Lessons from Earth: Diet

Today I want to talk about what I've learned regarding diet while on Earth. This is not going to be advice, nor is it anything particularly definitive in terms of beliefs. It's just personal observations of this particular body and what it likes and doesn't like.

What to eat is one of those weird sticking points in communities. It's not just spiritual communities. It's every community. Seems like every civilization in the Local Universe, no matter the planet, has some kind defining cultural attribute surrounding food. You can identify entire planets, races, and species by what they consume.

On Earth, it's divided even further, because Earth is a place where many races of beings congregate and incarnate. Therefore, Earth has a larger variety of cultural foods, cultures, and civilizations. Yes, they are all one planetary civilization, and there are many common elements that define food as coming from Earth. But I do not think there is anywhere else in the galaxy that has such a vast variety of ways of presenting a plate of chicken, for example.

Funny, starseeds sometimes fantasize about what being on a space station with a bunch of different galactic races would be like. To that, I chuckle, and say, "Oh, just travel Earth and you'll get the same experience."

Anyway.

When I was a kid, I could eat anything. I mean anything. Nothing upset my stomach, ever. Of course I had preferences, like I didn't like spicy food. But I loved meat. And you could load me up with all sorts of sugar, and I'd take it like a champ. I wasn't the child that when given sugar would go into a "sugar high".

As a teenager, this "eat anything" approach stopped working. My blood sugar maintenance went way out of alignment. Plus, I'd be so zeroed in on what I was working on or doing, I'd forget to eat. This led to a few mornings where I collapsed from low glucose. Once, I lost vision entirely for several minutes. (That was scary!) I never managed to pass out, though. I'd claw my way back to standing, and drink sugar water to bring things back into balance.

My parents took me to the doctor after that. I didn't have anything wrong that the doctor could see, even after blood tests. Instead, I was blessed with a doctor who ran an EKG test (heart test) on me, looked at the results and said, "You need to drink more water and I'd like you to engage in biofeedback." She explained what biofeedback was, and it was the most sensible thing any doctor has ever said to me. (I find most doctors on Earth to be insufferably myopic and rude.)

Biofeedback is essentially a body-awareness practice. It means becoming very deeply attuned to my body at varying points of the day, and identifying what it needs. Funnily enough, this is a very deeply spiritual practice in my assessment and one everyone should make second nature. Without meaning to, that doctor triggered in me the ability to ground into my body and become one with my own organs and systems. And all she had to do was say the word "biofeedback". Freaking magic.

I've been practicing biofeedback since that moment, and I have since learned how to identify specific vitamins and minerals that are lacking in addition to major nutrients that are needed.

This means that throughout my life, I have not really done well sticking to a "diet" in a conventional sense. I have successfully done so once, and I will explain what that was like.

In mid 2021, my husband and I needed to lose some weight. We had tried calorie counting. We had tried exercise. None of it was working. So we decided to go on the "Keto" diet, which basically is a high fat, moderate protein, extremely low carbohydrate diet. The goal of this is to push your body into a state of ketosis, wherein your liver switches from using carbohydrates as an energy source to using fat as an energy source.

I will say, pain in the ass as this diet was, I did lose 25 pounds in about 6 months. And I did keep that weight off. One huge benefit, though, is it also creates a parasite cleanse in the system. By depriving your body of sugars, which parasites need to sustain themselves, within 2 months of being on that diet, every single parasite in my body died. At once. It was...

Okay it was really gross. 2 weeks of digestive purging. Which is to say... 2 weeks of running to the toilet as fast as I can as whatever I drank or ate just ran right through me. Then it was done, and all the sudden I felt much lighter and more efficient. All of my organs were super happy at the time.

I kept up that diet for about two years, then my needs started to change. I started the physical process of upgrading this body, and restricting what food I was eating wasn't helping. For example, whenever a new psychic gift would open up or level up, I needed carbohydrates like nobody's business. I would crave them for a time. Then that would stop rather suddenly. When my nervous system was upgraded, I suddenly needed minerals. Iron, copper, magnesium...I needed so much of it. It led to some...odd foods I would eat. Pickle juice, sea salt (like I would eat the salt by itself), almonds, rare steak. Lots of rare steak.

When my bones were getting changed, I needed bone broths, milk, cheese.

And of course, I'd take supplements, but I find I prefer to use food if I can. It's more efficient, plus I hate swallowing large pills. "Horse pills" my grandmother used to call them.

Now, I'm drifting back into how I was as a child. Eat anything. Namely because I have removed myself from a highly stressful environment (so stressful, I couldn't digest food properly).

So, what do I like to eat?

I love chicken, and I'm developing a desire for organ meats. Which is strange, but I'm willing to give such things a try. Chicken hearts have become a favorite. I want to try liver next. It's the mineral content of these that I'm after. I'm finding I don't want beef as much, not that I won't eat it. Just it's not as desired. If I can, I will attempt game meat and see how that goes. Fish is always a favorite. Pork also, but more as cured meat like sausages and cold cuts.

Root vegetables are becoming a preference, and I'm finding I don't really want raw greens as much. Cooked greens I'll devour. Especially broccoli, spinach, kale, and brussel sprouts. Fruits are making a come back, but I only need a little bit a day. Melons especially are weirdly attractive. (I used to hate cantaloupe. Then, randomly, one day this year, I tried cantaloupe and was like "Oh, this is great!" My poor ego was left going "Since when do we like cantaloupe!") Also the disappearance of my allergies has led to a disappearance of my food allergies surrounding apples, peaches, and cherries. To which I rejoice!

Breads and pastas I can have, but in small amounts. And I have to pay attention to what goes with it. Too many sugars with bread and I'm in for a bad time. But bread/pasta with plenty of fats, no problem. Steamed rice is always a favorite.

And salt. Let's not forget the salt. This body needs a tremendous amount of salt, specifically sea salt.

In looking at this, I see a heavy emphasis on minerals. No surprise there. I have a tremendous amount of energy running through this physical vessel such that I need extra minerals to ground it into my cells and into the floor.

In terms of cultural food preferences, I'll eat or try almost any culture's food (so long as we're not eating insects). Most of the time I can find something I like. My favorite Earth food, by far, is Thai food, and I never even incarnated in Thailand. I think that comes from one or two lifetimes where I was a trader in the East Indies. Their spice palette is just magic to me. Second favorite is Germanic food. I also like their robust, hearty foods, and I can say I have incarnated in Germany (or in Germanic cultures) many times before.

Fun with food. I want to try other stellar culture's foods. Provided my body can digest it, and if it's completely alien to this biology, oh you bet I'll try it and see what happens. We have med pods for things like accidental poisoning, right? (I can hear someone in my family groaning, "Oh, no.") I promise I won't purposefully poison myself just to test the efficacy of medical equipment. I shall keep such incidences purely accidental.

I thank you for your time. Adiamas.

--Kyriel