/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12613021
I know it's pretty rare for a /ck/ poster to be happily married and have a fulfilling life outside of this board. I wish more of you fellas on here could find that special someone to share your life with and be much happier.

Kombucha tea
Grapefruit juice and seltzer water
Eating nothing (fasting)

I started drinking kombucha tea because of the hype surrounding it. I know I fell for it. But it's the best way I've found for me to get pre/probiotics into my system. It's a pretty well know fact that gut flora is tied directly with depression in adults. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29397391/
I was at a really bad time in my life; alcoholism, jobless for 6 months, GF kicked me out of our house, depression, social anxiety, the works. I started reading about what causes depression and things that could fix it and I came across multiple studies that link your stomach biome to depression and vice versa. So I started taking probiotics and drinking kombucha (along with changing my diet) and I can honestly tell you guys it fixed my depression. I'm now a much happier person, I have a job, and me and my gf are back together.
Grapefruit juice and seltzer water helped me get over my alcoholism in a major way. The fizziness of the seltzer was kind of a replacement for beer for me and the grapefruit juice aided in digestion and tastes good. Everytime I thought about drinking booze I'd make myself a little tonic and just drink that instead. It took like 5 weeks but finally I'm clean and sober and off the booze, which has made a huge impact on my mood, depression, and the bloated skin that comes with binge drinking.

After my breakup with gf I didn't eat anything for 6 days straight because I was so heartbroken and depressed I couldn't even move. After my 6 day fast I lost 17lbs which was huge for me. I was 305lbs at the time. Basically what I do know is eat one very big dinner and that's it, I fast for the rest of the day. It's hard to get used to at first because your stomach really will start to hurt, but that's only because it's used to eating every single day 3x a day. It gets easier.

Any anons struggling with depression look into my advice please. Love you all.