Dairy Part III - Fear

One of the reasons it’s problematic to talk about the benefits or disadvantages of eating foods such as dairy is that it can create a potentially bigger problem around the food itself which is fear.

Fear and belief have such an astounding affect in the body, and information about a food can start creating beliefs in the body which then become self-fulfilling.

I went to one acclaimed nutritionist who, after a series of expensive blood tests, was so convincing telling me that I had some genetic mutations meaning I couldn’t metabolise kale or brassicas, that low-and-behold, I started having issues doing just that. It took several years before I could eat my favourite dark green leafy vegetables again and all due to the strength of this fear I had taken in around it.

It’s natural when you are looking for answers about your illness to look at everything with suspicion. When you don’t understand the root of your illness you look all around you for the possible suspects, that not only got you into this state, but that are hindering your progress. So much information is flying around out there about what you should be doing and what you should be avoiding and it’s difficult to know what, if any of it, applies to you.

And so its problematic to discuss certain foods like dairy because the last thing I want is for people who are anxious about their digestion to have more information to feed their overly-worked amygdala, the fear centre in your brain, with more fodder to compound their issues.

My food intolerances were fairly mild when I started seeing that nutritionist and they then progressed steadily and fast in the wrong direction due to big doses of misinformation and fear.

And so I want to make it clear that when you are well, the vast majority of people here in the UK certainly, have no issues dealing with dairy. It’s not something to be avoided like the plague. I have the odd pizza now and again which is definitely not made with unpasteurised organic goats cheese and I am all good with that. Healing involves not just reversing the issues that got you ill in the first place, but also addressing the beliefs you may have picked up along the way.