Hello all!
Thank you for operating this brilliant forum site. It is a very valuable resource for many searchers for improved health.
I began adopting Dr Peat's diet philosophy 3+ years ago. I was slow to release my old beliefs and adopt new ones despite being desperate for change. I used to ingest handfuls of vitamins, avoided certain foods and drank unpalatable herbal tonics. My regime changed as often as I found something new to try – I was looking for a magic bullet to cure all.
I never found one, nor is the diet guidelines of Dr Peat a magic bullet that will cure you overnight.
First of all, you have to figure it all out. Read his articles. Research his references. Google some more, look for opponents. Finally, wary and partially convinced, you try it out. Soon changes occur and you try some more, read some more and research some more (all very secretly because if anyone found you had adopted a diet of ice cream, coke, sugar, milk and gummy bears they would laugh at you). Mind you the ice cream is homemade from raw whole milk with honey, and the gummy bears are also homemade with Great Lakes gelatin, fruit juice and sugar – but that being said, our friends would only see a fat girl eating ice cream, candy, milk and sugar and think she was deluding herself into believing she was on a diet.
Using Dr Peat’s ideas, you slowly and insidiously change. I used to get giant whelts if I leaned on something, or carried a bag over my arm. Then one day, I realized that stopped happening. Recently I decided that either my eyes are getting worse or my skin is getting clearer. I certainly don’t look my 46 years.
My problem is I am lazy. It takes time to make food that is good for you. You can’t eat out in a restaurant. Everything is cooked in, or with, oil. Also, by now, it all tastes bad to me anyway. Our local Indian takeaway that I used to love now makes me throw up half the night. Noodle box tastes horrid. McDonalds turns my stomach in a matter of bites. I have become intolerant of oil. And there is very little “out there” that doesn’t contain oil – even at your friend’s house. But you politely eat up, swallow vitamin E and plead with your stomach to keep it all in.
It turns out that after you get rid of some of the pollution in your body, your mouth becomes a good indicator about what you should eat. The good stuff tastes good (or un-notable), and the bad stuff tastes sour or leaves a sour aftertaste.
The biggest difficulty with Dr Peat’s eating suggestions is that they are very unorthodox and it is hard to find a sympathetic ear when you feel uncertain. That is where this forum is magic. Chances are you are the only one in a 100km radius who is listening to Dr Peat – and certainly not your local GP, the nurse at the school, the diet clubs, the fitness gurus at the gym, and other parents who feed their kids margarine.
It’s a tricky path to walk, with lots of nay-sayers. Diet is a bit like religion: something very personal and each person is doing, right now, what they believe is the best answer. I found it extremely helpful making the massive changes needed by doing it solitarily. I would tell nay-sayers I am doing a thyroid experiment and would let them know how it turns out. I found it useful to never preach to non-believers.
Now that I am a believer, my current conundrum is how to truly heal my gut. The health of your gut is difficult to measure. And I have come to believe that the health of your gut is the key to your overall health. I will keep experimenting and let you know.
Thank you for operating this brilliant forum site. It is a very valuable resource for many searchers for improved health.
I began adopting Dr Peat's diet philosophy 3+ years ago. I was slow to release my old beliefs and adopt new ones despite being desperate for change. I used to ingest handfuls of vitamins, avoided certain foods and drank unpalatable herbal tonics. My regime changed as often as I found something new to try – I was looking for a magic bullet to cure all.
I never found one, nor is the diet guidelines of Dr Peat a magic bullet that will cure you overnight.
First of all, you have to figure it all out. Read his articles. Research his references. Google some more, look for opponents. Finally, wary and partially convinced, you try it out. Soon changes occur and you try some more, read some more and research some more (all very secretly because if anyone found you had adopted a diet of ice cream, coke, sugar, milk and gummy bears they would laugh at you). Mind you the ice cream is homemade from raw whole milk with honey, and the gummy bears are also homemade with Great Lakes gelatin, fruit juice and sugar – but that being said, our friends would only see a fat girl eating ice cream, candy, milk and sugar and think she was deluding herself into believing she was on a diet.
Using Dr Peat’s ideas, you slowly and insidiously change. I used to get giant whelts if I leaned on something, or carried a bag over my arm. Then one day, I realized that stopped happening. Recently I decided that either my eyes are getting worse or my skin is getting clearer. I certainly don’t look my 46 years.
My problem is I am lazy. It takes time to make food that is good for you. You can’t eat out in a restaurant. Everything is cooked in, or with, oil. Also, by now, it all tastes bad to me anyway. Our local Indian takeaway that I used to love now makes me throw up half the night. Noodle box tastes horrid. McDonalds turns my stomach in a matter of bites. I have become intolerant of oil. And there is very little “out there” that doesn’t contain oil – even at your friend’s house. But you politely eat up, swallow vitamin E and plead with your stomach to keep it all in.
It turns out that after you get rid of some of the pollution in your body, your mouth becomes a good indicator about what you should eat. The good stuff tastes good (or un-notable), and the bad stuff tastes sour or leaves a sour aftertaste.
The biggest difficulty with Dr Peat’s eating suggestions is that they are very unorthodox and it is hard to find a sympathetic ear when you feel uncertain. That is where this forum is magic. Chances are you are the only one in a 100km radius who is listening to Dr Peat – and certainly not your local GP, the nurse at the school, the diet clubs, the fitness gurus at the gym, and other parents who feed their kids margarine.
It’s a tricky path to walk, with lots of nay-sayers. Diet is a bit like religion: something very personal and each person is doing, right now, what they believe is the best answer. I found it extremely helpful making the massive changes needed by doing it solitarily. I would tell nay-sayers I am doing a thyroid experiment and would let them know how it turns out. I found it useful to never preach to non-believers.
Now that I am a believer, my current conundrum is how to truly heal my gut. The health of your gut is difficult to measure. And I have come to believe that the health of your gut is the key to your overall health. I will keep experimenting and let you know.