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Tired? sleepy? hungry? spacey?

Your next meal could be making you feel terrible.

Now, carefully think about when those problems may have ocurred. This may be an exercise for the future, but pay close attention if those problems occurred within 2 hours of eating. It is possible for foods to adversely affect you up to days later, but they are much more difficult to detect and sometimes needs a specialty test (sage test).

So for todays project let’s just focus on the obvious stuff. For example: If you eat lunch and within 2 hours you are tired, ding, ding, ding, back up and write down what you had for lunch. The next time you have a problem write it down.

Simple eating solution:

• What is the problem?
• What did you eat in the last 2 hours?

After you have a few entries look at the problem list and you will hopefully discover some trends. Then test them.

For example: I was pretty sure chicken made me tired. So I specifically paid attention to how I felt after a chicken meal versus a beef meal. Chicken is tolerable, but tiring for me, but beef makes me feel like a rock star. I also don’t do well with all veggies, I need meat.

Some people don’t need meat at all to feel great, some will do better with fish, and so on. Keep an open mind and try all kinds of possibilities.

This one idea alone can dramatically affect your health and life, yet it is so simple. Each person is different. You need to test it for yourself if you aren’t feeling fabulous.

These would be food “intolerances” not specific allergies. And I’d bet almost everyone has them. Everytime we did full-blown testing there was always some problem foods. The problem for most people is that testing with a good blood test costs a minimum of $500.

A few things to consider and why you’d want to do this.

1. The human specicies hasn’t evolved to deal with what we would consider “normal” foods. Many didn’t exist thousands of years ago.
2. Intolerances can be made worse with modern foods. The average grocery store foods are lower in nutrients the liver needs to detoxify the stuff your body can’t handle. This is one reason I recommend organic foods and Cruciferous Complete from Standard Process. If your liver doesn’t have the fuel, then your immune system has to pick up the slack. Can you say “modern inflammatory” diseases.
3. Poor digestion just complicates matters. Burping, gas, reflux all can be helped, just ask.

Just the idea of paying attention to how you feel can revolutionize how you approach health when you can directly link problems to your lunch.

If you have so many problems it is seeming impossible to figure it out, just do it in reverse. Start with watermelon and zuccini and add a new food each meal. But, only add one food. Those two foods are generally considered the least problematic.

Also don’t miscount spices and condiments. Three out of five people are actually allergic to black pepper.

Also, don’t take this too seriously. Eat good food and do your best to identify stuff that affects you the most.

Enjoy supper tonight,
Dr. Altman

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