Jordan Rubin - The Makers Diet Revolution: The 10 Day Diet to Lose Weight and Detoxify Your Body, Mind and Spirit

Known as Americas Biblical Health Coach, Jordan Rubin is the New York Times best-selling author of The Makers Diet and twenty additional health titles, including his recent book, Live Beyond Organic. An international motivational speaker and host of the weekly television show Living Beyond Organic, which reaches over 30 million households worldwide, Jordan has lectured on natural health on five continents and 46 states in the U.S.

Jordan Rubin is the founder of Garden of Life, a leading whole food nutritional supplement company, and has earned doctorate degrees in naturopathic medicine, nutrition, and natural therapies. In 2009, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by starting Beyond Organic, a vertically integrated company specializing in organic foods, beverages, and skin and body care products that includes farming operations on over 8,000 organic acres in Missouri and Georgia.

Jordan resides in southern Missouri with his wife, Nicki, and their three children, Joshua, Samuel, and Alexis.

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Talk about sensory overload.

Sari-clad women rode sidesaddle on dusty scooters as their husbands took daring risks through chaotic intersections, turbaned men propelled bicycle-powered rickshaws with entire families in tow, and dark smoke from exhaust-spewing three-wheeled taxis blackened the sky as our transport vehicle weaved its way past roadside markets and tin-roofed lean-tos.

Welcome to the colorful sights and pungent smells of southeastern India. It was early December 2012, and our group was traveling from Srikakulam, a crowded, extremely depressed city of 2.7 million, back to our hotel in Visakhapatnamcalled Vizag for shortfollowing an evangelistic crusade presented by my good friend, Dr. Pete Sulack, a chiropractor from Knoxville, Tennessee, and an international evangelist and president of Matthew 10 International Ministries.

I dont care much for international travel. Thats actually putting it mildly. As someone whos dealt with huge digestive issues in the past, traveling halfway around the world to a place where people strongly encourage you not to drink the water, eat the food, or open your mouth when taking a shower makes traveling to Third World countries problematic for me.

I did my due diligence on the region I was heading to, although I wish someone had told me that bathrooms typically dont come equipped with toilet paper and many homes lacked toilets period. At any rate, I packed an arsenal of nutritional supplements that included probiotics and digestive enzymes. I brought along several homeopathic remedies to battle everything from dysentery to puncture wounds to even malaria. I also stowed away a ten-day supply of superfood snacks that we had recently developed at Beyond Organic called EA Live Foods.

EA stands for enzyme-activated, a process that renders foods highly digestible and packed with nutrients. My favorite staples were EA Live Granola and EA Live Seven Seed Crackers as well as sprouted almonds, pumpkin seeds, pecans, cashews, cinnamon pecans, and chocolate walnuts.

Fortunately on most days, I was able to consume one good healthy meal at a nice hotel or restaurant in Vizag, but when our evangelistic team went on the road, I relied on my stash of EA Live foods and healthy snacks to get me through the day.

I traveled to India as part of the Matthew 10 ministry team spearheaded by Dr. Pete Sulack, whose great-grandparents risked their lives nearly a century ago to take the Gospel to the headhunters of Nagaland, a state in the far northeastern part of India. Christianity spread like wildfire among the Naga tribes, who left the old tribal customs and brutal traditionssuch as preserving the heads of their enemies as trophiesfor new cultural and spiritual practices. Today, more than 95 percent of the Naga people claim to be Christians.

Here is the fascinating twist to this story: churches in Nagaland were praying that a descendent of Dr. Sulacks great-grandparents would return to India to evangelize souls. When Dr. Pete heard about this, it confirmed in his heart that the Lord was calling him to India to win a billion souls for the Gospel.

Dr. Pete has been making annual crusades to India since 2005. When he visited our home to describe his exciting work, he looked at me and my wife, Nicki, and said, Youre welcome to join us on our next trip.

I could tell Nicki was extremely interested in taking Dr. Pete up on his offer. After he left for the evening, Nicki said to me, Were going!

There was no way I could deny her or the way God was leading us to India, so I signed on as well. As for my concern about the food and cleanliness of India, I knew the trip wouldnt be easy, but I also knew God had a plan for that, too.

Meanwhile, my eight-year-old son Joshua was in the midst of a spiritual awakening at that time. He had eight dreams over an eleven-day period and described one of them to Nicki as she was driving him home from school.

Mom, I had a dream last night, and God told me that were going to India.

Nicki nearly drove out of her lane, then caught herself. Neither of us had mentioned to Joshua or his two younger siblings that we were going to India. The trip was still eight months away, and India wasnt a normal dinner table conversation in our household.

Whos we? she asked.

Me, you, and Dad.

Well, Joshua, your father and I are going to India. Were planning to go on a gospel crusade with an evangelistic team just after Thanksgiving.

Who are you going with?

Dr. Pete Sulack.

Joshua nodded. Hed met Dr. Pete before as well as his four sonstwo of whom were close to Joshuas age. They had spent some time together a few months earlier.

Well, Im going, too.

But you dont have a passport, Nicki said.

Then lets get me one.

Nicki and I had never planned on bringing our eight-year-old to a Third World country, where we would be concerned not only for his health, but also for his safety. When you bring together large crowds and preach the Gospel in a land dominated by Hinduism (80 percent of the country) with Islam making inroads (12 percent of the populace)things could get dicey.

After Nicki told me about their conversation, we discussed what we should do. We then prayed about the decision. When we felt the leading of the Lord to have Joshua join us, I knew we had to ask Dr. Pete if that would be okay. No young child had ever been part of his international crusades, so Joshua would be the first.

When we made the request to bring Joshua, Dr. Pete smiled. Wed be honored to have him, he said.

The long journey from South Florida to southeastern India was grueling more than twenty-seven hours en routebut what a rich and rewarding experience for the three of us. Joshua was a welcome addition to our twelve-person group during our prayer and worship meetings. He witnessed four evangelistic rallies before audiences that numbered 20,000 people on the first night and more than 80,000 the last night. He saw thousands saved and healed, and he heard me testify to Gods healing power to 80,000 Srikakulamians at an outdoor field teeming with people as far as the eye could see.