To Cure All Disease, Eat Like a Viking

How about losing 5 kg (10 pounds), and at the same time bringing your blood pressure down drastically, and healing inflammation, type 2 diabetes, and arthritis?

Achieve all this in six months and while enjoying the delicious eating style of the Nordic Vikings!

This is exactly what 181 obese people did in a study from the University of Copenhagen. The research was followed up, and again and confirmed, in a Finnish study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

From around 800 AD to 1100 AD the Vikings ruled the northern hemisphere. Although in many ways they were barbarians, they were mostly free of the modern diseases with which we are faced.

One reason is that back then there were no chemicals in the food. So even if fresh foods were hard to come by in the winter time, they had to use measures other than freezers and preservatives to have supplies for the winter.

Fish was available fresh all year round, forming the basis of the Nordic diet. Whole grains such as spelt and rye were easy to store, in addition to root vegetables, berries, and nuts. Other vegetables were plentiful in the summer so we can add them to the diet.

The bottom line is that nothing was heavily processed or refrigerated. The same principles make the caveman, Adkins, Mediterranean, and any other healthy diet. Call it what you want, but all these diets share one common theme: elimination of preservatives and processing.

The original Danish study proved how healthy the Nordic diet is. It contributes to pretty much all levels of health, from weight loss to blood pressure, including inflammation diseases such as type 2 diabetes and arthritis.

But the Finnish study dug deeper and showed exactly why it’s so healthy. The Finnish researchers found that the diet manages several types of genes that cause inflammation. And since inflammation is one of the biggest health issues of the Western world, this is a biggie.

Chronic inflammation puts extreme stress on you since your own immune cells begin to attack other cells in your body. This causes plaque buildup in the arteries, joint pain (arthritis), and type 2 diabetes when inflammation attacks your pancreas and liver.

Maybe worst of all, it adds to the overall stress in your system, the single biggest cause of high blood pressure. You can have mental stress, emotional stress, sensory stress and now with inflammation, physical stress.

To tackle high blood pressure, you must lower the overall stress level (production of stress hormones). The easiest and most effective way to do this is by using a set of three easy exercises.

Learn more about the three blood pressure exercises and try them out for yourself here…

I highly recommend trying the Nordic diet if you suffer from any chronic diseases. To reverse them, you may, however, need a more solid, focused strategy.

Here are the strategies I recommend for:

Type 2 Diabetes

Arthritis

Blocked Arteries (cholesterol plaque buildup)

Weight Loss