The Reluctant Raw Foodist

Are you what you eat?

"I used to be a' foodie' and now I am a "foodist'"

Welcome to my health and wellbeing blog.

I’m not a raw foodist by choice. I was recently diagnosed as having a complicated autoimmune condition including severe Histamine Intolerance and a form of reactive arthritis. I have become hypersensitive to high histamine foods, pollen, dust and some everyday chemicals. My condition affects every area of my life.

I have Mast Cell Activation Disease (MCAD).

I was prescribed a low histamine diet and then a raw food diet to ease my symptoms and over the past 2 years I have overcome my reluctance to a new way of eating and living. I have been experimenting to combine the two diets and I have been learning how to eat a diet comprising mainly of low histamine raw fruit and vegetables and how to change the habits of a life time.

I am starting to feel healthier than I have ever been before. I have also lost 35 lbs in weight.

I will be sharing with you how I got here and I'll be exploring low histamine raw recipes, natural beauty products, how to cope with being "allergic to everything" and generally how to regain health and fitness and live life to the full despite my unusual condition!

Please feel free to message me with any suggestions, questions, or comments. I'd love to hear from you!

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These are some ads for where I buy my coconut water and stuff like that :

 

 

 

Admitting and accepting I have an illness has been  tough for me. I do get offered some odd “cures” at times. It would be nice if someone could give me a magic solution  but I guess  I that only happens in Harry Potter books. LOl! Having said that a lot of people think that what I am doing for my own illness is odd and alternative because i work to maintain myself by diet and avoidance of the over use of chemicals. I am, however, now understanding that the immune system responds to stimuli and that our chemical laden industrial plastic world and processed food is now polluting our bodies as well as everything else.  Western medicine offers a tablet to take rather than looking at the body as a whole and, as one of my best friends who works for a large American drug company tells me , making new tablets is how the companies make their money. There is no money in research that concludes that I should change my diet.  I am not a person that simply believes that medication does not work. I have taken medications for illnesses in the past and actually I am a sceptical lawyer who analyses things rather carefully.   For as long as it works for me I will continue to walk my own path. I am my own experiment x  tooyoungforra: Love this and can soooooo relate! ;) stuffsickpeoplehavetoputupwith: Text & image by SSPHTPUW..PSD template by morelles.

Admitting and accepting I have an illness has been  tough for me. I do get offered some odd “cures” at times. It would be nice if someone could give me a magic solution  but I guess  I that only happens in Harry Potter books. LOl! Having said that a lot of people think that what I am doing for my own illness is odd and alternative because i work to maintain myself by diet and avoidance of the over use of chemicals.

I am, however, now understanding that the immune system responds to stimuli and that our chemical laden industrial plastic world and processed food is now polluting our bodies as well as everything else.  Western medicine offers a tablet to take rather than looking at the body as a whole and, as one of my best friends who works for a large American drug company tells me , making new tablets is how the companies make their money. There is no money in research that concludes that I should change my diet. 

I am not a person that simply believes that medication does not work. I have taken medications for illnesses in the past and actually I am a sceptical lawyer who analyses things rather carefully.  

For as long as it works for me I will continue to walk my own path. I am my own experiment x

 tooyoungforra:

Love this and can soooooo relate! ;)

stuffsickpeoplehavetoputupwith:

Text & image by SSPHTPUW.
.PSD template by morelles.

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