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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Good vibrations or knackered knees?
I have just experienced using a Power Plate for the first time.
I only did about six exercises on it during a trial run and it made me tingle all over and my legs feel lighter now, around an hour later back at home. Since smashing my coccyx and a couple of vertabrae about 20 years ago after playing tennis on a hard court, I have a weak lumbar region and really creaky knees and can’t get up or down easily anymore, nor walk downstairs without creeping crablike down one step at at time and a bit sideways so the weight is only on one knee joint at a time. About ten years ago, after endless agony and MRI scans etc, a brilliant knee specialist Dr Barratt said, “I can’t turn a cobbled street into a motorway”, and sent me on my way.
I’ve done what I can ever since to try and strengthen the muscles around the knees and I guess it has helped but they are still dreadfully sore.
Trouble is, the trainer at the gym has recently given me more leg abductor and leg adductor exercises with 15kg weights but the Power Plate instructor says they’re too much and will do my knees more harm than good.
I really don’t know who or what to believe anymore! Anything I do to help myself costs a flipping fortune as well and I could be throwing good money after bad. Any good, cost-effective advice out there? I’m 55 for heavan’s sake, past my best physically, menopausal and wanting to keep as fit as I can but I’m starting from a negative and painful place which doesn’t help. All the motivation is there but finding the best solution is proving harder.
For those interested there’s a description of the Power Plate here taken off http://www.davidlloyd.co.uk/
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- Boost performance and stamina
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Update......Weight Loss Challenge 2010
Six weeks and counting since my girlfriends and I started the Weight Loss Challenge for 2010. I am down 9 lbs and doing really well. I did have a slow start the first few weeks, but the last two weeks I have been totally focused with my foods. The challenge I am having is working out and somehow I need to incorporate this around my crazy schedule, among other things like housework. I have tried doing some quick 20 minutes workouts, including squats, kettlebells and crunches, but I know I need to include more cardio.
My new loves are Coconut Milk, Coconut Water, Braggs Apple Cidar Vinegar with Ginger & Sesame Salad Dressing (great to cook with too), Rice Chocolate Bars and Ezekial Wraps…..yummmmm. I feel good, lighter and truly focused on finishing what I began a long time ago. My goal is to be as healthy as I can be. When I saw Alicia Silverstone on the Oprah Show discussing the documentary Food Inc. and her book The Kind Diet, I decided after viewing the documentary I would purchase her book. I began reading it a few days ago, and it confirms much of what I have learned about processed foods, with even more facts and details in some areas. She also covers other food groups, such as sugars, dairy and fish that I wasn’t completely informed in. Some more of my favorites foods that I have to eliminate…….go figure…LOL. I have held strong in my convictions with certain foods that I will no longer eat……I just now have to expand that and become more creative in the kitchen……….Crap, and I thought menopause was hell!
What have I learned so far? I used to be an arse about calories in and calories out, plus burning it up with cardio. I do still believe it all comes down to calories eaten versus calories burned, but I also felt I was ‘owned’ by writing everything down, which was actually adding to my stress of the day. I was carrying around a small writing pad at work making sure I wrote everything down……..good grief. I have more recently felt such a freedom since I haven’t had do document every morsel anymore, and I can eat freely and not stress over counting my calories with every bite. I have no idea where my calories are anymore and it doesn’t matter, because with eating healthy foods all day long my body is a burning…metabolizing machine! Hooya!!! Watch out girlfriends, here I come!!!!! LOL….
Wisdom….The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Countdown: 11 days
I’m on school vacation so I’m getting caught up on things around here. I’m taking a class and I need to finish the coursework this week because it ends after my surgery day. Next week I need to use my time to get work prepared for my sub.
I took a nice winter walk today with one of my dogs and it was refreshing and felt good to be out enjoying nature. Last night was horrible with night sweats galore. I didn’t sleep much but thankfully, I didn’t have to set an alarm today. I’m hoping for a decent night’s sleep tonight.
I’m enjoying watching the Olympics during my vacation and it’s nice lead into surgery doing something that I enjoy and can take my mind off of it.
Honestly… it still hasn’t really sunk in yet…..
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Vitamin C -lecithin interactions in the prevention of atherosclerosis, cancer and gallstones
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IS THERE ANYTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN?
Fish oil use for medicinal as well as dietary purposes dates back at least to Viking times; but the 1922 scientific study of fish oil by Jack Drummond & Sylvester Zilva is the first paper on it on Pubmed, as a source of vitamin A.
But it took till the 1930s for it’s (ie codliver oil) wide medicinal benefits to be recognized.
Since then fish oil has proven to be the most pluripotential ‘micro’nutrient – at a dose as little as perhaps 100mg/day- in prevention and treatment (via either it’s omega3 EPA+DHA content, or its vitamins A and D content) of all common major diseases from learning , behaviour and memory disorders from birth to dotage, to infections, inflammation, arthritis, vision, pregnancy, growth and osteoporosis, mood, parkinson’s, hypertensive, vascular, thrombotic, lipid, cancer and diabetic disorders.
The recognition of citrus juice- vitamin C – as a medicinal dates back apparently only 250 years to Dr James Lind’s recognition of it’s reversal of lethal scurvy. But it was first identified and isolated only about 80 years ago . Since then it has proven to be as pluripotential a preventative as fish oil and now vitamin D3, and balanced sex hormone replacement.
In 1971 Borgman & Haselden described the effects of cod liver oil on dissolution of gallstones.
In 1974 Krumdieck & Butterworth’s landmark paper on cholesterol-lecithin interactions: factors of potential importance in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. summarized the evidence for combining supplements of vitamin C and soy lecethin (ie polyunsaturated fatty acid at position 2) in the prevention of atherosclerosis- since once this disease is present, it can take months to reverse.
in 1976 Navarro & Guevara described the importance of vitamin C in prevention of gallstones.
and by 1989 Wechsler ea described how omega-3-fatty acids – fish oil- just 1.5gm a day decreases biliary cholesterol and lithogenicity.
from 1973 Cameron Pauling & Campbell published their landmark work on vitamin C to tolerance (not antiscurvy doses or below many grams a day) in the prevention and treatment of many human cancers.
by 1997 Mizuguchi ea described prevention by fish oil of cholesterol gallstone formation in hamsters.
and in 1999 Takenaga ea described how Lecithinized ascorbic acid (PC-AS) effectively inhibits murine pulmonary metastasis.
Lecitithin is derived from food – meat, liver, legumes, cereals, fish and eggs – but not from fish oil. It – phosphatidylcholine- is a principal component of fat metabolism, cell membranes, brain, semen, and against gallstones, atherosclerosis (and thus heart – vascular-hypertensive -brain-), breast, cirrhosis and other liver diseases.
The crucial DHA and EPA omega3 fatty acids are, practically, derived exclusively from marine algae and thence krill and fish oil .
Hence the paramount importance (in preventing all common diseases) of promoting fish oil (by the teaspoon or capsule) together with lecithbioinized Vitamin C to tolerance eg vitamin C 50% enhanced with perhaps 15% calcium carbonate, 5% mag oxide, 10% bioflavinoid and 20% lecithin. Up to a heaped tsp 2 – 3 times a day of such an Enhanced Vitamin C mix – ie to bowel tolerance- will provide 5 – 7.5g vitamin C, 500-750mg calcium, 300 -450mg magnesium, 1-1.5g bioflavinoid and 2- 3g lecithin, with little diarrhoea..
Obviously to this should be added a blend of all the other few-score safe proven potential preventative supplements to combat all the other chronic diseases of premature aging including even multiple sclerosis (especially highdose vitamin D3).
So while oil and water dont mix in a glass, , ie vitamin C and bioflavinoids are not soluble in oil, combining them by taking them together with lecithin and fish oil a few times a day makes huge sense.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Taxing
Iiiitttsss Tax Time!
My husband does ours. Which means I’m due for my annual verbal spanking.
“Do you have any idea how much we spent on fries this year?”
“Uh, no?”
“SIX. THOUSAND. DOLLARS!”
“What?” Okay, what with 5 kids, I don’t have a lot of time to cook, but I’d had no idea.
“What did you buy? Gold plated keyboards?”
Huh? Oh! Frys Electronics! My hearing ain’t what it used to be. Phew.
Our diet is safe for another year.
Carolyn
One-Five-Nine (No kidding)
You've got to be kidding me.
About 15 years ago, I went to my doctor and complained bitterly about brain fog, fatigue and general malaise. I was sure it was my thyroid. And sure enough it was.
As a child, I had been hyper-thyroid. Apparently, children as young as I was don’t develop thyroid problems at the age of 9. They’re either born with them (and often die before diagnosed) or it just doesn’t happen until later in life. Not only was I hyperthyroid, I was extremely so and had a goiter big enough to double as a softball. I’m in medical journals. There was no real protocol for treating children and I was a research hospital’s guinea pig. They did not want to remove the thyroid for a host of reasons. I endured weekly (and sometimes twice weekly) medical appointments and testing for the better part of two years.
The treatment was successful, but my parents were warned that I may never undergo puberty and might never have children. Well. I did undergo puberty – in spades – though I attribute my lack of cleavage to after-effects of massive doses of thyroid hormones. [Every woman on both sides of my family is very well-endowed to the point where breast reduction surgery is often undertaken. I’m a standout oddity.] I also have Chef Boy ‘R Mine as witness to my childbearing abilities.
I’d been complaining, 20 years ago, that something wasn’t right with my thyroid. For the first time in my life, I could pinch an inch. I couldn’t get enough sleep, etc. etc. I kept testing in the normal range. I tried to explain to them that although I wasn’t medicated, I had been somewhat hyperthyroid since I quit taking the meds when I was 10. I was on a downward slope, but I had no street cred with the docs and they couldn’t have cared less what I thought. Low normal was still normal – never mind that I’d been slightly hyper for years.
Fifteen years ago, I persuaded them to do the full thyroid panel and sure enough I was hypothyroid.
The full panel of thyroid tests reveals all sorts of things, but for people with my diagnosis – Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis – the TSH number is the important one. 3.0 is considered the upper range of normal. Most docs don’t like for folks to get below 0.5 to 1.0 or above 5.0. I don’t recall what that first TSH number was – pretty big. I TOLD them I felt awful; I still don’t know why they were so surprised.
So. That was my second real indication that I’m pretty in tune with my body – the first was sensing that Chef Boy ‘R Mine was fixin’ to be a miscarriage before there were any real signs. I know when things are wrong.
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. A simple explanation is that my thyroid thinks it is allergic to itself and keeps trying to commit suicide. Even missing my meds for just a day can provoke mayhem and carnage. Even medicated, periodic adjustments are required. A few years ago, I felt like crap and developed a goiter. I called the doc. My TSH was 39 –yes 39. Thirty-nine times the upper range of normal. He was astonished. I’d only missed three or four days of my meds.
The amount of Synthroid I take boggles the mind of my hypothyroid friends. Hypothyroidism is epidemic among women in this country. The last I heard, it was estimated that 40% of American women are hypothyroid with most of them undiagnosed. Since Oprah got diagnosed, I imagine that a few more are insisting their doctors run the thyroid panel. But regular hypothyroidism is not the same as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Look at it like this – there’s the common cold and then there’s bronchitis.
So, over the years, my thyroid acts up, I feel like crap, and I call the doctor. I’m always right and they no longer argue with me. We run the tests, we up the Synthroid, and off I go on my merry way.
Tired? I should be comatose.
I’ve been sleeping a lot lately, but I haven’t had brain fog and I don’t have a goiter. It’s been a cold, yucky winter and my stress levels are THIS HIGH. [Connie holds her hand two feet above her head.] I’m very in tune with my body and nothing was on my radar.
The family practitioner insisted we run a thyroid panel. I was opposed. I thought it unnecessary testing that would end up costing me a couple hundred dollars. We argued, she won. She also ran my cholesterol.
Well. My cholesterol is in the “needs medication” column and my TSH is, no shit, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE. One Five Nine. That’s 5300% higher than it should be.
Well, shit-fire, no wonder I’m tired. I should be near comatose based on past experience.
I’m inclined to think something went awry with this test. With a TSH of 39, I could barely get out of bed, every spot of arthritis in my body was screaming, my skin was so dry I was a cloud of dead skin cells, and I was thoroughly miserable. I was also unable to remember anything. At a 39 TSH, my world was wallpapered with sticky notes lest I forget something. No kidding, I had sticky notes to remind me to do stuff you wouldn’t think needed reminders. I had “brush teeth” on the medicine cabinet and “go to work” on the steering wheel of the car. I would forget what I was doing in the middle of doing it.
It was awful. If I do, in fact, have a TSH of 159, I should be too bumfuzzled and confoozled to type this much less actually awake at 8 p.m. The only hesitation with dismissing it out of hand is that my cholesterol is high. Traditionally, my cholesterol numbers are good when my thyroid is functioning well. Hypothyroidism correlates with high cholesterol. Many folk find that when they’re properly medicated for thyroid problems, high cholesterol problems go away.
So. Today I read that menopause is suspected to interfere with the body’s ability to process Synthroid. Upon reading that, I threw up my hands and ran amok in the hallways for awhile. Menopause’s unbloody hands appear to affect every facet of my life. I’m tired of it. And I’m tired. And I have a TSH of 159.
I’m still functioning and for that I’m grateful. I’m much too busy to crawl into bed for the 4-6 weeks it will take to get things up to speed.
If you know a woman who’s tired of being tired, suggest she get her thyroid checked. There’s no need to be miserable. Until they figure out why all of us womenfolk are having this problem, there’s not much to be done for it other than get a diagnosis and some prescriptions. (And if you have been diagnosed and medicated, but still feel like crap, get your B12 serum levels checked – B12 deficiency goes hand-in-hand with thyroid problems.)
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