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The Weekend Essay My Perfect Health
Taylor Pauli Friday 19:17
Diabetes and Obesity: Top Researchers Reveal How Microbes "Skyrocket" Your Blood Sugar
I had always been a large child, a large teenager, a large adult. I’ve struggled with binge eating disorder. I have yo-yo dieted my entire life. I have also had polycystic ovarian syndrome which causes insulin resistance, which can make it very, very hard for my system to regulate my own blood sugar. I was at the end of my tether!
Hi I'm Taylor. I stopped dating a long time ago from lack of confidence, refusing to believe that anyone would be attracted to my obese figure.
I did lose some weight at one point, by lots of working out and rigid dieting, but I felt awful the whole time and so tired and depressed. During the pandemic I started gaining it back. No matter what I was doing my weight started creeping back up and I felt so sick. I went and had a lot of blood tests, and it came back that I had pre-type 2 diabetes and I’d given myself metabolic syndrome with the extreme dieting, so the options, for me, were desperate. I tried two drugs Metformin and Wegovy but they made me feel so ill and just awful. I was contemplating going into huge debt to get reduction surgery....
But then a miracle happened
The breakthrough happened completely by chance when I heard my niece talking about a lady called Meghan See on the talk-show Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith explaining a simple food ritual that she had used to lose so much weight and transform her life to become a National Academy of Sports Medicine Trainer.
Long story short, I was lucky enough to get a consultation with Meghan who told me about the researchers at the Stanford University Microbiome Therapies Initiative who had inspired her journey. I had never heard of the microbiome, lean bacteria or fat bacteria, but she explained how it was the key to so many health issues in the modern world.
Her story has been featured all over the world, in print media and online, about how she invented a bizzare home recipe and ate it every morning....
Her simple remedy transformed my life. After the first few days I had zero food cravings, zero hunger, and it was like someone had literally turned a switch in my head and all of the binging, everything, from that moment stopped, and here I am a year later, my body completely transformed. I haven’t had a single binge eating episode since the week that I started.
At one point, I thought it was just about how much weight that I could lose. Now it’s about looking forward to everyday things like going out to nice restaurants, really enjoying my food, shopping for great clothes that show off my figure and I have so much more energy.
My confidence is now boundless, I’ve started dancing again and have already met a fantastic guy, maybe “the one”. Yeah, things are really great.
I feel so lucky that I heard about this simple method, and I know there are thousands of others that feel the same.
To hear more about Meghans incredible story and get the recipe yourself, I urge you to watch the video - you won't regret it
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