Food is supposed to give you energy…
If you eat food and a few minutes later you are tired in dire need of a nap, then that’s a sign that the food you eat isn’t giving you the nutrients you need to get energy…
What produces energy in your body is probiotics… probiotics store energy in the form of ATP in their mitochondria…
I learned about energy production when I was learning how to brew beer… this book Froth!: The Science of Beer by Mark Denny describes energy production as what happens when cells break up sugars…
Energy that is released by breaking up the sugars is moved to the cells’ powerhouse – the mitochondria – as the chemical ATP.
Froth!: The Science of Beer by Mark Denny, page 93
An easier translation is to say that when probiotics eat, they produce energy…
Probiotics (yeast and bacteria) are cells… and that’s key to understand because it’s important to know that if you want energy, then you have to feed the cells of your body…
What are the nutrients that feed probiotics and give you energy?
- CoEnzyme Q10
- Magnesium
- Selenium
- Zinc
- Manganese
- Iron
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin K
- Calcium
- Choline
- Folate
- Riboflavin
The reason I specify that you produce energy when you feed probiotics (good cells) is because one way you can lose energy is by feeding bad cells…
In fact, if you eat and get sleepy after eating, then chances are that you are feeding bad cells instead of good cells…
How do you know if you are feeding bad cells?
It’s easy… food that gives you energy is food that helps you grow good cells… food that doesn’t give you energy, is food you must avoid because that’s the food that allows bad cells to grow to begin with…
The way to differentiate food that gives you energy VS food that doesn’t give you energy is by asking, does it have nutrients?
The book New Brewing Lager Beer by Gregory J Noonan says this about lack of nutrients…
When brewing beer, we know that if a ferment lacks nutrients, then the chances of growing wild yeast and getting a spoiled batch of beer go up…
What spoils a batch of beer are same wild yeast and bad bacteria that we don’t want in our bodies… wild yeast like yeast candida, albicans, etc.
If you want more energy, you need nutrients…
Not all foods have nutrients…
When you eat food without nutrients you increase the chances of bad bacteria colonizing in your gut…
Healthy food is food that has the nutrients needed to nourish the probiotics in your gut…
When most people think of “healthy food” they almost immediately think of fruits and vegetables…
… but not all fruits and veggies have nutrients…
For fruits and veggies to have nutrients they need to be grown in soil that has nutrients… that’s why organic fruits and vegetables are better than conventional fruits and vegetables… but just because a fruit or vegetable is organic, it doesn’t mean it’s good necessarily… organic is just a step up from conventional… for fruits and veggies to be good, they have to be grown using regenerative farming or biodynamic farming practices… and even better if they are grown from heirloom seeds, but that’s more advanced and we’ll learn about it later…
This is basically what you are learning yourself as you go through the Beer Diet Project journey… you are following the same practices used in regenerative farming…
You are paying attention to the quality of water, minerals, pH, temperature and probiotics in your gut just like they do for the soil in which they grow food…
By understanding that you need nutrients to grow healthy probiotics in your gut, you are beginning to tell apart real food from fake food…
Although it may be possible to get all the nutrients you need through the combination of different fruits and veggies there is a much easier way to get all of the nutrients you need…
The 2 most nutrient rich foods that have all of the nutrients you need are
#1 Grass fed beef organs (primarily liver)(use code “Hip Hip” to get 10% off)
The only caveat is that blue green algae doesn’t have CoEnzyme Q10, so if you are on a plant based diet doing blue green algae only, you have to add coenzyme q10 to get the full spectrum of nutrients you need…
One last thing… just because you eat food it doesn’t mean you will automatically get energy… food needs to be digested and absorbed… proper digestion depends on the type of gut bacteria you have currently living in your gut…
If you have gas, bloating, constipation or other digestive issues, then you need to address those issues…
Ideally, you should be able to consume both grass fed beef organs and blue green algae…
This is where things get messy…
I understand diet and nutrition, but I don’t know you or your digestive system… all I know is that to get energy, you need to be hydrated, have good vitamin D levels and nourish… how you go about it in a way that works for you is up to you to figure out…
I’m simply sharing with you the understanding that you need nutrients in your diet and where to get them from…
I say this because everyone has an excuse to not eat what they should and I’m not here to convince anyone to do anything… but I acknowledge your struggle… the question is are you open to finding a solution?
The excuses I hear are either because they can’t digest food (which I understand because I couldn’t either and that’s why I started my journey to begin with)… or because some people have beliefs or food preferences like “I’m vegan and don’t eat animal products” or “I’m a meat and potatoes kinda person and I don’t like veggies so I won’t do blue green algae”…
Truth is… (assuming you are already healthy) that you can be on a nose to tail carnivore diet and get nutrients from grass fed beef organs only and be fine… just like you can be raw vegan and get nutrients from blue green algae only assuming you are already healthy… how long can you go on a strict nose to tail carnivore or vegan diet only is up to you to figure out… I’ve explored that myself and have found I do better with a combination because to me, food is a tool and health is a skill…
Beef organs and blue green algae don’t work the same… if you have gut issues, then the choice of food shouldn’t be based on what you like or believe, but rather what you need…
That being said, the choice is ultimately yours…
For this step of the program, the goal is to get nutrients… pick one that works for you… either grass fed beef liver or blue green algae + coenzyme q10… either choice will address any nutrient deficiency…
This is the energy jumpstart challenge because this completes everything you need to feed and grow probiotics…
You have learned to hydrate your cells…
You have learned to charge the cells with vitamin D…
… and now you have all of the nutrients needed to feed the cells… coenzyme q10 is like the switch that powers on the cells…
So if you’ve hydrated and raised your vitamin D levels, then you should feel an energy jumpstart by giving nutrients to your cells…
This completes the basics when it comes to what to eat… on the next lesson you are going to learn how to upgrade your fuel… this may give you a good boost of energy, but we’re barely getting started so get ready for a ton of energy!
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12 replies to "Foods That Give You Energy"
When you eat food without nutrients you are more likely to grow bad bacteria in your gut…
Yes Jorge, I would love to watch the video about what foods are good and which ones are bad. Can you please post the link? Thanks! I know real food should give you energy rather than processed foods, but I eat real organic foods grown in soil all the time, but it still isn’t giving me energy. 🙁
Here’s the video on Fake Food VS Real Food…
OMG!!! Yesssss!!!! Ok so..
BLUEPRINT PLEASE!
FAKE FOOD PLEASE!
Lol- LOVE the rant😂🤣
I’ve done ALL THE THINGS- BIG RESEARCHER HERE!! 20-24 he fasting daily healthy keto with large amounts greens spiraling cleanses … none work.. including 72 hour water fasting raw vegan probiotics ozone therapy water therapy.. but listening to you I think it’s not they didn’t work I think they were not in right order! Some making things worse because out of order! I MUST CLEAN UP THE FILTERS CORRECTLY!
So Question- if vivid dreams can you still be low in Vit D?
BEING A HEALER who is TOTALLY OBSESSED WITH THE BODY & energy, I’ve ALWAYSSS SAID the body can heal itself it just needs the right things.. I’ve just not been able to figure out “the right things” … Eeeeiii I’m so so so excited to start this new journey. I really think u have found such an important key factor of healing on top of a way to share it aka beer brewing . 🥰🎉I’m ready to OPTIMIZE 🎉🎉🎉
Everything ordered and I’ve been chugging my water 💧
*sorry my phone changes so many words.. I think you get the point though😳🤦♀️
just sent you an email!
Yes! The order on how you go about this is important… I’ve made so many mistakes over my 10 year journey and this is the refined process I wish I would’ve known when I started…
It’s possible, but unlikely to have vivid dreams with low vitamin D… vivid is a bit subjective. You may have dreams, but what’s the quality of them? The only thing you have to compare with is when you start to see an improvement then you realize how bad your sleep was before. The other improvement with dreams is that when you detox, your dreams tend to be nicer dreams as opposed to more nightmare-like… so that will be a good question for me to ask you once you’re further on the journey and see an improvement on sleep to let us know what the difference feels like 🙂
Thanks. Not all foods have nutrients, and if we don’t have the right nutrients, the good yeast will cease to grow which will impact digestion of food.
Blueprint
Sorry, I guess it’s called “blueprint”. May I please get a copy? thanks!
This video was made before I put together [Energy Bootcamp]… this was the Energy Blueprint we were using and now you’re going through the expanded version 🙂
Fake food = no nutrients plus bad gut health.
I am not a fan of liver. So I’m going to got the chlorophyll route!
I love that you said, “ food is a tool and health is a skill”!!! I have a white board where I write down scriptures and quotes that help me stay focused. I’m going to add this one !
Oops. Meant to type “blue green algae “!
Intermittent fasting is really great, it does require a lifestyle shift and creating new habits. It gets easier over time for sure.
Towards the end, you talked about how the body heals itself if you give it what it needs by creating the right environment. It makes me think about how the right food is medicine. Antibiotics as treatment always made things worse in my experiences… (crazy bad skin reactions for me). I wish I had this information earlier but I’m happy it’s not too late for us all to learn.