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One of the big concerns about getting healthier, eating a more vibrant selection of foods, and investing in your own physical transformation is the cost involved. Everybody knows that organic, high-quality ingredients cost more than their conventional counterparts, and people are worried that they will be priced out of this lifestyle, and that this is something that is reserved for an elite upper class, while the peasants eat bread and gruel, like in the olden days.
I would like to address some of these points, validate some of the accurate concerns, and demystify some of the myths about the expense of a healthful lifestyle. Also I will share with you some strategies to keep your costs down — even around the same level or potentially lower than a standard diet — if so desired.
It is true that organic ingredients are at a higher cost than conventional ones. And I do insist on the organic varieties of some raw foods, where you are eating the outer skin of it, because those same conventional foods are heavily sprayed by the Agri industry with harmful chemical pesticides — things like berries, grapes, peaches, apples, plums or pears (if you’re eating the skin), leafy greens, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, and so forth. I suppose you could still buy them conventional and wash them thoroughly with a natural produce wash, which would be better than nothing, but I would still be concerned about exposure to harmful conventional chemicals. In this case, it is worth the 50% or more premium to get the organic ingredients and not poison yourself.
If this is unaffordable, then may I suggest eating raw foods which are conventional, but have a protective outer layer, so if they get sprayed with chemical pesticides, it is coating the outer skin or rind, but you’re eating the inner ‘meat’ of the fruit. This would include things like melons, oranges and citruses, avocado, banana, pineapple, or let’s say apple or cucumber type foods if you were to peel the skin before eating. Now you can buy the regular-priced ingredients, still fill up your cart with amazing, healthful foods, but pay the lower costs for the pesticide-sprayed foods which are cheaper to produce.
So ultimately, eating very healthily and investing in supplemental products can be expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. There are ways to do it where you can keep your costs around the same as before. If you are extremely crafty and frugal, you could even potentially lower your costs.
Supplements are more expensive than food, because supplements are more or less optional, whereas you have to eat. It’s up to you to figure out your own financial balance of when is the right time to invest in your health via the use of herbal supplements depending on your situation (for more on that please see the section called: ‘How to Maintain Balance’).
There are even things beyond what have been discussed, with regard to investing money to get better health, like massage, chiropractors, acupuncture, a personal trainer, a gym or yoga studio membership, a personal wellness coach, or going on a retreat of some kind.
If achieving optimum health were easy, everybody would be doing it. I am explaining here an aspect of this game, which is that you either have to be clever in how you figure out picking your ingredients to control your costs, or figure out how to earn more money either with a 2nd job or being more productive. You also have to figure out if and when you should justify investing additional capital into your health via herbal supplements and other advanced modalities.
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