Health Expert Eric Edmeades On Why To

Prescribe Diets, Not Pills

Eric Edmeades, the creator of Mindvalley's WildFit Quest, will change your
relationship with food so that cravings disappear, weight loss comes easy
and you feel healthier than you've ever felt before.

Why Doctors Want To Prescribe WildFit

Eric Edmeades might just be the most interesting man you've ever met. He's
trekked through the jungles of East Africa. He's spoken on the same stage as
Tony Robbins and U.S. Presidents. And he's a serial entrepreneur, international
speaker, and world-class health expert.

Now he's ready to overhaul the medical and food industries.

When I meet Eric one late morning in San Diego, he's so earnest,
interested, genuine that I like him within moments. His beaded necklace reminds
me of a modern-day Indiana Jones — fitting, since he often goes on
anthropological expeditions in Africa to find out how early humans ate and lived.
Eric Edmeades has taken several trips out to Tanzania to meet the Hadza tribe,
one of the last truly hunter gatherer societies on earth. He trekked through the
East African terrain for 27 miles and then repeated the mileage the next morning.
After the hunting expedition, he realized that every member of the tribe was
incredibly fit.

Eric Edmeades with the WildFit Team and the Hadza people of Tanzania.
And what was the reason? Their diet supported their active lifestyle.
They wouldn't have been able to walk 20 – 30 miles every day if they were
drinking Coca-Cola and eating McDonalds. They used foods like vegetables, fruits
and meats to fuel their energy.
Eric's program, WildFit, is based on what he's learned through experience and
research. WildFit is a powerful health methodology that uses behavorial
psychology and evolutionary science to change the way you eat.
It's by far one of our most popular Quests.

Over 3000 people have taken Mindvalley's WildFit in the last 12 months and
changed their health trajectories. They have lost an incredible amount of weight,
relieved themselves of many symptoms and reduced their dependency on
prescription medicine and supplements. Needless to say, the WildFit reviews are
outstanding. (Watch the Masterclass with Eric Edmeades and Vishen
Lakhiani here.)

"How did you come to be a legendary health expert?" I ask him. "What made you
decide to design WildFit?"

"Like a lot of things, it happened by accident," he answers with a grin. "I might
question legendary but still" — he gives a small laugh — "from a health
perspective, I was one of those kids that was just sick all the time."
At 21 years old, he was suffering from cystic acne so severe that it was painful for
him to laugh, smile, or turn his head.

His throat infections were so debilitating that doctors suggested removing his
tonsils. And his stomach cramps were so intense that it was practically impossible
for him to think.

But he was inspired by Tony Robbins and a good friend of his, Tim Ames, to run
through a 30-day experiment to change his eating patterns. Instead of eating
processed and sugary foods, he returned to the more natural foods of our
ancestors, like meats and vegetables.
Poison disguised as food.
In about 2 – 3 weeks, he woke up to find his acne gone, his stomach cramps gone,
his throat infections gone. He had lost weight and gained more energy.
After that, he realized that he couldn't end his "30-day experiment."

He wanted to know why the doctors hadn't suggested he change his diet. They
had been writing prescriptions for the short-term and suggesting surgeries for the
long-term.

"At that point, I started asking some of the doctors I knew, including the members
of my own family, how much time they spent studying food when they went to
medical school."

As it turned out, the answer was none.

And in modern times the unexamined diet is a massive problem. The annual
global cost of obesity is $2 trillion dollars — more than the combined costs of war,
terrorism, and armed violence.

At this point, Eric says, the food manufacturing and marketing industry is more
evil and manipulative than the tobacco industry ever was.
"The problem is that the food industry, the pharmaceutical companies, and the
medical industry are based primarily on profitability and not on quality of life."
And then, one day, he was on the plane, reading a magazine story that mentioned
that elephants in zoos were not living as long as elephants in the wild because
they weren't being fed the right diet.
It occurred to Eric that just like every other species on earth, humans must also
have a specific diet.

So when Eric Edmeades designed WildFit, he wanted to improve people's lives in

the way the current medical system can't.

He believes that pills, surgeries, and yo-yo diets aren't the solutions we need for
a healthy and fit life. Instead, we need to return to the natural human diet — the
foods that give us the most nutritional value based on what we've evolved to
need.

Doctors have now began to catch onto this massive health transformation.
They've noticed their patients became healthier, fitter, and happier after going
through the WildFit program. Many of their patients came off of medication they
were expected to need the rest of their lives.
So over the last couple of years, several doctors have approached Eric to ask,
"How did you do this?"

And because an increasing amount of doctors want to bring their patients

through WildFit, Eric Edmeades has decided to launch a medical outreach
program where doctors can prescribe WildFit instead of pills and subsidize it for
low income patients.

Eric was brought to Mindvalley when the founder, Vishen Lakhiani, went on the
WildFit program in March 2016 and was astounded by the results, which he
publicly shared. His body fat, for example, went down from 22% to 15%. His body
shape and size transformed radically, making him look years younger. And he
received a major boost in energy.

Vishen Lakhiani helped introduce Eric Edmeades to the the world by putting him
on stage at Mindvalley A-Fest, where he was voted Best Speaker. We also brought
the WildFit program to Mindvalley, which became a runaway hit.

Eric
getting up close and personal with one of his program attendees.
A WildFit Case Study In Radical Transformation

After hearing about the thousands of amazing WildFit reviews, I wanted to learn
more details. How does WildFit exactly transform someone's life?

But when I ask Eric to tell me the details of a client the program had a big impact
on, he groans. "You can't make me choose just one! I want to tell you a thousand
of them." He waves his hands to signify comedic exasperation.

I laugh and shrug. “Unfortunately, we can’t write a thousand cases into one
article. But next time, maybe we’ll try.”

“I'll write a book,” he jokes, “I’ll write a book.”

He concedes eventually and shares one of his early success stories, Kert Loide.
"He came to us when he was really, really overweight, like not going to make it
through his 60s overweight."

In 90 days, Kert's transformation was so radical that when he bumped into a

friend of his from the military, that friend told him that he hadn't changed a bit
since he was 19. And when Kert showed him a picture of what he looked like
three months before, his friend almost fell out of his chair.
Kert before and after completing the WildFit Quest.
Then came more life-transformative effects. After trying out several fertility
treatments, Kert and his wife had given up on having more kids.
"But a little on the embarrassing side, they actually named their kid Eric. I’ve won
different awards and accolades over the years, but I don’t know if there’s
anything higher than that," Eric tells me.

One day, his wife called him and said, "I'm pregnant and it's Eric's fault."
But Tim joked that he checked Eric’s schedule and since Eric wasn’t in Estonia at
the time, it couldn’t be Eric’s fault.

But with all of these projects, a 1000% growth in his company, and his own
newborn daughter, the past year has been intense. Lots of excitement, sleep
deprivation... and, of course, stress.
Which is why I wanted to know what motivates him when times get tough.
His answer: reading all of the positive WildFit reviews and thank you letters from
cliets who changed their lives — and waking up to see his 1-year old baby
girl, Zoë.

Thinking of all his crazy times, hard times and good times, I ask him one final
question, "How would you measure success at this stage of your life?"
He's quick to answer. "I measure success in the simplest way possible. I think
that the only real measure of success is the number of days you are truly
happy.”
Thanks to Eric and WildFit, 3,000 Mindvalley students have dramatically changed
their bodies and health, and are now living truly happy lives.

If you’re interested in learning about WildFit, go ahead and sign up for a

Masterclass with Eric.