Start with Organic Ancestral Whole Foods

Part of the series,
Diet for Minerals

by Jon Sasmor RCPC (Mineral Guide, MinBalance LLC)
Updated March 30, 2022

The minimum for feeling much better at deeper levels includes:

• Organic: no chemical agriculture
• Ancestral: food our ancestors would have recognized and eaten
• Whole foods: food in Nature's form, unprocessed

The Root Cause Protocol expresses these fundamentals of diet with certain STOPs and STARTs. The STOPs and STARTs related to diet include:

• "STOP Using synthetic forms of ascorbate/ascorbic acid & citrate/citric acid"
• "STOP Using high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) & artificial sweeteners"
• "STOP Using industrialized omega-6 oils (e.g. soybean oil, canola oil, etc.)"
• "STOP Using fluoride (e.g. in toothpaste, water, etc.)"
• "STOP Eating low-fat, high-carb, processed, refined foods"
• "START Eating organic ancestral whole foods and drinking mineralized filtered water"
• "START Taking wholefood vitamin C (WFC) complex"
• "START Eating grass-fed organic beef liver"
• "START Taking Mother Nature’s sources for B vitamins"
• "START Taking wholefood vitamin E complex"
• "START Taking cod liver oil"
• "START Taking iodine from food"

For the complete list of STOPs and STARTs, please visit the official Root Cause Protocol webpage. More details about the RCP organic ancestral whole foods diet also appear in chapter 11 of Morley Robbins' 2021 book Cu-re Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How To Fix It On Your Own.