The Wisdom of Not Eating Meat at Night

One of the basic principles of health and especially cancer cure and prevention is learning how the body works and how to work with it, not against it.  Your immune system knows perfectly well how to both eradicate abnormal cells and keep your body running smoothly. Dr. Taylor would always tell me that I needed to take away from my body everything that was hurting it and give it everything it needed; it knew how to fight cancer!  

One of the things I had to learn was why the guidelines Dr. Taylor gave me said I couldn’t eat any animal protein after 1:00 PM.  What??? Animal protein means anything meat, as well as cheese, milk or eggs! What to eat for supper became a big dilemma! Dr. Taylor explained that when you go to sleep at night your body is meant to rest and repair.  The first half of the night is spent finishing up all aspects of digestion. Then, around 3 AM, when digestion is finished, it switches into a scavenger mode and the immune system looks for all types of abnormal cells and seeks to eradicate them.  When you wake up in the morning, all systems should have done their job during the night to give you a rested, healthy body ready for a new day!

In addition to not eating meat at supper, an important part of my new cancer protocol was setting my alarm for 3 AM and taking nine digestive enzymes, which gave my immune system plenty of extra ammunition to take out abnormal cells right at the time it was needed.  I also took digestive enzymes on an empty stomach during the day, but the middle of the night was most important. It might seem hard to wake up in the middle of night to take supplements, but it really wasn’t a problem for me. I could 99% of the time go right back to sleep.  I did notice that if I stayed awake for awhile I felt a bit nauseated, but it was always mild and easy to bear. Just knowing how much good the digestive enzymes were doing my system was thrilling!

Since this was back in 1996, access to vegetarian recipes was not as quick and easy as today’s internet search engines make it!  Lots of veggie recipes include cheese, especially if you like Mexican food! My evening meal was supposed to have brown rice and beans, or quinoa; something that would give me some protein not from animal sources.  I experimented with various bean recipes – some flopped, but some were quite good. I tried at first to eat my own supper without meat and keep cooking a “regular” supper for the rest of the family. If any of you have lived that way, you know it can be tough!  I am very blessed with a non-complaining husband who will graciously eat almost anything I cook, so he was willing to start eating his main meal at lunch (a packed lunch he took to work) and go vegetarian at night. This certainly made my life easier and I gradually learned how to cook enough healthy veggie meals that the kids didn’t starve!  (In the beginning, we even tried naming the meals cute names, hoping to entice picky eaters to enjoy it more! One particularly tasteless casserole of lentils and brown rice became “Skinny Men on Pillows”. Naming it a cute name didn’t work and no one liked it any better – lol!)

My husband and I have continued to eat this way since we started in 1996.  We know it has helped us stay healthy. As we age, it seems to be a very good approach to keep our digestion in good shape and take any extra loads off an oftentimes overworked body.

Try to eliminate animal protein from your evening meal one day a week to get started!!  Let me know how you do and what recipes work well for you!

Note:  If you follow the Budwig Protocol, it’s still ok to eat the cottage cheese with flax oil with your evening meal.