Herbs can sometimes have the opposite effect on me.
I noticed this began happening about 25 years ago, after ingesting rancid food oils from a fast food place, which wrecked some of my intestinal lining.
I thought I had contracted food poisoning – that’s how bad my gut reacted for weeks after eating the fried flour shell to a taco salad.
If I didn’t eat an apple at the same time, I couldn’t digest anything, and cramps were severe.
I came away from this with leaky gut and for years was chasing illness symptoms.
My digestion is reactive and I often feel nutrient depleted – although you wouldn’t know it by looking at me.
I am mindful about what I eat, and try to take care of my body.
My immune system is just always fighting overload, which is reinforced by events externally.
It makes me sensitive to everything because particles that should be prevented by tight violii in the intestines are now permitted directly into my blood stream by micro gaps were the lining was damaged.
This causes systemic inflammation and reactions in my body to foods that should be ok as if they are allergens because they don’t get processed properly.
It also makes my nerves constantly on edge, because longterm inflammation erodes myelin buffering and hormone byoroducts that should be easily flushed out of my body get reabsorbed – which magnifies their effects on my system.
(Do not put me on birth control. I promise you won’t like the result!)
In essence, my body does not properly rid its waste products, and thus, always has too much of a load on it – which propagates chronic fatigue.
Supplements promoted to repair the intestines have not worked for me. For example, aloe vera and licorice inflame, and L-glutamine is such a fine particle, it goes straight into the blood and shocks my system.
Products like holy basil for nerve calming and turmeric for inflammation are reacted to as too spicy.
When I tried a CBD chewable last night to try to help take off the stress edge, its effect has now turned me into an intolerant “bitch,” incapable of applying patience.
Guess what I’ll be returning to the store!
Where’s the product that heals me?
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