What I've healed from

[MarkD]

That sounds promising. I go under the knife tomorrow, how soon should tis type of therapy be initiated?

[AstuteShift]

That sounds promising. I go under the knife tomorrow, how soon should tis type of therapy be initiated?

Not an expert on ortho related injuries but I’m sure the surgeon or staff will give you direction. Best of luck!

[dmak]

From my understanding, FSM is used very early after surgery(days), and is also used prior to surgery, reduces swelling and inflammation. Professional teams use this in rehab to get players back asap. Do a google search with your zip for frequency specific microcurrent practitioners
take care

[Yodean]

In a cooperative effort between researchers at the medical sciences departments of Iran’s Isfahan University and Mashhad University, honey has been shown to aid the body in healthy processing of fats by decreasing the overall amount of cholesterol and fats in the bloodstream.

The study was published in August 2018 in the Journal of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), Clinical Nutrition ESPEN.

A lipid profile, also called a coronary risk panel, is a blood test that measures total blood triglycerides including high-density lipoproteins (HDL), often referred to as “good cholesterol,” and low-density lipoproteins (LDL), commonly known as “bad cholesterol.”

In truth, there is only one “type” of cholesterol, a molecule that is incapable of dissolving in blood. In order to transport cholesterol to the various cells throughout the body, lipoproteins such as LDLs and HDLs act as cholesterol carriers.

LDLs may have earned their bad reputation due to the fact that, once they have deposited their cholesterol load, they become small enough to burrow into the linings of arteries where they can oxidize, resulting in damaging inflammation.

Conversely, one of HDLs functions is to carry anti-oxidative enzymes to cells where they may help neutralize potential harm done by depleted LDLs’ oxidation.

The blood lipid profile is a primary screening tool for assessing an individual’s risk of developing coronary heart disease. The word “lipids” refers to fats and fat-like substances that are key regulators of cellular activity, such as the energetic functions of your body.

The effectiveness of this cellular transport system is dependent on having the right amount of healthy fats in your bloodstream. If an imbalance occurs, excess cholesterol may get deposited into the walls of blood vessels, eventually leading to atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, that can cause heart attack and stroke due to blocked blood flow to the heart and brain.[iii]

In the focus study, 60 male subjects between the ages of 18 and 30 were randomly recruited and assigned into one of two groups: honey (experimental) and sucrose (control). Participants were included in the study if they were healthy, non-athletic and a non-smoker. Participants were excluded if they already consumed a large amount of honey in their daily life, took any sort of medication or had recently undergone major diet and lifestyle changes.

The experimental group received 70 grams of natural honey per day, while the control group received 70 grams of sucrose per day for a period of six weeks.

The lab tests were repeated after the six-week intervention period was complete. All 60 participants successfully completed the trial, and in the final analysis confounding variables including age, physical activity and some nutrient intake were adjusted.

Participants’ baseline measurements for fasting blood sugar, systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure were not different between the honey and sucrose groups, indicating that there were no significant pre-existing differences between the groups at the beginning of the study.

Consumption of honey decreased total cholesterol and LDL and increased the presence of HDL in the blood.
Consumption of sucrose had the inverse effect, increasing total cholesterol and significantly raising LDL levels, while decreasing HDL in the blood.

In summary, total cholesterol significantly decreased in the honey group compared with the beginning of the trial, while total cholesterol increased in sucrose group. LDL cholesterol was decreased by honey consumption and increased by sugar intake. Honey also increased HDL cholesterol in the blood, while sucrose decreased the presence of this healthy fat.

The main finding of this study, noted researchers, was “the ability of natural honey to modulate some of the risk factors of cardiovascular disease.” According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. with one person dying from cardiovascular disease every 37 seconds.

Honey has an unprecedented history of use as a food and medicament, stemming back as far as recorded history. It has been found in ancient Egyptian tombs, still perfectly preserved, and in cave art dating back some 8,000 years. Honey contains many active biological constituents including polyphenols, nutritionally dense phytochemicals that have antioxidant properties.

Many studies have confirmed that polyphenols provide a protective effect against diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arterial diseases and more.

[SOL]

Fructose content of honey varies from 21 to 43% and the fructose/glucose ratio from 0.4 to 1.6 or even higher [31–34]. Although fructose is the sweetest naturally occurring sweetener, it has a glycemic index of 19, compared to glucose which has 100 or sucrose (refined sugar) with 60 [35]. Different studies reveal the hypoglycemic effect of honey, but the mechanism of this effect remains unclear. It was suggested that fructose, selective mineral ions (selenium, zinc, copper, and vanadium), phenolic acids, and flavonoids might have a role in the process [10, 11, 31, 33, 36, 37].

There is evidence that fructose tends to lower blood glucose in animal models of diabetes [38, 39]. Mechanisms involved in this process may include reduced rate of intestinal absorption [40], prolongation of gastric emptying time [41, 42], and reduced food intake [43, 44]. Fructose stimulates glucokinase in hepatocytes, which plays an important role in the uptake and storage of glucose as glycogen by the liver. Glucose on the other hand, which is present beside fructose in honey, enhances the absorption of fructose and promotes its hepatic actions through its enhanced delivery to the liver [45, 46].

The pancreas is an important organ in diabetes, because it secrets two glucose-regulating hormones—insulin and glucagon—and honey might protect this organ against oxidative stress and damage with its antioxidant molecules, this being another potential mechanism of hypoglycemic effect of honey [32, 47].

Different studies were made on the effect of fructose on glycemic control, glucose-regulating hormones, appetite-regulating hormones, body weight, food intake, and oxidation of carbohydrates or energy expenditure [38, 44, 48–61].

Fructose administrated alone or as part of sucrose molecule in normal rats improved glucose homeostasis and insulin response compared to rats which received glucose [62]. Other studies show that fructose supplementation in normal or type 2 model of diabetic rats produced lower levels of plasma insulin and glucose, more than other administrated sugars [38].

The study of Al-Waili [78] on healthy, diabetic, or patients with hypertriglyceridemia shows promising results, when honey was used in their diet, compared with dextrose and sucrose. Thus, lipid profile was improved, normal and elevated C-reactive protein was lowered, and also homocysteine value and triacylglycerol were decreased in patients with hypertriglyceridemia. In diabetic patients, honey compared with dextrose caused a significantly lower rise of plasma glucose level (PGL). Honey caused greater elevation of insulin compared to sucrose; after different time of consumption, it reduces blood lipids, homocysteine, and CRP in normal subjects. The conclusion was that honey compared with dextrose and sucrose caused lower elevation of PGL in diabetics. This experimental study on healthy, diabetic, and hyperlipidemic human subjects demonstrates the different intake rate of refined sugar and honey, the raising of blood sugar and also raising their insulin levels.

Sugar is a refined product, obtained from different natural sources, but follows a technological process, leading to an almost pure substance—sucrose—highly used in modern life in the food industry.

Honey, on the other hand, being also a natural sweet product, has a complex composition, but compared to sugar, it has a lower glycemic index and energetic value. When we talk about refined sugar, it is easy to state the exact chemical composition, very simple actually, but talking about honey, many aspects should be considered regarding its composition. Botanical and geographical origins determine the specific composition and properties of all types of honeys.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5817209/

[SOL]

Modern archeologists, excavating ancient Egyptian tombs, have often found something unexpected amongst the tombs’ artifacts: pots of honey, thousands of years old, and yet still preserved. Through millennia, the archeologists discover, the food remains unspoiled, an unmistakable testament to the eternal shelf-life of honey.

There are a few other examples of foods that keep–indefinitely–in their raw state: salt, sugar, dried rice are a few. But there’s something about honey; it can remain preserved in a completely edible form, and while you wouldn’t want to chow down on raw rice or straight salt, one could ostensibly dip into a thousand year old jar of honey and enjoy it, without preparation, as if it were a day old. Moreover, honey’s longevity lends it other properties–mainly medicinal–that other resilient foods don’t have. Which raises the question–what exactly makes honey such a special food?

Honey in its natural form is very low moisture. Very few bacteria or microorganisms can survive in an environment like that, they just die. They’re smothered by it, essentially.” What Harris points out represents an important feature of honey’s longevity: for honey to spoil, there needs to be something inside of it that can spoil. With such an inhospitable environment, organisms can’t survive long enough within the jar of honey to have the chance to spoil.

Honey is also naturally extremely acidic. “It has a pH that falls between 3 and 4.5, approximately, and that acid will kill off almost anything that wants to grow there,” Harris explains. So bacteria and spoil-ready organisms must look elsewhere for a home–the life expectancy inside of honey is just too low.


“Bees are magical,” Harris jokes. But there is certainly a special alchemy that goes into honey. Nectar, the first material collected by bees to make honey, is naturally very high in water–anywhere from 60-80 percent, by Harris’ estimate. But through the process of making honey, the bees play a large part in removing much of this moisture by flapping their wings to literally dry out the nectar. On top of behavior, the chemical makeup of a bees stomach also plays a large part in honey’s resilience. Bees have an enzyme in their stomachs called glucose oxidase (PDF). When the bees regurgitate the nectar from their mouths into the combs to make honey, this enzyme mixes with the nectar, breaking it down into two by-products: gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide. “Then,” Harris explains, “hydrogen peroxide is the next thing that goes into work against all these other bad things that could possibly grow.”

For this reason, honey has been used for centuries as a medicinal remedy. Because it’s so thick, rejects any kind of growth and contains hydrogen peroxide, it creates the perfect barrier against infection for wounds. The earliest recorded use of honey for medicinal purposes comes from Sumerian clay tablets, which state that honey was used in 30 percent of prescriptions. The ancient Egyptians used medicinal honey regularly, making ointments to treat skin and eye diseases. “Honey was used to cover a wound or a burn or a slash, or something like that, because nothing could grow on it – so it was a natural bandage,” Harris explains.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... e-1218690/

[Cinnamon]

https://youtu.be/rfAvTTGDSUQ


Here are ten of the unknown benefits of adding a little honey to your diet.
1. Mixing honey with water and cinnamon to make a paste can be massaged into areas that are affected by arthritis for immediate pain relief.

2. Honey can help to reduce the germs that cause bladder infections if you ingest it. Mix it with water and cinnamon.

3. Believe it or not, both bone cancer and stomach cancer have been shown to respond to treatment by honey if you take it correctly. The dose is three times daily for 90 days.

4. You probably head straight to the medicine cabinet when you have a cold, but if you reach for a jar of honey instead you could be over your cold in three days, the healthy way.

5. Honey paste mixed with olive oil that has been heated can be made into a paste that can be used on the scalp and it will prevent hair loss.

6. Honey is an effective treatment for indigestion and acid reflux as long as you take it about twenty minutes before you eat.

7. If you want to try something all-natural for impotence and infertility, the eastern part of the world has been using honey and cinnamon powder for all kinds of sexual and reproductive disorders.

8. Honey is also something that can extend your life, as well as reduce some of the signs of aging, according to eastern medicine.

9. It may seem counterintuitive, but brushing with honey and cinnamon powder can actually be effective when it comes to treating dental pain. Brush the affected area three times a day to keep the pain from coming back.

10. Finally, mixing honey and cinnamon powder with hot water and drinking it first thing in the morning before breakfast and at night just before bed can keep fat from being stored in the body and help with weight loss.

https://www.healthandhealthyliving.com/ ... longevity/

[MarkD]

Just had my first cherry cascara coffee tea. Tomorrow I will add some honey. Not bad without sweetener.

[scott]

Lyme disease was mentioned in a different thread, I believe, and rhodiola was mentioned as possibly being helpful. I passed this on to my sister who has "Long Term Lyme". She lives not too far from Lyme in Connecticut; my father had it too, but recovered before his demise. My sister said she has known about rhodiola for years, but has been using the adaptogens astragalus, andrographis and ashwagandha, as mentioned in Stephen Buhner’s book, “Healing Lyme.” She said "It’s a pretty sad commentary on the U.S. healthcare system that I have to do so much research on my own."
Any thoughts, ideas, insights would be much appreciated.

[SOL]

Lyme disease was mentioned in a different thread, I believe, and rhodiola was mentioned as possibly being helpful. I passed this on to my sister who has "Long Term Lyme". She lives not too far from Lyme in Connecticut; my father had it too, but recovered before his demise. My sister said she has known about rhodiola for years, but has been using the adaptogens astragalus, andrographis and ashwagandha, as mentioned in Stephen Buhner’s book, “Healing Lyme.” She said "It’s a pretty sad commentary on the U.S. healthcare system that I have to do so much research on my own."
Any thoughts, ideas, insights would be much appreciated.

I think Rhodiola might help more than Astralagus

Earth Clinic has a wealth of information regarding Lyme's disease and for that matter every related health problem.

https://www.earthclinic.com/cures/lyme_disease.html

https://www.earthclinic.com/cures/lyme_disease3.html

[scott]

Thanks Sol, passed it along.

[AstuteShift]

For those into muscle building and building levels of testosterone higher naturally, the combination of mumijo and LJ100 (Tongkat) is a fantastic combo

Mumijo makes you recover quickly, lowers stress levels, also you feel super young again

Tongkat is unique, a nootropic, viagra and also boost’s testosterone naturally.

These two work so well for me that I honestly feel I don’t need Modafinil anymore.

[Yodean]

Tongkat is unique, a nootropic, viagra and also boost’s testosterone naturally.

Any brand(s) of LJ100 you would recommend, as well as dose, for an 170+ lb. male?

[SOL]

Tongkat is unique, a nootropic, viagra and also boost’s testosterone naturally.

Any brand(s) of LJ100 you would recommend, as well as dose, for an 170+ lb. male?

if you want to boost your testosterone even more. Besides using mumio, you can try a combo of horny goat weed, Siberian ginseng. Mix the the duo with honey

[AstuteShift]

Tongkat is unique, a nootropic, viagra and also boost’s testosterone naturally.

Any brand(s) of LJ100 you would recommend, as well as dose, for an 170+ lb. male?

You can try nootropicdepot, bulk powder from is good. I take about 1200mg but I’m at 200lbs lol