Just how much can diet effect the way we are ?

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The following charts how I went from being the most spectacularly average student to a first class student through simple  diet changes.  I begin this tale with a sample report remark from my French teacher:

‘Philip generally sets himself very low targets, which he often fails to achieve’.

Kudos for that comment sir, I did not know you had it in you. I have no issue with that report, it was one of many similar comments from the time.  I was regarded as a typical lazy teenage boy, clever but lazy.  I had plenty of friends and by and large this contributed to the idea that I was just lazy.

I grew up with quite severe IBS, at a time when nothing was really known about IBS and nothing could be done.  Diet was also a subject in its infancy so it was no surprise that when I reported that I had digestive problems to my Doctor that nothing ever really happened.

College

School came and went, and I left with grades befitting a lazy teenage boy.  I’d been to an excellent school and failed to advantage.  Next came real life, I worked in hotels for a few years before deciding to go back into education.  I went to college and returned to my comfort zone, of average grades.

IBS was still a huge problem and my diet was pretty terrible when I look back, halfway through a course I decided I didn’t want to go on and as this fulfilled my ‘waster’ profile no one batted an eye.  So having completed one average year, so that if I ever wanted to go back I could, life carried on.  The IBS was still awful so I went to see the Doctor again and whilst waiting for a blood test got talking to a nurse.  It is no exaggeration to say the conversation with that nurse changed my life.

Wonderful Nurse

Unlike the Doctor she had time to listen to me, and quickly realised there was a problem with my diet, I was in my early twenties by this point.  The suggestions she made (cutting out wheat and dairy to start) had such a profound effect so quickly that from that point on things changed.

I went back to college, and got top grades across the board, then off to University.  At uni I gained a First Class Honours Degree and did so with straight firsts in my finals.  All of this happened because of a simple change of diet.  My moods went, my energy arose and I started to finally live up to my potential.

Freedom

This lead to some of the greatest times of my life, it was like a butterfly leaving its cocoon, I get a big grin on my face just thinking about it.  Since that time I have crammed in so much that I now feel like a very lucky guy indeed, but the crazy thing is I could have missed out on all that if it wasn’t for that nurse ‘Mrs Driver’.

I dread to think about all the stuff I’d of missed if I hadn’t made those changes.  My life continues to not disappoint.   Diet can be spectacularly powerful, my academic record is there as a statement of fact, without knowing about the dietary changes you would find the difference in my results as inexplicable.  How does an average Mr Lazy turn into a straight A student ?

Changing diet will not have such a profound effect on everyone, I write this blog to make that point that you must not diminish it’s importance, for some a simple look at what you consume could change your life.

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