Here's one more little gem from Susun Weed's lecture on optimum nutrition.
This one involves what happens at the very end of the digestive process - integrating the useful molecules from our food into our body cells. As Susun describes it, each cell in our body creates a receptor site for the exact nutrient it needs. Since we've been eating wild foods for much longer in our evolution than cultivated or processed foods, the wild foods fit these receptor sites just right.
Susun describes cultivated foods as duplicate keys for the receptor sites. For the most part they work just fine, though sometimes the fit is just not quite right.
Hybridized food and food grown with chemical fertilizers she describes as triplicate keys. Keys made from already duplicated keys. We all know the problems that cand occur with triplicate keys. Sometimes they don't fit the lock at all. Sometimes they go in, but won't turn. And then, there's that worse case scenario, when they get stuck in the lock. This is the scenario that Susun links with the beginning of an allergy to a certain food. When molecules are stuck in the lock, the body simply rejects that food altogether, creating an unpleasant reaction so you won't consider eating that any more.
The wild food keys, on the other hand, fit so well and work so perfectly that our cells "fall in love with them." If some cultivated or hybridized food comes along with wild food it might even be able to slip into a receptor site on the heels of the wild food.
Susun suggests eating a little bit of wild food every day, preferably first thing in the morning, just to get things off to a good start with our cells. Think about that blissful feeling of falling in love. If eating some chickweed or dandelion greens first thing in the morning can create a similar feeling for our cells it does seem like a worthwhile practice!
