Never went straight to GABA stuff but yeah the
uber-mega-super-X-factor B-Vitamins thing I've been there. Felt
like I was burping up vomit after taking them but I took them
because they felt GREAT... at first, so I had to figure out what
EXACTLY I needed.
My diet's pretty diverse. It likes meat and salads + other
veggies. I stay away from "white stuff" as much as possible. Not
obsessively, but I found that in principle, the "no white
flour/no white sugar" thing is pretty accurate for health.
Fat-wise, I make sure I get some kind of "thin fat" like olive
oil or fish oil or whatever.
I analogize like this: It's mineral oil. It gets in the smaller
cracks and crevices internally. Fat's used to heal blood
vessels, among other things, and your body uses whatever fat
molecules it finds.
So if I eat something with globby yuck fat, I make sure I ALSO
give it some good fat that same day.
The powdered creamer in my coffee is transfat-land but that's
the concession I give myself because I like it better than any
natural alternative tongue emoticon
I have a mental category for the antioxidents:
I put curry, chocolate, tumeric, coffee, tea... and there's a
few others... in the "very small molecule" category. The very
small molecules grab the excess oxygen in the blood and flush it
out.
I think of the light oils/fats in the same way. They're the
mineral oil of the body - the WD40 - performing the same
function. Lubricate and protect.
I don't drink much but when I do, I consider it a health drink.
Alcohol is an excellent cleanser; it gets the residue of a
sticker off a window, and also gets the sticky residue out of my
braincells.
If I think of it, sometimes I'll pick up a nice bottle of
something and have a shot as a "cleanser".. and it's on my list
of "one of these days" to get back on a one-a-day habit just for
that reason alone.
To me body's a machine. Thanks - I'm always on the search for
"most accurate analogies" for things and that's the best i could
find. Cuts through a lot of the language they use to get to the
heart of "why".
Also, between msgs, I had a big shot of Captain Morgan. Salut!
Gotta get the gummy residue (probably from all the cigarettes I
smoke) out of my brain cells sometimes - makes room for more
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