How David Wolfe Got Me Knocked Up
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
A few years ago about 4 now I was looking for ways to improve my health. I have PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) and it has been a lifelong battle of weight and hormones issues for me. So just after I turned 36 I wanted to really start making a difference in my life. I had been to all the Reproductive Endocrinologists when I had gotten pregnant with the twins and their solutions were all kinds of drugs that made me feel ill and not myself. I decided I would find another way thank you.
I started researching food. I knew that after my bout with depression after the isolation of having the twins in their little bubble for their protection that diet was part of my issue. And when we were in the Navy we had the money to go completely organic. It was awesome. I knew how well my body responded to that, so I decided that was the path to go.
Enter David Wolfe
That was when I discovered David. Oh my gosh, I was researching youtube for videos on how to get healthier and I found a video from David Wolfe. I was in love, with his message that is. I went through all the videos I could find. I devoured his words like medicine for my long known truths which others had called me crazy for. Every few moments there was another aha moment. These were the answers I was seeking
I had it bad. I was bugging everyone and telling them they all had to hear what he had to say. And David Wolfe was not the only person that I was listening to at the end of it. David was like a gate way drug into all the really hard core raw foodist out there. I started learning all sorts of things from the likes of Kevin Giovanni, Daniel Vitalis, Penny Shelton, and Matt Monarch and his now lovely wife Angela Stokes-Monarch.
I went high-raw for a total of about 6 months and during that time there were a couple of months where I was completely raw. Now let me tell you that detoxing your body is not always easy, I will tell you that releasing all those toxins out and getting nourishment in there for the first time in years in an amazing experience.
During this time a family tragedy struck and we sort of fell back into many of our old patterns and the need for comfort eating took over. However we kept many of the new foods as well and also kept the superfoods and herbs that made us feel so amazing. I knew that I needed maca to help regulate my hormones. So I kept it. I actually like to add it to a little hot chocolate concoction we like to make with raw cacao powder.
Well since I had cleaned out my diet and had lost a few pounds and gotten my hormones leveled out my body thought we were doing some amazing things. My body decided that I needed to have another baby. Yep surprise late pregnancy at 37. Are you crazy? Apparently so.
Now I am going to tell you right now that David himself did not do the knocking up. I want to make that point clear. But the teachings that he shared changed mine and my husband’s health. We were not supposed to be able to make any more babies. Our odds were supposed to be harder than getting struck by lightning and winning the lottery all in the same day. Yet after taking a pregnancy test three times in late January and early February 2010 it was official. I was definitely pregnant.
And It Was All Thanks To David Wolfe
But that is another story to tell another day. The fact remains that you can change your health with nothing more than changing the food you take in everyday. And I am so very grateful to David for teaching me that and leading me to other teachers that had a message just for me. You have brought me one of the most amazing gifts and helped to make my family truly complete by adding one more bundle of joy that needed to be here. Thank you David Wolfe for your courage and grace to tell the world about what you have learned along your journey.
May You Find The Truths To The Path You Are On,