About Jason Shon Bennett

Jason Shon Bennett is a self-cured health researcher, inspirational speaker, author and creator of Regular Intelligent Fasting®, who inspires and educates people all over the world.

“The more that can benefit of your lifestyle the better off the world will be.”

Dr Sirpa

Jason’s health transformation story took New Zealand by storm, with the best-selling 2014 bible on fasting Eat Less, Live Long, followed by My 20 Golden Rules in 2015, which was awarded Whitcoulls #1 NZ Authored Book & #1 NZ Health Book in the Top 100 2015/2016. His third book Feel Great & Live Longer was published in 2018.

Jason was born at seven months, sickly and premature to a mother suffering toxaemia. Throughout his first 25 years he suffered asthma, constipation, bad skin, allergies, hay fever and fatigue, alongside regular colds, flu, bugs and sickness that would have him in bed for weeks or months every year. He was on Ventolin daily (up to 16 shots), regular steroid injections and Intal preventers.

After being told many times by all the medical experts that he was “incurable”, and then having his first child in 1989, he was so sick of being sick that he began extensive research into the world’s healthiest diets, the medicinal properties of foods, and the practice of regular intelligent fasting. This was all done by reading and studying long before the internet. Applying these learnings in his own life, Jason transformed his health, and has not been ill nor taken asthma medication for over 40 years.

Jason is one of a new breed of experts in food and how it affects lifestyle diseases such as cancers, heart disease, asthma, allergies, arthritis, osteoporosis, digestive disorders such as IBS, diverticulitis, constipation, cognitive decline, and more. He regularly trains naturopaths, pharmacists, herbalists, nutritionists, dieticians and doctors in this regard.

Jason achieved overnight fame when he appeared on the NZ #1 ‘The Leighton Smith Show’ in 2014, turning his designated time-spot of several minutes into a 90-minute interview with the switchboards jammed. He has since appeared on Breakfast TV in NZ and the #1 rated ‘9am’ Morning TV Show in Australia, among many other shows such as National Radio, and has thousands of people following his health advice internationally.

I am not a trained doctor, nutritionist or naturopath, and I hold no degree or doctorate. I simply hated being sick enough to do something radical about it. My expertise comes from real-world experience, not theory. It is built on over 40 years of health education and research, tens of thousands of hours of study, and a lifetime of putting what I have learned into practice.

For over 30 years, I have travelled internationally, taught, presented seminars on food, nutrition and health, appeared on television, radio and in magazines, and compiled my knowledge and passion into books. Along the way, I have raised four healthy children into adulthood and am now blessed with two darling granddaughters.

I believe modern medicine is miraculous when illness strikes. My mission, however, is to help you take control of your health before you get sick — empowering you with the knowledge and tools to achieve exceptional health and live a longer, healthier life.

I believe observation, not emotion or money, is the foundation of science. Real science is the uncovering and reporting the truth for the wellbeing of humanity. You don’t need to be a scientist to observe, question and draw conclusions. I have spent my life doing exactly that.

I have known people who lived healthy, disease-free lives well into their 100s, without drugs. I have also studied thousands of others who achieved the same. I have examined their habits, commonalities, what they did, and what they didn’t do. I have studied large population groups, epidemiological research, centenarians, traditional cultures, food habits and the diverse dietary and lifestyle practices of people around the world.

I am, and always will be, a permanent student — endlessly curious, questioning, observing and learning. As Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, famously said: “He who does not know food, how can he understand the diseases of man?”

Food is one of the great freedoms and most emotional subjects there is. If you feel strongly, you must do something different than what I recommend, then listen to what you feel in your gut is right for you, and do that.

What I recommend is a healthy, balanced, local, seasonal, plant-based wholefood diet, with Regular Intelligent Fasting®, alongside smart lifestyle choices. This sounds like a mouthful (ha!) but in actual fact it is the simplest and lowest cost way to eat, and the way we have eaten since time began. A diet rich in locally-grown vegetables (particularly green vegetables); fresh raw seasonal fruits; soaked and sprouted nuts and seeds; and a delicious variety of cooked and fermented wholegrains, vegetable seeds (quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth and millet), and legumes (lentils, chickpeas, beans, dahls and the magical soybeans). I have been primarily eating and living this way for most of the last 40 years.

The human body can only change so much in a day. Changing your behaviour is something that requires mental energy, willpower, attitude, an open mind, a ‘learning’ headspace and a willingness to change things even if it is uncomfortable or challenging. My recommendation is to introduce simple things each week that make a massive difference to your health.

A healthy world, where living to 100+ years old in great health and vitality, without drugs or medical intervention, is seen as normal and expected.