Since I’ve been fighting my insipid state of health for the past few months with little progress, I’ve decided to take a leap into the world of health diets.

After 6 months of being gluten-free (minus periodic poisonings) I’m starting to realize just how sensitive my body is to environmental and dietary factors. Concentration, energy and mood are major factors that I can usually trace to inadequate nutrition. Contrary to my usual opinion that pain only means you aren’t trying hard enough, I’ve decided that I need to start looking at my long-term diet structure as means to fix these problems and get on with the other methods of delivering pain to myself (parkour anyone?).

A friend has recommended that I try the Maker’s Diet, which is based on what we know of Biblical diets and the failings of modern agriculture. The cincher is that this friend is also gluten-free and had other health problems that have been largely mitigated by the Maker’s Diet.

Now I’m not fully on board yet. However, the Maker’s Diet has this handy little 40-day experience thingy that’s meant to detox your digestive system and reset your body. I plan on giving that a try and seeing how things turn out. At the end, you end up on what is essentially the long-term Maker’s Diet. If it works well, I guess things speak for themselves. If it doesn’t, I’ve eaten really healthy food for a month.

The biggest item I hope to get out this is finding a way to think about nutrition in a more structured fashion. At the moment, I live by the “surrounded-by-health-conscious-people bachelor” code: i.e. I buy better quality ingredients, but still eat like crap.

We’ll see what cute hyphenated label I give myself after this