Instincto and Organic food

Are organic products necessary for practicing Instincto? From a theoretical standpoint, they are inseparable, since the very principle of the approach consists of eliminating any alteration of food that could disrupt the body, before it has been analytically demonstrated. Therefore, the very definition of the method implies the exclusion of products altered by chemical or other treatments, such as irradiation, freezing, etc.

In practice, is the use of agrochemical products possible? What are the drawbacks?

• Little is known about the long-term health problems that pesticide residues can cause, particularly through their interactions, if they accumulate in the body.
• Agrochemical products do not have the same flavors, which reflects the simplicity of their structures at the level of complex molecules.
• Due to their lack of flavor, they do not provide the pleasure naturally associated with eating.
• Alliesthetic mechanisms fail to properly regulate nutritional balance, which has major effects on the body’s natural defenses.
• Organic dissatisfaction increases the attraction to processed foods and makes the practice much more difficult.

It is therefore possible, for lack of a better option, to practice instinct with commercially available foods, but the results will not be the same: nutritional imbalance, poorly controlled inflammation, and underlying dissatisfaction may undermine the daily practice. It is therefore better to plan for an organic supply and only resort to processed foods when traveling or during short periods when sourcing organic is technically impossible.

In terms of cost, conventionally grown foods are certainly slightly less expensive than organic foods, but their lack of flavor, poorer digestion, and physiological dissatisfaction lead to a tendency to consume larger quantities: ultimately, they can cost more, not to mention the health risks.

Organic products are becoming increasingly easy to find, even in supermarkets, and at increasingly reasonable prices. Labels guarantee their authenticity.

Buying organic is also crucial for environmental preservation. You will therefore be working for future generations by avoiding agrochemical products.

However, the principles of organic farming do not necessarily solve all the problems. In particular, they do not take into account the effects of cooking or drying at high temperatures. Yet, exposing food substrates to heat causes complex chemical reactions, producing a whole range of molecules that do not exist in natural nutritional cycles. Cooking food generates numerous unpredictable molecules (New Chemical Species) for which our bodies are not genetically designed. Some of these substances will not be broken down by our enzymes and can cause health problems, just like molecules produced by the chemical industry. Heat treatments make cooking the first large-scale chemical industry, and the consequences of these practices are still poorly understood.

Based on the precautionary principle, essential if we want to eliminate all the health problems attributable to culinary alterations, even if their mechanisms are not yet or ever will be fully understood, Instincto therefore recommends avoiding not only chemical additives and other practices condemned by organic farming, but also heat treatments that it has not yet banned.