People would have you believe that nutrition is a complicated and precise science.
But in truth, the answers were all already there staring us in the face.
One of my favourite quotes it’s by Catherine Shanahan in her incredible book Deep Nutrition.
It reads; “Food is like a language, an unbroken information stream that connects every cell in your body to an aspect of the natural world. The better the source and the more undamaged the message when it arrives to your cells, the better your health will be.”
The deeper I get into this journey of health, the more I realise how simple it all is.
Spend enough time online and someone will convince you that you need a chemistry degree to know how to eat healthily. (And guess what, they have one and are going to tell you the secrets).
But the reality is this can be achieved incredibly simply by following nature’s template.
You don’t need to count your calories or understand how micronutrient balance works within the body.
If you like to know all the detail then great. But if reading about how you need to make sure you’re consuming vitamin K2 with calcium to ensure it strengthens your bones rather than causing cardiovascular issues, makes you switch off, that’s fine… because you don’t need to get into the weeds to get a real good handle on your health.
Why?
Nature has us covered, so when eating natural foods, everything containing calcium will also have K2.
And this is true for every other micronutrient… and it’s also true for calories. Eat real food and not only does the micronutrient balance within your body takes care of itself but it’s also really hard to over consume food.
So what is Nature’s Template?
Eating real food; meat, fruit, vegetables, honey – stuff without an ingredients label.
Ensuring this real food has been farmed properly; with animals eating their natural diets and roaming freely and plant foods being grown without the use of chemical inputs.
Filtering and then remineralise your drinking water with sea salt
Eating a small portion of organ meat (200-250g) per week or a really small amount (30g) per day.
Shopping at the farmers market to get mainly seasonal and local foods (this usually covers the farmed properly part but it’s still important to double check).
Using saturated fats to cook with; grass-fed beef tallow, butter & ghee
Eating the whole animal, nose-to-tail, this includes a variety of organs, the more gelatinous cuts of meat and using the bones to make broths.
Not being afraid of red meat, despite what the mainstream media would have you believe, it’s the healthiest food available to us.
When you do this, you bring the the environment (in it’s untouched and divinely created state) inside yourself, using it to create your own cells and the food becomes one with you.
This feeds your being in the highest possible way, enabling you to go out in to the world being truly healthy.
I go to the farmers market every Saturday without fail and buy around 80% of the food for my family for the following week.
The above photo was taken from my last trip before leaving Australia to come back to the UK.
The beauty of the farmers market is everything there is what’s in season and good at that moment in time, so my shop would vary, but I’ve written an overarching shopping list below:
Grass-fed beef and lamb
Free range chicken and pork
Organ meat
Free range eggs
Wild caught game and fish / shellfish
Organic, local and seasonal fruit and vegetables
Bone marrow
Bone broth
Beef tallow
Raw honey
Raw dairy
In summary, we don’t have to know how everything in nature works, we just need to trust that it does work. And aligning with nature is a simple way to achieve true health.
An easy way to do this when it comes to nutrition is simply shopping at your local farmers market. Or if this isn’t possible, you can pick up grass-fed burgers, sausages and mince (with a sprinkle or organs) or bone marrow by clicking the image below.
In health,
R, J & N
