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Community => Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) => Topic started by: Andybg on December 22, 2012, 02:43:03 pm
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Just thought I would put one up in the mumpets folder as it is a quiet day?
Just wondered who on here takes vitamins and whether you think they do anything?
I take:
Glucosamine
Omega oil
I have a bad elbow from a historic acident and feel these certainly help.
Multivitamin
Mini aspirin
Garlic tablet
Not sure if these do anything but guess they cant hurt! Especially the last one with living so close to Transalvania - lol
Andy
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I know that some liken Cider Vinegar to the Elixir of Life. Can't stand the taste myself. I do however place great store in honey. Wards off my lurg most years and is a tad less 'hair shirt' than Cider Vinegar! Dollop on my porridge in the morning and I'm up and running.
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i was taking glucosamine for years but stopped recently only because i'm taking that many drugs for my cronic headaches i feel like a drug store at times's .
never found a vitamin that i could say yeah i feel better after taking it i reckon anything thats cheap and you can buy off the shelf is a pure con ::)
but then again i could be wrong usually am.
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@ in4
Yes am also a great fan of honey. Not sure if it is a wife's tale or not but I find that local honey does make an improvement to hay fever.
Thats my excuse and ill keep eating it till proven wrong (and then probably just carry on)
Andy
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I have never been convinced that any form of vitamin supplement is necessary in a normal diet. Im sure if you search the web you will find studies that suggest it's just marketing hype.
However I am convinced that if you believe something is doing you good then it may well be, whats the downside of taking a spoonful of honey or some vitamin pills?.... None.
The nearest I came to changing my view was a few Years ago when I went to see a doctor about some cramp in my legs I was getting far too regulary, he recommended I eat bananas.....
He was a locum working in Saudi so I thought he was a nut...
Anyway I did start eating bananas regulary and my cramp did reduce.
My partner at the time who was a Nurse said that I was taking on extra potassium which is supposed to help with cramps. I was now a believer in pills etc.
A few Years later I was told that in fact it was more likely I was more conscious of drinking plenty of water during exercise to reduce dehydration (it was kinda hot in Saudi) and not the Bananas, nonetheless I believed at the time it was the Bananas.
The mind is a Strong force, if taking some Honey works for you then I say what the hell..... Go for it :)
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I don't take vitamins at the moment but plan to take a supply when I enter Asia.
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anyone got any homemade remedies that actually work ;)
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Vitamin D3
Omega 3
Both recommended by Chiropractor.
Skin is definitely less dry and to be honest I "feel" better for both.
Also big fan of honey.
Echinacea when I have a cold coming really seems to help.
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I don't take it myself, but my wife swears by her 'magic potion' - 1 cup of apple cider vinegar, 1 cup of honey and one bulb of garlic - whizzed together in food processor for 1 minute and then put into a jar to 'ferment' for 5 days. She then takes two teaspoons each morning in her orange juice (yuk!). Reckons she hasn't had a cold or even the sniffs for the whole 5 years she's been taking it. Unfortunately, it didn't stop the cat from biting her on the wrist 3 weeks ago causing infection and inflammation!
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Any time I've got a sore throat - big dose of vitamin C for the next day or two. Don't know whether it works but I've not had a sore throat develop into a cold for the past 5-6 years (except that one time I was in Tasmania on a tour and didn't have any Vit C), and I've watched the rest of the family get nasty colds in that time.
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...and whilst I'm still up in the pulpit with this one: Have you noticed how 'Big Pharma' try to convince us that we are in a perpetual state of illness and need medication everyday. If this were the case then surely we would have become extinct! Whilst not denigrating some of the wonderful advances in pharmacology I feel a need for perspective on this one. Eat and live well as far as you are able; should stack the cards a little in your favour. Says he as the season of feasting, festivities and lashing of fine wine, ale and porter is about us!!!! Suddenly it feels rather lonely in this pulpit :)
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Actually I think it is the quacks and snake oil salesmen who are more guilty of that. If you have a healthy diet, are not exposed to extreme cold or stress vitamin supplements are just a waste of money.
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...and whilst I'm still up in the pulpit with this one: Have you noticed how 'Big Pharma' try to convince us that we are in a perpetual state of illness and need medication everyday. If this were the case then surely we would have become extinct! Whilst not denigrating some of the wonderful advances in pharmacology I feel a need for perspective on this one. Eat and live well as far as you are able; should stack the cards a little in your favour. Says he as the season of feasting, festivities and lashing of fine wine, ale and porter is about us!!!! Suddenly it feels rather lonely in this pulpit :)
;D ;D ;D brilliant post and 100% correct.
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Well after getting a little ill this year in Africa ::)
My Doctor (from the U.S.A.) in Kenya had me on "Centrum" Multivitamin and Mineral Supplement.
So after recovering i'm still taking them ;)
Pete.....
:o
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Well after getting a little ill this year in Africa ::)
My Doctor (from the U.S.A.) in Kenya had me on "Centrum" Multivitamin and Mineral Supplement.
So after recovering i'm still taking them ;)
Pete.....
:o
great your fully recover pete have a great christmas. ;)
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great your fully recover pete have a great christmas. ;)
Thanks and the same to You :)
Pete.....
;)
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Just thought I would put one up in the mumpets folder as it is a quiet day?
Just wondered who on here takes vitamins and whether you think they do anything?
I take:
Glucosamine
Omega oil
I have a bad elbow from a historic acident and feel these certainly help.
Multivitamin
Mini aspirin
Garlic tablet
Not sure if these do anything but guess they cant hurt! Especially the last one with living so close to Transalvania - lol
Andy
The best thing for your joints depends on the person I think. Some people get relief from golden raisins soaks in gin until the gin evaporates (look up the peoples pharmacy). Didn't work for me but it may for you. You can also try goat butter, if you can get it unpasteurized from a reputable source that would be best. Plain old pasteurized goat butter works for me.
Gelatin also helps. You can get it in organic form but I'm not sure if that matters or not in this case.
Also, make sure you're filtering fluoride out of you water if it's there naturally or put in by the city. Along with a load of nasty health effect, including lowering your IQ (dozens of studies show this effect and some even at low doses. Some people are more effected by it than others and when it's in the water you can't meter the dose. Then there's the problem where not all fluoride is equally toxic, some being far worse than others.), and even causing cancer (look up "fluoride causes cancer" on you-tube to get an interesting video of a Doctor proclaiming this rather bluntly), it can also calcify soft tissues in your joints and in your pineal gland (look up Nobel prize winner Aarvid Caarlson, whose name I've probably spelled wrong on the pineal gland issue.).
I had knee pain for years until I started filtering those things out.[language edit -- Dan] You need an activated alumina filter and a good carbon filter after it to filter out any alumina that gets into the water. I'd recommend the CuZn brand but there are others.
Make sure your fish oil is from a reputable source like Carlson's. Some of it is contaminated. The Norwegian cod liver oil is supposed to be the cleanest. Krill oil is the new thing though. You may try it out. It's supposed to be cleaner and more sustainable than fish oil.
Multi-vitamins, except for a rare and expensive few, should be avoided. Most have something in them that's not quite right, whether it's the thiamine mono-nitrate form of B1 that does nothing to nourish your body but does build up in the liver potentially causing some liver problems, to using fake ingredients, they tend not to be that good. Plus they don't have all of the peripheral substances that are needed to absorb them properly.
You should really get most of your nutrition from food. Grass fed beef, lots of organic vegetables, stay away from GMO's etc. (look up glyphosate causes cancer for more info on that. Also, formaldehyde in GMO corn. You ought to just see the nutritional difference between GMO corn and regular corn. It's extreme to say the least.). Stay away from gluten too. It's pretty bad for your for a lot of reasons. So is soy.
Use Himilayan rock salt or Orsa salt instead of regular chemical made salt.
There's much more, but your entire diet is important. It's not really a matter of just adding this or taking away that in most cases.
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Any time I've got a sore throat - big dose of vitamin C for the next day or two. Don't know whether it works but I've not had a sore throat develop into a cold for the past 5-6 years (except that one time I was in Tasmania on a tour and didn't have any Vit C), and I've watched the rest of the family get nasty colds in that time.
Look up Linus Pauling's book, "How to Liver Longer and Feel Better" I think it is.
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Well after getting a little ill this year in Africa ::)
My Doctor (from the U.S.A.) in Kenya had me on "Centrum" Multivitamin and Mineral Supplement.
So after recovering i'm still taking them ;)
Pete.....
:o
Centrum won't even dissolve in stomach acid. Seriously.