Bob's Red Pill #11 - Eat the Dirt

by Crypto Psi

We’re not shy of giving you weird advice in these Bob’s Red Pill essays — many of you are now regularly consuming ants and using telepathy. In BRP installment number eleven, we’re taking it a little more down to earth. Eat the Dirt!

Geophagy is the practice of consuming earth, dirt, clay, and other non-food products of our environment. It’s ubiquitous in the animal kingdom including mammals — elephants, apes and monkeys, deer, livestock, bats and rodents all eat clay and dirt for various reasons.

The parrots above are eating clay to absorb alkaloids and other deleterious factors in their food. Often, they have to eat unripe fruit to survive, and while not ideal, clay helps them make the best of this situation. Detoxification through clay consumption appears to be a biologically hardwired trait in much of the animal kingdom.

Humans, especially pregnant women, experience “pica”, or cravings for chalky earth-like textures not found in ordinary food. While pregnancy offers several safeguards to keep a baby’s brain development on track, this is perhaps a behavioral adaption to offer even greater protection to mother and child. We’ve explored in previous BRPs how detoxification can prevent and even reverse neurological conditions in infants and toddlers. More on this a bit later.

While eating “dirt” may seem like crude animal behavior, it can be a rather elegant and irreplaceable element in your overall health plan. I use at least some of the below examples consistently to tonify my wellbeing, and I’ve heard miraculous anecdotes of some serious health turnarounds using these modalities.

Bentonite Clay

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of bentonite, probably the most popular edible clay on the market. Also called montmorillonite, it has tremendous adsorption (not absorption) properties, meaning toxins bind to the surface of the clay chemically. Since clay is negatively charged, it is ideal for adsorbing cations, or positively charged ions. Many of the deleterious substances in our bodies happen to be positively charged, including certain viruses and heavy metals.

You’ll often find naturopathic types recommending to never let bentonite clay touch metal (i.e. spoons) as this can destroy the negative charge, which is the whole point of ingesting clay. This advice holds true for all clays and zeolite. I have no idea the degree of truth that this claim holds, but I find it very easy to just use glass jars and wooden spoons in case it is true. I also make sure to hydrate my bentonite, ideally overnight, in a glass jar with reverse osmosis water and covered with a cloth or lid. This makes it easier on the body. Bentonite water doesn’t taste like much of anything and is easy to consume. I love it during fasts and before bed, where it can work all night long.

Activated Charcoal

Who cares if health influencer females made this one cringe? Charcoal is incredibly useful as a health tool. It has massive amounts of surface area to adsorb toxins much like clays do, and is also extremely porous. Charcoal is non-specific, it traps everything. It can make a bout of food poisoning a minor annoyance, instead of a full-blown health crisis. If you pick up one tip from this BRP, try it next time you pick up a bug, and thank me later.

Again, charcoal sucks up everything in your intestinal tract, so the trend of adding it to nutritious smoothies and foods is probably dumb. Take away from regular meals and supplementation. However, if you ever have to eat less-than-ideal foods for travel or social reasons, just pop some charcoal to lessen the negative effects. Always bring charcoal capsules while traveling. I’ve combines charcoal with bentonite 50/50 with great success.

Zeolite

Let’s wade out of basic-ass clay and charcoal territory into some more based vibes. Zeolite is one of my favorite substances on the planet, I truly believe it has the potential to transform and heal our species as a whole.

Zeolite’s honeycomb structure has a particular affinity for heavy metals. A micronized zeolite product can pull heavy metals from tissues throughout the body, including the brain. I personally use a micronized zeolite before bed, and sometimes in the morning, applied underneath my tongue to bypass the digestive system. Zeolite is more useful in the bloodstream than in the gut, where a more of a workhorse clay like bentonite is desired.

I’ve written before about autism in infants and toddlers being reversed with zeolites, gut healing/microbiome restoration, and unprocessed foods. Of course, heavy metals in the brain lead to neurological diseases like autism, and removing them is the root cause solution for these issues. Better yet to remove them safely before conception and while pregnant. While avoiding heavy metal exposure is obviously ideal, we don’t yet live in that world, and such advice won’t help you when it’s too late. This is why I say that zeolite is a transformational tool for humanity.

Side note on the above point — I notice so many people get redpilled on environmental toxins, then go on a crusade to avoid all exposure in their personal environment. Don’t get me wrong, I attempt the same as best as I can. However, inevitably this results in depression and paranoia when one can’t avoid every single BPA receipt. My perspective is to slowly master your outer environment, keep your inner environment (state of being) pure and vibed up, and gently remove toxins on a regular basis. Zeolite is a huge ally in this quest.

Most people don’t realize the degree to which they are loaded with modern poisons. It’s much more effective to create habits to remove the toxins you already store than live in a bubble. You’ll feel better immediately as your toxin load decreases as time goes by. This isn’t advice to dissuade anyone from using glass instead of plastic or moving closer to nature, just some healthy perspective.

Diatomaceous Earth

I’ve written before about the parasite-shredding power of diatomaceous earth, or DE. This silica-rich substance has numerous health benefits beyond killing worms, the primary one being supplying the body with, well, silica. I see many people spend tons of money on silica supplements to support their skin, hair, nails, bones, when the same can be accomplished better for pennies a day using DE.

I use a technique to maximize orthosilicic acid that I learned from Markus Rothkranz. First, fill a glass jar with a quarter cup of DE, the fill with reverse osmosis water. Let sit out on your counter overnight, then in the morning, pour off the cloudy top liquid into a new jar, leaving the sediment behind. Add lemon juice to the cloudy water, which converts the silica into a biologically compatible form that humans can absorb. Repeat this process by adding more water to the old jar. This ensures you only capture the most absorbable silica (the cloudy water) and convert it into a form your body can use with the lemon juice. This is an incredibly cheap form of silica supplementation.

This strategy, along with getting key minerals from other sources (iodine from seaweed, selenium from brazil nuts, etc.) is the easiest way to erase deficiencies from even healthy diets, in an era of nutritionally inferior foods.

Shilajit

This one is having a moment in “based” health spheres, and I’m all for it (I believe there’s even a company called “based supplements” that sells it). Shilajit is basically a mineral pitch that oozes out of rocks in the Himalayas in India, the result of ancient forest biomass compressed by the earth and “fermented” until it is extruded and collected. Ancient Indian yogis noticed monkeys eating this mineral pitch and subsequently engaging in energetic behavior, copulating, etc.

While I’m certain shilajit has some detoxification properties like the previous examples in this BRP, it acts much more as a mineral supplement, synergizer, potentiator, and general health tonic. Certain Rare Candy fans will note that it is a key ingredient in Rehmannia Dean Thomas’s 3 Masters formula, along with reishi and ormus (not an affiliate link). This is an incredibly potent formula, I recommend no more than a half teaspoon at a time in a beverage. The shilajit balances some of reishi’s more yin qualities, and like high quality honey, seems to amplify uptake by the body of anything it is combined with.

Shilajit is particularly suited for men, and has been shown to increase testosterone and sperm production. As always, quality varies widely from product to product, so do you due diligence reading reviews and making sure you get a 3rd party certified and tested shilajit.

You should be able to feel this herb, like any of the best herbs. If you don’t, you may have a weak product or your constitution might not agree with shilajit. It is an excellent companion to jing herbs like he sho wu, eucommia, cistanche, and most root herbs. Many people find shilajit to be their favorite natural substance.

Thoughts

Earth is a magical realm with countless technologies in place to help us thrive. The mineral kingdom gives rise to all plant and animal life, and as humans, sometimes we can cut out the intermediary and tap into the mineral realm directly to benefit our lives. Consider the ocean — essentially a mineral reserve of the Earth. Sea water contains every element found on land, in suspension.

We’ve all heard of how depleted our crops are of key minerals. Something I’ve wanted to reimplement in my life is sprouting grasses and seeds with dilute sea minerals, as these sprouts uptake the minerals at a high percentage and make them incredibly bioavailable. Some of the healthiest people I know do this regularly, and I’ve known people who have reversed major disease by juicing “seaponic” wheatgrass. While I do supplement with powdered and capsuled minerals, compared to an enzymatic living matrix like a properly grown vegetable or shilajit, it seems a bit listless, no?

When I grew cannabis, I introduced ocean solution 1:100 ratio to plain water, directly in the root system and topically on/underneath the leaves as well, and this change completely turned around a previously diseased, struggling garden. Every experiment I’ve done with ocean minerals has been a success.

Imagine the complexity of interaction between human being, microbiome, and food/mineral input. While there are specific diseases that require specific solutions, most people simply lack vitality. I’ve found mastering microbiome (coconut kefir is my go-to), mineral input with good food and superherbs, and energy practices (your favorite breathwork exercises), to be absolutely essential to health. Add in removal of deleterious substances from the body using the above modalities, and it becomes hard to avoid health. You can fertilize your inner “soil” and watch many health issues melt away over time.

Everything comes from the Earth. Funny how using modern hippy alchemy results in so much more vibrancy than relying on spraying genetically modified crops with herbicides and cut-burn-poison medicine. But we at Rare Candy have been preaching for a while, the hippies are always right!

To your health!

-Psi