“Somebody told me to not make associations to the food this way… They said, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t say that. It’s like a negative thing.’ But a lot of the food we eat is like a drug. We’re eating drugs.” – Micheal Perrine
When more than 70% of Americans’ diets are made up of processed foods, how will we ever be able to learn how to eat how we were intended?
When what we call food isn’t food at all, aren’t the odds of us ever being healthy hopelessly stacked against us?
You asked:
“Why is it so hard to instinctively know how or what to eat?”
Watch my conversation with Mike, and let us know your thoughts in the comments. Your feedback is like candy to us! Nom nom nom…
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ABOUT MIKE: Michael Perrine is a detoxification consultant, certified colon hydro therapist, certified holistic health counselor and the co-founder of Gravity East Village, a cleansing and detoxification consulting office in New York City. Over the last twelve years, Michael has performed over 16,000 colonic irrigations and supervised thousands of people through various methods of internal cleansing including fasting, colon cleansing and liver flushing. Michael has also studied natural food preparation, nutritional science and diet philosophy at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Food & Health and The Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
Michael is also an instructor at the Natural Gourmet Institute and a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. Prior to working as a health counselor he worked for eight years as a natural foods chef at Angelica Kitchen in New York City. His desserts and food have been featured in Time Out New York, Vegetarian Times, The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen, and The Angelica Home Kitchen. He is a regular contributor to top fitness and lifestyle blog Bexlife.com. Most recently, Michael created the Karada Detox program (Japan).
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