So to recap,
@Robocok was willing to post publicly his opinion that the CDC is out to get him because his wrists hurt, he has arthritis poor guy, if he can't afford "Himalayan Sea Salt (not the cheap stuff like Mortons)" and "air fried organic bacon", SO, as a freedom loving American, he thinks virus-be-dammed, his business is priority. Also vaccines are evil and California is a hard place to live. Must've sounded better in his head huh?
California is still a great place to live as America has been for over 2 centuries. You could make a similarly stupid statement like 'why did we have to participate in wars when it's such a great place? Everything is fine here, we have a good quality of life'
I'm saying that I'm concerned about the direction that the state is heading. This is not the same thing as complaining about the current quality of life here. I've already explained that multiple times. Are you dense?
Glad you like my recipes and air fryer recommendation.
You mentioned earlier that I outed myself as being completely ignorant about safety protocol for dealing with a virus and this was evidenced by my asking you what you do differently when wearing gloves at the store. You still haven't answered this and I don't think you have a good answer.
The ONLY hole you could possibly point out in my one glove protocol is whether or not I should be handling some of the items that I pull from the shelf with my gloved hand or grabbing them with my bare hand.
If you use your gloved hands to touch your wallet or phone, you've just cross contaminated them. I could bring my card only to check out and sanitize it after, but sometimes I inadvertently rub or itch my face which is why I keep one hand bare and clean (again, you could argue that I should be using my gloved hand to pull items but whatever)
There's more to the aip diet and the fact that I haven't been sick since I started following it, which I will detail in my response below. I'll address you again if and when you address the glove protocol question because you're now trying to talk about recipes and cooking tips in a desperate bid to 'gotcha' my aip recommendation. You should give aip a try yourself. It would probably improve your gut microbiome and make you less bitchy.
The National Psoriasis Foundation itself recommends an
anti-inflammatory diet and regular exercise. So why did you have retreat into the quacksphere corners of the web to discover this revolutionary treatment protocol?
An anti-inflammatory diet is not the same thing as aip. Nothing more to say to you than educate yourself on the difference and that you should acknowledge the fact that diet was never mentioned by any of the doctors I met as a viable treatment option. I thought you would offer a better argument than this.
We often underestimate the amount of luck involved in our lives. It is great you were able to determine your source of extreme food allergy/IBS/etc when trained professionals failed. However you're underestimating number of shitty doctors, pure luck in finding it yourself and finally being able to solve one problem doesn't make you a subject matter expert or knowledgeable on other unrelated issues.
I come across this issue often among some even very very smart people. They think because they excel at one thing they know what's best in other situations. They are clearly mistaken. I am sorry you're being insulted. I know you are not trolling but you definitely need to study the issue a lot more and not from conspiracy blogs.
No need to be sorry... I had a great night last night.
I'm not completely opposed to all western medicine. I broke my thumb and wrist and without a doctor setting the bones back in place, I'd be crooked and gimpy in those areas.
In my personal experience with western doctors, that's the extent of my appreciation for them.
Here are my issues...
The vast majority of them are too quick to prescribe antibiotics. There are multiple problems with this, but first, don't get me wrong.. antibiotics are great when someone has a serious infection that their body cannot clear on its own. The problem is that they are often used for issues that are not that serious and there are multiple long term consequences.
When you use antibiotics, all of the bacteria in your body, 'good' and bad are wiped out. Our 'healthy' microbiome exist in our gut and on our skin and help to protect us from infection as well. Not only do they aid in digestion and immune system function, healthy gut and skin flora is also linked to improved cognitive function. My gf's daughter and daughter's bf are both studying to be doctors and have been researching this very subject on rats.
So, antibiotics should always be a last resort because they wipe out your bodies natural defenses and is why brain fog is common after a course of ab.
It hits home personally because my son was prescribed antibiotics multiple times as a young child every time he was sick and his overprotective mother rushed him to the doctor. He was also prescribed ritalin at 5 years of age because he couldn't concentrate well enough at school according to his teacher. This was due to the fact that he wasn't given adequate opportunity to exercise and had had his microbiome wiped out from overprescribed antibiotics. His mom also frequently fed him shit foods such as McDonald's.
Why wouldn't a doctor, the person we go to for advice on how to be at our physical best, point any of this out? Why would he not ask questions to determine what was actually going on? Why is this situation not uncommon?
It's not just McDonald's that owns our doctors, nutritionists, dietitians, and politicians. It's also the pharmaceutical industry which is worth over $370 billion a year.
This leads to my next point on why I was given poor treatment methods when my body literally started failing me, which stooges in this thread try to downplay as my wrists hurting to mock me because they're upset that I called them out on their dangerous ignorance they insist upon.
My first flare up in November 2015 almost killed me. Had I not had a gf to tend to me, I would be a goner. I couldn't get to the toilet.
All 5 doctors had the same basic approach to treating my psoriatic arthritis: corticosteroids, which are an immunosuppressant. This is why antibiotics are prescribed alongside with them, because with most autoimmune disorders, your overactive immune system, brought on by the abundance of garbage in the modern western diet (did you listen to that NPR link?) is attacking your own body.
So they prescribe corticosteroids to quiet it down, and antibiotics to keep you from getting sick since your immune system can no longer do its job properly.
If, as dissectingaorticaneurysm contends, the anti-inflammatory diet (not the same as aip) is so readily available and well known, why didn't a single doctor out of 5 recommend this as a possible solution rather than corticosteroids?
I get it. Guys in this thread feel insulted and now need to look for reasons to discredit what I'm saying but I'm not going anywhere. I am right on these issues, I know and can explain why, and it needs to be heard by other people who are suffering like I was. My ego is out of this. I'm not that difficult to dox but I'm basically anonymous here. I don't care if I'm insulted or not.
I was neighbors for a few months with a guy who owns a chain of bjj gyms that everyone here has heard of (they have ufc champions). His family is beautiful. He encouraged me to go full organic explaining the importance of healthy gut and skin flora telling me how when he was younger he caught ringworm BAD. After an mma fight, it covered his whole neck and chest. He tried all sorts of creams and stuff that are normally recommended by doctors/dermatologists for that sort of thing and nothing worked. It kept coming back until he finally made the switch to an organic diet.
He also informed me that his family NEVER took antibiotics or flu shots and kept a cupboard full of natural remedies like oregano and tea tree oil oil, garlic, etc. for the rare instances that they caught colds. I don't remember everything that he used... should've written it down.