There's a famous saying that goes, "Exercise is king and nutrition is queen." It means that these two factors -- your exercise levels and nutrition -- are key to attaining holistic health. I think there's a lot of truth to this which leads into my third secret to becoming a holistic healer. My third secret is that in order to become a true holistic healer, one needs to understand (1) Diet and Nutrition and (2) Orthomolecular Nutrition.

Diet and Nutrition is understanding what is good to eat and what kinds of diets and foods are healing for the body depending on what conditions you have. Sadly, doctors have very little to no training, whatsoever, in the field of nutrition when they go to medical school. I think it's ridiculous when they say you should talk to your doctor first about nutrition because doctors know very little about nutrition. I know this because I have some friends who are doctors and they admit that to me. I had a roommate once who was a medical doctor and she said; "I took one nutrition class in college and I didn't learn much." She got her nutrition information from the Seventh Day Adventist church, which teaches "veganism" as the ideal diet. This can be very dangerous for people, especially if they have certain conditions or are prone to certain types of diseases.

Our students at Arukah.com learn various diet theories that can be healing. Students also learn why there's so much false information out there about all sorts of foods. For example: Things that the American Health Association or the Food & Drug Administration promote are, very often, very bad for your health and what drives them?... Well, if you've been listening to me for some time, the answer to what drives them is profit because there are powerful people who lobby these government organizations to promote false information about various agricultural industries. Most people don't know this but meat and dairy have been villainized by western media. Most people think meat, dairy and saturated fat are extremely bad for you when the truth -- which is finally starting to come out -- that, although not perfect, to deprive yourself of saturated fat, meat and dairy is very harmful and not even helpful for what they claimed it would do. Which is to prevent heart disease, strokes and whatnot. It may sound really crazy but at Arukah.com, our students learn about the history and the studies that created all these lies in America. Not too long ago, the common fats that were used for cooking were butter and tallow but because of lobbyists and corrupt organizations, we started replacing healthy animal fats with extremely unnatural, unhealthy substitutes that our ancestors never ate and which increase the incidence of cancers as well as do nothing to spare us from heart disease. These substitutes are things like vegetable oil, canola oil, safflower oil, soy oil, corn oil, as well as margarine, which is technically not even food. Most margarine, especially the first ones that came out, shouldn't even be consumed by humans at all. These are the kinds of things we teach at Arukah.com that most medical doctors don't know.

I was coaching someone who had cancer once and she said, "I don't understand why I have cancer. I've been a vegan all my life." In my head, I was like, "Hmm, that's probably why she has cancer." So, I started asking her, "What kind of food do you eat?" She'll say, "I'll eat a salad. Like, last night, I ate a salad and a baked potato." I said, "What did you put on your salad?" She said, "I had different types of vegetables and some salad dressing." I asked, "What is in that salad dressing?" and she said, "I don't know, it's just some brand from the grocery store." It was a very common brand but if you look at the ingredients of that salad dressing, there are carcinogens in it. This is one of the pitfalls that come about through a vegan diet. Again, there was that doctor who was my roommate when I was younger. She got her nutrition information from the Adventist church and she thought being vegan was healthy so she thought that she could go to McDonald's and order fries and whatever vegan food she could get from McDonald's and Taco Bell and just leave off the cheese, sour cream and meat and just do the beans, the mild sauce and whatever they put in fast food. She thought that being vegan and eating junk food from places like McDonald's and Taco Bell was healthier than eating meat and dairy like our ancestors did.

This just goes to show how little even medical workers know about what is a good and proper diet and nutrition. They look at, oftentimes, recent publications that are mostly just propaganda put out by people who are funded by certain corrupt companies in certain industries. Where your paycheck comes from largely determines what you are going to hold as true in your mind and in your life. Diet and Nutrition is so important when becoming a holistic healer, we have to dispel all of those myths.

The second thing – that is related to diet and nutrition – is Orthomolecular Nutrition. That’s a term I first learned, as other people call it, as Orthomolecular Medicine or another popular way to say it is Mega-dose Vitamin Therapy. Basically, it's when you make sure that your body gets optimal doses of whatever nutrients that you are lacking in your diet for whatever reason. It's ideal to only get our nutrition from foods but if we're not growing our own food then our food is probably lacking in nutrition. This is why there is a need for supplements. Most people are lacking Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Zinc, Magnesium -- different types of vitamins and minerals we should be getting from our food but because our food supply is so corrupt we have to supplement especially if we want to attain holistic health and healing. As with Diet and Nutrition, most medical healthcare workers don't really understand the power of these vitamins and supplements. Even when they do recommend vitamins and supplements to their patients, they often don't recommend a dose that is high enough to have any kind of healing effect so then they conclude, "These don't even work." That's because they're not using them therapeutically because they don't know how. Doctors don't even study this in medical school. Nutritionists don’t really study this. You have to specifically study the field of Orthomolecular Nutrition which was spearheaded by two-time Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Linus Pauling. These are the types of things we study at The Arukah Holistic Life Academy: Diet and Nutrition and Orthomolecular Nutrition. These are so important and so powerful if understood correctly.

If you are interested in learning the power of these things -- Diet and Nutrition and Orthomolecular Nutrition -- for holistic health and healing, not just what's popular and what's standard and what's mainstream, know what's popular and mainstream is usually not therapeutic and healing. They're usually just propaganda.

Just to recap. The first two secrets are: (1) We need to know who the top healers are and learn from them and stand on the shoulders of these giants and (2) the second secret was that you have to learn the foundations of holistic health and healing and also you have to be able to identify toxins especially the toxins that we face in this world today that most people don't even know are toxins. Then this third secret I'm telling you about now is Diet and Nutrition and Orthomolecular Nutrition. So, if you are interested in learning about these holistic health and healing methods and more which I'll be sharing with you in future lessons, I invite you to visit our website at Arukah.com and take your first steps to becoming a holistic healer and building a profitable online health coaching business.