Hey mate, Im very glad to hear that you feel you have some control and influence over how you feel, and are able to make conscious decisions and take steps to improve things.
Yes indeed a clean diet will always pay off. Due to my long term illness and severe allergies, my diet has been 100% homecooked, zero processed, whole, unrefined foods.
It pays off massively. Eating the standard refined artificial processed diet rapidly ages the body and the mind. Throughout my illness I have always looked a good 10 years younger than I am. Most people who are 5 or 10 years younger than me look 5 or 10 years older than me.
It has nothing to do with vanity but has always been an undeniable demonstration of the link between Diet and the rate at which our bodies age.
My own diet is brutally restricted however and I can't tolerate any supplements barely, virtually all herbs and natural healing remedies are intolerable and there are only two types of herbal tea I have come across which I can actually drink without an adverse reaction. Nettle and chamomile tea and I do not like either of them apart from that is plain filtered water is the only liquid which enters my body however much I crave a nice cup of tea, coffee, cocoa or some other herbal tea.
The severity of the adverse reactions just is not worth even thinking about taking any sort of miniature detour from my straight-line tight-rope I must stay on in order to be able simply to endure living comfortably, the respiratory reactions are so severe.
It has taken the most remarkable discipline to stay motivated throughout this time and continue to suffice on what has become a monotonous and grindingly boring and unenjoyable way of living.
It didn't always used to be like this but the last few years have been unbearably hard due to injuries and illness and the toll of long-term lyme disease and all of it's damages.
But no question it has paid off and continues to immeasurably to maintain this natural home-cooked unrefined eating way of living.
@ZeroLuck make sure you are getting enough healthy natural fats in your diet we need to eat a lot more fat than we are misinformed about.
However please be aware that man-made refined fat basically all refined vegetable oils and margarine is an incredibly toxic poisonous substance to put into our bodies and has absolutely no health benefits quite the opposite is extremely damaging to health and wellbeing and is directly linked to cancer development.
People have been brainwashed by the food Industries and government into using this man-made patented poisonous artificial product with the strong belief that the natural saturated fats are very bad for them.
When it is entirely the other way round. If you can and this advice goes to everybody avoid those man-made fats like the plague.
We require a fairly large amounts of natural fats in an equal ratio of saturated to unsaturated optimally and our bodies need this to flourish however this fat is like a key for our perfect locks and the man-made fat is like a hammer busting down the door.
I mean isn't it glaringly obvious that we should not be eating man-made unnatural fat when our bodies are made to require and be nourished by natural fat?
Absolute insanity by definition which is the name of the game for mankind these days.
So I recommend making sure you have an adequately high intake of these natural fats like 40 to 50 of organic virgin coconut oil a day I would suggest as a daily. regimen.
I have been consuming 40 to 60 g of organic coconut oil daily for well over 10 years.
The mainstream media and medical establishment would have me believe that this would Sabotage my heart health and pump my cholesterol through the roof.
When actually I have a phenomenally healthy heart to this day and my cholesterol was tested to be way better than average in both directions like better than optimal practically.
Also of great importance is getting enough quality natural unrefined salt and this is probably actually arguably one of the greatest deficiencies on earth because the vast majority of people again are consuming man-made toxic poisonous artificial salt, without the slightest clue that this practice is mental and health damaging.
Man-made salt is not quite as bad as man-made fat but is still one of the most toxic and damaging foods consumed worldwide and it is virtually entirely responsible for the bad name that salt has and it's negative health effects.
It is specifically the refined form of the salt which has been unnaturally processed and stripped and destroyed of all goodness, and turned into an alien artificial product which our bodies can not only utilise but has very negative consequences.
So fortunately because my diet has been 100% unprocessed home-cooked there is no added salt in any of my food and I avoid it vehemently but I add my own natural unrefined salt to my meals each day- currently we use Redmond real salt and this one I recommend above all others but if you can get a very good quality Himalayan salt this is also just as good but the Himalayan salt quality is more variable depending on where and how it is mined from but will always be infinitely better than refined salt no matter what.
And we need a much much greater amount of salt then we are told and and a deficiency of natural salt is directly related to depression and anxiety and many other conditions and symptoms and often goes a whole lifetime without being corrected or even understood due to the misinformation of the media and the bastards behind the script.
So everyday I weigh 10 grams of Redmond real salt and I add this to my meals and I consider this to be pretty much a minimum requirement, and in no way excessive at all as long as sufficient clean water is taken each day of course.
For quite a few years I bought into the no more than 6 grams ridiculous recommendation which is a huge under dose and I was under salting my body without realising.
Again I have maintained this supposedly very high salt intake for many years now without any adverse effects on my heart or cardiovascular system, perfect blood pressure as well.
As well as my high coconut oil intake I also as as much extra virgin olive oil to my meals each day plus there is fat in meat, fish, nuts etc.
My diet is very high in natural fat and natural salt yet not only do I not demonstrate any of the symptoms which the medical establishment would warn me about but actually it is completely the opposite case.
By Morton Satin
www.westonaprice.org
Here is a link with very strong evidence in relation to how much salt we really need and the proof that we need a much greater amount which is not associated with health problems but actually the opposite, with a correlation between lower recommended salt levels and many complications.
So consider this if what I'm saying is correct and we require a much larger amounts of unrefined salt in our diet and our bodies and brains need this as much as any other nutrients or food source.... then you could consider this to be a huge deficiency because a lot of people do not consume ANY natural unrefined salt at all or have any clue what it is vs they're refined versions.
And salt deficiency is very strongly related to depression and anxiety.
The same goes for the natural fats especially Omega-3 fatty acids which if there is a deficiency of will directly contribute depression and mental health problems.
Does this scenario apply to anybody here struggling with LTC?
So that would be my very strong advice to every and any human being on this planet to make some dietary improvements the best and first place to start would be to aim to eradicate man-made artificial salt and fat from the diet and replace them with ample quantities of the unrefined natural healing versions which are made by Nature to nourish and Heal our bodies and brains.
Ok my thoughts have run dry for a moment. I hope at least somebody can relate to what I'm saying and my benefits from it.
@ZeroLuck wishing you all the best mate I hope you gradually and continually find ways to feel better and more optimistic about life and the future.
