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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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Views: 5041
Comments: 167
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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#19. To: CAPPSMADNESS. everyone here (#0)
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.
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.
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)
I eat lots of raw foods (plant derived) and very little meat, usually only five times a week. I also love kefir YertleTurtle mentioned, Nancy's Kefir by Springfield Dairy run by Ken Kesey's wife being far and above the best of any I've tried made anywhere else. I ride my bicycle and this time of year I used to do a punishing amount of miles and interval work, but at 52 I do lots of miles and if the boys doing sprints every other sign come along my route, I wave, chat and watch them go go go. I only ride around 200-300 miles a week these days, but I am passionately addicted to riding and do ninety percent of my best thinking in saddle. I also fast this time of year, last week I did a three day, and find it helps with seasonal depression which I also use full spectrum lights for. I am very muscular and get mistaken for someone much younger, and my legs are so big in the thighs I can't remotely fit into Levi 501s my waist size (31) because of the leg muscle. My resting pulse is around 52 usually and last year I tried a couple of beers a couple of times a week, the first alcohol I had drank since 1989, and decided I hated it worse then I did when I did drink which was only while in the Army to socialize. I just don't like drinking anything I have to recover from. Both my brothers are younger and eat and drink the usual American diet and are plump, and look older them me.
Only? Man - that's a bunch of miles - way to go.
Thanks, it isn't really that many on a good bike at speed. I'll do a fast 30 in the morning three times a week and tomorrow is usually my 60 miler to Cottage Grove doing the hilly route there and the flatter one along I-5 back. Tuesday and Thursday I ride with the club in the fast group made up mostly of ex racers like me and we do 40-50 mile routes depending on the group consensus. I ride for transportation and that usually adds up pretty fast as Eugene has gotten spread out and though we have a better bike path system then almost anywhere else in the United States a ride to Lane Community College round trip is around 18 miles if I do the short route with the hill. I have several top quality bikes, but my favorite kitten is a Ferrari red Cinelli with Campagnolo Chorus components that cost me about 3000.00. Italian race bikes are the royalty of race bikes, and Masi and Cinelli are the creme de la creme of that country's manufacturers. I consider it a part of my body, I am naked if I don't have a bicycle with me. It is a 1988 which is heavier with only eight cogs in the back, but people with newer, lighter bikes (which I also have) flag me down to get a moment enjoyment of ogling my sweet piece of Italian eye candy. That particular design of bike has been made by Cinelli since the 1930s. They stopped making them a few years ago when they introduced the current modern design, but the outcry of anguish and rage was so incredible, Cinelli apologized and now you can buy the frame again for a mere 1300 dollars. The lugs and bottom bracket (crank housing) are castings, and it takes many man hours to get an even gage throughout the lug/BB to get the right heat distribution to get a superior brazing job. The tubing is chamfered and mitered so tightly you can't get rice paper between the tube when held together before final manufacture. Ounce for ounce a Rolls Royce has nothing on my sweetheart.
Yikes. I guess like any other product, there is the creme de la creme out there. Be careful out there.
#87. To: All (#86)
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Heh, that is a low price too. You can spend 5000 to 7000 dollars on a bicycle. I want a Maverick American ML7 which will be in that price range to build up (the frames are over 2000 alone) and it is the finest mountain bike ever designed and manufactured. http://www.maverickamerican.com/ Being a road racer and tourist all my life I have never ever owned a suspension framed machine. That will be my first. It is an American design, and no suspension bicycle has ever been designed so well, though other manufacturers have been paying to use their innovative designs. As for being careful, why th heck do you think I relocated back to Eugene from Portland, Oregon in the first place? ;-) Ten percent of people in Eugene go to work on bicycles and bicycles are more common here then anywhere else I've been to in the United States. We have more bike shops then the Portland and Portland is a huge bike center too. The thing I hate about Portland is that the growth of bicycling has exploded so much in PDX, there is a war between cars and bikes right now. It can be dangerous up there. In one incident I had a large old American car try to hit me deliberately twice, the second time a passenger tried to open the door on me because they didn't like my California stop on the designated bike route I was on. I was on a quality mountain bike and hopped the curb, rode up the sloping lawn of the house there and did a fast reverse and dented a tail-light fin with my numb-chucks which hook together and look like a bicycle pump. I got three dents in before they gave up and quit the field of battle. I am no one to fuck with. If someone thinks I am an easy target on a bicycle, they are a fool. In any event, I prefer safer Eugene to Portland as it is already too much extra weight to have to carry a quality set of locks, never mind the ordinance I was carrying up there.
Yikes. I guess like any other product, there is the creme de la creme out there. That's about what my favorite mode of transportation is worth too... Some notable similarities: *Mine also has health benefits. If you don't believe it, try giving it a spin for a few miles one day. The next day you'll discover muscles you didn't know you had. *You don't need a license to ride it. *You never have to stop at a gas station. *It doesn't add to the environmental pollution problem. But there are some notable differences too. Among them are: *Mine weighs 1200 lbs more. *Mine is capable of auto-pilot, which could be handy in the event that for some reason you are incapacitated and unable. *Mine is very much less restricted in where you can go.
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#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.
#30. To: YertleTurtle (#26)
Oddly, sea salt is good for you, and will lower blood pressure because of the trace minerals.
#46. To: lodwick (#30)
#59. To: Ferret Mike (#46)
I only ride around 200-300 miles a week these days, but I am passionately addicted to riding and do ninety percent of my best thinking in saddle.
#76. To: lodwick (#59)
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#86. To: Ferret Mike (#76)
I have several top quality bikes, but my favorite kitten is a Ferrari red Cinelli with Campagnolo Chorus components that cost me about 3000.00.
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#96. To: lodwick (#86)
#111. To: lodwick (#86)
that cost me about 3000.00.
Anywhere 
Anytime
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