My Own Thoughts

Category: Health

  • Ketogenic

    If I don’t have a fat bomb, this will be the third day in a row that I have overeaten my carbs. This morning my urine was at trace. It hasn’t been that low since I started the ketogenic diet. I know this diet helps me feel better and lose weight. I need to have…

  • My Health

    Appointments: I’ve made an appointment for March 30 to see a new doctor I really don’t care to see because I need a new primary health care physician and the one I wanted wasn’t taking new patients. The nurse practitioner listened to R and that means I could probably make an appointment with her and…

  • Osteoarthritis

    I have osteoarthritis and had surgery for it in my jaw when I was 19. That surgery made my life significantly easier to live, though the doctor quit doing the surgery after a while because it made a difference for so few. I am grateful that I was able to have the surgery because it…

  • Leptin Sensitivity

    Here are some notes from a very long sales video I watched. Leptin What controls your body’s fat. High levels signal your body to let go of fat. Women have 2x leptin as men. BUT 1. Women 3x less responsive to leptin. “leptin resistance” (1 unique problem) 2. When dieting, leptin can drop 2x as…

  • Adrenal Fatigue

    While reading on Leptin and on Jack Kruse’s website, I found discussion of adrenal fatigue–which I have been diagnosed with by the same practitioner who recognized my nightshade allergy. Kruse said that adrenal fatigue is a brain problem and, while discussing other things, wrote: “at its core obesity was an inflammatory brain condition of bad…

  • List of Nightshade Foods to Avoid

    I found a new source, while looking at Leptin sensitivity issues, that gave a list of nightshade foods that made a lot of sense to other/additional sensitivities I have noticed: What are Solanaceae? If you have an AI, DDD or DJD consider avoiding them: A. American-grown soy! It has been hybridized with petunias, a nightshade,…

  • Jenny’s Pomegranate Salad

    I got this recipe from a friend at church after tasting her amazing salad. Wild Berry Pistachio Salad 3 heads Romaine lettuce 1 ½ cups blackberries, rinsed 1 cup pomegranate seeds ¾ cup pistachios 12 oz feta cheese Sweet Pomegranate Dressing 1 ½ cups vegetable oil ½ tsp. salt ¾ cup pomegranate vinegar ½ tsp…

  • Gluten Free and Modified Food Starch

    I am on the third day of a month of gluten free eating, to see if, perhaps, the additional aches and pains and (even more wishfully thought than expected) some of the weight I carry is a result of a wheat allergy. According to Quazi, one of the symptoms is bone pain. I wonder (hope?)…

  • Allergen Fail

    #fail Chili’s served me pretzels which had BBQ sauce on them. (Tasted it on the first bite.) I left to go get benadryl and Ron asked them to change them out. We got them to go. 2 of the 4 had BBQ on them again. Some people can die from allergens added randomly to their…

  • Exercise

    We’ve been working out for a year. Last July Ron read a book which said that the older you get, the more you need to exercise. It made sense and we started working out. First we did FMS testing with a personal trainer. And we have worked with her for 2x a week for the…

  • Could Pain be Something Good?

    For fibromyalgia sufferers, pain can be good. It can mean that your body is getting rid of the stores of pain that you built up over the years. They basically go backwards in time back through the same pains. I don’t know if it takes about the same amount of time, but it might. I…

  • Osteopenia

    from Osteopenia3.com There was a time when people ate a more alkaline diet (vegetables, especially green leafy ones,fruits and dairy products). Today many people have switched to a more acidic diet (meat, fish, soft drinks, grains, legumes, nuts). Some researchers say that this acidic diet means our bodies need to leach calcium from its storehouse…

  • More Hidden Nightshades

    or Don’t Be a Dummy, Read the Labels! Hot dogs all have paprika in them. Hot dogs are now off my list. All shredded cheese have potato starch in them. Shredded cheese will now be home made. Most dressings that I was looking at, Raspberry vinaigrettes, have paprika or “spices” in them. So I should…

  • Obstetrics and Teaching

    While the post is actually about teaching, the information about the Apgar Scale, its creator and the impetus for its creation, was fascinating. As the student of a pre-Apgar professor whose child was left to die, while the parents were dazed at the doctor’s words and emotionally unable to attempt to intervene, a professor who…

  • Inside the Brain

    Inside the Brain: A Journey Through Time It is beautiful, but not good. Here, an image taken from the brain of a patient who suffered a stroke in the thalamus and midbrain, resulting in damage to certain axons (some are visible at the bottom of the image).

  • Medicine Shortages

    The results, the history, those most impacted, and the explanation are available at Political Calculations. It’s not good.

  • Why emergency care may not come in time…

    In the event of injuries related to a crash, the average time to reach an emergency care facility in a rural area is 53 minutes versus 37 minutes in an urban area. –quote from IDriveSafely

  • Kids, Meds, and Psych

    Two readings: Your Kids Aren’t Sick and Does It Matter What a Doctor Believes? You know how I feel about them.

  • I was worried about sweet potatoes

    and my nightshade allergy. Then I read this: Sweet potatoes are botanically unrelated to the common potato. Potatoes are part of the nightshade family while Sweet Potatoes are cousins of the morning-glory. Good. Go, sweet potato fries. Brought to you by the European Food Information Council.

  • Bad News for Me

    However, scientific data are slowly accumulating to suggest that recurring seizures may contribute to nerve cell injury in the brain, and this may be associated with declines in cognitive function and quality of life. Epilepsy.com