Ancestral Health

01/27/2026

Did you know that common seed oils—like canola, soybean, and sunflower—may pose serious health risks? 🏭

Studies link them to chronic disease and even higher mortality, sometimes surpassing the dangers of smoking or heavy drinking.

Choose your oils wisely! Opt for natural, health-supporting alternatives to protect your body and thrive. 🌿

01/27/2026

Gut healing protocol

With all the buzz around the new USA food pyramid guidelines, we decided to make our own!

This is the GAPS Diet–inspired food pyramid, centered around the foods that truly support gut healing and overall health across the different stages and spectrums of the GAPS Nutritional Protocol. At the foundation are animal foods and fats, and meat stock - the building blocks of the body. This includes quality animal meats (don't leave out the skin and nibbly bits of soft joint cartilage), fish, organ meats, eggs, animal fats, full-fat fermented dairy (kefir, sour cream, yogurt, and creme fraiche), ghee, butter, olive oil, and nourishing soups, stews, and casseroles. Foods are delicately seasoned with herbs, peppercorns, and rock salt.

In the early stages, the GAPS Diet focuses on well-cooked vegetables (as tolerated), gradually expanding to include eggs, avocado, and fermented foods like beet kvass, cabbage tonic, sauerkraut, fermented full-fat dairy, freshly dripped whey, and aged cheeses. Ginger tea with raw honey and other herbal, non-caffeinated teas are recommended along with freshly pressed juices as the base of GAPS milkshakes and smoothies. Honey is the primary natural sweetener on GAPS.

As the gut heals, more variety can be added in moderation and as tolerated, like raw and dried fruits, raw vegetables, along with properly prepared nuts and seeds that are soaked, sprouted, and fermented to support optimal digestion and absorption.

Repairing the gut is about simplicity, nourishment, and honoring how the body was designed to be fed. The GAPS Diet and our new food pyramid respects the unique healing path of every person - no matter where they begin their journey to recovery!

Save the GAPS Diet Food Pyramid graphic for future reference🤍

01/27/2026

🧠 Did you know your body runs on spark plugs called minerals?

When you follow the steps of The Root Cause Protocol, you’re helping your body fire up one of the most powerful minerals of all: bioavailable copper! ⚡️

✨ Why should you care?

Because copper is the MVP of energy production! Here's how it works:

🚀 In your mitochondria (aka your cell’s energy factories), copper helps make H₂O 💧 and release ADP — a key ingredient for energy. Then, ADP partners up with magnesium (yep, another RCP fave!) to form Mg-ATP — the actual fuel your cells recognize and use.

🎯 Bottom line? Your cells were born to do two things:

1️⃣ MAKE energy
2️⃣ CLEAR out the junk

When copper and magnesium are in sync, your body knows what to do.
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💡 Want to dive deeper into all this cool science (with real peer-reviewed studies)? Check out the RCP 101 Video Series at The Root Cause Protocol website! You’ll find past webinars, nutrition tips, the RCP Institute Training, and our Premium Community of mineral nerds just like you! LINK BELOW!

🔗https://therootcauseprotocol.com/rcp-101-video-series/

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01/27/2026

01/27/2026

How the teeth tell the tale! This post is inspired by that of one posted by Mercedes Ramos Vértiz, a dentist in Buenos Aires and is a repeat that we posted in 2023, but think it is worth an encore. It is foundational to what we teach.

The first photo, captured by Dr. Weston A. Price reflects the wide facial structure that allows our 32 teeth to come in without obstruction. He found this with virtually all the non-industrialized people he visited in the 1930's who ate a traditional, nutrient-dense diet.

The second photo, also captured by Dr. Price, illustrates the pattern he discovered wherever he traveled: when nutritious diets were replaced by "modern, refined foods" — such as white flour, cottonseed oil and canned and condensed milk —adult teeth decayed and the children's teeth were crooked and crowded, which is referred to as malocclusion. Dr. Price concluded that this was because their palates did not widen to the proper breadth due to a lack of vital nutrients needed to complete their development.

After he visited numerous places as diverse as Africa, Peru, Switzerland and the Outer Hebrides off the coast of Scotland, Dr. Price compared those who consumed a nutritious, traditional diet and their counterparts who ate "modern" diets. He concluded that malocclusion is a nutritional problem. The development of the facial structure is compromised due to lack of nutrients.

Learn more about how the teeth tell the tale https://bit.ly/theteethtellthetale!

Photos https://www.facebook.com/ancestralnutritionfoundation

01/27/2026

For 50 years, we were told that butter causes heart attacks and "vegetable oil" (which is actually industrial seed oil) saves lives. The biochemistry tells a different story.

Seed oils like Canola, Soybean, and Sunflower are comprised of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs), specifically Linoleic Acid. While "essential" in tiny doses, modern humans consume them in massive quantities.

The problem is Molecular Instability.

Unlike Saturated Fat (butter/tallow), which is solid and stable at room temperature, PUFAs have multiple double bonds. This makes them highly reactive to heat and oxygen. When you cook with them, they oxidize instantly, breaking down into toxic byproducts like HNE (4-hydroxynonenal) and Aldehydes.

When you eat this oxidized fat, it doesn't just "burn off." It incorporates itself into your cell membranes. Your cells literally become made of unstable material. They become prone to oxidative stress and inflammation, leading to mitochondrial dysfunction.

You are building a house (your body) out of dynamite sticks instead of bricks.

⚡ Vital Advice: Perform a "Pantry Purge." Throw out Canola, Corn, Soybean, and Sunflower oils. Replace them with fats that are stable at high heat:

Ghee/Butter (Saturated)

Beef Tallow (Saturated)

Coconut Oil (Saturated)

Avocado Oil (Monounsaturated - decent stability) If it stays liquid in the fridge, don't heat it in the pan.

📚 Source: DiNicolantonio, J.J. et al. "Omega-6 vegetable oils as a driver of coronary heart disease: the oxidized linoleic acid hypothesis" | Open Heart, 2018.

01/27/2026

The greatest mystery of humanity has just been solved in the lab. 🧠🌌 For decades, we thought the brain was a biological computer made of "wires." But in 2025/2026, experimental evidence has confirmed that Microtubules—the structural skeleton of our neurons—operate at a quantum level. This means your thoughts are not just chemical signals traveling at slow speeds; they are quantum events that can theoretically be "entangled" with information beyond the physical body. We are shifting from a "Neuro-chemical" model to a "Neuro-quantum" one. Your brain doesn't create consciousness; it filters and tunes into it, much like a radio tunes into a frequency that already exists in the air.

VITAL SHOTS ADVICE: The "Quantum Coherence" Protocol: Start your Tuesday by acknowledging that your mind is not limited by your skull. Practice 3 minutes of "Open Focus" meditation—don't focus on one thing, but on the space between things. This state of non-local awareness has been shown to optimize quantum coherence in the microtubules, reducing anxiety and increasing "Aha!" moments of genius.

01/27/2026

We are taught that a potato is a potato. But physics disagrees.

When you cook a starch (like rice, potatoes, or pasta) and eat it hot, it is a high-glycemic food. Your enzymes break it down into glucose rapidly, spiking your blood sugar and insulin.

But if you put that same potato in the fridge for 12-24 hours, a magical chemical process called Retrogradation occurs.

The starch molecules realign and crystallize, turning into Resistant Starch. This new structure resists digestion in the small intestine. It acts like a fiber, not a carb. It travels all the way to your colon, where it feeds your beneficial bacteria (microbiome).

In return, these bacteria produce Butyrate (Short-Chain Fatty Acid). Butyrate is the primary fuel for your colon cells, reduces gut inflammation, and—crucially—stimulates the release of GLP-1 (the same hormone Ozempic mimics).

Yes, eating cold (or reheated) leftovers can lower the glycemic response of that meal by up to 50% compared to eating it fresh. You are literally turning "junk" energy into metabolic medicine just by waiting a day.

⚡ Vital Advice: The Meal Prep Strategy: Never eat pasta or potatoes the day you cook them. Cook them in bulk, refrigerate them overnight, and reheat them the next day. (Yes, the resistant starch survives reheating!). This is the easiest way to lower the caloric density of your diet without changing what you eat.

📚 Source: Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "Effect of cooling of cooked white rice on resistant starch content and glycemic response", 2015.

01/27/2026

Do you ever drink coffee and feel "clean" energy, but other times you feel anxious, sweaty, and crash hard? You probably blame the caffeine. You should be blaming the storage.

Coffee is one of the most chemically treated crops in the world. But the real danger happens after harvest. Commercial beans are often stored in damp, massive silos for months. This creates the perfect breeding ground for Mycotoxins (Mold Toxins), specifically Ochratoxin A.

Ochratoxin A is a nephrotoxin (damages kidneys) and a known carcinogen. But acutely, it acts as a neuro-irritant. Studies examining commercial coffee brands found that a significant percentage contained detectable levels of mold toxins. When you drink this "dirty" coffee, your body triggers an immune response. The "jitters," brain fog, and headache you get 2 hours later are often a mild toxicological reaction, not a caffeine overdose.

The coffee industry knows this. The standards for "acceptable levels" of mold allow you to drink a small amount of poison daily.

⚡ Vital Advice: Life is too short for bad coffee.

Avoid Instant Coffee: It has the highest mold contamination rates.

Look for "Wet Processed": This washing method removes fruit/mold before drying.

Buy Tested Beans: Many bio-hacking brands now certify their beans as "Mycotoxin Free" or "Lab Tested." It costs $5 more, but your kidneys will thank you.

📚 Source: Food Control, "Occurrence of Ochratoxin A in coffee", 2018 Data Analysis.

01/27/2026

We moved from chewing tough meat and roots for 4 hours a day to drinking protein shakes and eating soft bread. Our faces shrank, our teeth became crooked, and surprisingly, our brains lost a major stimulus.

Mastication (Chewing) is not just about breaking down food. It is a hemodynamic pump for the brain.

The movement of the jaw, specifically the temporomandibular joint, is mechanically linked to blood flow in the internal carotid artery. MRI studies have shown that the act of vigorous chewing increases blood flow to the Hippocampus (the area responsible for memory and learning) and the Prefrontal Cortex.

When you stop chewing hard foods, you lose this "pulsatile" blood supply. Some researchers even link the decline in masticatory function (due to soft diets/dentures) with faster cognitive decline in the elderly.

Furthermore, chewing reduces cortisol levels (it’s a stress-relief mechanism). A weak jaw equals a stressed, under-perfused brain.

⚡ Vital Advice: The "Hard Gum" Protocol: Don't just drink your calories.

Eat foods that fight back: Steak, raw carrots, beef jerky.

Use "Mastic Gum" (a hard tree resin from Greece). Chewing this for 20 minutes a day is a workout for your masseters. It strengthens the jawline and wakes up the brain before a meeting.

📚 Source: Brain and Cognition, "Mastication as a tool to prevent cognitive dysfunctions", 2018.

01/26/2026

01/26/2026

Promoting real nutrition! Love it!

EAT YOUR VITAMINS: Vitamin D is found in fatty fish, mushrooms, milk, sardines, egg yolks, beef liver, and tuna.

65% of Americans have insufficient Vitamin D, which plays a key role in calcium absorption, immune function, inflammation reduction, mood, cell growth, and glucose metabolism.