Change in diet puts her health back on right track
“One night I was having one of those mental fits where I felt like I couldn’t focus. Everything was just pounding into me at once. Sometimes my emotions will attack me for no reason. And I kept wondering, do I have anxiety disorder?
“When I realized I had developed all these side effects from taking my seizure medicine, I started freaking out. I told my mom that I wanted to go to the doctor and see if we could find something else to take. Because I felt this was a source for my anxiety and depression. I felt like I was going crazy for the longest time.
“When my chiropractor said that the C part of my spine was pressing against my brain stem, I thought, could that be the source of my seizures? So she got me adjusted, and I stopped having as many fits.
“But there were still parts of me that weren’t being fixed. That’s when she decided to do lab work to see if it was something deeper. That’s when we found out that I was pre-diabetic. I didn’t develop it, but I was getting really close. So she put me on the paleo diet, which they call the caveman diet. Basically, you eat what our ancestors ate. You try to cut out artificial things, processed foods, as much as you can. And it helped me heal a lot.”
— Angel Martin
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