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reclaim your vitality with a ‘food as medicine’ approach
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When Food Becomes Medicine: A Path from Confusion to Clarity—A Longevity Diet Short Course
In a world of fleeting health trends, your body has been sending quiet signals. Perhaps it's the digestive discomfort that follows even "healthy" meals. The energy crashes that no amount of coffee seems to fix. Cravings that feel stronger than your willpower. Maybe you've received diagnoses that offer only symptom management—being told this is simply how your body works now, or that you'll need to take this medication indefinitely. Or simply the nagging sense that despite eating "right," something still feels... off.
You're not alone in this. Despite our best efforts—eliminating foods, following protocols, tracking every macro—many of us find ourselves more confused than when we started. Especially when conventional approaches suggest managing symptoms rather than addressing what your body is trying to communicate.
For thousands of years, cultures of longevity understood something we've forgotten: food is medicine, and medicine is food. Now, you have the opportunity to remember this timeless wisdom.
The Longevity Diet is…
A healing, rejuvenating approach grounded in simple, whole, nutrient-rich foods that combines time-honored culinary traditions with Eastern and Western healing methods.
Developed in the early 1980s by New Zealand-born TCM practitioner Roger Green, the Longevity Diet draws on Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic principles, and the nutritional wisdom of cultures where people routinely live to 100+ years with vitality. This time-tested framework combines seasonally-aligned whole foods with food energetics and ancestral principles.
For over 40 years, this non-dogmatic approach has helped thousands develop sustainable vitality by understanding how food's natural energies interact with your unique body.
What Makes The Longevity Diet Different from Every Diet You've Tried
Most nutrition approaches treat food as mere fuel—reducing it to calories, macros, and isolated nutrients while completely missing food's energetic properties and healing potential. Even when you try to eat "healthy" or "organic," you're often still consuming highly processed foods cleverly marketed with wellness buzzwords. They give you one-size-fits-all recommendations that ignore your unique constitution, the seasons, and what your body actually needs right now.
We see food as living medicine, not just fuel. While others focus on what to eliminate or restrict, we teach you to understand food's energetic qualities—how it affects your body's temperature, energy flow, and healing capacity.
We honor your bio-individuality. Instead of rigid rules that work for everyone, we teach you to read your body's signals and understand what serves your unique constitution. What heals one person may not serve another, and that's perfectly natural.
We reconnect you with ancestral wisdom. The places where people live longest—the Blue Zones—never forgot that food is medicine. They didn't need nutrition labels or marketing claims because they understood something we've lost: how to work with food's natural healing properties.
We integrate seasonality and natural rhythms. Rather than eating the same foods year-round, you'll learn to align your choices with what your body needs as the seasons change.
The real difference? We don't give you another diet to follow. We teach you to become your own nutritionist by reconnecting with the wisdom your body already carries.
Why This Isn't Another Trendy Diet
❌ Unlike Keto: We don't eliminate entire food groups or force your body into ketosis. Instead, we teach you how different foods serve different healing purposes at different times.
❌ Unlike Paleo: We embrace the wisdom of traditional food preparation—including properly prepared grains, fermented foods, and sea vegetables that have nourished healthy cultures for millennia.
❌ Unlike Plant-Based/Vegan: We're not dogmatic about eliminating animal foods. We teach bio-individuality—what serves one person's constitution may not serve another's. If you choose to include animal foods, we teach sustainable sourcing and proper preparation methods. (If you ARE plant-based/vegan, this course will teach you how to be an even healthier vegan)
❌ Unlike "Clean Eating": We go beyond just avoiding processed foods to understand the energetic properties of ingredients and how they interact with your unique body.
The Longevity Diet isn't a rigid protocol but a framework for understanding food's healing energies. It combines time-honored culinary traditions with Eastern and Western healing methods to create a deeply nourishing approach that adapts to your individual needs, the seasons, and your modern life.
“Before I learned the Longevity Diet, I already considered myself fairly healthy, but dealt with energy crashes, and and honestly felt confused by all the conflicting nutrition information out there. After adopting the Longevity Diet principles, I feel confident, clear, JOYFUL and EVER-INSPIRED by my seasonal, earth-based relationship with food. I went from thinking I couldn't really eat dairy or wheat, to being able to process them well now that I have a healthy gut. The Longevity Diet was the only 'diet' I'll ever need, as it's so non-dogmatic and based on ancient, timeless, universal principles.”
-E.E., New York, USA
Does this sound like you?
"I don't have time for complicated food preparation"
The Longevity Diet focuses on simple, incremental changes that fit into your busy life—many traditional practices like soaking grains or adding sea vegetables to soups take just seconds but yield significant benefits.
"I'm skeptical about traditional approaches without scientific backing"
The world's leading hospitals—including Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Memorial Sloan Kettering—now integrate TCM and Ayurvedic principles alongside conventional medicine. Modern research continues to validate what these ancient systems have taught, from the gut-brain connection to the importance of fermented foods for microbiome health and immune function.
What Health Concerns Does This Approach Support?
Research shows that diet and lifestyle factors contribute to 80% of chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers¹. While we don't diagnose or treat medical conditions, the food as medicine principles taught in this course support your body's natural healing processes.
Even if you're managing a serious diagnosis or working with conventional treatments, food as medicine can have a tremendous impact on your healing journey. Studies from Japanese hospitals show that patients who consume traditional foods like miso soup during treatment experience faster recovery times and fewer complications². In China, integrative oncology centers routinely combine food therapy with conventional cancer treatments, reporting improved patient outcomes and quality of life³.
The best part? Food is one of the most powerful tools we have to directly transform how we feel—both immediately and long-term. Unlike aggressive medications or restrictive protocols that often leave you wondering if they're helping or harming, food as medicine is inherently safe. There are no dangerous side effects from learning to nourish your body properly, fewer contraindications to worry about, and less risk of creating new problems while trying to solve old ones. When you understand how to work with food's natural healing properties, you're choosing the gentlest yet most effective path to wellness—one that supports your body's wisdom rather than overriding it.
Many “food as medicine” students report improvements in:
Digestive Health: Bloating, gas, irregular bowel movements, food sensitivities, and general digestive discomfort often improve when people learn proper food preparation and constitutional eating.
Energy and Mood: Blood sugar fluctuations, afternoon crashes, brain fog, and mood swings frequently stabilize through balanced, seasonal eating aligned with your unique constitution.
Inflammatory Responses: Joint stiffness, skin issues, and general inflammation markers often decrease when people eliminate inflammatory foods and embrace anti-inflammatory preparation methods.
Sleep and Stress: Many students find their sleep quality and stress resilience improve through foods that support the nervous system and adrenal health.
Hormonal Balance: PMS symptoms, menopausal discomfort, and general hormonal fluctuations often find better balance through constitutional eating and seasonal alignment.
Immune Function: Frequent colds, slow recovery, and seasonal allergies often improve through gut-supporting foods and immune-strengthening preparations.
Important note: This course is educational and not intended to replace medical care. Always consult healthcare providers for serious health concerns while using these principles as supportive lifestyle practices.
¹World Health Organization. Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Guidelines for assessment and management of cardiovascular risk. ²Japanese Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Traditional fermented foods in hospital recovery protocols. ³Integrative Cancer Therapies. Food therapy in Chinese oncology centers.
A Curriculum Steeped in Wisdom,
Designed for Modern Life
Our Food as Medicine Course is a comprehensive, self-paced program centered on Longevity Diet principles that provide you with practical recipes and frameworks to implement these concepts in your daily life—without requiring hours of your time or complicated protocols.
Here’s a taste of what you’ll learn in our course:
How to Stop Second-Guessing Every Food Choice
Finally understand WHY certain foods make you feel amazing while others drain you - no more confusing trial and error
The simple "signature" system that reveals a food's healing properties just by looking at it (this will transform grocery shopping forever)
Quick body check techniques to know instantly if a food is serving you or working against you
How to Turn Your Kitchen Into Your Medicine Cabinet With Master Herbalist Inga
Transform the foods that currently cause you problems into healing allies with simple preparation shifts
Potent broths and ferments that actually restore your gut instead of just filling you up
Blood sugar-stabilizing breakfasts that end the energy crash cycle for good
How to Actually Implement This in Your Real Life
Set up your healing kitchen - no expensive gadgets or pantry overhauls required
Seasonal eating made simple: Stay aligned with natural rhythms with a seasonally-aligned meal planning system
What to do when you feel worse before better and other troubleshooting for common implementation challenges
One-page reference guides you can stick on your fridge - no more information overwhelm
Everything You Need to Get Started Today
15+ simple, tested recipes with video demos - from everyday meals to special healing treats
Print-and-go guides for your kitchen - no more scrolling through your phone while cooking
Done-for-you meal plans that take the guesswork out of what to eat when
About Your Instructors
This transformative Food as Medicine short course is led by Roger Green, founder of Academy Healing Nutrition and luminary in holistic health with decades of experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and longevity science. Having conducted workshops in over 70 countries and established one of Sydney's first alternative healing clinics in the 1980s, Joining him is Inga Bylinkina, your cooking instructor, who grew up in the Russian countryside immersed in herbal folklore and healing traditions. As a practicing herbalist and Daoist tonic herbalist now anchored in Iceland, Inga has spent 17 years guiding hundreds to reclaim their body's wisdom. Together, they'll help you reconnect with food's transformative healing power through both ancient wisdom and practical kitchen magic.
Real Results from Real People:
"Menopause hit me like a storm. I had hot flashes that left me drenched, unexplained weight gain that wouldn't budge and brain fog so heavy I felt like a different person. During the course, I learned to focus on whole, natural ingredients, to cut down on processed food and to embrace nourishing, traditional meals. Slowly, everything started to shift. The brain fog lifted, the hot flashes calmed down, and the extra weight began to melt away. But even more importantly, I felt like myself again."
— A Hart, London
"I was struggling with unstable hormones that manifested as low energy levels, a weak immune system and unpredictable weight fluctuations. I was burnt out and stuck following health trends that failed to tend to my deeper needs. My vitality and creativity have increased, my immune system has never been stronger and my weight has been more stable than ever; my body finally feels nurtured and safe."
— C.Lopez, El Salvador
"My wife has always struggled with gluten intolerances and food intolerances and being on medication. Her diet has expanded massively since the course and she's now able to eat a lot more foods. For me personally, it's allowed me to empower myself day to day knowing that what I put in my body is medicine and knowing how to best eat according to what I need, my constitution, what I'm going through, the seasons."
— Luke G., UK
What’s Included
When you enroll in the Food as Medicine Course, you'll receive:
🎥 Complete Video Training Library
Meet Your Expert Guides: Introduction to Roger Green's holistic health mastery and Inga Bylinkina's kitchen alchemy
Foundation of Food Energetics: Master the ancient principles of how foods affect your body's energy, including Yin Yang theory, thermal properties, and the Doctrine of Signatures
Longevity Diet Deep Dive: Comprehensive exploration of the specific ingredients and foods that create vitality and support healing
Essential Food Categories: In-depth guidance on grains, beans, nuts, seeds, and how to navigate modern concerns like gluten
👩🍳 Hands-On Cooking Demonstrations with Inga
Healing Kitchen Setup: Transform your kitchen into a healing sanctuary with the right tools and mindset
Foundation Recipes: Master essential healing broths, nourishing soups, and energizing breakfast preparations
Complete Meal Planning: Learn to create balanced, healing meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner using Longevity Diet principles
📚 Comprehensive Resources
Digital Recipe Collection with dozens of signature healing recipes you can't find anywhere else
Downloadable resources for offline learning and kitchen reference
Lifetime access to all materials and future course updates
Private community forum with personalized responses from AHN team members for all your course-related questions
🎯 Optional Add-On Personalized 1-1 Health Coaching
(Available at special rates for course participants)
Constitutional analysis and personalized food recommendations from AHN Head Health Coach and Education Director
Customized guidance tailored to your unique body type and health goals
Ongoing support as you apply Longevity Diet principles to your specific needs
Transform your relationship with food from confusion to confidence, from restriction to nourishment.
"Through the wisdom and knowledge imparted to me through AHN, I was able to support my body as it recovered from surgery and embark on a very physically demanding career. When I enrolled, I expected to learn strategies on how to optimize my health, but what I walked away with was a completely new perspective on food. Recognising food as medicine, something that could nourish, heal, elevate the mind state and connect me to the planet has been fundamentally transformative."
— Olivia, NYC
Your Investment
This comprehensive training is regularly priced at £588, but you can secure your spot today and save over £200.
Similar nutrition programs cost £800-£1,200, but more importantly—what's the cost of remaining disconnected from food's true healing potential? How much have you already spent on supplements, doctor visits, and diets that didn't address the root causes of your health concerns?
Choose What Works Best for You:
💰 BEST VALUE £377 Pay in Full (Save £211) - use code saVefull
OR choose a payment plan:
3 payments of £152/month
6 payments of £82/month
Please Note:
Should you choose to enroll in our full Holistic Health Coaching programme at a later date, we will credit this amount towards your tuition.
🛡️ 60-Day MONEY BACK Guarantee
We're so confident in the transformative power of the Longevity Diet that we offer this unconditional promise:
Try the complete Food as Medicine Course for a full 60 days. Watch every video, try the recipes, implement the principles. If you don't feel a genuine shift in your energy, relationship with food, and overall wellbeing—or if you're not completely satisfied for any reason whatsoever—simply let us know and we'll refund every penny.
No questions asked. No hoops to jump through. No "gotchas."
This isn't just about your money—it's about your trust. We've seen these principles transform thousands of lives over 40+ years, and we want you to experience that same transformation with complete confidence.
Your only risk is missing out on the healing potential that's been waiting inside you all along.
"Before this approach, I was overwhelmed by chronic inflammation—recurring tonsillitis, cystic acne, hormonal imbalances, and constant fatigue. I went through cycle after cycle of antibiotics and medications that never truly helped.
Deep down, something within me finally said: enough is enough.
Through understanding food as medicine, I learned to listen to what my body was actually communicating and respond with nourishment rather than suppression. I no longer see symptoms as enemies to fight, but as messages pointing back to balance.
What began as personal healing has become embodied wisdom that now supports my clients and community."
- A.N., Morocco
Frequently ASked Questions:
"Will traditional food preparations fit into my busy schedule?"
Absolutely! Many traditional practices take just seconds but yield significant benefits. For example, soaking grains overnight takes 30 seconds before bed but improves both digestibility and nutrition. The course includes practical guidance specifically designed for busy people, showing you exactly how to integrate these principles 10 minutes at a time.
"Is there scientific backing for these traditional approaches?”
Absolutely. The Longevity Diet synthesizes time-tested healing systems that have maintained their validity for thousands of years: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic principles, and the nutritional wisdom from global cultures of longevity.
Modern research increasingly validates these ancient systems. Harvard Medical School, Mayo Clinic, and Johns Hopkins are now integrating elements of Eastern medicine into their treatment protocols due to mounting scientific evidence of their efficacy. The NIH's National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health has dedicated significant research funding to studying traditional healing systems as legitimate medical approaches.
The Cultures of Longevity aspect of our framework draws from both Dr. Weston A. Price's pioneering nutritional research across indigenous populations and aligns with the more recent Blue Zones research documenting communities with exceptional longevity and health spans.
Additionally, we incorporate cutting-edge findings from longevity science and evidence-based biohacking strategies that complement these traditional approaches—creating a framework that honors ancestral wisdom while embracing scientific advancement.
This convergence of ancient wisdom and modern research provides a robust foundation that bridges traditional healing knowledge with contemporary scientific understanding.
"What if my family won't eat this way?"
You don't need to overhaul your entire household. The course teaches you how to make small modifications to meals that benefit everyone, plus simple additions (like healing broths) that you can enjoy individually. Many students find their families naturally become curious about the positive changes they're experiencing.
"Is this suitable for people with dietary restrictions or food allergies?"
Absolutely. The bio-individual approach means we teach you to work with your body's specific needs and limitations. Whether you're gluten-free, dairy-free, or managing other restrictions, you'll learn how to apply these principles within your dietary parameters.
"What if this is just another approach that doesn't work for me?"
We understand this concern—you may have tried many approaches already. That's why we offer a 60-day money-back guarantee. More importantly, this isn't about following another rigid protocol. It's about learning to understand your body's unique signals so you can make informed choices for life, regardless of changing health trends.
"How do I know if this will help my specific health issues?"
While we don't diagnose or treat medical conditions, we teach principles that support your body's natural healing processes. Many students find that when they begin eating in harmony with their constitution and using food's healing properties, their body's innate wisdom begins to restore balance. You'll also have access to optional personalized coaching for specific guidance.
"Will I be able to afford the ingredients and special foods?"
The Longevity Diet emphasizes simple, whole foods—often less expensive than processed alternatives. Many healing ingredients like miso, sea vegetables, and fermented foods are pantry staples that last months. We'll show you how to source quality ingredients affordably and which investments make the biggest difference.
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