amino acids//pyramid

[Guest guest]

Thanks Marie and Bianca and all. I've decided to resume low dose 5HTP (its

already helped with the cravings today) while finding raw local (VA) unheated

honey to arrive via mail and while bone broth simmering today. My dog has

figured out that simmering day means she gets bones and she is sitting three

feet from the stove barking her head (and my ears) off. : ) My friend Toni

says thanks as well. Marie's tips helped her as well.

Correction on my info to on the Tom Cowan pyramid. He actually called

his a Medicine Pyramid and the bottom layer was 1/3 soulwork/movement and 2/3

food. The 2/3 food was in thirds as well, 1/3 animal products, 1/3 fruits and

veggies, and 1/3 sprouted and soaked grains. The fruits and veggies were

subdivided into 1/3's as well: 1/3 raw, 1/3 cooked, and 1/3 lacto-fermented.

And this is just the base of the thing! My notes get really complicated from

there and hopefully Tom will supply us with his version one day instead of my

scribbles of what I think he said. The higher layers talk of things that

help when one's health is already compromised such as extracts, herbs,

supplements, sea salt, and dare I give it away.., drugs. The highest level,

the peak, is the thing medically you would use least often: surgery,

artificial parts, organ transplants. I thought it was a thoughtful

presentation and I hope we see it in wise traditions one day.

A food strategy he came up with went over well for the overwhelmed (me): try

to make your meal plates look food distributed as above for each meal. Then

you don't have to think as much. You wouldn't have to balance throughout a

day or over days and weeks. It is a good way to get started if you are so

inundated with info you become paralyzed and choose to not eat at all or go

back to chinese take out.

Elly