De-Cult Natural Health (Part 2) With Guest Dagmar Stansova!

Conventional medicine is failing louder than ever — and when people are scared, sick, and searching for answers, natural health cults rush in to fill the void.

In Episode 10 of Beth of Fresh Air, With Guest Dagmar Stansova joining again, we continue dismantling the cult dynamics embedded in modern natural health culture by walking through a wide range of popular diets — highlighting where they do have merit, why they ultimately fail, and how they quietly hijack people’s health, intuition, and autonomy.

This episode isn’t about attacking individuals. It’s about exposing rigid belief systems, nutritional absolutism, and identity-based eating that keep people stuck while promising salvation.

What We Cover in This Episode

We examine the good intentions, blind spots, and cult mechanics behind the following diets and protocols:

Body Ecology Diet (Donna Gates) – anti-candida, fermented foods, food combining
Fit for Life Diet (Harvey & Marilyn Diamond) – fruit-based mornings, “live” foods
The Zone Diet (Barry Sears) – macro ratios & omega-3 focus
Blood Type Diet (Peter D’Adamo) – lectin avoidance based on ancestry
Genefit Nutrition – blindfolded raw eating guided by smell
Raw Primal Diet (Aajonus Vonderplanitz) – raw animal foods & detox ideology
80/10/10 Diet (Douglas Graham) – high-carb raw vegan tissue breakdown
Hippocrates Institute Diet (Ann Wigmore / Brian Clement) – raw vegan & wheatgrass
Fruitarianism
Macrobiotic Diet (Michio Kushi) – yin/yang balance & seasonal eating
Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) – legal/illegal foods for gut conditions
Low Glycemic Index Diet
Anti-Parasite Diet – herbs, antimicrobials & fear-based protocols
Superfoods Diet (David Wolfe) – exotic supplements & nutritional mysticism
Green Smoothie Revolution (Victoria Boutenko) – gut damage via oxalates & carotenoids
Healer’s Protocol (Darko Velcek) – plasma water & raw animal focus
Urine Therapy (Ayurvedic offshoots)
Epi-Paleo Diet (Jack Kruse) – seafood-heavy biohacking origins
The Plant Paradox (Dr. Gundry) – lectin fear framework
High-Fat Carnivore (Paul Saladino)
Muscle Meat & Water Carnivore (Dr. Chaffee)
Low Oxalate Diet (Sally Norton) – hidden vitamin toxicity tradeoffs
Low Histamine Diet
Stick of Butter a Day Diet – cortisol myths & hormone claims
Raw Milk Cure
Anti-Inflammatory Diet
Low Deuterium Diet – mitochondrial theory & ketogenic overlap

Core Themes Explored

Why suppression masquerades as healing
How detox narratives keep people trapped in cycles of breakdown
The difference between practical nutrition and ideological diets
How cult thinking sneaks into “natural” spaces just as easily as pharmaceutical ones

This episode is for anyone who’s tried everything, followed all the rules, and still feels worse — or is quietly afraid to stop.

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