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<h1 class="col-12 title">
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My Journey
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</h1>
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<p class="col-12 text">
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[ TBD, check back soon. ]
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<div class="col-12 text">
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<strong>
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[ WARNING:
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This content is still In Progress and needs a full review.
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There may be typos, out of order content, and missing content.
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</strong>
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<p>
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Headaches, depression, digestive issues, lack of energy, and eventually
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unprovoked anxiety/panic attacks. This was the norm for me for most of
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my life. I ate a standard diet including fast food with meat always
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being the whether going out or cooking at home.
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</p>
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<p>
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Eventually I became lactose intolerant due to antibiotics but that was
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only a minor inconvenience, and did not always stop me from consuming
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things anyways. I had tried the pills which are supposed to help but
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didn't notice any difference. This didn't phase my diet though, just
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had to ask for "no cheese" and stop drinking milkshakes.
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</p>
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<p>
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What finally hit me hard enough to start changing things was the panic
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attacks and an itchy mole that had to be surgically removed. By this point
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in my early 20s I was already plenty skeptical of things like organized
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religion and businesses profitting off of people, but it started to occur
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to me that there were not many facts about health in my knowledge bank.
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What most people were doing and what I was doing is not working.
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</p>
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When I looked in the mirror to see my eyes dilating frantically and body
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feeling shaky and nervous when simply resting or eating a meal I knew that
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something was wrong. Then it occurred to me: "Why would God or Evolution
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ever produce a species that thinks of itself as so advanced, but has
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so many health issues that they consistently die prematurely or suffer
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chronically?"
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</p>
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<p>
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This lead me into a more nature-based approach to my lifestyle. Obvious
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things such as soda and candy were elminated first. Next was fast food.
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By the end of it I had eliminated "food" such as meat as well since I
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admitted that if I was living in the wild, I wouldn't be able to kill
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a cow with my bare hands or teeth, much less chew on its raw carcass.
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</p>
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<p>
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At this point my meals were mostly fruit and vegetables. I didn't really
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know what I was doing though. I still allowed myself bread, so most meals
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were oatmeal or peanut butter sandwiches with either jelly or bananas. I
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was feeling better, but knew that bread didn't grow on trees so I needed
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to keep going further. This was around the time that a nasty looking and
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extremely itchy mole cropped had to be cut out of the the back of my leg.
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</p>
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<p>
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My saving grace was quitting a restaurant job in order to seek a job
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related to my upcoming career field of Computer Science. This was the
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summer of 2014 before my final year of school. I had figured out that my
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hydration was trash and was now drinking at least a gallon of water a day.
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I didn't have luck finding an internship, but I had plenty of time to
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research health, and ended up doing an apple fast.
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</p>
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<p>
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I gorged on apples. Multiple pounds a day for at least three days. I
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honestly did it not expecting it to work. Being able to live on apples
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seemed like a joke, but I was willing to try it as an experiment. To my
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surprise I started feeling better and better! By the end I had decided
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that there was power to this and needed to explore even more!
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</p>
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For the following three months I was a 100% raw fruitarian eating as many
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calories as I could. I followed the advice of many people, mostly vegan
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athletes such as Durianrider and Freelee, but also others like John Kohler
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and Dan "The Man" McDonald. Dan also provided lots of good advice on loving
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oneself and improving mental, emotional, and spiritual life. I also made
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sure what I was doing was backed by medical staff such as John McDougall.
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<p>
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I still tell people this to this day: those three months in 2014 were the
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best feeling of my life. My body felt light lightning. I had so much energy
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and felt like I could literally accomplish anything. I started riding a bike
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without having done it since I was a kid, and was able to ride to a town
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dozens of miles away with no training or practice, and didn't even feel
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sore. My body was finally to the point that God or Evolution intended!!
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Acne, gone. Skin was glowing and I got many compliments. Suffering from
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the heat and humidity of summer? Gone as well! My body was able to cool
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off so much faster without having cooked food stuck in digestion. There
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were so many weird things that people wouldn't think of being related to
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diet and lifestyle.
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</p>
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<p>
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Speaking of lifestyle, that is something else I learned from listening to
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my new role models. "Sleep Water Sugar" as Durianrider used to say. The
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PDF on my main Health section covers the 6 pillars that I found to be
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highly important. "CTFU" (Carb The Fuck Up) is first for a reason, in my
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experimentation it was the most important one. Water and sleep follow
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because I found my body does not operate or digest well if those are
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missing. Exercise is next because it can go longer without being kept up.
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The last two are more spiritual, and reuire the first four to be maintained
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in order for them to be beneficial, but once they are achieved then they
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can help keep the first four in check when they dwindle.
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There was a day where I wondered if I was now cured of something and could
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go back to foods from my old diet. So one night for dinner I ate with my
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family and had some sort of pasta with meat. After eating I ran an errand,
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and remember within less than a few minutes, after only getting to the
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street after our home, I started nodding off at the wheel. What a quick
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indication that certain foods are a no-go!
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</p>
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<p>
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Why would I stop eating like this, you ask? This was a temporary situation.
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I was on summer break from school and was free from a job. When the fall
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semester started I needed a job again to pay for gas, books, etc. So I
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added in clean RawTil4 type foods like rice. For many years I ate like this
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and still felt great. No oil, which I still don't do to this day. Also no
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seasoning, I firmly believe in only eating food that you like the taste
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of alone and would be happy eating as a monomeal. This is one of many
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reasons I don't like seasonings and prefer not to use them.
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</p>
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<p>
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There are other things I was able to discover about my body as well, such
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as alliums causing headaches, body pain, nightmares, and with garlic it
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becomes full-on night terrors. These are an absolute no when I'm able
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to dictate it. Nightshades have also been slowly phased out, avoiding
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all potato unless deep fried so that the poison is destroyed even things
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like tomatoes and non-spicy peppers. These are less of an issue, but raw
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and undercooked potatoes cause an obvious head and body tingle/ache,
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eggplant digests terribly, and tomatoes cause bloat. In 2022 as an
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experiment with my wife while she tried a low histamine experiment I
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also found that tomatoes were the reason that my nose has been running
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consistently for years! I had been blaming bad air, but just goes to
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show that you can never stop learning!
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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