Posted on 08/20/2008 7:53:21 PM PDT by neverdem
Elderberry extract is touted as a treatment for influenza, Clemenza. Is there a term for that besides rhyming?
Anyway, it's sold in drug stores. The Israeli's did some studies on it, IIRC. The trade name escapes me.
I never got an answer about the Texan’s blood glucose control.
Nothing erases a mistake/stray dust in a pastel painting as well as a soft blob of fresh white bread.
It also does a great job of picking up tiny broken glass splinters, if you have broken a light bulb, for example.
So, it’s not *totally* worthless......;]
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Amen!
LOL! That’s awful. :)
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Are you familiar with Hereditary Hemachromatosis (the (the overbinding of iron)? Its kind of the reverse of what you just explained... common in Northern Europeans...genetically my ancestors adapted to the harsh growing conditions by overstoring the minute amounts they were exposed to given their almost constant diet of root vegetables.
In today’s world, w/iron fortifying mosts processed foods, the storage of excess iron leads to diabetes, cancers, athritis, heart problems’ etc.
To anyone reading this, if you are of Irish, English, or Welsh ancestry, have your doctor order the simple blood test to screen for HH. It is very a very common genetic disorder...yet not often screened for.
Anyway, it's sold in drug stores. The Israeli's did some studies on it, IIRC. The trade name escapes me.
Great stuff, works every time! Sambucol
That's the ticket for that elderberry extract, Sambucol. Sauerkraut and kim chi also have at least anecdotal reports claiming clinical utility for the flu.
My fasting blood sugar is usually around 70 mg/dL. I have it checked at my annual physical as my dad became an insulin dependent diabetic around age 47. It robbed his eyesight over time. My dad consumed lots of alcohol and sugar over his lifetime. I turn 52 next week, so it's time to become more vigilant.
That's an important issue. I'm going to see if I can add an A1C test to my blood work on my next physical. That apparently gives a better long term view than the snapshot of a fasting blood glucose level. Last physical, I had my testosterone checked. I had never checked it after surgery for cancer in 1985. It was 271. That explained why all the workouts and exercise haven't yielded good results since that time. I need to find a local doc to pursue solving that problem.
“It is prudent to avoid arsenic exposures...”
Do you have to have a graduate degree to come to this conclusion?
Thanks for the info and good luck with your health.
The website already acknowledges arsenic as being implicated in diabetes.
All of the above in the ancestry department. The arthritis is well underway. I accompanied my wife to the chiropractor last year. He ran an evaluation that included X-rays of my spine. The deterioration on the anterior side (facing the internal organs) was evident. It has a very "feathery" appearance on the films.
It sounds like you are on top of your health issues. Good for you!
HH is also known as ‘IronFist’’ or ‘BronzeFist’ due to the arthritic deforming of the small joints of the fingers/hand...also, the iron can give the extremities a weird, bronzey discolorization.
Phelebotomies (blood draws) are the usual course of treatment to reduce iron buildup (causing the pt. to become amenic and thereby utilizing the stored iron build up). It was described to me as survival of the fittest run amok.
My favorite procedure was doing cardiac punctures on the lab rabbits for blood draws. I never killed a rabbit in the process and the rabbits were lots of fun. On of my classmates was less successful...that one tasted particularly good on my dinner table. I did check to make sure the antigen in use on that bunny wasn't a human pathogen.
People adapted or died. The most Northerly people adapted.
Those residing further South in the then Temperate zone roughly parallel to the Mediterranean, didn't.
The Irish and Welsh are, essentially, identical to the Basque, and the Basque are simply a residual population of those who lived in the Ice Age refugia most Northern European ancestors called home.
The Irish and Welsh, but not the Basques, have an additional background population that came from the Volga/Black Sea area roughly 1000 BC to 700 BC via NW Spain.
The problem for those who adapted to a high iron diet is the need to maintain it else suffer serious anemia.
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