WRITTEN IN 2012
The Building Blocks of a Life in Balance
Live vs. Dead Nutrition
If you are indeed reading this, and therefore alive when concerning the consumption of nutrients, which are our bodies building blocks for maintenance and restoration and rejuvenation, shall we choose building blocks to eat or building blocks that are dead or both perhaps?
Here I will outline in first simple detail what I think to be the case, and then I will go about my research to either support those assumptions in my original hypothesis or be it's the largest opponent, if the evidence, as both empirical and subjective, is reviewed through my research and mentally scrutinized, shows different.
Not always the case, but at least more often then not, we may think one way because it simply seems to follow along with what we all term a certain intuition.
Sometimes, however, when open-minded and thinking through a problem, we find something seems to fit a paradoxical order of sense and surprises us all.
I do not think that will be the case here, however, I again, believe anything may exist, and the honest truth is, I believe or lean a certain way or direction already, so I want to be mentally clear and open-minded from this point forth to further asses this idea, not my own at all, but none the less, look at it from the views as such reported and recorded as well as with perhaps an enhanced perspective, through the modern eyes of science in this year 2012.
I will also state that I am mostly interested at this particular point in time to focus solely on human beings, however, other organisms could be either included or researched (with already garnered knowledge, or new knowledge from research that is not harmful or restraining to any wild animal in the best of all case scenarios) along this journey of exploration.
I am at forty-four confronted with a disintegrating spine basically. I have slipped disc in all three regions, known as cervical, thoracic, and lumbar as so herein referenced from this point forward.
I have spinal stenosis in all three regions.
I have a broken lumbar vertebra.
I Have leaking spinal fluid.
I have three to four cervical vertebras the doctors want me to fuse immediately, however, I am walking and functioning better now then I have for a while, however very guardedly, as in a moment I may just bend to pick up something I have dropped like the newspaper or a guitar pick, and wham, I am stuck and in unbearable crippling pain, and sometimes have been unable to walk.
So I think positive healing thoughts, try my best to get lost deep in my music and heal, and I think of being thankful for what food I have, and try to plan to have food that is always healthy by making better choices and eating more properly.
My hypothesis comes to mind from a deeper perspective and motivation because it comes from the dire and desperate spirit of a man that wants to live longer. stay walking and youthful, and for now, not have surgery at all as I stay at least this well.
I am awaiting laser surgery techniques and the use of synthetic parts to maybe be a more viable option in the future, and so, therefore, cannot help find myself immersed at times reading up on all of my conditions, as well as the new science and technology being developed and utilized right now, that is legitimate.
In medicine, and this is not to state that laser back surgery procedures replace all otherwise known as conventional operations in their own very greatest complexity, however, there are arising alternatives that are far less invasive with modern endoscopy and other imaging available, which I believe will be in real-time more and more often.
Check this site out.
This is some mind-blowing science and technology right here!
At the time of this reporting, their home page is down!
www.cultek.com
http://www.linkedin.com/company/cultek
,also read this .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file.
However, this is an active and quite fascinating stuff.
http://www.cultek.com/inf/otros/perfil-proveedores/Cellomics_catalogo_reducido.pdf
I read a ton about many different sciences, as well as research my medical conditions, and try my best to not use pharmaceuticals for now, although I do keep prescriptions which I feel I have a need for in a bad case scenario, which happens.
I am always in pain, and I do not write this for any sympathy, I write it to offer personal support for what has worked for me thus far so it may help others make better decisions.
I have been a smoker of cigarettes for some time and this is a poor personal habit I am all too well aware of.
I am cutting back and desire to quit, but I honestly find it the most addictive substance(s) known to mankind. and for what in the long run?
I am simply stating this because it is truthful and honest and it has a lot to do with stripping nutrition and also keeping nutrition from getting to the proper places.
I am close to quitting, and writing thinking more about my health and eating better and better has been a huge impetus promoting me to continuing to live in a better way of life.
For example, I just finished my Oolong tea with natural honey and lemon, and I am now sipping on 4 cups of turmeric/ginger honey and lemon infusion. A teaspoon of each, steeped 10 minutes, honey, and lemon added afterward to personal taste and desire.
This is the first time I added a cup tsp of cinnamon, and it is the most soothing drink I have ever had in every way.
Satisfies deep and rich like coffee without the aggressive body jolt of stimulating caffeine, and also equally as satisfying as any other it tickles the tea sensation center just right too.
First I have a double shot of Apple Cider Vinegar, for its own related health benefits, I hope you will read about here.
http://www.livestrong.com/apple-cider-vinegar/
Also, let this guide you for a moment so that you may read about turmeric and ginger, as to now more fully understand them at this point would be pointless to read here much further, and these pages speak for themselves.
Turmeric:
http://www.livestrong.com/turmeric/
Ginger:
http://www.livestrong.com/ginger/
So when I can I start my day like this, or start at least a part of my day like this, and it is soothing while I type like right now for example, or when I am listening to any music.
There is something deeply satisfying about the earthy tones along with the sweet and sours just properly blended that are titillating to the mind.
Better yet perhaps, I really feel my pain lessen quite a bit, and with their inherent properties, it only makes sense.
And four cups of this a day does the trick, and at the times I cannot afford it (which I am planning around for the future as I will mail order this in bulk at a much better price from a reputable company) I feel the difference and want a Motrin, but I try my best to not use them, as I have taken them a long time off and on and I at least want my organs to have a break from the harsh chemicals that most pharmaceuticals have proven to be to so many unpredictable varying degrees, that I just want to find the way to health, restoration, and a future of freedom from a dependency on the mentality and availability of modern medical science that has become so ingrained.
I do think I am witnessing a change however and believe that most folks are looking for legitimate alternatives, and this is a great thing for us all if we proceed forward learning an sharing what we find so others may choose what works best for them.
At other times in life, of course, I am 100% for many medical procedures and perhaps some medicine too, however, it is not what I choose first no matter what when I am alert and able to decide.
So at this point, perhaps you think what I have written is not true, and I would not blame you on many levels, however, my doctors do not think I should walk, and as I did not write this particular issue specifically earlier, the cervical area of my neck shows in my M.R.I that I have massive spinal cord compression and somehow my neck has a bend in the spine from a side view that is approaching ninety degrees!
I have seen a few doctors with huge unbelieving eyes because I am walking and pretty mobile when they see me (they have never seen me at the bad times though and will not offer a cell # to make a house call, where I choose to stay and heal through)t, you should see there expression when I ask if I can ski in Colorado still.
That's just me, always trying to stay positive, and usually even more so when it is a must, perhaps less so through smaller of life's events, but that is for another time perhaps.
As with other sections in my blog, I will update this, but I will publish as I go along, and you can check back for updates be they from my personal experience or research I find that I want to share that others have done and thence reported on.
I am also not a doctor, and what is written here is simply my personal observations and research the best I can share it and should be discussed with your personal doctor before you entertain any aspect of herbal remedies.
I believe in great communication with my doctors, and I implore answers or find new doctors. Sometimes the journey has been long and hard, but knowing today what I felt, but never had evidence of is a great step towards healing.
I listen to my doctors well, it does not, however, mean that I subscribe fully to their course of treatment, because at one time when I did I was on fourteen medications, and I just do not think that is a good idea for anyone, and you also have to think they absolutely have to inner react with one another and who knows what for each individual patient!
So anyway today progress is an occasional Motrin (meaning maybe 4 a month tops), and rarely an acid reducer such as omeprazole.
These things I am even cutting back on when I carefully control my body's ph such as explained in this article about acidosis.
http://www.livestrong.com/metabolic-acidosis/
Acidosis is also important to understand because it is our own body's cellular habitat!
Bacteria and viruses are well known to better thrive in an acidic body or cellular environment.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/474880-what-effect-do-acidic-foods-have-on-the-body/
Here is a great article as well as supporting the same as written above.
This is also something else I came across in my own personal research that I am thinking about in the future as well.
When you read the link the "what I am thinking about getting" will be revealed quite quickly, and it can very well make a lot of sense too.
http://www.ionizers.org/acidosis.html
Livestrong is a plethora of personal knowledge for better life and maintenance and prevention as well as restoration and rejuvenation.
It is not the only site I read at, as I may read at Mayo's or Harvard, or Princeton, or science.com, or maybe a blog, or a company web-site, a slanted news article, ad infinitum.
However, it is the best database I have come across that always has an answer or information when I am personally formulating a plan or strategy when it comes to any health or nutrition and it typically follows right in the guidelines of what any reasonable doctor would desire for a patient.
Here is another thing that has helped just me personally. Well, others too of course, but really just read about this and if it makes sense when you listen to your body, try to get off the stuff for a week or two and watch how your boy starts to respond like when you were years younger.
That is what I am looking for in all of my food.
I am run down, old, and beat the hell up!
I need fuel that fires this old freight train up and even makes repairs!
If you are not there personally, great, and enjoy yourself by all means, but if you start to slow down, I hope these words ring back into the forefront of your mind with the greatest of ease.
The other thing I never get tired of and can never do enough of, which is sometimes quite often, other times less often, is hiking or taking walks.
I like very long walks for a few hours and I usually like to explore along the way!
The exercise for me is really just an added benefit to the fun of exploring.
My point is just finding that physical activity where your body is moving along and that is aerobic in nature, meaning just using more oxygen while the heart speeds up and the body is exercising through life and that is not so much work for you as much as it is a pleasure and start your exercise from there.
Again. always talk with your doctor first too.
Proper planning makes for a better harvest and time that may be better utilized as you like, so it always makes sense to me personally.
Live Foods vs. Dead Foods, or live nutrition vs. dead nutrition.
Is there such a thing as dead nutrition?
From what we often read today in 2012. it certainly seems to be the case, however just because something is, let's say cooking, does that mean it's nutrition died?
I would think it just changed forms perhaps at the most extreme, and in the least extreme case perhaps became somewhat less nutritious.
I say do your own research and draw your own conclusions.
If you read something here, by all means, leave a comment and agree or rebut briefly, and leave any supporting links you may like to share.
Living-Foods
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http://www.livestrong.com/living-foods/
Dead-Foods
http://www.deathtodiabetes.com/Dead_Foods.html
