Comments 1 - 13 of 13 Search these comments
Dholliday126 saysgrain derivatives
Beer?
Beer?
Grains and grain derivatives destroy your health via your gut.
Dholliday126 saysGrains and grain derivatives destroy your health via your gut.
Carbohydrates basically?
My problem with vegans/vegetarians
but they are eventually forced to take supplements for B12 for example.
https://vexmansthoughts.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/what-is-wrong-with-the-germ-theory/
I've always been into sports, and after the freshman 15 in college, I hit the gym hard. During this time I started to have an affinity for salads. But it was one day sometime after graduation, when I was eating in my apartment that it dawned on me. If vegetables are sprayed with pesticides, and I'm eating more vegetables, am I really getting healthier? This started me down my long road towards organics, something that would get another push with the birth of my first daughter.
About 10 years ago we had our daughter(my first), and the thought crossed my mind that we had been blessed with a perfectly healthy life to raise, and I wanted to do everything I could to keep her that way. Even at that time I had a vague idea that most disease and health issues stemmed from toxic burden, and if we were careful about what we eat, it would be possible to raise a child healthier than any I knew of, including myself and my wife when we were kids. This was further confirmed when I attended a talk at Illumina, where I was working at the time, and heard the speaker say they estimated 1/3 of all females, and 1/2 of all males would have cancer in the near future. While cancer has existed for thousands of years, rates like that have not, and I didn't see any reason why I should accept this as normal.
Over the next few years we started the slow, painful process of reading books, interviews, and online material about health. We even read labels at the grocery stores. And well I can remember things being quite overwhelming more than once, we kept at it, and little-by-little, our pantry and fridge filled up with organic, non-processed, local foods.
It was around this time we took my wife to see a naturopath, desperate for help. She was constantly feeling either anemic, or diabetic, but three medical doctors later, no one could tell us what was wrong.
After getting lab work, we were recommended some good supplements, and dietary changes, and a few months later, my wife was doing much better. A year after her initial visit, she was completely recovered. AND, unlike treatment based approaches, her entire health improved, and she has never relapsed.
But this wasn't the first time we'd seen a more natural approach work. Early in our relationship we noticed my step-daughter would break out in hives and a high fever every few months. Somehow I stumbled on making a change to a more natural laundry soap, and the hives and fever never returned. All these incidents told us we were on the right course, so we kept going.
We joined a CSA for produce, another one for meat, and started noticing that our kids not only didn't inherit any of our childhood diseases, they barely ever got sick. In contrast, everyone's kids we knew were frail and weak, constantly coming down with something. More confirmation we should keep it up.
And we still are, continuing to learn and improve our health, little-by-little. I can tell you it's not easy. You have to commit to taking personal responsibility for every medical decision, rather than always leaving it to someone else. And there are still SO many unhealthy substances in our home. But we almost never go to the doctor, or worry about health insurance. We have more energy, a better quality of life, and have saved a TON of money by preventing disease, rather than treating it. If you only look at the dollars in front of you now, rather than the future medical expenses cheap food incurs, you'll never understand that last part.
And best of all, when so many have become so fearful of disease, we haven't changed a thing. We set out every day to be as healthy as we can, and no virus will ever alter that approach. My biggest hope for the present is that more people start taking those next steps to being healthier.