Celery juice and autoimmune things

This will likely be long. Stick with me if you can, or scroll to the bottom for the TL; DR.

I shared a little on my Instagram Stories this morning about how I've been using celery juice for the past two months, and wanted to elaborate in a newsletter so I could share directly about this.

At the end of 2017, my friend/fellow BIRTHFIT Regional Director/fellow Beautycounter Consultant Molly sent me an article. I have no idea when I did, but after reading it, I knew I'd read it before. I remember finding it interesting, that I'd learned about Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) in my Immunology class, but couldn't remember the finer points of the disease, and that whenever I'd read about this originally, it had been something I'd mentally back-burnered.

When Molly shared this with me, my interest was piqued. She shared that it was helping her mom with her own Lupus outside of treatments her doctors had given her. But I was also up to my eyeballs in Regional Director interviews and in the middle of the holiday season. The article was absurdly long, especially for our click-bait, character-limited, social media-driven world. And most of the foods listed were things I was intentionally already eating, except I had never juiced celery. So this time I was more intrigued, but still back-burnered the idea.

Then I watched the documentary Heal, and this Medical Medium guy was in it. I'm not going to link it because it was really not that good and I can sum up the documentary in one sentence that covers all you need to know: every single *incurable* disease has been cured - at least once. Childhood diseases, terminal cancer, autoimmunity, etc., even paralyzation, have all been completely reversed and healed, no matter how poor the diagnosis.

(You can watch the documentary, but it was almost two hours long; and despite having some major heavy-hitters like Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, and Anthony William (aka Medical Medium), it didn't flow well and had a choppy story line to go with the snippets of gold interspersed. Another take-home point: the things that all of those who had overcome diseases had in common. That's worth taking a look. And now I've saved you two hours of your life; I hope you use it well.)

Once again, the idea of EBV was intriguing, but I back-burnered it because it seemed a little daunting to look into an entirely new field of study.

Another friend had access to some really great discounted books and asked if there was anything I had my eye on. I asked for the Medical Medium book about 11 months ago and got the ebook.

You'd think by this point in the newsletter, I'd have come to the conclusion that I actually did the research, got my ass onto the couch to read the book, and hence started writing you this. But I haven't even cracked the book (is it still called "cracking open" a book if you have the digital version?).

The point of all of this back story is that I think I'm not alone in putting things off until I can sink my teeth in. I think we often want to research, investigate, gather information and opinions, and deliberate before we go whole-hog. I know I do: especially because I'm an all-in sort of person.

But every once in a while, I need to half-ass my way through the preparation part so I can whole-ass my way through the doing. I followed Medical Medium on Instagram, read a post of his about celery juice, and got a juicer on Craigslist for $20.

So here's the thing: if you're going to half-ass preparation, at least make sure you're not going all-in on something that might cost you a lot (I'm talking high-risk, costly, or dangerous endeavors). If your friend asks if you want to try a new yoga class with her, what's the worst that can happen? You could injure yourself, but that's unlikely. You're out the $20 it cost you to go. Pretty low risk. If your cousin asks if you'd like to dive into a "business opportunity" with him that will only cost you $5K and he's yet to demonstrate any business savvy, that's a pretty high risk. And you're likely out $5K.

My point is: half-ass your way through the preparation for an invitation to yoga, but whole-ass your way through the preparation for an investment. That's because the *RISK* of the investment likely outweighs the benefit, and the *COST* is high.

When applying these basic principles of economics to celery juice (you thought I just went off my rocker for a minute, but we're back, folks), you can get a juicer for pretty cheap. Celery is incredibly cheap. And the risk: I have more vegetable juice in my system.

(I can't believe you're still reading.)

So I finally came to the conclusion that there was almost no risk to my jumping into daily morning celery juice, and the benefits have been incredible!

In addition to some deep dive soul work that I've been doing (again, very low risk to do personal investigation and meditate (read this book if you're into some weird shit that is really awesome)), I've started juicing celery every morning before I eat or drink anything else. I've had less Lupus rashes, my blepharitis is cleared up entirely, and I feel amazing.

I did have two migraines within a week in November - shortly after I'd started - which was pretty abnormal for me at this point in my health journey, but neither of them had me planning my funeral. That sounds really morbid and dramatic, but that's how I scale my migraines. They go from mild nuisance to disruptive to debilitating, and then there are ones that actually will inevitably cause me to legitimately think I'm dying because nothing could feel worse. The two migraines I had ranged from nuisance to disruptive. And because they were so close together, I think they may have been closer to a detox migraine (you can't see me, but I'm shrugging).

So there you have it. You read all of this to find out:

TL; DR: celery juice apparently works. And there's not much risk in trying it. Drink it in the morning before ingesting anything else. Medical Medium recommends 16 oz. I usually do 8-16 depending on how big of a cup or mug I choose.

If you try it, I'd recommend giving it at least a month of consistency. And then let me know how it goes.

Much love,
Lindsay