David Wolfe looks quiet, but the power of his ideas will shock you into thinking twice about what you’re eating. He’s an advocate for the Raw Food Movement, a ground-breaking branch of alternative health that’s gaining popularity in waves. Which is exactly what it sounds like: eating raw fruit and veg, and getting rid of the problematic foods which might be harming you in the long run. He expresses himself eloquently, using metaphors to explain the more complicated ideas. Just the possibility he’s right is reason enough to sit up and listen.
He begins with the concept that for a higher life-expectancy, we need to change our approach to food. He calls it ‘nutritional technology,’ and he mentions the that fact we upgrade our cars- our technology- and we should naturally upgrade how we eat. The idea that when we’re ill, we go to the doctor and then get over-medicated, over-injected, instead of looking at the source of the problem: our diet. He’s openly cynical towards traditional medicine, calling our time the Age of Medical Quackery because doctors don’t believe that what we’re eating has long-terms affects, unless it’s junk food.
It’s an interesting attitude. It’s one that’s been researched for years, and one that’s so obvious we don’t think about it in-depth. Don’t get me wrong, we think about it, just not outside of the food-fad box. He uses the analogy about how the world’s greatest scientific minds were unable to crack the mystery of the Pyramids. They were trying too hard, over-complicating. They should have simplified.
His first inspiration came from an article he read about dinosaur bones having arthritis. Considering their diet was much different than our fast-food culture now, there must be some other cause, something simple. He talks about animals that have long life-expectancies, like sea turtles (up to 300 years), that suddenly die without apparent cause. He finishes part 1 with discussing heart disease and what it looks like: a typically milky substance surrounding the heart, which is a disturbing image most of us wouldn’t like to consider.
David Wolfe’s introduction video raises a lot of questions we haven’t asked ourselves for far too long. How could dinosaurs get arthritis when the quality of the planet was so much better? We may be careful about what we eat and buy only organic food, but is it really the right food? And when is the last time we’ve ‘upgraded’ and focused on our diets? Could there be a tie-in to our choices in food that lead to disease? What could be the next step in our ‘nutritional technology?’ I’m guessing he has a theory on it, and maybe a solution.