Your body is intelligently designed, made to grow, repair and adapt.
Early on in my cancer journey, I would walk laps, limping in my backyard due to cancer damage in my right sacrum affecting my right leg. Although, I didn’t have a very large backyard, around and around I would go. I even wore a circle in the ground from my path. Intuitively, I knew I just needed to move.
I’ve always liked plants and growing things. Sometimes I like to think of myself as a tall hobbit. I had three raised garden beds that I walked by every day. Prior to my diagnosis, I planted a row of bok choi in one of the beds. I had dug a small trench and mixed in some fresh manure with my hands. For me, there is nothing like having my hands in the earth. The earthy smell, the energy going back and forth between the ground and my myself. I planted the seeds, gave them a drink, and they were good to go.
A few weeks later, I had just received an infusion of zometa, which is a biphosonate for strengthening bones, the day prior. Come to find out, biphophontes are something that don’t agree with me. My body, upon awaking that day, had super clamped up, and I had a hard time bending my legs and my right leg wouldn’t bend at all.
In my stubbornness, I still went out in the backyard to do my laps. Hobble hobble, slowly one leg that felt like I had a board strapped to it, went in front of the other. Around I went.
I was going so slow, that when I got to the bed that had the bok choi, that had since sprouted, a realization hit me. When I sprinkled the seeds a couple of weeks earlier, some must have landed 8 inches or so outside my manure filled trench and started to grow. The ground 8 inches away was depleted from the previous year’s crops. The plants in my trench were 4-6 times the size of the ones that were 8 inches away, where I didn’t mean for them to land. The only difference was the soil nutrition!
Right then, at that very moment, I knew there was something to this. Nutrition Matters! Plants that receive optimal nutrition and growing conditions do amazingly well.
We are grossly over fed, but we are STARVING! Stop eating processed empty filler food and drinks full of sugar, preservatives, chemicals and pesticides that are really slowly killing us. The rates of cancer and other chronic diseases are rapidly increasing, and it’s not happening by accident.
Food is the major foundational piece to your body’s equation. Feed yourself real whole food, full of life, full of vitamins and nutrients. Give your body the tools it needs.
Your body is talking and even screaming at you by way of symptoms. Being overweight, chronic pain, inflammation, type 2 diabetes, thyroid disease, insomnia, rashes, diarrhea and constipation are all signs that your ship is not sailing correctly. Drugs mask the symptoms, but with most that’s all they do, they don’t fix the root cause.
I know, humans like to pretend that we are not part of Mother earth’s system. We work the exact same way as everything else on this planet. We are all connected. Give a human optimal nutrition and growing conditions, and we do amazingly well, and our bodies have the ability to repair and correct.
Certainly, we can’t always repair and correct everything, but give yourself your best chance. Your body knows what to do, even if you don’t. Amazing things and miracles happen every day!
I promise you, Nutrition matters!
Carrots Over Cancer 