Hey Everyone!

I’ve got a new health update for you guys today.

I made some minor changes to my diet, which produced dramatic results.

I’m a bit bashful and embarrassed to even bring this up—how did I not know? Go easy on me, lol…

As many of you know, I ended up with Osteoporosis. Obviously, I want to do everything in my power to fix this. I was pretty much eating only one meal a day and drinking carrot juice throughout the day, along with a citrus juice drink.

I was making sure to get well over 1300 mg of calcium, which is the daily value. Now, the embarrassing part…

What I didn’t know is that your body can only absorb so much calcium at one time. Since I was eating the full 1300mg of calcium in just one meal, I exceeded the capacity of the intestinal calcium transport mechanisms. Once those transporters become saturated, absorption efficiency drops sharply, and the excess calcium simply moves through the gut instead of being taken up into circulation.

The idiocy, the stupidity, and here I am sharing this with the entire world right now!

I’m always on AI, asking questions—even about my own health—and when this was revealed to me, my heart dropped into my stomach.

I think drinking the carrot juice during this time saved me due to the additional nutrient intake, but I definitely don’t believe it was enough for my severe osteoporosis.

I'll go into great detail about my dietary changes in just a moment, but before I made these dietary changes, I started walking 5 miles every morning. I go around a small loop where I head up a hill, repeating it 7 times until I break the 5-mile mark. That’s 7 hills! lol.

I left absolute paradise and found myself back in the sunny state of Florida—which I do love. Since I needed to be here, I decided to make the best of it and committed to a daily 5-mile hike, a regimen that ended up taking my health to the next level in a huge way.

If you watch my videos from September and earlier, you’ll notice I had a limp from the Osteoporosis, being bedridden, and spending time in those nasty hospital beds. On these 5-mile walks, I focused on my really bad hip—the one with the worst osteoporosis. As I walked daily and climbed those hills, I consciously tried not to favor my other leg.

I pretty much cured that limp here in Florida just by doing this. I’m so strong now, it’s crazy. Then my family got sick, I caught it, and I actually ended up in the ER for a night. I was out of breath, my energy was dropping, and I didn’t know why. My hemoglobin levels fell—not enough to require a transfusion at first—but after they took so much blood in the hospital, it dropped to the point where a blood transfusion became necessary.

They knocked out my cold with ongoing IV electrolyte fluids for over 24 hours straight. Those IV fluids are absolutely amazing. The blood transfusion brought me right back, and I was walking 5 miles again just a day or two after getting home from the hospital.

While I was sick, I was forced to stop walking for 5 days. I usually never take breaks and walk every single day—even when I’m sore. I probably should take more breaks. Anyhow, when I started walking again after that 5-day break, I could actually feel my entire skeletal system restructured and improved. Those days of complete rest gave my muscles, tendons, and bones a real chance to heal.

I cured my limp. Now I’m back to walking 5 miles every single day. My next real break from walking will be when we head back to Vilcabamba in February—yep, we’re going back. So many people have said that Vilcabamba took my health to the next level, and this time around, I truly believe the healing there is going to reach an entirely new level. I’m so excited.

I’ve been going through my retreat videos from September—just four months ago—because I’ve been posting five 1-minute clips every single day.

People have been telling me I look so healthy in these clips and that they’re happy for me—but honestly, four months later, I look even better. Watching those videos now, I almost feel like I look frail compared to how I look today, lol. I’ve gained weight, I’m strong as can be, and I can walk endlessly.

Coming up in these YouTube retreat videos (which I also post daily on Facebook), you’ll see me go on two hikes. At the time, I was getting out of breath far more than I ever used to in the old days. I thought it was just a bad day, but then it happened again on the next hike. In those moments, I came to terms with the idea that I had lost my youth after being sick for so many years—a major acceptance I had to move through.

Now, after walking 5 miles daily without missing a beat, I feel like those hikes may be easier for me. I don’t expect the hikes at the next retreat in June to feel like the old days, but I do believe I’ve regained some of that youth. Don’t get me wrong—I can’t do handstands on chair handles like I did right before I got sick, and I can’t move like my daughter does close to the ground like I used to—but it’s incredible how far I’ve come.

I’m determined to heal this severe osteoporosis. This 5-mile walking regimen was the first step. The second step was changing my diet…

So back to the dietary changes I made—slightly embarrassing to admit—they only started about two months ago.

Here’s the big revelation that completely changed everything for me. Even though I was hitting well over 1,300 mg of calcium per day, I learned that the body can only absorb a limited amount of calcium at one time — roughly 400–500 mg per dose under ideal conditions. Anything significantly beyond that in a single sitting just isn’t efficiently absorbed. That’s when it finally clicked. I had been putting most of my calcium into one large meal, thinking I was covered, when in reality I was bottlenecking absorption.

After digging deeper, I discovered that about 12 ounces of raw goat milk lands right in the sweet spot, providing roughly 400 mg of highly bioavailable calcium in a form my body actually tolerates and absorbs well. So now, instead of relying on one big calcium hit, I do two separate raw goat milk drinks earlier in the day, followed by my one main meal — spreading the calcium out in a way my body can finally use. That single adjustment alone felt like a massive course correction for someone dealing with severe osteoporosis like I am.

Furthermore, I can’t take iron within a 2-hour window of these drinks, because calcium blocks iron absorption pathways. On top of that, I need Vitamin K, Vitamin D, magnesium, silica, and boron to support optimal bone growth. So I came up with a new plan where I time everything extremely well. I still drink my carrot juice and citrus drinks every single day.

Let me just tell you how it goes so I don’t get bombarded with questions, lol.

1–1.5 hours after drinking my morning 32 oz of water loaded with minerals, I have my first 12oz raw goat milk drink along with our highly absorbable Vitamin D3/K2 supplement. I mainly take it for the K2, since I get about 2 hours of sun on my daily 5-mile walk. Even when it’s freezing, I’ll expose the area where the sun hits—sometimes just one arm out of my triple layers on the sunny side. After 2–3 laps, I’m warmed up and it’s much easier to tolerate.

Two hours after that raw goat milk, I drink 16 oz of grapefruit juice. I add 16–20 oz of our Truly Raw Coconut Water so it goes further, then mix in Eidon’s silica and boron, one Quintessential, and our new Truly Raw Electrolytes. I also add a magnesium supplement, which I’ll talk about in a moment. In between sips, I take teaspoons of tart cherry juice powder, and lately I’ve been taking a teaspoon or two of our Goji Berry Juice Powder in between sips too—which tastes so good.

After I finish drinking all of that, I’ve got a few bags of tart cherry juice powder that hardened. I take a big rock of it and pop it in my mouth along with my multivitamin and iron. That tart cherry rock is literally like a Jolly Rancher, and it’s so darn good. Once those hardened bags are gone, I’m honestly going to leave some open on purpose so they harden again and I can keep doing this ongoing.

After that, I wait about two hours, and I make a grip-load of vegetable juice. It’s mainly carrot, but Angela sometimes brings home celery, spinach, and parsley, so I add those in if we have them on hand. I use my Dynapro vacuum blender, adding half distilled water and half Truly Raw Coconut Water before blending. I strain it in a nut milk bag, then I drink 32 oz right away and put another 32 oz in a mason jar in the fridge.

Then, 1–1.5 hours later, I drink 12 oz of raw goat milk again. I don’t add the Vitamin D3 this time, but I do mix in 16 oz of carrot juice, lol. So good. That leaves me with 16 oz of carrot juice for later.

After waiting another hour or so, I start making dinner. By the time it’s ready, about 1.5–2 hours have passed since I drank my second 12oz drink of raw goat milk, which means the calcium window is open again for another calcium hit.

For dinner, I have 3–5 egg yolks, about 4 oz of raw goat Jarlsberg Swiss, sliced tomatoes, lots of microgreens, and one avocado mashed in a bowl with grated garlic and cut onion.

So… how does it all come together?

I start by mixing the egg yolks with a little Celtic Sea Salt. Then I melt some raw butter in a pan on very low heat. Once it’s melted, I pour in the egg yolks, keeping the heat low so they spread out and completely fill the pan. As soon as they begin to slightly harden, I add a crazy amount of raw hand-shredded goat cheese, spreading it evenly on top. When I was in Vilcabamba, I did all of this without the cheese. I’ve gained some weight here, which is a good thing.

Once the cheese melts, it turns into something like a little pizza—but not really. I slide it onto a plate.

I cut off a piece, spread on some guacamole, pile on a crazy amount of microgreens, and finish it with a slice of tomato. I eat it, then repeat the process over and over. Before I even start this meal, I take a couple spoonfuls of our Sunflower Lecithin and sometimes our Phycocyanin.

To drink, I have the remaining 16 oz of carrot vegetable juice mixed with 16 oz of raw goat milk.

I eat the same exact thing every day and every night. Just last week, I also started adding ¼ teaspoon of our Calcium L-Threonate to my two raw goat milk drinks during the day. I’m already getting enough calcium from food, so I don’t take it for the calcium itself—I take it for its bone-signaling properties. Studies show that ½ teaspoon can help stop bone resorption (the breakdown of bone) and increase bone mineralization, and studies say that these effects are likely driven by the L-threonate component. The added calcium is just a bonus.

Lastly, I drink 16–32 oz of water before bed and throughout the night, and another 32 oz upon waking up. To both, I add our new Truly Raw Electrolyte Salts, Eidon’s silica, and boron. For the nighttime drink only, I also add two Quintessentials. I tend to run low in sodium, so in the morning I take a teaspoon of Celtic sea salt instead—which is why I skip the Quintessential in the morning.

I’ll also take different juice powders directly into my mouth with my vegetable juice, sipping in between.

I also mentioned earlier a new magnesium supplement I’m taking. It comes from the same supplier who makes our Truly Raw Electrolyte Salts. If you remember from that newsletter, I explained that they solar evaporate water from the Great Salt Lake. The longer the solar evaporation, the more sodium and impurities drop out, while the magnesium stays in the solution. Well, they have another product that was literally solar evaporated for 2 years. This makes it naturally rich in magnesium while keeping sodium very low. It’s truly raw magnesium salts with no processing whatsoever. I’ve never felt comfortable taking a magnesium supplement to help with my magnesium levels until now, and magnesium is essential for bone health and calcium metabolism.

Don’t worry — I’m developing this product to carry on our website, and it will probably be available in a month or two. I add these Truly Raw Magnesium Salt drops to my morning and nighttime water and my citrus juice. I like to spread it out throughout the day, but I keep it away from my goat milk drinks because magnesium can slightly reduce calcium absorption if taken at the same time.

In the middle of February, we go back to Vilcabamba. Everything changes when I’m there. The altitude, the air quality, and the spiritual presence all combine, and my appetite naturally drops. I don’t need as much food—it almost feels like surgery every time I eat. It takes a few weeks to get to that point, but it’s crazydifferences out there are absolutely insane. It’s incredibly healing, though.

Oh yeah, one more thing, lol…

In my videos, people are always telling me to grow my hair long again. I’m usually like “whatever,” but then my daughter Oria exclaimed that I should do it. So I stopped cutting it, lol. It’s on its way back. With the amount of carrot juice I drink, plus all the superfoods and minerals I take, my hair will be back to the old days in no time.

I just took this picture literally right now—that’s 4–5 months of growth. Check it out. Another year, and we’ll be right back to the old days, lol.

All right, everybody—I’m loving life, thriving, and enjoying my family. We’re headed back to Vilcabamba in just a short heartbeat.

Thank you, everyone, for your support!

If you ever need anything from me, just write in—I’m always here.

Sincerely,


Matt