Diet and the ANS
The same diet is not for everyone.
What determines why one person
may get miraculous results with
a particular diet and another person’s health would deteriorate
following exactly the same diet?
The answer is in the state of the
ANS. That is what determines what
foods are best digested, and what
foods best balance the autonomic
state of the person. For example,
a sympathetic dominant type is
the person who tends to have slow
digestion and is
on the acidic
side. They
do better
with more
p l a n t
foods that
are easy
to digest,
and should
go easy on
meats, particularly fatty red meats. Rich foods
should also be avoided. Conversely,
the parasympathetic person would
do well with more meat in the diet.
Their digestive systems are also
more efficient. They tend to be more
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on the alkaline side.
Working
to
balance the
ANS individualizes the treatment protocol.
Eating with conscious
awareness to balance the ANS is
the goal. Eating deficient processed
foods cannot bring about balance
because of the stress they bring to
the digestive system and particularly the pancreas. Processed foods
also do not contain the nutrients the
body needs to thrive. Consuming
refined sugar products and commercial wheat foods that spike one’s
insulin levels can only produce imbalance in the ANS. High fructose corn
syrup is the main source of calories
to the average American. Besides
being produced from GMO corn,
this “food” is a shocker to the ANS.
Along with the physical ramifications
of consuming these items, there
are proven connections to diet and
behavior and the state of the ANS
and behavior.