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Title: Need Some Health Help from Informed Healthy People
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Published: Nov 11, 2006
Author: Cappy
Post Date: 2006-11-11 08:37:38 by CAPPSMADNESS
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Hey all! I could use some advice. As some of you know, I have been fighting some health issues for quite some time. I have been to more doctors and specialists then my memory can hold and take so many pills that I am called the Department Pharmacy at work.
I have come to you - oh great and all knowing people of healthy stuff, for advice. Zip and Chris know that I have a few permanent conditions that I don't want to share, but I have some really odd non-related stuff as well.
1. The corners of my mouth crack and bleed for no reason. My son says it scares him because he is afraid that it means that my mouth is getting bigger. Anyways, I have seen multiple causes for this - but no real cures. Are there any vitamins that I should be taking to help at least prevent this?
2. I have NO energy, I am nearly always half asleep no matter how much I drink cofee.
3. I have no apetite. A few of my meds cause this - but is there something out there that I can take to stimulate my apetite?
4. My immune system sucks eggs - this is due to a few meds too - but is there anything *natural* that I should take to try to boost it?
And on a side note - pay no attention to Zip when she starts yelling at me to go to the doctor - I hate going to the doctors.
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Thanks for any ideas you offer!
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#4. To: innieway, lodwick, BTP Holdings (#0)
Can you help?
Any thoughts to help CAPPY? thanks!
Thanks A - but the drugs have been reviewed and re-reviewed (I have a great doc, btw) and there has been a huge improvement in my way of life since I started taking them. I also walk every day for those who wonder, so it's can't be lack of exercise.
That's the plan...the more drugs 'Big Pharma' can sell; the more money they make. They are NOT interested in a cure (see various fund raising scams like 'Race for the Cure'); they are interested in 'managing' your symptoms by filling you with as many pills as they can without killing you...until more customers to replace you come along...then your *ss is expendable. The BEST thing you can do is try to get as much medication out of your life as possible. My wife, on her own, REVERSED her 'Type 2 diabetes' with diet and exercise, even though "doctors" INSISTED that she take the appropriate medications. (We went with our own research, and made contact with an OUTSTANDING nutrionist.) Pharmaceuticals kill thousands and thousands and thousands of people every year. A great site for personal research is News Target...one of the BEST I have ever seen. Click here to check it out. Innieway had another excellent site, but I can't scare it up at the moment.
Amen...fruits, veggies, berries, nuts, spices, and herbs. It's AMAZING how much stuff at the grocery store really isn't "food". My wife hates to bring me grocery shopping, becasue I bitch about the crap on the shelves, and laugh at the fat people pushing carts full of diet soda. Can't help it.
well on the diabetes.. a lot has to do with diet/weight control.. and the diet given by most docs isnt all that helpful.. eliminate the carbs.. and there will be an improvement.. most diabetic diets still include carbs which of course is the problem.. dealing with sugars.
You're right...they aren't trying to help you; they want you on the medication. One nurse told my wife it was "her JOB to get her on medication". That's a QUOTE! You are dead right about the carbs. I am in my 50's, and my wife in her 40's, and NEITHER of us is on ANY medication. We are told by physicians we work with that finding a couple like that nowadays is nigh impossible. My wife now weighs the same as she did when I met her at the age of seventeen. Eat your heart out, guys. :-)
I'll bet dollars to doughnuts all diabetes are short on Vitamin D, which isn't a vitamin but a steroid hormone. A lack of it has been associated with diabetes, high blood pressure, strokes, colds, flu, and a half a dozen cancers. I've got blond hair and blue eyes, and the last time I saw the doctor (in the winter) he tested the Vitamin D in my blood and told me I had only half what I should have. He told me to take cod liver oil during the winter. So I did, and the change in how I feel during the winter has been very noticeable.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
That's a great site. I was particularly intrigued by this page on preventing breast cancer, since my sis only recently dodged a bullet (she underwent the conventional treatment, but survived anyway, thank God).
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
Very good advice...twenty minutes of early-morning sun exposure has been discussed here before, but that can be difficult in many areas of the world...cod liver oil (gag) is good advice...there are a number of flavored ones out there. (The liver flavored stuff rocks!)
I can only hope more women notice that link you posted...very informative.
i do remember reading an article about Germany in WW2.. of course there was a food shortage.. and diabetes was virtually eliminated in Germany .. I searched for the article not seeing it but what I did find which I found interesting was something from some researchers that theorize that the famine in Germany killed off those who have a genetic predisposition for diabetes :P
Vitamin D is extremely important as we've seen from several articles .. medically researched not just theories.. and people in the west just dont have the opportunity to spend that much time in the sun.. plus we've been told that sun exposure is a bad bad thing .. and although it's added to milk it's enough to keep some diseases at bay but its very minimal.. people do need to take supplements .. and not just what's in a multivitamin.
LOL. If they only knew that aspartame causes them to GAIN weight. America is so screwed. Most of us have our immune systems wrecked as infants by vaccines, eat garbage, then take poisonous symptom-maskers/multipliers (otherwise known as drugs) to "compensate" for our half-starved and half-toxic body's inevitable dysfunction, then die miserably and way too early. Our system is systematically killing us.
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Starting with the simplest things first: Sleep - 8 hours every night - we have the SelectComfort mattress and love it. Hydration - I don't believe that we can have too much pure water - Berkey purification here. Aspartame = poison. Don't use it. Too much salt, either from processed food, or the shaker, can be harmful. Try using pepper or salt-free herbs for seasoning. Be sure that each of the doctors know exactly what the others are prescribing, and that you use one pharmacist who can also evaluate all the possible drug interactions and advise you accordingly - a good pharmacist will know more about the meds than will most doctors who are given all sorts of crap by BigPharma's hottie pill pushers to hand out to their patients. We take, among lots of other supplements: Vit C - 2000mg COQ10 - 300mg Zymitol enzymes - as directed DHEA Melatonin There's my starter's list not knowing any more than I do about your specific problems. Good luck and best wishes.
I forgot about the Vit D - Mrs.L is having some bone-mass loss and her doc jacked up the amount that we now take. Also, the Omega3 oils are most important.
LOL!! That is a riot.. I've spent many boring hours on a treadmill hey now maybe if I tried this! :P
Its vitamin deficiency, don't ask me which one(s). My dermatologist rx'd Fluocinonide ointment USP, 0.05% a few years back and it worked well and quickly. I still have most of the tube so a little goes a long way.
That was my first thought JT.. which one now I dunno.. and/or a candida infection
I try and do 64 ozs of Berkey H2O a day. I do bet 2 & 4 Zymitol caps per day. I just bought 640 caps for $119. That's the best price I've found.
Would you put that link up? Christine sent it to me, and it is buried somewhere in the 'puter...thanks.
Oddly, sea salt is good for you, and will lower blood pressure because of the trace minerals. My unothodox M.D. told me half a teaspoon of sea salt a day, along with lots of pure water, would increase my energy. He was right; it did.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
Ignore the last possible cause CAPPS.....(g) • yeast infections • vitamin deficiencies (vitamin B2 or riboflavin) • iron-deficiency anemia (low red blood cells due to too little iron) • allergic reaction to some substance (particularly products used on the lips, such as lip gloss/stick/balm, and even dental care/oral hygiene products, such as toothpaste) • poorly fitting dentures (or no teeth or no dentures at all)
Yeah, I had that. The doctor told me to use kefir, which is sort of like liguid yogurt, except it tastes really good as long as you don't use the plain, which is, like, powerful in taste. Not bad, just powerful.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
Zinc
formerly GJones.
My unorthodox M.D. told me half a teaspoon of sea salt a day, along with lots of pure water, would increase my energy. Thanks for this information. It reminds me that Christine's nutritionist suggested adding some lemon juice and MSM to my daily water regimen. (I love the spell-check in the Mozilla Firefox browser)
Grapefruit Seed extract.
formerly GJones.
He was right; it did. do chips with sea salt count? :P
When will they learn that a heart doesn't draw the line...
Really? CAPPS hasnt been eating lately... she's had this once before .. never considered zinc
I eat them. Tasty!
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
..or a couple of glasses of red wine :P
I finally installed it several weeks ago thanks to Critter's advice. I'll never go back to I.E.
formerly GJones.
I'm serious. GSE is the best thing on the face of the planet for Candida infections.
formerly GJones.
When I took extra zinc for a while I noticed it improved my sense of smell. Not a little, but a lot.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
I drink a glass of Pinot Noir every day.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
Try a homeopathic remedy for this. Is there a Whole Foods store near you? Or maybe a Wild Oats? Look for the little blue tubes named Boiron. You take these little white pills and dissolve them under your tongue. I recall there is one which is used for the problem of cracking lips but I do not remember the exact name of the mineral. There are also a few good books along with the display so you can read up on how this works and what to do with it. If that particular brand is not available, then use something similar from a good health foods store. Homeopathy has been around a lot longer than those guys wearing the white coats, allopathic physicians. The basic premise is, and always has been, that like cures like. If you were healthy and ingested a small amount of a certain thing, you would become ill. The same holds in reverse. If you are ill, you ingest a small amount of a specific mineral and it cures the ill. It is used with great success also with animals. Is this chronic fatigue syndrome? If so, there are ways to fix it, and the docs will do no good at all, since the problem lies in nutrition (our food lacks nutrition because the soils are depleted of humus and excessive use of fertilizers and ag chemicals) and taking proper supplements. Toxicity could also be a factor since we are all full of poisons created by the chemical companies and also the chemicals used in agriculture and in the foods we eat. I can come up with a few suggestions based on what you can tell me further. The meds are a problem, even if they have been cross checked for side effects and such. I have a friend who is a herbologist and he says it all comes back to what we eat. Most of peoples problems can be fixed with a healthy diet and a total body cleansing. The problem of a healthy diet goes back again to the lack of good farming practices. The chemical paradigm is the worst thing to happen to agriculture. And it would not be this way if we had opted to use the natural methods which have been known since before chemical agriculture got its start after WW II. Yes, there are several things. Basically, you must realize that these problems relate to poor nutrition. I hate to beat on the same drum over and over, but the truth of the matter is that we have poor nutrition and all of the stress and toxins in the environment take its toll on our health, day by day. Lactoferrin is a good supplement to boost the immune system. And also a good herb is echinacea purprea, or purple coneflower, or its relative echinacea augustifolia, Kansas Snakeroot. There are others. A good one to take if you get sick is Olive Leaf extract. At least 15% Oleuropein would be the best strength, and you would need a therapeutice dose to start and reduce the number ovr a period of days. It works like antibiotic but it does not kill the good stuff in your gut. BTW, Type II or adult onset diabetes is called Syndrome X in Britain. The sugar problem is really a result of insulin rejection. This problem is basically your body saying it is tired of all the abuse from chemicals, drugs and other factors. The body's organs are literally shutting down and this is the result. A good liver cleansing will also help. Some use a coffee enema in extreme cases, but I think you might try Alpha Lipoic Acid and Milk Thistle extract. Both have been shown to be liver cleansing and regenerative substances. I can also send you to a site later for a nutritional drink that is having great results. And I can turn you on to a good cleansing substance made from a zeolite mineral. The substance grabs toxins and flushes them out of your system. And, unlike using chelation therapy, this zeolite will not remove calcium or other beneficial minerals, which have to be replaced. More later. Have to make some breakfast now.
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.” James Fenimore Cooper
Yep...Earl Mindell recommends it in his 'Vitamin Bible."
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.herbs Subject: Re: Arthritus From: Star Dancer >http:// Date: 5 Aug 1995 01:59:37 GMT My mother six months ago was facing total knee replacements because of arthritis. Two months ago she started taking an old wives remedy. Last week we went to the beach, walked for hours in the flea market and went shopping all weekend long. The recipe for this is 1 lb of GOLDEN raisins. (they must be the golden ones) 1/2 pint of gin. you place the raisins into a bowl and pour the gin over them. Leave them sit on the counter uncovered until the gin has been absorbed into the raisins. This also dissipates the alcohol. When the raisins have absorbed all the liquid cover them and put them in the refrigerator. Eat 9 of these raisins every day. It took about 5 weeks or so for the effects to be as they are. I watched her walking better every day after about the 5th week. All of a sudden it occurred to her that she was walking without limping again. The change in her has been wonderful. From: gail miller >http:// My cousin eats ten gin soaked white raisins every night and appears to have great success making the arthritic pain in her hands subside. She covers the raisins with gin in a jar for two weeks, adding gin if necessary as it is absorbed by the raisins to keep them covered. Anybody else have experience with this? From: http://cherridge.delphi.com Connor >Does anyone know of any herbs that help reduce the pain of severe arthritis? Yes, Take two pounds of white raisens commonly called 'golden' raisens and mix in a pint of gin. Stir it occasionally for two days until all of the alcohol has evaporated and the gin has completely soaked into the raisens. . Eat only 10 raisens a day. It will take about two months for the pain to completely stop. From: http://p_iannone.pop.com (Paul Iannone) : Take two pounds of white raisens commonly called 'golden' raisens and mix in a pint of gin. Commonly called sulfured raisins. The sulphites used in these raisins (to change their color and preserve them) are not very healthy for you, and if you want to drink gin, just go ahead and do it. Such use of alcohol to kill arthritis pain is not new (!), nor is it healthful if the problem is associated with reddened joints or liver problems. It would make vastly more sense to drink an alcohol extract of the proper herbal arthritis formula. From: http://tatyana.blarg.com : Take two pounds of white raisins commonly called 'golden' raisins and mix in a pint of gin. As much as I wish it were true, this does NOT work. Alcohol has been a long time pain reliever in many countries, that's all this will do. Unfortunately there isn't even enough in the raisins to have much of an effect. I have heard, though, that evening primrose whatever helps with arthritis. This was recently posted in the arthritis newsgroups (about the raisins).
I'll never go back to I.E. Exploder 7 is the worst yet. Firefox 2.0 is simply the best, imo.
i purchased cod liver oil capsules. good way to get it without having to endure the taste.
When will they learn that a heart doesn't draw the line...
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#5. To: CAPPSMADNESS, gengis gandhi (#0)
#6. To: Arator (#3)
#7. To: Arator, innieway, CAPPSMADNESS (#3)
It was a vicious chain. She was prescribed one drug which caused horrible side effects, then another to treat the side effects, which had it's own negative side effects, then another to treat those side effects and on and on.
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#8. To: Arator (#3)
Then build your system up through good nutrition. That's the best medicine of all.
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#9. To: who knows what evil (#7)
#10. To: Zipporah (#9)
and the diet given by most docs isnt all that helpful..
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#11. To: Zipporah (#9)
well on the diabetes
#12. To: who knows what evil (#8)
#13. To: YertleTurtle (#11)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#14. To: Arator (#12)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#15. To: who knows what evil (#10)
#16. To: YertleTurtle (#11)
#17. To: who knows what evil (#8)
My wife hates to bring me grocery shopping, becasue I bitch about the crap on the shelves, and laugh at the fat people pushing carts full of diet soda. Can't help it.
#18. To: Zipporah (#16)
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Tree sit, Eugene, Oregon
#19. To: CAPPSMADNESS. everyone here (#0)
#20. To: YertleTurtle (#11)
Ooops.
#21. To: Ferret Mike (#18)
#22. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#0)
The corners of my mouth crack and bleed for no reason.
#23. To: Jethro Tull (#22)
Its vitamin deficiency, don't ask me which one(s). My dermatologist rx'd Fluocinonide ointment USP, 0.05% a few years back and it worked well and quickly. I still have most of the tube so a little goes a long way.
#24. To: lodwick (#19)
Hydration - I don't believe that we can have too much pure water
#25. To: Jethro Tull (#24)
I just bought 640 caps for $119.
#26. To: lodwick (#19)
Too much salt, either from processed food, or the shaker, can be harmful. Try using pepper or salt-free herbs for seasoning.
#27. To: Zipporah, CAPPS, those pesky cracks at the corner of your mouth (#23)
http://www.goaskalice-cms.org/2164.html
#28. To: Zipporah (#23)
and/or a candida infection
#29. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#0)
1. The corners of my mouth crack and bleed for no reason.
#30. To: YertleTurtle (#26)
Oddly, sea salt is good for you, and will lower blood pressure because of the trace minerals.
#31. To: Zipporah (#23)
/or a candida infection
#32. To: YertleTurtle (#26)
My unothodox M.D. told me half a teaspoon of sea salt a day, along with lots of pure water, would increase my energy.
#33. To: InsideJob (#29)
Zinc
#34. To: christine (#32)
do chips with sea salt count? :P
#35. To: InsideJob (#31)
Grapefruit Seed extract.
#36. To: lodwick (#30)
(I love the spell-check in the Mozilla Firefox browser
#37. To: Zipporah (#35)
#38. To: All (#34)
Zinc
#39. To: Zipporah (#35)
..or a couple of glasses of red wine :P
#40. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#0)
1. The corners of my mouth crack and bleed for no reason.
2. I have NO energy, I am nearly always half asleep no matter how much I drink cofee.
3. I have no apetite. A few of my meds cause this
4. My immune system sucks eggs - this is due to a few meds too - but is there anything *natural* that I should take to try to boost it?
#41. To: Zipporah (#33)
Really?
#42. To: Zipporah. everyone (#33)
Gin soaked raisins - I've got to try this one
#43. To: InsideJob (#36)
I finally installed it several weeks ago thanks to Critter's advice.
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