Update: I'm Healed From Mystery Illness

A few people have commented on whatever became of my announcement that I had to take a break to deal with my health.

I did take a break, and as I write this, I can tell you that I consider myself about 90% healed from what I had come to call “energy cancer,” which was actually a metabolic distortion I’d lugged around since early childhood. (Trauma and sugar addiction.)

One could call it CIRS, Lyme—one could call it all kinds of things, but the bottom line was, I could not focus my mind, apart from those hours I was either a) asleep or b) writing.

It had major components of idiopathic disassociation, but I never got a proper diagnosis. Like so many people, I spent every penny on countless healing and detox protocols, over many years, that did not heal me.

I had to write reminders on neon post it notes or on my hands to have any prayer of remembering any plan, ever. (Incidentally, I forgot an online talk today, butI still insist I am 90% healed.) Remembering things will take time, but my energy is normal again, and I can structure thoughts and even attach them to actions, in sequences.

I had this hormonal/adrenal/neurotransmitter syndrome for years and years. But I didn’t have a clear illness anybody could understand, as I have explained before. Nor was I a hypochondriac.

Then, over a period of 2 weeks, I suddenly recovered. I wake up feeling normal, no tears, no morning dread, no depression.

I can complete tasks, and take hour long hikes every day, and experience dopamine signaling again.

How did I do it?

There is a healer involved, a man named Troy who devised a unique method of testing and re-awakening dormant muscles so that they connect again. If he is willing, I can eventually tell you more about his work, which is “next level.”

The other part of it was all centered around a) what I allowed myself to be subjected to and b) what I did not eat anymore. Elimination diet.

I want this post to be short, and not draw too much attention to itself, but I have some answers finally, to the devastation of chronic inflammation that affects both body and mind.

Ready?

Not everybody will appreciate this, but I stopped eating almost everything. I eliminated all carbs, and all sugar. That left protein and fat. I will probably never again eat a salad, a pickle, a cookie, or God forbid, a slice of seemingly innocent “gluten free” bread.

I eat a stick of grass-fed butter a day—that’s my new snack, small slices of butter.

I never get tired or hungry, my brain does not run on glucose anymore, it runs on protein and fat.

The Lion Diet?

Yes. Sorry to all my vegetarian readers, please don’t unsubscribe, I had to save my life.

It worked, for me. That is all I can say.

My entire “relationship” with almost all food is over. And it was an addictive relationship, I now see. There is nothing I can ever eat in a truck stop, not a single potato chip, none of it. It’s just over. My life is much simpler now. I can eat cheese, meat, fish, and butter, eggs, that’s it.

Oh, and salt.

Lion Diet starves candida, mold, parasites, etc. I was sick because I was eating all kinds of “healthy food” that was inflammatory and created carb-sugar, and the adrenal roller coaster that goes with it.

Sugar is the devil. I didn't want to believe it, but it’s true. If you eliminate it 100%, your health will rebound.

Should this Substack include writings about Carnivore? I don’t think so. I healed myself, and I wanted you to know, that’s all. So what about the CIRS?

I’m awaiting test results. And in the meantime, feeling stunned every day that I have almost normal person brain function, mood and energy. I was even one hour early to Hartford where the gang picked me up so we could drive to Boston.

Unheard of.

“Lateness” is also not what it seems.

I may work toward obtaining a nutritional coaching license and help people who feel their brain is broken and nobody believes them. I’m now certain it’s all from food. I know Josh Macin, who I respect, advises against carnivore, but this is my story.

Thank you for listening.

Here’s one very good starter video, if this WAE (way of eating) interests you. Jordan Peterson’s daughter tells her remarkable story, from near death to perfect health, on the lion diet.

Also, Dr. Breggin! Carnivore Diet cures “mental illness.” I’ve listened to hundreds of stunning testimonials. Here’s one. You don’t have to agree or disagree but keep an open mind, especially if you are sick.