Pups Learning how to lazy wrestle.
Part 2: After a “normal” Florida afternoon storm, the phone lines are down. I only discovered this after trying to use the phone to call my lost cell phone. Maybe it is time to cancel the land line phone service, but then how would I ever find my phone?
Part 3: Brown and red volcano rice cooked up, placed in a pan with some coconut milk, left over chicken and various spices. Did I just make risotto? Not quite, but still some creamy carbness I was craving.
I decided to experiment on myself. I did not randomize, have a control group, and it was not a blind study. The results were still conclusive.
I have discussed my hypothesis on personal food sensitivities in the past. Hypothesis in hand, I embarked on a testing method termed avoidance and provocative.
I started the fast on a bit of a whim. It ended most purposefully with an apple and a big spoon of peanut butter. It was not as good as I had been imagining all week, but I looked down at my stomach and asked it, “Are you happy now?” It gurgled, thank you, back at me.
Have you ever gotten up in the morning and thought, “today would be a great day to start a juice fast?” Me either, until Wednesday. I have been feeling bloated and just blah. With vacation eating and lunch meetings, I had strayed from my low gluten and lactose diet for the past few weeks.
Last year I knew someone who contracted salmonella poisoning. Part of the treatment included taking Cipro. After a week in the hospital and finishing her antibiotic prescription, she developed a C. diff infection to go along with the Salmonella that was still there. After another 2 rounds of taking multiple medications (including a new C. Diff medicine, Dificid) and then starting probiotics, she has been doing well. Another lady I know has a stubborn H. pylori infection. She has been taking multiple medications for a long time but still has some horrible symptoms. She started taking probiotics and, although she still has some symptoms, she is doing significantly better. This got me to start taking probiotics. I started taking it everyday for several weeks and now take it 1-3 times a week. That is what works for me. I know people who take it everyday. I favor the brand pictured, but I think important points are that it contain several different types of bacteria and that it is stored in a refrigerator. They are alive! Refrigeration helps to keep it that way.
In an effort not to reinvent the wheel, here is a link that has a lot of good information about probiotics: http://www.medicinenet.com/probiotics/article.htm
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