Feeling overwhelmed by your new diagnosis?

Not knowing what’s wrong with you is a specific kind of overwhelm; learning a diagnosis or two while relieving in one sense creates a new kind of overwhelm: confronting the endless information on the web and perhaps even personally trying to make sense of acquaintances’ myriad of therapies. Thoughts can flood the mind like, which …

How come I feel better when I travel?

One of the reasons I’m addicted to traveling is because I feel so good. I feel alive and like every day is my birthday. The days go slow and are filled with wonder, beauty and adventure. I have energy and my brain is clear. Lately I’ve been thinking about what the reasons for that could …

Carnivore update: Week 6

Congratulations to me! I have finished week 6 of my all beef, salt, water and black coffee diet. I originally set out to do this diet for six weeks, so I am happy to have achieved this goal! I have made it through two birthdays, a week of vacation and July 4th with no cheating. …

Why Bulletproof brand coffee is great for people with mold illness

I react to the slightest hint of mold, a whiff, practically an imagined presence of mold and for sure in actuality mold. When one has mold illness the nervous system can become so reactive in order to warn itself of any possible danger even before that perceived danger has had any time to do damage. …

How I came to be on an all beef diet: Part 3

This year I started listening to Jordan Peterson’s lectures on the Old Testament and was blown away by the magnitude of his insight and ideas. I became a massive fan. He spoke that his daughter Mikhaila had been ill her entire life with arthritis (hip and ankle replacements), depression and other debilitating symptoms like sleeping …

How I came to be on an all beef diet: Part 2

Even though the Ulcerative Colitis was thankfully in remission I still had a host of other symptoms such as brain fog, fatigue, weak arms, loss of sensation in hands et al. Originally I thought that all the problems associated with lack of circulation, numbness and weakness in my arms were due to the diagnosis of …

How I came to be on an all beef diet: Part 1

Believe it or not, eating an all beef diet was a somewhat logical progression for me over time. Around the age of 9 I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Proctitis which quickly developed into Ulcerative Colitis, considered to be an incurable inflammatory disease. I had ups and downs with the illness including one hospitalization and symptoms …

Therapies I’ve tried/ am trying so I can kick the Lyme/mold’s butt

People who suffer from Lyme disease may also often be vulnerable to mold illness. I won’t go into it here why that is, but in this post I am going to discuss treatments that I have used that apply to either or in some cases both. In this post I will discuss only that which …

What do Lyme/Mold symptoms look like?

Hello reader, one of the reasons that Lyme disease or mold illness is difficult to diagnose is that there are a myriad of symptoms which come and go and are seemingly unrelated to each other. Many of the symptoms belong to other ailments as well and each individual has their own special concoction of misery …

Carnivore Week 4 & 5

Hi everyone! I took a week off from my updates because I was basking in the sun at the Outer Banks. But yes! I am still ingesting only beef, salt, water and black coffee. I decided to move my updates from Facebook to a blog because I’d like to talk about my health journey in …