Our Guiding Force: The Longevity Diet

Food is a powerful vehicle for transformation.

The Longevity Diet is a healing, rejuvenating diet, grounded in simple, whole, nutrient-rich foods. This non-dogmatic approach to nutrition serves as a foundation for the Academy Healing Nutrition. It is a deeply nourishing diet, combining time-honored culinary tradition along with Eastern and Western healing methods. Although rooted in ancient practice, the Longevity Diet is supported by modern scientific research. The essentials of the Longevity Diet are simple, yet powerfully effective.

What we put into our bodies has a direct impact on the quality – and longevity – of our lives. When we change our diet, we change everything. Food affects our ability to maintain a healthy weight, regulate our moods, prevent the loss of vital life force energy and recover from disease.

A balanced diet promotes harmony in all aspects of our personal and professional lives. Therein lies the essence of The Longevity Diet.

Basic ingredients include:

  • Organic whole foods

  • Cleansing sea vegetables

  • Effective home remedies

  • Immune-enhancing probiotics

  • Healing tonics and superfoods

By embracing the profound wisdom of Food Energetics, the Longevity Diet enables us to harness food’s natural energy in order to nourish, heal and rejuvenate ourselves.

In addition to the diet, there are features that provide deeply nurturing elements such as wellness techniques for Body, Mind and Spirit.

When you enroll in our Holistic Health Coach Programme you will learn how to integrate the Longevity Diet into your life and follow the principles of disease prevention and cultivation of the fundamental energies responsible for longevity.

Sea vegetables:

For example, sea vegetables such as Wakame, Hijiki, and Kelp are powerful, healing gifts from nature. Abundant in minerals and trace elements, they are beneficial for a variety of functions including skeletal health, regular heartbeat, blood pressure, nerve health, thyroid, and metabolism. Seaweeds also contain alginic acid, a powerful detoxifier that removes heavy metals and radioactive elements from the body. Traditional Asian Medicine has long valued the use of sea vegetables to treat a variety of illnesses. Western Medicine is now joining in, as scientific studies prove the power of our ocean’s plants.

Miso Soup Recipe

Just one of many dishes we teach you to make in the Academy.

Ingredients:

  • 1-2 cups organic vegetable stock (low sodium)

  • 1-2 pinches ready-to-use wakame seaweed Juice from 1 tablespoon grated ginger (squeeze with fingers)

  • 1-2 teaspoons miso paste

Cooking process:

  • Heat water or stock in a pan.

  • Add wakame and ginger juice.

  • Heat for approximately 5 minutes, until the wakame has softened and expanded. Turn off heat.

  • In a small bowl or cup, mix 1-2 teaspoons miso with 1 tablespoon water or stock.

  • Once the stock has cooled slightly, stir in miso.

Variations: stir in a handful of sliced shiita- kes (stems removed), a thinly sliced carrot, sliced scallion or onion, or minced garlic. Next, add stock and wakame and ginger juice and continue the recipe as above.

Patrica Lopez