I watched a you tube video by Stephen Gundry MD, who was a pediatric heart transplant doc at Loma Linda with a stellar reputation. He is talking about glial cell inflammation. It startled me- he said no neurosurgeons have any hypothesis for how glial cells are getting inflamed. He did research and got some excellent research teams and labs to start putting a gut protecting vitamin together. I got some for Greg, thinking it can’t hurt. Andy’s belief in mushroom-based herbal brain supplements seem to be well-founded. The vitamin Dr Gundry makes is called “total restore”. I am taking it too now, trying to stay mentally intact. The video is exhaustingly marketing material, but the principle seems right to me. Last night I watched a research neurologist talk to Dr. Mark Hyman about brain and neurological inflammation. He thinks we are close to a huge new breakthrough which may help ALS patients. His data isn’t published yet but it is also quite amazing. It was about C dificile getting into the brain from the leaky gut and through the bloodstream. His name is Dr. Lombard. I also recently saw a similar video clip by a 35yr-in-practice ENT doc, about mouth flora and gum disease. The remedy he proposes is pro-biotics most active in mouth flora, combined in a gel lozenge to melt in the mouth. He says he turned around a patient with terrible gum disease, without surgery, in 60 days. All of this is pretty wonderful news, which of course dovetails with what we know about cardiac disease and other inflammatory problems in every system.
For quite a while I have been worried about sugar and even more, corn syrup, as causes of problems in the health of our people. So all of this makes me want to tell people and experiment with dietary supplements and better food choices.
I also got a new vitamin from a friend’s ex-husband, who is a pharmacological chemist with sterling credentials. He tested several ingredients to try to build a better immune support, which would not increase the inflammatory response. It is called Fierce Immunity. It is made by a company called “Rebellion”. The phD who came up with the recipe has a stellar reputation which he would hardly want to sully, and financial independence. It contains vitamin D, zinc, l-arginine and Hesperidin, and Quercetin. I feel that my arthritis is better since I started it. He tested it with AI support against 700 diseases, and the most common diseases of aging. It helped in each case. It works on the biochemistry links between cells, like the old telephone node system, to optimize immune function. I figure it is better to be on only one vitamin rather than possibly having counter-productive interactions. It is meant to be a Once-a day supplement.
Granted this is just me, others may know more, but I think it is worth trying to do the best I can to stay healthy!
I thought I would share it with you all, as one friend asked for the name of the leaky gut support from Dr. Gundry: “total restore .“
Tag: health
The solidarity economy
I am a member of FCNL, the Friends Committee on National Legislation. They have been trying for 100 years to help us get to a more just and more peaceful society and government. This month’s newsletter has an interesting article on what is a Solidarity Economy. This is sharing, not forced, ways to build sustainable economic practices. Examples are cooperatives, land trusts, credit unions, peer lending, mutual aid, community-led economic development, barter, commmunity-supported agriculture, and fair trade products. They give several examples, including in Atlanta a community land trust which aims to build affordable housing. They say that sometimes because this is not a power-grab, even in an authoritarian state, these practices can work to buffer the community needs.
In our town, we have Second Harvest food bank, which does a tremendous job of getting fresh produce to the less fortunate. We have the Grey Bears, who do a fantastic job of repurposing and recycling, and helping others, especially the elderly, find less expensive options.
The idea is to prioritize people and the planet over endless profit and growth. Some of you saw my posts about Prop 1, and how much hope I have had, that it would pass. It passed by 1%, and it is going to provide mental health clinics and acute care mental health beds for psychotic patients, in California. It will not solve all the homeless’ needs, but it is a good start, for the hardest things to help, which are the mental health needs, which have been underserved and in crisis for over 50 years. My next big hope came when I read about a big project which is happening in central Los Angeles, which is a huge building project, part of which is to help increase housing for the homeless. But also, it is going to be aesthetically pleasing, and make what is currently a maniacal eyesore and nightmare to drive through, into what looks like the center of a city which cares about building community. I want to again recommend that people read the book by Victoria Sweet MD, “God’s Hotel”. It is about the planning and building of the last big charity hospital, in San Francisco. What Dr. Sweet shows is that people who have had no place to be, and who “don’t fit in” can learn to fit in if the community makes it possible for them to find a niche. This is about widening the circle.
Some mentally ill people will never be able to hold a job; it is too difficult for some people to sustain the daily energy and task-oriented focus. Some cannot easily communicate and cooperate in a team of workers. But they can do SOME thing, and we can help find out what it is. Some people can work sometimes, and take time off when they are not able to focus or do a job. People are not machines, and we have to make it possible for many different skills to be offered for the good of the whole community. If we are thinking in terms of a Solidarity Economy, this becomes more clear. We can try to find ways to build healthy and stable communities, if we are not focusing only on the governmental support and budget. As you know, I believe we need universal healthcare, and that will mean using taxpayers’ money, but I want it to be spent efficiently, with the 3% overhead of Medicare, not the insurance industry’s 15%. There are ways we can expand our reach, if we widen the lens with which we “see” the problems we need to solve.
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