It's What You Eat

This machine... It's a computer which controls the pumping of the heart. And it's run by batteries, so I look like I'm a bionic person. You can't live for very long without it. I had a major heart attack. In fact, I had a number of heart attacks. 2013 it happened, in April 2013, on my daughter's birthday. She had donuts for dinner in the hospital, shame. It was so isolating. I felt as if I was in this little bed, and I couldn't see trees and I couldn't do anything except look at all the lights, and all the people and all the machines. First of all they started giving me anti-depressant drugs. They told me I was depressed, and I didn't know I was depressed. So they told me I had to have anti-depressant drugs. So I got anti-depressant drugs. Then I wasn't sleeping because of the noises and all the light. So I couldn't sleep. So next thing they put me onto sleeping tablets. So now you've got to wean yourself off them. Oh my goodness, no, it's not easy. It felt like months and months that I sat in that room. But I did start noticing a lot of things. I started noticing that people were coming in very lethargically walking. The patients, well you can understand them. But the visitors, the nurses and some of the doctors, very lethargic. And then I noticed the food they were eating. They were eating these cream cakes, and they were eating fried fish and chips, and they were eating, eating, eating. And I thought, this is wrong. How the hell is anybody going to be OK if they are eating that rubbish? That actually turned me around in a lot of ways because I then realised, you've got to know your gut. You've got to know your body. And I don't think a lot of people do. There is a whole big link between the gut microbes and the brain. All the good microbes are helping us with our relationships, our emotions. They're helping us in ways we don't understand. This link between the brain and the gut is critically important. People don't know, they are not aware. They are not conscious of the fact that they should be eating better. Put your hands in the soil, and you start there. And once you start communing with the soil, even if you are really grounded, you're going around in bare feet, immediately there is a new energy in you. Well that's how I feel anyway. And I've noticed with people, when you put their hands in the soil, it's a whole new experience. You communicate better with each other. You communicate with nature better. Get outside, breathe good air, and eat the best possible food. I feel very different having had that health experience. I feel more alive, than I have ever felt before. And I am energetic. And I haven't lost my enthusiasm. So my attitude is, I can live the best life I want, and I have got to live by thinking ethically, and doing ethical things, and really living a good life. To all of you who have contributed, for those of you who have shared our films, for those of you who have written out comments, this journey is just beginning. And we've put a Patreon link below our films, so if you'd like to continue to support us, we'd love for you to donate below. Thanks so much.

Channel: Green Renaissance

Views: 324,997

Rating: 4.9765658 out of 5

Keywords: green renaissance, sharing ideas, inspiring change, share, inspire, ideas, change, green, pat, soil, garden, connect, connection, gut, healthy, health, food, eat, microbes, relationships, emotions, cape town, south africa, soil for life, bionic person, heart attack, hospital, isolated, alone, anti depressant, drugs, sleeping pills, sleeping tables, depressed, lethargic, eat better, grounded, energy, ethical, ethically, heart

Id: Eyo_p1fM-CM

Length: 5min 17sec (317 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 24 2018