Website: "Listen To Your Gut"

Thank you Dude! I like how you always find the most useful resources!
Not to mention the kindness to upload it to dropbox for us 🙂

Happy to share the information. I hope it's helpful to someone.

Great information. Thanks for post.

https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-743704

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Thank you, Rainy. I appreciate the thoughtful feedback. I hope the information helps your friend.

It seems the forum broke the link, as it often does. Here's an alternative:

What You Need to Know about Wild Oregano Oil
https://tinyurl.com/mss5ucvx

Its amazing how much good health info there is online (but you need to cross reference it) VS what in-person Dr visits cannot provide due to time constrains and them just not knowing / not educated correctly / many being SOLD out to BIG PHARMA.

We've entered a time where you need to learn and manage you own health issues, anything less is now irresponsible.

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This is related to eating, so a tangent off of gut health, but still related:

Ive recently learned a lot more about pre-diabetes, whats happening, and how to improve or eliminate it from Dr Berg and KenDBeryyMD on you tube, others as well, but these two explain better than most out there.

I have two known autoimmune issues, and this might unfortunately be the third one (three autoimmunes is very common).

My endo was way to layed back and had non-supportive info in general. the wait and see approach, which leads to disease. The American Diabetes Association also has it wrong and seems to be sold out/supporting the food industry. Just doing less sugar and exercise does not work when you've already done that for years. Thats only partially effective for average couch potatoes. But they can also still do better to avoid full time diabetes.

"Pre-D" turns to full time diabetes on average of ten years. During this time Drs just wait...and do nothing, while watching your A1C and fasting glucose elevate. They dont even do C-peptied which is free insulin levels floating in your blood. That should be mandatory.

What do average Drs do then when it gets worse? Put you on Metformin as a starting point for life.

Very Fit people with low fat index and pro athletes can even get this. Is not always about obesity......nope!!!

No grains are healthy for this, they ALL turn to sugar. And you will still be hungry from the spiked insulin blocking cell receptors. Pre-D and diabetics need meat and fat to suppress hunger (I tried it, it works).

Unfortunately the diabetic forum on this site does not even know much, most adhere to the old ways and are on meds for it, and have been for years. Not like the knowledgeable Lyme forum at all. We are "out laws" it seems in the health circle lol.

Slightly off-topic but metformin is being studied for longevity/aging. Not necessarily my thing but might be of interest for those who want to live to 100 😀

RainyCloud said...
Slightly off-topic but metformin is being studied for longevity/aging. Not necessarily my thing but might be of interest for those who want to live to 100 😀

Yep, metformin certainly is an interesting drug. Hopefully they will not find any negatives with its use in the long run. And for now it’s not very expensive either.

That said, I wouldn’t want to be dependent on it , or any other drug for glucose issues.

Myself, Being dependent on Rx thyroid hormone with its tripled price increase in the last four years, I really don’t like big Pharma being in charge of my living expenses. The fact that they can just jack up prices to whatever they want , whenever they want to is rather scary. So what does insurance prescription coverage do when that happens?…. they just jack it up to the highest tier price because they don’t want to pay for it either.

Rainy, I know a few years ago there are some shortage and thyroid meds in back in 2009 and 2010 natural desiccated thyroid was really hard to get.

For that reason I keep an extra stash of it around. I found out when you transfer pharmacies, They don’t keep track of the original date when the other pharmacy filled it , so that allows you stock up on meds. Then when I do use them, I use a combination of the old stuff and the new stuff to blend into the new batch, and use up the old batch so it doesn’t just get old.

Just the other day, I googled thyroid med recall. To my surprise, Synthroid of all manufactures had a recall just a while ago. The purpose of Synthroid, and why its pushed on us , is because they should not have bad batches. Well, obviously, they still do, and that’s pretty crazy.

Unfortunately, what I have learned is when you have advanced auto immune thyroid issues your life is seldom normal. That’s pretty sad that they can’t get something that simple figured out and they just rely on looking at numbers versus actually asking how the patient feels. It takes me a long time to train in a thyroid doctor , I’ve done it several times. 🤔🧐