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IC and the Restaurant: I Think I’ll Order Some Inflammation Today

IC and the Restaurant:  I Think I’ll Order Some Inflammation Today

couple feeding yogurtAs I muse through the menu at my favorite restaurant, I can hear myself in the process of selection

“Hmmm, this looks particularly good-lots of congestion and inflammation there”

“Or maybe some cooling? Oh no no, that’s not tasty enough”

“Well maybe just this time”

From an energy science view, the effects of the foods that we consume begin before we even put them in our mouths Does that sound surprising? Many of those with the IC bladder pain syndrome(interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia, chronic prostatitis, IBS, GERD, and fibromyalgia) have a good understanding that foods can play a pivotal role in the progression of the disease  But this point often can become ambiguous in IC circles because actually the way the matter science choses the foods that are bad choices in IC circles is through anecdotal reporting  Although there is nothing wrong with this approach it falls sort of the way the energy science decides which foods are good or bad choices

Behavioral Choices Can Bring Nutritional Confusion

Our unconscious behavioral eating patterns begin in the mind so it makes sense that the health of our mindbodies become directed by our unconscious choices

This concept is so far removed from our current matter science or molecular approach which is devoid of being able to factor the mind in the equation of foods and their selection

Let’s pause and consider that whatever we are putting in our mouths at any point in time has the ability to make us sick or bring about balance

We currently don’t have the concept from our matter science model of healing that disease begins with the ingestion of taste(energy) If I’m a Pitta Kapha and snarfing down a banana I’m inflamming my physiology and asking for congestion

And is it wrong to have a banana? No, not from an energy science view The key as we have discussed in the past is to be aware of how the foods impact us from a sensory point of view

We intellectualize about foods from a matter science view but from an energy science view the ingestion of any food has the capability of teaching us more about ourselves

Have you had the experience of food making you feel bad? Did this become a recurring theme? Did it take a number of days before the ingestion of a particular food made you feel bad?

A New Science…Nutrigenomics

Now the matter science has a new way of looking at food…. through the lens of how foods affect our DNA  And indeed as predicted by the energy science 1000’s of years ago foods impact the expression of our DNA  Begun in 2003 this new science, called nutritgenomics, studies how foods affect the molecular expression of your DNA

The energy science of Ayurveda sees DNA as the most subtle molecular expression of mind  And so how we nourish ourselves energetically directly impacts our DNA expression through the science of nutrigenomics but those same foods bring about either mental clarity or confusion  This can affect our next behavioral choices with respect to food and other lifestyle choices

So the bottom line?  Foods affect us far more than we can imagine and directly affect our success in healing the IC bladder pain syndrome

 

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