Here at aussiesuperfoods we offer the basis of a whole new approach to health, wellness, vitality, longevity and ageing slowly. We call it PhytoMedicine 3.0
Our Australian superfoods and the products we scientifically formulate as the basis of PhytoMedicine 3.0, are based on the food resources of the World’s longest living culture, the Indigenous Australians or First Nation Peoples. In effect, their foods have survived 65,000 years of human trials and still remain as staple foods today for those who can get ‘out on Country’ and forage, hunt and fish.
Most of the wild foods can accurately be called functional foods. Even eating game meats results in a shorter and lower spike in inflammatory markers in our blood compared to an equal portion of meat from a domesticated animal.
They are the nutritional force behind the paleoethnopathology research that revealed extremely rare incidences (no evidence found) of ischaemic heart disease, metabolic syndrome conditions including gout, osteoporosis, mental diseases and more. This was from multiple studies, the 1st dating back to 1908 and then further work in the 1960s. More recently, circa 2014 to 2023 the data collection morphed into work on specific active components in selected foods and anecdotal findings with whole food mixtures prepared as nutritional top up formulations.
Our philosophy at aussiesuperfoods is that whole foods are always better than isolated food fragments which typically come with unwanted effects or react with other medications taken at the same time. Even extracts from otherwise healthy ingredients can have negative effects when taken as supplements and most synthetic forms of natural compounds are not worth their cost.
Does this look like healthy whole food to you?
Most of the wild foods can accurately be called functional foods. Even eating game meats results in a shorter and lower spike in inflammatory markers in our blood compared to an equal portion of meat from a domesticated animal.
They are the nutritional force behind the paleoethnopathology research that revealed extremely rare incidences (no evidence found) of ischaemic heart disease, metabolic syndrome conditions including gout, osteoporosis, mental diseases and more. This was from multiple studies, the 1st dating back to 1908 and then further work in the 1960s. More recently, circa 2014 to 2023 the data collection morphed into work on specific active components in selected foods and anecdotal findings with whole food mixtures prepared as nutritional top up formulations.
Our philosophy at aussiesuperfoods is that whole foods are always better than isolated food fragments which typically come with unwanted effects or react with other medications taken at the same time. Even extracts from otherwise healthy ingredients can have negative effects when taken as supplements and most synthetic forms of natural compounds are not worth their cost.
Does this look like healthy whole food to you?
Wild foods do not have these negative effects and more importantly, as part of a healthy diet, they tend to heal conditions, not just treat a few symptoms. Perhaps this was the thinking behind Hippocrates and his meme; let food be your medicine.
Hippocrates was a healer, not a drug dealer.
A surprising statistic is that 80% of the world's current population still rely on natural medicines, mostly from plant (phyto) parts which are used in traditional ways through time immemorial.
In contrast, in the Western developed countries, the reliance is more of cocktails of chemicals, so much so that there's even a term for it - polypharmacy.
The longest of any of the world's cultures goes back 65,000 years and still endures today and it is the traditions of Indigenous Australians. In the 1770s there were 600 language groups or clans of people each living sustainably within their traditional 'Country' borders and all 600 groups were distributed across the whole of the continent.
This website is the only place on the Internet that recognizes that we are at a cross-road of a merger between those of us in the economically-developed world and those in the ecologically-sympathetic world.
Modern Ills and Ancient Ways
There is no doubt that the falling quality of our foods, whether they are ultra-processed or ultra-selected, factory made or factory farmed fruits and vegetables, herbs and spices or domestic meats - they are inferior to wild food equivalents.
And dramatically so.
Here's how we are breeding the nutrition out of our modern foods.
And a few references if you need the scientific data;
Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition
An Alarming Decline in the Nutritional Quality of Foods
Another benefit from the wild food enhanced range that we offer is the complexity of the products. There is no such thing as a single superfood (nor any pharmaceutical for that matter) that fixes a specific condition. No vitamin, no single mineral nor any specific compound. We rely on the myriad of components in a wide range of foods each meal to boost the action of the 100 trillion micro-organisms in our gut along with feeding our own 37 trillion cells and the mitochondria in all our cells except skin and blood cells. Synergism is key and this is the strategy behind the science which led to each of our complex, functional, whole food products.