I am one of those people who, when someone starts to talk about diets, healthy eating, and vitamins and supplements, my brain switches off, eyes glaze over, and I mentally check out, thinking about chasing down politicians, galloping at them on a mottled horse, on the grasslands of Argentina or the steppes of Mongolia, either with a lever action Winchester, or a medieval lance.
Now, if you are similarly inclined, you may want to read this post and check out the short, easy to follow, and filler-free booklet I produced at the end of this post.
But so you know it’s not just some grift shoved together to make a quick buck, below, I give you the context behind how I came up with it and why.
Of course, if you don’t care about that, just scroll to the bottom and order the book by the pallet load. I created it to be genuinely healthy, easy to use and as practical and useful as possible in a compact yet more complete way than I have seen in books ten times the size, but I am not averse to making any money from it if people find it useful.
How it works, what’s in it, and what it does
I think of it similarly to my also short book BELIEVE! That has now had well over a 100 people convert to proper Catholicism (Sedevacantist). The reason it had that effect is because it was written without filler, without apology, and truthfully, from a perspective most people can relate to because it’s based in reality, not some theoretical, dry, theological perspective. It’s certainly not like any book on theology you ever read.
And similarly, this is unlike any health book you ever read, and it covers a lot more than most:
- fasting and why it is beneficial (with protocols to follow), including supplements to take daily.
- Healthy eating, with day to day foods you can eat at breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with any supplements.
- Exercise routines week by week for the stages of refeeding (for longer fasts you need to restart eating carefully); building up muscle and fitness over a period of weeks, and a routine for long-term maintenance.
- 8 recipes for making your own fermented foods that will help rebalance and fix your gut biome.
And all in 48 pages, and leaving you some 24 pages blank for notes and recording your targets, results and so on.
The point is for you to be able to read this and hit the ground running, whether you want to fast or not, just eat healthier, or exercise properly. Or any combination of the three. No filler, no nonsense, just the facts.
Why and How I came to do this
In about 2014, quite suddenly, I noticed that I suddenly had some weird symptoms that I never had before. Excess bloating, my tongue felt weird and developed spots, and I just felt more run-down than I ever had. Doctor I went to didn’t figure any of it out, and It seemed things did not improve. Then in 2016 I moved to Venice for a year and a random acquaintance on facebook told me it sounded like I had excess Candida. So I did a Candida clearing protocol, 3 day fast and strict ketogenic diet for about 3 months. I literally only ate bresaola, octopus, occasional fish and meat only stew and once a month a tub of plain yoghurt. i deopped to my peak fighting weight and was very fit and healthy.
Then in 2017 I moved back to London, my now wife moved in as girlfriend then fiancée, and finally wife in 2018, and over the last 9 years we moved home twice and changed country, and had four children from 2019 to 2025. The time and pressure of fixing up the house in Italy, keep the farm in some semblance of order and doing writing meant my diet and lifestyle took a big dive, and at 56 you don’t recover as you do at 26 or even 36.
For the last year or so we have all been in less than ideal health, and in 2021 I had a bad bout of Covid then in 2022 two bouts of pneumonia that nearly killed me and getting back to a fit state has been a hard long road. Over the last year and a half I have build a mini-gym in the forest, and am having a special static resistance training frame built just for me and the wife, and I decided to take control of my health.
As a result, I did a bunch of research once and for all, and realised part of the reason why I glaze over when people talk about this “health stuff” is because it’s so generic, doesn’t cover the things I KNOW about what works and does not work and is paradoxically also over-specific in weird little ways that are not adequate for me or maybe anyone other than the person talking.
In researching this stuff, I wanted to design a protocol that got rid of Candida as much as possible and kept it gone, that reduced visceral fat, and got me back to a fit state, able to perform the kind of activities I always did, martial arts, swimming, and spinning (static bike work to maintain my knees. After years of karate and hiking with heavy bags I am one of the few people that has not had a knee operation, and God willing, I’ll keep it that way.)
That protocol will work for most people that don’t have some fairly serious underlying medical concerns, and possibly (followed by proper medical advice) may even cure or alleviate such issues. Given that Candida excess is essentially now a fairly global issue, especially in the West where it is almost impossible to eat food that is not processed and has loads of sugar in it, I felt many more people than just me could benefit from it.
So, after I figured out my own 14 day fast protocol in autistic detail, and did the fast, I also realised the wiggle room available for it and that it was essentially the same kind of protocol that would work for most more or less healthy adults. It seemed a shame to keep it to myself, so the booklet was born out of my wish to share the health, absent all the personal anecdotes, wishy-washy filler to fill an entire book with 99% irrelevant minutiae, making the book practically unusable for anyone serious, unless they took notes and essentially created their own version of the booklet I just built. And who has time for that?
So, you got all the anecdotes here on this blog post, all the filler and the booklet is clean, direct, and even has space for any changes or adjustments you may want to include for your specific regimen.
One small request: If you buy it and find it useful, whether on Amazon or my site, in either case, PLEASE leave a review.
Here it is, now available in physical paper format on:
- Amazon.com in America
- Amazon.co.uk in the UK
- Amazon.de in Germany
- Amazon.ca in Canada
- Amazon.it in Italy
And all the other Amazons around the world too.
If you want a cheaper digital only copy as a PDF you can print yourself or read on a screen, you can get it at my personal book store here: The Easy Spartan Guide to Health
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
