There are books that change your life and then there are books that really change your life. Because of Deep Nutrition, I’ve radically changed my diet. I can’t tell you how much better I feel: tons more energy and a minor stomach pot is disappearing fast. I’m calmer and getting restful sleep, which I’d about resigned myself to doing without for the rest of my life. Incidentally, my high blood pressure is decent for a change and those annoying, stubborn skin rashes are next in line for full attention. Knee and neck pain from long ago injuries are gone; my joints are looser and more flexible. As they say, I’m happy as a clam.
As readers well know, health and longevity are vital interests of mine. “I’ve got to live a long time so I can write my books,” is what I say. Plus I’m addicted to feeling good, my blessedly lucky state for most of my life. So a couple of years ago when my friend, Lisette, loaned me Sally Fallon’s, Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, New Trends Publishing, 1999, 2001, I cheerfully read it, took notes, realized this was a book I should buy, but then slowly I let busy everyday events cover over my good intentions. I didn’t buy the book.
Little health annoyances piled up. I just didn’t feel right. Something bad wrong was waiting for me but I didn’t know what it was or how to deal with this unknown. Arteriosclerosis would get me; both parents had died of it. I worried and took my blood pressure a lot while the latest blood pressure prescription from my internist languished away unfilled. (I have a blood pressure machine at home.)
Starting down that unending road to prescription life—I just couldn’t do it. I knew there was a better way—a supplement, a special herb, an exercise, a super food, some secret I could learn—if I just read enough.
My indecision rocked along for a while as indecisions do while my blood pressure slowly climbed in spite of all my best efforts: walking more, adding this supplement, that recommended vitamin, or an exotic herb. Each addition would help for a minor bit and then I was right back where I started.
Frustrating? You bet!
But I’ve long practice in listening to my body and to my intuition. I knew there was a better way than hoping on the prescription train for more and more stops for more prescriptions. A PhD nurse friend, Marlene, told me long ago that all drugs have side effects. My intuition was trying to tell me I was being lied to, that another drug wasn’t likely to cure me. There were things I should know about my health, but didn’t. An answer existed, if I could just find it.
After only ten days on the program in Deep Nutrition my blood pressure in the doctor’s office was 134/60. I haven’t seen blood pressure like this for years. I believe I’m finding an answer that works for me. It’s in Chapter Seven of Deep Nutrition, entitled “The Four Pillars of World Cuisine: Foods That Program your Body For Beauty, Brains, and Health.”
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