Nutrition

Aspects

protein, and vitamins - see Albumen
fats
salt
sugar
- sugar affects the activity of the liver (1922-01-06-GA303)
milk and honey
- honey: see Bees#Honey and Bees#Note 1 - On honey
fruits and grains
- bread

Cooking, preservation, diets

effects of cooking methods
effects of preservation methods
diets

Various

effects of certain substances such as alcohol or drugs
- see also Model for hereditary physical body#Note 1 - Effects of substances
- as well as example on: Sixteen paths of perdition#Note 3 - The opium war
fasting
- fasting brings harmony into life (etheric body) and form (physical body). Fasting makes for quietness in the astral body so it partially detaches itself from the physical body. Its vibrations are modulated and communicate a regular rhythm to the etheric body. (1906-06-07-GA094)
as related to the metabolism, see 1909-01-08-GA068D and 1924-GA348 on Metabolic-limb subsystem

see also: Photosynthesis and Transmutation

Illustrations

Schema FMC00.541: provides a synthesic overview from Rudolf Hauschka and Ernst Hagemann describing the four main types of vitamins as the workings of the etheric formative forces (or ethers) mapping to the four elements and elementals of nature. See also Spectrum of elements and ethers.

Rudolf Steiner described vitamins as a term that contemporary mineral science came up with to denote the life-giving property beyond purely chemical analysis of mineral substances. (1923-12-01-GA351).

See Albumen and Nutrition topic pages.

provides a synthesic overview from Rudolf Hauschka and Ernst Hagemann describing the four main types of vitamins as the workings of the etheric formative forces (or ethers) mapping to the four elements and elementals of nature. See also Spectrum of elements and ethers. Rudolf Steiner described vitamins as a term that contemporary mineral science came up with to denote the life-giving property beyond purely chemical analysis of mineral substances. (1923-12-01-GA351). See Albumen and Nutrition topic pages.

Schema FMC00.513 provides an overview on the main process through which the human being sustains his physical body during incarnate life. The narrative to this mind map is given by the two main lectures provided in the lower corners: 1922-08-05-GA347 (left) and 1922-10-22-GA218 (right - see also Schema FMC00.160 for another view), with additional complementary lecture references provided.

Whereas the left downward destructive process is well-studied in contemporary medical science (see mineral science), a true understanding of the renewal of Man's bodies - see the right upward constructive process - requires a spiritual scientific perspective. The latter can also not be read twodimensionally, rather the process needs to be imagined, as Man's bodily principles are not physically located or corresponding to specific parts of Man's physical body. So for the etheric and astral bodies, and the I-organization, certain organs play a main role, but effect the whole bodily principle and even work from the higher to the lower bodily principles. For this last point, see Schema FMC00.415A on Man: an integrated view or also: Schema FMC00.245 (which is key) and FMC00.415 on I-organization (and in second instance see also Schema FMC00.477 and FMC00.283 on Group souls of humanity). Streams [A] and [B] at the output of the intestines need to be superimposed on all that imaginatively.

This main schema can be used to branch off to the study of various related topics:

when contemplating the schema, overlay this with the seven life processes and the etheric formative forces (see also The Elementary Kingdoms) or higher ethers (eg Schema FMC00.015 below for a complementary view, or Schema FMC00.419)
nutrition and the alchemy in the human body (eg 1924-08-02-GA354 and 1924-09-13-GA346)
transmutation of substances in the human body (see table on the lower left in the schema)
the formation of organs - see the two etheric streams (eg Schema FMC00.051 and the 1920-05-14-GA201 description for the human heart)
the use of the brain as a vehicle for waking consciousness, see Damming up between heart and brain and Schema FMC00.033A; and related Matter is destroyed in the brain and 1922-08-09-GA347 which describes the process of continuous depositing and destruction of minerals ('brain-sand', more also in 1922-09-09/16-GA347)
for the outstreamings of the human body due to its decay and/or excretion and radiation: the transitory fleeting destruction (senses, glands, digestion) on the left, and the slower outstreaming into the world (due to decay of nerves, muscles, bones) on the right, see also Schema FMC00.514 from the amazing 1911-12-31-GA134 lecture
the creation of the blood (and the rest of the mineral physical body, from spiritual to mineral substance due to the Luciferic effect) - see Blood is a special fluid and the reverse (from mineral back to etherization) see etherization of blood
the forming of the bony system and skeleton and the production of blood, see oa Spiritual scientific physiology#Skeleton (oa for the relation to the warm red blood and waking consciousness - see 1924-01-07-GA352)

Schema FMC00.514 illustrates an excerpt from the important lecture 1911-12-31-GA134 that positions physical blood and the impact of the luciferic infection. The simple schema makes the distinction between how Man functions on a daily basis with the short term process of sense perception and metabolism, and the continuous but slow outstreaming of intuition, inspiration and imagination into the world and cosmos due to our actions and activities and the longer term decay.

See also Schema FMC00.513, and compare with Schema FMC00.492, as well as Schema FMC00.389A on Clairvoyant research of akashic records.

Regarding the outstreaming of these spiritual influences: in this lecture, Rudolf Steiner describes that some sensitive persons can have a sense of feeling awareness of the energies by people or left in a room.

Lecture coverage and references

Discussion

Related pages

References and further reading

Nutrition in general

Rudolf Hauschka: 'Nutrition: A Holistic Approach'
Eugen Kolisko:
- Nutrition: I. The transformation of matter (1944)
- 'Nutrition: II. The difference between vegetable and animal foods ;
- III. The specific effects of various foods on the different human organs'
Ehrenfried Pfeiffer: 'Subnature and supernature in the physiology of plant and man : the true basis of nutrition' (1981, lecture of 1958-10-10 titled 'Unternatur und Uebernatur in der Physiologie der Pflanze und des Menschen')
Karl König:
- Nutrition from Earth and cosmos
- 'The earthly and cosmic nutrition streams in man and plant : notes of four lectures (1953)
Gerhard Schmidt
- The Essentials of Nutrition
- The dynamics of nutrition
- Nutrition and education

Udo Renzenbrink (1913-1994)
- Ernährungskunde aus anthroposophischer Erkenntnis (1979, 1988, in NL as 'Antroposofische Voedingsleer')
- Die sieben Getreide - Nahrung für den Menschen (1981 and 2000; in NL as Zeven granen - 182 Recepten met gerst, haver, rogge, tarwe, gierst, rijst, mais, spelt en boekweit)
- Die Sojabohne - Nahrung auch für uns? (1980)
- Umweltkrise - Immunschwäche (1988)
- per age
  - Die gesunde Ernährung des Säuglings (1980)
  - Die Ernährung des Kleinkindes (1985, 1988)
  - Die Ernährung des Schulkindes (1983, 1988)
  - Ernährung unserer Kinder (1977, 2000)
  - Ernährung in der zweiten Lebenshälfte (1981, 1992)
- per context
  - Diät bei Krebs - Was tun zur Vorsorge? (1982, 1991)
  - Ernährung und Krebs (2000, 2006)
  - Diät bei Allergie (1987)
  - Diät bei Diabetes (1988) also as Ernährung bei Diabetes (1997)

internet

https://www.anthroposophie.ch/en/agriculture-nutrition/topics/articles/nutritions/history.html

specifics

Werner Christian Simonis: 'Milch und Honig' (1965)
Ralf Roessner with Clemens Hildebrandt: 'The Light Root: Nutrition of the Future, A Spiritual-Scientific Study'