Eternal Cheesecake

What simple, everyday foods will actually clear your head? And why?

Well, two that I’ve noticed are garlic and popcorn. Yeah, really. I know, I know! It doesn’t make sense, but bear with me!

With garlic, it has the effect of mopping up the gut, re-balancing the good intestinal bacteria, and making digestion quick, snappy, and happy. I am literally jumping out of bed in the morning because my gut and head feel so good.

With popcorn, the roughage acts like a broom moving out the gut crud. That’s a scientific term, by the way. Any mental fatigue just… goes away and I’m naturally alert and quick.

So what does this have to do with cognition? It turns out that there is a direct relationship between the brain’s ability to function clearly and the functioning of the gut. Slow gut, slow mind. Don’t believe me? Try it out for yourself. However, I’ll let you in on some tips that I’ve learned that will make the difference more pronounced. If you try it half-assed, then you’ll be more likely to go, “pfft!”, and write me off as a flake.

With garlic, you need to eat it as a raw clove two hours after the last meal. Yes, it tastes something fierce, and it burns, but it is a natural antibiotic, and gets into all the crevices that harbor parasites, fungus, and yeast. It helps to rebalance the good bacteria in the gut. Do this once a night for two weeks and notice how dramatically better you feel every morning. (I am basing this off of Mikhail Tombak’s powerful cleansing work in “Can We Live 150 Years?“)

With popcorn, have it 2 – 3 hours after eating so as to give your digestive system some room. I keep my popcorn simple and light and yet super tasty with just melted coconut oil, nutritional yeast (so tasty!), and some Himalayan salt.

Ever get blindsided by a friend or person, blink a couple times, and think, “what the bleep just happened here?!?” after they’re gone?

A once revered friend came over to drop something off, but it turned quickly into Cult Recruitment 101 for an upscale “health drink” multi-level marketing scheme. She wanted me to join, and out came the bully tactics of insults, comparisons, and speculative judgment. It was a rapid one-two-three punch.

Oof!

Wasn’t expecting that from someone I trusted. But since I’ve done a similar type of recruitment when I was in my spiritual cult, I could see the identification with the group, the lack of listening without an agenda, the threat that questioning creates. In my instance, it was an escapism-based agenda. In her instance it’s a greed-based agenda. Doesn’t matter the root cause. Same dirty playbook.

There’s nothing that can be said to someone who’s in a cult. Nothing. Don’t even bother. Why? Because they get too much out of it. They think you’re the loser for not being in it, and the longer they’re in their cult, the the more they absorb clever positions to counter anything that questions The Way Things Are.

Now my job is to not get sucked into the abusive verbal recruitment drive should I meet this friend again and just love her where she’s at. I now admire the few remaining friends who did that for me when I was in my cult and waited me out. It’s a little sticky as she’s a sometimes client of mine, but we’ll see. Wish me luck.