Diagnosis vs Cause
I was talking with a friend today who told me about a kid she knows who is in a psychiatric facility. HIs behavior has been great for awhile, but then he acted up one day. After a birthday party when everyone ate cake. With colorful icing. So, a big blast of sugar and artificial colors, but then it’s so surprising when he acts up afterward.
This is in one of the top children’s psychiatric facilities in the country. And you know what they eat for breakfast? French toast…carbs and sugar. Eating carbs and sugar is like burning paper…you get a quick flare of hard to control energy and then it flares out to nothing…the sugar crash. Eating protein is more like putting a big hardwood log on the fire—sustained even energy. So why are kids with behavioral and psychological problems being fed so much sugar? And how would their behavior be different if they were eating high quality protein instead?
This poor kid has been diagnosed with enough behavioral problems that he is in a residential facility, yet he is being fed things that cause behavioral problems. It doesn’t make any sense!
Yet this type of problem happens all the time. The medical system gives someone a diagnosis: a name for their symptoms, but does not dig into the why behind these symptoms. Did you know there is no nutrition training required to earn the degree of MD?
In my approach I’m always looking for the cause. Honestly, I don’t care at all about what the diagnosis is. It is just a made up name. When I got diagnosed with fibromyalgia I told the MD I had pain everywhere, in all my muscles and joints. He told me I had fibro (fibers) myo (muscles) algia (pain). He just translated what I said into Latin!! And the diagnosis didn’t do anything good for me, but it let him tell me I’d have it forever and there was no cure so I just had to deal with it and he didn’t have to figure anything out.
It’s been a long road, but I figured out the cause and figured out how to find the cause of pretty much any chronic illness. And solve it. I don’t have fibromyalgia anymore. Our bodies are amazing healers when they have the right information. Message me back if you’re ready to find the cause and have a solution.
