by Anonymous, Australia
All my life I had suffered from chronic ear infections. Every couple of weeks I would get another ear infection, to the point where I would not be able to hear out of one or both of my ears sometimes for months at a time. I had seen numerous doctors and ear, nose and throat specialists. I’d had many medical tests conducted. I was finally told that this was a condition I would have my whole life. For me this didn’t feel right.
When I decided to stop eating dairy products, it took a few months for me to fully commit to this as I did not want to give up chocolate, but I noticed a dramatic change to my ear conditions when I did. My ears were clearer and my hearing improved and I didn’t have nearly as much pain and I didn’t get an infection during this time. When I ate dairy again the conditions immediately came back. I haven’t eaten dairy now for three years and in that time I haven’t had an ear infection and my hearing is back to normal, something I was told would never happen. At first this was hard to accept as I had a long held belief that I need to have dairy in my diet to have a healthy diet but I can’t argue with my body. I have felt much healthier since choosing not to have dairy.
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You know anonymous you should be contacted by the medical society and tell your story. It would probably save them a couple of billions of dollars trying to fix other people with similar symptoms as you had.
It is great to share your experience via this blog, as we have all taken on beliefs about we need this, that and the other in our diets, including dairy. I am sure this blog will inspire others just to experiment and see what happens.
‘I haven’t eaten dairy now for three years and in that time I haven’t had an ear infection and my hearing is back to normal, something I was told would never happen’. Wow, isn’t that incredible, you were told that would never happen! It is a gift we give to ourselves to experiment with removing foods from our diet and see what works and what dosen’t work. I know my body tells me loud and clear the foods that I have outgrown and no longer need. And if I still continue to eat them, I feel so tired afterwards that it is just not worth it.
This type of food revelation shows exactly how food affects the body. It is either harming or healing.
I love how the body shows very clearly that food and what we choose to eat has a big impact in all that we do. It impacts our thoughts, how we speak, and what we can feel because we all know how after eating certain foods, we can feel really heavy and bloated, but we made the choice of choosing comfort and the dulling of our awareness. This blog is a super example of experimenting and listening to the wisdom of your own body.
It’s absurd that cows have become milking machines in order to supply us with a substance that just creates phlegm and dependency in the body.
Dairy gives us our moment of confirmation of a life that is not it. It is a high note of a life of low overtones. It is the savory part of a tasteless life.
Such a fundamental step: daring to see, feel and accept what certain foods do in our body and change our diet because of that. We are nowhere without our body and all we have to do is take super good care of it.
I’ve been finding my body reacts to certain foods but it’s the stress in other areas of my life that leads me to those foods. Every part of life is interlinked to all others.
Yes, I agree, Leigh, it starts with awareness about food and expands to other areas of life, thoughts, movements and activities, for everything influences the quality of our being.
The movies depict this as the giant tub of ice-cream after being dumped as an extreme, but for example I crave salt or crunchy foods when angry. Once I clear the anger and express what was underneath and eat the salt food it tastes horrible! If I don’t clear the anger, then it takes a reaction from my body to get me to stop eating salty foods.
Absolutely gold how our body talks to us and how loud it actually communicates. Quite literally you weren’t hearing the message. And how simple to change something, whether it is our diet, our way of moving, our thinking and observe the enormous change this causes.
The simplicity of eating as guided by the body is in direct contrast to the complications that can arise with our health and wellbeing, even our moods, when we eat from ideals and beliefs.
When it comes to food and what to eat, all we have to do is feel from our body, and one can ask, what do I feel to eat on this moment, the answer always comes, but the question is, do we listen or do we over-ride in favour of comfort?
I had a very similar experience, Anonymous. I was always with constant discharge of mucus from my nose, even when I hadn’t a cold. I went to different doctors and finally the allergyst diagnosed that as a chronic rhinitis. I was 20 years old and according to that I should be medicated for the rest of my life for this condition. Fortunately someone suggested me to get rid the dairy products from my diet. I loved them, specially cheese, but gave it a try. In few months the condition I was diagnosed with, completely disappeared and never came back again. It’s clear that our body always speaks loud and plain. We just have to listen
This is just one of the many stories I’ve read about where diet has directly influenced the symptoms someone was experiencing. I’ve never had severe food related symptoms like the one you’ve described, but it wasn’t until a short time after refining my diet and eliminating things like gluten and dairy that I noticed changes with my body. It turned out I had more symptoms than I realised, as I was so used to that being the norm.
From my own personal experience I have found my body prefers not to have dairy, it loves the taste of it, yet I know that it’s difficult for my body to digest it, and I respect my body enough not to be tempted by the taste.
Love the simplicity of the body in its communication Anonymous!
I so love the title of this blog – can’t argue with my body, and it makes me laugh how much I have invested in fighting this losing battle when it makes so much more sense to simply listen and do what the body is asking for.
It never ceases to amaze me how loud the body talks and the simplicity with which it does so, if we only choose to listen.
Wise words when you say ‘I can’t argue with my body’ – the body carries a wisdom beyond words, it comes as a knowing that we can gain so much from if we tune into it and heed it!
What an improvement from something so simple – and no need to take any medications or expensive supplements! Love the simplicity of this and how you were committed to giving it a go!
Our bodies hold the key to much more than what we realise. In fact, our bodes mark the truth of our every choice, as you have beautifully shown us, and know exactly what is needed for us to live with the vitality and well-being that we are born to naturally live. We only need to listen. For in developing a loving and honouring relationship with our bodies we will discover there is more to us than our physicality, and there is whole other world to explore, of who we are and what we are here for.
Yes a great specialist is someone who confirms our body’s natural messages, and is therefore not novel advice but familiar to what is already known.
Our bodies always speak, sometimes more louder than others, so how great that yours was so crystal clear and how with changing your diet and dropping dairy you found a way which worked more harmoniously for you .. it’s interesting isn’t it how we often have beliefs which run counter to what our bodies say and it can take us some time to let them go, and defer to our bodies wisdom.
Well said Monica, the body does speak loudly though sometimes we can not always understand what it is saying and hence it helps to hear another who may have had a similar experience so that we can be inspired to make a true change. Hence how beautiful it is to have a blog like this up – so if someone else out there has not considered removing dairy whilst experiencing ear nose or throat issues, this may be the next step to trial out.
It’s amazing to see what happens when we look a little bit deeper at things. Dairy is just one of them that many many people are seeing real health benefits from not having it in their diet. I can see a level of sensitivity that also includes things that may only contain traces of dairy, or even that are not dairy, but are used by the body in the same way and so have the same impact. We get sold a way of being that continually keeps us in the dark and when the light comes on we wonder how our eyes we closed to something that is now so so obvious. Don’t take things as ‘just being how things are’, stop and ask questions and listen to what comes next. All around us is geared for us to continually be aware of things that aren’t supporting us and the only way to avoid it is choose to not see them.
Yes it has also been my experience that these messages we get from our body are always loud and clear about what truly supports us and what does not in life – the question is how much effort do we put into suppressing and ignoring these messages and the inconvenient truth that they convey to us?
We are fed so many beliefs and ideals about what food and how much or how little we should eat to benefit our health from the media but at the end of the day what is true for our body can only lie within as it is through listening and responding to our inner knowing that we get to know what is true for our body.
There are so many opinions today about what is the right diet and food to eat but I am sure there will be many scientific studies to come on what diet best supports our body according to particular illnesses or diseases we have – makes sense to me.
Our bodies do know exactly what works for us and what doesn’t. When we relax, let go, and listen to it, it thanks us back and supports us all the way.
It is only by experimenting with different foods that we get to feel what is true for us and what is not.
Amazing – I wonder how many suffer from symptoms like you describe but are never told that the answer can be as simple as pulling dairy out of your diet. Dairy are one of those things that are hammered into you that it’s good for you from day one. Perhaps it actually not. I have wondered what happens with all the hormones that are supposed to nurture the baby calf to grow up when it comes into a human body.
What happens when we listen to other people and not ourselves … we eat things that are ‘supposedly’ good for us but are in truth not and we get told we will have symptoms for the rest of our life that we can clear if we stop eating the ‘supposedly’ good foods … and that is just some of the things!!! The theme here to build a relationship with our body feeling what it is telling us.
‘The proof is in the pudding’ so they say…or perhaps in this instance, in giving up the pudding.
Funnily enough, I had not connected my childhood ear problems with dairy – but it makes complete sense. Interesting that when I was young I went to many specialists and almost had to have a procedure in my ears to minimise the infections – but no doctor ever questioned my diet. If they had of asked what I was eating I would have said that my favourite food was cream, milk, cheese and ice-cream!
When I read this blog it so reminded me of my ‘bad old days’ of suffering frequent colds coughs, chest infections that would lead to ear infections.
I have made the transition to be dairy free since since 2009 when I had fluid in both of my middle ears and required grommets. It hasn’t been a pleasant journey, on one hand my body was signalling, on the other hand I was offending my body by eating dairy!…..It took me a while to realise what I was doing to myself.
When I started attending Universal Medicine workshops, I began to realise more and more what I was doing to my body and the comfort the dairy bought to my life. My ears have improved but there is more my body is asking me to refine not just food wise but how I communicate to others and hear myself expressing to them,
What you share here Anonymous is a simple example of the power of our choices and the impact they can have on the body to truly heal. Having been put on steroids many years ago for my sinus issues I also decided it was time to give up dairy as well and I was amazed at the way my sinus issues cleared in a couple of months and have never come back. The medical profession aren’t open to hearing this sort of anecdotal evidence as yet which is a shame as listening to the body and feeling what foods support us can allow the body to truly heal without relying on medications long term.
This blog is very simple yet profoundly powerful. Despite all our apparent medical know how, when we ignore the simple truths of the body, we can never truly understand and heal all our medical problems. I am no medical professional but I share the same experience as the writer of this blog, knowing that despite what most medical professionals say, my body’s experience is proof that foods such as diary which are seen to be healthy for us are most definitely not.
The proof just keeps pouring in about dairy and it’s affects on the body. Some people are more sensitive than others, yes, but just because you don’t have a physical symptom, does not mean you aren’t being affected, and that applies to many many foods and also lifestyles.
Wow, you can’t argue with the simplicity of that! It’s crazy dairy is still upheld as healthy and essential when there is so much evidence – anecdotal and scientific – to the contrary.
Pretty short and sharp and just one person’s view on how a choice to let something go supported them to move through a very serious physical condition. I’m not waging into the eat this or don’t eat that war with food, all I will say is do your best to allow yourself to make a choice on what is needed and don’t just follow something because it’s been said. There are many things that are said that don’t support us and actually cause harm in a way. Whether you are dairy free or dairy, what it comes back to is you supporting yourself in what you feel and what is needed. Whatever action we take, when taken from a true feeling you own that is the thing that will support us most.
Typical case of not listening (literally) to the body. Everything changed when Anonymous decided to listen.
A great testament to the harmful effects that dairy has on our bodies, and having your ear problems cleared up choosing to lovingly treat your body, thank you for sharing.
I had something to eat yesterday that instantly started to make me sneeze and get very sniffy. Its amazing how sensitive my body has become and I’m enjoying refining my diet so that I maintain a feeling of well-being from the inside out.
This blog is great evidence of how much our health depends on our own lifestyle choices with food we choose to put in our bodies. I just finished watching an amazing film called “That Sugar Film” it exposes how we are sold such a false version of health. The way dairy is promoted most people actually believe it’s good for them and they are not educated properly about what it does to our bodies. How much better is it to let your body do the talking than to blindly trust advertisers and paid off “medical professionals” that are telling us what we want to hear whilst receiving juicy payouts on the side!
I love this line you have shared with us – ‘…I can’t argue with my body.’ Our bodies are constantly reflecting the choice we make and the effects this has not only to on our bodies but also how we live our lives. When we choose to listen and honor what is being shared from our bodies we soon discover that we are being guided to live in a way where our vitality and well-being are naturally restored.
How incredible are our bodies? They tell us everything, communicating constantly. How amazing that you listened also and made that choice for yourself. There is denial medically that dairy food causes such symptoms, as we need to have our dairy for our calcium. But given that there are large industries that are invested in the money that it made from dairy it is not surprising that the truth about dairy is either not believed or suppressed. As consumers we also seek it out. It’s meeting a need other than that of calcium for our body; our need for comfort and it’s provided in a multitude of ways at our easiest convenience. The only truth about food will come from listening to our bodies and discerning for ourselves what is good and not good for our body, not from listening to bodies with vested interests.
Every time I eat something my body doesn’t really agree with and I know I should not be eating I get an increase of mucus too; our bodies are so clear in their messages of what is ok to eat and what is not. I think the fact we continue not to listen proves that we get much more from our food than just nutrition.
The question is – can we let go of our love of food and everything it gives us?!
Haha, it’s true that we can think of every reason under the sun why we might feel tired after we eat, or bloated or have mucus – we make it about anything but the choice of food, or the quality we ate in or the energy we cooked in.
I can definitely relate to that – when I stopped eating dairy in my 20s, my severe bouts of sinusitis disappeared; then, after a few years, I decided to reintroduce dairy again as I loved the comfort it offers. The sinusitis came back but was a lot less frequent and not as painful. I sort of accustomed my body to it like a drinker who drinks more every week until it apparently ‘doesn’t touch the sides’ any longer. Then I stopped dairy intake for good, about ten years ago, and my regular morning snuffles disappeared and I feel heaps lighter and not foggy anymore. From having experimented with dairy for most of my life, I can say that it feels like a sticky glue in the body to me. It’s great for calves but not great for humans. And just look at the difference in size between a cow and a human, does that possibly tell us something?
It is in trying to let ourselves feel the effect and make the choice to let go of what is far from supporting us.
This blog shows so clearly that there are many things we don’t want to know and choose to ignore as having an effect on our medical state of being. I can agree with how dairy can affect our body severely.
A classic and very powerful example of how damaging it is to the body when we live our life from mind focussed ideals and beliefs instead of the wisdom and intelligence of the body.
It would improve conventional medicine a lot to listen to the body like this. It is amazing how often called chronic conditions are not chronic at all, just that the way conventional medicine works has no tools for healing the disease – if we look at the whole way of life of a person it would probably get clear much more how chronic conditions can be healed.
Indeed you cannot argue with the body 🙂 you can choose to override it and not listen to it, resist the wisdom it offers but it is absolute in what it offers. Eat this; this is the reaction. No judgement, Just facts.
Anonymous, this is really interesting, as a child I had hearing problems and no-one ever knew why, my hearing just felt muffled, now it is absolutely fine and so I’m wondering if it was because I used to have dairy and now I don’t. I hear of many children who have ear infections – it seems very common and so I wonder if in some cases this could be linked to dairy?
If we all truly accepted that we ‘can’t argue with our body’ and its clear signals, we would make wiser more responsible choices very naturally so. My body has never signalled wrong… it has always simply been a question of how prepared I have been to listen and heed.
It would seem ludicrous to me that we should ignore our bodies and listen to the so called experts instead. Dairy has a lot to answer for, or at least those that promote it do.
Our body makes it so obvious what is harming it… yet we spend so much time and effort looking for quick fixes, when our body has given us the clues a long time before. The changes that happen after honouring these messages are amazing and as you found Anon a miracle.
This is interesting and important to be known by the medical system too that our bodies are in fact so clear in their communication with what is good for us or not. We only have forgotten to listen to it and regard all the illness and disease as something that comes to us by chance and have convinced ourselves that we have had no influence on it but in doing so we actually are ignoring an intelligence that is far beyond what our minds can think off, which is clearly proven by this blog.
Gosh, that’s incredible. It’s awesome to hear how the impossible is possible. For someone else removing dairy may not have been enough, but that’s just how it is, everybody is different and requires individual attention rather than a blanket diagnosis for the same condition.
When we hear what our body is telling us we have a responsibility to listen.
We cannot underestimate the impact our food choices has on our body. We know that certain foods affect our body but we still eat them even justifying that they are good for us because it is said in the media. I gave up dairy and gluten over fifteen years ago when I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and reoccurring bouts of candida. I had read about how certain foods fed the candida weakening the immune system so I decided to cut out gradually sugar, dairy, alcohol and gluten from my diet. I could feel that my body responded immediately often making me feel worse to begin with but I persevered because I felt it was benefitting and supporting my body together with other loving choices and I would see the changes, I just needed to be patient. I was and I have not looked back as I observed my body getting stronger and the candida leaving my body.
It goes to show that we cannot listen to another without first listening to ourselves. There is a tendency to think that medical experts know more than what we do and therefore we listen to them and rightly so, but it has to be done with discernment on our part too.
In relationship with our bodies and then responsibly seeking the support of those who are trained in medicine, nutrition, exercise etc. to guide and advise us, we have a very strong combo to make choices and decisions about our lifestyles and health.
True Caroline, the moment we hand ourselves over to medical experts we always need to observe and discern what is true for our body and take our responsibility in caring for ourselves.
No indeed Anonymous you cannot argue with your body. What a beautiful simple example of ‘the body knows best’ and you listening and responding to what your body is communicating.
‘I don’t argue with my body’ – great statement Anonymous. We know our body is telling us the truth yet we not always like the information it is giving us but in the end we cannot ignore the clear messages it is giving us. Your blog is a great example of letting go of the comfort of eating dairy and feeling the enormous effect this had on your health, beautiful!
Thank you Anonymous. It’s really strange that we ignore our bodies for so long in the first place, there is so much misinformation out there that we can use to stay in the dark. If we are willing to let go of things that aren’t working for us the benefits are huge.
There are so many ‘pro-dairy’ arguments that simply don’t make sense… We truly don’t absorb the calcium from dairy that the industry and many of our ‘experts’ would like to say we are in dire need of. My calcium levels are fine, and I haven’t had one whiff of dairy for 10 years… Goes to show that we can be responsible with our dietary choices through acknowledging the feedback our bodies give us, and also looking at the broader picture of where we can actually gain nutritional support.
I agree anonymous. Who could argue with this? And the wisdom given to you by your own body? I haven’t had any dairy for years, and absolutely feel the difference, particularly in my energy levels and lack of congestion in the throat (which I’m particularly sensitive to being a singer).
I just love how amazingly wise our body is and how it is always giving us messages as to how it is feeling and what it can’t tolerate in the way of food and drink. My body spoke loudly for years but I didn’t listen very often until it stopped me in my tracks with an illness or disease. Now I have finally chosen to listen intently and as a result of removing gluten, dairy and sugar from my diet, my body’s messages are much fewer, but when I do get one, there is no way that I will ignore it; I have learned that my body’s wisdom is definitely worth taking notice of.
Wow Anonymous you have really the proof that dairy is not good for your body and that the best medicine for you is to stopp eating it against all ideal and believes around dairy. I have made the same experience as my asthma disappeared but I have to admit that I also stopped to eat gluten as well.
I find it incredible that as health professionals we don’t really consider the effect of food on our body and that it can be the trigger for our health conditions. We talk about a healthy lifestyle and that we need to include certain things in our diet to meet the needs of our body. Yet we do not listen or observe the body as part of this to see if that particular food is needed or wanted by the body. This blog is a very clear example of that.
I too find it incredible Jennifer. I was speaking to someone yesterday who has been suffering from long term diarrhea and she was telling me about all the tests the doctors were doing, but with no answers coming forth. I asked if any of them had suggested that she looks at the food she is eating and surprisingly not one had. If we take our car to a mechanic because it is not running smoothly I am sure one of the questions would be about what we are putting into it, fuel and oil wise, so why isn’t the same question asked by most medical professionals? After all our food and drink is the fuel that our body runs on.
How clear is that! Our body knows exactly what it needs to support it, and if we let ourselves hear what it is saying, despite what we think we know, we know too.
Exactly Lucy – perhaps the body gives us ear conditions when we are not listening to its communication! I had ear infections as a child and was also a dairy freak… Once understanding why I wanted dairy in the first place and stopped eating it – the infections also ceased as did many other bodily disharmonies.
I am the same since eliminating dairy from my diet. I feel much clearer in my body with less sinuses also. In fact I do not have sinus problems or any respiratory related conditions like I used to have too. I ate dairy for protein and calcium. I now know we cannot digest the protein and absorb the calcium from the dairy. I used it as a comfort food to not truly eat to nurture my body through preparing the right foods.
A great example how little choices can make a huge difference to our well-being and daily life and how very generous and thankful our bodies are when we simply follow their natural rhythm and make up.
I used to love quoting the medical reports that said a few glasses of red wine per week are good for you. That piece of evidence served me well because I needed my alcohol, however all along my body was telling me it didn’t. Now when people ask me why I don’t eat certain foods or drink alcohol, I will tell them why. In a nutshell I have observed that my body doesn’t like that food, but then often they will go on to tell me that there is no medical evidence to back up what I’m saying. That may very well be true, but what my body tells me is also true, loud and clear.
Yes the body does know what is best for it. Funny that we are so wanting to cling on to certain foods even though the body says no thank you. Goes to show that there is a part of us that has the craving or the need of the food but the body itself doesn’t seem to need it. So we are basically not eating from what the body is telling us it needs but from what might satisfy the tongue.
Arguing with my body, and eating foods it could not deal with, had disastrous consequences for my health and my life. Finally coming to a place where I realised that the arguing couldn’t continue, I made the choice to begin to listen to this very wise vessel that has supported me all my life and which actually knows me better than I know myself. These days I would definitely recommend listening over arguing – and my body would agree 100%!
I also had a similar experience giving up dairy, I had super bad sinus issues and was put on steroids, I did not like being on these drugs and so decided I would try giving up dairy to see if things improved. Within about 2 months I was totally clear of the sinus issues that had become quite chronic, a simple choice to change our diet and lifestyle can bring true and lasting changes to any ill condition we may have.
True, we cannot argue with our body. The body is very sensitive and when we listen it will give us the information about how we need to live in order to keep healthy and fit. Our body is the one who knows, not only our head, our eyes, our mouth, but the whole body including the amazing organ, our heart. Building a loving relationship with ourselves is key in living in health and vitality every day.
Listening to the body is simple, so why do we go into complications and ignore it? My sinuses were always affected by dairy, and yet I did not heed this warning for many years because I did not want to give up eating cheese. Nowadays cheese no longer has any appeal and I wonder what the fuss in my mind was about.
That’s very cool Anonymous. It seems pretty simple yet we resist eating for our bodies and instead often eat for our eyes and our emotions. Experimenting is an awesome way to get a feel for what does and doesn’t work, and also softens the blow when considering cutting something out for good. That way you have a marker to indicate what actually serves you better.
What you share is a truth that I can attest to, for the same happened for myself. It makes me wonder yet again how many illnesses are entirely from our food choices.
‘I can’t argue with my body’ a strong and simple statement and try as we might to go against what our body is telling us it never gives up on showing us what is supportive and loving and what is not.
Our bodies are a living science that we all should pay more attention to because it is always speaking to us, we just have to be open to hear its messages. After 12 years of attending Universal Medicine events I still have a way to go to fully understand my body so that I can feel the true messages it is sending me.
When we really listen to our bodies, that’s when we make true and loving choices. When I listen to my thoughts over my body, my body very quickly shows me that it wasn’t a loving and supportive choice. Its amazing how clearly and directly the body speaks. It’s just whether we listen or not.
‘I can’t argue with my body’ Our bodies are giving us such clear messages but are we willing to listen, you were and how simple can it be.
This is an amazing story of choosing to listen to the body above a predominately and strong held belief system that says, you must have dairy as part of a health diet and then feeling amazing as a result.
It’s so true anonymous, as much as the arrogance of our minds thinks it can we cannot argue with the truth that our body so clearly illustrates by way of the signs and symptoms and feelings it communicates to us all day every day.
I gave up dairy many years ago and a lot of my digestion issues and throat infections stopped… but now my body will do the same if I eat something just for comfort or as a treat….my nose will start running instantly.
Great point Anon! There is absolutely no arguing with our body . . . that is for sure . . . as no matter how much we love to indulge once the body has decided that is enough we can only continue to our own detriment.
I love the simplicity of this. Our bodies communicate with us so beautifully. Sadly, we often miss this communication. But how wonderful it feels when we listen.
Yes, the nutrition guidelines can lead to all manner of ill health! I also noticed a lot of phlegm and sinus problems after eating dairy, and changes to my menstrual cycle. One of the best things I did for my health was to give up dairy, as well as gluten which also caused a variety of very harmful symptoms. Whilst the nutritionists tell us what’s healthy I prefer to listen to my own body, as its every symptom is a communication about my choices, as is my good health.
What a great claiming within yourself Anonymous, to actually make the choice and stop eating dairy. Even if it took a little time to fully commit to it. Then to feel the benefits of this and having your ears clear up, this is so wonderful. Really listening to the body and what it wants can be a trial and error process, we are so used to ‘not’ listening, that we have to be super gentle with ourselves when we start to make these more loving and conscious choices. Because it is a big deal, one that our bodies will be forever grateful for.
“At first this was hard to accept as I had a long held belief that I need to have dairy in my diet to have a healthy diet but I can’t argue with my body.” Most people have this belief without actually looking at the symptoms one gets after eating dairy. It actually makes us ill and doesn’t support our body to have a healthy lifestyle.
Wow – an incredible story. … you are living proof of the power and the importance of listening to your body and not what your told.
I argued with my body for many years, thinking I knew what it wanted and even though at a deeper level I knew what I was feeding it was harmful I simply chose to override the messages. And so I lived with a blocked or runny nose, sore throats, sore ears, coughs and full on illnesses until one day I “woke up” to the realisation that I was in danger of killing myself with my blatant disregard of a body that is actually incredibly wise. That realisation and the subsequent choice to stop arguing with my body has paid off in a multitude of healing ways.
The evidence is clear when seen in the body. It highlights how we have made food far more about the taste, the comfort and the numbing fact it provides rather than the true nourishment and support it can offer us and our bodies
So true Joshua, these days the production of food is definitely all about the taste and how it looks, instead of what effect it actually has on the body; a body that is calling out loudly to be nourished and cared for, not dulled and harmed.
This is an amazing testimony of the power of the body and the ways it clearly tells us what works for us to consume and what doesn’t. Why then do we insist on choosing to listen to the mind at the risk of making ourselves unwell? It makes no sense.
It’s simple isn’t it? To be ill or not be ill? For me also, there is no argument, just the fact that I am ill if I eat dairy and well if I don’t.
‘ I was finally told that this was a condition I would have my whole life.’ This is something I have been told a few times about different health conditions, from doctors and other health professionals. This would probably be true if we left it up to them and satisfied ourselves with their prescriptive drugs or advice and did nothing else. It is only when we take full responsibility for our ills and become our own doctor,and health professional that we feel and see change. Getting to the root of our dis-ease is a journey that can unravel so much of what has inhibited our living a vital life and can show us that we are a lot more in control of our ‘conditions’ than we might have originally thought.
I agree with what you are sharing Anonymous as I also had chronic sinus problems for a long time, when I was finally put on steroids to help me I knew there had to be a different way. I gave up dairy products and a few months later all my sinus problems had cleared and I felt a lot better – listening to the body is key to true healing.
Our body is always talking to us but we so often ignore the messages and listen instead to what we are told by others. If we tread on a drawing pin, it hurts and we take care not to do it again; if we choose to stop eating a certain food and our health improves, why would we eat it again? We are our own research scientist and our body tells us what does not agree with us.
This should be shared with all ear, nose and throat doctors out there. What a great testimonial that by making other choices, in this case stop eating dairy, we can heal our own infections. Listening to our bodies, that is the only true way of living life.
“At first this was hard to accept as I had a long held belief that I need to have dairy in my diet to have a healthy diet but I can’t argue with my body. I have felt much healthier since choosing not to have dairy.” I never had chronic infections but since eliminating dairy I feel so much better. The myth that we need dairy to get calcium has now been disproved, and we can get it from other sources such as green leafy veg and sea weed.
The same happened to me. I had a chronic inflammation of my tonsils for about 20 years and 2-3 heavy flews per year which the doctors said is a condition that can not be cured. Since cutting out dairy from my diet 3 years ago I didn’t have a single flew and the chronic inflammation of the tonsils has ceased.
How timely is this… I have just eaten a handful of almonds and can feel my sinus is now heavy and congested, and my stomach is hurting. No, I am not going to argue with my body about this.
If doctors and nurses and all the medical profession truly embraced the truth that perhaps dairy is not good for the body in any way, they may have been more open to seeing the true cause behind your ear infections and not just simply overrode what the body is so clearly communicating with us.
The body is living truth, it remains steadfast in its loving communications. It never argues or waivers, but simply presents the irrefutable facts with ever increasing depth, length and intensity in its continual quest for balance and harmony. Its up to us to switch on, tune in and listen to its gentle broadcasts so its not necessary to increase the volume. We are open to a much greater, vaster connection when mind and body are ‘on the same wavelength.’
I can only agree – the body is the marker of truth and we can’t compromise with your body.
The only true proof of what supports our health and well-being is direct experience and hence absolute knowing presented by our bodies that cannot but tell the truth.
The body is a great marker for what’s true or not true for it. All you gotta do is just listen up to it… It’s pretty incredible how much difference not eating one thing can make!
So amazing how our bodies clearly communicate with us in this way and so often we dismiss it as we choose to override what we feel. What I love is that the moment we stop and truly listen to what our body presents their can be no denying the truth, and the choice becomes ours, do we choose to honour ourselves or choose to ignore this powerful ally we all naturally possess.
It really is amazing how much our bodies clearly communicate. It is all about re-learning to listen to what it is saying. We are so easily override what it is telling us with our mind. It likes to rule the show and be the boss, but the body being the marker of all truth is constantly sharing with us what our choices are. We just have to listen.
I love reading about how people cure their diagnosis of lifelong painful conditions through making loving food choices. I truly feel that food is one of our greatest medicines, not only what we choose to eat but equally important is what we choose not to eat. Diary has been sold to us as being healthy and very much needed to support a healthy diet. What we’ve been told and how we feel in our body simply doesn’t add up. So by listening to our body it will guide us to eating in a way that assist our body to heal, to be feeling vitality and even possibly freeing our body of any illnesses and diseases. Thank you for sharing this, it may inspire others to also listen to their body and treat it with love and care.
I too have ignored my body’s guiding signs for many, many years. I didn’t have any severe symptoms from eating dairy, gluten, sugar and drinking caffeinated tea. What I did notice was my mood would change according to what I had eaten. I used to get extremely tired and irritable. I was able to relate that to a meal or snack I had eaten but I would choose to dismiss the signs my body was giving me and I carried on eating this way for over 20 years. The impact these choices I made may have affected my delicate body in some way for sure. But 2 years ago I was extremely inspired to love my body and to appreciate how precious it is. I decided to cut out dairy, gluten, sugar and caffeinated tea. I wanted to see how I would feel, how my body would respond and the fact is by cutting out foods that makes me feel out of sorts is very loving choice. I am feeling so energized and vibrant. I would never again choose to disregard what my body is telling me. I am choosing to listen and make choices to support, heal and nourish it.
I love reading about how people cure their diagnosis of lifelong painful conditions through making loving food choices. I truly feel that food is one of our greatest medicines, not only what we choose to eat but equally important is what we choose not to eat. Diary has been sold to us as being healthy and very much needed to support a healthy diet. What we’ve been told and how we feel in our body simply doesn’t add up. So by listening to our body it will guide us to eating in a way that assist our body to heal, to be feeling vitality and even possibly freeing our body of any illnesses and diseases.
Such a powerful testimony that to listening to your body is what can heal many illnesses and diseases. I the past I would always love to eat things that tasted nice and would not really notice (or be honest about) how certain foods affected my body. Through Universal Medicine and its teachings and presentations about food I started to feel more of my body and focus less on the short pleasure in my mouth. I now love to feel the effects of only eating foods that truly support my whole body and make me feel vital and light even after having eaten them. This is the biggest ‘pleasure’ I can now have from food.
I agree Lieke. It is just simple common sense. Why would you put something into your body it does not truly need at all? If it’s just for the pleasure then it is no different to using a drug where the drug is used for the alleviation of the high
So true why do we argue with what our body very plainly and quite loudly is telling us. What is it that tells us not to pay any attention to our glorious body, its certainly not love.
Extraordinary proof that cannot be argued. An amazing sharing.
I argued with my body for many years – but my body always won the argument in one way or another! It told me for many years, through a whole raft of unpleasant symptoms, that dairy needed to be eliminated from my diet, but programmed from an early age that dairy was so important for us, I allowed the information to over ride the true impulse it was giving me. Not anymore; dairy has no place in my life, I don’t miss it, I am much healthier, and my body is delighted that it is gone forever. And there’s no more arguing!
It’s amazing that more health conditions aren’t directly linked to the choice of food in our diets. It just goes to show how ingrained certain beliefs are about the necessity of certain foods eg dairy for calcium. I can only speculate as to the reasons behind this, but there is no denying that there is a lot of money invested in keeping the general population ignorant about the true impact of certain foods on the body. What a difference it would make if we were all taught right from birth to listen to what our bodies are telling us about the foods we eat!
So simple and so true, our bodies are always telling us what they need but often we place more importance on our beliefs than the clear messages we are directly experiencing.
Wow! That really is a good reason to give up dairy. How is it that we have been advised to eat dairy for so long when it actually does so much harm to our bodies. Worse still is that our doctors have never realized the connection.
Proof our bodies never lie and indeed when we have such hard evidence as is true in your case we can no longer argue with the truth that is expressed. It is interesting what lies we allow our mind to tell us to be able to continue to eat something that our body so clearly can not tolerate.
Well that’s scientifically proven then… The body will show us what to eat and what not to eat if we are willing to adjust our diet according to our body.
What a strong testimonial for the wisdom our bodies carry. We cannot deny any longer that the conditions our body shows is actual a healing process in order te clear what not belongs in it. This can be either relate with food, but we also have to consider our behaviour and our thoughts, the way we move and so on. Everything we do has an effect on the body and can either harm or heal.
Wow… So can’t argue with that, that’s amazing
Yes, this so true. Body knows best.
I love that such a simple change had such a profound impact on your health. This re-writes all that we have been educated about a ‘balanced and healthy diet’. For this education undermines what our body is showing us is true for us to eat, or not eat, on a daily basis.
A proof of the fact that human body does not need dairy products. One cannot find any clearer evidence than this.
Wow thats such an awesome testimonial of how damaging certain foods can be and how listening to your body brought you a true answer.
Gosh this is completely incredible about your ear condition returning to normal upon omitting dairy from your diet. It’s as if listening to your body (with more than just your ear!), that your body communicated back to you in affirmation with the restoration of your hearing. Miraculous. And wonderful to feel the body’s intelligence and beauty of when we pay attention to this.
My ears were greatly improved too when I eliminated dairy from my diet!
I find it amazing when I am willing to be open to the possibility that life does not have or need to be a certain way – that if I make different choices maybe I can find ways that will change my live beyond measure. It is a miracle that is available to us all. It was lovely to read your blog and how by this one decision you have been able to reverse the seemingly irreversible diagnosis.
That makes perfect sense Anon. I am so surprised that diet was never considered in your treatments as I have always felt the effect of dairy on my ears. I too continued to eat dairy because of the dietary guidelines regarding bone strength and also because I had a love affair with cheese, but my bones have osteoporosis, so that is not true! Since I removed dairy from my diet, replacing comfort with more loving self-care especially in my diet, I feel so much better and no longer get head colds and my ears are much clearer.
Wow, this testament is a clear indicator of how much the medical world is not ‘seeing’.
Why is it that something so simple can be over looked or missed. Something as simple as a dietary change.
As you say Natashha, why does the medical world overlook such simple facts that are lived and known by many. Could it be that all the investments society has in, for this case, the dairy industry, makes it impossible for them to choose, for these simple facts are actually against the huge interests which are at play, because of these investments?
I do agree with that Doug. The comfort that diary brings to humanity is huge and it dulls our physical bodies in such a way that we ar unable to feel the delicacy it is made of and can bring to the world. Saying that also means to me that it is not about changing our diet form a choice made from our mind, but that only a true choice can be made, for in this case to remove diary from our diet, when we connect to this delicacy that our body is first, from where we can make the true choice, based on that what we have felt from our body as valued to precious to deprive ourselves and the world from it.
A simple, clear and obvious message from your body that when you listened changed everything. I have come to realise that my body has been talking to me my whole life and that I was never listening, constantly doing whatever I wanted without any regard poor understanding the impact these choices where having on me. Now that I do listen I am able to make choices that support me and my body and from doing this my health and wellbeing have changed enormously.
The wish to eat comes more from inside, in my life today. In the past, the wish to eat came from outside, from thoughts about eating, from seeing food etc. I can say I was owned by certain foods. How crazy, that I’m owned by something that makes me sick! How evil! And we think it’s about wanting milk. There’s more to this!
That’s amazing that stopping dairy can stop a life long condition. I wonder how many other people out there with sinus issues or IBS may be able to change their conditions by stopping dairy. And it’s crazy that there is such a belief that you must have dairy. Since stopping dairy 7years ago I have felt way better, the greatest thing I notice, even beyond not feeling sticky in my mouth and throat is that I am less emotional, and lest often eat for emotional comfort. Because I would always eat chocolate and ice cream for comfort or a treat but it would always make me want more and often leave me feeling worse plus the physical effects.
Thank you for sharing your situation as I am sure that many others have not made the connection with ear infections and dairy before.
No anonymous, none of us can argue with the truth and wisdom that our body expresses and shows us everyday.
In the last few years I have learned not to override anymore the fact that we cannot argue with the body and learn to eat for my whole being (including my body). This led to renouncing to many things that simply did not really suit me (where is it written that we should be able to eat anything that is available?). The difference in how I feel in my body because I chose to eat for me as a being is astronomical. I would never go back.
Thank you emfeldman, I agree that when we feel from our whole body, we can eat from the way our body reacts to different foods. Astronomically speaking, my body has taken off with a new lease on life, thanks to the inspiration of Serge Benhayon.
“At first this was hard to accept as I had a long held belief that I need to have dairy in my diet to have a healthy diet but I can’t argue with my body.” This brought to my mind a discussion I was involved in some time ago, when the issue of dairy in our diets became an emotional one for some. It is interesting how the ‘myth’ of dairy has seeped into culture and even through there are so many research papers explaining that it can actually impact on the body and create ill health, the ‘myth’ continues to run. Even within government. This is why it is so important to get to know how our bodies feel when we eat and not over ride our feelings.
All I have to say to this is WOW! This is awesome, but also very concerning, that the medical profession isn’t able to make the link to dairy. This is an important story to share.
Thank you for sharing this short outstanding testimonial about dairy and the affects on our body. I recently studied Diet and Nutrition advisor and I read a revelation – “the body has its own intelligence”.
I first heard that from Serge Benhayon many years ago and could not agree more. Our bodies reject certain foods and it is a clear signal that something is not right.
I like to keep things super simple, so I always say I am not a baby cow and there is no other animal on this planet that drinks another animals milk, so why do we?
The milk industry is huge and many many ailments could be avoided if dairy was taken out of our diet. There is mounting evidence and research to confirm this.
Above all there are people like you and me who are living science that a dairy free diet does support our body.
Universal Medicine are leaders in the field of what the intelligence of the body is revealing to us as a human race. They are well worth studying.
Simple and to the point fact – your body doesn’t like dairy! I was the same, no doctor was able to figure out what was going on in my body, but I removed dairy and gluten and everything changed within several months. Yours is a classic case of try it and see what the body feels – proving than we can trust our bodies completely to let us know exactly what is going on. Thank you for sharing this so simply.
It’s really great to experiment with foods, it can be a trial and error process to find out what the culprit is, but it’s very worth it. Dairy is a problem for a lot of people and if you look closely at it, it does seem like an odd food for the human body. I was lactose intolerant by my late teens, but I also found in my body a link between dairy and a runny nose or a phlegm filled chest. In adulthood when I later reintroduced low lactose cheese I noticed a lot of disruption in my menstrual cycle, once I eliminated cheese it went back to normal. I’m sure it’s perfect for calves!
For a long time I knew dairy affected me detrimentally, and so would exclude it from my diet ‘most’ of the time. It is only in the last eight or so years, since ongoingly developing self love that it has been easier to categorically say no to dairy and other foods that clearly harm my body.
It is so true ‘I can’t argue with my body’ either. I have spent many years wondering if what my body was telling me about dairy was true. I would feel bloated, sleepy and lethargic after eating it. Now that I no longer consume dairy, I can feel the difference and I know it was true. I feel more vital than ever and wouldn’t change it for a thing.
Wow! Another testament to the old adage ‘listen to your body’!!