Diet, sugar, and the connection to cancer and candida

so i'm looking into this thing because i was hearing this man speak and i thought hey he was talking about cancer you know and especially like if you ever deal with cancer at that point you're you know well you're trying to get rid of it so so anyways the cancer

this doctor and it's true because it was one of the things that um i remember researching and looking into was that well the cancer everybody knows the cancer eats sugar right but the one thing that i was thinking about was that he was saying a lot has to do with diet which i agreed because one of the first things that i kept doing and trying to stay on as much as possible was keto um again to remove the sugars but what i was thinking about was

candida albicans or albicans or whatever however they pronounce it but anyways I was thinking about candida and the candida is a bacteria that when you have sugar in the body it becomes you're more prone to infections basically so you end up being more prone to infections with the overgrowth of this candida so

what happens is and i remember this from like back when we used to do like magnet therapy in miami so but what i was thinking was that usually the person that has um cancer like i'm thinking more so like personally even in my case um when i had cancer i started springing out with all of these infections and things like that um that kind of came out of the nowhere but

When you think of... What I'm trying to look at is the correlation is that this candida, right? It grows. It causes infection. And as it continually keeps growing, you know, not in every case because everybody's cancer is different. But in some cases, this cancer, what happens is that the start of cancer, that's how you can correlate that it starts in the GI tract, in the gastrointestinal tract. Because

when you have an overgrowth of that candida it basically also confirms like physically will confirm that you really could it's it's diet you know it's it is diet so anyways i was going into um something else here that i was thinking about um because i was asking and i was telling um

I was on chat and GPT. So I said, you know, then it's, one could say that it's safe to say that all those studies are still catching up or they haven't fully confirmed that the cancer is caused by what we eat or can be in some cases that the beginning process of cancer begins in the stomach. So not all cases, because, you know, like it was stating, some things are environmental. So it's by what the person is breathing. So this will, this is another

facet of how another type of cancer might arise because you know we're dealing with the entry point is different but essentially you know we are what we eat but essentially where it starts off is is the stomach so it is um there is a point as to the fact that you know what you eat if you have this over process um

this overconsumption of sugar, which in the American diet, there's a lot of sugar, right? So what happens is that besides that, I was thinking about like a person, like in my case, I had always had since I was a teenager, I've had for the longest time struggle with PCOS. PCOS or diabetic patients, I would assume that they're more prone to get cancer. And genetically, they usually confirm that. And the reason for that is because the person cannot

um absorb the glucose correctly um they have insulin resistance so they they don't absorb sugar correct um but imagine you're still comparing that you have the same more or less diet or have an american diet or a diet that's high in sugar then at that point that person has more likelihood than to get cancer you know so changing the diet ends up being a really big deal

as far as um well one healing it you know um and not getting it to that point because we can take preventative measures of not getting cancer versus um having to intervene so interventional basically intervene means you're already you're already past that point of um you know preventative so you have to jump into the means of dealing with it at that point so

the increased risk of cancer, more so that I was looking into how, you know, sometimes we're kind of like, oh, so anyways, whatever. I was asking it, how does it affect the brain? Because at that point I go, okay, wait a minute, because the stomach has a lot to do with the brain function. Not just that, it's like called the second brain. So at that point, I'm like, wait a minute, there has to be a point because of something else I was studying.

as far as the neurological symptoms that you begin to experience again this is something that i personally experienced and went through half of my body was numb i was dealing with a lot of neurological symptoms nothing could be explained boom okay so what happens is that the candida it does affect the brain leads to cognitive and neurological symptoms

While these effects are more commonly observed in individuals with compromised immune systems, such as cancer, diabetes, undergoing immunosuppressive treatments, there's emerging evidence that suggests that candida may also influence brain function in otherwise healthy individuals. In a person like my case, PCOS is some, it's not that it is diabetes, but it is an insulin resistance.

so i was experiencing a lot of neurological symptoms i was half of my body was going numb my foot was not working like my hands like i still have some neurological symptoms that i go through um but they're not like they weren't like this like this was like i could not explain them at that point um and it was because i did have cancer but no you know i was i wasn't confirmed yet that it was cancer i was still going through the process but they couldn't figure it out but why

So the one thing that I was looking into, which is another study for something else, is that when you have an insulin resistance, and on top of that, like you have like a genetic disease of some sort, or which, okay, so if you break it down, most people have something, right? But in either case, what happens is that with this candida, it causes infection, it causes inflammation. So what happens is if the person is also

insulin resistant, that creates this like stickiness, which causes the neurotransmitters to not communicate. They actually have like, they're just not able to communicate correctly, which causes the neurological disease or causes the neurological symptoms, I should say, that would be correct. So cognitive impairment, brain fog, that makes sense.

So one of the things that I did because I was trying to lower the inflammation and I had realized that it had worked for me before was keto, but not garbage keto. You have to do like eat your proteins and veggies, right? Lots of water. And then you remove the sugar. And for me in particular, I do have sweet tooth, but I removed sugar, sugar. Like I removed like all types of sugar at that point. I wasn't having fake sugar. I wasn't having like these diet sugars, nothing like that.

so anyways so the potential link of neurodegenerative diseases studies shown that candida infections lead to accumulation of amyloid precursor proteins and amyloid beta molecules in the brain these are some of the proteins that form plaques characteristics of alzheimer's this is what i'm talking about it's that stickiness it it stops your um

stops these neurotransmitters from communicating with each other so you know essentially if it's supposed to be a bridge and it's not a bridge the car doesn't cross over right so in that you're talking about for different people for different diseases it will end up affecting the person's memory which is why i was looking into all of these things because it's for parkinson's it has to do with neurological disorders this is cancer this is um you know

the parts that I'm trying to figure out with even Ehlers-Danlos, uh, several, several different diseases. Okay. So they're still studying it, but I'm like, wait a minute, this has to do a lot with, again, you know, when the person is also, if you're too far gone, you have to treat it in a certain way. But if you know, you're, you're on the edge, the verge of the edge of something, you're in a stage one to cancer or something.

You're talking about that, yes, you might need surgery for removal. I did, because I had to remove the kidney. But you can also, which is what I did. I didn't want chemo or do anything anyways. And what I did was, sorry, chemo, not keto. Did I say keto? Anyways, I did keto instead of chemo. So you do keto. And what you do is you start now starving that cancer, that cancer so that it won't

but if you are riddled with cancer you're talking about this this jumps from preventative to having to do something more drastic at that point but you're also thinking about like how is the cancer being treated it's so aggressive of how they treat it because oh the cancer is aggressive and it's like yes the cancer is aggressive but the diet is it you know okay so this is the other thing that i was also um remembering it was another study that i was looking into

before. A lot of people drink soda, especially because like, I don't know, you get different cravings. You're sick. You don't feel good. You want soda. You want Diet Coke, whatever. The thing is that I don't drink Coca-Cola. I don't drink Coca-Cola at all. Nothing against Coca-Cola. And I mean, any soda, not just Coca-Cola. It's just Puerto Ricans. We call it like bumping diapers. So anyways, so Coca-Cola, so soda, right? Soda, what happens is that it's chemicals that

What happens is that it opens up your blood brain barrier, meaning when that blood brain barrier is open, it is open to receive disease. So when you have something like this, and let's say that you're drinking soda and you have a diet that has a lot of sugar in it, whether if it's from bread or whatever, and you have cancer, you're allowing for that cancer to further evolve

and for the person to be less cognitive or have more neurological discrepancies because it will reach into those parts. And this all starts in the stomach. This is all starting at the digestive tract, meaning we really truly are what we eat, but we can also prevent disease through the digestive tract. So by changing the mode of how we eat is how we can change the mode of the transportation of disease as well. So

Candida infections could potentially contribute to the development of neurodegenerative diseases. And if I could pronounce this correctly, acetaldehyde production. So the candida, that's from when it's like these duties. Anyways, candida produces a toxic byproduct called acetaldehyde.

I'm just going to call it candida duty. Anyways, it's candida duty, which can affect the brain. So ectaldelide is also produced when alcohol is metabolized and is known to impair brain function. See this, these are the type of things this year. I remember looking into this when I was back in the day, when I was in my twenties, early twenties, and I was looking into the different reasons as to why I was never drinking. Okay.

it's like it's your logic okay

so it doesn't eat at like your smarts maybe you can still be book smart or whatever it eats at your logic which would be your emotional maturity or your you know what i mean so it's like when people are allowed to drink at 18 or 19 or 20 you know they're drinking earlier even than 21 i'm like your brain doesn't fully develop until the age of 25 sometimes into 26 and

and they don't teach you that. And I never understood why the legal age was 21 because I'm like, you still got five good years with this brain developing and you're drinking. So I wasn't going to risk it. I waited then some. At 25, I was like, I'm waiting two more years than that. I'm going to wait longer. And I don't drink. I would drink with friends and here and there socially when I got older, but I don't drink even now. So anyways, why? Because look,

This is why. It impairs brain function, but it also eats at your neurons. If I'm not mistaken, I'm going to have to look it up, but I think it oxidizes the cell as well. Well, stress oxidizes the cell, so why are you drinking liquid stress? When it impairs brain function,

you know, a person that is already dealing with neurological disorders and going through it in that sense, and they might be stressed and start drinking, this is not good. So anyways, the toxic byproduct of this candida is about in kind of like the same equivalent, right? So why would you want to induce brain fog, fatigue, mood disturbance? When you're talking about these things though, this

candida is the byproduct of the sugar that we're consuming so that says a lot you know on top of that it's like okay well we have a high sugar diet and then boom we're drinking on friday saturday nights and then boom like how is that affecting the brain and the body and then on top of that you're talking about a person that either has some sort of illness disease cancer this will further induce the the disease to get worse

And especially, you know, people that like to drink a lot. And I'm like, do you like using your brain too? Your brain, you like it. Okay, wonderful. Because this causes, this is causing all of your neurological disturbances here. A good amount, because even the other thing that I'm looking into has to do with this. And it's exactly what I was talking about the other day when I was like, I don't know why I was thinking about that, about, what's that disease again?

Huntington's Huntington's but again because it affects you neurologically so I was looking into all of these root issues and causes I mean we truly are what we eat this this means that a lot of the disease which we know the thing is that they want a million studies before they can prove it but these are easy ways for people to prove it to themselves it's like I can change these and make these minor changes to you know reverse things you know for myself and allow my body to heal itself

but there's a process because, you know, just because you remove it, what do you add into it, right? So that's the other part that I have that I have been working on because it's like, okay, and people, everybody has their different formula of how they do it and logic and whatnot. I just do, well, what actually works for me because I was pretty crippled. So while these mechanisms are supported by emerging resources,

It's important to note that the majority of candida infections affecting the brain occur in individuals with weakened immune systems. But think about it this way. The person who is not healthy has already a weakened immune system, whether they recognize it or not. If you're going out and you can't withstand anything, you already have a weakened immune system and you can tell because that's the effect. If not, you would be able to fight everything off just fine and you pretty much would be a person that's not getting a cold or

any type of allergy or sickness at all, right? So anyways, the gastrointestinal tract may still contribute to systemic inflammation and potentially influence brain function. And, you know, again, I've just heard for years that the stomach is the second brain, but of course, you know, because if it's what's feeding into everything else, like we are

it's like a plant and saying the plant doesn't get water and it's like the plant doesn't get food the plant doesn't get the right food the plant takes in poison like you know at some point you go there's there's um there's a seriousness and importance to what we're taking in you know into the human body but also just taking in in general like as far as if there's pesticides if there's you know some people are more sensitive than others um but then

understanding that that truly does affect the brain, you know, when it comes to having these diets that are high in sugar. But not just that, for the people that do have insulin resistance, how does that correlate with the person that has neurological disorder? And that's the part where I've been looking into more than anything, because I go, okay, you're talking about something about a person who's dealing with a lot of high inflammation, right?

so okay and you see that in the patients you you're dealing with a person that then has neurological discrepancies you see that in the patient then you're dealing with a person so it correlates so when they tell you diet doesn't matter that's bullshit because it matters and it matters a lot um and especially if you're talking about here says the blood-brain barrier typically prevents candida from causing neurological infections but you're drinking soda

and then the soda's knocking out your blood-brain barrier. Anything can cross that blood-brain barrier. People don't know that about soda. Once I learned that, I was like, eh, we're not touching it. And I probably, once in a blue moon, might crave a little bit of Diet Coke at that point. And I'm like, mm, just want a little bit, because I might like it. But for the most part, I don't touch the stuff. And I don't touch it for that reason, because I'm like, if you're just drinking something that knocks your blood-brain barrier,

a person that's already been that sick and had cancer, you know, I'm not looking for a do-over. So at that point, you know, those are things that are good to know because then you would take more seriously like, hey, you know what? You know, if I'm dealing with cancer, if I'm dealing with this, those are one of the things that you want to block out, drink water, juice, like actually press juice, you know, things like that, veggies. So...

here it says um yeah it says avoid unverified treatments you know it actually gives its you know tries to make sure to to give its precaution which i totally understand but i'm like i'm glad that it lets me study in peace so the brain fog the fatigue the mood changes that's a whole nother thing too you know um when you're thinking of like neurological issues and you go okay well it's just neurological you know but for the person with pcos for example

or for the person that has any type of discrepancy neurologically, they're going to have mood disturbances because you still have those parts of your brain that they're not communicating properly because it's got gaps. So the gaps could mean several different things for different people, what they're more prone to.

you know, what their character is like, what they're more prone to. But even that, that's why I was even explaining in one of the other clips that I was looking, recording. And I was like, you know, sometimes we don't realize that if the person is really acting outside of themselves, we have to ask like, hey, you know, is it that the person is taking something? Is it that the person is going through something?

And when I say taking something, I'm like, you can have adverse effects as far as medicine goes. And a lot of things that we don't really just kind of look into without judgment is that if the person has a lot of inflammation in their body and you could reduce the inflammation. Like people laughed, like I had doctors laugh in my face because I was taking turmeric, but the turmeric was visible that it was working.

it was visible. It wasn't anything mental. My legs were purple. They still turn purple. So I have to take turmeric. But when I go through these episodes of having inflammation, you know, it's inflamed to the point that it's affecting my circulation because I suffer from the inflammation in both the vein, but also my legs, just my muscle. So my legs will turn purple. I'm talking about purple, like eggplant purple. Okay. And from that,

I would take turmeric and I would take turmeric, maybe, you know, and I'm not talking about leaving a high dose. It just has to, you have to be sure that it's from the root, that it's actual, like organic, authentic. And I rather that I picked up from the Indian market. You just pick up that they sell you the turmeric fresh that they grind there. And I would encapsulate it myself with the little veggie capsules and go through the trouble of just making them. So at that point you drink that,

that concentrate you drink one or two of those a day and I would see my legs not turn purple anymore it would totally keep down the inflammation so that's something very small that you could do you know and that's a high level of inflammation like if you're seeing that your legs are so inflamed that they're purple and I'm talking about undeniably purple like just so purple okay like

worrisome purple um and when that inflammation started for some reason at first they were turning grayish from you know it was purple but it was like grayish purple and it went from that to turning absolutely purple now having the circulation issue they pull like the blood pulls a lot right so but my legs and my feet and stuff they would get inflamed uh not really swollen because i wasn't retaining water but inflamed i was suffering inflammation it's painful

so um still to this day like i could be sitting down or you know moving around and you know whatever and i'll look at my legs and i'm like which now that i remind myself i should pull it to the side um i'll look at my legs and i'll be like oh they're they're very purple they're severely purple and the turmeric by taking it and not just that once the inflammation it starts in my legs

but once my body starts because it's systemic so once i start really really going through the it's almost like if it's an infection like once i really start seeing the inflammation i start seeing my purple colors go in my arms and hands and once my arms start turning purple i start seeing like okay there's there's a problem because it's vascular so you see it um so physically physically you can actually physically see that it makes a difference

so there's natural things that are available um and yet there's ginger root that you can use ginger root and yet i have uh a bad reaction i'm allergic to ginger root um i could have a little bit but in that type of way for it to be medicinal for me i'm allergic to it so i don't react for it to be anti-inflammatory for myself but for some people they it does um

And what people do is that they incorporate it into their food. So if their diet incorporates a food or a pad thai or whatever, and it's a lot of ginger root and tea with ginger root and all this ginger, and it's like really nice incorporated into their diet, that's something worth looking into. Because for me, maybe it's not feasible, but for somebody else it is. That's the part where I go, nutritionists, they

I always thought that they played such an important part because one of the things that I did when I was in Miami is that I realized I was much younger and I didn't know I didn't know certain things like I didn't know how to eat I wasn't I you know a lot of things had come out and they sell that as healthy so I was going by like oh that's healthy and you know I was much younger I was like probably 20 or something and 2021 and I went to go see a nutritionist

and the nutritionist taught me like, Hey, this is not good. And this actually is this and this. And I was like, Hmm. And I was like, well, I have to then do my research when I, you know, eat things. And then that had me make such progress that I just never, I never went back to any of that stuff. Like I never went back to, um, you know, having meals the way that I did or drinking sodas and juices. Like I had stopped drinking juice. I hadn't like,

rarely rarely do i have a juice of any kind in my fridge um unless i've like made it but i rarely have juice like even the three years that you know my ex really liked having juice he got used to it too like there was rarely juice in my house like we had maybe like a little bit ever so often but you know typically everybody has like a juice all the time right or some sort of punch or some lemonade or nothing um for the most part it was

It's not, it became not custom to me to have it. Um, just because of what she told me, she was like, you don't really eat a lot, but you drink more of your calories without realizing it. Like most of it, cause you know, she's sitting there, you go and you write down all your stuff. And at that time she was just like, you don't eat a lot. But the thing is that you're having a high level of calorie intake, but it's all through your liquids, you know? And it doesn't matter that the body doesn't care. It could be all liquids, high calorie.

and it still didn't care I was picking up weight. Why? Because it was also triggering my insulin resistance that I already had, which was the PCOS. So it was just making me bulk up in weight when I could have just had more water and whatnot. So anyways, so sometimes we underestimate the difference that the diet makes. But in cases like this, that if the person's trying to really heal from cancer or trying to heal from something

that they're trying to help a neurological disorder or Parkinson's, then it really does go to say that the keto diet or, to me, I say keto, but it's just having things that, how they dress every supermarket for the most part is like all your carbs and all your processed stuff is in the middle.

And you're just supposed to eat everything that's on the outside, which is your meats, your cheeses, your yogurts, you know, your seafood, like everything on the outside, your fruits, your veggies, everything on the outside is all the fresh stuff. But all of the processed stuff is all the middleings, everything that's there, except for, you know, maybe your olives and, you know, jams and things like that that are there. But even that, it's preservatives. So it's like all those things can be avoided.

and i personally i don't touch anything with fake sugar um i do mess with honey it has to be organic and that's what i use as a sweetener for everything but i don't mess with well i just put a little bit of brown sugar in my sweet potatoes today but i don't really mess with sugar um ever i don't mess with any sugar because well hold on let me not say that i've been naughty and i like goodies i have sugar-free cookies but um

I try my best to not mess with goodies when I'm behaving. But compared to what I was doing before, which it was like more every single time, you know, but I don't like messing with what I mean is fake sugar, like the thing with Splenda or any of these things that they say, oh, it's sugar free. I don't mess with that because for that, I have the sugar. Like for that, I have the brown sugar. For that, I have the cane sugar. For that, I have the honey, the sweetener. That's fine.

i rather have something as long as it's like if the earth made it i'm fine with that if if it's not and it's chemical but yet you tell me that it's sugar-free i won't have that because a lot of those things they do they're cancer inducing um and actually you know what not for nothing but some of them they're just not satisfying i'm like why am i gonna go torture myself with a fake cookie when i could just have the real thing and get it over with and i'll feel better

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but there's studies that, you know, it either makes the tumors larger or you're not starving out the cancer. Basically you're, you're just kind of mutating it or changing it or making it worse. So it's best that if you're going to have the sugar, just have the sugar, but you know, cut back. But I had a lot of result when it came to like my neurological stuff and

Um, it's why I try to keep to keto for the most part. I don't, um, have bread. The only bread that I have there and I pick and choose when to have it is Ezekiel bread. Um, just because of what they put in it. And, um, and it's not like always, it's just that I do it for the sake of like, I go hiking and I plan to run that day and things like that. Then I know that I'm going to need some energy in order for me to, I need something to like

and help me to run and give me the energy for that. So sugar is not the enemy. It's just that for a person like me, it's like a person could have keto and they have some minimal sugar. And then a person like in my condition with PCOS and I already have insulin resistance for other reasons. And plus I have EDS. EDS is also, I believe the correlation is that it does also incorporate

insulin resistance because of the lack of wound healing because the collagen when you really look into the structure of how it breaks down the disease I really truly feel that that is the commonality as far as why so many people end up that they have PCOS I think it at the basis at some component of it because of the collagen disorder itself yes it is because the DNA itself is mutated but

There is some form of insulin resistance as well at the cellular level because the person has problems with wound healing. That's why we don't, you know, particularly like that we have to get surgeries, which is why I'm avoiding mine for the past year and a half or two years. You know, aside from my personal reasons. But, you know, so when you have those type of issues, you really want to try to reduce your sugar intake as much as possible, which kind of sucks for the person that has a sweet tooth, right?

but um i have honey and honey pretty much soothes all my woes because i like it anyways so it works out for me um but you don't get to choose what has sugar in it so if i go and i have a lot of bread that's not for me if i have some sweet potato and things like that well i put sugar in this one but if you have it normal you know some butter and stuff that's fine

But I can't have that all of the time. Anything that converts into sugar for the most part, my body reacts to it pretty gnarly. Where other people, they're fine. Like a lot of people can have rice. And I always was wondering that I didn't react well to rice. I got bloated all of the time. And for a Puerto Rican, you know, half Puerto Rican, half Ecuadorian, doesn't matter which side, we all eat rice. Like rice is a staple. Rice is everyday staple. And you could be very thin and be fine eating rice every day.

you know, Asians eat rice and it's like very healthy. I don't react well to rice. And the thing is that it's how my body breaks down the rice. And, you know, unfortunately, whether it's just a little bit of starch, it doesn't react well to the starch. So I just have had to, over the years, get used to letting go of rice because, I mean, I'm used to it now, but, you know, you have to let go of certain things in the diet and listen to your body. And I

tried it for years and years it's like i went on reducing reducing reducing reducing until i just stopped having rice um you know and i'll i i say i have it ever so often but it's probably been way over a year now that i haven't had any rice so you get used to it same thing with like pastas and things like that it's like i have to pick and choose my moments i could maybe have a

everybody's um way of processing food is different and how it affects our body but i do see a commonality in the fact of you know trying to really eat uh they say keto but to me when i think of keto i think of like the gimmick keto they're like oh have sugar free you get all your sugar free things it's like no it's just eating what mother earth gave you and what you slaughter like that's it

So it's like, whatever's natural, whatever is natural that comes from the earth. If it's processed, it's a no-go. And that's it. You know, if you have your proteins, if you have some, you know, yogurt, if you have, you know, they might avoid milk and things like that, but there's healthier options. I personally, like, if I have like cow's milk,

I could, but it's not usually the more favorable thing for me. I have goat's milk. It causes less inflammation. And for me, I noticed a difference. But for some people, they don't like goat's milk. I mean, what can you do? They prefer cow milk, which is fine. I just personally have to have the lactose-free one for whatever reason. But

you know, when you have candida, the other thing that I remember is that a lot of the patients, what happens is that you have a lot of swelling, you have a lot of inflammation, but it's from the byproduct itself. So there's a lot of like, let's say gas, right? So the effect is that the person has inflammation. So I forgot how exactly, but it ends up affecting the stomach lining, right? So

when you think of all these things of like okay well it's going to now disperse whatever it is that you ate into your body or the fact that it correlates with the brain you know one to say what's to say it's like oh well the diet doesn't affect your your body the diet doesn't make a difference the diet makes it makes a shit ton of difference because if especially if it's that it's making a difference for cancer you know or it makes a difference for a neurological disease

or it makes a difference for Parkinson's, then yeah, it does make a difference. I know that it definitely makes a difference because of what I've been through. You know, and not having an explanation as to how in the world is it affecting me neurologically? Like I had woken up from my surgery from cancer and even before then, because when I had the gallbladder, I was already dealing with symptoms of fibromyalgia. So the fibromyalgia was bugging me. It

And lately, you know, I guess because I've been more active, but I wake up days where the bottom of my feet just feels like, and it's the ankle, the foot itself, like the back part. It just feels like I have like a million needles in it. It's very painful because it's like if I move the foot, it just feels like needles, like complete needles inside of the foot and stuff.

and I just try to stretch it out and move it and try to, at least my method is that I try to talk to myself and be like, hey, nothing's happening to you. Because my body, it's like even if I'm going to fill the tub with water and I'll try to get in the water for whatever reason, my body thinks it's being attacked or something.

and I have to like I talk to it and you see like the effects on my body thinking it's literally getting cinched or something and you see my color change like no explanation okay no explanation it's like the water's warm and I'm like okay this is gonna be nice and I go to put my foot in and my foot thinks oh my god you just put me in boiling hot water I'm a lobster and my skin is

red like if it needs to peel off and no explanation it's super painful um you know having to talk myself or my foot off the ledge like hey you're fine relax um so you know one could say like oh it's a neurological thing you know it's something in the head when it comes to fibromyalgia and i go not necessarily my body physically physically uh reacts as if it's being harmed and

i am in well in my mind and i'm trying to be like what the hell is going on with this leg or what's going on with this foot and i basically have to keep trying and keep pushing myself until my leg finally or my foot goes oh i realized nothing is happening that's great and then that's it and it goes away um but not always like when it comes to the needle parts um

The fibro is very strange, but I realized that it had to be something of that, of misfires and discrepancies because, you know, I'm looking and observing that it's reacting very strange. And I'm like, well, it's not me doing it. I'm not freaking out. So there's obviously something, you know, mismatched, you know, something's a little bit out of place.

and it gets confused. Like if it's, again, being attacked of some sort and there's nothing going on, it's perfectly fine. But what's really weird, and I wonder how did they figure this out, to be honest, maybe I'll look into it. But when they, and they did it so many times, because again, most of the times when I was going through, I didn't believe in disease. So let's start there. I didn't believe in disease, not in the way that people do. Like I believe, yes, people get sick, but I didn't believe that

if your mind is strong, right? And if you think I'm not sick, like, and you're, you push through it, that you're not going to be sick, you know, not like this. So I was very much like when they told me fibromyalgia and I go, this is weird. Like, how did I end up with this thing? You know? Um, you know, especially because you're not sure what fibro exactly is because the doctors don't really know how it happens. It just happens.

So when they were testing me for it and I got the test, like I probably did test like eight times because I was just like, all right, did this thing go away already? I was more impatient a few years back. So anyways, he was touching my points and it was the weirdest thing. It was like, if that was it, like I remember going for the test and he would touch one point, touch the other point, touch the other point.

And because I had gone to check to see if I, you know, to confirm this fibromyalgia, just because he had touched these different points, I was feverish. I was sick. I wanted to be in bed. I was in so much pain. It was as if he had taken off all of my armor and that was it. And I was totally vulnerable and in pain. Like my nerves were sticking outside of myself and I could not explain it.

And I was like, it can't be from that. So I would see him maybe in two months again. And I was like, I guess I'm going to do it to myself again. And I was like, can you just test me again? Because I really wonder what this is. It was a disbelief, but also I wanted more confirmation because I was like, this cannot be this weird. And he did it again. I'm sick, totally sick. I'm in pain. Even if I touch these points now, it

still causes me a lot of pain. I do wonder how they figured these points out, to be honest. Um, I'm sure there's obviously a logic, a method to the madness, but I'm like, how did you guys study this to find this out? Was there human torture involved? Because it's weird. Um, however, it, um, is, it's very strange. It is very like, they can push you on the points and it, for some reason, it triggers the body. So, um,

The body truly does have misfires. It is a very annoying thing, the fibro. I could say that with the diet, it has improved, but it's not something that's gone away. I still deal with it. However, the thing that drives me bananas that I have not been able to get rid of yet that is very disturbing for me

still um i have like if i'm in the shower and i'm there for too long washing my hair and i usually have to wait for a while to cool down after like a hike and stuff like that because even though i feel like maybe i cooled down enough i still have to wait it out a good amount until i might even lower the air and feel cold because if i try to go and shower right after

I could if it's fast, but if I'm there washing up the heat between the heat that I took in outside and the heat that I get, because, you know, even if it's warm, um, from the shower, because cold hurts me, um, it, it, it totally aggravates the pots and I will be like, not able to breathe. Um, I feel like throwing up. I have to just sit down for a while. I,

feel like my insides are going to blow up. It's, it's a very awful feeling, like very awful. And I've learned already how to kind of work around it, you know, but sometimes it catches me off guard because I might wait and then think it's long enough. And then I, or even if I'm normal and I go to shower and my body, for some reason, didn't handle it well for some reason. And then I'm like panting, needing water.

trying to drink water you know sometimes it results in me just puking so far only once um because again but it's awful like it's awful like between that i still like if i bend over it's the dizziness like i wake up and to pee every day every day like i have to wake up to pee at some point and i wake up dizzy so

My world is very topsy-turvy when I wake up. I deal with a lot of vertigo, a lot of dizziness. It's something I've not been able to rid of. I don't know that I'll be able to, to be honest, because my blood still does pool since I do have laxity in the veins. I can make all the muscular parts so that my skeletal system can work. I'm not sure how to stiffen up my vascular system, but I am looking into it, though.

There's something that I was looking into to see if it will work for me because I really do believe that the body does regenerate itself. We just have to give it the proper tools, equipment, and a lot of that has to do with food. So I am looking into seeing how do I rebuild that component, but I'm not there yet. I'm not at the vascular system right now. Right now I'm working on the neural system. So before it was the muscular and the skeletal

and certain other things. And, you know, so I'm looking at some point, uh, to, I'm doing things in stages. Um, it's like if you rebuild her anyways, so, um, that part, I'm hoping that I really could fix because that would like rock my world in a nice way. Um, but

for now I'm a little bit delicate in that sense but I mean I get around it's it's not like it makes it has to be something real specific as far as like me looking down and going you know standing up straight or making sudden turns um it's funny because like um I want to look into wearing contacts when I go hiking I don't particularly care for my glasses actually my sunglasses but they are prescription uh for me to see

however I wear them hiking and it's not like I want to because I want to see the trees and I want to see the colors and you know mine are shaded brown so it's like I do get to see everything but within a shade you know and the thing is that in the time that I did get sick it did affect my eyes it affected my eyesight so my eyes are very as much as I love being outside

I'm outside with sunglasses and it's fine. You know, I'm like, I get to enjoy everything. But, you know, unfortunately, it's like my eyes are very sensitive to the sunlight. And it's in a way that if it, you know, if I'm outside and it seems like I'm fine.

it causes me a lot of either migraine and caused me a lot of eyeball pain. So, and I've never been one to handle contacts very well, but I have them. So I'm going to maybe give it a whirl at some point, but I need to buy some non-prescription sunglasses, um, like some little cheapy ones there that are, you know, whatever, just in case. But, um,

I would like to because it's like, man, I would be able to see and not be running with sunglasses on or, you know, when they get sweaty or foggy, you know, if it's humid outside. So I need to try a few different little methods. But there are a few components where the diet really does make a difference for me physically. But I do have all of these other components that kind of are strange.

um and one of which is is is the fibro but who takes the trophy is is the pots really um the pot sucks um the dizziness and the nausea and the and and all this other stuff is really it's pretty nutty because it's hard to explain to others it's like yeah if i bend over to tie my shoe and then i get up too fast like i just feel like i'm gonna faint backwards but it's okay like you know it's strange

or like i shaved my armpit and because i look down on my armpit i look up and i see stars this is every time like i try to shave to not look down but if i do i'm seeing stars now there's a you know silver lining to this which is that i'm seeing stars all the time so that's pretty um however not why you want to puke and not why you feel like you're going to fall over to the side so there's that um

but you know, you got to look at the silver lining. It's entertaining. So there is that. Um, but yeah, there's different things that I really do feel that the diet makes such a difference. And if you say like, it can make a big difference for, and I don't think people believe in that because they go, Oh, well, I mean, it's not what they're told. I mean, I talked to a lot of different doctors and they didn't mostly advise me about like, Oh, that's not gonna make a difference. Like that's kind of the reaction I got, except for maybe a few, but you know,

they'll say like for the weight loss aspect, but they don't tell you, Hey, for the disease aspect. And I understand because maybe they're held accountable to like, Hey, you can't give advice unless it's medically proven and stamped with the approval. But I'm like, the reality is that it makes a difference. You know, it makes a difference. You can really use the diet as medicine. I mean, I'm living proof of it. Um, you know, I don't know. I, I didn't have like, um,

you see other people and it's unfortunate, but there's like one particular doctor that I was watching and he had to go practice in New Mexico because he goes, they weren't allowing me to basically speak freely and practice in the States because, you know, what I was saying was controversial and you're saying it as a doctor, you're not really supposed to tell them like, hey, you could cure it. You know, he goes, once you get into the word cure or healing, you know,

It sounds fugazi first off, but that's just how we're taught, right? But I'm telling you, like back in the day, in a past life, if they exist, I was the lady in the hut in the forest, man. They're like, go to that lady. She's going to make you some concoction. She'll tell you what to take. I'm like, it's that. I'm like, it's really that. I really think that it's, I mean, again, if we, and every body, every single thing,

is different. But we have the potential within ourselves to heal, to regenerate, to recreate ourselves, not just emotionally, but really physically. Even today, I was running, first off, for the person that had COPD, running up the side of a mountain who has an asthma no more is a big deal.

So like I want, like every time that I do these things, I'm like, I want to constantly never forget so that I could be grateful for what I'm doing at this point. Because the fact that I'm physically doing it, this is a big deal. The fact that I'm not like hyperventilating is also a big deal. You know, I mean, a series of things. The only thing that I deal with

right now physically that becomes challenging as if like i'm going downhill um and because of my knee i have a bum uh left knee but it's getting better i'm trying to fix her um by you know rectifying my my upper thigh muscles and how do you do that by going up the mountain so i was like no we're gonna just keep practicing and i just try as much as possible to make my movements robotic

And as silly as that sounds, it's just body mechanics. So you want to make it as robotic as possible so that you're not misaligned. It becomes harder if it's the little track is caved in and you're slanted or you're walking on sloped areas, then people accommodate themselves normal to that. But for a person with EDS, I flip-flop every which way. So I also had to kind of observe

funny enough, I would observe my ex and tell him, hey, move this. How do you do this? And it sounded silly, but it's because I realized how warped my body mechanics were. And what I thought was normal turns and normal ways of the body moving, it was not normal. I was observing other people. I'm like, okay, I'm doing these overhauls of movements, which are detrimental for me because they're putting me, they're misalignment and

They would cause my displacements, you know, and since I have so many, you know, many different places to displace myself, I have to be very aware of the body mechanics. So, you know, the best thing that I do, what I think about is how does a robot move, move like that.

And then that'll keep me pretty much within the safety bounds. But it doesn't matter. I still have my knee hurting, my pelvis, my abdomen. I pulled it because I slipped and things like that, you know. But these are things that people are going to deal with. Like I just pretend, you know, if you're an older person, you're dealing with that crap too. So, you know, it is what it is. But the fact that I was running up the mountain or even jogging a little bit or, you know, and I'm talking about it's very inclined.

The fact that I was able to do that and I'm not even out of breath because I've practiced my breathing, it's showing a few things. The lungs are regenerating. I was down a lung. The lungs are regenerating. You're talking about the COPD is not even a problem. The fact that I'm dealing with the POTS and stuff, but I'm like, okay, but I was dealing with COPD at some point. You're talking about that you're able to heal yourself.

the body you know and okay i might be that today but i might not be that tomorrow because i was that yesterday so i'm not that now um i think that that's more hopeful for people especially if they're going through a different you know different diseases or different neurological issues i don't know if it's that they're afraid of giving people false hope um but it's not a false hope if it's that it works you know it would be very different but um

I am very inclined to really, um, look into more things because of the whole neurological disorders too, because I'm just like, it's, you're talking about, um, bringing a lot of holistic healing to a lot of different people. And, um, so anyways, I've looked into a series of things for the longest time, but of course I use myself as a guinea pig over the years, but, um, uh, cause it is what it is. You know, you, it's, it's like, um,

That's how even a lot of the EDSers are. It's like you have to end up kind of just testing out things for yourself, on yourself, and then seeing what works at that point. But what better test to have than, you know, because there's, you know, the people that are doing science, they're, you know, doctors and things like that. They're not conducting these tests for the most part because they can't. So the patient is the best.

test you know you know if the patient is there testing on themselves there is no human testing right so supposedly not but there there's no human testing so for the patient that goes through it and has to actually walk through that and see what works for them that ends up being the best test of all because it's your experience it's you know what you're able to surmise at that point but for the people with Ehlers-Danlos a lot of it because we were unaware of

how this even works or why it works the way that it does. It really just broke down to people were becoming their own doctors of trying to figure this out in their own way. And most of it, the approach was holistic for the most part, because there was no medicine for it. Nobody knew how to treat it with medicine. I still don't, you know, there, there's nothing to actually help you with the pain for fibromyalgia. There's nothing to help you with the pain. Some people with antidepressants, they do, um,

apparently better the fibro. Um, but personally, I just, I'm not a medicine person. Like I don't like it. They tried gabapentin and the first time that I even took it, um, I was peaking my brains out. Uh, so I didn't even take it, not even for a few days because it was, the reaction was so horrible for me. So at that point, gabapentin was not an option for me. Plus I never dealt with depression and, or anything like that. So I didn't want to take anything that

even though you use it for dual purposes, I wasn't open to taking medications. So I was like, I never took meds. I don't want to start now. So the most that I take really is the metformin at this point. But anyways, yeah, it's good to kind of just try things out and see what works. But I'm exploring different things. I'm like, I'm going to get to the bottom of it. And I've really been...

well it's a hobby it's a hobby out of the many after all these years