>> meat, once a week or so, two or three steaks.

> You say people should eat two or three steaks on one day or even in one meal??

No, although for some folks that wouldn't be a problem in the least. :-)

More like, fast Friday afternoon until Saturday morning. Have steak and eggs for breakfast, with potatoes if you like[1], Then a (bun-less) hamburger for lunch. Salads for dinner. Repeat Sunday.

But that's just an example.

Also, it doesn't have to be beef. Eat a whole chicken over the weekend.

I forgot to mention grubs and bugs, fantastic sources of protein if you can handle eating them. (I personally can't, but I just read about how cockroach farming is taking off in China. It's brilliant, apparently the company doing it is on track to consume all of China's kitchen scrap waste by 2020 or something crazy like that. The bugs grow in huge buildings surrounded by moats filled with carp to eat escapees. So wonderful and so gross!)

>> six giant salads a day

> Seems a lot?

Yes, it does. See below.

>> drop the deuce five times a day

> Five times a day???

Four or five, yep. Tidy human-size rabbit turds that barely stink. What's going on is you're biasing your microbiome to the organisms that feed on plants[2] rather than milk or bread.

The bulk of most plant matter that you're eating is water. The rest is largely fiber and "nutrients" which is a huge catch-all term in this context. In your gut the microbiome rapidly consumes the plant matter in a kind of internal "farm" and your cells actually eat the microbes. It's gross, but feces isn't "waste", it's a microbial culture, about 80% of it in fact. In a normal scenario feces is deposited on the ground and rapidly invaded by micro-rhizome which then begins to integrate the internal ecosystem of the "nuggets" with the ecosystem in the soil. Digestion isn't consumption. You take what you need, incubate the rest, and pass it along, having added your own contribution. From the microbes' POV none of us are at the apex.

With a large steady flow of nutrients and no milk or bread to gum up the works your system uses way less energy to pick and choose the molecules it needs. It's also much easier to dispose of waste molecules. Under a "normal" diet your cells literally get jammed up with too many of the wrong molecules. In severe cases there's nowhere to put them and you get e.g. cholesterol building up in the blood vessels. Take away the bad inputs and provide for the existing crap to leave easily, and that's what causes you to ...

>> age in reverse for a while

> Please back all this up with science, because it sounds like snake oil to me.

All of this stuff has science behind it. But I'm afraid you're gonna have to do your own homework. I'm busy. It's your health. It might sound cold, but uh, "evolution in action".

What I'm talking up here is a paradigm shift. The new paradigm is no less scientific and rigorous than the old one, it's just different.

Here's a decent introduction, with science: "The Soil Will Save Us" : "How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet" http://www.kristinohlson.com/books/soil-will-save-us

Start with that and follow th references. The science is happening.

As for my specific claim about aging in reverse, yes, I admit that's anecdotal. However, I maintain that the best way to check the veracity of that claim is to try it yourself. Get your biological markers recorded, try the diet for N months, and keep track of your "biological age" throughout. This is a study I'd love to perform on a large scale.

Let me emphasize the importance of freshly picked food! This requirement almost demands that your kitchen is within walking distance of a garden. Food has a half-life. An organically grown vegetable in the supermarket is only marginally better than one plucked fresh from the garden and eaten immediately. You simply haven't tasted e.g. corn or carrots otherwise.

[1] If the tummy likes, not the tongue.

[2] vegetables, fruits, nuts, etc. But not grain. Grains are emergency food, eating them as a staple feeds the "wrong" gut microbes.