I am a 58-y-o female. I no longer have the svelte figure I possessed when I was in my twenties (who does?). However, along with having slightly wider girth, I have issues/problems that I hope nobody else on this Forum has. When I was only 38, for no medically-known reason (like, I never smoked cigarettes or used drugs — ever), I had two massive cerebral hemorrhages that left me in a wheelchair wearing Depends in a nursing home.
(I know, gross!) Fortunately, I re-learned how to walk again, eat solid food and ditch the adult nappies, so I was able to come home to my husband and children. But my left arm and hand have been paralyzed to this day despite much outpatient physical therapy, and I’ve not been able to exercise vigorously at all (jog, race-walk, roller blade, swim, work an elliptical machine, etc.). I take so many Dr.-prescribed and OTC medications that I am perpetually constipated and cannot “use the loo” as nature intended without nightly laxative pills.
Sorry about the verbose buildup…I guess I’m just wondering, what can any variety of diet do for me? Lo-carb, low sugar, vegetarian, vegan, high fiber or even eating dog food is not going to heal my stroke-affected body that suffers not only from paralysis, but also chronic constipation, chronic insomnia, depression and hormone deficiency (I had to have a total abdominal hysterectomy in 2015). What’s the point of being on a diet when one’s body is that broken? Like Dorothy famously lamented to the Wizard of Oz, “I don’t think there’s anything in that little black bag for me.” Can the Cro-Magnon Diet fix one as broken as me? Or is the purpose of the diet more than just restoring optimal human health?