What is Instinctotherapy?

Other names:

instinctive self-therapy

instinctotherapy

instinctonutrition

anopsology

It begins with a question: Does our daily diet correspond to the genetic data of the human organism?

And its corollary:

What is the real effect of culinary art on our health?

These are fundamental questions, the implications of which are immeasurable from a medical, gastronomic, agricultural, ecological, societal, philosophical, and economic perspective.

Strangely, neither nutritional science nor medicine, nor any researcher, has seriously examined the subject. Cooks, too, are more inclined to focus on their pots and pans…

For more details, see the page: Has human genetics adapted to culinary art?

What does this have to do with a “dietary instinct” in humans?

The very purpose of culinary art is to improve the flavors of natural foods. Therefore, to make us want to consume them by making them appealing to the palate, even if they are repulsive in their raw state. Now, if a dietary instinct exists, it must necessarily manifest itself through attractions or repulsions.

It is therefore obvious that culinary art interferes with a possible dietary instinct. The challenge, then, is to observe whether such an instinct exists, and how it manifests itself outside of culinary artifice.

More details on the dietary instinct on the page: A dietary instinct in humans?

Why does this question implicate gastronomy?

For three reasons.

Instinctive nutrition provides a significantly greater amount of pleasure than traditional diets because it aligns with the genetic makeup of the sense organs and the entire organism. It also avoids pathologies directly or indirectly linked to foods altered by various culinary preparations.

Why does it implicate medicine?

For four reasons.

The question should rather be: why doesn’t medicine question culinary art, given that the human genome is, a priori, adapted to natural foods?

Why does it also concern ecology?

For multiple reasons.

Instinctonutrition prioritizes organically grown products. It limits the consumption of grains and animal products, the main causes of intensive agriculture and factory farming. It promotes fruit trees, resulting in significant CO2 capture, firewood production, and improved water regulation.

It therefore helps preserve the environment by preventing pollution, climate change, soil erosion, damage to biodiversity, and energy waste.

Why has it provoked such a backlash from the media, government agencies, and the courts?

You will find the answers on the pages titled “The Media and Instinctotherapy”, “Cult or Not a Cult?”, and “Instinctotherapy and the Justice System” at the end of the website.

If you prefer clear and distinct definitions:

Instinctotherapy:

refers to the nutritional theory, dietary practice, and therapeutic method based on the hypothesis of an incomplete adaptation of the human genome to the transformations in diet since the end of the Paleolithic era.

Anopsology:

More specifically concerns the body of theoretical developments based on this hypothesis and on empirical observation, in accordance with nutritional and medical sciences.

Instinctonutrition

Reserved for the dietary practice that advocates the use of natural foods free from any culinary or other processing likely to alter their biochemical or organoleptic properties (odor, flavor, texture, etc.), further excluding foods too far removed from the natural human diet, such as grains and animal milk.

Instinctotherapy:

In the strict sense refers to the therapeutic method that utilizes “dietary instinct,” that is, the alliesthetic mechanisms (smell, taste, disgust, texture, fullness) capable of ensuring nutritional balance and optimal bodily function through contact with raw foods.

Note that in France, Instinctotherapy as a means of combating illness can only be recommended and guided by a physician holding the qualifications required by French law.

For a summary of the theory and its various developments, see “Theory in Brief”.

For a more detailed approach to the dietary instinct: “Essay on the Food Instinct in Humans and Definition of Instinct Therapy”.