Montecito Wellness, LLC
Illness Prevention Research
1482 East Valley Road, Suite 808
Santa Barbara, CA 93108
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You
have no aches or pains, no lingering injuries or chronic diseases. You have
loads of energy, a cheery disposition, and an endless reserve of mental acuity
and emotional stability. Your weight is optimal and consistent. You never get
sick.
To achieve this ideal state of
physical, mental, and emotional well-being, you take no medications. You eat
whatever you want. Maybe you even drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, sleep too
little, work too much in a stressful environment surrounded by toxic materials,
and you don't get any exercise. Yet you still feel great. And you live to be
106. You can't understand why other people are constantly struggling to lose 20
pounds, coughing and sniffling, and complaining about their lower backs.
Through extraordinary luck in the
random lottery of genetic mutation, you have acquired the evolutionary makeup
that perfectly matches modern society's environment. You are the survivor of
today's environment; you are an evolutionary winner.
You should not waste your time on
this website. You have more fun things to do.
The rest of us, though, are in a
vastly different circumstance. Over the course of the past 100,000 generations
since the evolution of our species, we evolved eating a certain type of diet,
living in a certain type of environment, ingesting and processing certain types
of toxins, and fighting off certain types of illnesses.
Those of us whose evolutionary
lineage survived through these 100,000 generations are those whose ancestors had
best adapted to that environment; those who had not adapted died off, and their
genetic lineage ended.
After 99,600 of those 100,000
generations of adaptation, we got too cocky. We took liberties. (Perhaps
because our evolutionary success had led to larger brains, and more complex
thought, including hubris.) We replaced almost everything we once ate with
something new; we changed the chemical composition of the air we breathe; we
started brushing our teeth and consuming antibiotics and washing our hair,
injecting ourselves with mercury and surrounding ourselves with
flame-retardants. We domesticated and milked animals and we farmed; we processed grains
and caught fish. After a few thousand years worth of such advances - or rather
experiments, or mistakes - we had created a totally different environment,
replacing the one to which we'd adapted with one that's foreign. With one that's
toxic..
We did this all very quickly, from
an evolutionary standpoint. Evolution is slow. Our species has not had remotely
enough time to adapt to the new environment that we created. And so our bodies
spend most of their energy fighting off the toxins that we are biologically
unequipped to repel: not only the well-known poisons such as alcohol and carbon
monoxide but also modern conveniences like factory-baked bread and bottled
water, plus such clandestine bodily invasions as amalgam tooth fillings, root
canals, and electromagnetic fields. These are not what our bodies evolved to
handle.
And so we weigh more than we should,
or, occasionally, less than we should. We are tired and irritable, or
constantly getting over a cold. We contract auto-immune diseases. We are
susceptible to bacterial infections and viruses. We develop cancer and have
heart attacks. And our medical professions - these immense industries - are
dedicated to fighting a vast array of illnesses (or merely the many symptoms of
our varied illnesses). We are a sick species, and medicine is not making us
better; in fact, it's making us worse.
The book The Wellness Project: A RocketÆs Scientist's Blueprint for Health is a radically different way of looking at
our health, by a radically different type of health author: a rocket scientist.
The author, a NASA spacecraft
designer, inventor, lawyer, entrepreneur, and holistic health practitioner,
embarked on a twenty year research project to determine how the human body
could remain healthy for the longest possible time. You do not need a
background in science to understand The
Wellness Project because it is based on common sense, backed by more than
350 references. The diet section of the book does not resemble any diet in
print, and yet is backed by the largest "clinical study" in human
history. Read about the one diet that works for all human beings and is nature's
solution to an omnivore's dilemma. Find
out why eating three kinds of soil components can be important to maintain your
health, and how certain types of emotional detoxification can speed up the
removal of physical toxins from our body. This book also includes sections on
lifestyle and our environment, proving that staying healthy is not rocket
science!
the
need is urgent: medicine doesn’t work, but nature does.
Let’s face it: the conventional
health community has a woefully disappointing record of accomplishment. Can we
really not prevent cancer? Really?
And perhaps just as importantly: Can we really trust the health community to
devote itself to our well-being—to our wellest
being—when their business depends on the contrary? The very term “healthcare” is the product of spin
doctors. What healthcare? We don’t have healthcare, we have illness
maintenance, based on symptom suppression.
But, you say, don’t we live longer? Longevity is no longer a measure of health,
but a tribute to being kept alive in a prolonged state of unwellness. How many people do you know who are not take drugs to control symptoms of pain,
allergies, digestive disorders, high blood pressure, respiratory distress, cholesterol
issues, depression, anxiety, hormonal disruptions, elevated blood sugar, and…
and… and. That doesn’t even include the
biggies of cancer and heart disease.
On the other hand, the fields that do have impressive track records in
producing positive results are the space program and the consumer-electronics
industry—my fields of expertise. It
was a mere seven years from John Kennedy’s promise to send a man to the moon
until that giant step for mankind was actually taken; it was a scant two
decades from the Betamax videotape recorder to WiFi streaming video.
Holistic practitioners. Herbal
supplements. Raw food. Detoxification cleanses. Americans are exploring every
corner of the health, nutrition, and fitness worlds, now that we’ve realized
that the medical community and agribusiness are not predicated on our best
interests as human beings; after all, illness is good—in fact, it’s
essential—for business. And now that our bodies have alerted us via exploding
rates of autism and food allergies, of mutating and untreatable bacteria, and
of other horrifying health developments. So we’re embracing alternatives to
traditional approaches at ever increasing rates.
The number of books on the market in
health, nutrition, fitness, and related topics is huge, and the majority are
devoted to weight-loss programs based on diet and exercise. Many are written by health professionals citing
dozens of “success stories,” but in the end none of them work, as clearly
evidenced by the never-ending supply of “new” diet and fitness books. My approach is to duplicate the wellness
program supported by the largest field trials in the history of our species:
99,000 generations involving millions of people. The success rate is self-evident. Without success, none of us would be here
today! I did not design this program,
Nature did; I merely uncovered it through twenty years of research, supported
by hundreds of scientific references. My
solution to the healthcare crisis is to opt out of it by maintaining my health,
using Nature as my guide. That is the
essence of The Wellness Project.
the
premise is compelling.
It took 2.5 million years for Homo erectus to walk upright all the way
from Africa to the frozen-food section of the
American supermarket. For 2.49 million of those years, he lived in a relatively
unchanged environment, eating a consistent diet. His body, his brain, his being adapted to that environment and
that diet. Paleopathologists have shown
that contrary to the myths we grew up with, at that time (400 generations ago) he
was healthier than we are today
. He was on average taller than us and had
stronger bones and perfect teeth; his short lifespan was unrelated to disease,
caused mostly by predators and accidents.
And then he went ahead and changed
the whole world, as well as everything he put into his body. Today, his body no
longer recognizes his world and his food as advantageous; he has surrounded
himself—and filled himself—with toxins. His body treats these toxins exactly as
he should: as poisons, thus taxing his defense system in a never-ending state
of war against his intakes. So instead of subduing and preventing illness, his
defense system is overwhelmed by the permanent war against toxins.
Participating in The Wellness Project may be a major
weapon in that war. You might want to
consider joining others in following a program designed by Nature to restore
and maintain health.
Books
Short biography of the founder, Roy Mankovitz
Publications and Patent list for Roy Mankovitz
