How I Gave Up Cheese and Healed My Body
I gave up cheese years ago.
The cheese was the hardest one for me to give up.
The book by Neal Barnard “The Cheese Trap”, explains so well why cheese is addictive.
Highly recommend this book.
https://amzn.to/3DMRRbD
My first recommendation for anyone who wants to step onto a healing path would be to give up all dairy products, including cheese, and also give up all gluten. Your body will begin to heal rapidly.
I gave up cheese the last when I was going vegan.
I kept coming back to it here and there.
Especially at my friends’ gatherings and dinner parties. I was no longer eating any animal products but still nibbling on cheese here and there.
I was raised on cottage cheese for breakfast, which was layered with sour cream, and sprinkled with white sugar on top. It was delicious though :)
Then my mom worked in a milk factory.
Everyone born in USSR and post-USSR countries know this absolute favorite sweet treat “sirki v shokoldnoj glazyri” or sweet vanilla cheese dipped in chocolate.
So my mom would bring these treats that were sort of not in ideal shape due to an occasional machine malfunction. They could not be sold but they were fresh and she would bring them home like by the bags! No jokes. I would eat them with a spoon, like a cake.
At 13 yo I got my first sinusitis infection. I had to take antibiotics.
It wasn’t getting any better.
At 15 I had my mucus draining procedures. 2 times. It was horrible!
I was almost losing my hearing as mucus was everywhere in my nasal cavities, causing pressure and infection spreading all over.
I was getting sick all the time.
I had low energy when I was in my early 20’.s.
As a result of taking so many antibiotics which ruined my immune system, I had knee arthritis at 24.
I was on monthly antibiotics until I found yoga at the age of 25.
Thanks to my yoga teacher who would always talk about going vegan in every class, I finally made the switch.
And when I finally gave up all dairy, I gave up all pills within a year too. Zero antibiotics since then.
Checkout last two slides for plant-based sources of calcium as recommended by the @hminutritionschool
