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[Guest guest]

Well, crap! I'm an aspartame nut! I can't live

without my Trident! I guess that'll be the next thing

to go. Well, when I got sick in Dec. 1999, I had a

partly collapsed lung and walking pneumonia, and I

lost a lot of weight, body mass in particular. I was

still running and doing push-ups and sit-ups, but I

was lots lighter and thinner than even a month before

when I left boot camp. At that time I lived on

chocolate and yogurt. occasionally I had a

cheeseburger and fries, eggs and sausage, or biscuits

and gravey. But meals like those were less frequent

than my visits to the PX for a big bag of M & Ms, calls

to the Golden Elephant for some General TSO's Chicken,

or stops at the vending machine for a snickers or a

milky way. And lately, as I've been adjusting to

working graveyard shifts, I don't know that I've

gained a whole lot of weight, but I've had a bit of

candy and coffee with my Herbalife shake and Kombucha.

Here's how it works: wake up at about 9 or 10 pm and

have either 500 mg cayanne + 1500 mg schizandra with

some supertonic and kombucha (sometimes with a little

bit of aloe juice mixed in) and lots of water. Then I

either have a protein bar or a shake. I don't eat

anything (except in the past couple days some

chocolate candy to keep my bloodsugar up high enough

to keep me awake) all night, and when I get home I hit

the fridge. I've tried to stay away from it, but I

can't resist some butter toast. I love my butter

toast! Anyway, it's that time of the month, too, so I

feel and look REALLY bloated, and thus have tried to

take some dandelion root.

 

Do you, by chance, know how I can prepare my own

dandelion root from the stuff in the lawn as a

diuretic? Anyway, that's all just some info I hope

will be useful in finding some solutions to my

physical problems.

 

By the way, my aunt has to take a thyroid pill to keep

her weight under control, and she is the one who

introduced me into the world of herbal remedies and

natural health. Since thyroid probs are in my blood,

could you help me figure out whether I have a problem

with mine?

 

THANKS!!!

 

Holly

 

 

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[Guest guest]

....and, although you are taking some herbs to help build stamina, you are

working odd, inconsistant hrs., which probably stresses you along with any other

stressors, and your diet is also inconsistant and leaves something to be

desired, which in a nut shell, stresses your adrenals; sugar addiction (for

energy) should tell you something.

 

In Health,

Steve

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If you are sure the lawn hasn't been sprayed with pesticides or herbicides, you

can just cut the leaves of the

dandelion and brew into a tea, or cut them up in a salad, or cook them like

spinach. The leaves are the

diuretic. The root is the liver support. For that, just dig up the dandelion

in the fall, (they are annuals,

so they need all season to get the full potential into the root.) clean the root

well, slice, put in a paper bag

in a dark cool place. Shake well daily till completely dried. Store in a

glass jar out of light. The leaves can be dried in much the same way and used 1

teaspoon to 1 cup boiling water for a tea.

 

A physical check up is the best way to know for sure if your thyroid is a

problem, but if you gain weight

easily, are often fatigued and sluggish feeling, if you suffer from the cold,

and/or are often disoriented or

confused those are pretty good signs of hypothyroidism. Kelp is a good

supplement for this as it provides

iodine plus is very high in minerals.

Jennie

 

Holly Wrote:

Do you, by chance, know how I can prepare my own dandelion root from the stuff

in the lawn as a diuretic?

Anyway, that's all just some info I hope will be useful in finding some

solutions to my physical problems.

By the way, my aunt has to take a thyroid pill to keep her weight under control,

and she is the one who

introduced me into the world of herbal remedies and natural health. Since

thyroid probs are in my blood, could

you help me figure out whether I have a problem with mine?

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

If you are sure the lawn hasn't been sprayed with pesticides or herbicides, you

can just cut the leaves of the

dandelion and brew into a tea, or cut them up in a salad, or cook them like

spinach. The leaves are the

diuretic. The root is the liver support. For that, just dig up the dandelion

in the fall, (they are annuals,

so they need all season to get the full potential into the root.) clean the root

well, slice, put in a paper bag

in a dark cool place. Shake well daily till completely dried. Store in a

glass jar out of light. The leaves

can be dried in much the same way and used 1 teaspoon to 1 cup boiling water for

a tea.

 

A physical check up is the best way to know for sure if your thyroid is a

problem, but if you gain weight

easily, are often fatigued and sluggish feeling, if you suffer from the cold,

and/or are often disoriented or

confused those are pretty good signs of hypothyroidism. Kelp is a good

supplement for this as it provides

iodine plus is very high in minerals.

Jennie

 

Holly Wrote:

Do you, by chance, know how I can prepare my own dandelion root from the stuff

in the lawn as a diuretic?

Anyway, that's all just some info I hope will be useful in finding some

solutions to my physical problems.

By the way, my aunt has to take a thyroid pill to keep her weight under control,

and she is the one who

introduced me into the world of herbal remedies and natural health. Since

thyroid probs are in my blood, could

you help me figure out whether I have a problem with mine?

[Guest guest]

There's hyperthyroid and hypothyroid. Opposite conditions, requiring

generally opposite treatments. If you just can't seem to feel warm, that's

usually hypothyroid. Natural treatment for that is seaweed & kelp in the

diet. My wife had it, started adding that to her diet occasionally, and

hasn't taken a thyroid pill since we got married.

 

General Tso's Chicken isn't too bad. Snickers, of all the well-known candy

bars out there, are probably the least worst. And of course the red M & Ms

are aphrodisiacs, while the blue ones are crimes against nature.

 

Doesn't all that cayenne kill off the Kombucha?

 

Younger dandelions before their first flowering cycle are said to be better.

Ditto on the advice to make sure the lawn hasn't been sprayed. Some people

have that done by contract, and don't even know it's happening any more.

The payments are deducted automatically, and the spray trucks only show up

when they're at work.

 

Real butter isn't that bad for you. Margarine is. You might check into

whole-grain breads. If you ever get to Europe, you won't be able to eat

American bread for a long time. I still measure the quality of bread by how

much it would hurt if it hit you.

 

At 11:41 AM 9/15/01 -0700, you wrote:

>Well, crap! I'm an aspartame nut! I can't live

>without my Trident! I guess that'll be the next thing

>to go. Well, when I got sick in Dec. 1999, I had a

>partly collapsed lung and walking pneumonia, and I

>lost a lot of weight, body mass in particular. I was

>still running and doing push-ups and sit-ups, but I

>was lots lighter and thinner than even a month before

>when I left boot camp. At that time I lived on

>chocolate and yogurt. occasionally I had a

>cheeseburger and fries, eggs and sausage, or biscuits

>and gravey. But meals like those were less frequent

>than my visits to the PX for a big bag of M & Ms, calls

>to the Golden Elephant for some General TSO's Chicken,

>or stops at the vending machine for a snickers or a

>milky way. And lately, as I've been adjusting to

>working graveyard shifts, I don't know that I've

>gained a whole lot of weight, but I've had a bit of

>candy and coffee with my Herbalife shake and Kombucha.

> Here's how it works: wake up at about 9 or 10 pm and

>have either 500 mg cayanne + 1500 mg schizandra with

>some supertonic and kombucha (sometimes with a little

>bit of aloe juice mixed in) and lots of water. Then I

>either have a protein bar or a shake. I don't eat

>anything (except in the past couple days some

>chocolate candy to keep my bloodsugar up high enough

>to keep me awake) all night, and when I get home I hit

>the fridge. I've tried to stay away from it, but I

>can't resist some butter toast. I love my butter

>toast! Anyway, it's that time of the month, too, so I

>feel and look REALLY bloated, and thus have tried to

>take some dandelion root.

>

>Do you, by chance, know how I can prepare my own

>dandelion root from the stuff in the lawn as a

>diuretic? Anyway, that's all just some info I hope

>will be useful in finding some solutions to my

>physical problems.

>

>By the way, my aunt has to take a thyroid pill to keep

>her weight under control, and she is the one who

>introduced me into the world of herbal remedies and

>natural health. Since thyroid probs are in my blood,

>could you help me figure out whether I have a problem

>with mine?

>

>THANKS!!!

>

>Holly

>

-- Michael Riversong **

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http://home.earthlink.net/~mriversong

[Guest guest]

*ROFL* I don't seem to find time to make bread very often, but the bread I do

make would hurt a *lot* if it hit

you. Shortly after my son came home from Germany he complimented me on my bread

saying he hadn't had bread that

tasted *real since he came home.

Jennie

 

Michael Riversong wrote:

 

> I still measure the quality of bread by how

> much it would hurt if it hit you.

>