The Four Week Protocol of All The Nourishment

 Welcome!

My friend Jody and I are attempting - nay, slaying - Dr. Brooke Goldner's Six Steps to Reversing Disease with Supermarket Foods Protocol. Follow the link and you will find her classes, which are offered for free a few times a year. In fact, if you are reading this post before January 8, 2021 you can still catch this round of free classes!

Watching her videos is the absolute best way to get the information about the protocol, especially the how and the why, and to make sure you are doing it correctly. But as we understand it, this is what we are doing for the next four weeks:

1. Eliminating all animal foods and animal products: meat, dairy, eggs, etc.
2. Eliminating all added oils (yes, even olive oil and coconut oil)
3. Eliminating all processed foods, so that's a lot of foods

The next three steps focus on the hypernourishing aspect of the program:

1. Focus on raw vegetables, including cruciferous (kale, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, arugula, etc.)
2. High doses of Omega Three Fatty Acids: Flax or Chia Seeds (anti-inflammatory)
3. High Water Intake

To get the mass quantity of greens needed per day, Dr. Goldner recommends a green smoothie, and you should really watch her make one to understand what she means:

Dr. Goldner's website Goodbye Lupus tells about how she cured herself of Lupus, and she now helps people cure themselves from all sorts of autoimmune and chronic diseases, so check her out.

I have not been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, but I deal with chronic pain and inflammation, and currently am struggling with Achilles Insertional Tendinitis, with painful, inflamed bone spurs on the back of both heels where the tendon connects. I also struggle with very painful menstrual cramps, and currently have pain in my thumbpads, especially the right. I am also trying to lose weight.

I have been vegan/whole foods plant based for years. Sometimes 100%, sometimes allowing for a few sugary treats. Perhaps because of that leeway, I have not been able to lose the weight I need to. Last year I went on Dr. Fuhrman's Six Week Aggressive Weight Loss Plan and I did lose 30 pounds, though I gained some of it back when I went back to a starch based diet. His plan is very similar except instead of the daily giant smoothie it includes a daily giant salad. They both want you to get 1 pound of leafy greens, but Dr. Fuhrman allows a pound of other vegetables which can be raw or cooked, whereas Dr. Goldner wants you to stick to raw food. She also wants you to have much more than the 1 TBSP of flax seeds Dr. Fuhrman recommends, and he insists you eat cooked beans and mushrooms as part of his daily G-BOMBS (Greens, Beans, Onions, Mushrooms, Berries, Seeds).

I absolutely love Dr. Fuhrman and his Nutritarian approach, and when I'm finished with this four week protocol I will likely go back to his Nutritarian style of eating, because I love the cooked beans and mushrooms.

This blog is a place for my friend Jody and I to keep track of what we eat and how we feel during this four week period. We hope you enjoy it!

Lots of love and green vegetables, 

~ Melissa