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During a glandular fever relapse, eating the right food is essential to helping your body heal.

Many researchers are now touting the Paleolithic or “hunter gatherer” diet as the world’s healthiest diet. It is showing promising results in the treatment of patients with a glandular fever relapse.

This way of eating is based on the diet common in the Stone Age, before the agricultural revolution. The theory is that humans are best adapted to the diet they were exposed to during their evolution. Agriculture and animal husbandry are fairly recent events in our evolution. They appeared around 10,000 years ago in the Middle East before spreading to the rest of the world over subsequent years. The last 10,000 years of our history represents only 1% of human evolution. This is not enough time to give our species adequate time to adapt to new introduced foods like grains, sugar and dairy. When you are recovering from a glandular fever relapse you want to make it as easy as possible for your body.

So what foods are in the Paleolithic diet and how can they help with a glandular fever relapse? The major foods found in a Stone Age diet are lean meats, fish, shellfish, seasonal fruits, vegetables, roots, eggs, nuts, seeds and small amounts of honey. These are the foods that are also recommended to boost immunity, control weight, and eliminate chronic diseases like diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure and arthritis. These foods can all help in recovering from a glandular fever relapse.

The Paleolithic diet excludes foods like grains, dairy products, sugar, and refined fats. These foods can contribute to obesity, lowered immunity, heart disease and inflammation in the body (which is common in a glandular fever relapse). It is estimated that over 70% of the typical Western diet would not have been consumed by pre-agricultural people. These foods are relatively foreign to our genes.

There are still some hunter gatherer populations in the world that continue to consume a Paleolithic diet. These include the Kitavan Islanders in Papua New Guinea and native tribes in the Amazon. Studies on these populations show that conditions like obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension and chronic immune problems like a glandular fever relapse are virtually unheard of.

Other studies have introduced the Paleolithic diet to healthy Westernised people. Within 3 weeks of following a Paleolithic diet there was improved blood pressure, better glucose tolerance, improved cholesterol and lipid profiles, reduced weight and lower C-reactive protein (CRP is a marker of inflammation in the body). These positive results are what you would like to see in people who are recovering from a glandular fever relapse. These studies show that after only a short period of time, a Paleolithic diet has profound effects on metabolism and health. These beneficial effects are believe to stem from the high intake of fresh fruit and vegetables and the supply of adequate high quality protein.

If you are looking for a diet with immune boosting, healing qualities for the treatment of a glandular fever relapse then the Paleolithic diet should be considered. For further information on diet and natural treatments for glandular fever please refer to the e-book “Nature’s Amazing Mononucleosis Cures” by qualified naturopath Elizabeth Noble.

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