyle it offers.
Guidance Tools:
- Class #178 – All Natural Cleaning
Make your home a safe zone, eliminate toxins, protect your endothelium and improve air quality
- Class #166 – A Winter Day Eating PD
Example of what J&J eat in a day
- Class #171 – The Burden Of Thin
Eliminate dietary restriction with the PD Advantage
- Class #181 – Keep It Out & Keep It Off
Stress-free optimal health maintenance with a sustainable practice.
- Class #182 – A Summer Day Eating PD
This is how we do it
- Class #187 – The PD Groove
Enjoying the process and maintaining the PD Advantage