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Speaking from experience, while a good diet is not a “cure” for my issues, a bad diet is a great way to self destruct. The things that help or trigger people a

Speaking from experience, while a good diet is not a “cure” for my issues, a bad diet is a great way to self destruct. The things that help or trigger people are going to differ vastly from person to person. For me: 1. Getting enough magnesium seems to consistently provide subtle positive effects. Makes me more resilient physically and mentally. 2. Too much omega-6 (which includes pork and chicken fat) will eventually result in depression and eczema. While I can tolerate some intermittently with no issues, more than that has repeatedly proven to be asking for trouble. Basically fixing nutritional deficits or toxicities allows for removing a large swath of problems, either in part of wholesale. This generally allows for reducing medications, fewer side effects, or even (only sometimes) allowing removal of meds. While definitely not a fad (as I would define it), it’s important to keep in mind that the people making posts about it tend to be very excited about finally experiencing positive effects that border on a miracle after being in a pretty bad way for a long time. As such they can end up understandably making sweeping statements that lack the laundry list of disclaimers that are inherent to the topic, or even outright mistaking the cause. I forget the name of the “fallacy”, but a common thing to see is “x cured my y, so now I’m certain everyone must need x for their y”. While this excitement eventually becomes more reasonable, you’ll need to remember to add disclaimers yourself when reading.

tracker1 2y ago
There are definitely outliers for every type of diet out there. For me, the closer I stick to meat and eggs, the better I feel. I think it comes down to me just texting negatively to so many things. Legumes, wheat and cranberries in particular. Now that everything seems to have soy in it it's hard. I have a hard time sticking to restrictions and every time I pay for it. I've also had really bad side effects to most Medicaid I'd ever been on. My metabolism is pretty much destroyed now. I wish I could tell myself 25-30 years ago to ignore the general advice and just eat more eggs and ruminant meat. This is my own anecdotal reality. It's also a large part of why I push back against veganism. I can totally see a world where near is outlawed or so highly restricted it's prohibitively costly. The irony of seeing highly processed foods pressed so hard for maximized profits the past couple years. It's gone up more than animal products in price relatively speaking.

tracker1 2y ago

There are definitely outliers for every type of diet out there. For me, the closer I stick to meat and eggs, the better I feel. I think it comes down to me just texting negatively to so many things. Legumes, wheat and cranberries in particular. Now that everything seems to have soy in it it's hard. I have a hard time sticking to restrictions and every time I pay for it. I've also had really bad side effects to most Medicaid I'd ever been on. My metabolism is pretty much destroyed now. I wish I could tell myself 25-30 years ago to ignore the general advice and just eat more eggs and ruminant meat. This is my own anecdotal reality. It's also a large part of why I push back against veganism. I can totally see a world where near is outlawed or so highly restricted it's prohibitively costly. The irony of seeing highly processed foods pressed so hard for maximized profits the past couple years. It's gone up more than animal products in price relatively speaking.