Muata Ashby
The ancient prescription for modern disease - now updated for the world we live in today.Kemetic Diet Volume 2: Kemetic Diet for the 21st Century is the long-awaited sequel to the original Kemetic Diet, carrying its foundational teachings forward to meet threats that simply did not exist when Volume 1 was first written.Volume 1 introduced readers to the nutritional philosophy of ancient Egypt: the concept of ukhedu, or toxic residue, as the hidden root of chronic disease, and Maat, the principle of balance and order the body is always working to restore. Drawing on the medical wisdom preserved in texts like the Ebers Papyrus, it offered a framework thousands of years old for understanding why the body breaks down, and how it heals.Volume 2 carries that framework into a landscape ancient Kemet could never have anticipated. New chapters confront the realities of ultra-processed food addiction, microbiome disruption, and chemical contamination from PFAS and other environmental toxins, showing how these modern pressures accelerate the very disease processes the ancient Kemetic system was designed to prevent.Ancient philosophy, tested against modern evidenceIn the twenty-four years since Volume 1 was first published, the scientific literature on diet, chronic disease, and longevity has advanced considerably. Volume 2 reviews this newer body of research chapter by chapter, tracing where recent studies confirm the original Kemetic framework, where they refine it, and where they extend it into territory the first volume could not have addressed in 2002.What sets this volume apart is its willingness to hold ancient teaching up against contemporary population-health research. It draws on evidence from the world’s longest-lived and healthiest populations, including the Tsimane of Bolivia, the Yanomami of the Amazon, and the centenarians of Okinawa, whose whole-food, plant-centered ways of eating echo the principles ancient Kemet taught millennia ago. It also engages archaeological findings such as the Horus Study of atherosclerosis in ancient mummies, using them to ask hard questions about diet, lifestyle, and disease across human history rather than simply confirming what the tradition already claimed.In this volume, you’ll find:An original translation of a section of the Ebers Papyrus, rendered specifically for this volume and presented alongside its Kemetic dietary applicationsAn expanded framework connecting ancient Kemetic medical philosophy, including the concepts of ukhedu, Maat, and hekau, to current clinical and population-health researchNew chapters addressing 21st-century threats absent from Volume 1: ultra-processed foods, environmental toxins, and their effects on the gut microbiome and immune systemAn examination of chronic disease epidemiology, from cardiovascular disease and cancer to autoimmune conditions, viewed through both ancient and modern lensesPractical guidance rooted in the author’s own decades-long dietary transformation, not abstract theory aloneA continuation of the Maat-based philosophy of balance, applied to the specific conditions reshaping public health todayWritten by Dr. Muata Ashby, widely regarded as one of the foremost scholars of ancient Egyptian spirituality and its practical application to modern life, this sequel does not simply repeat Volume 1. It meets the world as it now stands, bringing the same rigor and the same underlying philosophy of balance to bear on a health crisis that has only deepened since the first volume appeared.Readers who found direction in Volume 1 will find its principles deepened here: tested against new evidence, extended into new territory, and applied to the health challenges of a new century.
