Dietary Protocols to Maximize Disease Reversal and Long-Term Safety

Abstract

This article covers some important concepts and controversies in modern nutritional science. It describes a diet style designed to maximize health, longevity, and disease reversal-foundationally structured on the quality and comprehensive adequacy of nutrients rather than the balance of macronutrients, as is more popular today. I call such a diet, which attempts to optimize micronutrients, a nutritarian diet. I will review a small case series demonstrating typical results in diabetics and some of my clinical observations over the last 25 years treating people with a nutritarian diet, which could be either vegan or flexitarian. I will also discuss health concerns observed from an unsupplemented vegan diet, specifically the risk of depression and later life dementia in individuals with enhanced need for long-chain omega-3 fatty acids.

Protocol and Preliminary Results of the Nutritarian Women’s Health Study: A Longitudinal Effectiveness-Implementation Hybrid Study Assessing Dietary Intake and Health Outcomes

“…The Nutritarian Diet, the dietary protocol for this study has been described previously, 24 and it has 4 primary principles designed to promote foods shown to support longevity and to contain anticancer properties: (1) it emphasizes the consumption of an assortment of high micronutrient-dense foods; (2) it strives to be hormonally favorable (the use of "hormonally favorable" foods in this dietary protocol is intended to minimize the use of dietary choices, such as dairy products and high-glycemic foods, that have an impact on hormonal and inflammatory markers; such dietary factors tend to elevate IGF-1 and serum insulin levels, respectively, and high IGF-1 and insulin levels have been shown to promote breast and prostate cancer 25 ); (3) it strives to be nutritionally adequate; and (4) it seeks to avoid foods containing toxins and contamination. 26 Environmental toxins such as polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, and mercury can be found in our food supply.…”