I Have No Appetite and Nothing Sounds Good For Dinner, So I Won’t Have Any….

@SW-User yeah thinking the same way. I need to lose weight anyway. A lot of older people would tell me they would eat very little and no regular dinner, maybe a glass of milk or buttermilk and some crackers or whatever. They were the ones that never gain weight when they got older.

@SW-User I have always liked to have some raw onion when I eat meat, the flavors together for one thing but it also helps to remove by-products of protein digestion which is ammonia that your liver has to deal with. Onions have other benefits too.

@cherokeepatti I enjoy them with a steak or burger, they set those off nicely and then the antioxidant thing just makes it even better. Thin sliced raw onion is so good with either of those. Sometimes nice as a snack too a few little slices of it on its own. Probably not the worst habit either. I googled to check and it's indeed a superfood.

@SW-User Good prebiotic. The sulfur in it also detoxes copper in your body if for some reason you get too much from food or whatever. Garlic and onions also keep the candida yeast cells down. My nephew was 3 and on antibiotics several times and ended up getting thrush in his mouth, it is a candida infection, because the antibiotics had killed out his probiotics that would have kept it away. I went over to see what we could feed him because his mouth was so sore. I thought of foods he didn’t have to chew and made him mashed potatoes and gave him applesauce. He was really hungry and would take each bite and cry. I was also cooking our lunch and was slicing up an onion on a plate and he reaches for a slice and I told him it would burn his mouth but he grabbed it anyway and stuck in his mouth and he didn’t cry. He was chewing slowly on those slices so I let him have as much as he wanted. A chiropractor told my uncle that onions & garlic was the best food he could eat because it kills out the thrush germs.

@cherokeepatti Wow. And maybe deep down a part of him could have known on instinct on some level to reach for that/ [Of course maybe not, but who's to say?] When you say a chiropractor told your uncle that thing about garlic & onions, I don't suppose that means it is good for the back? I'm imagining it's just something that chiropractor knew whether to do directly with their field of expertise or not. Bit mad to think of an onion helping one's back - although when I think about spinal fluid, maybe it's not so mad. If not them then perhaps those peppers you mentioned the other day, because of the anti-inflammatory properties?

@SW-User Yes I believe we have an instinct for healing things. I used to go to the health food store and look at all the teas and things and my daughter who had lupus would browse around and find something & ask if I would get it for her and I always did. I would read up on those things each time and find out that they were beneficial and healing to her conditions. When she started craving things she never did before and started eating a lot of them I would always check out what they were good for…salmon, green tea, curry powder in Indian foods, blackberry leaf tea, eggplant for example, I would check them out and find out exactly how they were benefitting her. Blackberry leaf tea is a Cherokee remedy for inflamed intestines and she would had bouts of that which kept her home from school for up to 3 days at a time., 3 cups of it in one day and the inflammation was gone. Eggplant has a chemical in it that is anti-seizure and she was asking me to buy 3 of the large ones every week so she could make a chicken-veggie stew with them, she ate most of it. Curry spices are anti-inflammatory and natural painkillers, she had a lot of inflammation in her joints with the lupus. Green tea is great for a lot of different things, detoxes the liver and tames inflammation too among others.

Chiropractors use alternative therapies to treat and also massage and manipulation of the spice. They will not prescribe any type of drugs so they have studied nutrition and natural medicine a great deal. The onions may not cure the spine but that chiropractor knew the health benefits of them. I had a chiropractor and told him I didn’t use any OTC painkillers or prescription painkillers and was dealing with the pain in my neck & back only using spices especially ginger….he knew what I was talking about.

@cherokeepatti I say this not to blow smoke but if there is a [b]Most Interesting Person in the World: World Championship[/b] I seriously think you should consider entering. You just seem to, I dunno...know stuff. A lot of cool stuff. ✌️ 😂

@SW-User cultures all over the world had their ways of healing using natural methods. We’ve lost our way in favor of science. Back in the 50’s new mothers were convinced by their doctors that it was better to bottle feed their babies formula because they could measure it ounce by ounce and keep track of exactly how much the baby was consuming, not too much and not too little. So many decided to follow their doctor’s advice. Baby formula does not have immune properties the way mother’s milk does but never mind that. Not only that but bottles had to be purchased, and they had to be washed and filled etc. Doctors were being bribed by formula companies to do this, they would be awarded by being given equipment to use in their practice such as baby scales to weigh the babies. Then this trend continued in other countries. The formula was powdered so it didn’t need to be refrigerated and could be mixed with water. If the water was contaminated with germs the babies would get sick from it. I don’t know why people think that doctors can improve on what nature provides.

@cherokeepatti I am right there with you when you say that doctors were bribed - I could have guessed as much. I know of doctors who accepted bribes to push certain meds [that I would guess were unproven and this imho would be a move for majority market share / and/or to create a market share to have a monopoly in].

The meds in question were antipsychotics so what does that tell you? These people are human shit. Plus there are known doctor serial killers. Why people just blindly trust doctors stuns me.

Agree. Nature absolutely provides; we're here, aren't we? 👍

@SW-User The meds they often prescribe such as steroids in various forms can have some terrible side effects that last for a good long time. They mess with our hormones, cause weight gain and other things. In the end they just initially treat symptoms but don’t get to the root of the problem. My cat became a diabetic, had tumors and ended up dying because I took her to the vet twice for her dry flaking skin (it was bad) and the vet would give her a shot of steroids, which helped at first and then it came back even worse. I think now after reading what a holistic veterinarian wrote in the newspaper columns was that her flaking skin was a reaction to the pet food ingredients that I was feeding her. They put everything from MSG to a lot of chemicals in pet foods. I watched a video about Vitamin D and how there are vitamin D receptors in all of the cells of our body that take it in and how we need it for our health, if we don’t have enough it will result in a lot of health problems.

@cherokeepatti Yes. Steroids can be LETHAL. I have never had them but in the context of being used fro aesthetic [and I guess somewhat practical] purposes they can wreak havoc on your internals; specifically the liver and they can or do enlarge your heart if abused. If you use them a lot during your youth then you can die before the age of 40, sometimes before 30.

I would use them if I knew how to but that also makes them very appealing. they are something of a siren song in a way. It's sort of pot luck. The Stallones et al of the world are in short supply. He likely has people advising him of what to do and not to do anyway. The rock in my view is one to watch and likely has a few Hollywood skeletons in his closet especially during these days of every other actor being ripped to shreds. I wouldn't be surprised if he is a secret consultant or helps people get their shit for whatever routine / cycle they're on. Not with the world he was involved with / still is in the periphery of [pro wrestling].

Do not underestimate the sliminess of the pro wrestling world. That is a whole rabbit hole in and of itself but left largely alone because most people simply don't understand what they're looking at when they see it. you have to see into it for what it is. A muscle circus. Morality plays [ironically enough] with extra meat and sinew. Some very cutthroat individuals involved in it.

So yeah your cat having that reaction...I'm not even sure the guy knew what he was doing, or if he knew he didn't care. It's well known that steroids can cause acne and other reactions in the skin. I'm sure a dermatologist would have some information there. That's too bad. Sorry about your cat. They can be pretty affectionate actually. Ours was.

@SW-User Some doctors will prescribe steroids for people who have severe rashes. At first it heals them up and then they start having rebound effect and it’s horrible. They then have to wean themselves off of them which causes problems for awhile and eventually learn the natural ways to treat the original problem.

@cherokeepatti That seems odd to me. HGH / Growth Hormone really is more the thing used specifically for skin. Stallone refers to such things as "the fountain of youth" and a lot of professional athletes / entertainers use it. There is talk of Hollywood types using it among people on message boards that I see every now and then, or maybe someone in an interview in a magazine or elsewhere might say something but everyone is terrified of libel etc now, so good luck getting a quote about it from someone in the industry in a very public arena/forum.

So unless things have changed maybe we'll see in the next 10 or 20 years Disney catch a bunch of flak for advocating/pressuring their hires to partake of such potentially damaging substances. But it's all apparently on the up and up so far if you believe that it's all achieved by diet with them [not sure I buy that; genetics notwithstanding]...or hushed in expert manner. Time will tell on that one.

@SW-User I have heard Dr. Berg talk about natural human growth hormones and extended fasting can stimulate it. Extended fasting can also reset the immune system. The “fountain of youth” that Hollywood and many others are using is adrenochrome, taken from tortured children. Even some sports figures, musicians and others.