Covid

[Starise]

I have mentioned this before that when I would take in processed sugar in any form, if it was around cold season I would catch a bad cold. A large piece of birthday cake with thick icing is enough sugar to affect anyone's immune system.

While vitamins are good for us, I don't think we can always be sure we are getting what we need in a multi vitamin, so I try to get my nutrients in as natural a way as possible. Processed vitamins, take vitamin A for instance. I didn't like eating lots of carrots raw, so I steamed a bag of them and they are delicious to eat like that for me. Difference between vitamin D and vitamin D3. D3 is for those who don't get enough sun. If a person doesn't like boiled kale or collard greens, try using them in a stir fry using a healthy cooking oil. Many people think of salad when they think of eating healthy, but the iceberg lettuce they use in most salads is nothing but water with little nutrients. Go for the darker more healthy greens or mix them in. Beets and nuts make a great salad additive. I tended to grow tired of salads. That's why I change it up sometimes with other types of fresh vegetables and enough meat to give me some protein.

Even though I was going through some other health issues, I never caught COVID and I was out in the world working, not at home. Maybe similar to @tim_from_pa I had two vaccines and a booster before I was aware of the potential implications, and at the time I actually trusted our national health advisors. I consider myself blessed not to have been affected by some of the vaccine formulations so far as others have been, and I have been detoxing myself the best I can from the effects of the vaccines. 

[missmuffet]

2 hours ago, Starise said:

I have mentioned this before that when I would take in processed sugar in any form, if it was around cold season I would catch a bad cold. A large piece of birthday cake with thick icing is enough sugar to affect anyone's immune system.

While vitamins are good for us, I don't think we can always be sure we are getting what we need in a multi vitamin, so I try to get my nutrients in as natural a way as possible. Processed vitamins, take vitamin A for instance. I didn't like eating lots of carrots raw, so I steamed a bag of them and they are delicious to eat like that for me. Difference between vitamin D and vitamin D3. D3 is for those who don't get enough sun. If a person doesn't like boiled kale or collard greens, try using them in a stir fry using a healthy cooking oil. Many people think of salad when they think of eating healthy, but the iceberg lettuce they use in most salads is nothing but water with little nutrients. Go for the darker more healthy greens or mix them in. Beets and nuts make a great salad additive. I tended to grow tired of salads. That's why I change it up sometimes with other types of fresh vegetables and enough meat to give me some protein.

Even though I was going through some other health issues, I never caught COVID and I was out in the world working, not at home. Maybe similar to @tim_from_pa I had two vaccines and a booster before I was aware of the potential implications, and at the time I actually trusted our national health advisors. I consider myself blessed not to have been affected by some of the vaccine formulations so far as others have been, and I have been detoxing myself the best I can from the effects of the vaccines. 

A good multivitamin is good for you if you take one every day. They should be tested to see if they are affective. You do that by putting the vitamin in warm water. It should dissolve within 30 minutes. It should not dissolve right away or the vitamin is not doing you any good. 

[Starise]

They are coating vitamins with sugar and making them taste like gummy bears now. It makes them fun to chew, but I wonder what's actually in them.

[missmuffet]

28 minutes ago, Starise said:

They are coating vitamins with sugar and making them taste like gummy bears now. It makes them fun to chew, but I wonder what's actually in them.

I don't know I do not take those kind of vitamins. 

[tim_from_pa]

10 hours ago, Starise said:

 

While vitamins are good for us, I don't think we can always be sure we are getting what we need in a multi vitamin, so I try to get my nutrients in as natural a way as possible....

Good point.  I had a similar case with minerals.  I was on the low side with Magnesium, and the (chiropractic) doctor once told me amino acid chelated was the most absorbable to take.  I told him I was taking amino-acid chelated until I really read the ingredients.  Magnesium oxide AND amino acid chelated. BUT... they don't tell the percentage and since the label said amino acid chelated I thought I was getting it.  Whose to say it's not 95% useless Magnesium oxide and only a token amount of amino acid chelated?  That's how these hucksters operate and thus giving natural nutrition a bad name. Ironically, I found "Doctor's Best" supplements that are ALL chelated.  Since then, my knee bands have gone and I don't struggle up and down the steps any longer with knee pain.  I was clued off that it was a magnesium problem when Epson salt soaks would help it a little but only a day or so.  Now I don't soak my feet any longer either.

[Starise]

13 minutes ago, tim_from_pa said:

Good point.  I had a similar case with minerals.  I was on the low side with Magnesium, and the (chiropractic) doctor once told me amino acid chelated was the most absorbable to take.  I told him I was taking amino-acid chelated until I really read the ingredients.  Magnesium oxide AND amino acid chelated. BUT... they don't tell the percentage and since the label said amino acid chelated I thought I was getting it.  Whose to say it's not 95% useless Magnesium oxide and only a token amount of amino acid chelated?  That's how these hucksters operate and thus giving natural nutrition a bad name. Ironically, I found "Doctor's Best" supplements that are ALL chelated.  Since then, my knee bands have gone and I don't struggle up and down the steps any longer with knee pain.  I was clued off that it was a magnesium problem when Epson salt soaks would help it a little but only a day or so.  Now I don't soak my feet any longer either.

Thankfully you have found something that helps you.

I have come across information that leads me to believe that some synthetic vitamins are not nearly as effective. 

Incidentally, I have read that pure tart cherry juice is also very effective against joint pain. Since my issues are not joint related I could not test it out, but one friend of mine swears by it.

[missmuffet]

57 minutes ago, Starise said:

Thankfully you have found something that helps you.

I have come across information that leads me to believe that some synthetic vitamins are not nearly as effective. 

Incidentally, I have read that pure tart cherry juice is also very effective against joint pain. Since my issues are not joint related I could not test it out, but one friend of mine swears by it.

I have a small amount of arthritis and joint pain and I have taken some pure cherry juice. But is throws off my sleeping pattern. There is a large amount of melatonin in cherry juice. It is suppose to help with sleep but it does the opposite for me. 

Edited August 24, 2022 by missmuffet