Primordial Vitality and Ancient Human Nutrition
It is known that primitive humans, despite having higher mortality rates due to wars and famines, had health and vitality levels similar to those of wild animals.
At the root of this primordial vitality was a diet based on nutrient-dense, living superfoods—rich in enzymatic factors and probiotics (promoters of healthy intestinal flora).
We, inhabitants of the contemporary world, attacked by environmental pollution and unprecedented stress, instead feed ourselves on devitalized foods that are very poor in nutrients due to the depletion and progressive desertification of cultivated soils.
Decline of Nutrients in Modern Foods
Today, in the geographic areas with the highest standard of living, an alarming and significant fact emerges: a large part of the population in developed countries has reduced reserves of vitamins and minerals.
In just the last 15 years, the foods we consume have seen a decrease in essential nutrients exceeding 80%! At the same time, numerous studies have revealed that deficiencies in essential vitamins and minerals in industrialized populations range from 50% up to 100% for certain micronutrients.
What causes these deficiencies?
The severe depletion and impoverishment of agricultural soils, cooking, storage, refining, and both household and industrial handling of foods are the main factors responsible for the reduction of essential nutrients in our diet.
How can we replenish them using natural sources and in a fully physiological way?
The Val de Marne report of 1991 highlighted dangerous deficiencies of minerals and vitamins in the contemporary diet. B vitamins were 40% to 90% below the recommended daily intake (RDA or LARN). A similar study published in The Lancet in 2003 confirmed these data:
• B Vitamins: 40–90% below RDA
• Vitamin A: 50–60%
• Vitamin E: 100%
• Magnesium: 60–90%
• Zinc: 90%
• Copper: 55–90%
[Val de Marne, 1991 / Lancet 2003]
The Need for Natural Replenishment
A healthy diet and proper food combinations are fundamental for our health, but today, as soils and foods are increasingly poor in essential nutrients—especially trace elements and enzymes that help fix nutrients and catalyze all internal chemical reactions and physiological processes—it becomes necessary to supplement meals with foods particularly rich in these substances.
It is important to emphasize foods and not “supplements,” which are mostly not assimilable by our bodies and can sometimes even cause imbalances. Some specific wild foods that still grow spontaneously in uncontaminated places (rare conditions, but still present in some areas of the planet) can meet this basic need.
The problem, in fact, cannot be solved with synthetic supplements alone, because what our body needs is not a specific vitamin or mineral, nor only a set of vitamins and minerals, but the complete spectrum of all nutrients, even in minimal quantities.
Each nutrient functions well and is strongly enhanced only when in a complete and balanced synergy of all nutrients, just like in primordial wild foods.
Primordial Nutritional Factors
In the past, all essential nutrients, bacteria, and enzymes were provided by the normal diet. Today, adequate reintegration of these factors is indispensable to recover and maintain optimal health.
We speak of primordial nutritional factors because the most powerful natural foods, indispensable for complete nutrition in every respect, are actual primordial organisms:
a) Green-blue algae: the most complete source of all essential nutrients, representing the planet’s first forms of life;
b) Friendly bacteria: contained in properly fermented foods, essential for intestinal health, also a primordial form of life;
c) Enzymes: the basis of every biochemical process and the true original spark of life.
Written by Luigi Gallo
