Food As Medicine

[Bloomy]

First f all listen to your doctor or similar. If you are on medication or other precaution. This is my personal experience using my self as a trst bunny.

After some thread here Ive decided to make a own post here about the important component of the healing journey and at all just be better then what you do in regards to poor nutrition.

Concept of food and activity as medicine is as explained; the organism is depending on vital nutrtonal components in balance in order for the human organism to function. If a individual is somehow sick like inflammation / ptsd (cronic stress / cortisol / adrenalin) it can give symptoms like feks fibromyalgia.

Vegetables, nuts, beans, fish, specially fat fish, natural fat, water to replenish, walks in nature to clean / rinse the blood will help the bodys immune system to fight the disease and establish fysiological balance again.

Of course we need therapy and all this other things that follows, but my experience with my self as a test rabbit changing lifestyle eating this sort of food has helped me so many times to not be as sick as I could have been. Its also good if you exercise and think you might get sore.

Some foods known to have super nutrtion: fat fish, almonds, red sweet potato, dried apricot, tomato pure. all sort of berries, avocado, leaf vegetables like spinach, ginger, cinnamon, minth lentils andmuch more.

Some links:

How Does Food Impact Health? | Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing

Food as Medicine

 

[cat-lady]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Thanks @Bloomy! More of a conprehensive list here! :hug:

 

[shimmerz]

PTSD, for me brings up a real concern as far as my digestive system. It doesn't function at optimal levels (or even close to optimal). That being said, I really need to give it a break. So eating foods that go through the system really easily and with the highest possible nutritional value is super important. Juicing, raw foods, things that are not packaged, little if no meat, all lead to a great deal more energy for myself. It is magic.

of course, one must be fairly mindful of self care in order to have a good food diet. That can be a struggle but I honestly believe it is one of the most necessary building blocks in rebuilding a good foundation. That alone with drinking enough water.
Thanks so much for the links! They are great! A really important subject when speaking of healing!

 

[Bloomy]

Suggestion on how to eat for a week:
Keep meat to only once or twice. Eat fish for dinner three times. Eat vegetable dinner 2 - 3 times. Avoid processed food and make your own from the ground. Give it your best to appreciate the nutrition youll feed your body with as you make it and envision how it aids your organism to heal with the vitamins and minerals that youll absorve. Drink smoothie made out of berries every morning. Have your almonds every day. Have your walnuts everyday. Fat fish is your friend so enjoy its company as often as possible. Like sweet potato - it likes you. And if you can make a soup with its good friends like the pumpkin and the carrot mixed with red onion, garlic, chili and coconut milk for a soup all the better. Eat more leafy green vegetables - there is a good reason why Skipper the sailor was so strong.
Make your self go out. Plan it as in finding a natural sight that will give your sore soul a relive and that will give you oportunity to have a good medical walk to cleanse and rinse your blood. Breath in fresh oxygen for your cells to rejoice and breathe out carbon and let the toxic go. Let the wind play with your hair and the birds sing in your heart.
Drink water with lemon daily. Make yourself a nice and warm ginger beverage with honey and citron and feel how this nutrtion gives you more strenght to handle.

This is actually a personal note for myself :)

 

[Bloomy]

@shimmerz its been a long long journey for me and Im still walking it. I was really the queen of junk food and processed food and a lazy person as well. But I was hurting so much that time I had this lifestyle. Mentally as well as fysical. Doctor claim I had fibromyalgi due to severe all - over - pain - attacks. I also have problems eating still today.

This is what keeps me going. Since I do have problems eating I know that what I eat must be of nutritional value. Some months ago I fell into old eating pattern and it instantly made me ill and sick. Back to pain and back to fibromyalgia. It was a reminder that no matter what I do healthy eating as my medicine should be part of it.

Important for me to say that also to force my self to be active is also important. Im in a rut if I dont. And risk of inflammations increase.

With this said - I know all about that its not easy. It took me personally 3 - 4 years to adopt to this way of life.

 

[Poofycat]

Diet is very, very important for taking care of your mental health in my opinion. Numerous studies have come out the past couple years that show that the types of foods that you eat can greatly impact your serotonin and other important chemical levels in your body. In fact, the gut is now often called the "second brain". It's that important. You can google that term to find the different foods that are important to maintaining healthy gut bacteria but it basically boils down to clean, unprocessed foods with a lot of variety. Mainly fiber. So while juicing is good for you because you get the vitamins, eating the whole fruit or vegetable will get you the fiber AND the vitamins. Fermented food is also important. It's really cheap and easy to make your own sauerkraut and kimchi. I always have something going in a crock on my counter. If you buy it pre-made, make sure it's fermented with salt instead of vinegar. Vinegar actually kills the bugs that you want while salt breaks down the fibers in the vegetables and promotes the growth of healthy bacteria.

There are also a number of studies that show depression might be linked to inflammation in the body. Turmeric is a strong anti-inflammatory so I use it in my cooking as much as possible. It's great sprinkled on sweet potato. You can also make a tea out of it. There are various recipes that can be found online. Drink a cup before bed and wake up with looser muscles.

 

[Rani G2]

Hey Bloomy,

had a long struggle with food. No bulimia, anorexia but I had difficulty eating healthy. Rarely did I eat vegetables, fruits or nuts. Mostly meat, sugar, wheat, caffeine.

I have changed my diet since a couple of months. More vegetables, fruits, water. This has an major effect on my mental state.

 

[Deleted member 541]

I've been seeing a chiropractor and he gave me a list of foods to stay away from. I'm not going to type the whole thing out, but will hit on most of it.

Processed meats, such as bologna etc. Bacon, bratwurst. Any kind would of bread, rolls bagels or anything with white flour in it. Sugar of any kind, including honey. All baked goods. Cheese. All and any snack foods like chips, pretzels, puddings. Ice cream sherbet. Soda, and whole dairy. Granola, pizza, popcorn. Margarine And sausage, hamburg, hotdogs.

Kind of leaves shit to eat, but he's says I need to cut out these foods.... hahahahahaha. Just thought I'd share if anyone is interested.