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08.00	Warm-up Meditation
09.00	1st "Juice Meal"
10.00	Colonic & Relaxation
11.00	Personal time
12.00	Yoga & Relaxation
13.00	2nd "Juice Meal"
13.30	Nutritious Talk
15.00	Personal time
16.00	Personal time
17.00	3rd "Juice Meal"
18.00	Colonic & relaxation
19.00	Personal time
20.00	Movie
21.00	4th "Juice Meal"
*Meals include fresh, organic juice, spring water, digestive enzymes, Psyllium husks

The best part of the retreat is that I’ve learned so much, and it will make changing my food lifestyle a whole lot easier.

Lydia G. – London ~ March’13

Fascinating ! I learnt a huge amount about food and diet, and all the right things to be eating. With all the information I was given. I now know what to eat to stop my tummy complaints, and to keep myself looking trim and lean.

Jo H. – London ~ Nov’12

I've studied nutrition personally for over twelve years... so when I heard we were going to have a two hour nutritional talk, I thought my level of knowledge might be greater than the speakers.

However Dao's level of knowledge was amazing, and the way he presented it was fantastic.

Laura W. - Plymouth ~ Jan'12

Evolutionary Nutrition

Unexpectedly, these talks are often the highlight of the week.

Each day you have a two-hour opportunity to stretch your intellectual capacity, be astounded by the order and complexity of your body, and understand just why so many of the foods we currently consume are working against us is in a very obvious biological way..

Much greater detail for each of these subjects can be found on Dao's own website, including many published articles.

The Journey of Unlearning

To look at nutrition, first we must look at ourselves, our culture, the pressures, the current reasons we eat. And to strip all of that away, to see the biology behind food, we must first look at the human animal, rather than the human being.

Evolutionary Predispositions

Much of our understanding of human health is drawn from what we know of human illnesses. Tissues and nutrients come to our attention because they are left wanting in our current population.

To truly understand human nutrition, it is most useful to start right at the beginning to see what we can learn from the pre-human condition.

Evolutionary Biology

When looking at human diet, it is useful to consider the latest 100,000 years, (the prairie ape concept) but that is best held within the context of the 120m year period before it (the great apes).

Understanding our gut in this context shows us everything we need to know about food, diet, and modern culinary traditions.

See article on the digestive system

We are Bacterial Beings

One microbe’s wastes are another’s food, and we are a result of an evolved set of synergised loops. A community of microbial teams working together for the good of us all. We feed them, they feed us

See article on the importance of digestive bacteria

Effects of Cooking Foods

We cook food for many reasons, but no one can really remember them nowadays. So today the question remains; does it still benefit us?

Heat destroys compounds, making a few are made more available, but most are made less accessible. The additional enzymes are required to digest generate heat, allowing us to understand possible connections to Ayurveda & TCM.

Culturally there have been advantages - from empire-building to emotion-squashing, through the use of grains and their fermentative bi-products.

But if they are so important, why does no other animal eat them. And why does no other problem with the fibre in its diet, that we use grains for

Effects of Combining Foods

Of all the animals, we are the only ones that do not mono-eat meals, and the greater the difference between combined foods, the greater the digestive distress.