Your gut your health and your head. I am pretty sure that “YOU” recognise that they are all linked. What “YOU” put in your mouth goes to your gut and that fuels your Central Nervous System (CNS) so obviously if “YOU” put junk in your mouth “YOU” are doing your Brain and your bodies quarrel with Relapsing Remitting ms (RRms) absolutely no favours. Let your brain get sicker and that child's wedding in thirty years time will be harder to enjoy. “YOU” see and understand that it is all linked don’t “YOU”? We all have ms of some sort, do you recall that body nerve chart I mentioned awhile ago “YOU” see that pain in your arm leads all the way back to an area in your brain. It is all one big system. Problems in one area lead back to the brain. The brain is fuelled by the gut which in turn is fuelled by what “YOU” put in your mouth.
It is all one big circle. Put garbage in get garbage results. Certainly not directly, there is no RRms diet, but why start out with poor fuel and expect to get fantastic performance. Be sensible with what fuel “YOU” use and perhaps your results may be a little better. That wedding is why we all do everything we can to stay upright and in good shape for as long as we can. RRms is no reason to just abandon everything, throw your hands up in despair and slink away to that cold dark corner and start sobbing.
NO, never. Now is a time to start looking around yourself and making changes. Changes to make yourself healthy enough to stand proudly at that wedding and smile at your beautiful child. I have a friend that I went to school with and I saw again in my late twenties at an ms conference. yes, we both turned out to grow up and both have RRms. She lived a long way away and carried on her lifestyle drinking and partying. Last time I saw her she could not walk and travelled around her house by scooter, another friend had issues with Disease Modifying Therapy (DMT) so she stopped taking it. Three guesses where she is today. If “YOU” said in an care facility “YOU” would be right.
It comes down to looking after yourself, body mind and soul at all times in the best way possible at all times. Of course we are not perfect we do slip off the path, but the repercussions of stopping and leaving the path might end up being much worse than at first “YOU” might think. Just because somebody says bee stings are a great treatment or waiting and see is a good idea, does not make it the right thing to do. “YOU” my sister brother end up suffering. Nobody else “YOU”. There is still pain and suffering, without a doubt but why make it worse? Do the sensible things and stay upright as long as “YOU” can and when in doubt ASK.
For my gut over my twenty plus years I have done Swank ms diet, high protein vegetarian and just downright sensible mothers cooking. I barely drink, a beer every six months or so, no hard liquor and have never smoked. Ice cream every now and again and my Starbucks is normally straight black coffee full cream milk no sweetener. I do think a cup of tea needs a little honey with milk but I am just like that.
Royce
no wedding to go to but I am staying upright
Reading for you “Gut” by Giulia Enders
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Update on my health issues.
