Drinking water: Yes, it's important to flush out cellular wastes, but
conversely, it's important to have alternate periods.  Too much water can
interfere with nutient transfer to the cells because of excessive
DILUTION.  --Russ  

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 07:39:12 -0800 (PST) Susan <[email protected]>
writes:
> Gosh Barb, what an inspiring post!  I've saved it to reread when
> I need it.
> 
> Didi anyone see a news report SUnday night about drinking water?
>  I didn't but a friend of mine told me about it.  Of course they
> talked about things like drinking distilled water over a
> prolonged period will kill/wash out all the good stuff in your
> system, and that mineral spring water is the best thing to drink
> (and after that, tap water, but I don't think I good joke mine
> down - so much chlorine it's like drinking pool water), and then
> it was stated that recent research has concluded that the human
> body needs only 4 8oz. glasses of water/day to function
> optimally: apparently they stated that any more than this is
> detrimental.  Well, I drink an awful lot more than that -
> usually around 96oz. or even a little more - to flush out
> toxins, especially when I'm detoxing something.  This report I'm
> sure is scaring alot of people.
> 
> ANy comments?
> 
> Susan in Indy
> 
> "It is no sign of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly
> sick society".         
>                                ---Krishnamurti
> 
> Dear Janet,
> 
> From my research into thyroid disesase which has been rather
> extensive 
> due to
> my mother-in-law having it to the point doctors scared her into 
> thinking
> she had only 6 months to live over 12 years ago.  The nodules
> indicate 
> infection as in Hashimoto's disease.  
> 
> First line of defense is fight off the hidden infection and the
> nodules
> should dissappear.  Other symtoms of graves disease can be
> contolled 
> with
> diet.  For hypo you avoid goitrogens and with Graves you would
> want 
> them,
> and these include all the members of the crucifer family. 
> Cabbage 
> juice
> alone can stun the thyroid into underfunctioning.  
> 
> Learn where the points of the body are for the thyroid from
> reflexology 
> books
> or accupresure books and rub these points religiously.
>   
> Remain calm and act on nothing out of panic and never, ever give
> up and 
> go
> into hoplessness.  As for hypothyroids or those destoryed by
> medicine
> alternating hot and cold  packs over the thyroid all day long to
> 
> stimulate
> blood flow and therefore more antibody activity to the area.  
> Sleep in
> magnetic collar.   take up qigong, I realize that this is not an
> easy
> quickfix, but getting well from many disorders has to become
> like a 
> career. 
> It is just the way it is.  The quick fixes of drugs and surgery
> lead to
> long term problems that are harder to fix or nearly impossible
> to fix 
> or
> reverse.  So consider all this time to heal self a longterm
> investment 
> in
> yourself and your well-being, no whining about learning a lot of
> new 
> things
> and having to work at them.  I was a basket case several years
> ago, 
> facing
> living in an environmental medical unit or riskin a fatal asthma
> attack 
> if
> I took off my filter mask.  I no longer need masks or inhalers
> or air
> filters or medicine on a dialy basis.  I still have asthma but 
> know 
> more
> how to treat it than any MD and more than I ever did as
> respiratory
> therapist many years ago, and I will cure it totally when I get
> time to 
> get
> NAET treatments, but it was a terrifying time when anything and 
> everything
> could trigger spells where I   could not breathe.  I hid in my
> bedroom 
> for
> months and read up on allergies and the immune system and began
> a 
> jouney
> that led me fully into the camp of alternative medicine.  But it
> was a 
> lot
> of work and it is still a lot of work as I still have a lot of
> problems 
> not
> yet resovlved and know way of knowing how I went from being a
> healthy
> athlete to a an ashtmatic, with fibromyalgia, arthritis,
> sinusitis, 
> with
> apparent low thyroid and so on all almost over night and add in 
> polycystic
> ovary disease to boot.  And carpel tunnel and bone crippling
> heel 
> spurs,
> and  myopia.  I have had a lot of problems to work on likely
> that were
> tirggered by environmental toxins I was exposed to when I was
> ignroant 
> of
> the threat.  That led to low thyroid that led to
> underfunctioning 
> immune
> system and other bad aspects of diet and I was a mess.  Now that
> I am 
> more
> knowledgable I am slowly with daily intensive effort reversing
> all 
> these
> problems.  I am even revesing what few visible signs of aging I
> have
> accrued.  My fine lines are reversing, and the HGH sutt is
> helping,
> Colloidal silver helped a lot in beating back a tendancy to
> chronic
> cystitis and frequent attacks of acute bronchitis.  Now I am
> feeling 
> and
> starting to look 15 years younger, it is all a lot of work and 
> discipline
> but worth the effort.  I want to look as I did when I was 17 for
> 
> virtually
> forever and I now know that is is possible, it  just takes work.
>  LIke
> maintaining a classic car, you gotta wash and wax em and tune em
> a lot 
> and
> grease them and change the oil and belts.  ;Same with us.
> 
> TOo many take health for granted and think the body should run
> on 
> autopiolet
> whle we abuse it for our pleasure.
> 
> 
> Well enought of this rant.  But I am greatful that colloidal
> silver 
> existed
> as it led me further downt the road of knowledge that I am on
> and it 
> led me
> to meet nice and interesting people like all of you here, even
> you 
> grumpy
> ones.
> 
> 
> Barb
> 
> 
> 
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