Day 28 of My 40 Day Fast: Why Women Need to Stay Home

I am not a brainwashed woman trying to take the rest of us back to the dark ages. I know how the title sounds, but there is a deeper meaning behind it.

I have been on a spiritual journey for several years, which first began as a healing journey to fix a severe gut disease. I spent years poring over academic journal articles, books, and listening to talks on gut health. Through my research, I believe that women have the ability to remove disease from the bloodline. I lay it all out in the post below.

A woman should absolutely learn to be self-reliant before having children. Life is unpredictable, and we never really know where it will take us.

Women have the power to remove disease from the bloodline, and it is our responsibility to remove and keep disease away from the bloodline. Before we have children, we must first heal ourselves completely. This process teaches us how to eat, and how to feed our family to ensure their health. The health of the family is our duty. It is also our duty to pass this knowledge to our children to ensure disease never enters the bloodline in the future. We are responsible for producing healthy, well-adjusted humans and releasing them into the world. We are responsible for the health of society.

The Lancet published a comprehensive worldwide report that said over 95 percent of the world’s population has health problems, with over a third having more than five ailments. As the population is expected to grow, these numbers are expected to rise.

The staggering numbers indicating the population’s ill-health is due to modern diet and lifestyle. Two person income households are common, which has effectively put the role of cooking into the hands of the food industry. We live in an age where delivery services proliferate. The streets are lined with restaurants, fast food chains, and food trucks. Grocery stores have dedicated large sections to prepared ready to-go meals.

Takeout food creates a lot of unnecessary garbage that ends up in landfills. If every household is eating takeout, and not conscious of the waste it's creating, we pass these habits onto our children.

Families opting for commercially prepared foods, like frozen pizzas, instead of homemade meals in the home is a common theme. Home cooked meals take time to prepare, cook, and clean up afterwards. Two people working outside of the home leaves little time for healthy meals.

Learning how to cook in a manner that is disease preventative is a process that one has to go through before starting a family, and there is a lot to learn. It requires learning which foods are actually healthy, and turning them into a tasty well-rounded meal.

There is a process to food prepping, such as breaking down anti-nutrients in plant foods so that the body is better able to absorb their nutrients. Fermented foods are necessary for health, and if raw unpasteurized fermented vegetables are not readily available, then we need to prepare our own.

There is an over reliance on oil and butter in cooking, and we need to relearn how to cook using very little.

Sourcing healthy food takes time. Organic fruits and vegetables are better for the soil in terms of preserving the nutrients within it, which means more nutrients in the crops it yields. The only way to make organic foods affordable is to purchase it so that we create a demand. Those of us who are able to purchase it should.

Commercial meat and dairy comes from unhealthy animals who are fed a diet of soy and corn, which is not their natural diet, in order to fatten them up. They live in cramped unhealthy stressful conditions. The chickens are cooped up in cages. The cows are injected with hormones so they give milk year round rather than when they get pregnant. The products that come out of this industry are not healthy, and not good enough for our bodies.

Soy is bad for women’s hormone health, and I know this from experience. If you want to protect your hormone health, don’t eat meat that’s full of soy.

Sourcing good meat and dairy is difficult, but the more we buy low quality meat and dairy the more we demand it and change won't happen. These are sacrifices that must be made for our children and future generations. Barring affordability, resistance to making these choices comes from simply not wanting to change, and that's just rooted in selfishness.

Raising healthy well-adjusted humans isn’t just about diet, it’s a lifestyle. Healing is also about healing one’s mental and emotional state. There are a lot of people having children who are not mentally and emotionally well, and this comes through in their relationships. We have to do inner work so that we can pass on how to do that to our children.

Dr. Emeran Meyer writes in his book, The Mind-Gut Connection, that the number of adverse events an individual experiences within the first 18 years of their life, the likelihood of medical conditions, mental health issues, and addictions increases. Part of his practice includes exploring his patient’s first 18 years of life. Adverse experiences typically occur in the family home, such as abuse, tragic loss of a parent, divorce, and fights and arguments between parents.

Raising healthy well-adjusted children is to raise them in a safe environment, which for the most part parents try to create. This requires the couple to have done the healing and inner work before getting into a serious commitment, and not everyone does. Dr. Meyer notes that even stresses during pregnancy can cause medical issues to an individual later in life.

Pregnancy is a spiritual experience and should be treated as such. For the duration of pregnancy a mother needs to eat for her health in order to keep her baby in the best possible environment. It is imperative that the mother keep the peace within her, and stay away from people and situations that may threaten her peace. It’s best to apply self-control when experiencing unhealthy pregnancy cravings for the benefit of the baby.

If a woman is experiencing gestational diabetes during pregnancy that is an indication that her gut is not in optimal health. Heal the body before having children.

A pregnant woman can’t control her environment, and stressful events may occur. This is why learning how to heal yourself is important in order to be able to cope with outside stresses and to teach our children how to heal.

Factors such as low-socio economic conditions can cause stress within the family home. It definitely did in my family, which created tension and conflict. I can say with certainty that it doesn't matter what the external conditions are as long as children grow up feeling safe and secure, and it’s up to the parents to provide that environment.

Ridding the bloodline of disease and ensuring the health of the family is our responsibility. We control what our family eats, not the children and not our spouse. We provide a healthy healing environment in the home for our family.

The wellbeing of society is in our hands, and that’s not a small thing. We forgot how important our role is in society, and began viewing what men do as more important. We went out to make that so-called bag. Men have forgotten themselves along the way too, they have placed power and status over their duty to family. But I want women to see that our duty was never trivial, we just forgot our power. Knowing your power, that you're protecting your bloodline and ensuring the health of society, is fulfilling.

*Update* I have had some thoughts since posting this, which I wrote about and posted below.