forget it, this is not a place allowing un-interrupted intelligent conversations anyway... the healthy, peaceful and respectful part of this discussion will be taken to a more civilized site later. CZ is a big mess..... not to mention that software is a completely obsolete...   [End]
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Thanks 154965, I know I am not conditioned into politically correct thinking that much and may sound very rough and too critical. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can change that. I have always been very protective of those who cannot defend themselves and I simply ”burn” on the inside when I witness any kind of bullying or abuse. I see absolutely no point in being polite to bullies and sorry to those to whom I sound like a crude or rough one. Others can only treat us the way we allow them. Both of my Great-Grandfathers fought against the Nazis, if I sit back and do nothing about bu ...
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I have been here not so long, took part in a long discussion about ex-vegans and posted this thread and these couple days was already enough to be fed up with the comments of the ”calorie-savvy” stinky-fruit-rider with severe phosphatidylcholine deficiency in the grey matter. ”Tracking” is a big word for looking at two threads and seeing how much hostility this nut breeds here. Just reading two threads with at least a dozen comments about how he/she/it managed to piss so many people here is enough to see what’s going on at this ”democratic” place. I personally don’t know how you guys to ...
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Thank you so much for your support. I really appreciate it. I can’t believe that a supporting forum actually allows such attacks on threads. Your support means a lot, since this is my first thread and I was pretty nervous about coming out here not as reader but actually creating discussions of my own. Thank you again.   [End]
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saywhatagain, I agree that Ayurveda certainly needs some upgrade. The only references that modern Ayurveda relies on are seriously old. It’s certainly good to keep up the tradition and it’s great that we can learn about the philosophical basics of it, but it surely does need re-adjusting and upgrading on a constant basis. There are toxins and diseases that didn’t exist couple thousand years ago, the demands of our life are completely different from what they used to be in traditional societies. How can we not upgrade the Ayurvedic theory? I agree, the Earth and the people now are in ...
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PureHealth, thank you for your support. This is my first thread posting here. Yes, listening your own body and adjusting your own diet is always better than listening to somebody else. We should do what’s right for us even if it doesn’t fit into some concept or dogma.   [End]
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155216, Thank you so much for standing up for me, I honestly felt like being under an attack. How weird, I do not impose any of my findings or any details of my life-style but simply tell what happened and how I got better and provide all the references to validate my views, I am not against any approach that works for somebody else... and such a reaction here... wow. If it hadn’t been for yours and a couple other people’s supportive comments here, I’d definitely think that I got into some wrong place. Thank you for being so friendly and supportive. Yes, back to our discussion, diet ...
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I already replied mentioning that in this case what you call healing is actually cleansing that was required for these patients. Nobody argues with the fact that a certain duration of vegan diet is cleansing. The discussion here, however, is about whether it can sustain you well for long periods of time. Historically every single culture has its reference to different forms of cleansing whether its vegan diet, or water fasting or even dry fasting (no water, no food). We already know that, you are providing no new info here, it is a historically accepted fact about fasting. Duh. We have ...
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Kcirla, ”Animal flesh and fats are far more difficult to digest for a sick person than vegetables and fruits”. I have to disagree. In some cases, especially when the gut lining is damaged and inflamed, animal flesh and especially fats are the only foods that a person can eat. The very thing that animal products has no fiber makes it possibly as a recovery healing food for people with damaged GI tracts. ”Most sick people are low on stomach acid, and animal proteins require a lot of it for proper digestion” You would agree that there is a huge difference between chewing a rubbe ...
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Kcirla, Healing is not the same as cleansing. If you can fight a diseases by cleansing on juicing, it doesn’t mean you can live just on vegetables for years. Healing is usually both cleansing and nourishing. Juicing and bone broth is both cleansing and nourishing. Personally, I healed my gut inflammation with bone broth and cleansed my liver with juices. ”Food is just calories, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, fiber, vitamins, minerals, enzymes” In the Western modern world maybe, but any traditional practitioner in the East of the globe would see foods from a phenomenological po ...
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Cilantro, yes, I also feel that during the day my body is healing, especially GI tract. It’s like I can have a healing fast and a nourishing meal all in one day. Digesting a meal activates our parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for rest, it’s even called ”rest-n-digest” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasympathetic_nervous_system. During the day we need our sympathetic NS to function, to be productive, alert and energetic. This is the system that is responsible for ”fight-or-flight” type of processes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system. ...
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Natway, I have seen your posts and replies to other people here. I am not fond of your aggressive writing style, your pushy remarks and your overall behavior. Your logic is far from solid. I honestly feel sorry for you; what you are exhibiting is clearly not a healthy behavior and obviously not a supportive one. This is a support forum, not ”push your vegan ideas” forum. You completely lack the ability to listen and perceive concepts that are outside of your dietary scope. Which in itself is a very mind-limiting and hostility-breeding pattern. When I was growing up in Russia, f ...
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Hi all, After three years of trying to figure out the right dietary approach, I think I have figured it out and for the last half a year I follow a regiment that made me stronger, more energetic, more alert and made me calmer. For several years prior I have been struggling with severe brain fog, severe fatigue, hypoglycemia, blood pressure fluctuations, indigestion, severe PMS, muscle aches, fluctuating weight and water retention, insomnia, irritability, heart aches and headaches. In summer 2010, my family and I became vegan (no junk food, home prepared meals, raw for sometime ...
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Hi, I feel very bad about everything you described. I hope you get better. You sound like you are severely overwhelmed with toxicities in the body and severely malnourished. Find a Naturopathic Doctor, or an Ayurveda, or TCM practitioner to guide you in the process of recovery. In the state that you are now and considering your young age, it’s a risk to do it on your own before months of research. Your main focus is to nourish and to detoxify. Since your digestive tract is in mess currently and you are not digesting your food, you are in no shape for raw veggies, beans, who ...
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Hi Faith, This is really cool that your ancestors come from Native American Tribes! Genetically speaking, you definitely inherited certain traits that would give you the ability to thrive with the diet that the Blackfoot people once lived on and would possibly make you intolerant of the foods that are too different from those. There is also a belief in some cultures that if you are born within a particular kin, or ethnicity, by being genetically related to a certain ethnic group, you automatically inherit their spiritual knowledge, their mental abilities, habits and beliefs. So, acco ...
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Faith, sorry it took me so long to write you back. I hope you are doing well. It looks like the more I read about ex-vegans and ex-vegetarians, the more similarities I see. I think we should start an ex-vegan-rehab anonymous club with regular mandatory MEATings :) I really hope that GAPS healing foods helped you stop IBS. Luckily, our gut lining is one the fastest tissues to heal provided that we stop eating all the foods that damage it and introduce anti-inflammatory broths. I too had damaged my digestion pretty badly with all the beans and grains and had to struggle with const ...
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@ Faith110: I know how you feel about eating meat and perceiving it as murder. The real trauma here is in a lot of misunderstanding created in our society as most of us live in urban world and the only animals we know are CAFO animals. The trauma is not between you and meat, it’s between you and the ideas that your were given. I view coming back to eating animal meat and fat as a challenge to the ego and pride - to continue going in the wrong direction to save the face, or actually be able to admit a mistake and correct it no matter what other people think. Well, you managed to make ...
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@ Faith110 (and also @ wired), guys, you mentioned that you support PETA. Well, I don’t know how to tell you this, but you may want to seriously check out what’s going on with PETA’s activities. My husband and I used to support it but at some point something just didn’t feel right, something was really off with everything about PETA. I am very critical and like to question many things and check for myself instead of simply buying everything I hear. So, I trusted my instincts and started digging into PETA’s reports, reviews and other info. I found disgusting horrifying stuff about ...
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I do not view all vegetarianism/veganism as bad things. It didn’t work for me, but perhaps it can work for somebody else. Vegetarianism or veganism can be life-threatening for some, however can be great for others. I believe that in order to be healthy without animal products you need to be strong Pitta-Kapha type (Ayurvedic typing), or carbohydrate type (according to Dr. Mercola) and eat real fruits, veggies and nuts - organic and not processed foods. For Vata types, Vata-Kapha, or Vata-Pitta types (Protein type, according to Dr. Mercola) vegetarianism, or veganism can be truly ...
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Faith110, Thank you for your post! I was meaning to post something similar actually as I went through similar things: was a vegetarian, then vegan and experienced a lot of the same things, like AF and then started eating meat again. Did you know that people who for some reasons have low stomach acid are simply unable to digest meat? Stomach acid can be depleted due to numerous factors, such as pollution, gut dysbiosis after a course of antibiotics, etc. Low stomach acid alone can turn somebody into a vegetarian. I think it was probably my case. So, basically, in some cases v ...
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Hi, I am not officially diagnosed with gallbladder sludge, but it looks like I might have it (symptoms and results of LF point to that). 14 years ago I was diagnosed with biliary dyskinesia (gallbladder has difficulty expelling bile), so I believe sludge is pretty much the result of it. I tried regular LF and it just felt like it didn’t work completely, so I modified a few things. Adding red beets and cascara sagrada tea improved my LF’s greatly. Besides little stones now there are huge amounts of dark clay-like gelatinous mass (which I suppose is old thickened bile, or sludge - c ...
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Hi, Red beets (cooked), especially when with olive oil and lemon juice help tremendously to get your bowels moving AND they are a folk remedy for heavy metal poisoning in some Eastern European countries. Beets can be eaten with other veggies (like sauerkraut) as their taste is pretty bland. Plums, prunes, prune juice (but better find one without sulfites and potassium sorbate) also help greatly with both constipation and heavy metal toxicity. Lemon juice is great for fighting constipation (and also candida) Cascara sagrada tea helps with constipation. Also, you might wan ...
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Hi, I don’t know if this would still be relevant as you posted so long ago. But anyway just wanted to share my story of dealing with PMS. It used to be unbearable, now it’s almost unnoticeable. Your symptoms sound very familiar. I think the most difficult was to actually connect everything, like how would anxiety, skin problems, dairy intolerance and fatigue be connected. I tried to cleanse, I did colon cleanse, and liver cleanse and parasite cleanse, was a vegetarian, and etc. It helped me greatly, but it didn’t solve my PMS puzzle... until I started GAPS diet, restored my gut flora ...
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Hi, you mentioned using Aluminum containing anti-persperant, so you could’ve accumulated Al over time. Malic acid found in Magnesium Malate, apples, apple juice and apple cider vinegar is known to bind to Al and take it out of the body. Iodine (in the form of kelp or Lugol’s iodine) helps to detoxify heavy metals. Also, is it possible your condition might be related to adrenal fatigue? For that you need a rigid sleep schedule (going to bed no later than 10pm), lots of animal fats, frequent meals, no caffeine, easy on exercise. have you thought of trying to address this with an ...
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Hi, You might be severely deficient in Magnesium. Taking large doses of Magnesium Malate, Magnesium Taurate or Magnesium Glycinate, or even Magnesium Sulphate (600 to 1000mg daily) should lift off your depression and dissipate your negativity. Also, bowel cleanse and liver cleanse should help, as you may be dealing with a lot of toxicity in the body. All this should help you be more positive. Hope it helps!   [End]
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http://curezone.com/upload/_O_P_Forums/PMS/hello_kitty.jpg Hi, Magnesium Malate, (or Mag Glycinate) Potassium chelate B vitamins helped a lot with fatigue before period [Image Embedded Here]   [End]
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Hi! There is a diet that was designed to heal Leaky Gut. It’s GAPS (Gut and Psychology, or Gut and Physiology Syndrome). You might want to research it. GAPS should be followed for 1-2 years. It’s a pretty strict regiment but it’s sure worth it. It worked for many of my digestive issues. I’m 5 mo into it and I feel a huge difference. hope this info helps.   [End]
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Hi, Can you be Magnesium deficient? Are you taking any? Mag Malate and Mag Glycinate help tremendously (600 -1000mg in deficient state) Potassium can be low as well. If your Mag is low, then Potassium is low usually. Potassium glycinate can help, or at least potassium gluconate. Coffee enema is a win-win for gut and liver. It detoxifies both (though you can use organic coffee only!!!) GAPS diet helped me a lot. 5 months into it and I have really improved. Probiotics would be a must for you! Constipation is sometimes cause by the lack of friendly bacteria in colon. Start wit ...
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Hi, In my experience cod liver oil has done miracles for my IQ (I buy Sonne’s). I totally agree with previous post, your brain does need fish oil ! Supplementing B vitamins is crucial in addition to having them in your diet (leafy greens, meat, etc). Here is a great article about the importance of B vitamins http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/201202/brain-shrinkage-and-b-vitamins B12 deficiency alone can cause an intellectual digression! http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/15/Common-Hidden-Cause-of-Low-Energy-Brain-Fog-and-Blindness ...
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Hello! I used to have similar issues around period, so I understand how you feel. And believe me, it can be managed. I improved about 90% of my emotional and physical symptoms through mostly dietary changes, and proper sleep and some detox. I agree with illysmanx about the blood sugar effects. Yes, you definitely need a good breakfast! I believe a high-fat breakfast that also has some protein (like eggs) and follow up high-fat snacks (like a GAPS legal-cookie) during the day will keep your blood sugar stable. From what I understand, our hormones, esp. the ones that help us to d ...
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