Lately I have been feeling well, thank God! Most recently, I would say starting in April of 2017, I started adding nuts back into my diet. For a long time I could not comfortably eat any nuts because of the state of my stomach. I had peptic ulcers, which I wrote about on the blog, for a while, and then after that those cleared up, thank God, and then I had gastritis, which I remedied with DGL and eating more often. I also added 1-3 tablespoons of extra virgin coconut oil to my diet each day, and that also seemed to have helped with my stomach. So in April of 2017, I decided to purchase pistachios, and to my very pleasant surprise, my stomach handled them well. There was another unexpected, added benefit. Eating pistachios helped me to feel stronger within my body! When I add something to my diet and then I stop having it, I can tell the difference in the way I feel immediately. I could feel that with eating pistachios, my body felt stronger than without them. I soon after that added cashews to my diet as well, which are high in Thiocyanate. I was not expecting how poorly I would feel once I ran out of both! I know for a fact when my blood is sickling in excess because I can feel my strength begin to wane. To make up for the pistachios and cashews I ran out of, I brought almonds to add to my diet, not even recalling that they are high in Thiocyanate as well. Once I added almonds back into my diet as well as re-adding the pistachios and cashews, my body began to feel much better and more normal. Cashews and almonds are both Thiocyanate rich foods, which help to prevent the sickling of the red blood cells. They are also high in healthy fats, proteins, and many vitamins and minerals. You can read about the benefits of them here:
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After binging on pistachios and finishing a 3 lb bag of pistachios in one week, I began to try following the serving size on the bag, which is 1/2 a cup, so I now have 1/2 a cup of pistachios, one ounce of cashews, and 30 almonds (I count them out!) per day. Adding these 3 different nuts to my diet have been very helpful to me and I hope that someone else can learn from this and maybe try adding them to their diet as well to see how it works for them. Hope this helps someone! 😄
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After binging on pistachios and finishing a 3 lb bag of pistachios in one week, I began to try following the serving size on the bag, which is 1/2 a cup, so I now have 1/2 a cup of pistachios, one ounce of cashews, and 30 almonds (I count them out!) per day. Adding these 3 different nuts to my diet have been very helpful to me and I hope that someone else can learn from this and maybe try adding them to their diet as well to see how it works for them. Hope this helps someone! 😄
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