Body is a temple

Body is a temple

Walking in the beautiful English country side we found some magic mushrooms. We ate a couple straight away. It was my only time to have them. 

My friend handed me the third one. I said it wasn't for me. Then she called my body a temple.  But, it may be an untamed beast because it is extremely reactive. 

In about ten minutes I was tripping. On two little magic mushroom. 

I don't believe it myself.

I enjoyed it though. 

My friend wasn't so lucky although she took the third one. In fact, she probably munched away on all of them hoping for a high.  Hahahah.  

I am a lightweight. She said, and she is right. It is because of this that it is so important for me to try to manage the fibroid reduction in the most natural way possible.

Gingko Biloba

Somewhere, somehow I found out about the power Ginkgo Biloba's to give the Homo Sapiens an extra few brain receptors.

So, whilst on my raw vegan died I took one Ginko Biloba tablet each day. Diligently.

If you read my previous posts going raw is not too easy. I did it for just over six weeks, I think. I stopped counting days after a while.

But, I also stopped the raw diet. I stopped because I felt dizzy and for the first time in my life I had headaches. I didn't even write about it. I wasn't sleeping properly. I slept about 4-6 hours each night. It was another kind of life that I had never experienced before. Yet, I was functioning.

I was on the toilet all the time. My body was not processing properly the food that I was consuming.

I figured it was the raw diet full of fibre that sent me to sit on the toilet for what seemed worthless shit. Excuse me.

I went to the doc.

Said: "I feel dizzy and I have headaches. I have to hang on to the wall sometimes to steady myself. A totally new feeling for a sober state." I didn't mention the toilet trips because I knew it was the raw food that gave them to me. (HOW VERY WRONG I WAS!!!)

The Doc checked my blood pressure, looked into my eyes and into his computer, turned around and said: "You don't have diabetes, your blood pressure is fine and you are not anaemic. It will go away by itself."

The conversation was had over a month ago.

So, I started eating bread and cooked food still under the impression if was the poor raw fruit and veg's fault. I only ate vegan food though. But, not raw. I even started drinking decaffeinated coffee hoping that it may help my headaches and dizziness. In fact I was so desperate I even had ice cream. A lot of ice cream in one day. It didn't help. It gave me lots of spots though.

I did abstain from all animal products other than an occasional organic egg. This is something that I am very happy and proud about.

The headaches have stopped, the dizziness has gone and I am sleeping my usual 8-9 hours per day.

But the reason I am feeling OK again is because I have stopped taking the Ginkgo Biloba supplement. 

There was one bit of sanity left in my head that said stop taking the supplement it may be the culprit. Just see what happens. The funny thing is that I stopped taking the pineapple enzyme before stopping Ginkgo. It is extremely laughable how much faith I had in this supplement.

It is only the other night when I noticed that the dizziness has left that I googled side effects of Ginkgo. And guess what! DIZZINESS was screaming from every link.

Not only that, I am always hungry! I eat like crazy. I wondered why. Now I know. It is the Gingko.

My body is very sensitive to all medicines.

What this has proven to me once again that raw food is absolutely nothing to blame for and as soon as I am ready again we shall be together. Together, looking out for each other and with love healing the body of all the trauma of abuse I have put it through.

My dear body, thank you for coping so well.
I shall treat you well again.

p.s. Considering how much reading I do with regards to anything that I consume it is simply baffling that I never read about the ginkgo side effects. Sometimes things just happen because they have to.

Getting back to raw: the plan

In 2012 I gave up artificial/refined sugars. I gave them up for the summer. In the winter I was back on Jaffa Cakes. So, I had a few months break.

That first stint of freedom from sugars was extremely hard. I still remember it. I was so though and so strong. Stoic, in fact.

However, the second time round it was a breeze. Abstaining from the poison of our bodies was extremely easy.

Hence, the next time I start the raw diet I know from experience that it will be easier than the first time.

Right now, I am feeding my heavy appetite. It is a temporary state. Once I am ready I will stop eating all cooked food and the food will be my medicine. Food void of any supplements.

The break from the raw

The break has been a learning experience and I am about to start it again and hope, as before, that it will make Bob and Max go away.

I will write about the progress.

Cabbage and 100% RAW Vegan Diet

This morning I am having a massive bowl of organic savoy cabbage for breakfast. I can eat it just as it is. Peal leaf by leaf or thinly sliced. It tastes so delicious.

For more nutrients I added my two basics of avocado and tomato plus pepper and cucumber.

I dressed it with a lot of hemp seed oil for the omega fats and also to keep some fat on the body. Not sure how well this will work. Generally I eat a lot of avocado and nuts but I don't know if it's enough.

This is an experiment. 

If for one year I eat only vegetables and fruit with nuts there should really not be too many problems as a result. 

I had in the past taken a year out and just drunk alcohol at least three times per week. This was when I was a lot younger and other than fibroids I didn't really get any serious illness. 

Surely the body will work well in a year of good feed. 

Get friendly with cabbage! 

Scientific research has proven that anti-cancerous properties in cabbage can be utilised when cabbage is eaten raw or fermented. Also, interestingly, cabbage should be cut into chunks not smaller than 1cm in order to preserve enzymes' abilities to create cancer fighting actions (Huffington Post, 2013).

Information and mention of cabbage as a great healer is overwhelming the www so a google search will yield a variety of written material, scientific and that from popular press. I only mention Huffington Post because the article is succinct and very well referenced.

I have a massive jar of cabbage undergoing fermentation process. This is extremely easy to prepare. I eat fresh cabbage as often as I fancy it. It is delicious so it's no bother.

The point is, I believe, to embrace and act on the advice we are given. The beauty of knowledge is that it provides us with tips on which road leads to our best destination. My gratefulness is to all of those who are experimenting, observing, coming up with results and sharing them with us the normal mortals who only -albeit selfishly- want to be healthy.

I am now 40 years old and my idea of fun used to be a day/night in the pub with good company giving my liver a hell of a ride with all the wine and rum I could fit inside my body. This was cruel to say the least. But fun! I lot of fun!

However, if it the choice is between a couple of good days in the pub with a horrible hangover the days after followed by trips to hospitals intermittent with surgeries and taking medicines; and the choice two is no hospitals, no surgeries, no medicines, no alcohol, no hangovers, fun is found in long walks and picnics with sparkling water, trips to new places, opera, theatre, dancing, gym, cinemas, raw dinners.... then clearly the option two is the one to chose. It is so obvious and so simple.

May your road lead to health and happiness. Mine too. :)



P.S. Fibroids are tumours. They are non-cancerous (how lucky) but I see that they need to be ousted using the same process as that required to remove other tumours. They are all a consequence of inflammations and toxicity of the body. (I have read scientific research on this and also heard raw foodists speak of it too - the evidence is rife).

Overeating whilst 100% Raw

In my post yesterday I wrote about lack of sleep as a consequence of overeating. I understand that fibroids (Bob and Max) are taking up quite a bit of space but if I don't overeat then they are not too much of a problem.                 

After I wrote that post I ate very little:

A few bananas and walnuts. 
A couple of dates.
A punnet of strawberries and blackcurrants. 
I drunk plenty of water and also a glass of the water from the homemade pickled cabbage.


It was 7 pm that I had my last banana. I slept for almost 7 hours without waking up to go to the bathroom. It is such an improvement from the day before when I woke up many times and had to be up very early with the bowl movement was as the wake up call. 

Therefore, my lesson is to not overeat. 

What about nutrition?

I figure I will simply have to start juicing. I can drink a litre of juice full of nutrition but could not eat all the veg that produce that 1l of juice. 

I have learned that pineapple has anti-cancerous properties. In India, pregnant women are discouraged to eat the core of pineapple as it can induce premature labour. A wife's tale also proven by the science. 

           "Bromelain, the enzyme complex of the pineapple plant, also has properties similar to such drugs as aspirin and indomethacin (5,6), but has no undesirable side effects. (Batkin, Steven Taussig & Joseph Szekerczes, 2009)"

Bromelain can cure tumours, apparently. There are a few videos on youtube with people professing that it cured their tumours. It is worth a try. I would much rather eat pineapple everyday to rid the body of Bob and Max than go under a knife. They will not come back if the body is in good health. Surgery does not give a healthy body. It just removes the tumours. 

Since becoming 100% raw I have had a pineapple almost always day. Also, apple cider vinegar, lemon, turmeric and garlic. I haven't had them every single day. I skip a day or two for variety a reasons. Sometimes I don't fancy smelling of garlic; don't get a chance to buy the pineapple. Turmeric, well, I just don't fancy the taste. Something to work on.

Ginger is also supposed to be a super healer. It, too, shall be incorporated. Soon.