ME/CFS Recovery - How Diet Might Help (With Mary Ruddick, Internationally Acclaimed Nutritionist)

[@RaelanAgle]

TIMESTAMPS
 00:00 Intro 00:46 Meet Mary Ruddick 04:19 Mary’s counterintuitive approach to empowering people with chronic illness 06:30 Mary’s history with severe chronic health issues and what enabled her full recovery 11:41 How Mary's diet and nutrition protocols have helped people with ME/CFS and long COVID 14:41 Different dietary approaches that work for people with me/cfs or long covid 18:09 What is the GAPS Diet and who can it help 23:38 Mary’s current research on pre-colonial diets 30:00 How to follow Mary's work and learn more

[@vintage_violet]

Thank you ladies, this really inspired me to rethink my diet's role in CFS. Like SO MANY of us I've tried "every" diet and usually felt worse not better and the STRESS from strict diets was too much to add into my already exhausted life. Sometimes I'd feel a boost right away but soon enough it got worse and would have to stop. I have recently realized though I have a major issue with Oxalates so that was maybe why some of the diets would fail (especially as i'm someone who would leap into a new diet cold-turkey and probably experienced Oxalate "dumping" etc). I'm very willing to figure this out and I lean Carnivore already so I'm definitely going to seek out more info with Mary's sites. XO

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

How are you doing now?

[@bridgetannkeating4248]

Fabulous.... This does work...

[@vinnies5615]

I'm excited you got to chat to Mary! She's a font of fascinating info. I've watched masses of her interviews and have learned something new with every single one. Thanks for seeking her out!

[@RaelanAgle]

Thank you, Vinnie! 💓💓

[@IridescentJen]

fascinating, thank you raelan & mary! i've gone through many lifestyles and diets even before i became ill (raw vegan to carnivore and everything in between). i have no idea what box i fit into re: illness source, am wondering how one figures that out without going through the medical gauntlet again. i spent 7 years bouncing from dr to dr but in hawaii our medical is *very* uninformed and the dx i have are limited. i stopped the medical madness a few years ago for my own mental health. very excited to learn more about mary's research!

[@CarisaRealtor]

She's the best! ❤🎉

[@alexandrecouture2462]

Amazing interview, thank you!

[@susanbloemhof4391]

Thank you Raelan and Mary 🙏

[@RaelanAgle]

💓💓💓

[@gillianshannon_]

Thank you Raelan, great episode. Can I ask what part of the tropics you were in and for how long. Xxx

[@RaelanAgle]

Glad you liked it, Gillian! I was living in a few different countries in Southeast Asia for 8.5 years :)

[@fatfullday]

This was do good! Question. Does anyone know why you would develop really bad dandruff on carnivore a year in? only in the winter but my scalp will feel so dry and so flaky!

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

Did you ever figure this out?

[@forisma]

It's so difficult to listen to this sound, it's muffled :(( what a shame. But I'll definitely be checking her out because I need to get my diet back on track. I know what a good diet does. It really improves how I feel. I only cannot ever seem to be able to do it long enough 😌

[@RaelanAgle]

I've just ordered a new mic (yet again!) and am tweaking the software settings ... thanks for pointing this out and for your patience :)

[@lenavoyles526]

I went from barely ill to severely ill by following GAPS as laid out in McBride's book for 2+ years. GAPS replaces glucose with fructose. Fructose cannot be digested in the gut and must be processed by the liver, which stresses the liver and can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver. Before GAPS, I could eat anything. Post-GAPS, I react to honey as though I were allergic and have lost the ability to tolerate fiber. I would never recommend to someone who has CFS or dysautonomia to just follow the GAPS that is presented in McBride's book. My experience has been that the microbiome is not the starting point or primary target for dysautonomia/CFS - it's the nervous system. The poor stressed out gut is just reacting to the malfunctioning nervous system.

[@demolaj1]

belissimo ! both of you

[@melissapowell5592]

Hi Raelan, could you do a video comparing the brain retraining programs? There are several to choose from, and I'm curious how they are similar and different. It would be helpful to be able to compare them and decide which one fits the best in our individual situations.

[@RaelanAgle]

Great suggestion! Thanks I will work on this :)

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

Did you find a good program?

[@misscharmaineX]

I’m abit confused; so for those of us who are high histamine, low oxalate what should we be eating? A more practical example would be helpful. You go onto her website and there’s different packages to buy but how do you know what you need?

[@RaelanAgle]

Great question! I see a lot of questions have emerged from this video, so Mary and I have a follow up Q&A video to address these planned for the new year 😊

[@lenavoyles526]

Also, for the sake of clarity, deuterium is not an element. It is an isotope of hydrogen.

[@DlcdrummerProSniper]

in the video she says GAPS diet works well for long covid and then says after that carnivore had the best results with post viral. Just wanted to know for long covid which would be a better option? ive personnaly felt relief from brain fog with keto and even more with carnivore.

[@RaelanAgle]

Great question, we've got a Q & A follow up video coming soon and will address as many of these questions as we can :)

[@emmacarolan1010]

Wondering the same thing re long covid, looking forward to next interview, so interesting!

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

Which one did you go with? How are you doing now?

[@DlcdrummerProSniper]

@@tanyawieczorek6603 keto helped at a time. never actually did full carnivore since i cooked in oil. pretty much just stritct keto. did better on the low histamine diet for a while. starting about 6 months ago i have been able to eat almost everything except strawberries and papaya and sometimes watermelon. for some reason i reacted to seedless watermelon 5 times ive tried it but last week tried seeded watermelon and ate half the watermelon no problem. these days doing better for sure but lifes still hard. maybe a few more years will do it. goodluck to yourself.

[@danielleroberts9772]

Angels 🥰

[@brookgraves368]

It was too short, I think?

[@Star5dg]

On your website you say "Polysaccharides were key for me to becoming autoimmune disease-free" which Polysaccharides aloe vera or maitake as i assume since you have EDS you followed cusack protocol? She is also talking about westen a price diet and eating specific to your region and environment. Im from scotland so thats oats, herring, dairy, root veg etc.

[@RaelanAgle]

Great question! I see a lot of questions have emerged from this video, so Mary and I have a follow up Q&A video to address these planned for the new year 😊

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

How are you doing now?

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

God those ads are awful. I'm trying to listen to this lying quietly and with the audio quality being low the volume has to be turned up, then those ads blare me into the stratosphere.. please consider turning them off. The 12 hour black screen sleep video creators turn theirs off, so I know its possible!

[@TayteR72]

That’s how they make money All this is to make money

[@forisma]

I checked out her approach and it makes me suspicious and uncomfortable. She says a lot of unproven unscientific stuff, also making weird claims about super humans and the best health. And definitely pushining her carnivore leaning agenda, there seems to be no balance to it. I'm wary of such people. It's a no for me..

[@Star5dg]

She has done some of the same stuff ive done Brownstein iodine protocol, westen a price diet and Polysaccharides ( which i assume is aloe vera or maitake as they are the key Polysaccharides for EDS on the cusack protocol. Im still ill though lol

[@nikch1]

She is carnivore diet propagandist, do NOT listen to her, people in the Long Covid community already spotted the scams she is pushing! DO NOT MAKE YOUR HEALTH WORSE. This is all incorrect.

[@stickeroonie]

A lot of people heal through Carnivore. I don't think it's an ideology as much as it actually works.

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

​@@Star5dg how are you doing now?

[@TayteR72]

It’s just money $$

[@ladymuck2]

It sounds like someone has an upset tummy.

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

What? Who?