Our Guest Jordan Rubin
Sid: My guest is red hot for the Messiah because he should be dead. He’s a Jewish believer and he prayed for wisdom; he prayed for healing. He had one of the worst cases of Crones disease; I mean I saw the before and after pictures it looks like he was in a concentration camp. As a result of his search in which he went to 70 different health practitioners in 7 different countries. He tried between 3 and 500 different type of nutritional supplements and massive amounts of natural health remedies. He found himself bound in a wheelchair; he found himself stop socializing with friends. He lived literally in a cloud of depression and wanted to commit suicide and then he met a man who said “Why don’t you just follow what God says.” He started reading the Bible figuring out what God… because there’s such a mixture out there of so many different things and he started reading the Bible and he found out that the Maker God has a diet for us and if we’ll follow that we don’t have to put up with all of these dread diseases. I have him on the phone; Dr. Jordan Rubin I’m speaking to him at his office at West Palm Beach, Florida. In your opinion why are we having such problems with cancer and heart disease and Alzheimer’s… I mean it’s epidemic now.
Jordan: Well, I believe the reason is that we have broken and departed from the way that we should be taking care of the body. And that starts with God’s word the Bible follows His people through history and is now proved by science. I think health, especially nutrition boils down to two things. Get good things, good nutrients into yourself and get waste products out of your body. It’s very simple you need to get the good in and get the bad out. We have that completely mixed up and I believe that there is not one reason why we have cancer, heart disease, diabetes at epidemic proportion; it’s the combination of living a wrong lifestyle. A lifestyle built on convenience and taste and really what is completely unhealthy and that’s why we are suffering from disease. But it’s more than that. What about the people that aren’t sick that consider themselves well? But the definition of well is health is the absence of disease; I don’t believe that. I don’t believe that we should just survive we should thrive; and that’s what “The Maker’s Diet” is about.
Sid: Okay, I want you to give me an example of what someone on the makers diet would eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Jordan: Well, I’ll give you an example off of the top of my head of what I consider Phrase 3 because “The Maker’s Diet” is in 3 phrases. Each one is a little bit easier, the first phase of two weeks can be pretty difficult it’s a departure from what people are used to. Second phase gets a little easier and the Third phase which I consider the lifestyle program is what I’ll share with you right now. For example, someone may have 2 or 3 eggs in the morning, cooked in olive oil or butter. I recommend eggs that are from healthy chickens; so you look for free-range organic high Omega 3. We have lots of recipes from french toast to pancakes to waffles. But again we’re going to use whole grain flour that is what God created in a form He created it in. We’ll use butter or honey on top of it; some fruit on the side. Maybe some cottage cheese preferably from organic milk. That could be a breakfast and of course it’s a big breakfast.
Sid: That’s sounds pretty delicious to me I could go for that.
Jordan: I’m actually hungry right now.
Sid: (Laughing)
Jordan: For lunch it’s a there’s a variety of salads we recommend, there’s a great number of soups. I’m a big fan of making soup for…
Sid: Let me interrupt you; as I stated earlier I east most of my meals out. I go to a restaurant or a fast food place; but I’m smart enough to know to order a salad. Now all of the dressings for the salads in these places they have these little containers that you tear open. They’re all prepared and they have about 5 or 6 different kind. Are those bad for you?
Jordan: The majority of the oils we consume especially in fast food restaurants are not healthy. However, most fast food restaurants and I say most not all off some type of oil and vinegar dressing. A lot of them partner with large food companies, Newman’s Own; you’re safer doing an oil and vinegar a balsamic vinaigrette type of a dressing verses say a ranch or a Thousand Island. Well, here is a clue if you got a 100 ingredients in a dressing you have ingredients that have both letters and numbers in them you’re probably consuming something unhealthy. So again it’s about choices; fast food restaurants are not conducive to health.
Sid: Now if you’re eating out you want lunch; or you work in an office like I am you don’t want to take a lot of time not the name of the restaurant but where would you go?
Jordan: Well, I would either go to a mid-range or a nicer restaurant and where I live there is 3 places. One of them is kind of a fine dining restaurant but during the day it has a buffet and they have healthy fish, beef, chicken, they’ve got green salad bar that I can consume. They got soups and another place is a little health cafe where you can get sandwich.
Sid: What is healthy fish by the way?
Jordan: Fish that have fins and scales.
Sid: That sounds Bible again.
Jordan: Well, you know you just keep coming back to that book we can’t escape it.
Sid: Well, what fish are in that category, name a few.
Jordan: Well, the healthiest fish are those that come from the oceans and streams. We’re talking about tuna, mackerel, herring, sardines are great. We’re talking about cod, sea bass, orange roughy, I mean there are dozens if not hundreds of different fish that are healthy. And those that are unhealthy and take it from me they’re all over the place because I live in Florida; shellfish, like crabs, lobster, shrimps, scallops. mussels, oysters…
Sid: Why are they unhealthy? Now the Bible says not to eat it but why are they unhealthy?
Jordan: Physiologically these particular shellfish are designed for a reason and they’re designed to purify the waste on our planet. For example one scallop can purify 36 gallons of water.
Sid: So there’s the oceans garbage cans.
Jordan: They are and when Noah was commanded to bring animals into the ark he took one pair of unclean animals and seven pairs of clean. If Moses got off that ark and started eating the unclean animals they would have been extinct because there was only 1 pair. But God created them for a reason and that includes pigs, bears, raccoons, skunks. That includes owls, eagles and ostriches; all these animals purify the environment but they do not belong in our bodies because they’re flesh creates toxins that their bodies weren’t created to remove. Remember I said nutrition is two things, in with the good out with the bad. God said the animals not to eat in Leviticus 11, Deuteronomy 14; do not properly detoxify wastes from their bodies. So when you eat their flesh you’re eating waste; it’s like garbage.
Sid: Okay, now most people are eating the wrong things; they have various degrees of constipation let’s say, and if that be true the bad stuff is being stored inside of them. What does that do to their body?
Jordan: Well, first of all when you consume toxins they’re most generally stored in the fat because a lot of these toxins are fat soluble and they don’t get removed. So what happens is year after year of eating this lifestyle living in a polluted environment, thinking negative thoughts, all of these are connected. They begin to overload their bodies natural ability to resist disease. And what happens is all of us were born with genetic strength and weakness; my weakness was digestion. I didn’t know that, but my living a lifestyle that was unhealthy that’s where it attacked me. Yours might be your lungs, Janie’s might be her skin. Some of us might be our heart. When you don’t eat and live properly according to God’s design what happens is you’re weakness become naked and exposed and you will present some type of health challenge. You know people think well, I’m healthy; my tonsils were removed, I had my gallbladder removed, I had my appendix removed, those three organs are all very important to health. And it seems like everybody is cutting everything out and trying to live a life that they think is healthy but we’re really crippled but we’re destroying ourselves one piece at a time.
Sid: How do most of the people feel that are following “The Maker’s Diet?” Really and truly because most people I know push themselves to feel energetic.
Jordan: People who follow “The Maker’s Diet” and we know this because he have chronicled hundreds of people that we have taken through the program. What Janie said earlier in the program “She has more energy.” She has lost some weight and she sleeps better. And that is what everybody says virtually who goes on the program. Those are 3 things; you know that’s not getting well from incurable disease but it makes a huge difference for someone who is a working mother, has a family to take care of. Who has a husband who’s an executive or a pastor. These people need to be healthy, they have demanding lives; they need to be healthy; they need to give it their all. And when someone goes on the program that’s just the average person listening that wants better health you’re going to notice normalization of weight. Some people are underweight and have illnesses that gain weight. Normalization of weight, they’re going to have energy and their going to sleep better. Plus many people have improved digestion, less joint pain, better mood and there are the occasional miracle stories much like mine that are really heartwarming. And people will say “Well, I’m better from this and I’m better from that.” This program is not a miracle cure by any stretch but what it is it gives us a way to properly take care of our bodies so that we perform optimally. Much like when we buy our cars there’s a manual that tells us what kind of gasoline to use, what kind of oil, when to change it; when to keep it covered and waxed. The better you do with your automobile the better the performance and longer life you’re going to get. Our bodies are the same way but just a little more valuable than what we’re driving around in.
Janie: You know Jordan when I read your book again people are eating a lot of the right foods but in the wrong form. For instance you said things about pasteurization that I had not known with milk. What harmful effects has that had on peoples’ bodies?
Jordan: Well, Janie when I grew up my father is a natural health professional and so I had always heard that milk was bad. So if you look at a lot of the popular nutrition books and the health authority they say “Milks bad, milks bad so I always thought that but when I was reading the Bible it says goats milk for you and your family.”
Sid: Look, Israel’s going to be the land of milk and honey.
Jordan: Absolutely, and so that must be a spiritual thing. So you know what the milk that we drink from the grocery store that is pasteurized, homogenized, skimmed, fortified and stored in plastic underneath in fluorescent lighting is not anything nearly the same as the milk that comes out of a goat or a cow in unpasteurized healthy form. And raw milk that’s very healing to the body is actually illegal in 49 states you have to order…
Sid: Jordan I’m sorry we’re out of time.
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