Duplicate GLP1 Effect

What we've learned about these miracle drugs and how you can duplicate their effects, only better and for free.

You know I’m passionate about nutrition and health, so I’ve been following the journey of GLP1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and others (Rybelsus, Trulicity, Victoza, Saxenda, Byetta, Mounjara, Zepbound, etc.)

The drugs are being talked about as miracle drugs, because the people who take them for weight loss are also correcting many of their chronic conditions, like hypertension, chronic reflux, and type 2 diabetes. They’re losing inflammation and just getting all-around healthier.

The only negative so far discovered with GLP1 use is that you tend to lose a higher percentage of muscle on these meds than with other types of dieting, and then if you stop using them, you put it back on, only you put on all fat, so your percentage of muscle gets smaller with each round.

Even that negative can be easily mitigated by doing resistance exercises when on the meds to keep building new muscle and to sustain what you have. You can also mitigate it by not going on and off the meds repeatedly.

So nobody has anything bad to say about these meds.

But can I just have a word with you about why they are working so well in the first place?

I can? Thanks. Here goes.

The weight loss injections make you not want to eat. So you eat significantly less.

Most people who go on these injections are, it stands to reason, overweight to begin with. So here's the thing.

Overweight is a symptom, not a disease or disorder

Excess weight is not a disease or condition, it’s a symptom of certain underlying issues, including malnutrition. It’s a symptom that we’re feeding our bodies “foods” that are poisoning us. We are ingesting things that are actively harming us; meats and dairy products, saturated fats and overly-refined grains and oils, ultra-processed foods

At the same time, we are not ingesting the things that could heal us.

This condition is a very common form of malnutrition suffered by nearly half of Americans today.

The symptoms of this form of malnutrition are: excess weight, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, chronic inflammation, chronic reflux, scalp and skin issues, and certain cancers and auto-immune disorders over the long term.

That’s what the food most of us eat is doing to us.

What GLP1s do

Now, when we go on GLP1s, we stop eating the things that are poisoning us.

The problem is we do not replace them with the foods that would heal us. We don’t replace them at all. We just don’t eat, and so our body digests its own stored fat (yay!) and it also digests some of its muscle (boo!) because it has to live on something.

The symptoms, the weight, blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, reflux, all of the symptoms, dissipate because we’ve stopped poisoning ourselves.

So we’ve stopped making ourselves sicker, and the body, being miraculously resilient, begins to slowly, painstakingly re-balance itself.

That repair work takes resources, and those resources are nutritents. To repair and heal our bodies we have to give them the ingredients they need in order build new cells and repair damaged ones.

The Missing Link

We can do exactly the same positive things that GLP1s do by shifting to a whole food, all-plant diet, because in EXACTLY the same manner, we will stop eating all the things that are poisoning us.

We don’t need a shot that makes us not hungry, though, because there are so many other things to eat. There are like 20 kinds of leafy greens, literally hundreds of fruits and vegetables. I have seven different kinds of beans and two kinds of lentils in my pantry for veggies’ sake!

Instead of giving up on food altogether and taking injections that force our body to devour itself to survive, we can REPLACE the toxic foods with their healing counterparts, foods don’t make us sick, but do help us heal.

Instead of chicken or beef, eat marinated mushrooms, marinated tofu, “Eat Meati” brand Mushroom Root filets and cutlets, “Real Veggies” brand sweet potato burgers, beans and legume-based dishes like chil.

Instead of white rice or jasmine rice use brown rice, wild rice, brown basmati, brown texmati, brown jasmine, black forbidden rice, or red rice.

Instead of ordinary pasta use whole grain pasta. If you’re gluten intolerant, brown rice pasta.

Instead of white bread, use whole grain breads and rolls, or sourdough, without added oils. (This is a case for intensive ingredient-reading.)

And then when you have a meal, start everything with a bed of mixed greens, every salad, sandwich, grain or pasta bowl—just pile in greens, and put whatever else you’re having on top. Or put the greens on top, I don’t care. Eating all the greens you can fit in every day removes arterial plaque and repairs the epithelial system, actually reversing heart disease according to Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn (Head of cardiology at the Cleveland clinic for more than decade.) It’s pretty cool! (So do cruciferous vegetables, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, etc.)

Start assuaging your sweet tooth with fruit. We keep so much fruit around I bought a tiny fridge just to hold it. We have any kind of berry available, along with apples, oranges, peaches, mangoes, plums, bananas, kiwi, and that’s just off the top of my head. We have canned fruit too, but you have to hunt for it in water. “In its own juices” means in condensed juice, which is a hit of pure sugar. We currently have canned peaches, pears, cocktail, pineapple, and mandarin oranges. When berries aren’t in season, we buy frozen.

Include more of nature’s most filling and satisfying carbs like potatoes, winter squash, carrots, corn, peas, beets, sweet potatoes, and turnips. These are the most solid, fill-you-up veggies there are, and we are carb-based life forms. Our brains need carbs to function properly. We just don’t need potato chips (alas!) and cookie based carbs. We need earth-carbs. Root veggies are the ticket.

There is still plenty to eat without imbibing toxins

We do not need to stop eating altogether, like we tend to do with GLP1s.

All we need to do is stop eating the stuff that’s killing us.

There is still plenty of yummy, delicious stuff left to eat, to nourish our bodies. And we’ll have the very same amazing results: rapid almost effortless weight loss, a natural lowering of blood pressure, and blood sugar, and inflammation, and cholesterol.

In addition, this diet has been shown in a lab to keep mutated cancer genes from “turning on” which means they wake up and begin producing cancer cells. Further, this diet has been shown “to turn them back off” if they’ve already started producing cells.

For me, that was all I needed to hear. It was 15 minutes into my first documentary, Forks Over Knives, and everyone should watch it.

I dare you to try this!

Try it for three weeks Come on, you can do anything for three weeks!

Before you begin, get a BP device and take your blood pressure at the same time every day for a week, and record it. Or just go by your latest medical reading. To take it yourself, do it while sitting with your feet on the floor and your arm with the device on it right about heart level. See what your BP is normally.

Gather any other numbers you have, and the more the better. A1C, triglycerides, cholesterol and its breakdown, inflammatory markers, anything you’ve got. Also note your weight. Then, after the three weeks, commit to getting retested to you can see the difference in your numbers. Three weeks is enough to show a startling improvement.

The easy way to try this…

In the paid subscriber section, there is a three-part, three-week plan you can follow, along with several shopping lists (and other stuff.) I think this particular three-week plan has you transition breakfasts the first week, lunches the second, and dinners the third, but you can also do all three at once.

And in case you haven’t thought of this, you could subscribe for one month, go download the plan and all the goodies, and then unsubscribe right after. It’s five bucks. Great value, and it goes to the excellent cause (IMHO) of keeping this blog running.

The slightly harder way

You can do the same thing without my guides. Heck, I tell you every Saturday how to do it right here, and this place is packed with recipes and tips.

Just stop eating processed foods, stop using oils for anything, change out your white grains for whole grains, and eat a lot of greens, root veggies, cruciferous veggies, beans, legumes, fruits, berries, and nuts in moderation. (Maybe 1/4 cup per day on those).

Pay attention to ingredients lists and try not to eat “parts of foods” like wheat gluten or pea protein. That’s a part of the wheat or the pea, not the whole food.

When I’m really doing this right, there are no ingredients lists to check, because nothing is processed.

Try it for three weeks. Come on, what do you have to lose, besides pounds and prescriptions?

It gets easier and easier

It gets easier, trust me. But by golly, I’ll tell you this is the best thing you can do for your health and you can do it all yourself, without meds or pills or injections or complicated, expensive programs.

The entire WFPB system can be simply explained the following sentence:

Eat the whole plant and nothing but the plant—and while you’re at it, move a little more. —Maggie Shayne

(That’s an original. Feel free to quote me. LOL!)

Okay that’s what I have for you today. I have a peach upside down cake cooling on the counter waiting to be photographed, and if it tastes as good as it looks, it’ll be next week’s recipe.

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