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Doug in Bali… we did a podcast
Lovely to meet in person and loved this conversation. Enjoy https://youtu.be/7EmRWs2iZZw?si=YHJATFBoF3e762tY
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Doug in Bali… we did a podcast
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Thank you so much for doing the podcast, and for sharing it here! Such a breath of fresh air -- I love the positivity and straightforwardness! Great respect for the preference to talk about what works and highlight those who are doing well rather than criticizing others. Much love and gratitude! xxx
Can't eat mangoes and papayas
Does anybody have a problem eating mangoes and or papayas? I used to be able to eat them both and then didn't have them for a couple years and now I am doubled over in pain for about 3 hours if I eat them really really bad pain. Now I'm just afraid to even look at them. I don't know what causes this. I've read a few too many of them you could have this problem but I only eat one so that's not the problem. I eat them on an empty stomach so they're not mixed up with any other food so that's not the problem. I just love mangoes and papayas and I am so sad.
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This sounds like a difficult situation. I'm trying to understand: is it only mangos and papayas that cause you this, or are there other fruits too? Mangos and papayas are not related to each other and are quite different, so I'm trying to understand why both of these would be troubling you. If you haven't had them for a couple of years, then maybe your body needs to get to know them again? I know that if I get a pain after eating mango or papaya, it's usually because of something already going on in my gut, and usually the net result is that I feel better when it all passes. Maybe this isn't what's going on with you, though, and maybe others have ideas...
Bali
Bali has exceeded all my expectation, hopes, and desires. OMG. I'll be putting this retreat onto my calendar again. Likely Feb, 2026. As soon as dates are set, you'll be the first to know.
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Wonderful to hear, and welcome back! I'd love to hear more about the whole experience too, especially as it was your first time there xxx
On Depression
I've been WFPB for 5 years before switching to Raw Vegan 80/10/10 and I have to say there is a large difference in my feelings of depression. On WFPB I had times especially when the weather got darker and colder (I live in Michigan USA) that seasonal affective disorder does set in and the feelings of depression get harder. I did take Lexapro for about 20 years of my life in total with occasionally being on other prescribed depression meds too. For the last 6 months I've been taking 5HTP which is a more natural depression supplement that comes from an African plant called Griffonia simplicifolia and it works well for me and has a lot less bad symptoms when compared to the prescribed depression meds. Recently I went from taking two doses per day down to one because being raw vegan and life getting better and better and in this cycle of continuous improvement I don't feel like taking it. I'm amazed and at the same time surprised to admit it but after years of struggling with depression I think the eating of addicting toxic foods and not truly satiating myself on a raw vegan 80 10 10 diet is the main culprit behind my depression. That too and the suppressed emotions I had and not truly feeling and dealing with my emotions which I'm learning can only fully be done by eating raw vegan 80 10 10. It makes me sad that all of those years I took those depression meds that made me numb not knowing that the healing was so much more simple and could have erased many years of not truly living. I took a dose of the 5HTP today but I'm honestly thinking of stopping to take it just to see how I feel. The 5HTP means 5 hydroxy tryptophan and basically it is a precursor for serotonin so it essentially helps your mind to create serotonin. I've been very happy and satisfied especially the last two weeks. I do think taking Vitamin D3 is a help to me too with mental health and for me that is a good one to have because in Michigan we have many months of Cold weather and days where you don't get much sunlight so that makes it difficult to get the minimum 15 minutes a day that Dr. Graham recommends. So I will continue to take this but on days when I get enough sun I do not take it so it is very much a seasonal supplement. I'd love to be supplement free but I don't want to be without Vitamin D3 as I think it is important for me to take. As for the 5HTP I've tried in the past years that I've been on it to get off of it completely when I took it in past years but was always unsuccessful. I do think that some day I will be free from this supplement as well being on raw vegan 80/10/10 and that thought makes me happy. I'm not so sure if my mental health has recovered enough to be able to fully handle being off of this supplement but starting tomorrow I'm going to stop taking it and see how I feel. Does anyone else here currently or in the past have they struggled with depression? Taken supplements or meds that helped or therapy?
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Sorry I've only just seen this. I have experience with taking vit d3 especially in cold winters, and I also have experience taking 5htp both for mood issues and for gut issues. I find tryptophan (the amino acid to which 5htp is the precursor) more effective (tryptophan wasn't available for a while for bogus reasons, and 5htp still was). I find myself taking it less and less also. Unfortunately I've also had occasion to take other medications, and getting off them has to be a slow process. Being on a raw diet definitely seems to help. I think 5htp/tryptophan is a good thing (works on the same pathway as herbs such as St John's wort). But like anything you add to the body, there's a risk of causing dependency/discouraging the body from producing its own. Therapy, if it's the right kind, is probably the best of all. It's mindblowing how even physical things will rectify themselves when mind viruses are sorted out. These are just some brief thoughts; it's a huge conversation, and I don't know if I've touched on what you're wanting to talk about...
Breathing Issues
I have allergies every year and this year I decided to hold off on taking steroid progesterone for about a month then I took the 5 day regiment given by Doctor and it did not help at all. I know they are anti life drugs but when you have trouble breathing quality of life declines so I did what wad available that I knew of. Anyhow, I have trouble getting in full breath Doctor said oxygen level is 97% so they didn't think I needed an inhaler. It is like deep in my diaphragm I cannot get that full breath but only partial. Sometimes can get full breath but not often. I know that this way of eating is the best I've ever had and no way am I throwing in the towel I wanted to ask if anyone in the community dealt with breathing issues which may be due to the changes in digestion and diet? Curious if anyone has any ideas about how to get some relief?
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@Derek Crans This is so good to hear! I think your intuition that digestive issues can affect breathing is likely to be accurate, but taking care of breathing/breathing consciously can influence the other way too, so that gentle diaphragmatic breathing can actually help with digestion! (I have to remind myself of that, since I'm prone to digestive difficulties...) Wonderful to hear -- thank you for sharing! xxx
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@Derek Crans You can breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth, or just in and out through the mouth. Really, the nose is designed to be breathed through. Most say it's best not to make any pause between the in and the out breath -- imagine a circle, and the in-breath is the first half of the circle, and the out-breath completes the circle. Just for certain exercises, or when people are doing a breathwork meditation, not doing anything else, perhaps utilizing long breath holds (which is a totally different thing), is breathing out through the mouth used. For normal day-to-day life, returning to the breath, observing it, breathing in and out through the nose, with the awareness that the lungs are deep in the abdomen (imagine nostrils in the lower back), letting them fill, and letting them empty -- just whenever you remember. It makes your system more connected and coherent, and it makes you more present and aware.
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