We Love Paleo
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- 2016
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[Woman]
I had chronic brain fog.
I never felt rested
when I woke up.
I got migraines all the time.
I was hungry all the time,
and people feared
for their lives
when they were around
me when I got hungry,
because I crashed
and turned into a crazy person.
And just felt
generally cranky and...
bad, basically.
The outlook on life
prior to being diagnosed
and figuring out
what was going on
was pretty bleak.
I had chronic fatigue syndrome,
fibromyalgia.
[Woman] Chronic migraines,
that was a huge one.
I had chronic
gastrointestinal issues.
And I saw gastroenterologists
for several years,
and no one ever told me
it could be related to food.
I thought that I had
early-onset
rheumatoid arthritis.
I had chronic adult acne.
I had numbness in my feet
and in my limbs.
I was always cold.
Everything and anything I took
really didn't provide me
any relief whatsoever.
How I would I have been?
35, or 34, or something.
You're probably not supposed
to feel that crappy at that age,
right?
That's not old.
But I felt old.
I had come
to just really live with it.
It became part of my life.
[Man]
I remember feeling strange,
feeling weird
from very early on, you know.
Not feeling healthy.
Not feeling like
I lived to full capacity.
Even as a child.
And that's weird.
I mean, the thing is
everyone is so sick
in this country.
Our food system is so broken.
[Man] The solution given to me
by my GP was,
"Don't worry.
If you take these meds now,
"you'll be able to keep these...
you know, suppress these issues
that you're facing,
and you should be able
to live longer."
[Man] It's amazing...
You know, it's like
the human body
just gets comfy with stuff
or accepting of conditions
and just kind of like...
It's like,
"Oh, this is gonna hurt."
Or, "I have a bum knee,"
or I have a whatever.
"We'll just kind of
deal with it. We'll compensate.
We'll be fine."
And so, you get used
to those things.
And so,
the same thing happened with me.
I just felt horrible,
but did it for so long
that I forgot how bad
I actually felt
and how it felt to feel good.
I was never extremely sick,
but I was never well either.
I was vegetarian
for about six years.
I ate fish sometimes,
but was mostly vegetarian,
and also mostly dairy-free,
because the person
I was with at the time
had a dairy allergy.
So in addition
to being vegetarian,
I was also eating way more soy
than anyone should ever consume
over their lifetime.
Because we had
all the dairy substitutes,
like the fake butter,
and the soy milk, and the...
I don't even remember what else,
but it was all pretty horrible.
And I also worked
in vegetarian restaurants
at the time.
That was my life, basically,
and was eating seitan,
which is wheat gluten,
sandwiches
on rye bread.
So, I was just eating
a straight-up gluten sandwich.
So gluten and soy
were, like, my main staples
in my diet,
and I was completely
the angry chef that threw pans.
I was... psychotic
and not a happy person.
And of course,
there were other factors.
It wasn't 100% diet,
but that played a huge role.
I was definitely
the sickest I've ever been
and the unhappiest
I've ever been.
[Woman]
My husband was Paleo
for almost a year.
And through that year,
every time I ate,
I had just horrid pain,
stomach pain,
and he would say,
"I really think
that you have Coeliac,
and I think you need
to get it checked out."
And if you have it,
if you take about a pinch
of saffron, you'll want to...
[Michelle]
My specialty as a chef
was Italian.
After about a year,
we were having a celebration.
It was one of
the kids' birthdays.
And I was making, of course,
all of that,
and there he was,
making his own dinner.
And I looked at him,
and I said,
"You're, like, really never
gonna have my pizza
and pasta again, are you?"
And he goes, "No."
And he said, "I really think
that you have Coeliac,
and you really need
to go get it checked out."
They checked
for the wrong antibodies.
I checked out negative.
The doctor
that was sitting there
talking to me said,
"You're negative,
but you know
what we're gonna do?"
He said, "I really think...
From what you're telling me,
"I really think
you might have Coeliac,
and so, we're gonna do
a biopsy of your colon."
He starts telling me
how he's going to
cut into my colon,
and as he's telling me,
he's... nodding off,
falling asleep.
And I'm just like,
"Hmm. That doesn't sound
like a good option to me."
And I thought, "Why is
the next step so invasive?
"Why isn't it
just cut these foods
from you diet?
Why not start there?"
[Cain] I got diagnosed
with Coeliac Disease
about four years ago
and was lucky enough
and very physical manifestations
of that.
So, if I ate gluten,
I knew that I ate it
and felt horrible.
So, went gluten-free,
and that did not fix things.
We've tried gluten-free.
We've tried gluten-free vegan.
We tried all of those different
variations of it.
I ended up with no energy
and... puffy.
Is the only way
I can kind of describe that.
It's like my body fat percentage
took a nosedive
in the wrong direction.
And I was lethargic,
and I just didn't feel good
that way.
So we did that
for maybe six months or so
and then said
that's enough of that...
and went back.
[Woman] I grew up
in Olympia, Washington.
I grew up
in a totally normal family,
your standard, American family,
and grew up eating cereal,
and bagels,
and Subway sandwiches.
And there was no food
in the food that I was eating.
There was
no pasture-roaming animals.
There was no grass-fed meat.
There were no seasonal,
local vegetables.
It was like
whatever we could pick up
at the grocery store,
and, like, whatever is on sale.
A general health consciousness
was very strongly present
in my life
because my parents
ran a pharmacy.
My father was a pharmacist,
which means that we ate healthy
according
to conventional wisdom
on what is a healthy diet.
So I ate very little meat.
No fat at all.
That was forbidden.
We had the fat substitutes,
of course, every day
on the table.
Margarine instead of butter,
the heart-healthy alternative.
None of us
in the family was healthy.
My father suffered
psoriasis heavily.
My mother had severe asthma.
My sister,
which I discovered now,
clearly had a histamine problem.
I had a number of health issues.
You know,
I had this asthma as well,
skin problems.
Major energy dips
throughout the day
as being a child.
Now, I realize
what was the reason for that.
I was never able
to wake up in the morning.
It was hell
to drag my body to school
and to pay attention in school.
I couldn't...
It was impossible.
I would fall asleep
in the first hours of class.
Nobody could tell me
why that was,
and nobody questioned it even.
So from this background...
You know,
it would have been different
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