Reset your metabolism

What if it wasn't
a matter of willpower?

Behind every plateau, every craving, every relapse, every failed diet hides a body in survival mode. The Totem Diet gives it the right signals again.

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You've tried everything.
And yet.

Eat less. Move more. Cut out gluten, sugar, fat. Count calories. Start over after every slip.

And every time, the same story. It works for a while, then it stalls. Then it goes the other way — often faster than before.

It's not a lack of motivation. You've just been following what you were told about nutrition.

When the body senses scarcity, it slows its metabolism, holds on to its reserves, and breaks down muscle to survive. Less muscle means fewer calories burned at rest. And the moment you ease off, it stores faster than before.

That's the yo-yo mechanism — a normal response from a body facing the wrong approach.

The Totem Diet
doesn't count
calories.

Look at the peoples who have stayed close to nature, those still living on the margins of the industrial world, and the same thing shows up every time: chronic metabolic disease is almost absent. Not because they eat less, but because their biology still receives coherent signals.

Ours no longer does. Under the effect of ultra-processed foods, industrial oils and constant stress, the gut barrier becomes permeable and silent inflammation sets in. That inflammation disrupts satiety signals, impairs insulin sensitivity and drives fat storage. The more you store, the more you feed the inflammation that prevents you from burning.

It's a metabolic trap, and it explains why so many people eating an apparently healthy diet still can't lose weight. You don't escape it by eating less. You escape it by removing what's blocking the system.

01

The foundations

Protein, hydration, electrolytes, magnesium, sleep. Before removing anything, we get the body working again.

02

The great clean-up

Industrial oils, grains, legumes, ultra-processed foods. We temporarily remove what sustains inflammation.

03

The right rhythm

Eating within a window aligned with daylight, respecting the circadian clock, regulating the nervous system.

04

Making it last

Reading your body's signals, understanding plateaus, reintroducing intelligently. Becoming autonomous, not dependent on a diet.

What they say.

Belly transformation before and after one month on the Totem Diet
Before and after belly fat loss with Totem Diet nutrition coaching
One month before and after results with the anti-inflammatory Totem Diet
4 kg weight loss result with Totem Diet coaching
Flat stomach result from the Totem Diet nutrition programme
Jeans too big after weight loss on the Totem Diet
Waist measurement loss result with the Totem Diet
One month body transformation with coaching by Marc Dessein
Before and after body shape weight loss with the Totem Diet
Clothes too big after anti-inflammatory nutrition results
Before and after body shape with nutrition coaching weight loss
Trousers too big after the Totem Diet programme
Jeans too loose after slimming down on the Totem Diet
Before and after in a bikini, two months of coaching with Marc Dessein
Loose jeans result after losing centimetres on the Totem Diet
Before and after in a swimsuit, body transformation with the Totem Diet
Before and after body shape, yoga and weight loss with the Totem Diet

Where to start?

The starting point Cover of Totem Diet Book I — Reset Your Body, by Marc Dessein

Reset
Your Body

Book I — 19 chapters

33

Understand why your body resists, and the full protocol to change it. Read and apply at your own pace.

Inflammation Weight loss Hormones Digestion Gut permeability Autoimmunity
  • The foundations: protein, minerals, sleep
  • The great clean-up, phase by phase
  • Cheat sheets and sample menus
  • Female cycle, supplements, plateaus
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One-to-one
coaching

Monthly
Quarterly
399/ month

The protocol applied to your body, your life, your constraints. With someone adjusting it with you, week after week.

  • 1 one-to-one call / week
  • WhatsApp support 7 days a week
  • 100% personalised protocol
  • Mindset, stress, organisation
  • Nutrition, sleep, hormones
  • Review of your blood work
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Marc Dessein, founder of the Totem Diet, nutrition coach and yoga teacher
The founder

Marc Dessein

Founder of the Totem Diet

I help people take back control of their biology by returning to a simple way of eating that makes sense for the human body.

In simplifying the scientific approach, I realised this way of eating followed an older, almost ancestral logic. A way of eating and living that goes well beyond nutrition.

The Totem Diet is the framework I built to pass this on. Simple, progressive: to understand, apply, and become autonomous.

Nutrition coach Yoga teacher Meditation Medicinal plants Breathwork
What comes next

Book II goes further

Where the first removes what inflames and puts the foundations back in place, the next tackles what is already embedded: deep detoxification, fasting protocols, purification work. More demanding work, which only makes sense on a body already repaired — allow around two months with Book I before considering it.

Ready to
go further?

The book is enough for many people. It contains the whole protocol.
Coaching is for those who know they need structure, adjustment and support all the way through.

399€ Per month
999€ Per quarter
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