Most think vomiting should be stopped immediately for both kids and adults.
If you go to the allopathic doctor and you’re throwing up - you’ll get some medication to suppress that response.
However, Ayurvedic medicine built a therapy around doing the opposite. Elimination is the medication here.
Some may comment saying this kind of thing is “dangerous.”
Turns out our body’s responses are not inherently dangerous, but misunderstanding them can be.
And the really good news is we can support our elimination pathways in a bunch of ways not just this way.
Our nervous system regulates exactly to what we’ve shown it can handle.
When people talk “nervous system dysregulation,” they mean that the person can’t handle stress well. They’re exhausted and overwhelmed and fall apart when hard things happen.
Our nervous system is a guitar string. It plays exactly the tone you’ve tuned it to. If we want a different sound we have to put tension on the string differently. Talking to the string usually won’t tune it.
What I’ve learned on my long runs over the last few years is that there are two main voices we have. The yin and the yang.
Or more practically, the inner mother and father.
The inner mother says… you are enough, you are worthy, just as you are.
The inner father says… go prove it. Go build something valuable.
Some of us are dominated by one or the other, usually in pretty toxic ways.
If your inner voice is always giving you a pass like it’s fine, skip the work, you deserve the break, life’s short while the very goals you set are falling apart around you, that’s a very loud toxic mother and an absent father.
If your inner voice is relentless and rigid and you can never let yourself rest, enjoy anything or feel like enough no matter what you do, that’s an overbearing father paired with a mother who left.
For me I lacked both strong healthy voices.
We don’t necessarily always need 2 hours of morning meditation to “regulate.” We need to build the capacity to engage with real life in real time as it unfolds.
When job loss happens, when the business idea fails, when you lose someone, when you keep failing at a goal you say you want, when your spouse breaks your heart, when you break someone else’s heart.
A “regulated” person knows they are valuable and worthy of love just because they exist AND they know they should do more to explore their capacity and value. It’s both and it’s both all the time.
If too much mother: pick one small commitment and keep it no matter how you feel. Show up when you don’t want to.
If too much father: pick something you enjoy with zero productivity attached. Fun, silly, purposeless. Sit with the discomfort of not earning it.
The amount of honey and how it’s taken will be individual to you.
Dose:
The dose is usually anywhere from 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon depending on your size (see the chart referenced in the video, pause and hold).
How:
Some people do just fine with it straight (like me).
Some will do better with it in a warm herbal tea. Especially teas with tulsi, ginger, cinnamon, or fennel. These help support digestion.
Some will do even better with it in a small bowl of warm porridge or oats.
When:
As for timing, personally I take it 30-60 minutes before bed, but some really do well with it literally just before getting in bed.
Type:
Acacia honey is considered the good choice or Linden honey (the linden flowers themselves contain mildly sedative compounds).
Manuka honey is a good one as well.
But truthfully I’ve done just fine on various mixed wildflower honeys that are simply organic and raw.
Let me know how it goes for you. 🐝
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Your blood sugar is supposed to rise after you eat. That’s not dysfunction, that’s biology.
The idea that we need to flatten these "spikes" is micromanaging normal physiology and will not lead to better health.
The real reasons you can't lose fat are a lot simpler than what many are telling you.
Doesn’t mean it’s easy, weight loss is always hard when it’s something you’ve struggled with for years.
Natural medicine isn't the alternative. It's the original.
I had a grade II sprained ankle.
Swam all day in the ocean.
Walked pain free by next day.
Your body knows what it's doing.
Give it what it needs.
Never Forget...COVID rules & restrictions ruined our kids...This is what teenage 'prom night' looked like in 2021.
Covid fear & madness. All masked up. Facing away from each other.
Avoiding fruit because it raises blood sugar is like avoiding exercise because it raises your heart rate.
It's a misunderstanding of normal physiology.