Body Is The Tasty Testing Ground Proof Pt 4 — Snoopy and the Coyote:
Body Is The Tasty Testing Ground Proof Pt 4 — Snoopy and the Coyote:
No Gout About It, Outing An A-Listed Health Myth And Other Premature Elations§
§I evolved the caution against premature elation from one of Robert Pirsig’s cautionary tales in Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values. Pirsig pointed out that the enervation of being deflated when a ‘sure’ motorcycle repair success turns into failure, for example, can be one of the most difficult emotional slumps to move past because of the nature and depth of the associated emotional drop. Hence: beware of premature elation.
Now to Food Out Singularisation Versus Eccentrification: I Get An Oh So Healthy Feeling With a Taste of Gout
This essay is stand alone and doesn’t require reading the previous ones.
This particular gout it out essay continues following the food-centric theme of:
the body’s nose, even when battered and bloody, knows when we’re lying and being lied to and doesn’t take it lying down.
And/or it continues from the spiritual by-pass theme of:
Before I Out My Gout, I’ll Root About In My Money By-Passing Ways.
Within two weeks of the change in diet, the start which began oddly with my body’s active rejection of the nutritionist guru’s carnivorous recommendation, my skin had become alive, unimaginably vital and energised. And within the next two weeks I saw that my sleep was improved by being both deeper and lighter at the same time. I woke feeling rested as I hadn’t before. My thinking had noticeably and significally clarified like a kind of unseen thought-fog had been lifted that I didn’t know had been present. The pimples I was used to getting — and wondered why I was getting them — stopped. And the lifetime outflow of huge globs of earwax began to recede and would eventually stop completely. All after just four weeks of the low fruit sugar, low starch, no gluten, no highly refined sugar, no meat diet. By this time it was not low fat! My body had rejected vegan with even more intensity than it had rejected omnivore.
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And with all this improved health I was accelerating into another premature elation.
At the close of part 2 of this series I shared my surprise that by week two I had been concomitantly experiencing mild, definitive and unusually persistent gout. It had begun within the first week. And yet these two things together are surely an eccentric dietary singularity because this gout undoubtedly would be, by normal allopathic standards, diagnosed as an hypochondriacal delusion that any good placebo would surely cure — if any current MD had had the moxie or eccentricity to have prescribed such a thing to me. How is it possible to be on an epitome of a food guru’s good-for-everyone wonderful almost zero fat, no alcohol, no shell fish, no dairy or wheat/gluten, low starch, two egg diet and struggle with gout?
Confusion Set In and So … Where Was I? Oh! Right??? Where’s the Internet?
Before I step forward with my gouty footie-foodie story I will step back to the day my body refused to accept the chicken drum-stick. It was the first full day of that pure, nearly zero fat, no highly refined sugar, low starch, no dairy candida cleansing diet that included some anti-candida and anti-parasitical herbs and herbal supplements. On that day I had had another experience, one that has since then become easily overlooked beneath the ostensible craziness of my body’s unwillingness to ‘let’ me eat the chicken. That chicken had been strongly recommended by that impressive nutrition-guru Ann Boroch who had a remarkable dietary healing experience from MS and who had convinced me that it would greatly assist my body to improve its gut-health by removing the reasonably deduced presence within it — within somatic me — of candida overgrowth.
On that fateful day, at around 4pm in the afternoon shortly after I had put the chicken in the oven and as I was getting ready to prepare the other elements of the meal, I found myself standing in the pantry wondering why I was there. I was unable to continue a thought or move between one logical thought-step and another. After some confused sort-of thinking I returned to the kitchen. Once there I saw what I had been doing there that had directed me to go into the pantry. And so I returned to the pantry, a massive four or five steps from the kitchen and in that time I had forgotten completely why I was in the pantry. Another return and realisation before again forgetting. I think I did that four times before I was able to recover from the panty the ‘critical’ cooking ingredient that I wanted.
And within even this confused state I had just enough acumen to recognise that I was in the middle of the brain confusion symptoms we had been told would likely be a part of the highly refined sugar withdrawal process. Boroch had explained that most people experience a degradation of brain function that can last for a significant period of time at some point in their body’s natural withdrawal clearing after stopping highly refined white sugars. Some of the other people in the support group described strong confusion that lasted for up to about three days or more. I was lucky. The most extreme of my symptoms lasted for about three hours and had all cleared within eight hours. I attribute the shortness of my confused state to the slow and steady thirty day elimination of all the sugary foods.
I Nose the Internet and I Gout Out A First Letter Dietary Myth (Lie?)
I jump into the Google gout search and find a doctor who in very simple language validated my revival tent meeting pork fat - butter dream thirty years earlier! And I start to laugh my head off because my head was clearly already disconnected from the reality of my body and my body’s dreams because I had once again followed someone’s super idea of dietary truth! That ‘truth’ was mindfully, beautifully, convincingly fabricated outside of my physical existence: I had once again removed all animal fats from my diet, the exact same dietary condition I had entered into thirty years earlier that my dream had rejected. And unlike that time, my body was speaking up loudly with molecular javelins of crystallised urine in my toe joints. I hadn’t toed my body’s requested health line and so its whispers had become much more pointedly difficult to ignore.
What Was the Food Lie That I Read That Had Me Laughing into Headlessness? My paraphrase of that good on-line doctor-nutritionist is:
Gout is not a rich person’s disease per se. It is indicating that the kidneys aren’t clearing uric acid from the body at a rate more than it is being created. For most who experience gout that comes from overconsumption of certain foods or ingesting foods that the body strongly reacts to in some way. (I was to learn later that there are some fascinating subtleties to this that this doctor didn’t elaborate on here. That I’ll discuss later.)
Sometimes (often?) a contributing factor to the uric acid problem is that the kidneys may not be operating optimally. This doctor suggested that the most common reason for kidney underperformance is a lack of natural vitamin A.
There is only one source of natural vitamin A, and that is in some form of animal product. From my current research here is a list of natural vitamin A sources:
Liver from any animal (grass fed is important).
Fermented Cod Liver Oil.
Regular Cod Liver Oil.
Egg yolks* from hens foraging in pasture; 2-4 egg yolks per day (and don’t worry about the cholesterol — FDA lied about that.)
Butter from grass fed cows.
Heavy cream from grass fed cows.
Milk from goats (preferred) or cows (raw).
My emphasis because I’d stopped eating high fat ice cream and butter and goat milk to enter the candida cure diet and I had unconsciously gone against the revival meeting dream that had directed me to eat butter or pork fat. *NB: The doctor I read in 2016 didn’t mention eggs. I understand now, that at the time, two eggs weren’t enough for my body’s optimal health recovery.
Most Dietary Gurus and Virtue Signalling Food Tyrants Are Oblivious To Blake’s Adage: One [Dietary Deity] Law for the lion and Ox is Oppression
“What?” many vegetarians may argue and many vegans will shriek. (Examples of some of that are to be found within the “A” comments in the link below.) “What about carrots and yams, etc.? Everyone knows that they are the true sources of healthy vitamin A.” Nope. The myth-lie. They contain carotenoids that the body needs to convert into usable vitamin A. They, and no other fruit or vegetable, contain vitamin A. Many people’s digestive systems do not do that conversion well either by genetics or by poor gut-biome health, or even thyroid hormone problems. And I would seem to be one of those for one or more of these reasons. And that conversion problem has been further compounded by the poor health of many vegetables being unsustainably grown or gmo, and with defatted and pasteurised dairy products and unhealthily grown, medicated and killed animals, and those weird frankenmeats that for some reason are held virtuously as tasty healthy alternatives to real meat.
And what about the pharmaceutically prepared ‘good as nature’ vitamin A? You needed to ask? Toxic, of course. Our bodies really are very sensitive and know exactly what is required for its health. As many alt-health people are saying with the increased strength of dietary tales of remarkable health turn-arounds, such as Boroch’s reversal of MS or Mikhaila Peterson’s§ healing from serious teen-aged joint replacement autoimmune disease, sickness is the language our body uses to get our attention. We are not listening to what is healthy in large part because we have been drilled to distrust this disgusting and unreliable thing that walks us around and to rely on experts — preferably, for food and medicine, those from the FDA who are fronting for allopathic-enriching narratives that support the pharmaceutical industry.
§It is interesting to note that YouTube doesn’t supply Peterson’s health transformation talk in the search result: instead, Google’s top response was to a sickly looking vegan denouncing her experience. And Google did not supply the actual talk Peterson posted to her channel. I stopped looking for it after about twenty or more entries, most not even remotely connected to my query. And two of the top four results are attacks on Peterson’s experience and character. So I went to a non-Google search engine with the same search subject “mikhaila peterson tedx talk” and got her posted talk immediately: “TEDx Wouldn't Post This…” (For the curious here is an interesting testimonial from someone else’s healing experience with meat from autoimmune problems: ”Mikhaila Peterson TEDx TALK, Lion Diet, eating MEAT saved my life — 40Yr Old Fuq Boyz Podcast- #97”.)
And someone else discovering the sacred body as healer is Rachel O:
~14:00 I got thyroid healing [by the Medical Medium Anthony William] and I started pretty much immediately on the first month of the thyroid healing protocols. Reading those books was so eyeopening but it was like reading the story of my life. He’s incredibly good at telling you that what you’re experiencing is real because I found myself, and I’m sure lots of other people with chronic illness [have had the same challenge that] we really start to doubt our own sanity because no one else around us believes us. [Which is yet another place of prominent narcissistic gaslighting.]
[The Biology of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles by Bruce Lipton and epigenetics lead to the exploration of as many ‘mind-body’ books as she could procure.]
~18:40 [I was told by the MD] that the pain would probably always be like that. Well by that point I’d become quite skeptical of what I was told by doctors. So I actually used EFT to calm myself down. And then I got some clarity. [And then did my own study and went on a path of healing the TMJ problem with physio and EFT.] (“I Never Thought I'd Recover | Medical Medium EFT - CFS/ME, IBS, Hypothyroid, Fibromyalgia.” My edit.)
And:
~1:34 Healing is not just about rebuilding our bodies. It’s about rebuilding our relationship with our selves. And that only really became apparent as I sort of got further in the process. I [learned the importance of accepting] my body and myself as I was and to show myself compassion and kindness to really support recovery. Because I was so focused on trying to heal to recover my former physical abilities and appearance I really ignored the signals my body was sending me. It was really trying to tell me something important and I wasn’t listening.
~2:45 So what worked for me and I see works for my clients is really shifting our focus to rebuilding that relationship with ourselves. And in turn that rebuilds our relationship with our bodies. And it’s really about tuning into our emotions and creating a space that is full of self kindness and compassion — [that] is really where we start to thrive. So for me that meant rather than shape my body into health instead to focus on understanding its needs and messages and really what those needs and messages were for me as a person because our body and our unconscious are really one and the same thing. (“Finding Peace with Your Body: Chronic Illness and EFT Tapping with Rachel O”; my edit.)
NB: Awareness of allopathic health narrative-failures are beginning to accelerate in people looking to heal themselves. And signs of that expanding failure can be inferred by the way that the pharmaceutically owned governments and the associated powers-that-are are now pushing for broader and more heavy-handed laws and penalties against people who suggest that Pharma is hurting people and that natural stuff can heal. For a current example, see “France: ANY Criticism Of The mRNA DEATHVAX™ Platform Punishable Up To 3 Years Imprisonment And 45,000 Euros.” And Canada has recently passed laws making various long-lived natural remedies illegal to sell.
Good Introduction to Vitamin A: Not Knowing the Hidden Truth About it Could Be Killing You
A good concise and complete argument about vitamin A in our diet, with sources, can be found here: “Why You Won’t Get Vitamin A From Carrots” by Lauren Geertsen. And I found the vegan attack comments particularly amusing, as you will understand more fully as I continue my tale of gout. If you have the time, once you get past the vegan attackers — they jumped into the top comment rungs and then later mostly petered out — the commentary dialogue in Geertsen’s article becomes more interesting about the requirement for nuance and to understand that singular dietary laws are oppressive and unhealthy. And it is clear that it is the militant vegans, with their obstreperous and vociferous dictatorial anger and moralistic preaching who are amongst the worst of virtual-signalling oppressors and with that are giving vegan-moderates an unpleasant face.
I Thought It was a Goner and the Fat Came Back
After recovering my disconnected head from laughing at my own blindness to my body of dreams and body of flesh I went downstairs. I picked up a dinner knife, opened the cupboard to the butter, cut a chunk of it off as if it were cheese, put it in my mouth and felt my body sigh as if I had given it new life. The feeling was powerful and vivifying. And so I ate butter, lots of butter, and continued the eggs. And in three days the chronic gout of the previous two weeks was gone. (And for those worried about my liver, relax: I’ve been tested twice in recent months and it is fine. Possibly very fine.)
And I Fall Into Premature Truth Elation and Snoopy Dance (In My Head) All Over the Place Blind to my Coyote Nature!
And I did a snoopy dance on pain free feet because I had finally found the truth of my body and the wisdom of my dreams.
And the cleanse was powerful and the experience of somatic truth even more so. After about 75 days of the 90 day cleanse a kind of physical miracle happened: I noticed that my eyes had lost their ultra-sensitivity to sunlight. Before that change the sun had become so painful to my eyes that it was impossible for me to go comfortably outside without strong sunglasses. That was now gone and I was stunned to realise that those strong sunglasses were no longer required. And now the real dancing begins and I don’t see that I am the Coyote dancing in air, waiting to fall.
And The Gout Came Back: I Thought It Was A Goner, And The Gout Came Back
Continues with:
More Premature Elations and Raw Gout Subtleties
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Days to Come: Lyrics [Verse 1] Journey sets sail, waterways Cross the Moon and verse the days The lows and news of all things be Sunlight garden, low red blossoms Moon tides of the sea When struggling for the magic grain We throw life to the winds like rain For goodness sake, spare your failings and take The ability to strengthen your spirit can stimulate all minds Blossoms of days to come Blossoms of days to come [Chorus] Move away from your western guns Travel towards eastern suns Far above all earthly goals A pledge for creation's soul [Verse 2] Spirit finds fresh morning in the dew of precious things Hope is a phoenix spreading wings to fly And what we wish shall be like a breath of fresh air Stay from secret powers and no look can snare [Chorus] Move away from your western guns Travel towards eastern suns Far above all earthly goals A pledge for creation's soul Far above all earthly goals A pledge for creation's soul [Chorus] Move away from your western guns Travel towards eastern suns Far above all earthly goals A pledge for creation's soul Far above all earthly goals A pledge for creation's soul
I'll give your advice to the guy pouring cement in my backyard tomorrow. He said that three months ago he stopped drinking and went on a keto diet. He lost 30 lbs but got gout. My ex also has gout, and is a relatively healthy eater. But he doesn't have the raw milk dairy delivering to customers in his driveway, like I did during the lockdown. We were the Unmasked Underground.
Your story with the butter reminded me of The Vegetarian Myth. She talks about falling off the vegan wagon by consuming a whole tub of, was it french onion dip? With a spoon. Her body was so craving fat, animal fat, she couldn't stop. And yes, she talks about how being vegan wrecked her health permanently. And she preaches the gospel of animal fats and why our body needs them.
And my Appalachian Trail partner yesterday does the Weston-Price diet and HER husband has gout. Is there anyone being spared? I'm sticking to my daily cup of cream colored with a bit of coffee ;-)
Fascinating stuff. Our ongoing experiment with ourselves has had to involve breaking down all the walls that have been created by Pharma, even before it was BIG Pharma 😂. For several thousand years we have been prevented or discouraged from doing these experiments to cure ourselves up until today where there apparently are no cures for anything only management and remission, because there is good money in that!
Robert Sheon, in the book Coping with Arthritis: “among the Egyptians in 1500 BC… Each part of the body was the province of a different “priest,” who could treat only that particular component. Moreover, the treatment had to follow a careful, prescribed-by-law ritual. Any deviation in the administration of the cure meant capital punishment.” This was quoted in an interesting article on SS by Theory of Cure.
Those in power have always wanted us ill because we are more easily conquered. If we learn the truth in managing our bodies then we become powerful.
Keep experimenting Guy! Another great post - well done.