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Growing Up with a Broken Body<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ever since I was a kid, I felt like I lived in a broken body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Dad, stop the car! I need to puke!”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All I can remember from numerous car trips growing up was the feeling of queasiness as I sat in the backseat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was also puzzled by the fact that I can’t seem to be able to digest the same food that everyone in my family eats \u2014 because every couple of weeks, I’d be running to the bathroom after a meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone else is ok but me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I emerge from the bathroom, I’d be drained and weak. Leaving me scared and worried about eating the next meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living with chronic dizziness and chronic diarrhoea created a level of anxiety that I didn’t even know I had until I was 38. My chronic health conditions fused anxiety deep into my identity and my brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What if I need to go to the toilet and there’s none around?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mind developed a radar for toilets. Everywhere I go, I’d be scouring for them just in case<\/em> I need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d also constantly worry about any form of transportation I have to use, because I never know how long it takes before I start getting that nauseous feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could be anywhere between 15 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the conditions of travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In trying to circumvent this inevitability, I had to make sure I sat in the front seat of cars, buses, trains and planes as best as I possibly can. I’d also furiously rub peppermint ointment on my temples, forehead, under my nose, neck and stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The smell of peppermint makes me feel like I can last longer without puking, but it doesn’t get rid of the nausea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I enjoy seeing different places, I hated travelling. It was never fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t remember a long trip where I didn’t puke or get queasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing I can do is cross my fingers and hope I don’t puke when I get on any kind of transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My condition also wasn’t just “motion sickness”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queasiness would come on randomly for no apparent reason. Especially, if the space I’m in feels stuffy. Once nausea happens, my day is completely ruined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned to always have peppermint ointment or mint stick on me \u2014 I never leave the house without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My brain goes into panic mode the moment I realise I don’t have it. When that happens, I had to calm myself down and hope that my body will stay normal while I was out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I became a teenager, I also suffered from chronic debilitating period pain. One day every month, you’ll find me either sitting or lying in bed for the whole day looking miserable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standing up was impossible without bending over with a heat pack over my stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d feel like a useless human whenever queasiness or period pain strikes, and I can only wait until it passes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going to work was out of the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried everything to fix it \u2014 took pain killers, went on the pill, and drank a bunch of Chinese herbal medicine that tasted disgusting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The worst part about living with chronic illness is that no one can help me \u2014 not my parents nor the medical community. I felt alone, trapped in a body that I cannot understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believed there was no cure for my chronic health conditions. All I could do was learn to live with these conditions for the rest of my life, and accept it for what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Straw That Broke The Camel’s Back<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The chronic stress my body was under was exacerbated by my constant need to achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My work ethic became my badge of honour \u2014 I outworked my team mates in basketball, I outworked my classmates learning Japanese at university, and I worked 80-100 hour weeks for years learning about business and building businesses online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worked my ass off trying to get everything I ever wanted only to realise it wasn\u2019t me who wanted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried so hard to avoid becoming someone until I looked in the mirror and saw them staring back at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got the wake up call I needed when my life fell to pieces in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything I was and had done up to that point sent me down the dark hole of suicidal depression for the next few years when I realised just how lost I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 3.5 decades of stress and anxiety my body had to process meant it could no longer regulate itself. The years of depression probably also accelerated the eventual malfunction I found myself in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late 2017, I found myself at the heaviest I’ve ever been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suffered from insomnia \u2014 It was the first time in my life that I couldn’t get any quality sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I woke up tired every morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn’t think due to brain fog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn’t do anything because I simply had no energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My legs felt like lead as I dragged my body around the house doing simple things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, the way I was living my life \u2014 in complete misalignment to how I’m designed to operate \u2014 inevitably led to adrenal fatigue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the universe gives you wake up calls, you pick up the phone and listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was only then, that I started to learn my lessons and began to change my ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Health Protocols That Changed My Life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I began to learn to take better care of my body in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because I never enjoyed cooking, I was a lazy and lousy cook. I have always opted for convenience and eating “whatever is easy” until my life stopped being easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to get myself to eat better, I reframed cooking as a self care skill I needed in order to stop lamenting about my inability to cook, my dislike to spend time in the kitchen and the effort it takes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I eventually regained my health and energy by putting better food into my body, discovering WildFit<\/a>, learning about nutrition and eating consciously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I learned to eat a clean diet, the first major change took me by surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since my mid-20s, I developed strange sun rashes and I didn’t know why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever my skin was directly exposed to the sun, tiny red bumps would appear and it would itch for at least a week and annoy the hell out of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slowly, the sun became an enemy when I connected the dots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started resenting the fact that I couldn’t enjoy the beach or doing outdoor activities the same way I used to anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I finally realised the sun rash has healed when my flat mate pointed out to me that I got sun burnt after I had spent a day out with a friend in December 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of getting sun burnt became impossible when sun rashes started showing up, until it happened for the first time in over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sun<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That day, I totally forgot about my pre-existing condition since my skin didn’t itch at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing I’ve been doing differently up to that point was changing my diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s when I realised the importance of nutrition<\/strong> and the power of eating the right human diet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn’t believe that food alone could make such drastic changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By being more conscious about what I put into my body, I also lost the excess fat I was carrying and even went back to my high school weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Body<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other weird symptoms I experienced over the years (dry patches of skin, yucky-looking thumb nail, sore left thumb, rosacea-like skin issue on my face) went away when I cleaned up my diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My period pain also diminished drastically and became shorter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then in 2019, I discovered the Medical Medium<\/a> when my sister told me about Anthony William.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After listening to his podcast, and reading his book Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal<\/a>, everything about my understanding of health finally started to make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I committed to the morning routine of drinking celery juice<\/a> followed by the heavy metals detox smoothie that helped others heal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 3 months later, I felt a level of calm in my body that I’ve never felt before. It was only then that I realised I had been living with anxiety all my life because it was a part of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasn’t even aware I had anxiety until it was finally gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, more miracles followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew my chronic dizziness has healed when I realised I sat at the back of the bus without feeling anxious and nauseous. I also realised I was finally able to look down at my phone in a moving car without feeling queasy at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll never forget my sister’s reaction when she saw me eat a full meal on the plane for the very first time when I went to Bali with her on Christmas Day in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“OMG! You’re eating!!!”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was even laughing and enjoying conversations with the crew in the back of the plane, when I normally would have preferred people to leave me alone in my seat, because I’d be miserable and sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever I travelled in the past, I could only drink clear liquids (mainly water and apple juice). If I attempted to eat anything, I had to make sure a sick bag was within reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Christmas day was the first time I was able to enjoy travelling like a normal human being, and I was grateful that I could share that with my sister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chronic diarrhoea also went away. I was no longer running to the toilet for no apparent reason (unless I knew I over consumed on food with dairy in it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when I do have diarrhoea occasionally, I’m not suffering from 2-3 hours of cramps before I could actually go. I also no longer feel drained and weak afterwards, and able to get back to whatever I was doing before instead of needing to rest my body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn’t be happier with the changes I saw with my own eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of all, I no longer needed to suffer in the body I was born in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living a Quality Life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When you change what you put into your body, your body chemistry change, your sensitivities change and your experiences change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s amazing to finally live in a functioning body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m still experimenting, improving and optimising my health because “getting healthy” isn’t something you do for 4 weeks, stop and say “That’s it, I’m done”<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health is an infinite game<\/a>. The goal is to stay healthy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I’m not a Health expert, I have tried a bunch of solutions over the decades. I also believed in a lot of misleading information in the health industry for a long time until I found the truth for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WildFit<\/a> and Medical Medium<\/a> philosophies are the life-changing principles I’ve found that has helped me go from where I was to where I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also learned to take ownership and responsibility for my own body, and stopped looking for other people to “come and save me”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re also looking for lasting change in your health and wellbeing (more energy, better sleep, release excess weight, improved focus, feel vibrant, heal from chronic illness, prevent disease, boost immunity), I think the WildFit<\/a> and Medical Medium<\/a> principles can help you do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over time, I’ve developed my own systems and processes in order to make the work in the kitchen more efficient for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to know how I’ve integrated the Medical Medium protocols into my life, I’ve shared my processes below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n