While nutrition, and especially, the relationship we have to nurturing ourselves are crucial to our health and wellbeing, contrary to popular belief, watching and controlling everything we put into our mouth isn’t the answer to healing all conditions.
Not judging by the lines of clients coming to my practice who maintain very healthy diets, yet are still struggling with serious health issues.
This is something I wanted to address for a long time as in many circles, esp. powered by the naturopathy/functional med community ‘cleaning the body’ seems to be the one and only avenue available, and lots and lots of people believe that it works and that it’s all we need.
It’s tragic really when you keep seeing the ones who’ve made all the changes, all the sacrifices, and year or two later they suffer still the same problems while their degenerative condition is progressing. And those people usually don’t even make the connection! They just think they must eat even healthier! It’s sadomasochism really.
The ‘heal your gut, heal any disease’ is a fad. We know so little about the digestive system that no claims can be made with certainty.
It would have to mean that any person eating the same diet would have to get ill, which isn’t the case. So there must be a pre-existing weakness in the persons gut to begin with.
It would also have to mean that all people who live healthy and maintain healthy gut do not get ill, which is far from the truth.
The idea that a clean diet is all that’s needed for a person to heal is based on the premise that the organism got sick from an overload of toxins, and so when we remove the load it will heal itself. It’s based on the premise that toxicity is the culprit. But for it to be so there must first be a weakened life force to compromise the natural ability to deal with toxicity. If life force is already compromised, detoxifying alone won’t be enough to restore health. You might end up with a very clean body that is still very sick because it’s still animated by the disturbed life force.
It’s a both/and situation – lots of toxicity can weaken life force, and susceptible life force can be weakened by little toxicity. Either way, removing the toxicity remains a solution only in cases where that’s the sole problem, but usually we are dealing with cases where the causal dynamics are much more complex.
It’s very common in women’s autoimmune community to encounter women who are very mindful of their diet to the point of a neurotic obsession, yet who are completely disconnected from their actual deeper needs that could lead them to the true source of their condition, and thus are not getting better.
Sadly, those who did clean up their diet and were helped with a variety of symptoms are the loudest in the false conviction that what has worked for them must work for everyone. But, often what I’ve seen is that for those people the actual source of their symptoms was a food intolerance, which when the food item is removed, irritation ceases. But that’s not necessarily healing but a mere further limitation of one’s freedom. And freedom is synonymous to health.
All that said, the gut plays an enormous role in our health, which goes far beyond our current understanding of its workings.
Luckily, with a healing system like homeopathy, you don’t need to restrict your diet to become healthier. On the contrary, people are often able to bring back foods into their life that they previously could not tolerate.
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