Chapter One
You Did Everything Right
You did everything they told you to.
You cleaned up your plate. You swapped the packet food for real food. You added the vegetables. You bought the better oil, and the wild fish, the organic one that cost more. You told yourself it was worth it.
Maybe you took the supplements a good friend swore by. Or the ones a very confident and attractive stranger on the internet promised would change your life.
Maybe you tried the diet, or fasting or cleanse that changed someone else’s life.
You spent the money. You spent the willpower. It’s dearer than money.
And underneath all of it, you still feel like this.
You are not sick, exactly. You just do not feel good. And you cannot work out why, because on paper you are doing everything right.
It Was Not Your Willpower
Then what? Because nearly everyone does the same thing.
You blamed yourself. Or your genetics.
You decided you must not be doing it well enough. So you pushed harder. Cut something else out. Added another supplement, another rule, another early morning. Another book. More training. More vinegar or salts. Another fast, for even longer.
You told yourself that if you were just a bit more disciplined, this time it would work.
It was not your willpower.
After a long time looking at this I believe most people who cannot get healthy are doing good work in the wrong place. Wrong theory. Wrong actions. Wrong results.
They are pouring real effort, real money and real hope into the part of the machine that was not the problem. The real problem sat just a little further up the line.
You Are Not Built From What You Eat
Let me put it as plainly as I can, because it is the idea the whole book rests on.
“Your health is not built on what you eat. It is built on what you absorb.”
Read that twice.
ABSORB
A single sentence that changes everything.
You can put the finest food in the world into your mouth, and if your body cannot take it apart and carry the goodness in, most of it goes straight through you.
Down the toilet.
The eating was never the point. The absorbing was.
And the MAJORITY of absorbing happens in your small intestine, which almost nobody has ever asked you to think about. Most people do not know anything other than they have one. A small one and a large one.
You can eat well, really well, and still walk around deficient. Short of the very things you were eating so carefully to get.
Your plate is full. Your cells are not. They may be starving for the things you ate, but did not absorb. The fats, proteins, energy, the minerals, the vitamins, and all the things you make from them.
And because nobody ever told you about bile, you had nowhere to go but to blame yourself. You were looking in the wrong place the whole time. Once your bile is back to “premium”, it will be time to revisit just exactly what is the right nutrition program for you.
You want to have your digestion and absorption systems working, because otherwise it is almost irrelevant what you eat. Almost.
In my next book, I will explain clearly the real perils of high sugar levels in your body. And like this book, it is not what you think. It is nothing that anyone has EVER told you, even though it is in ALL textbooks.
The time to consider your new diet is after you complete this current step.
From your reading so far, you know that just learning about bile quality is a profound opportunity. The next few chapters will seem pretty obvious, and you will learn some basic physiology, but not much. The minimum.