At the age of 20, I was diagnosed with a chronic digestive disease,
I didn’t understand why it developed in my middle of life, nor did the doctors. For years I took medication, felt unwell, and did nothing to try to change the situation.
After years with the disease, while living in New York, I was exposed to a different discourse on health.
A discourse that promotes the search for the root of the problem and understanding the person, rather than focusing on the disease and treating the symptoms as we are used to from Western medicine.
I read and researched and realized that my lifestyle did not allow for recovery. And I began to change my life.
After several months of significant changes in my diet, habits, and choices – I recovered.
I remember how the doctor was surprised by the test results that came back completely normal and with no trace of the disease.
I have been off medication for years and feel healthier than ever.
In the last century, chronic diseases have become commonplace. We all know at least one person who has a chronic disease: Crohn’s, celiac, colitis, arthritis, endometriosis, psoriasis, cancer, depression, and more.
According to the World Health Organization, the development of chronic diseases can be prevented with proper nutrition, exercise, and avoiding smoking and alcohol. Which makes them diseases that are more related to lifestyle than to our health.
So if the development of chronic diseases can be prevented, maybe they can also be cured?
How is it that so many people recover from chronic, autoimmune, and pain diseases without medication, and only with changes in diet, life expectancy, and way of thinking
And no one talks about it?
They say that you can’t solve a disease with the same diet and lifestyle that created it. In other words, to improve your health and ideally even get better, you need to change the choices and habits that led to your illness.
It is very easy in our world to reach a state of developing a medical problem. It is enough that we do not eat the nutrients necessary for the optimal functioning of our body and create deficiencies, eat too many processed foods or foods that the body develops an intolerance to, create inflammation in the body, consume too many medications and alcohol, do not spend enough time in the sun, sit most of the day, do not sleep well and on top of that we are stressed and that is how illness manifests itself in our body.
But that is not all. The mind plays a big role in the development of diseases.
Dealing with pain, failure, criticism and disappointment, low self-esteem, ongoing frustration, a toxic environment and the list is long. But as with nutrition and everyday choices, the mind can also be worked on.
The thing is that in a fast-paced world that demands quick solutions, drugs have become the classic “solution” that does not work. It clearly does not work. It is impossible to solve a problem that was created with the same diet or lifestyle that created it. And yet most people are not willing to make the necessary sacrifices and changes to heal.
So is it possible to reverse the situation? According to Western medicine – no.
What is the benefit of telling a person, a free being, an individual soul who is a whole world in itself, in a world where people recover from the most serious illnesses, that they cannot be healed? What does this do to a person? It breaks their spirit and creates a limiting thought that “there is nothing to be done.”
Why does this happen? Imagine that you have broken a leg. What do you do? Rest, keep the leg from hurting, so that it can heal. It is amazing, the body knows how to heal itself. Every person who has been cut, rubbed, and injured in their life knows that if we walk on the broken leg, does it become a chronic fracture? No. We simply do not let the body complete its healing process.
What happens with chronic diseases is that something creates a disease, we don’t always know for sure what, and instead of checking, researching, resting and letting the body heal, we take medications that don’t cure.
In general, medications don’t cure. In fact. They mainly numb the symptom. So it happens that doctors know medications, and with them, there really is no way to achieve true recovery.
I believe that it is possible to recover from everything, I have seen others, films, articles, from the mouths of doctors and people who have recovered themselves. And of course there is my personal experience.
Our body is a very sophisticated machine and under the right conditions – that is, when we don’t overload it and harm it, it knows how to heal.
Recovery is a process that takes time, discipline, sacrifice and dedication, but the results, whatever they are, full health, are worth it all.
The goal is to start listening to the body, learn to get to know it and the signs it gives us. Recovery is a natural process that happens in the body. Just like a wound heals.
If you have just been diagnosed, if you have been suffering from a condition for some time, or are in the process of recovery, I recommend reading books, listening to podcasts, going to workshops, lectures, and especially experimenting so that you can take responsibility for your recovery into your own hands. Go deeper into understanding the food we eat, our nutrition, our daily choices, and start striving to achieve recovery.
How do you get started? Since there is no one-size-fits-all path, there are some guidelines that are important to start with:
Natural nutrition. You can’t heal when you put junk in your body
Go to bed on time, and sleep enough hours (only you know how much you need)
Exercise every day (walking also counts)
Daily exposure to the sun, and time in nature are critical for healing and strengthening the immune system
Learn to manage emotions and not let them manage and undermine us, negative thinking weakens the body
Stress management – meditation, writing and adequate sleep.
Recovery is something that exists, more than what you can see right now.
Don’t give up on your health. It is the most important asset you have.
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