A friend of mine has finally discovered that her horrendous migraines are a result of her gluten intolerance, but on looking up gluten intolerance you see that emotions play a large role in it. Similarly, I was reading what Dr. Weill has to say about Hashimoto’s and he suggests an inflammation free diet, which means no lactose, but again Hashimoto’s and emotions are delicately balanced as well.
A lot of the natural health articles I have read accuse inflammation of basically everything you can imagine, but the truth is that alopecia is when the hair follicles are inflamed and wont allow hair growth – hence why I rub a cortisone cream on my scalp every night. But as my dermatologist said, you have to fix what is broken inside of you for that to even work.
And that my dear is emotional health, so while there is a light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel needs to be (perhaps even extreme) a path towards emotional well being. I thought when we went away for two months this summer that it would be a de-stresser but I found Cadiz and single parenting to be more stress than I could imagine, and then a full party schedule on the beach kicked my butt and ten days in a heat wave in Croatia and coming home to a hurricane was a bit much for someone seeking a path of extreme destressing.
So my new goal is nothing to bother me. And time spent stress-free, enjoying my life and perhaps giving up meat and lactose for a period until my body can rearrange itself towards health.