Doing Something Right

I got an email today from one of my natural health research contacts, and it mentioned a study where they found that taking a combination of vitamin D3 and curcumin was found to help increase cognitive function in people with Alzheimer's. I knew I was taking curcumin with my Turmeric pills, and I knew the witch doctor had started me on vit D drops. Sure enough, it's D3. Look at that - without even trying!

Surviving Versus Living

You know those days when you're just grateful because you made it through another day, and it's over? What really sucks is when it seems like every day is like that. There's no progress being made in your life, but, darn it, you made it through work and you're still alive, and that's the best you can do.

I've been sleeping probably about 12 hours or so a day, which doesn't really leave time for much besides my job. I have things I want to do, things I need to do, things I should do, but I just have no energy to do them. I work hard at my job, but it seems like that's all the energy I have available. It's depressing, in its own little way.

There is one thing I have been doing, though. I've been doing the 100 push-ups program from their website, and I'm onto the third week. I didn't realize how weak I was, but when I started I could only do 4, and at the end of 2 weeks I could do 17, which I think is a big improvement. Not earth-shattering, but at least it's something, right?

So, about the whole internal health thing. . .

My last visit to the witch doctor revealed more troubling things. After a review of my last blood work ordered by my regular doctor, I was told that I had an infection, and I was hypoglycemic on the way to Type 2 diabetes. Here's what I don't understand - since the first of the year or so, I've been dropping weight. We're talking 30 pounds or so. And believe me, I didn't have it to lose in the beginning. I'm 5'7" and down to 105 last time I checked, which was a while ago because I've been scared to weigh myself. I had to buy a belt, and I hate wearing belts, and all my clothes are falling off, and I'm way too bony. So, why is it that my health problems, as far as thyroid and blood sugar levels, indicate that I should be overweight? It doesn't make sense, hence the not understanding.

Anyway, he also decided that my body doesn't tolerate wheat. So, I have to cut out all wheat products, and the sugary stuff. There goes my diet! I was eating junk food with a fairly clear conscience because I needed to gain weight, but now I have to depend on protein and other healthy stuff. Almonds are now my friend. (Assuming friends are something you eat.) I knew the day would come when I had to eat healthy, I was just hoping it wasn't yet.

He added vitamin D-3 to my supplements - it's liquid in an olive oil base. I'm supposed to take 4 drops twice a day, but the only way I've figured out how to do it is to shake it onto my palm and then lick it off - not elegant. It's supposed to help with the infection and heal my gut. The other addition is zinc, which I'm deficient in.

While I'm whining, did you know that the way the regular medical profession determines the acceptable levels of blood stuff is to gather the data from a huge group of people that are within 5 years age range and the same sex and then average? What upsets me is that they don't determine appropriate inclusion based on health or not - so the levels include people with pretty much every kind of disease and illness. Thus the acceptable ranges are so wide-reaching that you have to be really screwed up to fall outside of them. No wonder they don't catch minor problems before they become major. Rant over.