Ever notice that when you feel bad you don't necessarily eat the good foods? You may find yourself craving chocolate, ice cream, sweet foods, or even fast foods....the comfort foods. That's because your brain needs fuel to fight the pain, inflammation, or fatigue your body is dealing with. But, what it needs and what we give it are two different things. When we don't feel good, we want something to comfort us and that tends to be the "bad foods" that actually promote more inflammation in the body and provoke more of your symptoms.
Eating foods such as dairy, foods with high preservatives, high in sugar, are all essentially like pouring gasoline on a fire. These are all "inflammatory" promoting foods. So the correct thing to do is to eat foods that are more in their natural state like fruits, vegetables, lean meats, especially wild caught fish, which is an omega 3 source that is an "anti-inflammatory" food.
Drinking plenty of water also helps to flush the body of toxins that accumulate with inflammation. But the key is, sip throughout the day, don't chug water all at once.
Lastly, low blood sugar often follow eating fast food, high sugar foods like sweets. These drops in blood sugar leave you feeling fatigued and your body deficient in the ability to repair on a cellular level, neurological level, and soft tissue level. So I often recommend for people to not skip breakfast and to eat some combination of carbohydrates and protein every 2.5 hours. Protein builds muscle, and helps fuel the body longer than just eating carbohydrates alone (for example, yogurt, bread, cereal, etc.) are not enough to sustain you.
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