hey guys welcome back to my channel your
virtual ticket to Japan today I'm doing
a short introduction on health in Japan
and I've been wanting you to do this for
a long time but I didn't know which
direction I was gonna take it and this
is going to be called the glow-up
Diaries Japan Edition and it's not gonna
be directly related to Japan it's going
to be directly related to healing the
body healing the mind and everything
like that so as you guys know and may
know on Instagram I have been posting
about my allergies and my body issues of
everything my stomach problems so I've
been the past couple weeks the reason
why I haven't uploaded in the past week
and a half or so is because I was going
to doctors like every single time I had
off getting as much information as
possible I read two books in like a week
and I figure it out it's a lot about my
body
sorry if I sound stuffy I ate something
I was allergic to and now my body is
just inflamed right now so the reason
why we're here today is because I wanted
to talk about you know my history with
doctors and what I found out and what
I'm going to be doing going forward
first of all I am NOT a doctor so if you
are having some issues or similar issues
like me I think it's a good idea to go
see a doctor or a naturopath or somebody
that can help you heal because everybody
is different everybody heals differently
which is why I'm gonna be doing a lot of
trial-and-error type stuff to figure out
what my body needs and going through a
lot of specialists and things like that
so I not only created the series because
I wanted to do a health series I also
created this series because I wanted to
keep myself on track and I wanted to
continue learning no matter where you
are in the world I think this will you
know help or resonate with other people
so I'm hoping that I can you know give
some encouragement to people that are
struggling with this kind of thing this
is gonna be kind of TMI but I think a
lot of people struggle with this I have
a lot of gut issues a lot of gut
problems especially you know since March
this year I was struggling a lot and I
didn't know why I've been to doctor a
doctor and
Japan the system the medical system is
so different that it doesn't always work
for people a lot of people here ago
misdiagnosed I have had my handful of
experiences where I was misdiagnosed
with a lot of things especially
pneumonia so a little bit about my
history when I started when I moved to
Japan I was so excited I wanted to eat
everything so Japan has a huge food
culture they love food and so do I so
there's a lot of local places there's a
lot of chain restaurants there's a lot
of sweets and desserts and things that
you just you know you go crazy for and
when I moved here I wanted to eat like
all the sugar and all the rice and you
know all the carbs
Japan is carb-heavy culture they also
eat a balanced diet as their own
lifestyle here but when you're a
foreigner and you're moving here you
want to just go to town so when I moved
here I was eating so much sugar I was
eating till I was bloated and full and
sick early 20s I was going out with all
my friends and drinking karaoke you know
Japan is a huge drinking culture too so
I was drinking a lot of plum wine and
red wine and whiskey and all that stuff
so I was just enjoying I was having the
time of my life for the first like three
years when I was in Japan and then as
things progressed I you know started to
get more sick as a teacher you know
you're teaching kids you're getting all
their germs and stuff so I started to
get a lot of sinus infections I was
getting a lot of sicknesses every other
month and because I was getting sick all
the time I was constantly going to
doctors a lot of doctors didn't know how
to treat me because medicine in japan is
much weaker than in the states so they
would give me strong medicine or they
would just hand me antibiotic you pop in
and they're like oh I'll give you this
antibiotic so I kept taking antibiotics
and surprisingly I was taking the same
antibiotic every time I got sick
wherever I went the doctor was like this
is a general antibiotic for everything
which is kind of weird because I feel
like you know every sickness is a little
different so you want to kind of
diagnose it correctly and take the
correct medicine but I was desperate to
get better because as a teacher you want
to get back to work immediately there's
a lot of pressure as a teacher to get
back to work immediately so
I just took whatever they gave me and I
went back to work after years and years
of antibiotic therapy didn't really stop
to think that oh it could be allergies
so as some of you know know I'm allergic
to soy and egg now as of this year and I
was never allergic to soy before so that
was really strange I used to be lactose
intolerant and I used to be allergic to
shellfish and peanuts I'm still allergic
to peanuts I'm not allergic to shellfish
or fish anymore but I developed an
allergy to eggs and soy which I eat all
the time and I didn't know if I was
allergic to it but I think I was for a
very long time and didn't know it so a
girl on YouTube that I came across that
she had the same thing with dairy she
was getting sinus infections all the
time antibiotics antibiotics antibiotics
and then she found out that she was
allergic to dairy she's cut dairy out of
her diet she had no more science
infections same with me so I did a
little test a while ago I tried to eat
soy again to see what would happen and I
ate natto I ate fish with soy sauce I
had rice I had all that stuff that I
normally would eat and I got so sick to
the point where I felt like I had a
cactus in my throat my nose was so
stuffed and I couldn't breathe I lost my
voice again like I usually do when I get
an infection and I got sick and then I
stopped eating soy I stopped eating eggs
that didn't come back this year I
haven't had a sinus infection I had
bronchitis once but I was also eating
things that I was allergic to so I was
I'm still you know having a hard time
avoiding that kind of stuff so that is
something that I really really want to
work on now because it's making me sick
so I got another allergy task recently
and that allergy test came out positive
for tomatoes I was fine with tomatoes
two months ago so it's very strange to
me things that came up positive was
avocado banana and hazelnuts it's also
very low allergen and it might not even
be accurate because allergy tests are
only fifty percent accurate but I know
that I'm allergic to Tomatoes because
every time I eat them I feel pain in my
body I get weight stuff on my tongue I
have a swollen throat swollen tongue
watery eyes I do not feel good I'm
feeling bloated and sick and bad and
depressed so I know that if I eat
things I'm allergic to it that being
said I'm continuous I'm continuing to be
allergic to more and more things which
is very odd to me and I don't feel like
myself I haven't felt like myself this
whole year this is something that's very
serious for me so I tried to get as much
help as possible I'm scared I was scared
because I had a lot of problems with
doctors in the past here in Japan the
problem with living in Japan is people
that want to get diagnosed with
something and wanted english-speaking
doctor were very very limited there's
only a few doctors in Tokyo that can
help you whereas if I were in the States
I could try many many different doctors
and maybe I can find the right one or I
can go to a naturopath which is
non-existent here in Japan at least an
English one and you want someone that
speaks English your first language so
you can express your problems and not
get misdiagnosed with anything I've been
misdiagnosed a few times in Japan the
first time I had pneumonia I was
misdiagnosed which is horrible I went to
the hospital they told me I had an
asthma attack I did not have an asthma
attack I had pneumonia I went to an
American clinic that did not take health
insurance and most of the good doctors
here do not take health insurance there
private clinics so I went to that clinic
and he took my blood and said you have
mycoplasma pneumoniae but it's at its
tail end and the doctors misdiagnosed me
twice I was livid first of all because
the fact that pneumonia was misdiagnosed
is the scariest thing that you could
ever go through I was traumatized by you
know regular Japanese hospitals because
they didn't seem to care they just gave
me steroids and said hey you have asthma
attack you don't have an asthma attack
for two months of being sick so I was
confused by that every time I went to
get a get some cold medicine they would
say here's some antibiotics so I took so
many antibiotics and it's all started in
March when I started to get white stuff
on my tongue I was feeling sick it was
around the time when I first met Yuji so
I was having so many problems my nose
has been stuffed for months it has never
cleared and it's very scary because you
know all of these all this inflammation
is just eating in my body so I've had a
lot of you know miscommunication with
here it's it's definitely difficult but
if you're really sick it's good to go to
a clinic that knows about you know
American healthcare or European health
care and that's what the Tokyo surgical
and medical clinic is so finally I found
a really good doctor does not take
health insurance but I did not care
because my health is very important so I
asked her all of my I told her all my
problems she knew everything about SIBO
which is small intestinal bacterial
overgrowth she knew about leaky gut she
knew about IBS all that stuff so we did
testing for TMI stool tests because TMI
I have a lot of constipation and pain
like I said before and she told me that
she wanted to do a stool test I got
blood testing done I got an endoscopy
done everything seems to be normal the
only thing that she's concerned on is my
constipation and SIBO so SIBO is my next
test that I'm gonna be taking next week
I'm excited to get that because that's
the last thing that I can rule out and
she said if it's not that then it could
be inflammation chronic inflammation
from antibiotic therapy or chronic
inflammation from stress as well so
stress and you know toxic medicines and
you know all that stuff could be
affecting me greatly in the long term if
that's the case the only thing that you
can really do to maintain it is diet and
she's also very concerned with the
amount of allergies that I have and
developed so quickly so because of that
it's inflammation of the gut your gut is
like your second brain so basically if
your gut is off you are off which I have
been I've been very depressed Moody I
haven't felt good I don't feel like
myself
I lost my creativity and my inspiration
and it's getting worse and worse every
day
so my plan for this series is to get
back on track and I like I said I've
researched I've read two books already
and I've contact so many people so my
plan is to go to a dietician or
nutritionist homeopathy but there's a
doctor here that's not a natural path
but it's
homeopathy and she just creates remedies
for your body to heal to reduce symptoms
and inflammation so I feel like talking
to her is a good idea and kinesiology
and EFT meditation or Reiki meditation
so it's all about healing at the mind
and the body and the gut and it's so
interesting to me all of this stuff that
I didn't know before and I wish I had
known and the first thing that I really
really want to do is an elimination diet
so an elimination diet is where you cut
out all the things like grains dairy soy
which I can't eat anyway the only thing
I wish I could eat is eggs because that
is something that you should keep in
your diet but all of those things are
cut out of your diet for a certain
amount of time so like three weeks and
then you start to add things back into
your diet gradually and if you have a
reaction then you wait three days and
then go back again and try it again so
you try to reintroduce foods into your
system like as if you are a baby so that
is what I'm going to be trying to do and
I'm researching right now I have another
book that I'm reading about inflammation
leaky gut
IBS all that stuff so and then I'll be
going to a nutritionist to talk about my
symptoms I'm going to be keeping a food
journal I'm going to do some simple
cooking for your gut health and I think
I want to show you guys what that's all
about
and show you guys what I do on a daily
basis to get healthy also I some of you
guys know I suffer from anxiety I have
gi D which is generalized anxiety
disorder and mild depression so because
of that I really want to heal my mind as
well so I have a couple programs and I'm
following now there's one program that's
online and then the other program I will
be following is with my kinesiologist so
that kinesiology appointment is starting
next week as well so I hope that I can
heal I know that I can heal I firmly
believe that I can reverse allergies
which is very possible as there are a
lot of studies especially one recent
study in Spain about how allergies
develop and it's all about the missing
bacteria in your gut or overgrowth of
bad bacteria in your gut and
inflammation so basically when your gut
leaking which is what they say it's like
a symptom of whatever you have all of
the good stuff just kind of leaks out
whenever you eat it so I have a feeling
that this is gonna take maybe one or two
years but I don't want to suffer like
this anymore I know that it's possible
to live good
so no sugar for me for a very long time
that is my goal for this series and I'm
excited because it's not gonna be
perfect I'm gonna make mistakes there
for the things that you're going to be
seeing in this on this channel is my
experience with homeopathy I hope I'm
saying that right
kinesiology my SIBO testing cooking for
your gut meditation anxiety tips and
tricks like I said I'm not a doctor but
these are my experiences and tips that
you could try to see if they work and if
they don't then you should definitely
make sure you do things that are good
for yourself cleaning out organizing how
I plan my day how I plan my video with
how I plan my meals everything like this
is just gonna be a very general
lifestyle based series in Japan so I
will be showing you some really good
vegetables that Japan has that you can
eat for your gut if you live in this
country I will be showing you what it's
like to meditate in Japan and places to
relax and things to do to relax here in
this country just out of curiosity for
you guys back home and then hopefully
you'll be able to find similar things
where you're from as well I have the
best fiance in the world because he
looked at me he's like I can't wait to
see the results he agrees with all his
meditation and all the you know
spiritualism and all the diet behind
this whole thing
that is what we're going to be doing
this series and I hope you guys will
enjoy it I appreciate the tips and the
help but I don't want to get too
confused with everything so I'm going to
be doing things my way for my own body
and based on what my doctors say so I
hope you guys understand that but I do
appreciate all your comments and if you
guys do have any stories that you would
like to share a lot of you have sent me
your stories with allergies one girl was
allergic to everything and then she
ended up coming healthy and able to eat
everything I really appreciate that
message a lot I know now that I'm not
one that's having this issue so and I
can see that this girl has overcome it
so I know that it's possible anyway I
hope this was a good introduction to the
series the next video is going to be
sort of like a day in the life of how I
organized everything meal plan my
results of my tests and all that stuff
so I hope you guys will enjoy that and
then I'll also be doing a cleaning
organizing video in Japan so this is
going to be the lifestyle slash health
series glow-up Diaries japan edition
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