Category Archives: Health care

Baking Soda-May help reduce autoimmune inflamation!

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Wow! We’ve used Baking soda for lot’s of things, settling a stomach, coffee pot cleaning, reducing odors, cooking, but this is very interesting. Hope the research continues. I found the information in Science News.

Date:April 25, 2018 Source:Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Summary:A daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scientists say. They have some of the first evidence of how the cheap, over-the-counter antacid can encourage our spleen to promote instead an anti-inflammatory environment that could be therapeutic in the face of inflammatory disease, scientists report.

 

From: Health Impact News:    “Note: As a supplement, consuming a half-teaspoon of baking soda or more (depending on health conditions) thoroughly mixed in purified water daily should be done well away from eating, two hours or upon awakening, in order to not interfere with the necessary existing acid content of the stomach while food is being processed for digestion in the small intestines.

Baking soda has even performed miracles for cancer patients. One famous anecdotal example comes with the episode of Vernon Johnston’s metastasized prostate cancer cure that you can review here.”

Help your back!

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Keeping your back happy!

Aha, I thought while listening to the NPR report on “The Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines,” that’s what my talented instructor in my NIA dance/exercise class is trying to get us to do.

After listening to the report, and then reading it, I started trying to use the approach in the hedge trimming project I was working on. In my very non-scientific, sample of one trial, I think I had much less back ache after cutting and picking up some 15 garden  cart loads of branches.

My interpretation

The method, as I interpret it is when you need to pick up something  in front of you:

  1. Consciously think of your hips as a hinge, and your back as a plank.
  2. Bend at the hip hinge.
  3. If that isn’t low enough, bend your my knees, keeping your knees over your ankles.
  4.  That sticks your bottom out, and there you are lifting with a flat back!

Probably, if others are like me with a lifelong history of bending with a curved back and my knees out in front of my feet, it’ll take some practice to make the approach second nature. I’m working on it.

“Your own baseline.”

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“Your own baseline.”

This is from “The gift of Caring.” When an older person goes into the hospital, the staff takes the base line of the person as what they see right then. You may have been very active, a whiz at words, and full of creativity. Then you fall. You are given pain pills, something else happens and you are sent to the ER. Now with sloppy, slurred, enunciation,  a lack of balance, and other signs of dementia. The staff assumes dementia and looks no further. For a 50 year old they would not have that bias. But for a 90 year old it just comes with the territory.”  The book strongly suggests that we all have a baseline of how we are, kept up to date on a regular basis.

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