The Six Tenets of Behavioral Health

Collin Cross; Ph.D. 6/5/2016

Why?

I finally got serious about studying the biochemistry of nutrition again, after reading Weston A. Prices work a few years ago.  Unfortunately, between the time when Dr. Price’s book first published in 1938 and today, the situation has gotten even more complex.  Because of the incontrovertible evidence detailed in his book, which showed the impact of his “fat soluble activators” and the introduction of commercial foods onto the natural human physiology and immune system, a primary question grew in my mind.  This question, which has occupied us, is whether or not a person whom had succumbed to such decades of commercial food supply induced degenerative metabolic disease, as I had, could “regenerate”?  Regenerate and become truly healthy again without medicine?  As it turns out, we have discovered that the answer is definitely yes, at least as long as there is time and the genome allows it.  Certainly for myself and my immediate family I can speak freely that we have observed this.  Based on our findings and observations, we see that it is possible for many others to experience just the same thing.  It is only a matter of education, discipline, approach, and time.  This is because all the nutrient gaps have to first be closed, and the individual must learn to eat nutrients from real foods balanced to the proper ranges.  Then secondly, the body must have time to use the new resources; time to affect tissue repair and remodeling, according to age and genetic limitations.

The banner graphic above shows how optimal health can be conceptualized as the balance between restorative and degenerative effects.  We call this model the “competitive rates theory of optimal health”.  The idea is to learn to eat foods that decrease cellular damage potential while also increasing cellular repair rate potential.  Also conversely, learning to not eat foods that increase cellular damage rates and thereby impose unnecessary cellular stress too frequently.  Some food types are very powerful and can affect both repair and damage rates simultaneously if one chooses to either adopt them into the diet or eliminate them.  The dietary tactics outlined here can help bring the body’s rate of potential rejuvenation into balance with, degenerative demand, available nutritional resources, and biochemical requirements.

What Happened?

For all of our family whom are on the protocol, after roughly 2 years of working and perfecting the approach and our understanding, we have all obtained dramatic gains in health without further use of medication.  We have all lost weight, gained energy and gained mobility.  For my mother and Pops, they are off of over 12 medications and are experiencing excellent quarterly labs under their doctor’s care, whom is very amazed, but whom we have battled each step of the way regarding both food choices and medications and their projected impacts.  The numbers and history support the success and efficacy of our approach however, not theirs, or their dogma.  We have seen and documented dramatic reversal of arthritis, psoriasis, diabetes, neuropathy, restless sleep, high blood pressure, bad lipid and cholesterol indicators, as well as migraine headaches, aches and pains, and much more, just as I have experienced.  As have many others.

Amazingly, before the protocol, following a “diabetic diet” or Low Carbohydrate High Fat diet, and while taking all the medications under our doctor’s care, our lab numbers were always borderline at best.  For me, especially triglycerides and blood pressure were challenged and always trying to rise, no matter how much exercise I did, or how low I kept my carbs or cut my sugar.  I now realize this was primarily due to nuts and beans at much too high a frequency (a few handfuls daily to weekly) and poor quality commercial foods with poor spectrum of nutrition.  These dietary protocol largely fail to focus on micronutrients and toxins and how to properly select for them in natural foods.

Now, following the protocol for 2 years, all my typical health metrics are normalized across the board, as are my parents, with no tendency to spring up, as long as we follow the tenets listed above.   Glucose and lipid panel numbers are now consistently centered in normal ranges and dramatically improved.  This is what we call “reversal”.  The reversal of the diabetic neuropathy in my mother’s feet is especially amazing.  This condition, and the others, had been degenerating continually for over a decade, to the point of having difficulty walking normally.  Now it is gone as if it never had occurred, along with many other ailments.

For me personally, I have no more observable symptoms of diabetes, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, immune dysfunction, gingivitis, or aches and pains which I had previously.  I can fluidly drop from standing to sitting cross legged on the floor, and back to standing position again with no use of the hands or arms, which can sit on top of my head.  Two years ago, even sitting in a meeting with my knees crossed led to pain and getting my shoes and socks on in the morning was not very graceful.  All along, there was no problem with my body, or its chemistry as I had become accustomed to thinking.  The problem was with the food all along, and my  increased sensitivity to it.  My last metric returning to “normal” has been my blood pressure.  It was 121/79 this morning with no medication in over 2 weeks.  It has been running pretty much this way for a few months now, and for the first time in over 20 years of fiddling with various dietary approaches!  We consider this another milestone.  This was always the trickiest of my biometrics to control by diet.  Now I can predict its gyrations accurately and control it to an arbitrary degree.  For many to achieve such results it just takes times to fill the nutrient stores, remodel the tissues with omega 3, flush out the omega 6, and complete many other internal processes that naturally seek to re-normalize, if given the opportunity.

The improvements we have had are numerous.  The weight we have lost has been gradual and natural.  The gains have been realized without counting any carbs or calories or anything else.  This is a true sign of the appetite falling back into regulatory control during the course of the protocol.  Honestly, if it wasn’t for ice cream, it would all be so much easier for my family.  Luckily, ice cream actually has a reasonable omega 6/3 ratio, much better than almonds.  This weekend we are making our own from grass fed raw cream obtained from local milk cows.  The pasture is green in south Texas now, at least if it is not underwater from all the flooding this spring and summer!  Our homemade ice-cream’s omega 6/3 ratio comes in near an estimated 2:1 or less, right in the healthy range and loaded with yellow creaminess, indicating the richness of the fat soluble activators.  We don’t add that much sugar, mostly, and don’t eat too much.  Sugar is bad, we have not even mentioned it yet.  We take for granted, probably wrongly, that most people realize this.  We personally have practiced sugar and carbohydrate control for over 15 years.  It provided us reasonable success on paper metrics when we were younger, but really did not solve any of our problems, and our health and quality of life began to decline more rapidly as we passed our late 40’s.  In fact, the misguided over emphasis on fat and carbohydrates (macro-nutrients) merely delayed us from finding the truth and degraded our quality of life and diet, all while also giving us false sense of accomplishment, a growing list of age related ailments, and many medical bills.

Since we have developed the tenets we describe, our overall health has improved dramatically in nearly every measurable category, at least up to age-allowed limits.  The second year has really been even more amazing than the first, as gains have been consolidated and extended.  For me particularly, this means no more high blood-sugar, poor lipid panels, chronic sinusitis, bad gums, prostate issues, varied inflammatory disorders of the immune system, chronic aches and pains, tiredness, anxiety, insomnia or excessive irritability.   These are to name a few of the big ones.  My skin health is also better than it has ever been.  Generally, there are just too many improvements in my health to even describe in any short format.  People I have not seen for years continue to be amazed at the physical changes.  People, I have known and worked with for years are starting to ask me discretely, “how old are you again?”.  Same with my wife, who came a bit later to the tenets.  This is the power of micronutrients like magnesium, MK4, and omega 6/3 re-balancing and tissue content re-normalization.

I also now clearly understand why the common Low Carbohydrate and High Fat / High Fiber (LCHF) and ketogenic diets we practiced for so long, in so many different forms, could never do more than slow, or stabilize our disease on paper.  Stabilize, but never reverse the true course.  Why our symptoms eventually spread to inflammatory and auto-immune disease and weakened our immune system over time and made us start to feel like we were getting tired and old all the time with pinpricks all over our fingertips.  Why our body had lost its ability to regulate its own physiology and repair/restore itself effectively.   I feel that it is not only interesting that our blood pressure has returned to normal with no medication, and ironically only after we began eating more animal fat and less seed fiber than ever before for nearly 2 years (from pastured animals only), but that the particular way our BP has returned to normal is the most interesting and telling part of all.

As an example, when my blood pressure first flirted with normal some time ago, I was able to begin lowering the dosage of the blood pressure medication I took, a common generic ACE inhibitor called “lisinopril”.  This was the last medication that I still took.  I lowered the dosage along with my declining need, as measured by my wrist cuff.  First, I cut the dose to 3/4 of a tablet, then 1/2, then finally after nearly 18 months of the tenets, down to 1/4 tablet.  That last 1/4 tablet was the most interesting.  Each time my blood pressure would approach normal for a period of time, and I would attempt to quit taking the last 1/4 tablet (5 mg), some poor set of food choices, usually involving a series of restaurants and/or travel, would then send it rapidly and erratically jumping back up for a week or more, requiring me to begin taking the 1/4 tablet again each day until I flushed my system.  However, each time this happened, I again tightened my diet with renewed probiotics as well as going both seed and process food free, for a sufficient time to bring my BP back to normal.

During these successive gyrations and over time, I observed that my blood pressure would stay down longer and longer each time without use of medication.  Not only that, but my BP has become more and more resistant to occasional poor food choices as time continues to progress, as have all of my other biometric indicators.  The fact that I see an increasing tolerance in blood pressure response to known problematic foods as I have continued the protocol is a good indication of actual regulatory and tissue based healing taking place over time.  I have evidence that all of my observable micronutrient storage reserves are full.  We see similar qualitative behavior across a wide range of individuals whom also practice the tenets.  It is highly likely that our fat is now yellow, like that of a grass fed cow, and our tissues are made with a high proportion of omega 3 content with low existing or incoming omega 6.  These are evidently some primary secrets for maximizing quality of life, along with cutting sugary foods.

So what?

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We see widespread evidence for those who begin using our products and following the six tenets, that many ailments in life are primarily food and lifestyle inflicted.  Our products and protocol help clients, whom are ready to make a change, to restore nutrient density and balance their diet to healthy levels.  This is why we named our products “Regenesis“, and have developed our dietary, and lifestyle based protocol around “The 6 Tenets of Behavioral Health”.

We initially developed our 6 tenet program in order to answer our question of whether or not hardening of the arteries, diabetes, osteopenia, high blood pressure, bad lipid metabolism, chronic sinusitis, tendinitis, and the beginnings of arthritis could be truly reversed.   Discovering the answer to our question was yes, then we used these concepts to rebuild our health and the quality of life for our family.  We have since watched the tenets go into more widespread practice across our client base and seen tremendous benefit.  From this perspective, the protocol has been more successful than we could ever have imagined.

People often think that they can adopt some parts of the protocol and not others.  While this may be partially true in some cases, it is the complex chemical interactions between all of the 6 tenets, acting together, that lead to re-activating dormant parts of the genome, to catalyze the emergence of the body’s true immune system and access to true health.  The following figure seeks to illustrate some of the complex inter-relationships and mutual support of the 6 tenets.  This shows why it is important to practice all 6 areas simultaneously.  The lines indicate positive feedback and mutual synergism.