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Off Topic / Re: Favourite Quotations
« on: February 07, 2009, 01:42:27 pm »
One of my favourite...

To err is human in so far as animals seldom or never err or at least only the cleverest of them do so...

the above from Georg Lichtenberg (great man!)

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Off Topic / Re: What are you thinking?
« on: February 07, 2009, 01:32:30 pm »
I am thinking how a little thyroid changes the personality of someone (who had thyroid issues)...
the one factor that makes so much difference... all other factors (diet,exercise) did not make much difference before-

its astounding how glands make the "mind" -
memory, creativity, thinking, zest for life, articulation - all flower when nutritional requirement is met (ofcourse when some potential is not wanting)

(as an after-thought whether a particular anti-social trait can be suppressed just by administrating a particular glandular drug,--hypo or hyper, one can go as far as making the subject just a vegetable... )

regards Sarav

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Welcoming Committee / Re: Greetings from Sarav...
« on: December 21, 2008, 11:55:28 pm »
Quote from: RawZi on December 15, 2008, 03:09:30 pm
Greetings to you Sarav,

    I kind of know where you're coming from, in that I was vegan for years.  At the end I was so stiff, etc, so low energy, many problems.  I had to change if there was a chance I could be better.  My immediate family is vegan, so it didn't make them very happy when I told them of the change I was about to make.  Whole grain rice and cooked legumes were a staple of mine for years.

Blessings of good health, peace, love, understanding and happiness to you,

RawZi

Thanks RawZi, it is always an encouragement to find kindred spirits...
those were dark days, i lived without much info - no internet, not many books available here, unaware i lived many years without animal foods, always hoping to get better even when i find many health problems thinking that they were all detox... how delusional these ideas are..! how we fail to recognise problems by blinding ourselves dogmatically with theories when we have no access to adequate information...

anyway it feels good atlast to find something workable to good extent... :)
ofcourse, illness taught us very many things which the healthy may not even have a chance to learn...!







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Health / Re: Salami - and nitrate
« on: December 21, 2008, 11:45:40 pm »
Quote from: TylerDurden on December 15, 2008, 07:59:44 pm
That's the trouble with eating processed foods, the glands seem to be the worst affected by such diet, so that it's often necessary to supplement with raw glands as well as the usual raw meats/fats in order to get well.

I cannot agree more, TylerDurden... before this gland supplements, the improvement was not complete i would say, not to this degree... i used to despair, what more can be done..? now i find this gland connection is a vital link in improvement..

thanks for the good work, your experiences and advise is quite a help for people who are worse-affected like me...

Regards
Sarav

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Health / Re: Salami - and nitrate
« on: December 15, 2008, 11:04:56 am »
Hi TylerDurden

I have been taking thyroid and adrenal supplements as you suggested... I feel good difference in terms of energy, clearing brainfog, depression...

thanks
Sarav

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Off Topic / Re: Happy Birthday, Sarav!!!!
« on: October 31, 2008, 11:59:28 am »
ah... i missed these wishes.. my apologies..

Thanks for the wishes, Craig, TylerDurden, Boxcarguy07 :)
The day was wonderfull!

Cheers, Sarav

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Health / Re: hair tissue mineral analysis....
« on: October 19, 2008, 08:49:46 am »
possibly, yes with an eye to detail... i may not have time and resources to do that at this point of time in my job...

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Welcoming Committee / Re: Greetings from Sarav...
« on: October 19, 2008, 08:47:44 am »
Quote from: golooraam on October 15, 2008, 11:25:41 am
tell me about it, a lot of elders I know have rampant diabetes and arthritis but cannot, will not, shall not ever give up their rotis and chapatis - they claim it gives them strength or something like that...

yes, it is so with south indians too regarding rice as like filipinos (goodsamaritan mentioned)

but when u are at the end of sickness and could barely live, you would like to try something or other just to become normal... it is a trade-off and  a better one at that as you are not confined-at-home as a vegetable..!

but now and then i feel the loss of such a good soothing starch (rice,wheat).... but i know what my body says! :)

 

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Health / Re: hair tissue mineral analysis....
« on: October 06, 2008, 03:01:31 am »
Quote from: wodgina6722 on October 05, 2008, 09:57:54 pm
Sometimes high levels of metals found when conducting hair tissue analysis can mean your body is detoxing these metals. So high levels in hair doesn't mean high levels in the body.

oh.. then this seems a bit tricky...
(this genuine_detox Versus Health_issue_symptoms puzzles me... even during my vegetarian/vegan days I used to think it is detox but it was deficiency symptoms...)



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Health / Re: hair tissue mineral analysis....
« on: October 05, 2008, 07:35:37 pm »
Quote from: TylerDurden on October 04, 2008, 06:55:22 pm
I haven't bothered as I've read that it's highly dodgy and doesn't reflect the actual mineral-levels within the body, as a whole - same goes for urine-analysis etc.

thanks for the input TylerDurden...
I am in US presently for a short visit... and I am trying to maximise my utlization of time here health-wise...
Tried EM... it aided digestion and controlled IBS symptoms... (but just its been just 4 days since...)

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Welcoming Committee / Re: Greetings from Sarav...
« on: October 05, 2008, 07:30:27 pm »
Quote from: goodsamaritan on October 03, 2008, 10:11:17 pm
Sarav,
How difficult is it to ask Indians to give up wheat?
How did you give up eating wheat?

Being South Indian we used to eat Rice as staple food unlike the North Indians (those who live in northern states... Delhi, Maharastra, Rajasthan,etc) would do live on wheat...

I slowly weaned away from Rice.. first milk, then all rice items except fermented rice dishes like Idli, Dosa, then even that... as my order of intolerance grew..  socialising has become bit difficult for me these days... but  I can trade off that as I am a bit loner with much interests in literarature and philosophy...









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Welcoming Committee / Re: Greetings from Sarav...
« on: October 05, 2008, 07:22:28 pm »
Quote from: boxcarguy07 on October 03, 2008, 08:39:26 pm
Ahh, Sarav...

forgive me, but until you just posted your picture I thought that you were female!
I read your name as Sara V.  instead of Sarav...

A funny mix-up  :P

lol... Here in India many of my friends call me Sara... :)
I came to know that Sara is a female name when I was in UK.. the fullname is bit of a tongue-twister...

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Health / hair tissue mineral analysis....
« on: October 03, 2008, 08:35:25 pm »
I am wondering if it is worthwhile to do a hair tissue mineral analysis... has anybody used it?

TIA :)

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Health / Re: Salami - and nitrate
« on: October 03, 2008, 07:37:12 pm »
thanks TylerDurden... it makes a lot of sense... as you say I would look into the meat source and try...
((i am open to high meat too given my condition but I have to conceal it as my family may be not approve and would hinder me actively - they have issues with light cooking itself)

that makes sense -- adrenal burnout and cooked protein digestion.. thanks..

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Health / Re: Salami - and nitrate
« on: October 03, 2008, 04:57:46 am »
thanks Sully for the link....

yes, TylerDurden I think I can avoid that...


Back in India the organic grass-fed meat is very difficult to get and I have been relying more on coconut cream and cook lightly the chicken, mutton etc.


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Welcoming Committee / Re: Greetings from Sarav...
« on: October 03, 2008, 04:50:02 am »
Quote from: wodgina6722 on October 02, 2008, 09:02:18 pm
I cured my IBS very easily with this diet.  Low carb helped, RVAF cured it. I had it for 8-9 years really bad, it's a distant memory now. I was told it can't be cured and can only be managed pppfftttt...lies

Yeast is a tricky one, my advice is to go zero carb and avoid anti-fungals (including natural ones) but if your going to cure it you need to more importantly go ZERO STRESS. I've got yeast issues too.

Good Luck

thanks wodgina,

oops.. i forgot to tell you the forum that am not 100% raw... except for eggs... but i do very light cooking just to turn the color of the meat... thinking i lose little nutrient that way also I could avoid flaring up my family members antagonism and fears...

i tried zero-carb few times but somehow i get too tired (more mentally) without a little veggies -- at the same time more veggies is a problem so i keep it to the optimum. i fear i may get magnesium deficient and a bit depressed...






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Health / Salami - and nitrate
« on: October 02, 2008, 09:19:17 pm »
For IBS, i feel good to eat Salami - my only concern is nitrate issues.. not sure if we get additive/preservative free salami.. Also I dont know how far Salami (pork) is processed/ i guess it is least processed.. As I am from India this is new to me...

Has anybody with IBS experienced similar effects?


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Welcoming Committee / Re: Greetings from Sarav...
« on: October 02, 2008, 07:33:04 pm »
thanks TylerDurden...

that website is an interesting read particularly adrenal part - and very informative about minerals deficiencies.. it rings bell when i read most of the adrenal burnout syndromes...

planning to try out something in the direction of mineral deficiencies...

sometime back i had read heart palpitations and magnesium deficiency and how veggie soup helped - and also how poor circulation particularly cold hand and feet helped by magnesium - I usually have these symptoms whenever i had good fatty-meaty meal and when I eat veggies, the hands and feet are quite warm... this I thought may be due to macro nutrient ratio... and Quantity still matters for me it seemed..

i relate to most of the thyroid (hypo) and adrenal issues...

thanks this glandular perspective and mineral viewpoint throws some light! thanks!!



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Welcoming Committee / Re: Greetings from Sarav...
« on: October 01, 2008, 08:48:17 am »
yes, Squall... you are right... there are many religious sects that practise vegetarianism mostly lacto-vegetarianism... prominent among them are the Brahmins...
and of course there are a majority of others who take meat but restricted to only mutton,chicken and fish --- as cow is sacred so beef is no-no item among Hindus and they dont consider pork mostly.

Some vegetarians consider eggs and fish as vegetables (i think Bengalis)

I come from a family that eats the above standard meat types - I have open to all types of meat (ofcourse, my family members forbid me to beef/pork which i dont listen whenever possible -- btw beef is bit allergic to me it seems, it doesnt stay in my stomach for long -- may be as I am allergic to dairy even raw dairy it may so to beef too)

Sarav

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Welcoming Committee / Re: Greetings from Sarav...
« on: October 01, 2008, 01:11:02 am »
thanks Kristelle...  :)


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Welcoming Committee / Greetings from Sarav...
« on: October 01, 2008, 12:43:56 am »
hi all,

Just to introduce myself I am a sort of health nut but with a wretched body! :) - Chronic Fatigue, Irritable Bowel, Yeast are but few syndromes that I live with....   :-[    (oh yes, and depression and seems all food intolerances....)

this site was interesting - and i found the expert answers in yahoo very enlightning in important areas such as dairy, detox, etc...
i was once been a vegetarian (abt 5 years) - yes have been there - and ruined my already feeble physique...
all tried many different diets - starch/ anti-starch, fibre/ anti-fibre, carb/no-carb, fruit/no-fruit, macro, veggie, rotational, etc..etc..
at last paleo helped a great deal - raw paleo lot better.. tho i am not yet to a normal functional level...

thanks guys for the good work...  hope to learn new things, and find some panacea if possible :) just to become a normal person...


cheers
Sarav

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