Thought this was a fascinating podcast w/ Mary R. She details how she got mycoplasma in high school which turned into a severe case of autoimmune dysautonomia that left her bedbound for 4y and in kidney failure. She changes her lifestyle and ends up experimenting w/ diet after diet (spoiler: vegan diets dont work), and finally finds one that starts to heal her.
Then she takes you through how they
actually eat in the blue zones and through most of africa, she has spent time w/ many different tribes learning how they eat, and she will dispel you of the myth that meat is bad, and kind of drives home the point that the modern chronic illness epidemic is driven by food. You dont see lyme or long covid or autoimmune in any of these native communities until the modern diet arrives.
The first 25 minutes arent necessary, her story starts at about
26/27 miniutes in. Highly recommend it, she is brilliant.
https://carnivoremd.com/the-fascinating-case-of-a-mystery-autoimmune-illness-reversed-with-an-animal-based-diet-with-mary-ruddick-cnc/ I tried the diet she made for me, as I documented before. I was getting better for the first 3m until I started cheating. Some dressing on my vegetables here, a bit of potatoes there, and then it was over. I now realize where I went wrong, you cant do it 85%. Going to give it a shot 100% in this time.
I liked this exchange between Dr Saladino and Mary, it describes where I'm at and why I need to do her diet once and for all 100% in and heal this gut and neuropathy, because I feel my brain breaking, to use mary's words.
Dr Saladino: "I love that you said that the second year of the four that you were bedbound was the best year of your life, thats so incredible that you were able to find peace and resolve in it"
Mary Ruddick: "yea, it was a real gift. I really owe a lot of that to my mom, and I really owe a lot of that to the pain of the neuropathy. Neuropathy is such an incredible pain that I could never put it into words of what it feels like. And luckily, nothing really works for it. No pain medications. Well, I say that now, but I would have killed for something to relieve it at the time. But the benefit of going through something that you cant get out of, that you have no immediate escape from, is that it forces you to go through it. When you dont have an out, your brain kind of breaks, it breaks open, and you can get to another level"Post Edited (dcd2103) : 6/30/2021 7:39:10 AM (GMT-6)