Sublime

cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and kale —

All therapeutic foods work best when you fast for a few days and then make them your exclusive diet.

Though raw foods are by far the best source of active enzymes, there are ways of lightly cooking foods that do not remove their natural enzyme factors entirely.

I’ll often also include hefty doses of Dr. Thomas Cowan’s vegetable powders because they are a fast way to get nutrient-dense plant extracts without much chopping or food prep.

natural compounds activates and amplifies the genes responsible for the production of a vast complex of protective and life-sustaining detoxification enzymes and antioxidants. Among these are curcumin, which comes from turmeric; green tea extract; resveratrol; sulphoraphane, derived from broccoli; and the omega-3 fat, DHA.

Then, I saw a movie that changed my life—Food, Inc. This started my journey into organic and whole foods, which continued as I learned from documentaries like Forks Over Knives, The Future of Food, Food Matters, and Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. I also read The RAVE Diet & Lifestyle, The China Study, Green Smoothie Revolution,

label: the use of synthetic pesticides and herbicides on produce can dramatically handicap the plants’ creation of their own defense mechanisms—the very polyphenols we want.