ChronicFatigue-Going Raw-Anyone have any experiences to share in regards to this?

[ieatsalad]

ChronicFatigue-Going Raw-Anyone have any experiences to share in regards to this?

Hi everyone,

I'm sure that many of the readers and posters in this forum went raw for health reasons- and perhaps some women here are dealing with or have had chronic fatigue. I'm currently in recovery and would say I have improved about 60% since I became sick about 8 months ago. I would attribute the improvement largely to having switched my diet to control blood sugar (elimination of all grains and processed carbs (not that i ate many in the first place before). My adrenal glands were happy with that. Chinese medicine is quite amazing as well. I'm not sure how exactly it works, but the largest improvements I had came when I started taking it.

I've sort of plateaued in my recovery, or maybe I still am improving... but I would like to speed it up and work towards a healthy, disease and fatigue free future, thus I've decided to transition to a raw diet to hopefully get back to 100 percent...or better yet 150% would be awesome.

From surfing the net and reading different books, I've heard of those going vegetarian or raw having dental, hair, and other problems. I know that this is not 100 percent across the board for everyone who goes raw, and it makes sense that dietary balance could be critical in development or prevention of any raw diet transition related problems. So my question...or questions....

Does anyone have any advice/nuggets of wisdom to grant as I embark on this final step of my recovery? (hopefully) I already have enough going on with CF related headaches, orthostatic intolerance, decreased endurance, muscle weakness that interfering with my dental or other aspects of my health as I go Raw is something I'd rather avoid entirely. Lived and learned enough at this point.

Also any women out there who have or have had CF and recovered from it? It would be really encouraging to me to be able to connect with others going through or who have gone through this =) I'm 25 Main reason I ask about women specifically, is women most commonly are diagnosed with it, and i'm pretty sure for the type we get there is often a hormonal component...that's why we are the ones to get it most frequently.

Thanks everyone! =)

[terry brown]

Hi,
I have had severe bouts with CFS and got better with the help of holistic professionals.
I was 100 percent raw for 2 years and I know it helped with the CFS. Also started thyroid meds as even on a raw food diet with supplements I was tired and started a medication for thyroid and my energy improved a lot.
I am still mostly raw and love eating this way, but added a bit of cooked food recently due to major dental work.
I will go back to all raw when I am able.
Terry

[ieatsalad]

Hi,
I have had severe bouts with CFS and got better with the help of holistic professionals.
I was 100 percent raw for 2 years and I know it helped with the CFS. Also started thyroid meds as even on a raw food diet with supplements I was tired and started a medication for thyroid and my energy improved a lot.
I am still mostly raw and love eating this way, but added a bit of cooked food recently due to major dental work.
I will go back to all raw when I am able.
Terry

Thanks for your reply Terry =)

I'm already starting to feel better/more energized by further increasing the percentage of raw foods in my diet while decreasing with the intent of mostly eliminating any animal products. I'm hoping this energy will carry over to fixing whatever imbalance in my body there is which causes me to be hypersensitive to fluorescent lighting and conditions such as heat which make me more prone to drops in blood pressure. These weren't problems for me before.

Was there any specific balance in your raw food diet that you found to work better for you than others you tried? While I was eating a lot of nuts and seeds before, I'm trying to even that out a bit more across the day and replace with more greens and small quantities of other healthy fats like coconut and avocado. Nuts and seeds while high calorically don't always seems to satisfy how hungry I can get. Hopefully the raw diet will do the trick! I was tested by a holistic practioner for my thyroid and some other things but nothing came up, so i'm hoping maybe it was just extreme burnout from a tough year while eating inadequately and hopefully it won't happen again once I recover..

[terry brown]

I think it is best to go with your inuition on what to eat. Giving up meat, dairy , gluten,sugar and processed good is how I started. I ate that way for years, then made the leap to all raw. It took me about 6 months to get a balance for myself. I think it is a very good way to go for good health and energy!!
A typical day for me would be a very hefty healthly smoothie in the morning(fruits, veggies almond milk protien powder...) A big big big salad for lunch and maybe a raw fancy thing for dinner (pre made raw food from the health store) Avacados and nuts for snacks.
Best of luck to you. :)