Natasha Campell-McBride - Author of: "Gut And Psychology Syndrome" (GAPS) ; her GAPS diet has successfully restored health to children with symptoms we call autism and the other epidemics of modern childhood. She has an incredible body of work to her name and is a frequent speaker at the Weston A Price Foundation conferences. Years ago, she published another book called GAPS Stories - testimonials of recovery. I have a personal history following her recommendations and all 5 of her books are on my 'Top Shelf.' She is my favorite doctor (on a very short list.) Website: http://www.doctor-natasha.com/
Thank you Celia for this post. 7 days ago I lost a VIP in my life to suicide. He was 35 years old. He went into deep depression a year ago. He overcame an auto immunne disorder 5 years ago that would have killed him but he detoxed and cleaned up his diet with the help of a laser focused nutritionist and stayed clean. So your article makes complete sense. Diet is key but surely not the whole story. He kept talking about a hole inside he couldn't seem to fill even though he tried by getting two dogs in the last year. He wanted to "care for" something. I believe that is a God sized hole that only a connection to God will fill. He wasn't an atheist I'm told even atheists end up looking for meaning and purpose beyond self, a "hole" all humans have to decide how to fill. Nature abhors a void and will fill it with something. (Jeff Childers said that). Again thank you for your post.
Rebecca, I am so sorry. That is a very shocking story and it feels important that we talk about all this. The whole phenomenon of that hole people feel inside is taboo. I think it just frightens everybody. It's extra chilling that your friend detoxed and cleaned up his diet and still lost the battle. We focus entirely on the success stories and I am glad of that. But what about the really tough cases?
I suffered from fear and mild paranoia for much of my adult life. Then I learned that those things are the result of an out of balance microbiome. It has taken me the better part of 15 years to get my gut microbiome restored to the point where I'm no longer paralyzed by fear and paranoia.
It wasn't any one thing, it was a process of trial and error until I found what worked and what didn't. The take-home for me was that we are all, thankfully, different - there is no magic bullet that will work equally well for everyone across the board. However, there are foundational things that anyone suffering from similar issues should pursue. You've touched on some of them over the years. After that, experimental fine tuning can take one far. I'm open to talking with you about this.
So true. The foundation of natural healing is nutrition in and waste out. I don't think you can be healthy if you are not having a bowel movement after every major meal you eat.
I had a horrendously fearful childhood. Now, all these years later, I see I just do not really really open up to anyone. I think the term is "give over". But I have managed a most interesting life, although I likely affected some others adversely. I am 79, and my generation was pretty much told to suck it up and not feel sorry for ourselves, as far as I can recall. That influences things a lot. My grandson loves horror movies, and I think they are mostly just silly because people are much scarier than monsters. You are inspiring me to actually think about my gut microbiome, which I honestly never gave a thought to before.
In my observation, I would say that it starts with the energy, and then, if the energy is disturbed, different factors may play a role. In the area I have been researching in depth, there is a strong connection between infections of the brain and the CNS and neurological and psychiatric symptoms. And of course, different stressors and toxins go into that bucket, and it all works together, and if gut and other good microbes are weakened, there are fewer tiny helpers, so tiny and not so tiny foes have an easier time creating issues. For anyone who wants to look into different pieces on the topic (hard to put everything in a comment), here is the link to the page where I collected my articles about energy, parasites, etc. UPDATE: Forgot the link, lol! https://tessa.substack.com/p/parasites-and-philosophy-of-medicine
Marcy Pollan, who will speak to us soon, from Mexico, has shared with me very troubling research on how MB attacks neurotransmitters. Microbiome, we knew.
The main thing I am looking for is what people have done that makes them feel substantially better. As regards energy, I am a big fan of cold plunges.
A thought on what we started discussing the other day: In the "healing space," we need to all radiate respect for others, else some take on parental roles and other's children's roles. Each person has his or her answer and must be captain of his/her ship.
Thank you, Celia!! I totally agree, mutual respect is extremely important!!
It's an interesting dynamic, sometimes when people interact even benevolently, what happens in the invisible world is that people's "eleninis" (approximately defined as self-created or family-inherited energy beings born from pain or fear, who get "stuck" to the person's aura and seek energy to eat) are going at each other, and people feel it as discomfor or attack, etc. In my observation, this dynamic can be one-directional or two-directional.
When it's two-directional, it's one person's trauma talking to another person's trauma, and it's very difficult because both are in their "inner child's" mind and feel attacked. When it one-directional, the traumatized person gets triggered by internal imagination (an association, a word used, etc.), and the person on the receiving end either deals with it with kindness if the traumatized person is receptive to reason, or steps out of the way because I have been on that end, and it's a lot of work. Oftentimes, when people are following the lead of their eleninis, in that moment, they stubbornly avoid good advice because the elenini fights back for "its turf" (it's the inner child who has felt rejected and invisible before and fight back now, in the adult body). Sometimes, that energy state is used by the non-benevolent actors who don't have an intention to help, so that can use language to appeal to the elenini, "win" the trust of the person, and then do whatever they want (until it hurts too much, and the person wakes up).
Stalin murdered almost all the siberian shamans - and the west does not understand how this simple fact elicits makers of ethnic commodification of truth aka New Age ,super predatory . Mesmerism comes from such an instrument ,historically . Yet Evenki healing cannot be animistic ,because the west ''is ''.
Side note -I had 30 years in Lelystad where the beatles Maharashi told the world that L'std would become heaven on earth with only 14 000 believers .
This while our cars were being burnt ,top lawgivers were being fired - for facilitating Yogokarta Principles foistered on minors - empowering almost institutionalised raping of some of them ,even today using using them to deliver ever increasing strength of hard drugs ,to a wide area ,including via North Sea to Scotland .
In fact a ceremonial car burning got Peter De Vries involved - which in turn led to 5-6 London Met police selling hard and soft to 2 top lawgivers ,3 top cops - all of which were fired before prison was allowed conceptually . Peter de Vries uncovered the consecutive sentencing 22 years ,of 2 judges ,one in Arnhem ,one in Zwolle - whose complete sentencing needed review in the light of these facts .After he was given a legal gagging order - the NL govt saw to it that his most privat ephone details became public ,resulting in his recent street execution 6 bullets - broad daylight ,now his daughter has same to contend with .
Major General Ian Watson ,posing as domine of the Anglican Church Groenburgwal 42 - liked a certain solo Ysaye concert Brahms sonata in A concert I did - he was in charge of all E traffic between Berlin Amsterdam and Belfast - then he started listening 3 years to the tel conversations in Maharashi's ''heaven on earth'' .
Not pretty .
So whenever I hear ''healing without responsibility' I get worse than Marvin - the depressive overintelligent robot in Douglas Adam's Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
But khumus gets the wild horses here dancing - really .Filmed - fights above my head - entry into herd -as token horse .
Yet the pple in NL generally seem to be in love with darkness - primed because of a significantly commodified ethnic allusivity .. aka the Sai Baba hermaphrodite issue - of which many previous trained western leaders attest to .
Yogokarta Principles are the reason why a pretender like Vance - can brazenly attest that he is a benefactor of mankind - when in fact the fortune he is controlled by IS Palantir .
So the question I have is how much of the truth can be said to ''heal'' us - when it is too terrible to behold ,and stay sane ?
Especially as Paul warns us in Ephesians 6 that our ''battle is not against flesh and blood - but against principalities'' - warring with light personalised in Christ & His Father ,before the world began
SO one of the chief instigators - a top disgraced lawgiver is back - 3 decades later .Up to same tricks . Never having been jailed , spouting overindividualisation from his Gemeenteraad council of delusion .
Recent multiple fires ,attacks ,thefts of passports from inside house ,etc .
Personally targetted .. but reflected expertly ''back'' .
So individulalising healing promises future generation Yogokarta Princilples - as ''bait' for the myopia of over individualisation .
Not syntax - your indigenous experience mirrors danger of being the first russian I have heard of who actually ''came to the west'' ,a mythical place .
Did you mean microbiome attacking neurotransmitters?
Some intracellular parasites know how to literally occupy neurons, and macrophages and other immune cells. Again, I believe it starts with the state of energy but if there is an infection that is taking hold, whatever works to drive them out without killing the person is good, I believe.
I am not sure if one-size-fits-all cures exist. There are some strong herbs and mushrooms but again, each person is different, and it important to approach it with care. (None of what I said is medial advice :-)
Glyphosate and fluoride destroy the gut biomedical and gluten is ok but small amounts. They now spray our wheat with glyphosate.
I got severe ulcerative colitis 2 years ago from eating a while bix of strawberries one night.
The reason why I know it was strawberries is because I merely washed them off and my husband and I both eight a lot and we both got severe diarrhea, but his went away in mine did not.
The GI told me I would need to take biologics for the rest of my life, and it's very expensive. It blocks your body from healing itself. I asked her if a diet change would help and she said, no.
My body would not stop attacking itself, and it affected my mind at the time. I didnt care id i died. I lost a lot of weight and couldn't hold anything in my stomach and was crapping blood for 2 months while I waited to see a doctor. She put me on prednisone. I decided not to take the biologics, so I took the prednisone 2 months and made my own kombucha, and my own fermented veggies, which is very easy. I learned from YouTube. I am 100% better.
Now I wash all my produce with MMS which was recently proven to remove at least seventy percent of glyphosate by the health ranger Mike Adams.
I use MMS for many things to allow your body to detox so it can heal itself.
Brilliantly helpful and direct Dawn. Thank you. What a story. I'm keen to detox fluoride. They gave it to us in plastic cups in Sweden in school. And I got 11 large mercury fillings, also in Sweden, in 4 months, at age 11. Still working my way up and out, have made a lot of progress. Got brainwashed against ALL vegetables for a while but now plan to start fermenting, despite ADD etc.
Having mercury amalgam fillings replaced with one of the many options on offer from biological dentistry may make a great difference in your life. Detoxing from mercury may take a long time, but it is definitely possible. Perhaps you are already on that path . . . .
Look above at my reply to Celia with good info to start using it and where in get it. FYI In order to sell it they can't tell you how to use it because they are not allowed.
There is something incredible about meat, of any kind. I can eat one day a lot of meat, and then I would pass easily two days, maybe even 60 hours, without any hunger. By wheight or volume, the same amount of plant stuff of any type (rice, bread, potato, tomato, peppers, whatever) will produce three effects: diarrea, migraine and hunger.
So it's better to only eat plants as a luxury or ornament, or side dish, and never abuse them. But meat, when properly cooked, is safe in any amount, at least for me.
Carrots and celery are boring, but way safer than cereals and nightshades plants. I also overreact to tobacco. I have a love-hate relationship with plants.
I definitely can't digest well onions and garlic. And I like them. But just meat and salt and water is best for me, for now. I now regard plants as party food. Something exotic and unusual.
I do take licorice root. I pour boiling water on a table spoon of ground licorice root. About half a liter. Not every day. About once a week. I get great digestion and great sleep from drinking that. Sleep is my biggest challenge now.
I also take magnesium capsules. Now, I will receive the impending doom threats of winged monkeys of the anti-magnesium league. I will shoot them down and will put their corpses in the oven, and feast on retarded winged monkey meat. Threats are strongly unwanted in my manor. It's actually a shed, but I imagine it a manor.
Oh Lord there's an anti-magnesium squad? I take it regularly and was proud of this until a voice scan recently revealed I have zero magnesium and zero iron, despite being keto-vore. Felt like throwing in the towel. Why is everything so complicated and elusive? I LOVE hearing details about people's personal feel better tactics. I am with you about licorice. (Scarcely dare talk about red meat anymore.)
Sometimes I crave licorice almost unbelievably. And I chew on hard sugar free licorice sticks they sell near the Cathedral. But really I want Amazon licorice bits. 😩
About red meat, I learned a lesson from marketing-savvy people and now I call meat "vegetables 2.0"
'Cuz, what's a ribeye steak if not 40 kg of very healthy grass highly organized after optimal digestion. It's so green that it is actually red, like politicians. We cannot let this opportunity pass, if we don't eat meat the fascists win.😹😹😹
My husband thought he was having g a heart attack but he wasn't. Apparently those symptoms are caused by low magnesium too. I get magnesium products from the health ranger store. It has really helped him especially the mineral drops just a little in his water daily.
But they are a lot more interesting than some of the people I have to put up with. :)
I love celery in a Waldorf salad and carrots chopped up small and added to soups and all sorts of fried and baked dishes.
Crunching and munching and gnawing and chewing on sticks of raw carrot and/or celery makes for rather bland eating, may well contribute to depression, and should come with a government health warning.
Nightshade plants, as you know, contain nicotine, although in lower concentrations than tobacco.
I don't have any trouble getting to sleep. Quite the reverse—I have trouble waking up. Mrs. Tim, on the other hand, is a light sleeper and often lays awake for hours without sleeping. I have lectured her about watching videos, reading books and doing crosswords last thing in the evening, and about the evils of blue light, but she thinks these things help her get into the right mood. I've also introduced her to a variety of supplements, and the two that have really helped her are taurine and tryptophan. She wasn't happy with melatonin, as it gave her weird dreams.
Magnesium is magnificent! And potassium is potent! And we've got to keep our electrolytes balanced, haven't we? That said, the magnesium citrate capsules I'm taking at present are a bit too large to swallow easily.
Here’s a trick: diced carrots and celery, cooked on very low temp sous vide, with meat and lots of clarified butter. About 90 minutes, which can be 40 if the cubes of meat are small.
The negative pressure forces all the flavor from the vegetables into the meat, and the flavor of the meat into the vegetables.
I did a variation of this once, with olive oil and adding sweet potato cubes the same size as the meat. Surprisingly, lamb meat and sweet potato go great together.
Now, if we do this with garlic we’ll ruin the subtle sweetness of celery and carrot. If you must use garlic on this, use it only when serving, adding slices on top of the meat, or garlic-flavored salt.
Clove also goes well on sous vide meat preparations.
I don’t know if low temp cooking cooking destroys the plant toxins that some meat-only eaters pretend to be scared of. But it’s delicious.
Anyone who claims "All X are actually Y" is immediately suspect. First, because they have not encountered "All X." Second, because is there a stable and uniform notion of what "gut biome order" looks like? Third, because disorders of complex systems are rarely, if ever, so simple.
My take: Everyone carries some level of "psychiatric disorder." It goes by many names, and it may involve a fluid array of symptoms. But generally, the milder cases can be observed by those around the sufferer in a way that is not obvious or observable by the sufferer. These are the outward behavioral symptoms. The more deeply injured, the more generalized the symptom front. One has an irrational fear of spiders. Another has a generalized, free-floating fear constantly. And so on.
With the more seriously debilitating cases, it may be tempting to look for physiological causes and treatments. Shock therapy. Serotonin enhancers. Gut biome. Endocrine imbalance. All of which may be involved, but not the primary cause, and not the way out.
With less seriously debilitating cases, it is easy to see that the suffering is context sensitive and repeatedly triggers in the same ways. In those cases, it would be hard to argue that something as vague as gut microbe population is a primary cause. The works of Arthur Janov and also of Eugene Gendlin, both happening in the 60's and 70's show pretty clearly that the causes are experiential, and that there are "healing" modes which the sufferer may or may not, ultimately, be able to leverage for lasting relief. Gendlin, in particular, described a process of "steps" which can occur when the sufferer is offered an environment in which the explication of current state is gently and passively encouraged, and not interfered with in any way. This explication (verbalization) is an exploration whose destinations are not know in advance. The therapist has some strong clues to know when the process is taking place. Each "step" does correspond to a (usually minor) "re-wiring" of the sufferer's worldview. The person is, by many small steps, becoming who they are and would always have been.
Speaking of being who you are, and back to the original thought, each of us is at least a little bit off center with respect to genuineness. It's not a conscious choice; it's a survival instinct, just like converting glucose to fat when the former is in abundance. However, it is my personal belief that one of the strongest human instincts is the instinct to wring all possible learning from each and every significant experience. This instinct provides the drive that makes the human system WANT TO navigate that uncomfortable exploration. It takes correspondingly as much energy to suppress the learning instinct in order to preserve status quo and what feels "safe." Safety is also contextual, so that if your friends think your wacko for working with Gendlin protocols, that will inform what you will and will not dare to do.
Getting to my final point and drawing things together: A given person has to choose between two attractors in a dilemma: (1) stay safe and stable as you are; (2) learn and grow and become profoundly more adapted. When we talk about psychiatric symptoms, we are looking at the latter attempting to assert itself. Since we may not be aware of the latter as a possibility, the analysis ends there, and the perceived need is to get the symptoms to subside. For this, nervous suppressive systems need to be kept quite fit, and here is the real connection to the physiological remedies we hear about. You need excellent energy production, functional mitochondria, a diet and movement program that keeps these systems in good shape, We need a very fit brain environment with adequate neurotransmitters and a very fit endocrine system, and so on. These things are good for all humans, but especially those with a heavy experience suppression load.
Didn't mean to write so much. Hope it makes some sense.
Rosalind, are you able to remove yourself from abuse? I imagine not.
Can you get rid of the bedbugs?
Did the Shoemaker protocol work?
I'm sorry you are having to struggle so. Amazing how you survived at that birth weight. I was only a month premature, weighed 5 lbs. But no visitors for the first 4 days in the incubator.
Working on leaving.( My elderly mom could help but her m k programming is still strong, she’s blaming me for the bad marriage. ) My husband was attracted to me because of her money I think. He’s had a girlfriend the entire time! They put pestilence in my home and even in my laundry. Very creative evil.
It’s a gang stalking situation because my brother is involved, he believes my mom inheritance is his right. He’s got a few million himself but it’s not enough, ever.
(Rosalind, HEY, good to see you here. I remember exchanging with you in the comments often, during the thick of the Plandemic. Sorry to read that you're going through the mill... Hope you can eventually get to a better place..... A thousand percent feel for you.......
Trauma issues. It’s so crazy, I’m so thankful her family took me to church as a teenager, it changed my life for the better . Her experience with the church & family traumatized her.
My severe bouts of depression subsided once I realized once and for all that nobody else in the world was ever going to give a shit whether I was living or dead and therefore it was up to me and me alone to determine my own value and place in the world. (The Other treats me as a thing, an object to be used, experienced, analyzed, or categorized.) My constitutional empathy, which before I had experienced as burdensome, although still an integral trait and never something to be shed or extinguished, I now regard as indispensable to my own particular brand of mojo.
Apparently the term "sigma male" came into play about 15 years ago to distinguish individuals like myself, i.e., inveterate nonconformists, from the jockeying alphas and betas which comprise and perpetuate every entrenched social hierarchy (aka pecking order).
Nobody should be suffering for years. Most people can heal within a year, maximum. In autopsies of people with Alzheimers, Parkinsons, any neurodegeneration, there is always a thick yellow covering over the brain. I believe that is because the brain is not eliminating cellular waste and there is blockage. I would take Brain Formula from American Botanical Pharmacy and also Cell Defender from Avini Health. Link: https://www.avinihealth.com/ellenjensen
I had a stroke a year ago, my memory of the past year was completely wiped. I was terrified. I didn't go to the hospital because I generally don't do that, unless there was a broken bone emergency or something. I was working in the garden and it felt like someone stabbed me in the right side of my head. It was excruciating. I couldn't see out of my left eye because a blood vessel burst. I just somehow walked up the hill to our house and climbed into bed. I laid in bed for about a week and slept. At the time, I did not know what had happened to me. It was later when I got out my How to Heal Your Life book, to figure out what was wrong, that I read about strokes and realized that was what it was.
So, long story short, this happened because I have thin veins and a year prior to this I went to a Naturopath who said I tested high on heavy metals; lead and mercury. I agreed to do IV EDTA Chelation, but quit after 2 weeks because a voice that was not mine, very clearly said out loud, this is not for you. I then looked into side effects and one was kidney damage, which the Naturopath said he had never seen, but who knows how long it would take for that to show up. Anyway, one is supposed to be remineralized at some point during the chelation, because it strips all minerals out of you, not just the ones you don't want. So I was never remineralized and then had some very serious stress in my life and I think this created the perfect storm. However, I am now 100% healed, my veins are back to normal and my memory is completely restored and normal.
If I could heal my brain and my veins, then everyone can heal. The body has the blueprint for perfect health and is always doing it's best to return us to perfect health.
I had my husband’s brain autopsied when he died with Lewy Body Dementia (associated with Parkinson’s) but a thick yellow covering over the brain was not mentioned. I did not get to see slides of the autopsy. Is there a medical/technical term for this covering? I had eased many of his symptoms without him taking any pharma. Thank you.
I think they just call it plaque. Dr. Richard Schulze talked about it in one of his books. He also had a patient, who was an elderly man and his family brought him in to the clinic. He would sit all day with his head in his hands and was no longer able to speak. They did the Incurables on him and he had a full recovery.
Thank you. I raced to ease my husband’s dive into unwellness but he was diagnosed 3/2020 and died 9/2021. Took care of him in a hospital bed in the living room with almost useless hospice and occasional paid caregivers. I felt awful about not doing more for him and during covid the neighbors and my siblings disappeared because we would not take the covid jabs. I will look up Dr. Richard Schulz’s books. I am going to be able to do more next time. Thank you for your comment.
I'm so sorry for your loss. The best information I've found is The Heal Your Life Series from Sam Biser, interviewing Dr. Richard Schulze. It is hours and hours of life saving information. I found them on ebay; they are on VHS tapes and I had them converted to CD and thumbdrive. Dr. Schulze closed his clinic after his arrest. The best Naturopath from the old school that I found (and you can Zoom call) is Dr. Ellen Tart-Jensen, she was Dr. Bernard Jensen's daughter-in-law. She helped me heal from the stroke. ellenjensen.com if you are interested.
Yes gut, but it's difficult to re-myelinate neurons that have been denuded by mercury and aluminum in shots. Apparently, (new info to me) ketones can do this. So low/carb ketogenic eating may do this. GAPS is low carb. SO maybe the gains I saw for my son in the mid 2000's on Gaps was in part gut and also ketones re-building myelin? (I didn't understand this at the time.) My favorite youtube MD for keto is Eric Westman at Duke. Maybe start there? His food list is pretty simple to follow. And move to GAPS if results aren't sufficient.
Anton Blok speaks in Berdaev's essay on suicide of idealisation of death ''as an epidemic'' .
I think when a russian is not depressed - there's nothing to learn from ''him'' .
''Only when absolute hope has been contemptualised - can any creative impulse be free to create anything ..
-Hatred of the world is a necessity .'' Berdaev .
The western gut is not as healthy as tribal hottentot's - when DR Tim Spector looked at their poop - 1kg was the norm ,per time .
His colleagues (including himself) would invert themselves for hours in africa ,and elsewhere - letting enemas of the Kalahari bushmen transferred poop - 3x >interesting bacteria more than any westerner .
They found 3 days was the time it took to lose breadth bacterial benefit - resulting in western diets themselves being the cause of illness .
I found whenever I went to serbia - I ate more ,and always lost 1 kg in total - even though the EU were spraying Voyvodina fields illegally 10x more than any EU member ,like ukr .
So Serbian intransigence gives health .Russian too .
Biggest question is does Zelensky realise the force feeding of
EU Yogokarta Principles is in fact anti bacterial - because Ed Brongersma and followers -from Kinsey onwards enshrine poop worship in a way that denies the power of healthy fecal implants ?
But RFK has succeeded in brands of live kefir being sold , ''without'' additives .
I have historically used high calcium nl ''natural'' fromage frais to counteract hopelessness when viewing the incestious links between NL private /public behavour .
Interest in even noticing them greatly dwindles when live kefir is regularly taken at every meal .
You know so much. Let your fans and supporters out here trying to heal our vax injured kids help you when you don't know something.. which is quite rare.
I had depression and anxiety when my marriage broke up. Thankfully I discovered yoga and the works of Cheri Huber especially 'There's nothing wrong with you. A. guide to going beyond self-hate'. A few years in of repeating the mantra 'may all beings be free, happy and live with ease' I got to thinking about the slices of a pig that were in my fridge. I was briefly veggie then vegan after understanding what milk is. Depression over.
Surviving childhood and the trauma we all carry of turning away from our own wisdom to please (or displease) our carers has got nothing to do with the microbiome. But the microbiome switches genes on and off, affects our moods, reduces inflammation and gives us well-being.
We have to do awareness practice and eat fresh fruit, beans and greens!
That is an interesting posit, for sure. I am wary of ANY wholesale diagnosis, though, And quite wary of any wholesale diagnosis that pretty much is more concerned with assigning blame instead of offering help and understanding. Not that this is that.
When my grandson is a very big six feet four inch tower of blind and unreasoning bipolar rage because his meds did not quite handle things or if he forgot, I certainly would love to know if this could all be fixed with more attention to gut health.
This is my mindset today, it may change tomorrow. I am happily unjabbed. What I am catching little tiny glimpses of, around the net, is some folks saying that the jabbed should all have known better. I think the jabbed will need sympathy and help, will need knowledge of possible fixes or at least ameliorants that are being discovered. We are all in this world and life together. Just my opinion.
Thank you for this! And I am sad about your depression. I sometimes am told I am depressed, and I might be, but it is nothing compared to what I have seen or read about in others.
Snap! My big depression hit in 2011 and it took me until about 2015 to heal from it.
Seriously, I'm wondering whether it had something to do with the sunspot cycles.
Solar Cycle 24 hit its minimum in December 2008, and it was the lowest minimum recorded since Solar Cycle 7 in 1823.
My suggestion is that after several years of very low sunspots = very low incoming charged particles from the sun, every living creature is low on charge, which makes us more easily subject to depression.
Then the cycle hit maximum in April 2014, and after several years of high sunspots, we were all feeling better again.
Solar Cycle 25 had an even lower minimum in December 2019, and we would have all become depressed again in 2020 or 21, except that the COVID PlandemicTM took up attention eleswhere. And in December 2024 the cycle peaked at a much higher sunspot count than the previous maximum, so we are all fine again and even the flowers and trees are blooming more brightly and beautifully than they have in ages.
If this idea has any merit, perhaps we should all be "grounding"—walking around barefoot or in straw sandals?
There are many astounding testimonials of people reversing bi-polar and every other psychiatric affliction with 100% elimination of carbs, on various carnivore channels. I'll post one favorite such channel in comments. It works but now many people are saying carnivore is not good and so I am unsure but for severe mental conditions, it is a life line.
'Carnivore' works I believe not by any inherent virtue but because it's easy to lose weight, mostly water and lean muscle, very quickly. Losing weight reduces all inflammatory marker but no, its not a healthy diet. Far from it. The internet would have you believe sky high cholesterol and having a stroke was all part of the process. https://jowaller.substack.com/p/claims-of-weston-a-price-which-are?utm_source=publication-search It will kill you.
Better to lose weight with low fat high carb (which reduces fat rather than muscle). Then depression also goes away without heart disease.
I don't know if your view on this is correct or not, but I like it!
What you've described approximates the typical traditional East and South Asian diet there, with rice as the main staple and little in the away of animal products. It's high carb, low protein, and medium-to-low fat.
By adding meat and dairy to this diet, the East and South Asians have achieved a high carb, medium protein, high fat diet that has extended their lifespan dramatically and not turned them obese in anything like the numbers seen in the Five Eyes countries.
At this point, I suspect that a combination of too many injections and too much ingestion of things that damage the body or overstimulate the immune system (poisons) are driving the obesity plague in some Western countries, rather than too much fat or too many carbs. Getting more sunshine and more exercise would help too, but if people could avoid the poisons, I believe at least half the problem with obesity and a great many other health issues could be solved.
Natasha Campell-McBride - Author of: "Gut And Psychology Syndrome" (GAPS) ; her GAPS diet has successfully restored health to children with symptoms we call autism and the other epidemics of modern childhood. She has an incredible body of work to her name and is a frequent speaker at the Weston A Price Foundation conferences. Years ago, she published another book called GAPS Stories - testimonials of recovery. I have a personal history following her recommendations and all 5 of her books are on my 'Top Shelf.' She is my favorite doctor (on a very short list.) Website: http://www.doctor-natasha.com/
Thanks Teresa. I checked out Dr Natasha and followed it to one of her books; read the sample on Amazon. Excellent reference.
What is pretty amazing is that one of her chapter headings virtually repeats Celia's Newsletter Title today! Your comment could not be more apropos.
Teresa Hill, thanks for this reference. Gonna check it out!
Thank you Celia for this post. 7 days ago I lost a VIP in my life to suicide. He was 35 years old. He went into deep depression a year ago. He overcame an auto immunne disorder 5 years ago that would have killed him but he detoxed and cleaned up his diet with the help of a laser focused nutritionist and stayed clean. So your article makes complete sense. Diet is key but surely not the whole story. He kept talking about a hole inside he couldn't seem to fill even though he tried by getting two dogs in the last year. He wanted to "care for" something. I believe that is a God sized hole that only a connection to God will fill. He wasn't an atheist I'm told even atheists end up looking for meaning and purpose beyond self, a "hole" all humans have to decide how to fill. Nature abhors a void and will fill it with something. (Jeff Childers said that). Again thank you for your post.
Rebecca, I am so sorry. That is a very shocking story and it feels important that we talk about all this. The whole phenomenon of that hole people feel inside is taboo. I think it just frightens everybody. It's extra chilling that your friend detoxed and cleaned up his diet and still lost the battle. We focus entirely on the success stories and I am glad of that. But what about the really tough cases?
https://drmcfillin.substack.com/p/whats-actually-programming-your-body
This is not related to this comment. I just wanted to point your attention to this article.
I reviewed this link and it appears that much of what she relates is similar to Dr.Natasha's thinking.
You say" not related to this comment", but it appears quite related to the main subject!
Rebecca, I am so sorry. May he rest in peace, and may his soul be with the light!!! So tragic.
So sorry, big hugs.
I suffered from fear and mild paranoia for much of my adult life. Then I learned that those things are the result of an out of balance microbiome. It has taken me the better part of 15 years to get my gut microbiome restored to the point where I'm no longer paralyzed by fear and paranoia.
How did you do it Kyle? What really moved the needle?
It wasn't any one thing, it was a process of trial and error until I found what worked and what didn't. The take-home for me was that we are all, thankfully, different - there is no magic bullet that will work equally well for everyone across the board. However, there are foundational things that anyone suffering from similar issues should pursue. You've touched on some of them over the years. After that, experimental fine tuning can take one far. I'm open to talking with you about this.
So true. The foundation of natural healing is nutrition in and waste out. I don't think you can be healthy if you are not having a bowel movement after every major meal you eat.
I had a horrendously fearful childhood. Now, all these years later, I see I just do not really really open up to anyone. I think the term is "give over". But I have managed a most interesting life, although I likely affected some others adversely. I am 79, and my generation was pretty much told to suck it up and not feel sorry for ourselves, as far as I can recall. That influences things a lot. My grandson loves horror movies, and I think they are mostly just silly because people are much scarier than monsters. You are inspiring me to actually think about my gut microbiome, which I honestly never gave a thought to before.
In my observation, I would say that it starts with the energy, and then, if the energy is disturbed, different factors may play a role. In the area I have been researching in depth, there is a strong connection between infections of the brain and the CNS and neurological and psychiatric symptoms. And of course, different stressors and toxins go into that bucket, and it all works together, and if gut and other good microbes are weakened, there are fewer tiny helpers, so tiny and not so tiny foes have an easier time creating issues. For anyone who wants to look into different pieces on the topic (hard to put everything in a comment), here is the link to the page where I collected my articles about energy, parasites, etc. UPDATE: Forgot the link, lol! https://tessa.substack.com/p/parasites-and-philosophy-of-medicine
I'm working my way through your series Tessa.
Do you think CD can heal infections in the brain?
Marcy Pollan, who will speak to us soon, from Mexico, has shared with me very troubling research on how MB attacks neurotransmitters. Microbiome, we knew.
The main thing I am looking for is what people have done that makes them feel substantially better. As regards energy, I am a big fan of cold plunges.
A thought on what we started discussing the other day: In the "healing space," we need to all radiate respect for others, else some take on parental roles and other's children's roles. Each person has his or her answer and must be captain of his/her ship.
Thank you, Celia!! I totally agree, mutual respect is extremely important!!
It's an interesting dynamic, sometimes when people interact even benevolently, what happens in the invisible world is that people's "eleninis" (approximately defined as self-created or family-inherited energy beings born from pain or fear, who get "stuck" to the person's aura and seek energy to eat) are going at each other, and people feel it as discomfor or attack, etc. In my observation, this dynamic can be one-directional or two-directional.
When it's two-directional, it's one person's trauma talking to another person's trauma, and it's very difficult because both are in their "inner child's" mind and feel attacked. When it one-directional, the traumatized person gets triggered by internal imagination (an association, a word used, etc.), and the person on the receiving end either deals with it with kindness if the traumatized person is receptive to reason, or steps out of the way because I have been on that end, and it's a lot of work. Oftentimes, when people are following the lead of their eleninis, in that moment, they stubbornly avoid good advice because the elenini fights back for "its turf" (it's the inner child who has felt rejected and invisible before and fight back now, in the adult body). Sometimes, that energy state is used by the non-benevolent actors who don't have an intention to help, so that can use language to appeal to the elenini, "win" the trust of the person, and then do whatever they want (until it hurts too much, and the person wakes up).
Put me out of my misery ( as if possible!) are you from estonia ?
Are you speaking of another version of https://www.ashepamicuba.com/en/quien-es-la-orisha-elenini-la-diosa-yoruba-del-infortunio/
?
Either way I like the approach ,just scared the bejeebies out of my socks .
lol, no, I am not from Estonia, I was born in Moscow. Why did you think I am from Estonia? Is it the syntax? :-)))
Elenini is a West African concept that I find remarkably helpful, information on the internet is not always perfect :), here is an article where I described my understanding of it https://tessa.substack.com/p/theory-of-health and also a very long interview where this concept is discussed somewhere in the second half of it https://tessa.substack.com/p/dealing-with-heavy-trauma-introducing
There is nothing particularly spooky about it, most people have trauma, trauma creates this kind of energy beings, so it's not rare.
Very nice .
I have a question .
Khomus - from above Baikal lake - a musical instrument ,best untuned - that traditionally can be used to tune the Evenki 9 heavens .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_u1mNQRCxM
Stalin murdered almost all the siberian shamans - and the west does not understand how this simple fact elicits makers of ethnic commodification of truth aka New Age ,super predatory . Mesmerism comes from such an instrument ,historically . Yet Evenki healing cannot be animistic ,because the west ''is ''.
Side note -I had 30 years in Lelystad where the beatles Maharashi told the world that L'std would become heaven on earth with only 14 000 believers .
This while our cars were being burnt ,top lawgivers were being fired - for facilitating Yogokarta Principles foistered on minors - empowering almost institutionalised raping of some of them ,even today using using them to deliver ever increasing strength of hard drugs ,to a wide area ,including via North Sea to Scotland .
In fact a ceremonial car burning got Peter De Vries involved - which in turn led to 5-6 London Met police selling hard and soft to 2 top lawgivers ,3 top cops - all of which were fired before prison was allowed conceptually . Peter de Vries uncovered the consecutive sentencing 22 years ,of 2 judges ,one in Arnhem ,one in Zwolle - whose complete sentencing needed review in the light of these facts .After he was given a legal gagging order - the NL govt saw to it that his most privat ephone details became public ,resulting in his recent street execution 6 bullets - broad daylight ,now his daughter has same to contend with .
Major General Ian Watson ,posing as domine of the Anglican Church Groenburgwal 42 - liked a certain solo Ysaye concert Brahms sonata in A concert I did - he was in charge of all E traffic between Berlin Amsterdam and Belfast - then he started listening 3 years to the tel conversations in Maharashi's ''heaven on earth'' .
Not pretty .
So whenever I hear ''healing without responsibility' I get worse than Marvin - the depressive overintelligent robot in Douglas Adam's Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
But khumus gets the wild horses here dancing - really .Filmed - fights above my head - entry into herd -as token horse .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_u1mNQRCxM
Yet the pple in NL generally seem to be in love with darkness - primed because of a significantly commodified ethnic allusivity .. aka the Sai Baba hermaphrodite issue - of which many previous trained western leaders attest to .
Yogokarta Principles are the reason why a pretender like Vance - can brazenly attest that he is a benefactor of mankind - when in fact the fortune he is controlled by IS Palantir .
So the question I have is how much of the truth can be said to ''heal'' us - when it is too terrible to behold ,and stay sane ?
Especially as Paul warns us in Ephesians 6 that our ''battle is not against flesh and blood - but against principalities'' - warring with light personalised in Christ & His Father ,before the world began
SO one of the chief instigators - a top disgraced lawgiver is back - 3 decades later .Up to same tricks . Never having been jailed , spouting overindividualisation from his Gemeenteraad council of delusion .
Recent multiple fires ,attacks ,thefts of passports from inside house ,etc .
Personally targetted .. but reflected expertly ''back'' .
So individulalising healing promises future generation Yogokarta Princilples - as ''bait' for the myopia of over individualisation .
Not syntax - your indigenous experience mirrors danger of being the first russian I have heard of who actually ''came to the west'' ,a mythical place .
Estonia has this ,Latvia also .
Did you mean microbiome attacking neurotransmitters?
Some intracellular parasites know how to literally occupy neurons, and macrophages and other immune cells. Again, I believe it starts with the state of energy but if there is an infection that is taking hold, whatever works to drive them out without killing the person is good, I believe.
I am not sure if one-size-fits-all cures exist. There are some strong herbs and mushrooms but again, each person is different, and it important to approach it with care. (None of what I said is medial advice :-)
Our mind and bodies are complicated.
Trauma is not just in the mind.
Glyphosate and fluoride destroy the gut biomedical and gluten is ok but small amounts. They now spray our wheat with glyphosate.
I got severe ulcerative colitis 2 years ago from eating a while bix of strawberries one night.
The reason why I know it was strawberries is because I merely washed them off and my husband and I both eight a lot and we both got severe diarrhea, but his went away in mine did not.
The GI told me I would need to take biologics for the rest of my life, and it's very expensive. It blocks your body from healing itself. I asked her if a diet change would help and she said, no.
My body would not stop attacking itself, and it affected my mind at the time. I didnt care id i died. I lost a lot of weight and couldn't hold anything in my stomach and was crapping blood for 2 months while I waited to see a doctor. She put me on prednisone. I decided not to take the biologics, so I took the prednisone 2 months and made my own kombucha, and my own fermented veggies, which is very easy. I learned from YouTube. I am 100% better.
Now I wash all my produce with MMS which was recently proven to remove at least seventy percent of glyphosate by the health ranger Mike Adams.
I use MMS for many things to allow your body to detox so it can heal itself.
Theuniversalantidote.com
You can go to the curious substack to learn more.
Jimhumble.co
Brilliantly helpful and direct Dawn. Thank you. What a story. I'm keen to detox fluoride. They gave it to us in plastic cups in Sweden in school. And I got 11 large mercury fillings, also in Sweden, in 4 months, at age 11. Still working my way up and out, have made a lot of progress. Got brainwashed against ALL vegetables for a while but now plan to start fermenting, despite ADD etc.
Having mercury amalgam fillings replaced with one of the many options on offer from biological dentistry may make a great difference in your life. Detoxing from mercury may take a long time, but it is definitely possible. Perhaps you are already on that path . . . .
It is easy to use once you learn how.
Chlorine dioxide/ MMS removes glyphosate and must have info.... https://open.substack.com/pub/healthranger/p/mike-adams-science-video-shows-how
MMS documentary...
Theuniversalantidote.com
About the man who discovered it and the history behind it.
https://jimhumble.co/
Free pdf bookS...
https://www.jahealthadvocate.com/uploads/2/4/5/9/2459046/mms_health_recovery_guidebook_1_october_2016.pdf
AND
https://educate-yourself.org/cn/Miracle_Mineral_Solution_of_the_21st_Century-Part-1-Archbishop-Jim-Humble-Free-2006-Edition.pdf
How to get it and a trusted source.
https://kvlab.com/chlorine-dioxide-kit-w-hcl-4-fl-oz
Sorry, but what is MMS?
Look above at my reply to Celia with good info to start using it and where in get it. FYI In order to sell it they can't tell you how to use it because they are not allowed.
Miracle mineral solution- chlorine dioxide. Dawn provided a link above to the universal antidote website.
There is something incredible about meat, of any kind. I can eat one day a lot of meat, and then I would pass easily two days, maybe even 60 hours, without any hunger. By wheight or volume, the same amount of plant stuff of any type (rice, bread, potato, tomato, peppers, whatever) will produce three effects: diarrea, migraine and hunger.
So it's better to only eat plants as a luxury or ornament, or side dish, and never abuse them. But meat, when properly cooked, is safe in any amount, at least for me.
Carrots and celery are boring, but way safer than cereals and nightshades plants. I also overreact to tobacco. I have a love-hate relationship with plants.
I definitely can't digest well onions and garlic. And I like them. But just meat and salt and water is best for me, for now. I now regard plants as party food. Something exotic and unusual.
I do take licorice root. I pour boiling water on a table spoon of ground licorice root. About half a liter. Not every day. About once a week. I get great digestion and great sleep from drinking that. Sleep is my biggest challenge now.
I also take magnesium capsules. Now, I will receive the impending doom threats of winged monkeys of the anti-magnesium league. I will shoot them down and will put their corpses in the oven, and feast on retarded winged monkey meat. Threats are strongly unwanted in my manor. It's actually a shed, but I imagine it a manor.
Oh Lord there's an anti-magnesium squad? I take it regularly and was proud of this until a voice scan recently revealed I have zero magnesium and zero iron, despite being keto-vore. Felt like throwing in the towel. Why is everything so complicated and elusive? I LOVE hearing details about people's personal feel better tactics. I am with you about licorice. (Scarcely dare talk about red meat anymore.)
Sometimes I crave licorice almost unbelievably. And I chew on hard sugar free licorice sticks they sell near the Cathedral. But really I want Amazon licorice bits. 😩
About red meat, I learned a lesson from marketing-savvy people and now I call meat "vegetables 2.0"
'Cuz, what's a ribeye steak if not 40 kg of very healthy grass highly organized after optimal digestion. It's so green that it is actually red, like politicians. We cannot let this opportunity pass, if we don't eat meat the fascists win.😹😹😹
Many people are low in magnesium.
My husband thought he was having g a heart attack but he wasn't. Apparently those symptoms are caused by low magnesium too. I get magnesium products from the health ranger store. It has really helped him especially the mineral drops just a little in his water daily.
https://www.healthrangerstore.com/products/concentrated-mineral-drops-8-fl-oz-236ml
And
https://www.healthrangerstore.com/pages/search-results-page?q=Magnesium
One big disadvantage to keto-type diet is that it can be hard to get magnesium
Carrots and celery may be boring...
But they are a lot more interesting than some of the people I have to put up with. :)
I love celery in a Waldorf salad and carrots chopped up small and added to soups and all sorts of fried and baked dishes.
Crunching and munching and gnawing and chewing on sticks of raw carrot and/or celery makes for rather bland eating, may well contribute to depression, and should come with a government health warning.
Nightshade plants, as you know, contain nicotine, although in lower concentrations than tobacco.
I don't have any trouble getting to sleep. Quite the reverse—I have trouble waking up. Mrs. Tim, on the other hand, is a light sleeper and often lays awake for hours without sleeping. I have lectured her about watching videos, reading books and doing crosswords last thing in the evening, and about the evils of blue light, but she thinks these things help her get into the right mood. I've also introduced her to a variety of supplements, and the two that have really helped her are taurine and tryptophan. She wasn't happy with melatonin, as it gave her weird dreams.
Magnesium is magnificent! And potassium is potent! And we've got to keep our electrolytes balanced, haven't we? That said, the magnesium citrate capsules I'm taking at present are a bit too large to swallow easily.
Here’s a trick: diced carrots and celery, cooked on very low temp sous vide, with meat and lots of clarified butter. About 90 minutes, which can be 40 if the cubes of meat are small.
The negative pressure forces all the flavor from the vegetables into the meat, and the flavor of the meat into the vegetables.
I did a variation of this once, with olive oil and adding sweet potato cubes the same size as the meat. Surprisingly, lamb meat and sweet potato go great together.
Now, if we do this with garlic we’ll ruin the subtle sweetness of celery and carrot. If you must use garlic on this, use it only when serving, adding slices on top of the meat, or garlic-flavored salt.
Clove also goes well on sous vide meat preparations.
I don’t know if low temp cooking cooking destroys the plant toxins that some meat-only eaters pretend to be scared of. But it’s delicious.
Anyone who claims "All X are actually Y" is immediately suspect. First, because they have not encountered "All X." Second, because is there a stable and uniform notion of what "gut biome order" looks like? Third, because disorders of complex systems are rarely, if ever, so simple.
My take: Everyone carries some level of "psychiatric disorder." It goes by many names, and it may involve a fluid array of symptoms. But generally, the milder cases can be observed by those around the sufferer in a way that is not obvious or observable by the sufferer. These are the outward behavioral symptoms. The more deeply injured, the more generalized the symptom front. One has an irrational fear of spiders. Another has a generalized, free-floating fear constantly. And so on.
With the more seriously debilitating cases, it may be tempting to look for physiological causes and treatments. Shock therapy. Serotonin enhancers. Gut biome. Endocrine imbalance. All of which may be involved, but not the primary cause, and not the way out.
With less seriously debilitating cases, it is easy to see that the suffering is context sensitive and repeatedly triggers in the same ways. In those cases, it would be hard to argue that something as vague as gut microbe population is a primary cause. The works of Arthur Janov and also of Eugene Gendlin, both happening in the 60's and 70's show pretty clearly that the causes are experiential, and that there are "healing" modes which the sufferer may or may not, ultimately, be able to leverage for lasting relief. Gendlin, in particular, described a process of "steps" which can occur when the sufferer is offered an environment in which the explication of current state is gently and passively encouraged, and not interfered with in any way. This explication (verbalization) is an exploration whose destinations are not know in advance. The therapist has some strong clues to know when the process is taking place. Each "step" does correspond to a (usually minor) "re-wiring" of the sufferer's worldview. The person is, by many small steps, becoming who they are and would always have been.
Speaking of being who you are, and back to the original thought, each of us is at least a little bit off center with respect to genuineness. It's not a conscious choice; it's a survival instinct, just like converting glucose to fat when the former is in abundance. However, it is my personal belief that one of the strongest human instincts is the instinct to wring all possible learning from each and every significant experience. This instinct provides the drive that makes the human system WANT TO navigate that uncomfortable exploration. It takes correspondingly as much energy to suppress the learning instinct in order to preserve status quo and what feels "safe." Safety is also contextual, so that if your friends think your wacko for working with Gendlin protocols, that will inform what you will and will not dare to do.
Getting to my final point and drawing things together: A given person has to choose between two attractors in a dilemma: (1) stay safe and stable as you are; (2) learn and grow and become profoundly more adapted. When we talk about psychiatric symptoms, we are looking at the latter attempting to assert itself. Since we may not be aware of the latter as a possibility, the analysis ends there, and the perceived need is to get the symptoms to subside. For this, nervous suppressive systems need to be kept quite fit, and here is the real connection to the physiological remedies we hear about. You need excellent energy production, functional mitochondria, a diet and movement program that keeps these systems in good shape, We need a very fit brain environment with adequate neurotransmitters and a very fit endocrine system, and so on. These things are good for all humans, but especially those with a heavy experience suppression load.
Didn't mean to write so much. Hope it makes some sense.
I was born premature, 2 lb 5 oz. I believe that is a factor in my leaky gut and thyroid issues.
Mold illness now & leaky gut. Have been doing the Ritchie Shoemaker protocol.
When I was younger, I had ptsd and adrenal exhaustion. The medical system acknowledged the ptsd but ignored the adrenal exhaustion!
I am currently in a bad marriage and went to counseling through my insurance.
It’s horrible! The system got even worse!
I’m on a waiting list for counseling in person. Tele health is flourishing, that would be unsafe in my situation.
The phone call for counseling took over an hour on hold.
After I saw the shrink, six hours later, they billed me for a ten dollar copay.
I have bed bugs (and had scabies this winter, )the evidence is all over my legs. PTSD resurfaced..
The shrink decided in 20 minutes that I’m delusional.
Doing more harm than good, right there.
Rosalind, are you able to remove yourself from abuse? I imagine not.
Can you get rid of the bedbugs?
Did the Shoemaker protocol work?
I'm sorry you are having to struggle so. Amazing how you survived at that birth weight. I was only a month premature, weighed 5 lbs. But no visitors for the first 4 days in the incubator.
Working on leaving.( My elderly mom could help but her m k programming is still strong, she’s blaming me for the bad marriage. ) My husband was attracted to me because of her money I think. He’s had a girlfriend the entire time! They put pestilence in my home and even in my laundry. Very creative evil.
It’s a gang stalking situation because my brother is involved, he believes my mom inheritance is his right. He’s got a few million himself but it’s not enough, ever.
(Rosalind, HEY, good to see you here. I remember exchanging with you in the comments often, during the thick of the Plandemic. Sorry to read that you're going through the mill... Hope you can eventually get to a better place..... A thousand percent feel for you.......
I remember, thank you for your comment!
(fist-bump).
Rosalind, I have an extra UV light that I bought and have never used. I am happy to send it free of charge to get rid of the bed bugs.
So kind, thanks. Not sure what my address will be!
God-speed in getting to the new location. Leave the bed behind!!
I have not tried it but many people are thrilled with using Chat GPT as a therapist. Costs next to nothing and available as needed.
I’m concerned for a friend that’s doing just that. She’s acting more delusional, very hard to follow her conversation lately.
Of course some people need more. She's likely got some kind of toxicity issue or deficiency going on.
Trauma issues. It’s so crazy, I’m so thankful her family took me to church as a teenager, it changed my life for the better . Her experience with the church & family traumatized her.
My severe bouts of depression subsided once I realized once and for all that nobody else in the world was ever going to give a shit whether I was living or dead and therefore it was up to me and me alone to determine my own value and place in the world. (The Other treats me as a thing, an object to be used, experienced, analyzed, or categorized.) My constitutional empathy, which before I had experienced as burdensome, although still an integral trait and never something to be shed or extinguished, I now regard as indispensable to my own particular brand of mojo.
Apparently the term "sigma male" came into play about 15 years ago to distinguish individuals like myself, i.e., inveterate nonconformists, from the jockeying alphas and betas which comprise and perpetuate every entrenched social hierarchy (aka pecking order).
Nobody should be suffering for years. Most people can heal within a year, maximum. In autopsies of people with Alzheimers, Parkinsons, any neurodegeneration, there is always a thick yellow covering over the brain. I believe that is because the brain is not eliminating cellular waste and there is blockage. I would take Brain Formula from American Botanical Pharmacy and also Cell Defender from Avini Health. Link: https://www.avinihealth.com/ellenjensen
I had a stroke a year ago, my memory of the past year was completely wiped. I was terrified. I didn't go to the hospital because I generally don't do that, unless there was a broken bone emergency or something. I was working in the garden and it felt like someone stabbed me in the right side of my head. It was excruciating. I couldn't see out of my left eye because a blood vessel burst. I just somehow walked up the hill to our house and climbed into bed. I laid in bed for about a week and slept. At the time, I did not know what had happened to me. It was later when I got out my How to Heal Your Life book, to figure out what was wrong, that I read about strokes and realized that was what it was.
So, long story short, this happened because I have thin veins and a year prior to this I went to a Naturopath who said I tested high on heavy metals; lead and mercury. I agreed to do IV EDTA Chelation, but quit after 2 weeks because a voice that was not mine, very clearly said out loud, this is not for you. I then looked into side effects and one was kidney damage, which the Naturopath said he had never seen, but who knows how long it would take for that to show up. Anyway, one is supposed to be remineralized at some point during the chelation, because it strips all minerals out of you, not just the ones you don't want. So I was never remineralized and then had some very serious stress in my life and I think this created the perfect storm. However, I am now 100% healed, my veins are back to normal and my memory is completely restored and normal.
If I could heal my brain and my veins, then everyone can heal. The body has the blueprint for perfect health and is always doing it's best to return us to perfect health.
I had my husband’s brain autopsied when he died with Lewy Body Dementia (associated with Parkinson’s) but a thick yellow covering over the brain was not mentioned. I did not get to see slides of the autopsy. Is there a medical/technical term for this covering? I had eased many of his symptoms without him taking any pharma. Thank you.
I think they just call it plaque. Dr. Richard Schulze talked about it in one of his books. He also had a patient, who was an elderly man and his family brought him in to the clinic. He would sit all day with his head in his hands and was no longer able to speak. They did the Incurables on him and he had a full recovery.
Thank you. I raced to ease my husband’s dive into unwellness but he was diagnosed 3/2020 and died 9/2021. Took care of him in a hospital bed in the living room with almost useless hospice and occasional paid caregivers. I felt awful about not doing more for him and during covid the neighbors and my siblings disappeared because we would not take the covid jabs. I will look up Dr. Richard Schulz’s books. I am going to be able to do more next time. Thank you for your comment.
I'm so sorry for your loss. The best information I've found is The Heal Your Life Series from Sam Biser, interviewing Dr. Richard Schulze. It is hours and hours of life saving information. I found them on ebay; they are on VHS tapes and I had them converted to CD and thumbdrive. Dr. Schulze closed his clinic after his arrest. The best Naturopath from the old school that I found (and you can Zoom call) is Dr. Ellen Tart-Jensen, she was Dr. Bernard Jensen's daughter-in-law. She helped me heal from the stroke. ellenjensen.com if you are interested.
I am interested. Thank you!
You're so welcome! Wishing you powerful health and happiness!
Yes gut, but it's difficult to re-myelinate neurons that have been denuded by mercury and aluminum in shots. Apparently, (new info to me) ketones can do this. So low/carb ketogenic eating may do this. GAPS is low carb. SO maybe the gains I saw for my son in the mid 2000's on Gaps was in part gut and also ketones re-building myelin? (I didn't understand this at the time.) My favorite youtube MD for keto is Eric Westman at Duke. Maybe start there? His food list is pretty simple to follow. And move to GAPS if results aren't sufficient.
Anton Blok speaks in Berdaev's essay on suicide of idealisation of death ''as an epidemic'' .
I think when a russian is not depressed - there's nothing to learn from ''him'' .
''Only when absolute hope has been contemptualised - can any creative impulse be free to create anything ..
-Hatred of the world is a necessity .'' Berdaev .
The western gut is not as healthy as tribal hottentot's - when DR Tim Spector looked at their poop - 1kg was the norm ,per time .
His colleagues (including himself) would invert themselves for hours in africa ,and elsewhere - letting enemas of the Kalahari bushmen transferred poop - 3x >interesting bacteria more than any westerner .
They found 3 days was the time it took to lose breadth bacterial benefit - resulting in western diets themselves being the cause of illness .
I found whenever I went to serbia - I ate more ,and always lost 1 kg in total - even though the EU were spraying Voyvodina fields illegally 10x more than any EU member ,like ukr .
So Serbian intransigence gives health .Russian too .
Biggest question is does Zelensky realise the force feeding of
EU Yogokarta Principles is in fact anti bacterial - because Ed Brongersma and followers -from Kinsey onwards enshrine poop worship in a way that denies the power of healthy fecal implants ?
But RFK has succeeded in brands of live kefir being sold , ''without'' additives .
I have historically used high calcium nl ''natural'' fromage frais to counteract hopelessness when viewing the incestious links between NL private /public behavour .
Interest in even noticing them greatly dwindles when live kefir is regularly taken at every meal .
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''Shitheads clone rather unsuccessfully''
You always astound me. Tim Spector? Will look him up...
Isn't that Natasha Campbel McBride?
Yes. I did not know this! I should have know.
You know so much. Let your fans and supporters out here trying to heal our vax injured kids help you when you don't know something.. which is quite rare.
Yes.
I had not seen a childhood friend for many years. i told him I suffered from depression, He laughed.
Similar to hearing loss people who do not have it cannot relate.
Not their fault they just don't / cannot comprehend it.
Call on Jesus when you have bad dreams, it works. I ask My father to keep dreams I would rather not have out of my mind. This also works.
Daytime depression/anger, which is very rare now, is dealt with by opening the bible and reading it just anywhere.
Quitting/ separating from anything will distract your mind.
I am a firm believer in cultivating happy microbiome and mitochondria it affects everything.
Hiya Celia, this is lovely. Thank you
We are not separate from 'nature', we are nature. We're not separate from life. We are life. We can't live without each other, the planet or the bugs that live inside us (the beneficial ones, such as Prevotella sp, only eat plants btw) https://jowaller.substack.com/p/a-tiny-water-flea-has-31000-genes?utm_source=publication-search
I had depression and anxiety when my marriage broke up. Thankfully I discovered yoga and the works of Cheri Huber especially 'There's nothing wrong with you. A. guide to going beyond self-hate'. A few years in of repeating the mantra 'may all beings be free, happy and live with ease' I got to thinking about the slices of a pig that were in my fridge. I was briefly veggie then vegan after understanding what milk is. Depression over.
Surviving childhood and the trauma we all carry of turning away from our own wisdom to please (or displease) our carers has got nothing to do with the microbiome. But the microbiome switches genes on and off, affects our moods, reduces inflammation and gives us well-being.
We have to do awareness practice and eat fresh fruit, beans and greens!
Best,
Jo
That is an interesting posit, for sure. I am wary of ANY wholesale diagnosis, though, And quite wary of any wholesale diagnosis that pretty much is more concerned with assigning blame instead of offering help and understanding. Not that this is that.
When my grandson is a very big six feet four inch tower of blind and unreasoning bipolar rage because his meds did not quite handle things or if he forgot, I certainly would love to know if this could all be fixed with more attention to gut health.
This is my mindset today, it may change tomorrow. I am happily unjabbed. What I am catching little tiny glimpses of, around the net, is some folks saying that the jabbed should all have known better. I think the jabbed will need sympathy and help, will need knowledge of possible fixes or at least ameliorants that are being discovered. We are all in this world and life together. Just my opinion.
Thank you for this! And I am sad about your depression. I sometimes am told I am depressed, and I might be, but it is nothing compared to what I have seen or read about in others.
Don't be sad! I am sooooo sooooo much better than I was around 2009-2015 or so.
Snap! My big depression hit in 2011 and it took me until about 2015 to heal from it.
Seriously, I'm wondering whether it had something to do with the sunspot cycles.
Solar Cycle 24 hit its minimum in December 2008, and it was the lowest minimum recorded since Solar Cycle 7 in 1823.
My suggestion is that after several years of very low sunspots = very low incoming charged particles from the sun, every living creature is low on charge, which makes us more easily subject to depression.
Then the cycle hit maximum in April 2014, and after several years of high sunspots, we were all feeling better again.
Solar Cycle 25 had an even lower minimum in December 2019, and we would have all become depressed again in 2020 or 21, except that the COVID PlandemicTM took up attention eleswhere. And in December 2024 the cycle peaked at a much higher sunspot count than the previous maximum, so we are all fine again and even the flowers and trees are blooming more brightly and beautifully than they have in ages.
If this idea has any merit, perhaps we should all be "grounding"—walking around barefoot or in straw sandals?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_cycles
There are many astounding testimonials of people reversing bi-polar and every other psychiatric affliction with 100% elimination of carbs, on various carnivore channels. I'll post one favorite such channel in comments. It works but now many people are saying carnivore is not good and so I am unsure but for severe mental conditions, it is a life line.
'Carnivore' works I believe not by any inherent virtue but because it's easy to lose weight, mostly water and lean muscle, very quickly. Losing weight reduces all inflammatory marker but no, its not a healthy diet. Far from it. The internet would have you believe sky high cholesterol and having a stroke was all part of the process. https://jowaller.substack.com/p/claims-of-weston-a-price-which-are?utm_source=publication-search It will kill you.
Better to lose weight with low fat high carb (which reduces fat rather than muscle). Then depression also goes away without heart disease.
I don't know if your view on this is correct or not, but I like it!
What you've described approximates the typical traditional East and South Asian diet there, with rice as the main staple and little in the away of animal products. It's high carb, low protein, and medium-to-low fat.
By adding meat and dairy to this diet, the East and South Asians have achieved a high carb, medium protein, high fat diet that has extended their lifespan dramatically and not turned them obese in anything like the numbers seen in the Five Eyes countries.
At this point, I suspect that a combination of too many injections and too much ingestion of things that damage the body or overstimulate the immune system (poisons) are driving the obesity plague in some Western countries, rather than too much fat or too many carbs. Getting more sunshine and more exercise would help too, but if people could avoid the poisons, I believe at least half the problem with obesity and a great many other health issues could be solved.
Thank you for that info. I have tried that diet with him, it works for me, but we both cheat. This would be an incentive, for sure.