I WAS WRONG!
I started fasting Monday and broke it today.
It was just adding to whatever imbalance, probably an over-alkalization, leading to INTENSE
anxiety and an awful feeling in my abdomen. (fasting alkalizes)
IF I'm right about the hyper-alkalosis, fasting has an alkalizing effect. (u need an acidic gut to
digest properly)
Any vegetation you eat, ESP. raw, has an alkalizing effect. AND needs to chewed VERY well.
Do you chew your carbs 50-100 times like you should? I doubt it. (need to chew that cud)
I've just started eating raw lettuce, thinking it's sedative effect, and according to 'experts'
anti-anxiety effect would be good, but other than feeling less energetic, and dreaming like
a MOFO, it didn't help much. It may have just been adding to the possible hyper-alkalosis.
So today, after driving around and doing things to distract myself from the dreadful feeling
emanating from my whole gut, I decided to break my fast, after 2 1/2 days. (7 days was goal)
Part off the reason was that I had some chicken thighs that would have gone bad, but I also
decided to eat JUST the meat in the hope that it would acidify me and relieve the bad gut.
(wish I didn't have the need to eat meat, to kill another animal, but I go with what works)
And you know what? It DID!
Now, it may be b/c meat doesn't need to be chew much at all, like carnivores do, (easier to
digest) or it was giving me some nutrient I badly needed like Zinc, Selenium, B-12 or some
amino acids that can only be gotten from meat. (check out the utter importance of those
first three nutrients which are harder to get from vegetation} It could even be neanderthal
genes that make you need to eat like a cat, a carnivore that's only healthy when eating meat.
(catmando)
Or the acidifying effect, I'm not sure. The why isn't important, it's the WHAT that's paramount.
And vegetation increases the imbalance, so after breaking my fast with dark chicken meat,
white has too many alkaline minerals/amino acids to acidify, I feel SO much better. (me cat)
So my advice to anyone dealing with feeling so antsy and anxious you what to get away from
it all, (I KNOW the feeling) try eating NOTHING but meat to see if the terrible gut feeling and
the hyper-restlessness subsides. It has for me!
Now, this got me thinking, some of the healthiest people cook vegetation VERY well. In soups
cooked all day or fried in oil, that's one way to lessen the need to chew REAL well, making the
nutrients more available. It softens the fiber which some say too much of is bad for you and it
would make it less alkalizing. (cooking deactives anti-nutrient factors in vegetation too)
I've been reading LOTS of self help books, and it's almost like they're written by over-alkalized
people for over-alkalized people. Lots of think good thoughts not bad mumbo jumbo, when
it's the imbalance causing the overthinking, and everything else, that's the REAL problem.
This even has philosophical implication, since hyper-alkalosis can lead to a spiritual awakening,
but NOT in a dog eat dog world. The hyper-sensitivity is great in silent solitude, not so much w/
all the muss and fuss of our modern society. (Buddhist suggest you become less sensitive, just
like any vegan would)
I should also mention our propensity to sit for long periods, and not in a good way, which could
be causing problems. Easterners don't lounge in a seat, stuffing food down their gullet as fast as
they can like Americans tend to. And eating lots of starches may be starching YOU, (by not eating it correctly) so your less pliable and viscous, which makes sitting for long periods incorrectly an even
worse proposition. (I'm experimenting with sitting less and not at all when I eat. the paleo way?)
To sum it up, I'm still think it's bad dietary habits that are at the root of your severe anxiousness
and very bad feelings leading to the strong desire to get away from it all, yourself included.
My advice would be don't discount that you've done this too yourself, what's eating you is what,
and how, you've been eating. {
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