When the “Healthiest Diet” Makes You Sick: Mucus, Natural Hygiene, and Species-Appropriate Eating with Mariah Manazza

What if the diet you believe is healing your body is actually holding it hostage?
 In this episode, we sit down with Mariah Manazza — once a full-on homesteader living the traditional diet dream — as she reveals how raw milk, pasture-raised meats, and ancestral traditions weren’t enough. In fact, they nearly broke her. Migraines, depression, numbness, leg pain, cysts — all symptoms she was told she’d have for life. Until she asked herself: “What am I really designed to eat?”

Through 12 years of self-experimentation, Mariah discovered the under-told story of mucus-forming foods, the power of instinct over conventional nutrition, the radical simplicity of natural hygiene, and the terrain-centric truth that restored her to full symptom-free living.

We dive into:

• Why some “gold-standard” ancestral foods might suppress healing instead of supporting it
• The overlooked role of mucus in disrupting the terrain and masking underlying disease
• How fruit, fasting, and a return to nature’s laws became Mariah’s doorway to health
• The nine pillars of natural hygiene she applies in everyday living
• Why instinct and internal feedback often trump labs, protocols, and popular dogmas

Whether you’re committed to the traditional diet movement, curious about natural hygiene, or simply seeking a broader perspective on healing — this conversation will invite you to question, reflect, and evolve.

Join us as we explore what “nutrition” means, uncover the common threads across opposing approaches, and discover how going less might actually mean living more.

Learn more about Mariah and her work at https://www.applediaries.com/. Follow her on social at https://www.facebook.com/mariahealthyself/, https://www.instagram.com/mariahealthyself7, and https://www.youtube.com/@Mariahealthyself.

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Music by Chris Merenda