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Grow a New Body Cookbook: Upgrade Your Brain and Heal Your Gut with 90+ Plant-Based Recipes
A cookbook rooted in shamanic wisdom of 90+ plant-based recipes that will help you grow stronger, healthier, and younger, and reverse the loss of vitality associated with aging.
Growing older is inevitable. Aging is preventable. In Grow a New Body Cookbook, 90+ delicious, nutrient-dense, plant-based recipes will help you go back to an ancient way of eating that promises to help you on the road to lifelong health. Shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo will show you how to turn your kitchen into a shaman’s laboratory so that you can grow potent probiotics to upgrade the health of your biome. Alberto dives deep into the science of why how we eat now is wreaking such havoc on us—and how we can reverse the damage. Finally, eating the foods recommended in this book will allow you to grow a new brain that supports you in forging a profound connection with Nature and experiencing a renewed sense of purpose in life.
The delicious recipes, beautifully photographed by James Beard nominee Paul Brissman and developed by celebrated chef Conny Andersson, feature superfoods that will begin to repair your body and brain from years of wear and tear.
The plant-based, nutrient-dense, antioxidant-rich broth, beverage, mezze, and main dish recipes
silky white bean soup with tomato basil relish chlorophyll moringa brothmatcha energy tonicactivated charcoal lattechickpea crepe with spicy tomato chutney and coconut yogurttasted sorghum risotto and mushroomsgrilled zucchini "vindaloo" with kachumber salad
Growing older is inevitable. Aging is preventable. In Grow a New Body Cookbook, 90+ delicious, nutrient-dense, plant-based recipes will help you go back to an ancient way of eating that promises to help you on the road to lifelong health. Shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo will show you how to turn your kitchen into a shaman’s laboratory so that you can grow potent probiotics to upgrade the health of your biome. Alberto dives deep into the science of why how we eat now is wreaking such havoc on us—and how we can reverse the damage. Finally, eating the foods recommended in this book will allow you to grow a new brain that supports you in forging a profound connection with Nature and experiencing a renewed sense of purpose in life.
The delicious recipes, beautifully photographed by James Beard nominee Paul Brissman and developed by celebrated chef Conny Andersson, feature superfoods that will begin to repair your body and brain from years of wear and tear.
The plant-based, nutrient-dense, antioxidant-rich broth, beverage, mezze, and main dish recipes
silky white bean soup with tomato basil relish chlorophyll moringa brothmatcha energy tonicactivated charcoal lattechickpea crepe with spicy tomato chutney and coconut yogurttasted sorghum risotto and mushroomsgrilled zucchini "vindaloo" with kachumber salad
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Published December 26, 2023
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About the author
Alberto Villoldo
71 books354 followersBy his mid-20s Alberto Villoldo was the youngest clinical professor at San Francisco State University. He was directing his own laboratory, the Biological Self-Regulation Lab, investigating how energy medicine and visualization could change the chemistry of the brain.
One day in his biology laboratory, Alberto realized that his investigation had to get bigger instead of smaller; Alberto needed to find a system larger than the neural networks of the brain. The microscope was the wrong instrument to answer the questions he was asking. Many others were already studying the hardware – Alberto Villoldo wanted to learn to re-program the SYSTEM. Anthropological stories hinted that there were people around the globe who claimed to know such things, including the Inka in Peru, the few remaining “shamans” in today’s modern civilization.
As he did initial research into the Inka, Alberto decided that he needed to personally investigate the roots of the Inka civilization itself to collect the vestiges of a 5,000-year-old energy medicine known for healing through Spirit and light.
A few weeks later, knowing this investigation was not going to be a “part time” pastime or a brief sabbatical for a few weeks’ time, Alberto Villoldo resigned his post at the university.
University colleagues thought Alberto Villoldo was absolutely mad.
Not to be dissuaded, Alberto Villoldo traded his laboratory for a pair of hiking boots and a ticket to the Amazon. He was determined to learn from researchers whose vision had not been confined to the lens of a microscope, from people whose body of knowledge encompassed more than the measurable, material world that Alberto had been taught was the ONLY reality. He wanted to meet the people who sensed the spaces between things and perceived the luminous strands that animate all life.
Scattered throughout the remnants of this ancient Amazonian empire were a number of sages or “Earth Keepers” who remembered the ancient ways. Alberto traveled through countless villages and hamlets and met with scores of medicine men and women. The lack of a written body of knowledge meant that every village had brought its own flavor and style to the healing practices that still survived.
For more than 10 years, Alberto Villoldo trained with the jungle medicine people. Along the way, he discovered that his journey into shamanism had actually been guided by his personal desire to become whole.
In healing his own soul wounds, Alberto Villoldo walked the path of the wounded healer and learned to transform old pain, grief, anger and shame to sources of strength and compassion.
From the Amazon, Alberto Villoldo trekked the coast of Peru, from Nazca, the site of gigantic markings on the desert floor that depict power animals and geometric figures, to the fabled Shimbe lagoons in the north, home to the country’s most renowned sorcerers. Then, in Lake Titicaca – the Sea on Top of the World – Alberto Villoldo collected the stories and healing practices of the people from which, the legends say, the Inka were born.
Through it all, Alberto Villoldo discovered a set of sacred technologies that transform the body, heal the soul, and can change the way we live and the way we die.
These ancient teachings and understandings explain that a Luminous Energy Field (LEF), whose source is located in infinity, surrounds us. The LEF acts as a matrix that maintains the health and vibrancy of the physical body.
Today, Alberto Villoldo is a best-selling author and founder in the world-renowned Institute of Energy Medicine, The Four Winds Society. In all of his teachings and writings, Alberto shares the experience of infinity’s easy ability to heal and transform us, to free us from the temporal chains that keep us fettered to illness, old age and disease.
Over the course of two decades with the shamans in the jungles and high mountains of the Andes, Alberto Villoldo would discover that we are more than flesh and bone, that we are a
One day in his biology laboratory, Alberto realized that his investigation had to get bigger instead of smaller; Alberto needed to find a system larger than the neural networks of the brain. The microscope was the wrong instrument to answer the questions he was asking. Many others were already studying the hardware – Alberto Villoldo wanted to learn to re-program the SYSTEM. Anthropological stories hinted that there were people around the globe who claimed to know such things, including the Inka in Peru, the few remaining “shamans” in today’s modern civilization.
As he did initial research into the Inka, Alberto decided that he needed to personally investigate the roots of the Inka civilization itself to collect the vestiges of a 5,000-year-old energy medicine known for healing through Spirit and light.
A few weeks later, knowing this investigation was not going to be a “part time” pastime or a brief sabbatical for a few weeks’ time, Alberto Villoldo resigned his post at the university.
University colleagues thought Alberto Villoldo was absolutely mad.
Not to be dissuaded, Alberto Villoldo traded his laboratory for a pair of hiking boots and a ticket to the Amazon. He was determined to learn from researchers whose vision had not been confined to the lens of a microscope, from people whose body of knowledge encompassed more than the measurable, material world that Alberto had been taught was the ONLY reality. He wanted to meet the people who sensed the spaces between things and perceived the luminous strands that animate all life.
Scattered throughout the remnants of this ancient Amazonian empire were a number of sages or “Earth Keepers” who remembered the ancient ways. Alberto traveled through countless villages and hamlets and met with scores of medicine men and women. The lack of a written body of knowledge meant that every village had brought its own flavor and style to the healing practices that still survived.
For more than 10 years, Alberto Villoldo trained with the jungle medicine people. Along the way, he discovered that his journey into shamanism had actually been guided by his personal desire to become whole.
In healing his own soul wounds, Alberto Villoldo walked the path of the wounded healer and learned to transform old pain, grief, anger and shame to sources of strength and compassion.
From the Amazon, Alberto Villoldo trekked the coast of Peru, from Nazca, the site of gigantic markings on the desert floor that depict power animals and geometric figures, to the fabled Shimbe lagoons in the north, home to the country’s most renowned sorcerers. Then, in Lake Titicaca – the Sea on Top of the World – Alberto Villoldo collected the stories and healing practices of the people from which, the legends say, the Inka were born.
Through it all, Alberto Villoldo discovered a set of sacred technologies that transform the body, heal the soul, and can change the way we live and the way we die.
These ancient teachings and understandings explain that a Luminous Energy Field (LEF), whose source is located in infinity, surrounds us. The LEF acts as a matrix that maintains the health and vibrancy of the physical body.
Today, Alberto Villoldo is a best-selling author and founder in the world-renowned Institute of Energy Medicine, The Four Winds Society. In all of his teachings and writings, Alberto shares the experience of infinity’s easy ability to heal and transform us, to free us from the temporal chains that keep us fettered to illness, old age and disease.
Over the course of two decades with the shamans in the jungles and high mountains of the Andes, Alberto Villoldo would discover that we are more than flesh and bone, that we are a
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March 1, 2025
3.0 stars. This was both a hit and a miss. I saw Alberto Viloldo on a podcast recently and he spoke with so much joy and enthusiasm about his book "Grow a New Body" from plant based nutrients. Then I saw there was a plant based cookbook that followed and figured I'd check out the cookbook first.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Alberto's portion of this book. That same joy and enthusiasm comes through here. Very easy to read and understand his explanations and practices for plant based living to become healthier. Where this book failed for me was in the recipes that followed in the second half of the book. Chef Conny's choice of ingredients include eggs, cheese, butter, ghee, coconut, mct oil, goat milk yogurt in several recipes. Those were a no for me as a strict plant based eater.There was too much use of powders and the use of special ingredients. There's a wide variety of recipes from how to make your own probiotics, sprouting seeds to fermenting foods. There's drinks, appetizers, main courses. Most too labor intensive or too many ingredients. Unfortunately as much as I love to cook, there weren't any recipes here that I felt I'd want to make.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Alberto's portion of this book. That same joy and enthusiasm comes through here. Very easy to read and understand his explanations and practices for plant based living to become healthier. Where this book failed for me was in the recipes that followed in the second half of the book. Chef Conny's choice of ingredients include eggs, cheese, butter, ghee, coconut, mct oil, goat milk yogurt in several recipes. Those were a no for me as a strict plant based eater.There was too much use of powders and the use of special ingredients. There's a wide variety of recipes from how to make your own probiotics, sprouting seeds to fermenting foods. There's drinks, appetizers, main courses. Most too labor intensive or too many ingredients. Unfortunately as much as I love to cook, there weren't any recipes here that I felt I'd want to make.
May 12, 2024
Lots of good information
There is lots of good information in this book to help anyone move from a sugar based diet to a natural diet. This book goes into detail about and why. The book has all the recipes to make great food which are really easy to make.
There is lots of good information in this book to help anyone move from a sugar based diet to a natural diet. This book goes into detail about and why. The book has all the recipes to make great food which are really easy to make.
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