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Health / Re: I need your advice re: PCOS (women health issue)
« on: October 25, 2012, 09:55:15 pm »
Thanks a lot everybody.

My wife does not work out too much so I do not think it is the issue. She just does some fitness exercises from DVD 3 times a week. Nothing crazy.

It is true that she might be overstressed and overworked after last year of studying (yes, it is the same or even harder than in US to graduate medical school, here in Poland).

Let us metabolize what you all wrote in this topic. We will take some time to read about all this sources you gave us and let you know how it goes for us.

Thanks!

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Health / Re: I need your advice re: PCOS (women health issue)
« on: October 23, 2012, 07:04:24 pm »
Thanks guys for your interest.

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Is she rawpalaeo? Even a slight change in diet towards raw and/or palaeo has led people to reversing infertility and many other conditions.

She is not a raw paleo. She eats very low quantities of carbs  (only fruits), plenty of veggies and lightly processed meats like steamed salmon.

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More clues please:

- age
- weight
- number of kids
- profession
- contraceptives used (pills, iud, injectable, patches, ligation, abortion)
- drugs used
- chemicals she puts on her body: shampoo, soap, perfume, deodorant, exfoliate, etc

Has she done any cleansing / detox protocols.

What's her diet like?

Pictures?

- age 27
- weight : I do not know, but surely normal , i will ask when she comes back
- no kids (she was pregnant this summer but she lost baby in first three weeks - 40% women with PCOS has early miscarriage :(  . This involved being in hospital for surgery and getting some drugs we would much prefer to avoid)
- she is a medical doctor (she is just starting - three months since she has graduated)
- contraceptives used - she was taking contraceptive pill for over one year. It was not to prevent pregnancy but to actually heal PCOS. Doctors prescribed it to her for one year and then she stopped taking it so we could have a baby. Her sister has PCOS and this method worked very well for her. It also managed the symptoms of my wife while she was taking it - she did not have problems with falling out hair etc. I know dangers of this pills and would prefer her to avoid it, but she has her own will and it felt important for her to be taking it then.
- no other drugs
- she does put chemicals on her body as most women do, but surely not too often. She does not wear make up every day and is very common sense about it.

She has not done any detox protocols besides few colon cleansings.

I have no pictures but she looks normal and healthy. She has high energy levels, often involved in many things, a busy person. You would not say she has health issues, if you did not know.

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Health / I need your advice re: PCOS (women health issue)
« on: October 23, 2012, 05:04:05 pm »
My wife struggles with PCOS. It is called PCOS, but poly-cystic ovary syndrom is only a symptom of some problems with hormones (her body produces too much men hormones).

They only way  mainstream medicine heals, or rather "temporarily stops" this symptoms is by prescribing some strong drugs  that my wife cant really take because we want to have a baby as soon as possible.

The biggest distress that this health condition gives to my wife is the issue of hair falling out. Because it is caused by testosterone, the hair will never regrow so she knows that every hair she loses now, she loses forever :(

It is very sad for me to see her suffer and be helpless about it. She already eats very good diet, is very fit, works out each day , supplements with zinc, vit B complex, folic acid and nettle&horsetail for hair.

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Hot Topics / Re: Is meat hung for 28 days to mature good to eat?
« on: September 15, 2012, 01:34:02 am »
One more thing: I guess he does not intend to eat it raw, but cooked (probably as rare steak)

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Hot Topics / Is meat hung for 28 days to mature good to eat?
« on: September 15, 2012, 01:31:22 am »
My friend who is from outside the raw paleo community and lifestyle asked me the question. I will quote it here because I think you will give him a better reply. I feel it is good idea but I do not have enough knowledge to say exactly why ? Question is:

"I can get good grass fed meat in London. The meat has been hung for 28 days to mature before it is sold. Is this ok or should it be eaten soon after its been killed? I've had contradictory feedback from suppliers."

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Yeah, he does smile most of the time!

And he himself actually mentions a stress free life as one of the factors of his good health condition.

When I was getting married last year he said "I will tell you a very good advice that I was given when I was getting married - "never let the night cover your anger" which means - always make sure to resolve all conflicts with your wife before the night comes. Never go to sleep if conflict is unresolved, because it builds up and make things get worse."

He is happy in his marriage and family life and he likes his professional life (it looks like he could do it for free but he is obviously paid for it). For example, when he worked in university in Mexico, in his "free time" he created a mountain guide and he organized a few summer camps for Mexican kids. When I asked him why he wrote the book , he said that it was important for him to share the knowledge he has in this area , before he dies.

Except the World War II when he lost many close friends - including his dearest brother, he does not seem to have any stressful events in his life.


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Hot Topics / Re: Freedom for children at school
« on: September 09, 2012, 08:01:37 pm »
This man is amazing! I have read his book:

http://www.amazon.com/Summerhill-School-New-View-Childhood/dp/0312141378

Many things changed since this book has been published but I think most of what he applied, is still very important.

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During the camping he eats the same things that the lady cook prepares for kids, which is basically shitty cooked food.

I do not think he hunts, he rarely eats red meat but he is a fish lover.

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Hot Topics / Re: What's better, cooked paleo or raw vegan/vegetarian?
« on: September 08, 2012, 02:27:54 am »
Cooked paleo is not as bad as one can think. If you eat things like steamed salmon, good quality rare or medium rare beef steaks and avoid artificial food , "empty carbs" and grains , you will be better off than 95% of westenr population.

If you want to be raw vegan for longer period of time, I do not believe you would be all right.

I did both diets and I find cooked paleo amazing, and raw veganism decent but only for cleansing purposes. After two months I got too "tired", sleepy and my teeth enamel got badly hurt.

However, after seeing video with this raw vegan afromamerican lady that is seventy, I am no longer sure of anything!

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Hot Topics / Re: Raw Vegan Annette Larkins at 70 looks like 30.
« on: September 08, 2012, 02:22:05 am »
It is said her sons are in their fifties so I do not think she can be lying about her age.

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No Dorothy, I think he does not drink any hot beverages including tea and coffee.

The other thing that I forgot to mention in first post is that he spends lots of time outdoors. There were often situations in the past where I called him only to find out that he is "in the fields". His son has strawberry fields and he always likes helping there with labour. And of course the scouting - that includes  walking trips,  tent sleeping, swimming, sun and all of this pleasures!

It was very moving for me to see him with family during last summer camp.. We had a firecamp and he was there with his son. And his son's son. And his son's son's son. In english we would say grand-grand son I suppose?

If he lives another 20 years, this boy that now is 6 , will probably be a man having his own son which would make this man a grand-grand-grand father. He has four or five children by the way.

 


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General Discussion / Re: Raw Meat Eating Family On Farm
« on: September 06, 2012, 08:51:34 pm »
Now I realize it is one of the "Wife Swap" episodes! Too bad I cant find the whole episode anywhere :/

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Yes, it is true GS that he lives very healthy, (almost paleo, even tough he has not heard about it!)  but he does not regard himself as an expert. I guess, one thing is that he is very in touch with his body and he respects its signals. Secondly, he is an old-school man that has not been much affected by modern life. Altough he is good at computers!

And I do think most of his food is organic even though he does not "aim" for it. In our town,  there is a marketplace that gathers small local farmers twice a week. It is not full organic food, but much better one than supermarket food. At least it does smell like veggies and fruits!

By the way, in the past I thought Poland was not good place for Paleo eaters, but now I can see it really is. We have first class, inexpensive wild game meat (venison for 20 EUR for kilogram), we have access to Baltic sea so I have access to fresh (ond-two days) Baltic salmon. We still have great eggs, chicken and markeplaces like the ones I mentioned. We also have a great "meat butique" in Warsaw that imports first class steaks for example from Argentina, France or Japan.  You can also get there meat from 3 month old goats, which I guess  is delicacy (and it is 20 EUR for kilogram!). Just see yourself, it is english version:

http://befsztyk.pl/index.php?language=en&osCsid=9d44d3dd6e40723312a94a997174c060

And TylerDurden, no offence taken with your remark obviously! I was in a hurry in previous post and indeed this post was terrible.  I will do my best to keep the quality of my language, I agree it is important. I hope this one is better. 

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He is not into "health stuff", he just uses some common sense and does not keep occupied with food.
He writes books on botanics only.

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General Discussion / Re: Raw Meat Eating Family On Farm
« on: September 05, 2012, 07:15:26 pm »
It looks like a 2 minutes fragment of longer video. Does anyone know where I can find whole video?

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Hi guys, I want to share a story with you about man who lives in my town in Poland.

First i met him when I was 9 years old boy - he organized the summer camp for scouts that I participated in. Now, as he came back from Mexico where he worked for few years, I offered him help in organizing camps again in Poland as I heard he is about to organize a few. And indeed we did few camps within last years.

This man has been born in 1925 so he is 87 years old now. He is very fit - he of course take part in this scout camps  and he is active there -talking long, sometimes 6-7 hours long walks, helping in building wooden buildings etc.. He even tried to play football with us this summer but he is rubbish at it so he got discouraged. But he was fit enough to be the goalkeeper.

He is professor of botanics and he managed to finish book that he has been writing for last two years now. This is  book on plant physiology. He is mentally very fit - with memory better than mine. He enjoys telling us very detailed stories about the war.

He is very cheerful person - all kids always love him. For example if they misbehave in the night in their tents and they hear some adult comming, they are relieved to realize it is him, not me. It is amazing but he is more like an older  friend to them. At the same time he accomplishes a lot, even at this age he is involved in all this things + some politics + successful marriage (60+ years together with one woman now). He has organized over 50 camps in his life. The one I took part in when I was young counted ~200 people. So it is rather a not easy thing to do. He speaks polish, english, spanish, ukrainian and german.

As far as his habits are concerned, the interesting thing is that he is not a health freak or something. Things like diets or healthy living do not occupy his mind at all. When I asked him what is his secret, it is what he said:

1) he eats 3 meals a day, and he never eat anything in between the meals. Not even healthy things. (so this could also be the form of my intermittent fasting in my opinion)
2) he does not drink coffee nor tea
3) he eats "as much eggs as he feels like"
4) he eats lots of of fish and as far red meats are concerned  - he does not fry anything. He says wife usually add some meat to the soup he eats and it boils with the soup.
5) he avoids white bread and margarine
6) he exercises every morning for 15 minutes
7) he has not drink alcohol since he has been 21. He says it is important for healthy neurological system

Hmmm..what else? If you want to know anything, you can - I will ask him then!

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Health / Re: Hypothyroidism
« on: February 20, 2012, 10:59:23 pm »
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What are the symptoms that are expressed?

lack of energy
sleepy
physical effort makes things worse
sometimes talking is difficult because of hoarseness
itchy eyes
brittle hair
slow metabolism
poor memory


Yes!! Raypeat.com

Sugars and SCFA.
The more you eat of those the more you need to eat nutritious food because those stimulate metabolism to use nutrients and if they are not provided you will find your self in a catabolic state.

Thanks, I will look into this

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Health / Hypothyroidism
« on: February 20, 2012, 09:04:38 pm »
My friend suffers hypothyroidism.

Does anyone have any advice how to cure it?


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Hot Topics / Re: The Undeserving Ill
« on: February 20, 2012, 09:01:49 pm »
This is a very important issue that is worth discussion.
But certainly not an easy one to solve in macro scale.

Creating more bureaucracy to distinguish deserving and undeserving ill does not look like a good idea to me,
but I would love to see some reasonable solution. People that kill themselves this way can't receive goverment's
money and support. Goverment's money is taxes of the rest.

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General Discussion / Re: veal liver
« on: February 17, 2012, 07:55:32 pm »
In my opinion:
 mother's milk-fed > grass fed > grain fed

For me baby veal liver is a delicacy, assuming it is raised in decent conditions.


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Off Topic / Re: Ron Paul for President of the USA
« on: February 15, 2012, 07:59:34 pm »
Nassim Taleb seems to have huge ego but the fact is that "Fooled by randomness"is one of the best books I ever read. Highly recommended.
I am very glad he supports Ron Paul.

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Journals / Re: GoodSamaritan's Experiments
« on: February 15, 2012, 07:38:38 pm »
Wow, I enjoyed your last comment William.

Would you like to write more on this or suggest some links...?


Keep up with a very good thread GS, I really like it too!

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General Discussion / Re: cooked paleo
« on: February 10, 2012, 08:50:30 pm »
Here it is some good stuff:

http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/articles/

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Off Topic / Re: Internet freedom/censoring
« on: January 25, 2012, 03:31:45 am »
Polish hackers were only local part of American (or global) formation "Annonymous" so I hope resistance will spread. It started in Austria today as far as I know!

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Off Topic / Re: Internet freedom/censoring
« on: January 24, 2012, 06:59:00 am »
And the funny thing was that goverment's spokeperson, mr Pawel Gras, initially did not want to admit all gov were just hacked so he explained that they were down because of "very high interest and traffic". As if Poles have no other job to do than to visit goverment websites at 4:00 in the night.

In response, hackers took down personal website of the very same spokeperson - pawelgras.pl :)

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