A Recovery Blog

This blog is about my continuing recovery from severe mental illness and addiction. I celebrate this recovery by continuing to write, by sharing my music and artwork and by exploring Buddhist and 12 Step ideas and concepts. I claim that the yin/yang symbol is representative of all of us because I have found that even in the midst of acute psychosis there is still sense, method and even a kind of balance. We are more resilient than we think. We can cross beyond the edge of the sane world and return to tell the tale. A deeper kind of balance takes hold when we get honest, when we reach out for help, when we tell our stories.

Sunday, May 3, 2026

Vegan Diets Are The Healthiest Diets; Animal Fat Is Poisonous To Our Bodies

I found out that I had diabetes about ten years ago. I believe I got it from taking Abilify, an antipsychotic medication. My insurance company even warned me of it after the fact. I went looking online for treatments that I could use at home. I found a book by Dr. Joel Fuhrman called Eat To Live. He asserted that switching to a vegan diet is the way to get out of diabetic range. I decided to commit to a totally vegan diet. My A1C was at 11 and within four and a half months I had lost 20 lbs without limiting what I ate or counting calories or exercising. My A1C went down to about 7. Because I wasn't eating any cholesterol my cholesterol numbers went down. Unfortunately I didn't stick with it to the point where my A1C went up to 15, which is dangerously high. And so I tried again with a vegan diet and again I lost 20 lbs and my A1C went down to 7 in five months.

With diabetes, animal fat stays within the cells blocking and clogging the receptors sites for the insulin to get into the cell. Without the animal fat, the insulin can feed the cell properly. Also, no cholesterol, which is the cause for so many health problems like heart disease, heart attacks and strokes. For addicts going into recovery, a vegan diet can give you much healthy support.

Try to watch a documentary called Plant Pure Nation. I have seen it on Amazon Prime, but you might be able to link to it through YouTube. I highly recommend buying their cookbook, also called Plant Pure Nation. You can get it on Amazon - book, $13.48 and on Kindle, $7.99 This is the cookbook I have been focusing on and many of the recipes are very good.

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