This is an informative account of what I have dealt with over the past few years.
As I am aging I believe I have stumbled upon answers that would have benefitted me years ago. Things are finally starting to reveal themselves. Or maybe now there were just too many symptoms to ignore which is what started me down this path in the first place.
All my life I remember being the person that caught every little thing that was going around and it would last longer than most people. (for example: others would have a common cold or flu for a few days, I would have them for a few weeks or longer).
I had my tonsils out when I was 12, because they kept getting swollen. Now, later on in life, I realize that they were just doing their job - that is what they are supposed to do - store the infection and keep it there as your body fights to get rid of the infection.
So, one of my two filters, the best one was removed at an early age which I believe caused more issues for me throughout my life. It is from this, that I believe I starting catching every little thing that was going around...because I was a mouth breather - that is primarily how I breathed which meant the air I was breathing no longer had a filter. In my mid-twenties, I would learn that I needed to change this and made great effort, awake and sleeping, to catch myself from breathing through my mouth and instead become a nose breather.
In doing that little switch, I limited getting sick all the time to about 50%. Looking back, this little thing was the beginning of me starting my health journey. I have been on a journey to reduce getting sick by improving my immune system for a long time now. I have learned a lot along the way and implemented and tried a lot of things to find what worked for me.
I will be adding posts every now and then discussing different supplements that I use and why, however, this health journey that I am sharing with you now is from more recent times - the past few years. You might find that weird because if I've been on this journey for over 20 years, why wouldn't I start there??
Well, with what I have found out in the past few years, if I would have known that all those years ago, I believe my health journey would have been a lot easier and shorter as I believe I have finally stumbled onto the root causes of what has plagued me throughout the years and created sickness, weight gain, digestion and bowel issues my whole life, low immune system, and many little annoying symptoms.
I knew my immune system wasn't the greatest and I took measures throughout my life to get it built up and working better and it was. Then I made a discovery that has been a game changer and made sense of the lower immune system, struggles with my digestive system and other things.
I have created this portion to share with anyone and everyone in the hope that the information presented may be of service to others and help them understand what is going on inside their body and provide hope when you are struggling.
In my healthier lifestyle and weight loss journey, over the past few years, I have discovered a lot of information and have shared things along the way friends and family, who have also had results and learned a lot about themselves and their bodies, and now I share it with you.
I hope you find this journey interesting, and that you learn something that you may not have known before. This information has been a benefit to me and a few others that I know and hopefully you as well.
If you have any information you would like to share with me on things that you have done, implemented or learned along the way, I would love to hear it and share it as well.
Let's get healthy together and stay healthy!!!