As a journalist, you get to meet people from all walks of life. Over the years I’ve met some wonderful souls, been welcomed into people’s lives in the name of a story, learned many things and questioned much.
In the 15 years I’ve been doing this, there have been a few incredible people who have, just by their very nature, etched their message into my heart—some, albeit few, have even influenced me to change my life.
Once such interview was about five years ago: “Come along and meet this guy, he’s amazing,” the publicist promised. She was talking about Don Tolman, a guy from Utah known fondly by many as the Indiana Jones of Wholefoods. I’d never heard of him, or his message.
His message, I soon learned, is simple: live with nature, by nature and from nature. Understand what foods benefit particular body functions and eat them. Stop putting chemical pills and potions into your mouth. Drink fresh spring water. Stop brushing your teeth with fluoride. Listen to your great grandmother and use her natural remedies. Know that your body’s symptoms are your body’s cures. Eating meat causes putrification and dis-ease. Question everything.
A 30-minute meeting with the Stetson-wearing cowboy felt like five minutes. His message spoke directly to me, as if what he was saying I already knew on some deep level. I’d already been following some of his recommendations, purely on instinct, such as never taking a pill to relieve a headache or antibiotics to fix an ill, and no longer eating red meat.
If you haven’t had a chance to hear Don Tolman speak, below is an interview he did with Samantha Backman. I hope you enjoy hearing his message, as much as I always do.
Why it’s great: Packed with a gold mine of information that will change the way you look at your body and the food you put in it, forever. Tolman also talks about how every wholefood has a signature that corresponds to parts of the body, such as an avocado, which looks like a pregnant woman and takes nine months from blossom to ripened fruit. If a woman eats just one avocado per week, she is helping prevent cervical cancer.
Who’s watching it: Health care professionals, university lecturers and doctors who are realising the Western way of healing with pharmaceuticals doesn’t work. Also anyone who is interested in honest-to-goodness nutrition and how it greatly improves life through diet and exercise.
What you’ll learn: How your body actually works, why disease is not a mystery and how wholefoods, water, sunshine and clean air can prevent just about any disease.
Want to know more? See www.dontolmaninternational.com
Photo by Wheeloflife.tv
Some pretty dubious claims right there don’t you think Shannon? The avocado analogue? Hmm.
Hi there, thanks for your comment. It’s true no one will always agree with what resonates with another.
Dubious? I don’t think so.
There is plentiful science to backup Avocado’s share a connection with females and help them to have healthy births.
The fats for one thing help woman put on the extra weight they need for the baby, placenta, uterus, extra bloods etc etc… Woman are advised to eat good oils during pregnancy and highly nutritious food like avocados. What is dubious about that?
Is it that its just because the food looks like something, such as a pregnant woman, or takes the same time to turn into a edible fruit as a baby takes to be born that creates the skepticism?
Because life is supposed to be hard and mysterious, right? If things look and feel like other things in the world, its purely co-incidental and nature is stupid, right?
I’ll tell you what is dubious – believing that nature is stupid. Believing that its not enough to trust our senses. Ever felt an avocado? The texture of its insides feels similar to a vagina last time I checked.
But thats not enough proof is it?
We need somebody to perform a clinical study, because thats how the universe wanted us to work everything out – by people in lab coats. Intuition and basic common sensory perception is merely a figment of our imaginations and scientists are god.
Well, here is the science…
Avocado can literally multiply the effects of carotenoids in the body. Since the beta carotene’s are oil soluble, the avocado oils have been found to lift the potential nutrients of foods like carrots, and chilli’s and tomatoes and greens by 5 times. Who needs a multiplication of nutrients? Pregnant woman for one.
Avo’s are also high in potassium which helps maintain fluid and electrolyte balance in body cells. Not enough potassium – no healthy baby development.