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Here's a piece of an email I sent out today regarding my "stomach status"--
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It's been an interesting 24 hours!

The good news is that now that I cleaned out/cleared out and switched to fruit and dairy, things have made a real positive turn... Yesterday, I experienced my body being completely empty (as the Smooth Move tea did its thing)--empty and at rest. The PD symptoms disappeared last night and have so far today. Remember, the people I'm working with consider this illness to be Rebellious Qi in the Stomach Channel. Makes sense that when I emptied (quieted) the channel the symptoms disappeared.

Today, I've stuck with only fruit and dairy products (goat's milk yogurt, goat's milk cheese and cottage cheese and kefir). I've been eating small amounts every hour so--really small portions. I feel great! I feel virtually symptom free. Eating so often on such a restricted diet is weird, but it seems to be working. And I'm certainly not getting constipated--everything seems to be on an in and out accelerated schedule. I've eaten apples, bananas, papaya, and pear. I've been drinking some juices mixed with kefir. I had one small serving of tapioca pudding (it's the only thing that has processed sugar and egg whites in it). The goat's milk yogurt also contains some tapioca as a thickener.

Energy levels seem extraordinarily elevated over previous months. I did my laundry, paid my bills, visited the storage locker, slept a little, and did my morning exercises and walk. I'll take it despite the strange path of getting here. Good to see a light at the end of the tunnel. May this peaceful day become my reality...
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I'm posting this before all the "data is in" on today's experience. I'll come back and update if anything extraordinary happens (beyond what's already happened)...