Truth about GMO

Lenette: How do you see this book impacting the planet, the countries that it's going to be first available to?

David: I think it's going to have a huge impact for Elements of Life, personally. Everybody is on the same page, in my opinion, especially in the western world, North America, Canada, the U.S. about where the future of nutrition is. What everyone is arriving at is that people want more of their nutrition from food, meaning their vitamins and minerals and protein, antioxidants, etc. They want it easier. They want it to be as easy as possible. Superfoods answer that question. It solves that completely. As soon as people get clicked on to it, they realize, "Whoa. This solves a bunch of problems," then it's like an avalanche. That's what I've been working on with Random House, who's going to be helping me distribute this book; developing a strategy where we can kind of go out there and inform people like, "Hey, this is solving a big problem for everybody." If you don't have to depend on vitamin and mineral supplements and be worried about getting enough in our food, you eat superfoods and that's covered completely. You don't have to worry about it anymore. And it really is. That's really the truth.

Lenette: Back to the superfoods, how do you suggest people new to superfoods get started?

David: I think it's best to use a form of food that we've all been aware of, which is the superfoods smoothie, or the super protein shake or the Slim-Fast 'throw it in a blender' kind of idea. That's the easiest way I've found for most people to tap into this. We've all had some experience with that. All we did is we just took the junk protein, the whey protein, egg white protein, whatever that was, just get rid of that and throw superfoods in instead. We have a blender, we have some spring water, we have our favorite fruits, let's say right now it's berries, frozen blueberries or whatever kind of fruit you like. You throw in your superfoods in there. I'm a beekeeper so I have honey at my house, and we throw in honey. You blend that up and you go running out the door and it's like it's a whole new reality. Actually what that does to people, doing a superfoods smoothie every morning instead of their traditional protein shake, it changes their whole reality around. Suddenly all their neurotransmitters start firing properly. They're actually getting real protein for the first time in their life. They're getting tryptophan for the first time in their life. They're actually getting a good quality and spectrum of real minerals that are 100% bioavailable. That's never happened in our lives. We grew up on like Froot Loops so when we actually get real nutrition, especially when it's liquified like that, it has the fastest effect on people's health of anything I've ever seen. That's why I'm such a fan of superfoods. That's why I'm putting my whole thing behind that. I've seen that it works in sorting out people's neurochemistry better than anything else.

Lenette: Some people say, "How do I know what's going to work for me if I start taking a bunch of these things at once?" But you're saying, "Just go for the gold. Just try it all out." [David laughing] Put it in a smoothie and you'll feel better.

David: I remember one time I was hanging around with Shazzy. She's very popular in the U.K. as a superfoodist; she and I wrote "Naked Chocolate" together. I remember we were having this hilarious moment together where we made up this superfood smoothie, and this was like six years ago. That was a long time ago, before it was like...I was kind of in my own reality with it, but I didn't realize that people weren't using this stuff. I made up this superfood smoothie; it must have had 50 ingredients in it. [both laughing] I'm tapping my foot, I'm drinking this drink, and I said, "Could you imagine if we just fed this to somebody on the street? It would probably knock them right out." And BOOM, there was Shazzy knocked right out on her back.

Lenette: No way.

David: She literally drank half a cup of it and had to lay down. It just laid her right down. The reason why, it was just too much. I just kind of threw her right into the middle of the Super Bowl and it was too much. You've got to start out simple. Take Spirulina. Try that.

Lenette: Was that like a detox reaction she was having? Or just overstimulation from all these minerals and things?

David: It was probably both because when you put that level of nutrition...it was like herbs...I remember putting Cat's Claw powder in there and Camu Camu berry. I'm not kidding, there were probably 50 ingredients in there. When you get to that level of concentration, you have to work up to it, just like anything else. You don't just suddenly switch from Cheetos and Burger King over to 50 different things in a superfood smoothie. Even as a raw foodist, you go slowly. Everything's very slow. It's better that way. You try an experiment. You try bee pollen. You try Goji berries. You just eat it or you throw one ingredient in your drink and gradually you complexify it as you build that muscle. Basically what we're doing is we're building up a different muscle, a new digestive muscle. Most of our lives we spend a huge amount of digestive energy digesting nothing. There's nothing in there. Now we can flip the equation around where we spend hardly any amount of digestive energy and we get a huge amount of nutrients. We've got to adapt to that. It doesn't just happen overnight. You readapt your body to new, higher quality, higher octave types of foods and your body will take its little time. Over a few months it will gradually come along for the ride and that's more reasonable. This step-by-step approach is much healthier.

Lenette: Can any of the superfoods in the upcoming book cause a detox reaction when you first start using them? And how important are superfoods in a detox program?

David: That's a very good question. Generally the way I answer that question is to say, "What is a detoxification?" A detoxification occurs when the energy content of what's coming into the body is at a higher level than where the body's natural homeostasis is, or residual homeostasis. When you start taking superfoods that are high energy into a body that was eating, say, Burger King, there's an energetic and vibrational discrepancy. Eventually what happens is one of those higher frequencies is going to entrain the lower frequency vibrations. It's going to bring the lower energy up and drive it out. And that is going to occur in a lot of people just from eating any of the superfoods because the power of these foods is so high. If you're a little bit more sophisticated with your approach and you've done cleansing and juice fasting and done herbal cleansing and that kind of thing, then you start targeting specific superfoods, like Chlorella, that get heavy metals out. Then you can start looking at Camu Camu berry for its medicinal content and medicinal capability of breaking down neurological blockages. For example, cataracts in the eye, glaucoma, foggy thinking, that kind of stuff. Then you could start to dial in a little bit deeper. Bee pollen, for example is a tremendous...it drives out all the gunk in our nervous system due to the acetylcholine that's present in bee pollen and in royal jelly. What does that do? We've all had genetically modified soy lecithin that somehow snuck itself into our body and that just gums up our brain. You need acetylcholine from bee pollen and royal jelly to help drive that out. It's called chelation replacement. Kelp is another one. Kelp can detoxify the thyroid. That's another great superfood, one of the superfoods of the sea.

Lenette: Where are you telling people is the best place to get these superfoods? There are low quality superfoods out there and there are the best ever superfoods out there. How did you address that in the book?

David: What I did was, I went through, and there was a whole section on each superfood about what to look for. It's really good. It's designed for anybody to suddenly have the skill to say, "Here's what I'm looking for. I've got to make sure I have cacao nibs that don't have little white splotches on them. If I buy cacao with the skin on, it shouldn't have any black mold on the outside." Just little things like that. With each superfood, you become an expert on what to buy and how to determine what's high quality and what's low quality.

Lenette: That's great, I'm really glad you put that in there. I'm curious to read that myself.

Lenette Nakauchi is a raw foodist living in Chicago who loves teaching, coaching and demonstrating to others how to go and stay raw a fun, healthy, sustainable way. To listen to the entire audio interview and learn more about the superfoods, please visit Go Raw, Have Fun! and http://www.eatsuperfoods.com.