Beet it!
I had an interesting conversation the other day with an old friend I hadn’t seen for a long time. In the course of catching up, I said I’d noticed he was building something in his yard. He told me about his project in some detail because he knows how excited I got in the past when building a shed.
He then asked what I’d been doing. I said I’d not been able to walk very well for a couple of years a while back. “That’s probably why we haven’t run into each other.” I brought the conversation back to the shed he’s building. He wanted to know the why of the walking difficulty. I said, “yeah well tests and more tests and yaddah yaddah and cancer. Then that look and me saying, “oh it’s okay, I had it before they said I had it so I decided to live with it instead of dying from it, and then happenstance, this book, that video, another couple of articles and I quit sugar. So, here I am, old as dirt and of course I’m going to die of something but maybe not as fast as predicted and maybe after I’ve just done my exercises.”
And let me say a bit more about that sugar. I don’t know if it’s the whole story because I’ve been gradually changing a lot of things. I was really tired of a lot of things. I was tired of going to bed at night worrying about my ability to get out of bed in the morning. I was tired of it being a major ordeal to accomplish huge tasks like feeding the cat, feeding myself, taking out the trash, and all the daily life stuff.
I was tired.
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You all know how one thing leads to another these days. That happened. I’d always been open to learning about how diet effects health since I was crippled up with arthritis sixty years ago and told by doctors to take 25 aspirin a day and told by a barber to quit dairy and eat vegetables. Guess which worked.
So, back to ‘no sugar’ which had a drastic effect within days which lead invariably to no processed foods because they pretty much all contain sugar. And the article about beet juice and the one on sea moss and oh yeah, algae. You get the idea. I figure, if I can, I may as well keep learning and not take myself too seriously. I am going to die someday of something. Putting it off while acknowledging it’s inevitability makes life an adventure.
So, if you’ve got a blender, sit in a corner, close your eyes, quiet your mind. That done, make a smoothie:
For me that’s a few ounces of filtered water, a spoonful of beet root powder or a glug of beet root concentrate, or yes, a well cooked beet. I add wheat grass juice or powder, sea algae, sea moss glop, and anything else I think I need and whiz it up. Then I put collagen in and give it a quick whiz. Then in a glass with some ice and a couple of ounces of pure juice, right now it’s sour cherry, to make it more palatable.
Pick something and change it today and tomorrow you will be changed.
