The food we eat has a massive impact on our lives — and that’s putting it lightly.

After all, every cell in your body is constructed from the resources and energy obtained from the food that you eat.

Eating correctly is crucial for every bodily and mental process.

These processes are extremely complex and have adapted over millions of years to function in response to certain nutrients.

If you are starved of the necessary nutrients, your body will begin to deteriorate just to keep you alive.

That’s why if you are experiencing problems in your life, optimizing your diet is one of the best places to start, even if it may seem unrelated.

Having a healthy diet with foods rich in nutrients (like all of the foods in this list) will optimize your quality of life and allow you to perform to a higher degree, physically and cognitively.

In my opinion, the foods below are some of the most nutritious foods you can find and you will meet most of your daily nutrient needs if you consume these foods every day.

Steak

Steaks (especially high-fat steaks), and other forms of red meat, have been a staple part of the human diet for as long as humans have been around.

They taste delicious and are brimming with healthy nutrients that our bodies crave.

Because they have always been a significant part of the human diet, it makes sense that they would be healthy for us now.

After so long of eating this meat, our bodies have adapted to efficiently use all the nutrients in red meat.

Eggs

Eggs have to contain enough nutrients to sustain a life form while it is in its most crucial development phase.

Eggs are one of the healthiest foods around and what I would consider the closest to a true ‘superfood’.

The whites are pretty much pure protein and most of the nutrients are condensed into the egg yolk.

So make sure to eat both parts of the egg if your goal is to get maximum nutrition.

Nuts

Nuts are very nutrient-dense as they contain lots of fibers, fats, and a bit of protein, as well as many other essential nutrients.

They can be quite high calorie so a lot of people avoid them when dieting, but if you have the calorie budget for it, you should include nuts in your diet.

Some nuts are better than others.

For example, almonds, brazil nuts, macadamia nuts, and hazelnuts are considered some of the best nuts.

Whereas other nuts like peanuts are not as healthy.

Salmon

Salmon is another food that I consider pretty essential because of its very high content of omega-3 fatty acids.

Omega-3 will support heart function, brain function and provide the necessary building blocks for many hormones such as testosterone, estrogen, and growth hormone

It contains lots of protein, vitamin D, Vitamin B12, potassium, and a bunch of other nutrients that will improve your health.

Avocados

If you don’t want to, or can’t eat fatty meats such as salmon or steak, avocados are a great alternative.

They are one of the healthiest plant-based foods due to their high fat and fiber content.

Like other high-fat foods, avocados are great for brain and heart health, and the fiber in them will support your digestion.

You will notice that many of the foods on this list are very high in protein and ALL of them include lots and lots of fat.

This is because fat is essential for our body, for our brain function, and for producing hormones such as testosterone and growth hormone.

The commonly accepted belief that ‘fat is bad for you’ is now outdated. Studies upon studies are slowly coming out showing that including more fat in our diet — whether that be animal fat, or fat from nuts — has countless positive effects on health.

Humans have been eating fat for so long, does it make sense that these modern ‘low-fat’ inventions will surpass millennia of evolution?

It doesn’t make sense. And it isn’t happening.

Humans in the 21st century are amongst the unhealthiest humans to have ever walked the planet. In the US, 42% of adults are obese, while a further 31% are overweight but not obese.

Nearly 75% of adults in the US are not a healthy weight.

This is despite our modern technology and medical advancements.

It all comes back to diet.

In my opinion, the best way to approach diet is to look at what our ancestors did.

Listening to big corporations tell us that fat is bad will do nothing but line their pockets, while destroying our health at the same time.

The myth that dietary fat makes you gain more weight is also being dispelled. Healthy fat from your diet will boost your satiety and may even result in you eating LESS because you are less hungry.

See, businesses find it much harder to sell you a steak or eggs because they are boring; they have always been around.

But they can sell you on their new ‘low-fat’ ultra-processed yogurt drink with ‘added vitamin D’.

All those marketing terms make it sound healthier, and therefore easier to sell. But, trust me, you will die earlier if you listen to these companies.

You’ve never seen a health label such as ‘added vitamin D’ on a food that’s actually good for you like an apple or an avocado.

That’s because those kind of foods don’t need it.

Most people have it wrong when it comes, to diet nowadays, but if you eat the foods listed above, you WILL be healthy.