Health Update
Published: Thu, 07/25/24
Updated: Wed, 07/31/24
I’m telling you right now, the main reason that I am not dead is because of my healthy Whole Foods diet.
Another reason why I’m not dead, is because of how I eat my healthy Whole Foods diet.
Drinking fresh carrot juice daily also plays a part in this.
I’ll explain it all in just a moment.
I got a new Primary Care Doctor, lol.
Before she met me, she reviewed the paperwork on my situation. She thought that I was in big trouble. In fact, she seriously didn’t think that I had long to live, and for good reason. Most people would be dead if they ended up in my situation.
My surgery was supposed to heal the disease, but it didn’t. Most people who do this surgery are healed afterwards. They have no need to be on any meds. It is very rare that the disease persisted after I did the surgery. Again, most people wouldn’t last long in my situation. This is one of the main reasons why my new primary doctor didn’t think that I was going to last that long. The paperwork also showed so many other issues, like a fistula in my Jpouch, poor nutrition levels, osteoporosis, and all my other health problems. However, after she met me, I could sense that she changed her tune a bit.
I am certain that the main reason why I am still alive is due to my healthy diet, but also, how I eat my healthy diet.
Let me explain.
When I was Raw Vegan for 23 years, I was very strict. I only ate two meals a day and I would never even consider snacking in between meals. I also ate very basic and clean Raw Foods.
Everyone else around me on the Raw Vegan diet was not like this at all. They simply ate all day long, overlapping meals, eating endless snacky foods, etc.
Due to this strict nature of mine, I became very clean on the Raw Vegan Diet. When I went off the Raw Vegan Diet, I had to continue these habits or I would feel like absolute garbage.
I eat two meals a day right now, and I would never even consider snacking before my first meal is completely digested or anything like that. Furthermore, the Whole Foods I eat are super basic. No packaged food whatsoever. It’s pretty much just eggs, fish, all kinds of raw dairy, and lots of fruit. It’s such a blessing that I can eat all of the ripe fruit that I want. However, whole vegetables leave me heaving in pain. I can’t do fiber like that.
If I go off this diet in any way whatsoever, I feel absolutely horrible. I am bound to this simple diet.
To be honest, it kind of sucks. I wanted to have fun with food and I can’t. As I’ve shared in the past, I used to go to a restaurant every once in a while and things like that. I have been eating so clean for so long now, my body won’t allow it anymore.
I believe that the main reason I was able to get away with it before, was due to being on Prednisone.
I’ve been off that med now and eating so clean for so long, that I am right back to being extremely sensitive.
Every attempt to go out of my dietary boundary, leaves me as sick as can be.
I finally got back on the Humira just a week ago. I was actually hoping that the med would enable me to have a little more fun with my food and go out of my dietary boundary a tad bit.
However, after meeting with my new Primary Care Doctor, I have finally changed my tune.
When I talked to her, I came to this deep realization that most people would be dead in my situation. Furthermore, I realized that I have to take really good care of my Jpouch, or I could end up pooping into a bag for the rest of my life. I definitely don’t want that.
Eating the way that I do has enabled me to survive, where most people couldn’t. It’s kind of like how people heal on a raw foods or healthy Whole Foods diet. My bodily limits are just way more strict than almost everyone. If I were to snack in between a meal, I would ferment, probably get constipated, and feel like crap until the goods got pooped out of my system. I would also completely lose my hunger for my final meal of the day. It would be a total disaster and I wouldn’t be able to function properly.
Eating super duper clean like this to where I provide my body the amount of obstruction that it can handle enables me to survive. Most people eat junk food and snack all day long. I simply eat ”perfect”. Perfect for me that is. With the perfect flow of obstruction entering and leaving my body, enables me to survive. Whereas most people, the obstruction that they bring into their body would not work well for them at all if they were in my situation. Don’t get me wrong, no judgement here. I have been wishing I could eat like that. I just have a very clean terrain within my body due to what and how I eat, which enables me to thrive in the worst of situations.
While my desire to mess around with my diet beyond my dietary boundaries has been eliminated, I’m very excited to expand my diet with the current foods that I eat.
For some reason, I have this desire to gain a lot of weight and eat more. When I was playing with the idea that the Humira might enable me to expand my dietary horizons, I had imagined eating foods at restaurants on rare occasion, and things like that. So, I eliminated that idea, and now l just want to eat more, but with the same foods within my health dietary boundary. So pretty much just eat more of the same foods that I am already eating. I’ve come up with all of these wonderful ways to eat them. I’ll explain more further below.
I’ve actually already started eating more. I’ve been on the Humira for only a week, and the drug takes 2-3 months to start working. I have gained 5 pounds though. I’m not sure if it’s all because of eating more, or if the Humira is at work now too. The Humira may fix my absorption issues, and I may gain lots of weight without having to eat more like in the past.
In a month, I need to get tested to see if I built up antibodies to the Humira from previously taking it. I pray not. If I did build up antibodies, the drug won’t work, and I’ll have to find another option. I’ll keep you updated on that.
I haven’t been on any meds in what seems like forever.
I am getting really bad headaches since I started taking the Humira. I never take Tylenol, but I take it now in order to avoid this suffering of extreme headaches. I don’t think the headaches will last forever. When you start Humira, you take a bunch in the beginning in order to “load up”, then the dosage becomes less and only once every two weeks. I am hoping that my body gets used to it.
Eating more of the same healthy foods has been fun. I told you in a previous health update, that after I eat, I generally become a useless human being, and many times I pass out. Well, not pass out, lol, just fall asleep.
This falling asleep after a meal was happening before I upped the amount of food like I’m eating now. My guess on why this is happening is that I was on a Raw Vegan Diet for so long (23 years), became so clean, and my body just handles this kind of food differently compared to everyone else. Now that I am eating more, sometimes at night, I’m out for like six hours lol. I just wake up at 2am after eating at 8pm. I then wonder why I don’t sleep much at night. I get my sleep quota during these pass out sleeping sessions. Maybe things will change after time, and my body gets use to more food.
What’s crazy, I’m not eating more than the typical health food eater. I see what healthy people eat on Youtube, and I eat way less compared to everyone else. It’s nutzo. I’m going to play with it all in order to find balance.
I am doing much better btw. I don’t get out of breath as much. However, I don’t go on my walks at this time. I am spending a lot of my time doing my chores. Oh man having to do every last one of my chores took a long time to accept and get used to. I’m still kicking and crying a bit, but I am on it. Angela is helping me make carrot juice daily and the girls bring it over. Furthermore, I send opened Amazon boxes with the girls for Angela to handle. I have a lot on my plate with doing chores and running the business. I need all of the help I can get. Soon they will all be going to Ecuador. I have no idea what I will do at that point.
In my last health update, I had been couch ridden again from low iron. My body became decrepit and out of commission once again. However, before I even got on the Humira, something changed spiritually to where I was able to get around again. I somehow got better energetically. I had a friend who prayed with me. At one moment I was weak energetically, and the next moment, the spiritual energy was there. Thank you so much Jesus.
It was funny. My spirit and energy were willing and able to get up, get busy, and get shaking again, but my decrepit body couldn’t keep up with it.
Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t healed completely, but enough to live life again. I was ready to get a wheelchair it was so bad. After this miracle, I couldn’t do my mile walk, but I started doing my chores and going to the market, etc. Although I’m not doing my walk, yet at least, my decrepit body has gotten strong again from all of this house keeping and going to the market. When I first started washing my dishes, my back and muscles were just not having it. However, I continued to push through it, and I can now handle all those chores without my body tiring at all. I even had issues showering before. Now I take very blissful showers like you wouldn’t believe.
My body got strong again, well enough to do dishes without bodily pain or getting out of breath. This was all before going on the Humira.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not magically completely healed here. If this energetic spiritual shift wouldn’t have happened, I would have still been bound to the couch unable to do any chores. Furthermore, I still have major absorption and iron issues, among other issues, and I am pretty certain that I can’t do my mile walk right now. I am simply just able to live my life happily again, get around, and do basic things, when before I couldn’t. It made me very happy and grateful.
So, now I’m on the Humira and hopefully I will be able to take my health to even the next level, and live life even more fully. I hope that it will enable me to do my long walks.
The good news is that I can survive without any meds due to how well I take care of myself. These biological meds only work for so long. It’s my hope with how good I take care of myself, that I will be able to survive well if that time ever comes where all my med options run out.
On another note, I am excited about my diet and eating more of the same healthy foods.
Another major reason why I feel that I am doing so well, and I am not dead lol, is because I drink carrot juice every single day.
This vacuum blender that I use as a juicer, by the way, provides the best nutrient quality compared to anything else out there. The data shows this in every single way.
So the daily carrot juice helps provide me absorbable nutrition and beauty. I noticed in my previous videos before I started drinking carrot juice again, that my hair was all scraggly and unhealthy looking. From drinking the carrot juice daily now, it helps to maintain my beauty lol. My hair and skin are much nicer now. Not to be vein or anything.
Another thing that I think is helping me, is that I am drinking raw milk and eating raw dairy.
I’ve been drinking Raw Milk for quite sometime now, and I’m dying to get my blood tests to see how my calcium levels are doing. When I drank pasteurized milk, it did absolutely nothing for my calcium levels.
I just met with my primary doctor yesterday, and she is having me get blood tests, which includes calcium. I took the tests this morning! I’m so excited to see those results. I’ll definitely keep you updated on that.
Ok, back to me being excited about eating more of the same healthy Whole Foods. The possibilities are endless here. This farm has everything Raw Dairy that you can possibly imagine. They have every single kind of cheese. It’s a huge variety. I personally love their Jarlsberg Swiss cheese. They even have Raw Cream cheese, Raw cottage cheese, and Raw greek yogurt.
I started out with one green yogurt a week, and I have now upped it to three. I just throw it in a bowl with a bunch of blueberries and chow down. It’s so darn good.
Here are a few other ideas that I have come up with of things that I can eat within my dietary boundary in order to make it more fun.
- Cut a banana in half, spread raw cream cheese on it, then top it with dates and cut up cherries lol.
- Melt cheese on top of cut up or blended tomatoes (I can’t do bottled tomato sauce), it’s like pizza lol
- Butternut squash spaghetti with lots and lots of butter and salt. I think the fiber is zilch and I can handle it.
- There is a cottage cheese pizza bowl on YouTube, which seems interesting. I would just use blended tomatoes instead of tomato sauce.
- People also make pizza bowls with no crust. They put tomato sauce in the pan, then cheese, then all the toppings they like, then more tomato sauce, and then more cheese. I would just use cut up or blended tomoatoes again (no sauce).
- Melt cheese on top of everything lol, my fish and cooked egg yolk meal.
- More greek yogurt with more blueberries lol
I’m so lucky that I can eat raw dairy.
I know that many people are going to say that dairy is so bad for you. However, I am so limited on what I can eat, and if I can eat something without issue, it’s darn healthy for me lol.
I’m sure I’ll find many more fun ways to eat my meals. However, I tend to always go back to the basics and eat the same thing every single day.
Anyhow, I’m just really excited to take good care of myself with my diet, while also having lots of fun with all of the wonderful foods that I can eat. Also, my desire to eat beyond my dietary boundary has finally dissipated. I really want to take care of myself, and my Jpouch for as long as possible.
All right every body. I’ll keep you updated with health updates as I go.
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Here is a detailed list of all of these specials below:
Wild Jungle Peanut Butter
Matt’s Almond Butter
Digestive Enzymes
Castor Oil (Amber Glass Jar)
Indonesian Cashews
Colossal Indonesian Cashews
Papaya Seed Powder
Papaya Seed Powder in Caps
Yacon Syrup
Vanilla Powder
Vanilla Beans (10 Beans)
Camu Powder
Acerola Cherry Powder
Ceylon Cinnamon
Raw Crunch Bars
Mesquite Powder
Lucuma Powder
Carob Powder
Tiger Nuts
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Organic Jumbo Green Olives
Organic Green Jumbo Spiced Olives
Mix Fermented Olives
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Organic Green Olive Paste
Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
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Thanks everyone for your support!
Sincerely,
Matt