How Josh Got Rid of His CPAP and Anti-Anxiety Meds
Food is medicine.
I want to share an inspiring account of total health transformation without any drugs or surgery.
The best part: NO hours wasted in a gym suffering and struggling.
This is my friend Josh’s true story. He’s a real person, no bullshit, who got real results by going rogue and eating Rebel Foods. He turned everything around in a few short months.
What Josh did wasn’t easy, but it was super effective. He made one significant change and accomplished all of these things:
lost 35 pounds
Stopped using a CPAP machine and sleeps all night without it
Stopped taking meds for anxiety
Improved his mood and attitude
Better skin condition
More energy
Looks ten years younger
In short, Josh got his life back. He got HAPPIER.
He did all of this without setting even one foot in a gym!
It might not work for everyone. What causes your symptoms could be entirely different, so getting qualified medical advice is essential. But Josh is human, and we are more alike than we want to admit. Something here might help you or someone you know, so please share if you know a buddy who could benefit from this story.
Disclaimer: We are all individuals with different genetics, situations, illnesses, and particular conditions. What worked for Josh might harm you, take longer, or have less effect. I am not a medical professional; you are a fully functional adult responsible for your actions. By reading further, you accept that responsibility. Please consult your doctor before making significant dietary changes, quitting medications, or throwing away your CPAP.
Why Was Josh’s Health a Dumpster Fire?
We don’t develop health problems without some trauma or cause. Having to wear a CPAP to bed is a symptom. Sleep apnea comes from somewhere.
Similarly, anxiety is a symptom of alarm in the body, caused by unprocessed emotions or trauma, which spills over into the brain.
Josh was having a bad couple of years. He broke up with the mother of his three children, and a new guy moved into the house when he got kicked out. Josh was fully paying for that house, so he was not only paying a mortgage for his ex and children but also making child support payments.
The new guy got a free place to live.
He had to avoid thinking about how unfair it felt. He had to pay for everything in his old life even though he couldn’t be a part of it. How could he get ahead now? How could he start over with a new girlfriend when he was being sucked dry like a juiced orange and thrown in the trash?
Josh gave up, sacrificing himself for his family.
The money was a problem, and the family situation filled him with grief. But he did what he had to do. He doubled down to make ends meet and worked harder, longer hours. He sacrificed things like sleep, nutrition, and self-care. He used alcohol and other substances to deal with his emotions and just kept trucking.
Eating gas station snacks and fast food, multiple beers after work, and boxed mac and cheese became a way of life. Before he knew it, he was forty pounds heavier.
Josh started having health problems. Crippling anxiety attacks and lack of sleep were affecting him at work. He slept in quite a few times and was struggling to show up.
Sleep apnea takes a toll. I used to have it, and it makes life a lot harder (I’ve been in remission for years, and I’ll talk about that too one of these weeks.)
I saw Josh every day at work, and he was a mess. He was having paralyzing anxiety attacks that were destroying him. He was so short on sleep that his brain was unable to function.
He was hiding from reality and dodging tasks, just hanging on by his fingernails.
His Doctor Had the Ideal Solution: Drugs.
His doctor had the ideal solution: drugs. Oh yeah, and an appliance to strap to his face like a reverse scuba diver - a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure mask that would “help” him - as long as he could sleep while all strapped up and listening to the noise it made. He had to wear earplugs to try to deal with that aspect.
Diet and lifestyle were never brought up. That’s because the doctor focused on symptoms and didn’t even think to address the issues.
If the medication and CPAP had solved the problem, Josh could have lived happily ever after.
But they didn’t.
There were two monsters for Josh to tackle. One was the trauma, and the other was his diet and current physical state. Popping pills wasn’t helping. It was a stop-gap measure at best.
Let me ask you a question. Could it be that, in many cases (Of course not ALL cases), anxiety and depression are CAUSED by… your diet? Just think about it.
Josh started going out with a new lady who was having her own health issues. Weight gain, skin conditions, and more were making her miserable.
After reading and researching, she found out that what she and Josh were eating could be what was giving them some of their problems. So, she convinced Josh to try something radical and new.
They became REBELS.
And a couple of months later, Josh looked and acted like a new man. He did it by going against the grain and eating differently than everything we’ve all been programmed to do by the huge corporations that are hungry for our money.
Josh and his girlfriend went on the carnivore diet.
Be Open-Minded, Or Be Close-Minded, It’s Up To You!
I pick open-mindedness.
When you read the words Carnivore Diet, do you have an irrational and emotion-based reaction?
Do you want to be a rational person who makes rational decisions? Or do you let yourself think only what family, church, corporations, and the government tell you to think?
It’s your choice. You DO have the freedom to entertain new ideas.
Josh stopped eating all processed foods — except bacon. He ate plenty of bacon.
He ate steak, ground beef, eggs, and pork chops. They cooked their food on the barbeque or in the oven, using salt, butter, olive oil, and plenty of herbs, such as garlic, oregano, and dill.
Josh was lucky because he had a teammate to help him cook and pack his lunch.
I watched him eat hamburger patties and bacon at noon while everyone else ate mass-produced garbage squeezed out of the corporate factory nipple.
Sometimes, he had scrambled eggs he had prepared earlier that morning. Everyone else at work ate sandwiches, "protein” bars, and cookies. They drank plenty of “energy” drinks and carbonated sugar too.
Our co-workers all thought he was nuts. Especially on the bacon part!
The first few weeks were difficult, but he had to try it. He couldn’t keep going down the dark path of depression, weight gain, and anxiety.
Josh was low on energy while his system recalibrated to the new way of eating. He had to learn to burn fat instead of sugar, so he had headaches and was dragging his ass. He pressed on.
After that initial phase, Josh perked up and started feeling pretty good. Three weeks in, he wasn’t as hungry as he used to be, so he naturally started skipping breakfast and fasting intermittently.
That’s when the big changes started happening. He lost weight steadily even though he ate a big handful of bacon and a fatty burger patty for his first meal.
A couple of months later, Josh visited the doctor. He had already weaned himself off of the CPAP and wanted to lose the medication, so he decided to check in first.
But he knew he didn’t need it. The anxiety attacks were gone. He still had stress, but it wasn’t immobilizing him anymore. He had his old optimism back, and he was feeling great.
Josh looked good, too. Between the weight he’d lost, the fact that he was getting sleep again, and the bright expression in his eyes, he looked SO MUCH BETTER.
He was seeing someone for his emotional issues, too. I’m sure it helped. But the real, tangible changes came from getting off of the ultra-processed garbage diet.
You Don’t Need to Eat Carnivore to See The Same Changes
What helped Josh so much was a whole-food diet that limited processed food and carbohydrates, was high in nutrients, and was low in toxins.
He was in ketosis because he was eating less than 25 grams of carbohydrates a day. This switched his body to burning fat instead of sugar.
Josh wasn’t eating wheat, rice, or potatoes (or drinking beer!) So, the overpopulation of harmful bacteria in his guts started to disappear, and his stomach lining had a chance to heal. The whole intestinal tract got back on track.
He no longer had gas that could crop-dust a room and force bystanders into submission from lack of oxygen.
His brain wasn’t flooded with harmful substances and extra glucose, and since his hormones were getting back into balance, his mental functioning was clearer. His brain fog went away.
Josh had been living with chronic inflammation that was making his whole body sick. A lot of this came from Dr. Evil’s vegetable oil that all of his food was made out of or deep-fried in. The rest of the inflammation was from a carb-heavy diet low in protein. His body was cranking out the insulin, and he was pre-diabetic (like 90% of North Americans.)
Now that the inflammation was gone, he looked vibrantly healthy.
He looked, for lack of a better word, sexy again.
What About Your Life?
I’ll bet you know what I think you should do to live healthy. Eliminate as much ultra-processed Frankenfood (wheat products, vegetable oil, fast food, and sugar) from your diet as you can right now!
Going on the carnivore diet would do that, and I have seen its effectiveness. But other ways of eating could suit you better.
A plant-based diet could do the same if you somehow got your protein intake high enough and the carbohydrates low enough. This might mean some supplementation, but it’s possible.
An interesting thing to consider is that eating PLANTS means food recognizable as plants. Eating snack bars, cookies, pasta, or fake “meat” made from plants is not the same, no matter what gigantic corporations try to tell you.
Vegetable oil is NOT a vegetable. It’s an ultra-processed food-like substance. They don’t cram broccoli in that vegetable oil container, do they?
So going plant-based shouldn’t mean eating vegetable oil and cookies, it should mean eating plants. Weird thought, right? Yet, you see ultra-processed “plant-based” foods everywhere in the grocery store.
You Can Make Changes In Your Life!
If you want to get healthy but don’t know where to start, drop me a message. I would love to talk about it. The first step is getting curious.
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Yeah Tim! Food is medicine. Keep on doing your good work.