Reconciling Contradictory Information

[Sky]

@Leo Gura Thank you for taking the time to comment.  

I have done some research on the various diets, but I have never committed to a specific dietary regimen for more than two weeks. The reason being that I failed to see any sort of improvements in my symptoms. I now realize two weeks is probably not enough time to see any substantial effects and I was expecting instant results.

My lab work is normal and docs and specialists have not been able to find the cause of my symptoms. That's why I started to do my own research as I suspect that some food or food group may play a major role. The more I started digging into nutrition and diets, the more contradictions I encountered. I admit having felt discouraged.

A few days ago, I saw the documentary "What the health" and I just about puked when I heard about "pus" in dairy. I felt an instant disgust for eating animal-based food after seeing the film. I bought a couple of books, one of which is "How not to die" by Michael Greger, which I began reading this morning.

I'm inclined to believe that an organic plant-based diet seems to have the most benefits for the body (and for the environment). I will keep reading and doing more research.

I'm thin so losing weight is definitely not the reason why I'm interested in nutrition (nor is getting jacked LOL). As you said, I simply want to find the optimum diet for my body.

@Socrates Thanks for the comment as well. A few years ago, I started following a high(er) fat diet which included dairy (cheese, creamy sauce, etc..), with organic pasture-fed meat (beef, chicken). After a few months, I did a blood test and my cholesterol went through the roof. At the time, I had read a couple of books which advocated that LDL cholesterol (supposedly the bad one) is not linked to coronary heart disease as previously thought. Rather, the particle size (low-density vs large-density particles) should be the measure of heart disease risk instead. So for me, a high saturated fat diet definitely increased my blood cholesterol, which many doctors and scientists dispute.

I think the particle size may indeed be of value, but none of the doctors I have seen in the past few years seem to be aware of this. They are stuck in their old school thinking.

For now, I will do my best to keep my cholesterol numbers in line with the recommended values (higher HDL and lower LDL) until further research is done. But, as Leo said, saturated fat does not even matter when following a whole food plant-based diet. In that regard, it is a non-issue.

 

 

[Salaam]

19 hours ago, Nahm said:

@Salaam thanks again. Great read, but I can't find an answer in there. So far, in my experience, it doesn't seem that that are separations, other than beliefs. I look though, which seems to reinforce my belief to the contrary. After all, everything, me, you, all superposition. I think we have much more in common than not.  words, words, words.

No problem. I guess a clearer answer to your question would be my energy "ends" and the world's "begins" in the zone upon which the edges of their different patterns interact and change in response to each other.

It's like... you have a long piece of rope and in one section of the rope you have an alpine butterfly knot and in another section you have a farmers loop. Even though they are made out of the same stuff and a part of the same length of rope they have difference, in their shape, position, and patterning. And because of that difference they can now interact in different ways and again change in shape when they interact with each other. Maybe looping around each other to form a doubly reinforced scaffold knot that also effects other parts of the rope, because you've now formed a larger loop by connecting these two sections of the same stuff together.

That's kind of how energy works, but across a multitude of different dynamics, dimensions, and inter-relations. So, take that same rope analogy and then magnetize the rope and then attribute different chemistries and characteristics that affect attraction and repulsion and pressure and solidity and permeability and conductivity all based on each section of the ropes shape, position, and patterning.

Each bump, each ridge, of difference creates a slightly nuanced contrast in relation to each other. Much like skin differentiations determine sensitivity on the human body (the most sensitive places on a human are the places with the most nuance, like the vagina for instance or the tongue which are filled with bumps and ridges, each one slightly different and providing contrast between each other, to create a synergy for greater sensitivity and expressions of sensation).

So, the way I see it, energy is not about complete separation, but instead how different patterns and shapes interact and how that interaction can be discovered and applied throughout life. There are forces that generate depending on these different characteristics and the contrast of their interactions create cascades that directly impact our quality of existence. Some people may just want to say well it's all rope and be done with it, but me, I make the rope dance and form shapes and interactions beyond anything I've ever dreamed possible. And others in their own way do the same, like that surgeon who learned the intricate patterns of the human hand, in order to repair yours and help you regain the form and function of the unique pattern that is a part of you

It's amazing really, the way the universe works. I see it's foundations nested in every single facet of existence. The world teaches me, my body teaches me about it constantly, releasing new understandings and new challenges that build and synergize with each other, creating a domino effect of change inside me. It's fucking brutal sometimes, but also beautiful.

[Nahm]

@Salaam

    

 

"No problem. I guess a clearer answer to your question would be my energy "ends" and the world's "begins" in the zone upon which the edges of their different patterns interact and change in response to each other."

Can you describe the 'response' from and to each party (based on your assertion they are seperate, even if in some intellectual way)?