Discover Dr. N.W. Walker’s timeless health wisdom through our video series. New videos are added regularly to keep you inspired and informed.
How Wrong Food Combinations Harm Digestion
Legendary nutritionist Dr Norman W. Walker believed that the way we combine our meals shapes digestion, energy levels, and long-term health. In this video, you’ll find out how his pioneering Food Combination Health Plan explains the role of digestive juices, why certain protein-carb combinations may disrupt the system, and how simple shifts in your meals can support better overall wellbeing.
You’ll also move through the core principles of raw versus cooked foods, understand how improper combinations may interfere with digestion, and explore the potential benefits many people notice. The approach encourages gradual changes, allowing you to transition safely by replacing disruptive foods with more supportive ones over time.
The Right and Wrong Ways to Combine Foods
In Part 2 of Dr Norman W. Walker’s Food Combining series, discover how different food groups interact inside the body and why the right combinations may support smoother digestion and overall comfort. The focus here is on which foods blend well, which ones tend to clash, and how simple changes in daily meals can make food combining easier to adopt.
A closer look reveals how raw vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds work together, why melons are best enjoyed on their own, and how proteins and carbohydrates each have their preferred partners. Certain foods blend effortlessly with all groups, while others can disrupt digestion when paired incorrectly. With time, these patterns become intuitive, turning food combining into a gentle, sustainable shift rather than a strict set of rules.
What Works and What Doesn’t in Food Combining
In Part 3 of Dr Norman W. Walker’s Food Combining series, the ideas explored so far turn practical. This segment moves into everyday examples, highlighting meals that combine well and those that tend to clash inside the digestive system. The old saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” takes on new meaning here, only when that apple is paired with foods that support rather than interfere with digestion.
You’ll move through examples involving grains, pulses, proteins, fruits, vegetables, and everyday beverages, seeing why certain pairings create discomfort while others support ease and energy. Dr Walker’s reminder about the power of small, disciplined choices ties it all together, showing how minor changes in combining can create a surprisingly pleasant ripple effect in daily life.
Key Rules of Food Combining for Digestion
Food Combining Part 4 explores the key factors that influence how smoothly the body digests and absorbs what we eat. Dr Norman W. Walker highlights important considerations such as the quality of whole foods, the role of ripe fruits, the behaviour of legumes in the digestive system, and how plant-based meat alternatives can confuse the body’s natural digestive responses. Each insight helps build a clearer picture of how different food groups behave once they enter the stomach.
The discussion also touches on fried foods, water timing, suitable drink choices, and the natural digestion times of juices, fruits, grains, and flesh foods. With these principles in mind, food combining becomes easier to understand and apply in daily life, supporting better digestion and a lighter, more comfortable feeling after meals. Those who want a deeper understanding can explore Dr Walker’s writings for broader context and guidance.
Understanding Enzymes and Live Foods
In Part 1 of What Constitutes Nutrition, Dr Norman W. Walker turns attention to enzymes and why he considered them the most vital element in the human diet. His perspective challenges the usual understanding of malnutrition, suggesting that it isn’t just about lack of food, but lack of living food. The idea of “live” versus “dead” foods begins to take shape here, laying the foundation for how he viewed true nourishment.
The discussion also touches on how heat affects enzymes, why raw foods hold a different kind of value, and how our modern eating habits drifted away from what the body naturally thrives on. Rather than asking people to give up cooked food entirely, Dr Walker opens the door to a gentler shift, one that starts with adding more raw foods to daily meals for better energy and long-term vitality.
Understanding the Law of Replenishment
Part 2 of What Constitutes Nutrition explores Dr Norman W. Walker’s idea of the Law of Replenishment, the principle that the body’s cells must constantly renew themselves using the life found in the food we eat. Dr Walker highlights how enzymes within raw foods carry the “living energy” necessary for rebuilding tissues, supporting vitality, and maintaining the body’s natural rhythm of regeneration.
The discussion opens up a deeper look at how “live” foods contribute to long-term health, how dead foods only sustain life without truly restoring it, and why the quality of what we consume shapes the quality of our inner energy. Dr Walker encourages easing back into natural, enzyme-rich foods that nourish the body at a cellular level and support healthier ageing over time.
Understanding Trace Minerals for Better Health
Part 3 of What Constitutes Nutrition moves the focus from enzymes to the subtle but powerful world of trace minerals. Dr Norman W. Walker describes these microscopic elements as essential contributors to the body’s structure, balance, and daily function. Though present in incredibly small quantities, they influence everything from organ activity to skin health, and even slight deficiencies can disturb the body’s natural equilibrium.
The discussion highlights the importance of obtaining these minerals from a wide variety of raw foods, sea vegetables, and naturally mineral-rich plants. Dr Walker’s perspective also raises awareness about hybrid foods, soil depletion, and the growing gap between modern diets and the mineral needs of the human body.