provided there’s progress
walked 8 miles today to make up for just doing 2/3 the last two days. to be fair, days 1 and 2 of my cycle can be pretty horrendous, so i was happy with 2-3 those couple of days. it seems being on the pill flattens out the cycle in many ways, and makes the cramping and such much less angular as well. Took me a while to realize the connection after stopping the pill -the cramps got worse and worse. I never had really bad cramps in the first few years, then shortly after that I was on the pill for the most part of the time since then. As much of a very minor pain that such pain can be, I feel closer to nature and the mystery and all that to be aware and part of natural cycles rather than oblivious -how it feels in changing from flattened out hormones to natural rhythms. I mean these are tied to larger cycles and it’s never a good thing to restrict info/view of those I don’t think.
About a week ago I added a heel insert thing to my left shoe to see if I can straighten out the leg length discrepancy that is rather obvious as I find greater interest in making my gait more efficient. As I recall, when I was a kid my parents took me to a physical therapist and I found out that my left leg is nearly 1/4 inch shorter than my right. When I first put it in I couldn’t remember which leg even, and thought ‘what if it’s not obvious?’, but it was. In the left everything felt a bit more ‘right’. When I put it in the right, it accentuated what’s wrong about my usual mmm leg length. Interestingly, though it felt good to wear the insert, I noticed that body memory/habit was too entirely fond of it. I noticed all the little ways that my hip, or ankle or the way my right foot flexed against the ground –all these ways that my body had compensated for the difference in length become more apparent as they tried to keep doing the same things though they were now unnecessary. These have worked themselves out and adjusted, but now that I’ve walked with the insert several days I think that it’s just a tad too thick. Got the thickest ones I could find at the store, so I suppose I will try slightly thinner ones. Or better yet, get very thin ones and put on of those in right side, whose heel is jealous of the gel treatment the left side has been getting.lol then again I’ve needed new shoes for some time.
So this Gerson Therapy stuff–
To condense the gist of this therapy, for someone who is not manifestly ill anyway (for these people the details are more important), only organic whole foods are eaten. No fat, except cold pressed flax seed oil. No animal protein, no dairy, no soy, no salt. Just lots of organic fruits and veggies, and lots of fresh juice from these.
Reduce salt to as close to 0 as possible, increase potassium.
Caffeine enemas for helping the body process toxins being removed from the body.
And that’s the gist of it. The details are things like adding digestive enzymes, iodine for increased thyroid function –which is inhibited by such common factors as fluoridated drinking water. -various simple supplements.
the book explains a lot more about the basic components, and have satisfied some specific questions I forgot I’ve had for quite a while now, regarding WHY are food additives bad –how does each type affect cells? so sugar is bad for us, but seems a lesser evil because we don’t really know what artificial sweeteners even do, though we have a growing list of poisonous effects, so it can be all to easy to choose that because it’s more mysterious and/or because it makes a low-calorie food. Very basically put, as I understand things at this point, food additives like artificial sweeteners have the general effect of being food for negative cell growth and interferes with a cell’s usual cycles and signals like when to stop dividing. Simply by NOT providing these substances can we help support the cell’s ability to live and perform its natural homeostasis-seeking functions. I don’t know much about what Gerson has to say about refined sugar at this point, except that in his system there simply isn’t room for it. It’s all about stopping any intake of harmful food and flooding cells with a super nutritive bath at regular intervals, via fresh organic juices.
Most of the modern Gerson proponent sites / users talk about agave in addition to honey. At first I was not very interested, though I’m not sure wh because frankly as awesome as honey is, sometimes I love it but oftentimes it’s just too sweet and has a bit of a weird taste to it -but maybe that’s just shitty honey. Anyway, so agave nectar has about 1/4 the amount of calories as refined sugar, whereas honey as a bit more than refined sugar -for the same volume. One must also consider, as the sites say[omg I'm a repeater], that agave is sweeter than sugar so you need less. ALso this agave stuff is supposed to be lighter than honey, sooooo it might just be the perfect component for my mission to make a good fruit shrub for mixing with distilled or carbonated water. Think I will get a bit of agave and also some liquid stevia I’ve had my eye on for a while, and see which one works the best. The goal here being to cover some basic must-have food/beverage types *before* I dive into a full Gerson diet experiment. One is a cool, sweet, light drink (that is bubbly! sometimes). Another is chocolate, though I might have trouble with that unless I go really lax in sugar say it’s okay for the ‘evaporated cane juice’, but i digress.
SALT. I remember quite vividly this filmstrip we watched in elementary school about how salt effects a cell –it turns all spikey and shrunken as the salt leeches the moisture away from the cell. What was *implied* in the film, it seemed to me anyway, was that this is OK though, and somehow within a normal range of stress/processing which the body is built to handle. I’ve never been much of a table salter, but then again who has to be with all the salt already in the food. But I’ve noticed my body getting more and more sensitive to it over the last 4-5 years. Like what seems like the slightest boost in salt intake, like sushi with low-sodium soy sauce (mostly wasabi anyway, I reason) and I have bloat face/body the whole next day, seemingly regardless of how much water I drink trying to counter it. It seems, according the Gerson data I’ve just begun reading, that such salt sensitivity is likely sign of approaching toxicity levels, cumulative increase as I started buying just a few more of those processed frozen lunch microwave thingies, I suppose it could be as simple.
So Gerson says that POTASSIUM is a component to INTERNAL cell life, and that SODIUM is a component that is only necessary, in small amounts, as EXTERNAL to the cell. Sodium is found in body fluids which carry nutrients to the cell, it should not become so dense that cells are forced to hold a sodium solution. In doing so, the extra water interrupts the very basic cell life cycle signals. Gerson says that this kind of salt invasion/imbalance is *always* present before any disease occurs. Too much salt/water, the cell dies, it literally cannot hear the signal to ‘keep on living’. Too many cells die and you get tissue death, you get the idea -shit just doesn’t work as well as it could, and that’s for the healthiest person who is eating salt beyond what naturally occurs in veggies and fruits. If you think about it, cancer is sort of like a crazy last ditch attempt to just survive, put forth by some cells as the lot are starved for nutrients and their native ability to communicate and stabilize. or just one ofthe things that happens when a cell’s natural life cycles are disrupted.
ak there was a bunch more stuff i was thinking i wanted to make notes about while I was walking, but I have to run o I’m not going to get any work done before squamelon gets home. think we need to go shopping because all this reading, info uptake has made it clear that most everything in the fridge is really inedible, and I am getting a bit hungry though almond milk is good for that for now. add to grocery list: almond milk without cane juice?