I tend to see a healthy diet as an absolute necessity because of the link between PTSD and my body, thank you those who've mention the mind/body connection.
When the symptoms of PTSD first began to bare down on me, I thought it was my diet causing it because I was doing hack diets consecutively, trying paleo, trying metabolic, and so on. When the symptoms hit hard at first I was in paleo and I immediately thought paleo was a horrific scam, lol. I know better now.
I've done probably every type of system out there and I've finally found out just through studying and practice what works for me and it helps me a ton. I eat only organic whenever possible, and I do everything I can to choose only non gmo. Actually, I'm sensitive/allergic to a lot of the chemicals, especially round up, if somebody sprays roundup around me I'm in bed for days.
Another important one for me to avoid is MSG. MSG is used in labs to make rats obese. It hacks your mind/body to cause you to crave bad foods and hijacks your metabolism. Then of course sugar. I'm off of it, except for which can not be avoided because it's built into the food already.
I eat a lot of green foods, chlorella to remove environmental toxins and boost blood cell count. I get most of my protein from organic hemp protein powder, I make a smoothie with it, bananas and frozen mango chunks. Meat here and there. Not to ruffle any vegan feathers (I've been vegan) but I do think dietary cholesterol is important because it's what your body uses to manufacture hormones, no cholesterol and the hormone factory begins to go wonky, something we already struggle through with PTSD. And even some animal fats, but not a lot. As long as I'm getting egg yolks, I'm pretty good in that department. I would probably eat more meat if I had more money.
I also stay away from fluoride as it is a neurotoxin and the brain fog is already bad enough.
There is no way to be mostly organic and non gmo unless you don't eat out much, so I've gotten pretty good at cooking, I'm starting to grow my own food, and I've actually found this to be very meditative and enjoyable, except for doing lots of dishes. Usually when I give in and eat out it's because I don't want to do dishes. lol Overall I would say that good eating, cooking and growing food has been a silver lining for me in all of this.
I look at the healthy diet as one important aspect of the overall management of PTSD. It's like putting gas in a lawn mower, completely necessary, but the lawn still isn't going to mow itself.
Thank you for the topic
@annexthecelt!
