Health on the road and alternative medicine

Cooking with Chinta, Unawatuna, Sri Lanka 2010

Another part of my blog is about how to lead a healthy life while being on the road. Travelling mainly just has positive sides. It fills you up with optimism, complete freedom, humbleness, hope and spiritual hapiness. It forces you to respect each single culture, race and religion, not to take things for granted and to be grateful for what you're  lucky to have. 

Beside all the positivities, travelling also has some weaknesses. For me personaly, the most negative side is unbalanced life. You're changing climate, food and standards of hygene all the time. You deprive on sleep or you don't go to bed early enough, you lack privacy and time on your own. You party a lot, or you just do lots of activities throughout the day. You eat crapy food (excluding Asia) and you work like a dog to earn money. Enyoing life and siezing each single day kinda becomes an addiction. It's quite easy to lead that kind of life for 2,3 weeks, but when travelling is a lifestyle like in my case, your health can soon worsen, due to unbalanced life. And excatly that happend to me. It got to the point I had to cancel my travels for at least a half a year, return back home and immidiately start with rehabilitation.

And because doctors in nor Mexico and USA, nor Slovenia could not figure out what the problem was (all the tests came out negative and blood exams were perfect), I threw myself into alternative medicine. Alternative medicine, according to Wikipedia is: "any healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine. It is based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence." So no more pills, painkillers and chemicals, just the products we can get from nature. One of the most important sides of alternative medicine is that our health depends on the food we eat. We can regain health with certain food.  I've read and studied numerious books, websites, tried out different food on me, and finaly found the diet I can lead on my travels and will keep me healthy and strong. Practically this section of my blog would be to present the food that helped me and restored my health. Even more interesting part of this section will be food/recipies I encounter while travelling. Everything from various tropical fruits, veggies, spices, herbs, diferent products from nature itself and traditional medications from different parts of the world..

cooking course Battambang, Cambodia 2011

Remember that, the HEALTH is only ONE and without it we pretty much cannot do anything. It values more than money and all the material things. Don't wait till it's to late, one day you might not be able to recuperate it. 

Mayita