Walks: 2 days ago: 2 mi, Bartlet, 123rd, trail, Lakeside. Yesterday, .9 mi. 123rd-125th trail loop. Today, I put too much pepper in my veg juice, which inspired me to come home after only ½ mi… ( I think…..phone battery was low so the walk meter didn't work.)
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Sleeping well at night, though usually I'm better in the morning if I've slept in semi-fowlers position. 8-10 hours Slowly, somnolence has been increasing, again occurring after meals, again. Fighting it is no longer of any use. I took a nux muschata 200c last Saturday. So far, I don't see improvement. Will repeat this Saturday. In the meantime, since the sleep demand is always accompanied by a stuffy nose, I'm dosing with Histaminum 20c PRN. It doesn't wake me up, but it may be helping me not sleep my life away each time. The one good thing is that I can usually waken, refreshed after +/- 30 min.
Day before yesterday, 2.6 mi. -107th-Durland-2-5th-48th-103rd-48th-95th-trail-112th-lakeside-107th-Exeter-Home.
Yesterday: .5 mi. Legs jerky, back hurt, subclinical migraine. Today, 2.2 mi. 107th-Bartlet-123rd-trail-112th-Lakeside-Home. Lots of stops, 15-30 sec. Today, a 10 min conversation and a port potty break on Riviera after mi 1. 1 hr 11min. Home, 107th, Durland, 48th, 103rd, trail, Mathews Beach, back circle 49th, 97th, trail, home up Exeter. No mileage noted. Phone charging. Feeling great. Frustrated that I can't figure out how to find or reference Food Network's 10 top cancer fighting foods for this blog.
1.7mi. Hill as far as I could see shade: trail -up and back on 123rd. Rocky start on level ground. For some reason, starting with a hill is always easier. But today, the sun was shining hot by 9:00 by the time I could be on my way.
I've been wanting to share about Budwig at Toastmasters. Last evening, I gave a 15 minute talk, just the rudimentary info. Told my story in brief, then encouraged clean, non-processed, organic diet. I passed out Sandra Olson's version of the protocol with credit to her as transcriber. She had sent it to me in the mail, so I took that as permission.
I did also have for visual enjoyment a crystal parfait dish layered with the fruit and cottage cheese/oil mixture. In order to conserve flax oil and also to have an edible product after the demo, I used olive oil instead of flax oil. It looked just as good. Now the contents are sitting in the fridge ready to be used as ingredients of dressing for today's salad. My goal was to introduce Budwig without encouraging the wrong order. I've realized that I was ready for the parfait (my new word for it) b/c I had already gone to a vegetarian diet of organic foods and I already had the equipment for juicing and grinding flax seeds. All I needed was the hand blender and food ingredients. I now understand that it could actually be dangerous for a person to start with the parfait before cleaning up their diet, since eating or smoking toxins while improving cellular permeability could increase the toxic load of the cells. I meant to introduce the benefits of flax seed by itself, but my printer had failed to print more than one copy, which I gave to a member. I will post that on the NN Facebook page. Some wanted info on homeopathic mag-phos, so I'll provide that info, too. I'm considering doing another talk during which I introduce the known benefits of various fruits and vegetables along with my understanding of angiogenesis as related to cancer and the preventative role that some fruits and vegetables can play. Since my life is pretty full, I may wait to give that talk. Although that would complement the Budwig info, it would have to be a stand alone talk. Time constraints. Yesterday only .53 mi, today 1.2mi. Hot out with little shade by the time I could make it out to walk. Will be working in garden so there will be more exercise.
Today: 1.7 mi. Walked 123rd loop from Riviera PL to 125th + north and back from 132nd. 10-15 min conversation about hx of the beach for which neighbors are fighting. Yestderday only .98 mi. Feeling good despite an unusually rough night of subclinical achiness in limbs that made sleep difficult. I'm hoping that was Fibro healing crisis. It was gone by morning. I had addressed it with Arnica 30X.
I just listened to a TED talk by Dr. William Li on angiogenisus. https://foodrevolution.org/blog/video-can-eat-starve-cancer/?utm_campaign=frn16&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email-automated&utm_content=2060&utm_term=existing-email-list&email=saskialucia%40earthlink.net&firstname=SASKIA&lastname=
Summarizing: we each are developing minuscule cancer cells most of the time. However, they don't grow large enough to cause ill health due to lack of blood supply. When they do grow larger it's because their blood supply has been enhanced through a process known as angiogenesis. Most of the time, angiogenesis is a normal process for restoring uterine lining and helping heal wounds, but at times certain cancers can stimulateit. Foods have been identified that can turn off the process, thus starving the cancer cells. Most of the fruits and vegetables I've been eating on my Budwig protocol fall into that category. For instance, red grapes and strawberries are highly anti-angiogenic, so are tomatoes, various teas. The list is long. Also, related to my overweight status is the fact that fat supports the angiogenesis process and vice-versa. By feeding mice anti-angiogenic preparations, science has demonstrated that weight loss can be triggered by curtailing angiogenesis and weight gain can be stimulated by withdrawing the anti-angiogenic intervention. So by including anti-angiogenic foods in one's diet, weight loss can be supported while cancer risk can be reduced. Dr. Budwig warned that people with cancer should be prepared to stay on the protocol for at least 5 years, lest the cancer recur and be harder, if not impossible, to irradicate the second time. This makes a certain kind of sense to me. If the cell permeability becomes established with the protocol, and, then, the person stops eating the extremely clean diet that is called for by the protocol, the now, super-permeable cells will be efficiently taking in the unhealthy substances from which they were protected during the healing phase of the diet.
This had been making sense to me for a while. Then, on Thurs. I was so busy at Fircrest, having missed the timing I had planned, I grabbed a couple of tacos from a stand nearby, just because I was starving but not yet able to get home to my protocol. By late afternoon, when I could get to the protocol, I was my old, exhausted self, not the kind of healthy exhaustion that occurs in response to exercise or activity when the body has had the nutrition it needs, but a seriously deep flat, drained fatigue. After prepping Budwig mixture, I was barely able to pull myself through the business of getting ready for bed. The day was hot, so possibly that contributed, but this felt a lot like fibro relapse. Except for the time it took to get up and feed kitties, I slept for 14 hours. Fortunately, with that sleep and resumption of my Budwig routine on Friday, even though, yesterday, I missed my walk, today, Saturday, was a good day with plenty of energy. That said, by late afternoon, I did need a nap which lasted longer than I planned. Now, it's late evening and I'm bright eyed and bushy tailed. Still I'll head to bed again just to re-establish good sleep hygiene. This business of getting, staying healthy is time-consuming, more so than I ever expected. Still, without my health, I would be losing just as much time sleeping and feeling poor. At least with the protocol and walking, even though it takes far more time than I expected, at least during my waking hours, I feel alive, happy and pain free! Reminder to self: This is my life now. I must choose to give thanks for the Grace of exuberant good health and stop thinking I should be doing it some other way! |
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AuthorSaskia Lucia Davis, here, grateful to be able to participate in this amazing multi-zoned, personalized whole we share with each other. For the time being, this blog is personal, a way to note my steps and then look back. Maybe someday, it will provide some other kind of value. |
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