Susan Brill

Matt McSpadden wrote:Hi Jennifer,
I think many of the common items have been talked about already. Losing weight, special exercises, reducing stress, etc.

One item that I believe has greatly helped my sleep (I was not officially diagnosed with sleep apnea, but I suspected, based on my experience and reading) was magnesium. Magnesium is used in over 300 biochemical reactions in the body, particularly around muscles being able to relax and contract properly.

Great info thank you. I’m not good at keeping up with my supplements, but I do take Mg when I take 5hem. I’m wondering if the days I have taken it (or the weeks I’ve been most consistent) have given me better nights of sleep? I’m going to keep track of that now tha5 you’ve mentioned it!

William Bronson wrote: Mart, do you make charcoal?
I've been hopping to replace the peat I use in my containers with charcoal.

Please elaborate on this… How do you make charcoal? I save the ash from bonfires and campfires - is that what you mean?

Mike Barkley wrote:I bury fish carcasses before planting squash. I eat the fish, the plants eat the bones & guts. Works great!

I have done this with tomatoes!… i’m sure it works for all plants.

Michelle Heath wrote:.  I ended up watering a spot in the grass away from the greenhouse with it and they licked and rolled in it for over an hour. .

Great idea! LOL. I’ve never noticed it to draw animals! You must have gotten a potent batch😄

Paul Sofranko wrote:Following. I have sleep apnea and use a C-PAP machine which I despise;

I’m with you! I stopped using mine and I’m going to return it. I simply can’t sleep with it. In four - 5 months I have had only five or six nights of 7 to 9 hours of sleep (when I was dead tired). Other than that,  it wakes me up multiple times  in the night And I feel worse in the morning when I use it then when I don’t. Or I  wake up and find I have ripped it off in the night. Sigh, I’m going to check out the videos people posted above.

Kathleen Sanderson wrote:Auto-immune diseases seem to run in our family.  

My mother has celiac disease, fibromyalgia, Sjogren's syndrome, arthritis...

I have celiac disease, fibromyalgia, Sjogren's, arthritis, psoriasis, metabolic syndrome ...

My oldest daughter has vitiligo; her oldest daughter also has vitiligo....

……

Kathleen

Kathleen, (I apologize if this is a repeat. I tried to post a reply before I was signed in and I can’t find where it posted. Here’s the gist – ) you listed vitiligo with your family’s auto immune illnesses. Do you consider vitiligo to be related to autoimmune disease? I have extensive vitiligo that caused me a lot of embarrassment and issues as a child. It’s all over my feet, up my legs and on my stomach in a symmetrical pattern, random spots elsewhere as well. I am fair skinned so as an adult if I stay out of the sun it’s subtle, but as a child My skin would tan where there was pigment so I appeared like a “wild cat or a burn victim” depending on who was commenting. :-/. (I had almost forgotten how traumatic it was for me until I am recalling it now .) As an adult I have recently been diagnosed with fibromyalgia – I have not been able to work regularly for the last eight years because of fatigue and brain fog. I was treated for chronic Lyme disease A few years ago by a naturopath but still could not function. I was diagnosed by a rheumatologist with fibromyalgia recently. I am 58 so my research into vitiligo was 20 and 30 years ago. I’m curious if there is an auto immune connection. I also was diagnosed with melanoma 10 years ago but have not had a recurrence (I followed a very strict natural cancer treatment program for about three years. I attribute that to surviving the first bout and not having a recurrence). I assume with vitiligo and multiple Severe child sunburns in the 1970s before we knew that much about sunscreen, that I was quite a candidate for melanoma… i’m interested in any perspective you have on an auto immune connection with vitiligo.

Kathleen Sanders – I’m curious to know why you listed vitiligo in your family - do you consider that an autoimmune condition? I have vitiligo, which caused me a lot of embarrassment and emotional issues as a child, but doctors always acted like it was just a cosmetic issue and nothing to do about it. As an adult, I have had Lyme disease and been diagnosed with fibromyalgia - with chronic fatigue symptoms. It’s extremely debilitating and I have not been able to work,  except very part time, for about eight years. I am wondering if vitiligo is a marker or early warning of autoimmune illness? I’m Interested to know any knowledge you have about this… i’m 58 so it was 30 and 40 years ago that I was looking into causes. At that time they said it could be caused by shock or a trauma, it could be a vitamin B deficiency (or evidence that your body does not properly make use of vitamin B), or hereditary. I am very fair skinned so if I simply remain out of the sun, the vitiligo is subtle. But when I was a child playing outdoors I would tan nicely where I had pigment but had very large  “albino” splotches all over my feet, up my legs legs and on my stomach that are (mostly) symmetrical on my body. I also developed melanoma skin cancer 10 years ago,  likely from so many terrible childhood sunburns - without pigment more susceptible to the radiation perhaps.

Paul Canosa wrote:I wish you nothing but the best Susan.

If possible try to keep a positive mindset, I find meditation helps me purge negativity but please do whatever works best for you

I humbly suggest you avoid eating anything that comes from a box at the supermarket unless its real unprocessed food packaging such as oats or frozen berries for example

Studies show cancer loves sugar, but I'm not a doctor just sharing what I've heard and read

Thank you Paul, I agree!

cynda williams wrote:Altho' this topic seems to be 3 years old, I will add my two cent's worth to the discussion on Lyme disease. I live in an area where deer ticks are rampant. Since I'm a gardener and work in an area known to have infected deer ticks (I have had at least ten infected deer tick bites), I take extreme care when going out to work in the gardens. I use a 25% Neem oil to 75% olive oil mix on my skin prior to dressing, being sure that my skin is coated with the oil.

I am the same… I have had chronic Lyme But I continue to garden and I have a Wooded property on the lake that is my joy. My sister has also battled chronic Lyme and can’t understand why I still want to go to the woods. I will follow your Neem oil advice. After going through a three month long protocol with a naturopath for chronic Lyme, and then  being reinfected, The naturopath advised me that the small amount of debt in bug spray it’s safer for me at this point than contracting Lyme again. This is very hard for me to accept since I am very natural and I have not used deet in about 30 years. However… I plan to use your name oil idea on my skin, and Deepwoods repellent on my clothes this summer. I did not find any tick or tick bites at the time I was reinfected with Lyme… So I don’t think you always know when to get treatment.

Paul Canosa wrote:An old friend from High School was diagnosed with MS about 5 years ago. She decided to change her life and went on an AIP diet, to nobodies surprise she is still as energetic as ever. She even got a dog to go for walks to stay fit.

Its a daily struggle but she made me a believer

That’s good advice, thank you. I am familiar with that – I went through natural cancer treatment program when I had melanoma skin cancer and the regimen was a similar diet as well as other lifestyle changes. With all of my fatigue and emotional exhaustion as well as physical, I let go of a lot of those good lifestyle habits. Too tired to care and it was just so hard to have discipline when I could barely think and function! However… I have been realizing that I need to go back onto the anti-cancer life and diet. I had a new spot appear that could be another type of melanoma ( Seeing doctor tomorrow). Maybe it will reset other areas of life and energy…