Following are suggested guidelines for getting started with loving superfoods. Your intuition is always your best guide, so if you feel called to a particular superfood, start there! Get more information about each step by clicking links or simply scroll through this web page to read the full story. You can also download a printable version of this Quick Start Guide by joining our online community.

0. Remove Anti-Nutrients: Magnesium Stearate, Ascorbic Acid, Synthetics

• Avoid Mag. stearate by stopping use of gel caps: dump contents into food/water
• Don’t use synthetic Vitamin C or Vitamin B

1. Eat Superfoods

• Chocolate Bliss, Fiesta Mole, Chia Pudding, Goji Lemonade
• Activated nuts, Seaweeds, Goji berries, Golden Flax

2. Hydrate with Salt and Maintain PH with Greens

• Incorporate Sunfire Salt
• Vitamineral Greens for “neck-down” tissues, organs, fluids, muscles
• Blue-Green Algae for “neck-up” brain, eyes, neurology, good for assimilating Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s)

3. Incorporate Additional Superfoods for Enhanced Effects

• Hemp seeds for protein and EFA’s
• Cacao powder, butter, and nibs for new recipes and snacks
• Guarana and Yerba Matte for focus and bliss
• Maca and Bee pollen for hormone support and energy

4. Add Elements for Easy Digestion and Biological Integrity

• Add these elements for biological integrity:
• Vitamin B (non-synthetic)
• Vitamin C (non-synthetic)
• Vitamin E (Tocotrienols)
• MSM (works with Vitamin C to build tissue structure)
• (All elements except Vitamin B are already in Chocolate Bliss – add more to enhance their effect)
• Take 4 supplements at and between meals to ease your digestion:
• Digestive enzymes
• Salivarius
• Blue-green algae
• Vitamin C

5. Cleanse Your Body

• Optimize your sleep by clearing your lymph system with Vitalize
• When you are sure your elimination and lymph are working well, take these add-ons to remove parasitic biofilms and other toxins from your system:
  Allicidin (garlic), Oleuropein (olive leaf), Chem-free, Metal-free, and Protease, along with your Vitalize, Sunfire salt, Seaweed Energy and Vitamin C

6. Buy Superfoods In Bulk

7. Learn Even More Superfood, Raw Recipes

The Details Of Each Step
Excerpted from Radical Health's full text and full audio guides

0. Remove Anti-Nutrients: Magnesium Stearate, Ascorbic Acid, Synthetics

Nutrient deficiencies may actually be because of anti-nutrients that are blocking your uptake of nutrients and/or depriving oxygen from cells so that they aren't able to effectively process nutrients that do arrive at the cellular level.

• Avoid Mag. stearate by stopping use of gel caps: dump contents into food/water
  
  Magnesium stearate destroys T-Cells that are used for your immune system and blocks the uptake of nutrients in your digestive system. If you block the uptake of nutrients, you won't be getting the full benefit of eating superfoods (or any other nutrients).
  
  Magnesium stearate is often found in gel capsules, so it's best to dump the contents of those capsules into your food or water. Vegetable capsules are less likely to use mag. stearate, but will likely use hydrogenated palm oil which isn't good for your system anyway.
  
  If you are currently unresponsive to nutrients, have mental confusion, or auto-immune dis-eases, try removing magnesium stearate from your diet.
  
  Magnesium stearate will accumulate over time in your cells, but will usually unload within 2-3 days of non-use.
• Don’t use synthetic Vitamin C or Vitamin B
  
  Ascorbic acid is a synthetic vitamin C that blocks the uptake of real vitamin C at the cellular level and leaches copper from your cells effectively reducing or blocking cellular oxygen uptake and reducing cell efficiency. Instead, you can use Pure Radiance C from Synergy (which is also a component of Chocolate Bliss).
  
  B-12 is the physical substance DNA is synthesized from, so if you use an unnatural, synthetic vitamin B it may impact your DNA, biological integrity/health.
  
  Listen to David Favor's discussion of anti-nutrients

1. Eat Superfoods
Your primary signal for eating comes from nutrient deficits. When you eat superfoods that are nutrient dense, calorie-sparse, you are refilling your nutrient deficiencies and conserving energy that would otherwise be spent digesting foods with low nutrient values.

You may notice your cravings and habits changing as you eat superfoods as you lose your taste for lower-scale nutrient sources (the Standard American Diet - SAD).

• Chocolate Bliss, Fiesta Mole, Chia Pudding, Goji Lemonade
  The super easy way to eat superfoods is to use these basic recipes as staples in your diet. You can make a gallon of Chocolate Bliss once a week to blissfully initiate your superfood diet, supplemented with Fiesta Mole for a savory meal, Chia Pudding for a regulating dessert, and Goji Lemonade for a hydrating and refreshing drink.
  
  All the recipes are easy to create, reducing the time you spend in the kitchen and maximizing the time and energy you have for the rest of your life.
  
  See our online Recipes for further details on the contents of these superfood mixes.
  
  
• Activated nuts, Seaweeds, Goji berries, Golden Flax
  In addition to the superfood staple recipes, you may want to add some great raw superfood snacks.
  
  Activated nuts have been soaked in water for several hours in order to release the enzyme and protein inhibitors inherent in all nuts and seeds. If you eat a lot of nuts and seeds without activating them, the inhibitors may build up in your system causing dormancy in your digestive tract.
  
  Soak harder nuts, like almonds, overnight for about 8-10 hours. Rinse the nuts after they have soaked and store them in the refrigerator. If you have a dehydrator, you may also enjoy lightly salting the nuts with SunFire Salt and dehydrating them until they are crunchy again. (We especially like doing this with pistachio meats). See our Recipes for details.
  
  Listen to David Favor's discussion of activated nuts
  
  Dulse and Nori seaweeds are favorite snacks for something salty.  Eat Nori and Dulse seaweed greens specifically for adrenal/thyroid/parathyroid health.  These three glands are the Holy Trinity of Energy and work together to manage energy metabolism in our bodies.
• Adrenals run on high quality salt.
• Thyroid runs on high quality salt, iodine and emerald green pigments found in Nori, Kelp & Wakame.
• Parathyroid runs on high quality salt, iodine and purple pigments found in Dulse seaweed.

Goji Berries, sometimes also called wolfberries, are another highly nutrient superfood. In addition to blending them into your Goji Lemonade, you can snack on them alone or in a trail mix with your activated nuts and cacao nibs.  Goji Berries seem to boost HGH (Human Growth Hormone) production and regenerate the HGH release pathway. HGH has been called the Fountain of Youth as HGH is a primary contributor to our youth. This applies to our internal experience and externally in quality of skin, hair, nails and eyes.

Golden Flax Seeds are a great addition to smoothies and you can dehydrate them to make your own yummy, healthy cracker snacks. Like hemp seeds they are high in fiber, protein and essential fatty acids and are great for cleaning out your digestive tract. See our Recipes for details on how to make flax crackers.

2. Hydrate with Salt and Maintain PH with Greens

There's a huge difference between how much water we drink and how much water arrives at our cells.  The quantity and quality of the salt and water you consume determines how well hydrated you are.  You can have hydration issues if you consume too much salt, too little salt, or bad quality salt.

Your digestive tract runs on salt.  The strength of your peristalsis, the squeezing action of your digestive tract, is determined by salt and magnesium.  The water and fiber you consume determines how fast things move through.  The Sun Fire Salt is really good for the salt and magnesium your body requires.

How much salt should you consume? Only your taste buds can tell you the correct amount of salt for you.  When you are consuming good quality salt, your body is better able to use that salt and signal to your taste buds how much more to consume.

To rebalance your hydration (and your alkalinity), you might consider doing a salt flush.  Salt flushes give most people rapid, full elimination within 15-30 minutes. If no flush occurs, this may indicate a person is extremely salt deficient. In this case, I'd personally drink another quart of water and skip a day before my next salt flush. If no flushing occurs in a few days, some people increase up to 2 Tablespoons or more of Sun Fire Salt.  Following are detailed instructions for completing a salt flush.

Maintaining PH with Greens:
Balanced hydration and an Alkaline pH go hand in hand.  PH tracks the quality of minerals in your diet, so an easy way to manage PH is to eat high-quality green superfoods like Vitamineral Green and Blue Green Algae.

A strong acid PH is usually due to putrefied, fermenting, rancid foods in your digestive track.  This could be due to cooked foods and meats, lack of enzymes and types of food combining.
When you consume greens to balance your PH, consider two kinds of support you can receive from greens.

1. Neck-Down Greens (like Vitamineral Green) support soft-tissues, organs, cartilage, synovial fluid between joints, and muscles.
   
2. Neck-Up Greens (like Blue-Green Algae) support brain, eyes, sensory organs, and neurology.

Blue Green Algae is also very helpful in assimilating Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s). The darker the green product, the more alkaline the minerals are and the more you will balance your PH and hydration.

Green Smoothies are a great way to get the required alkalizing greens into your diet.  And blending whole greens is better for alkalinity since the silicone and calcium are in the fiber.  It’s nice to make a green soup rather than a juice.  If you prefer it smooth, then strain out some of the fiber.  You can also add in Fiesta Mole to disguise the fiber and use Vitamineral Green for superfood greens in a powdered form.

For more information listen to David Favor's discussion on ph

3. Incorporate Additional Superfoods for Enhanced Effects

In addition to the staple superfoods listed in step 1, add even more superfoods based on the specific healthy effects you desire.

Hemp Seeds add a nice nutty / cheesy taste to salads, crackers, soups and anything else you can think to put them on. They are high in fiber, protein, and essential fatty acids.  Hemp milk is another favorite recipe that is very filling and satisfying.

Cacao Nibs are the seeds of the cacao fruit and are what all chocolate is made from. If you like dark chocolate, you will love cacao nibs - and these are actually good for you because they are raw, organic, pristine and free of milk or oils.

Cacao powder is the base of Chocolate Bliss and can be used in other recipes like bliss kisses and other desserts.  Cacao butter is the fat that has been extracted from cacao powder and is really good for your skin.  Rub it directly on your skin and eat it in your bliss kisses (makes them taste like decadent truffles).

Guarana and Yerba Matte are high-powered adaptogens, meaning they support us whether going up in activity in morning or resting more in evening.  Adaptogens transform into stimulants when they are heated or if they are improperly fermented or harvested outside of their ideal window.  

Guarana and yerba matte are extremely rich hormone and neuro-transmitter precursor material.  They will often cause you to perk up immediately and sit more upright.  From our experience, guarana gives more focus and yerba matte gives more bliss, so when they are combined it’s very easy for you to have a balanced energy that can quickly be relaxed into a blissful state based on your attention.

It’s not known if guarana and yerba matte are good for pregnant/nursing women, so it maybe good to skip these “higher octane” adaptogens if this is your situation.

Maca is a powerful hormone precursor.  It is especially good when combined with bee pollen (another hormone precursor and richest source of metabolic enzymes).  It helps women keep their hormones balanced and is good for men’s hormone levels too.  To build a hormone your body needs to have: hormone precursors, Vitamin C, and metabolic enzymes.  This is why Chocolate Bliss can help with mood shift challenges since may be due to problem in development of hormones. 

Maca is a Peruvian root that provides plenty of energy and increases libido. Research has shown that 1 teaspoon a day of maca has caused over 80% increase in fertility for men and women.
Maca has only a 2-3 week window when it can be cultivated at its nutritional peak. It starts as a green starch, then becomes a sugar, then becomes a mature starch.  If harvested during the peak window, it will be highly nutritional and tastes like an ambrosia with a good aroma.

Bee Pollen works well as a hormone precursor and rich source of over 5,000 enzymes.  Only 2,000 of these enzymes have been analyzed and the other 3,000 are still unstudied.  Some hypothesize that the other 3,000 may be turning on dormant DNA.

4. Add Elements for Easy Digestion and Biological Integrity

Adding specific elements can help you enhance and maintain the integrity of your biological blueprint.  The following elements are particularly helpful.  All of these elements, except the Vitamin B complex, are contained in the Chocolate Bliss so drinking Chocolate Bliss every day is automatically maintaining your biological integrity.

B Vitamins (non-synthetic) create structural organization of your body.  B Complex vitamins ensures the blueprint of your body is good.

If you have been diagnosed with a B12 deficiency it may be because B12 is sensitive to blockage.  Look for and remove ascorbates and excipients in your food as they may block B12.
Often deficiencies may just be from blocked nutrients or lack of oxygen in cells so once the blockage is removed your cells can do something with the nutrients once they get there.

Vitamin C (non-synthetic) is good for the preservation of structure created by B Vitamins.  It is an anti-oxidant and acts like a laminate for the cell structure.

The vitamin C in Chocolate Bliss is Pure Radiance C from the Synergy company.  Its primary ingredient is camu-camu , a small red berry from the Amazon that is rich in vitamin C.  It also contains acerola and amla berries where the acerola and camu-camu are wrapped in antioch root (yucca) so the berries are micro-encapsulated thus preserving the vitamin C.  David Favor had this Pure Radiance Vitamin C sitting in open air for 3 years with very little degradation.

Vitamin E in the form of Tocotrienols is also good for the preservation of structure created by B Vitamins.  Tocotrienols are created from enzymatically digestible rice bran.

MSM works with Vitamin C to build collagen structure and tissue structure.  It’s best to choose MSM that is excipient free since excipients block nutrient uptake.  If your MSM looks like shards of glass, it’s free of excipients.  If it is round beads, it is not good for you.  If your MSM has a solvent nature it will carry nutrients directly to tissues.

Ease your digestion by increasing your digestive fire. Digestive fire relates to how fast and completely a person is able to reduce complex foods into component nutrients and transfer those nutrient components across the intestinal track wall.

Digestive Fire can be greatly increased by using excipient free, plant based Digestive Enzymes which reduce complex food into simpler component nutrients. The enzyme potential of foods reduces, degrades, and oxidizes as soon as it is picked.  Therefore use digestive enzymes regularly, no matter what you are eating (raw or cooked).

When you eat raw food regularly it’s best to add in high grade salt and digestive enzymes to make up for what’s missing in raw foods (most often missing due to soil content and harvesting).  Also, when you have eaten the Standard American Diet (SAD) most of your life, you have been using your body’s enzyme reserves.  Taking digestive enzymes reduces your use of your reserves as well as aiding digestion.

For more about Digestive Enzymes and a method for determining the quality of your enzyme formula, read our blog post: All About Digestive Enzymes

Enzymes do the heavy lifting of breaking down foods into nutrient components. Probiotics then transport nutrients across the intestinal track into the fluids.  Probiotics are primarily intestinal wall implanted, aerobic (oxygen breathing), friendly flora (bacteria) which further reduce food components and facilitate their transfer across the intestinal tract walls into our blood streams. 

Salivarius is a superb probiotic because of its large amount of colony material.  Salivarius capsules have 9 Billion units of cultures per capsule.  Other probiotics have about 1-3 million colonies.  Salivarius also tends to multiply about 3 times faster in the intestinal tract than acidophilus / bifidus.  Salivarius will displace anaerobic or nitrogen breathing microbes (things that shouldn’t be in your intestinal tract).  If I had a preference, it would be to use Salivarius with a smaller quantity of Acidophilus and Bifidus.

Also, Salivarius is the only probiotic good for working on scalp health.  If you have chronic dandruff take 5-10 capsules of Salivarius over several days.

Prebiotics, such as Raw Cacao Powder, Raw Vanilla Agave Nectar and Blue Green Algae, create an environment where Probiotics multiply and implant into our intestinal tract walls as rapidly as possible.  Preliminary research shows an implantation gain of 600% when 1 part blue-green algae is taken with 10 parts Salivarius.  The blue-green algae prebiotic intensifies the ability of the salivarius probiotic to implant.

Vitamin C is also integral to the probiotic life cycle, so it’s important to take Vitamin C at the same time as the enzymes, prebiotic and probiotic.

To ease your digestion, try taking 1 of each of these 4 products (enzymes, Salivarius, Blue-Green Algae & Vitamin C) with each meal and between each meal for 30 days.  Your digestive fire will reach an optimal plateau and you may notice easier digestion and higher attention.  As long as you continue to have a strong effect from these 4 supplements, keep doing it.  Then when you reach a plateau, switch off to just taking these supplements with meals or a couple of times a day.

For more information listen to David Favor's discussion on your biological blueprint

5. Cleanse Your Body

We suggest you start cleansing your body with a Liver Cleanse.  The liver is like a filter for your body, so cleansing yourself of toxins, like metals and chemicals, can put an extra load on your liver.  For more detailed information about the easy liver cleanse, visit our blog posting here: Results of Liver Cleanse Blog Post

Next in your cleanse process is to clean out your lymph system, which will also optimize your sleep.

If you have chronic insomnia, a big factor is likely a clogged or stagnant lymph system.  Lymphatic channels pass fluid in one direction and the valves on this lymph system are like a reverse valve such that they open inward against the flow of the lymph.  If these valves close, they can get locked shut with toxins building up a glue against the valve, preventing it from opening.  At this point it won’t matter how much exercise you do to induce movement in your lymph system, you still won’t get fluid through the shut valves.  Then your adrenal glands will kick in to keep you moving in an attempt to flush out the lymph, however the stuck valves still won’t open.  This constant signal from the adrenal gland for exercise to clean out the lymph can induce intense adrenal exhaustion such that you are hyperactive until you pass out for a little while, then wake up and repeat the hyperactivity. 

The solution is to use the Vitalize herbal product that targets breaking down the mucoid glue that holds sediment in the lymph valves.  Often when you use Vitalize for first time, you might pass out for a long sleep, catching up on deferred sleep. Here’s how David Favor suggests using the Vitalize to enhance sleep and cleanse the lymph:

My preference for using Vitalize is to start with six capsules 2-3 hours before bed with 16+ ounces of water. This will fully hydrate the herbs and allow sufficient time for you to expel your water before you sleep.

It's extremely important to do this before bed, as driving or other activities may become hazardous if a person becomes drowsy.

Then after the initial deep 'sleep response' dissipates, usually 3-4 days, I'd finish the bottle at three capsules before bed.

Then I'd keep another bottle handy for any nights I felt sleep might be long in coming.

If I felt stimulated, rather than relaxed, I'd switch over to using Vitalize in the morning until the stimulated feeling passed. This happens rarely and is usually an indicator of chemicals/metals purging from the lymphatic system. If this stimulation response occurred and I was desiring to sleep, I'd take three caps of Vitamin C, two caps of Chem-Free and two caps of Metal Free. Many times this combo will neutralize free floating chemicals/metals, especially mercury, which usually brings a body back to relaxation.

The quality of sleep you get every night is important to your health and your cleansing.  Sleep is when we regenerate ourselves, our tissues, and when we integrate new skills and ideas we are learning.  Here are further tips for enhancing and enjoying deep, continuous sleep:

1. Create a quiet sleeping area by removing all sensory input such as sounds, lights and electrical fields.
   
   
2. Clear your lymphatic system which can be optimized with Vitalize. Lymph Fluid is pumped by movement and can only pump when lymphatic passages are clear. Vitalize dissolves the 'glue' which holds together lymphatic sediment in cases of lymphatic passage blockage which is referred to as 'stagnant lymph'.
   
   
3. Keep your lymphatic system moving through all forms of exercise, including walking.
   
   
4. Increase the tryptophan in your diet to optimum levels.  Tryptophan can be found in nuts, seeds and is especially high in edamame beans. Many dairy and turkey cravings relate to tryptophan deficiency.  For most, shelled, organic, non-GMO, edamame beans are usually best.  If Tryptophan deficiency is occurring, a simple test of eating a few handfuls of edamame beans will indicate if your body is craving them and induce a sleep response.
   
   
5. Improve your hormone balance which is usually easily done by way of eating Chocolate Bliss, Tocotrienols, Goji Berries, Bee Pollen, Hemp Seeds, Maca and Vanilla (in Vanilla Agave Nectar).

For more information listen to David Favor's discussion on sleep

When you are sure your liver, digestive tract, elimination and lymph are working well, you can take steps to remove parasitic biofilms, chemicals and metals from your system.

Parasites, chemicals and metals usually travel together as the parasites and nano-bacteria will tend to attract chemicals and metals to build biofilms and thus hide from your immune system inside the biofilm.  Many times biofilms show up in mammogram screens. Many people prefer dissolving biofilms from the inside using raw superfoods, rather than having breast tissue removed surgically.

Previous steps in this guide do the heavy lifting of flushing large, intestinal parasites through dilation – opening up the fluid passages and improving flow throughout your body.  This dilation will make it easy to expel biofilms since your “body pipes” are bigger and not as easy to stick to.  The dilators you have been using are things that warm you up:  raw chocolate, cayenne, cumin, tomato, and camu-camu.  Increasing your intake of Fiesta Mole will enhance your dilation.

The biofilms you will be cleaning out are calcium phosphate compartments which surround parasites, protecting them from your immune system. Biofilm based parasites are neither recognized nor affected in any way by your immune system. Many times these biofilms have chemical/metal accumulations and fibroid tissue integrated into their structure.

The intent here is to mobilize and rapidly eliminate all these materials together. This is extremely important as our bodies are very intelligent about partitioning chemicals and metals so they affect us as little as possible. If chemicals and metals are mobilized in a downscale system, with 'stagnant lymph' and slow elimination, these substances can spread through a body becoming lodged in lymphatic passages (stagnant lymph) or reabsorbed (slow elimination). When this happens symptoms can range from mild discomfort to organ damage or worse.

You're best served to start the cleansing of these biofilms when you're experiencing the following:

• Your skin is wrinkle free, indicating correct hydration to your most external cells.
• Your pH swings primarily around 7 pH during your day.
• Your sleep is deep and continuous.
• Your energy is at peak all day, every day.
• Your eye color becomes light.

To cleanse the biofilms, continue to use the previous steps in this guide as you add the following components.  To ensure your comfort, start with one capsule a day of each item for a week, then increase the dosage to that listed on the individual bottles.

1. Allicidin (Garlic) is a very pure, strong garlic that will dissolve biofilms.
2. Oleuropein (Olive Leaf, pronounced All-u-rope-peen) is a natural, wide-spectrum booster of anti-biotic, anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal activity.
3. Chem-Free is a powerful chemical chelator.  It will attach to the toxic chemicals in your body and aid in their elimination.
4. Metal-Free is a powerful metal chelator.  It will attach to the toxic metals in your body and aid in their elimination.
5. Protease is an industrial strength, protein digesting, enzyme which tends to break down pathogen cell walls so our immune system can more easily recognize and destroy them.  This will break down membranes of biofilms and structures where they connect to the body.

Also continue to use the following components to support your detoxification process:

• Vitalize to keep your lymphatic passages free flowing.
• Sun Fire Salt & Seaweed Energy supports peak adrenal, thyroid & parathyroid function.
• Pure Radiance Vitamin C is another powerful metal chelator, especially with the camu-camu berry that leeches mercury.  It is also a dilator which helps the detoxification process. 

To determine if you are clear of biofilms, chemicals and metals, look into your eyes with a flashlight at an angle.  You are clear when you don’t see bright colors in your eyes anymore (blue, red, green, yellow, brown) – anything that looks out of place.  These could be rings, splotches or clouds.  When your eyes are clear, your cleanse is complete.

For more information listen to David Favor's discussion on cleansing

6. Buy Superfoods In Bulk

Once you have tasted the delicious Superfoods and discovered how densely nutritious and easy they are to prepare, you can light-heartedly commit to buying your superfoods in bulk quantities at lower costs. 

Loving Superfoods offers many of our staple superfoods in larger sizes at a discount. See the order page for the list of available bulk items.

7. Learn Even More Superfood, Raw Recipes

As you enjoy your superfood journey you may begin to crave new flavors.  Raw food recipes can easily be upgraded with superfoods to create even more nutritious and yummy delights.

Our free list of favorite raw food recipes can be found online here: www.lovingsuperfoods.com/recipes.html

To further enhance your raw food uncooking skills, we highly recommend Yemiah’s DVD’s of Raw Food Delights with 12 hours of easy-to-follow demonstration of awesome recipes, including Thai, Mexican, Italian, desserts, breads and quick meals.  Enjoy your raw, superfood journey!