Banana Island Detox Experiment
While I’m still off work I think it’s a good idea to see what benefits I can gain from a mono fruit diet. I’m giving up on the water/liquid fasting for now until my blood work returns. I don’t want to set the duration in stone, because I don’t know how my body will react or what to expect, but for now I plan to experiment with eating only bananas (solid/blended) from AM to dinner time when I’ll have a medium sized salad. Water intake will be around 2-3L a day.
My hope is that this method will help curb my food cravings while giving my digestive system a nice detox. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about brain fog. How horrible my mental clarity was while flaring, on prednisone, after consuming sugar/wheat, dealing with bad digestion/malabsorption and just how long I have been functioning this way even prior to UC. If the studies about the gut-brain connection hold validity and that my cells aren’t getting adequate nutrition is accurate, I really want to start focusing on detoxing and repairing those systems in my body before returning to my daily routines of work and study.
