Not a vegetarian, but recently (a couple of months) I had to eat much more vegetables and fruits than I usually do, due to digestion and other related issues. No more pure meat/steak for me, only a little of bird, for at least half a year, and then the prospect is still unclear. The journey included sleeping with an open window for a week or so, then I had to adjust my gut biome using antibiotics (non-systemic). Now I feel much better than right after the switch, but sometimes I just want to eat meat. One time that brought me to a clinic, but nothing serious as it turned out. From that experience, I’d suggest to not do it abruptly if you’re ~aged, as it shocks the system.
As for animals themselves, I feel sad for them when I think about it, but my escape valve is the fact that nature doesn’t feel for them either. Free animals are rarely happy things. They are infected with all sorts of parasites, live in constant fear of being eaten alive by predators or beaten/injured by competition, are always hungry because x’=rx(1-x), have no way to clean themselves up or access the medicine. Being a herbivore animal just sucks by design by human standards.
I had to adjust my gut biome using antibiotics (non-systemic).
Overuse of antibiotics is not a good thing. If you want to gradually reduce antibiotics then I would recommend adding curd, natural yogurt, buttermilk and home made butter(a by-product of making buttermilk) to your diet. Curd and buttermilk can be made at home so that also reduces cost. I would recommend home made, because the ones available in the market are mostly made with milk powder instead of fresh milk.
Also try to eat nuts like almond, cashew, groundnuts, wet dates and raisin soaked in water. Keep a handful of these mixed in a bowl of water at night and eat it the next morning.
Also increase the portion of non-leafy vegetables(compared to leafy vegetables) in the diet and stop eating bakery products.
And don't eat uncooked vegetables in the name of salad.
And, during excretion prefer squatting instead of default commode style.
And finally, do pranayam(yoga) every morning; helps a lot with both mental and gut well-being.
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Not a vegetarian, but recently (a couple of months) I had to eat much more vegetables and fruits than I usually do, due to digestion and other related issues. No more pure meat/steak for me, only a little of bird, for at least half a year, and then the prospect is still unclear. The journey included sleeping with an open window for a week or so, then I had to adjust my gut biome using antibiotics (non-systemic). Now I feel much better than right after the switch, but sometimes I just want to eat meat. One time that brought me to a clinic, but nothing serious as it turned out. From that experience, I’d suggest to not do it abruptly if you’re ~aged, as it shocks the system.
As for animals themselves, I feel sad for them when I think about it, but my escape valve is the fact that nature doesn’t feel for them either. Free animals are rarely happy things. They are infected with all sorts of parasites, live in constant fear of being eaten alive by predators or beaten/injured by competition, are always hungry because x’=rx(1-x), have no way to clean themselves up or access the medicine. Being a herbivore animal just sucks by design by human standards.
Overuse of antibiotics is not a good thing. If you want to gradually reduce antibiotics then I would recommend adding curd, natural yogurt, buttermilk and home made butter(a by-product of making buttermilk) to your diet. Curd and buttermilk can be made at home so that also reduces cost. I would recommend home made, because the ones available in the market are mostly made with milk powder instead of fresh milk.
Also try to eat nuts like almond, cashew, groundnuts, wet dates and raisin soaked in water. Keep a handful of these mixed in a bowl of water at night and eat it the next morning.
Also increase the portion of non-leafy vegetables(compared to leafy vegetables) in the diet and stop eating bakery products.
And don't eat uncooked vegetables in the name of salad.
And, during excretion prefer squatting instead of default commode style.
And finally, do pranayam(yoga) every morning; helps a lot with both mental and gut well-being.
Thanks for these advices! I wasn’t overusing, it was a short-term prescription from my clinic, and it did its job pretty well.