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Post by Gretchen » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:55 am

But my advice to you: Eat 3 times a day, balanced meals at balanced intervals (like every 5 hours). Overchew your food, so that there aren't big chunks being swallowed. Eat organic breads, fruits, veggies, nuts. Don't eat spicy, oily, overly sweet things. Also get some meat in there, preferrably free range chicken or wild caught fish. If you are gonna have a burger, enjoy it. If you're gonna have a spicy meal, enjoy that as well...these are just guidelines which will start making your body healthier and making your immune system boost. Having a "bad" meal every once in a while isn't so bad...it's just bad when you always eat that way. As your immune system boosts, you'll notice you can eat pretty much anything and feel fine...but that's not a good reason to do it.
I am being forced to eat the way you suggest because my inner ear problem is so bad that I am having bad attacks of Meniere's. The problem is that sodium content is so high in almost everything...processed. Parsley supplements are doing nicely as a substitute for diuretics to prevent salt reabsorption into the system, but diet change is an absolute necessity. Do you eat the way you suggest? If so, do you do all this cooking yourself?

I am absolutely overcome by the amount of preservatives in everything I have eaten in the past. I am eating fresh fruits as a snack, thank God it is summer. I am going to go explore the whole foods store today, but if you have some secret to eating healthy that doesn't take half the day to prepare, I would like to know what it is.

What do you eat on a typical day?

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Post by sschaula » Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:28 am

I will get back to you about this by the end of the day, Passthrough.
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Post by sschaula » Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:27 am

Okay,
I am being forced to eat the way you suggest because my inner ear problem is so bad that I am having bad attacks of Meniere's.
With just a little research you can see that excess salt and sugar intake is what causes this type of reaction in the body, for a person with inner ear problems. So if you want to not have it happen to you as much, then do what's suggested by doctors and myself and reduce your salt and sugar.
The problem is that sodium content is so high in almost everything...processed.
So stop eating processed things.
Parsley supplements are doing nicely as a substitute for diuretics to prevent salt reabsorption into the system, but diet change is an absolute necessity.
You don't need diuretics. They're bad for you even if they're natural, because they take water from your tissues. The body can expel excess water on its own without the help of parsley supplements.

You know that diuretics aren't recommended for people with your condition? If you want to prevent salt reabsorption, lower your levels of salt intake so that you don't have to worry about it. Your tissues should retain fluid, as that's healthy. If they don't, you are dehydrated and are in risk of shock (hypoperfusion).
Do you eat the way you suggest? If so, do you do all this cooking yourself?
I do when I can. It's hard, because I have been living at my parent's house without a job for this last part of the summer. When I get back to school, in a week, I will begin a lot of health experiments on myself including eating entirely the way I recommend. I will do all the cooking by myself then...although it's not that much. Just make a couple loaves of bread every once in a while...making fruit smoothies...have a bowl of mixed nuts...have produce to just munch on...use a slow cooker...stir frying...

It's all pretty simple stuff, and the more raw produce you eat, the healthier you will be. That requires no cooking.
I am absolutely overcome by the amount of preservatives in everything I have eaten in the past. I am eating fresh fruits as a snack, thank God it is summer. I am going to go explore the whole foods store today, but if you have some secret to eating healthy that doesn't take half the day to prepare, I would like to know what it is.
Like I said bake a couple loaves of bread in advance. Bake them with organic flours bought at the whole foods store. Barley, rye, wheat and oat are all good (unless you have some sort of food allergy). Don't be afraid to use ingredients suggested in good bread recipes just because they may not be pure foods...like baking soda, sugar or whatever else. A great bread with a bit of "bad" stuff in it is better than an okay bread that's absolutely pure.

Food should be about enjoyment. Do you enjoy eating pizza? Then make your own pizza using organic ingredients. I think this is what you're talking about when you say it takes like half a day. Then you have a few choices...

1) Make a lot of food one day and refrigerate it for leftover meals.

2) Keep it simple. Just have your homemade organic bread with organic avacados and tomatoes. Maybe have an organic apple on the side. It will be a great lunch time meal that takes like 5 minutes to make.

3) Slow cookers are great. Throw anything in there and see how it turns out. You can make light soups, hearty soups, cassarole type things, primarily meat based dishes...it'll all taste pretty dang good. Just don't add a bunch of salt. Get over it. The way most people eat is by pouring the salt on, so they can stimulate their taste buds but most are overstimulating. After a while of being off of salt, you'll experience much greater tastes. Things that used to taste boring will be great.
What do you eat on a typical day?
Oatmeal and brown sugar is good for breakfast. A fruit smoothie is good, or fried eggs and toast is good. Experiment with these, and choose whatever makes you feel good.

For lunch, it depends on if I'm wanting something hearty or something light. That usually depends on the breakfast I ate. If I want something light I'll go with the suggestion I gave you about the avacado/tomato sandwich. Or whip up some real mayo and mix it with leftover chicken pieces and sprinkle some black pepper on that. If I want something hearty, then maybe some type of beef soup is good. Chicken soup is good, especially when you use the bones when you make the stock.

Dinner, I've been noticing, has been becoming lighter for me. You should eat whatever makes you feel satisfied until you go to bed. When you're about to sleep you shouldn't be hungry, and you shouldn't feel like you have food in you either.

Overall advice with diet: follow how your body feels, and keep what you eat pure and real, as well as enjoyable. A good cookbook I just recently got is "How to Cook Everything" by Mark Bittman. It's mostly simple recipes that seem like they'd work well.

Personally, I avoid pork and any weird kinds of creatures. I also avoid soy products. Your diet should be "normal"...not low fat, low carb, or low protein...nor high any of those.

Avoid alcohol and any other kind of drug. Don't drink coffee or tea. Don't take tons of vitamins. Don't take natural therapy type things, like licorice root or whatever other weird thing is out there.

Not about diet...

I'd like to add that you should do dry brushing twice a day: after you wake up and after you get home from work or whatever you do. Brush towards your heart starting at your toes, fingers and crown. Make sure you brush it well enough, so that you're getting a good flow of blood to the surface of the skin. Don't just rush through it. Here's what the brush you should use looks like:

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I hope you're also doing physical exercise. If not, order this and do it twice a day in addition to the brushing. It's a near perfect workout, and I use it as a base fitness practice as well as in addition to other things.

I take back my advice for salt baths, for obvious reasons. You don't need excess salt. But make sure that your pores are being cleansed each day. The dry brushing should help with this, but use a soap that doesn't stick to your body. Your skin shouldn't have any residue left on it. "Tom's natural soaps" do a good job at this, and I use them.

Note that I'm not some hippy. Far from it. I'm a medic in the military and I'm going to school to become an athletic trainer. The things I'm suggesting work. They have nothing to do with being some new age trend, and have everything to do with how the body functions. How to make it function more efficiently...as well as effectively.

The proof is in the pudding. Give it a good try and let me know if you see any results. Positive or negative.
- Scott

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Post by Kelly Jones » Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:59 pm

Scott wrote:I'm a medic in the military and I'm going to school to become an athletic trainer.

Two years ago, you were interested in becoming a psychiatrist. You were motivated by wanting to help people, and because you liked being able to buy a fashionable jacket. What's motivated this recent career change?

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Post by sschaula » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:20 pm

I had originally wanted to become a chiropractitioner. This was due to my interest in yoga. The school didn't exactly offer it, so I was put in pre-med. That was too challenging for my tastes as a student, so I went for psychology. I was interested in the physiological aspect of it. I found psychology to be pretty boring. A lot of memorizing insignificant people and theories. In my opinion, if a theory is worthless it shouldn't be taught as a requisite for the course. It should just be stored away in history books. There were only two classes offered at my university that actually got into the subject matter I was into. Physiological Psychology and Advanced Physiological Psychology. I figured why shell out a bunch of money, and why be so bored, and why become a turd sitting in the listener's chair, when I can just take those two classes and go into something else. So I chose athletic training now because it fits with what I'm currently into...health. Plus I like the idea of the job. There are a lot of myths in the fitness community, and I'd like to contribute to dispelling them.

But it seems that my passion has always been about the same type of thing: the way the body works with the mind. Figuring it all out. And once I've done that, relaxing.
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Post by Kelly Jones » Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:02 pm

sschaula wrote:But it seems that my passion has always been about the same type of thing: the way the body works with the mind. Figuring it all out. And once I've done that, relaxing.
And when you are healthy and relaxed, what?

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Post by sschaula » Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:13 pm

Who knows.
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Post by Kelly Jones » Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:31 pm

I would have thought that being healthy and relaxed was to help think about truths and falsehoods.

That's my personal distortion of the matter, seeing how much I like sticky, passion-flavoured lycanthropy.

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Post by sschaula » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:03 am

That's exactly what it's about for me. I think perfect health brings perfect enlightenment, and the likewise.
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Post by Kelly Jones » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:47 am

Would a fungal growth of tinea alter the nature of Reality then?

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Post by sschaula » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:19 am

Would a fungal growth of tinea alter the nature of Reality then?
Well first of all, the nature of Reality never changes. It's absolute. Our perception of it is what changes.

According to my theory, if you're capable of getting a fungal infection, then you're also capable of losing your true perception of reality. But if your body is immune to everything, then your true perception of reality is also immune to everything. It's possible to become enlightened when the body isn't perfect, but you aren't guaranteed of maintaining that altered state of consciousness until the body becomes perfect.

Except if a boulder fell on your head and completely destroyed your brain or something.
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Post by sschaula » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:09 pm

Passthrough,

I told a close friend of mine about dry brushing, and he asked why I did it, so I wrote this short book for him...

http://www.freewebs.com/sschaula/brushing.rtf

Check it out if you're interested in more of the theory behind it. Hope you're doing okay.
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Post by Kelly Jones » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:56 pm

Is there such a thing as suspended animation?

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Post by sschaula » Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:33 am

I don't think so. Unless the entire universe stopped, there wouldn't be any suspension at all.

But I think I can answer your question (how it pertains to enlightenment), just based from some theory...and not experience.

When the proper flow of the sakti in the body is uninterrupted, then enlightenment is supposed to occur. When this occurs, it prevents further obstructions to the flow, so that the flow is strengthened. This isn't suspension, but it's simply correct flow. I don't believe in suspension, but I believe that this is a possibility.

Like a dam that breaks, everything is swept out of the way of the flow. Further accumulation doesn't happen because of the strength of the waters.

But you can probably get the enlightenment experience without having this unending flow of sakti. When it raises in the body, it changes your perception to the enlightened state. Yet if there is too much karma in the body, the mind soon goes back to its unenlightened state. I experienced this a few years ago.

Repeated entrance into the state burns the karma. So does being around a person whose flow is uninterrupted. So does any good meditation technique. Hatha yoga, used properly, also burns up the karma.

But all of this is just a possibility, and just a theory.
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Post by Gretchen » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:46 am

I told a close friend of mine about dry brushing, and he asked why I did it, so I wrote this short book for him...

http://www.freewebs.com/sschaula/brushing.rtf

Check it out if you're interested in more of the theory behind it. Hope you're doing okay.
Actually, dry brushing makes a lot of sense. I can see what benefits you derive. Products that contain microparticles to cleanse your face and body make your skin feel wonderful. Dry brushing would most likely be better than soaps...and cheaper!

The low sodium diet seems to be helping as I haven't had an episode this whole weekend and not getting dizzy until late in the afternoon. I have also lost 3 pounds already! Most likely water, but eating healthy may help me to lose the 7 extra I need to be at my ideal weight...so a side benefit. Wild Oats has a great website with recipes that lend themselves to the low side of sodium content. I have gone to working 4-10 hour days, so they extra day I get off will most likely be spent preparing food for the next week, but it may be pretty fun.

What I find interesting is that you are not like most people your age. Most people your age tend to be anemic, are vegetarians for all the wrong reasons, and eat ramen noodles all the time. I find it quite refreshing that you actually eat homemade bread, avacado and tomato sandwiches with homemade mayo. Although, homemade mayo looks very difficult to get the proper emulsion - I still may try it out. I'm definitely going to have to make my own flour tortillas to avoid the 370 mg per tortilla.

My last comment is about this program you sent me to. There was just a little bit about the actual program but not much. What exactly is it? Can you describe it a little better?

Thanks!

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Post by sschaula » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:40 am

Passthrough,

Good to see you didn't get dizzy and crack your head on something. :-P
Actually, dry brushing makes a lot of sense. I can see what benefits you derive. Products that contain microparticles to cleanse your face and body make your skin feel wonderful. Dry brushing would most likely be better than soaps...and cheaper!
I use soap everyday. If you don't, you will definitely end up smelling really bad. I opt for a "natural" soap, instead of something with a lingering scent. The skin absorbs what's on it.
The low sodium diet seems to be helping as I haven't had an episode this whole weekend and not getting dizzy until late in the afternoon. I have also lost 3 pounds already! Most likely water, but eating healthy may help me to lose the 7 extra I need to be at my ideal weight...so a side benefit.
I don't advise you to work towards losing weight. Just eat healthy. I'm sure that the pounds lost are mostly water weight.
Although, homemade mayo looks very difficult to get the proper emulsion - I still may try it out. I'm definitely going to have to make my own flour tortillas to avoid the 370 mg per tortilla.
My advice is just keep it simple. Making everything from scratch will definitely be a pain. If you are going to eat a small amount of mayo, then just get the regular kind. They may even have something naturally made at the whole foods store. Same thing for tortillas. I say, only do so much preparation if you're planning on having the greatest meal of your life. You may have to give up some dishes....like quiche, for example.

I know, I know. Quiche is amazing. Too bad, huh?
My last comment is about this program you sent me to. There was just a little bit about the actual program but not much. What exactly is it? Can you describe it a little better?


It was a small book on dry brushing. It should have sent the whole thing to you. It's mostly about the theory behind it, based on basic anatomy and physiology. It describes the technique well enough. Brush your body towards your heart.
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You're welcome, Passthrough.
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