THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Karmacat

fuddle wrote: »

I only have a yard. One side I forever have my neighbour's head pop up over the wall (he stands on a stool!) the minute I open my back door. Needless to say that lovely wood store DH made will soon have a 'green roof' trough built by said DH to house a wild flower screen. I'm by no way ignorant but some days I would really love a quiet cuppa sat on my step.

The other side we are the highest point (goes downhill) but that will be trellissed so i can have a climber running along it... and i've figured out if DH makes me a series of tall wooden planters I can vertical garden after all. Lyn you told me there would be a way. Tall to raise out of the shade and to prevent pet rabbit nibbles.

The neighbour sounds a complete pain, fuddle! Great idea to screen from him And here's to vertical gardening

fuddle wrote: »

I am determined to get to the bottom of all this mess and if I have to put the ground work in myself then so be it. I'm a prepper!

Brilliant stuff - the clearer I get my living situation, the more I'm going to focus on my food. I already do pretty well, but there are plenty of other steps I can take - like making my own probiotics via continuous fermentation, for example.

mardatha wrote: »

I think using diet is a lot better than drugs if at all possible, and experimenting is the way to go.

Absolutely - I think even the medical profession is starting to cop to this now, and I think it could be the saving of us.

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fuddle

Fascinating that you have got so far in life and only now this has been cemented as a problem GQ. I've had IBS and GORD for years, only last month I went to the GP about stomach pain to be told it's the start of 'woman's troubles' and to keep an eye on it. I know in myself that I have a problem with candida overgrowth but whenever I go for help I get given treatment for the symptom to clear up never the cause.

I think GP's are wonderful considering what they do but in my experience it's the older ones that want to give you a medication and move on. When I speak to a younger GP there's a passion that is mentally connecting the dots and dare I say it a willingness to educate rather than medicate. It's not just GP's who get it wrong though. The consultants I have had over these poorly months have made mistakes, missed things, misdiagnosed, assumed wrongly and ignored what I actually say. When I read my hospital notes they have never said what I have said has been my issue. They say what backs up their diagnosis. I've become very jaded by the whole sorry episodes and for all I'm grateful the medical profession and NHS saved me from dire situations I now think of it in terms of helping myself. I still have consultants to meet and tests to have but I do believe this is all about poor gut health and my ignorance in that has fuelled this catalyst of illness after illness ontop of having chronic stress - who knows that might be gut related too!

jk0

I may have mentioned it before, but I swear by Actimel drinks. (The zero fat, zero sugar, ones.) Since I started having these, I hardly get any zits, and if I stop having them, the zits come back. It's amazing the things that gut health effect, that are no-where near your gut.

BTW, I need to allow at least two hours after Actimel before having a hot drink, as I believe that will kill the bacteria.

Nargleblast

fuddle - you have hit the nail on the head. Gut health is where it all starts, and that means not just your large intestine but everywhere from your mouth down through your stomach and all the way to the anal sphincter. Remember that crazy woman who did the programme You Are What You Eat where she took a family, overhauled their diet, sent them for colonic irrigation and fished around in their poop for evidence of rubbish diet?

She was discredited for having some dubious qualifications, but the stuff she was teaching was spot on about the food we eat affecting our health. Instead of focusing on solutions to relieve symptoms we should look at the probable causes of those symptoms and address those. I have had inflammatory bowel disease for years, and I get a persistent tickly cough, particularly in winter. I was investigated for the cough, and there is nothing wrong with me respiratory-wise. The respiratory registrar told me that he often sees patients with unexplained coughs who just happen to have bowel issues. It just confirmed my belief that inflammation in one part of the body can lead to inflammation in other parts too. It’s why some people with asthma (lungs) also have eczema (skin), or arthritis (joints) with Psoriasis (skin).

In a nutshell, all parts of the body are linked. Inflammation and the body’s inflammatory response to anything abnormal is the root cause of many a modern illness. And your gut is your second brain. Feed it properly and you won’t go far wrong.

Thus endeth the sermon from the House of Nargle. Now I must get my lazy arris out of bed. (I worked a night shift last night so I think I can be forgiven?)

moneyistooshorttomention

The woman concerned was Gillian McKeith - last seen in photo in last few weeks looking a bit "not quite following her own advice" as far as one could see in that dress she was wearing. Books include "You are what you eat".

But - yes...I'm inclined to think good gut health helps a lot with good health generally.

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once upon a time we had crones in each village, not derogatory but wise old women who quietly knew it all. They would go to the herbs, to honey, to curdled milk. They knew how to heal naturally and people grew up and grew old on what their ancestors had provided, their bodies were used to locally grown food. Not imported, out of season food.Vegetables were rotated without artificial anything and minerals as well as vitamins were easily provided by the soil. Not today, we have lost the natural supply of so many vitamins and minerals and life is now one big swirling cesspool of stress and rush. We live in digital noise and radiations that enter our bodies constantly

It takes a while to get used to it but we all have the ability to listen to our bodies and to re-awaken our intuitions and yes I agree with the above, that gut health is completely and utterly vital to our well being. I grew up with hm kefir and unpasteurised sauerkraut and sourdough bread. No wonder I am the healthy person that I am, I would be even better if I had never tasted sugar and if I ate kefir every day but I don`t, it is a potch to make, so I take optivite, a probiotic every single day and I have given away my sauerkraut pot but it can be made in a kilner jar anyway

My husband had ulcerative colitis and was hospitalised at age 26, three years after we married, when life was indeed stressful and we were skint. Gradually I weaned him off his meds and he never looked back for the whole of the rest of his life. Healing can and does take place, our bodies want to be healed, never despair and try and look at the whole person, not just at the small part that is not well

GreyQueen

Funnily enough, the 30-50 age group is the commonest one for a diagnosis of coeliac disease, and it is more common in women than men, and commonest still in people of northern european inc white british descent.

Although it's a bit of a PITA avoiding gluten, I do feel much better for it. I also have the chilling example of my mother's ill-health before me, where a lifetime of gut troubles inc reflux have culminated in Parkinson's Disease. Apparently, the correlation of gut problems and PD was known about as long ago as the 1960s!

Gut health is key to overall health, and it seems that this is the cutting edge of medical science, but there are a lot of good books aimed at the layperson, including by consultant gastroenterologists practising at UK hospitals, not just some random health guru out in interweblia.

Happy guts = happy lives, im my experience anyway. Plus, if you avoid gluten, you'll side-step a lot of fattening foods and the excess weight will just melt away.

Archery tonight. Special spooky archery. I hope there will be some balloons to shoot, they're such fun.

DigForVictory

Hoping you have a few water filled balloons to shoot too - they are fun too...

I did love the skull printed balloon last year which had something like ribena in it. The shrieks were stupendous. (Not With Scouts - we're not allowed to do that sort of thing with [largely] innocent minds.)

GreyQueen

DigForVictory wrote: »

Hoping you have a few water filled balloons to shoot too - they are fun too...

I did love the skull printed balloon last year which had something like ribena in it. The shrieks were stupendous. (Not With Scouts - we're not allowed to do that sort of thing with [largely] innocent minds.)

Sadly, we will be in a carpetted area, so liquid filled balloons won't be happening for us (and I'm a wee bit sad about that tbh). Love the ribena idea, what sick mind thought of that?!

Christmas archery is also fun, and usually involves some alcohol, as well as shootin' at snowmen and reindeers. If you see a lanky woman with an American flatbow, be very very afraid, mes amies.:rotfl:

TWANG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nargleblast

How can you live with yourself, Greyqueen, for being the one who shot Rudolph?