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MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE FLIES IN THE FACE OF CONVENTIONAL ADVICES. SO IF YOU'RE THE TYPE TO BELIEVE MORE IN CONVENTIONAL LORE, THIS POSTING WON'T BE YOUR CUP OF COFFEE...
For the record, I decided to copy/paste my response to a different posting, in case others may discover that their own experiences mimick mine. After all, nothing ventured, nothing gained. It's more or less intended for those with auto-immune conditions, such as fibromyalgia, light sensitivities, other sensitivities & so forth.
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Are you sure it was the coffee?
Maybe it was just the chocolate?
Also, btw, if i'd totally avoid sweet stuff, I'd get bad constipation.
I actually got dry eyes & eyelids (and much more horrors) from computer fluresence - I don't have tendency to genetic red skin/scaling skin.
Rather, my tendency was to painful fibromyalgia, sallow/oil skin in face, including adult acne (which is my form of what others might manifest as inflammed face. With me, it's pimples & cysts in odd spots).
I'd get the pimples AND headaches from: Chocolate (though chocolate products are not that bad, are declicious, and the BEST for facilitating my digestion), Citrus, salty-chips, over-salted food, SodiumCitrate, SodiumNitrite, hot spices, raw-non-sauteed-onions-hidden-in-foods etc. Basically, blood thinner type of foods have been a major culprit. Citrus and raw-onions would also cause me terrible sore throat & runny nose for weeks on end.
ConverselY, blood thickeners such as honey, would counteract the "evils" caused by blood-thinners, such as lemon or NON-SAUTEED onions. (I guess that's what Xlear is about, to "thicken" the nasal drips which are caused by people eating blood-thinning foods, or to thicken mucuous caused by viruses which may be stirred out of their cubbyholes by citrus or raw-onion-hidden-in-foods (which have the properties of opening pores). A general rule of thumb to follow is: Add sweetness to too-sour food, then add some salt, if it gets too sweet. Instead of just black & white, acknowledge the shades of grey...
...back to topic:
I also lately have borderline electrosensitivity & always had fluorescent/photosensitivity but worsened with advent of computers.
...OK, so much for background
Now to get to the point:
For most of my close to 50 years, I'd been avoiding coffee like a zombie because i grew up with my mother saying it ruined her teeth (based on medical propaganda). Then later, doctors fanatically warning in droning monotonous Qs "do you drink? smoke? coffee?"
...then, of course, i'd hear endless static about the "jitters" people get, and the "withdrawal" symptoms.
Finally, I started thinking logically.
I said to myself, THROW MEDICAL ASSUMPTIONS OUT THE WINDOW.
PUT 2 + 2 TOGETHER.
(1) My computer symptoms very much mimic alcohol hangover
(2) Alcoholics are helped by drinking coffee + aspirin
Bingo - Caffeinated coffee has proved a lifesaver to me.
Coffee tightens my lids when drinking it prior to computer use.
That way the "bad" stuff of computer causes me less harm.
And my eyelids become MUCH LESS inflamed.
My eyes themselves retain moisture better!! NOT so dehydrated as without coffee!
Upon coffee, the whites of my eyes are whiter, NOT so red!
Far from "jittering" me, it helps me sleep.
During the DECADES i'd avoided coffee, I had such terrible headaches, I couldn't sleep!
Now, due to coffee I CAN SLEEP!!!!
It protects me from headaches caused by radio waves & fluresence.
It protects me from headaches caused by windy weather (btw, wind affects radio reception too!
Conversely, ingesting liquid silica CAUSED me radio sensitivity! And similar bad stuff happened to my sickly friend upon using that same highly-rated silica
If there hadn't been that MISGUIDED MEDICAL PROPAGANDA years ago (which caused me to avoid coffee all those years), I GUARANTEE you that I wouldn't be so prematurely aged by now. I'm less than 50, yet with symptoms & appearance of my Dad when he was, say, 75.
I noted that coffee had been given a bad rap based on its constricting heart vessels, dehydration, & affecting bones.. but without telling the WHOLE PICTURE.
It's indicated vs. Alzheimer prevention, Parkinsons & diabetes.
You can take calcium chews a few hours after coffee, for bones.
You can take heart-healthy foods in conjunction with coffee.
You can rehydrate via taking, say, peaches & humectant foods.
The above is the tip of iceberg.
There's LOTS more i've discovered the doctors to be morons about.
But, as i say: The more the lessons, the less the morons!
(except they never learn their lesson - because they're not trained to be intuitive, unlike the "dumb" elephants who were intuitive enough to run from the tsunami. For example, a few of them scoffed at me upon my mentioning the symptoms caused me by computers. What a nerve. Instead of listening to me, so they can warn others, they're jerks, guilty of criminal negligence, trained by a one-size-fits-all system to use linear, not circular logic.
PLEASE NOTE:
This doesn't mean I'm cured! I'm still mulling over stem-cell lotions for eyelids. Yada Yada.
I'm still photosensitive, and computer sensitive.
But without coffee? I'd be a MUCH worse wreck. How i wish i'd drunk coffee ALL my life.
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE FLIES IN THE FACE OF CONVENTIONAL ADVICES. SO IF YOU'RE THE TYPE TO BELIEVE MORE IN CONVENTIONAL LORE, THIS POSTING WON'T BE YOUR CUP OF COFFEE...
For the record, I decided to copy/paste my response to a different posting, in case others may discover that their own experiences mimick mine. After all, nothing ventured, nothing gained. It's more or less intended for those with auto-immune conditions, such as fibromyalgia, light sensitivities, other sensitivities & so forth.
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Originally posted by Musetta
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Maybe it was just the chocolate?
Also, btw, if i'd totally avoid sweet stuff, I'd get bad constipation.
I actually got dry eyes & eyelids (and much more horrors) from computer fluresence - I don't have tendency to genetic red skin/scaling skin.
Rather, my tendency was to painful fibromyalgia, sallow/oil skin in face, including adult acne (which is my form of what others might manifest as inflammed face. With me, it's pimples & cysts in odd spots).
I'd get the pimples AND headaches from: Chocolate (though chocolate products are not that bad, are declicious, and the BEST for facilitating my digestion), Citrus, salty-chips, over-salted food, SodiumCitrate, SodiumNitrite, hot spices, raw-non-sauteed-onions-hidden-in-foods etc. Basically, blood thinner type of foods have been a major culprit. Citrus and raw-onions would also cause me terrible sore throat & runny nose for weeks on end.
ConverselY, blood thickeners such as honey, would counteract the "evils" caused by blood-thinners, such as lemon or NON-SAUTEED onions. (I guess that's what Xlear is about, to "thicken" the nasal drips which are caused by people eating blood-thinning foods, or to thicken mucuous caused by viruses which may be stirred out of their cubbyholes by citrus or raw-onion-hidden-in-foods (which have the properties of opening pores). A general rule of thumb to follow is: Add sweetness to too-sour food, then add some salt, if it gets too sweet. Instead of just black & white, acknowledge the shades of grey...
...back to topic:
I also lately have borderline electrosensitivity & always had fluorescent/photosensitivity but worsened with advent of computers.
...OK, so much for background
Now to get to the point:
For most of my close to 50 years, I'd been avoiding coffee like a zombie because i grew up with my mother saying it ruined her teeth (based on medical propaganda). Then later, doctors fanatically warning in droning monotonous Qs "do you drink? smoke? coffee?"
...then, of course, i'd hear endless static about the "jitters" people get, and the "withdrawal" symptoms.
Finally, I started thinking logically.
I said to myself, THROW MEDICAL ASSUMPTIONS OUT THE WINDOW.
PUT 2 + 2 TOGETHER.
(1) My computer symptoms very much mimic alcohol hangover
(2) Alcoholics are helped by drinking coffee + aspirin
Bingo - Caffeinated coffee has proved a lifesaver to me.
Coffee tightens my lids when drinking it prior to computer use.
That way the "bad" stuff of computer causes me less harm.
And my eyelids become MUCH LESS inflamed.
My eyes themselves retain moisture better!! NOT so dehydrated as without coffee!
Upon coffee, the whites of my eyes are whiter, NOT so red!
Far from "jittering" me, it helps me sleep.
During the DECADES i'd avoided coffee, I had such terrible headaches, I couldn't sleep!
Now, due to coffee I CAN SLEEP!!!!
It protects me from headaches caused by radio waves & fluresence.
It protects me from headaches caused by windy weather (btw, wind affects radio reception too!
Conversely, ingesting liquid silica CAUSED me radio sensitivity! And similar bad stuff happened to my sickly friend upon using that same highly-rated silica
If there hadn't been that MISGUIDED MEDICAL PROPAGANDA years ago (which caused me to avoid coffee all those years), I GUARANTEE you that I wouldn't be so prematurely aged by now. I'm less than 50, yet with symptoms & appearance of my Dad when he was, say, 75.
I noted that coffee had been given a bad rap based on its constricting heart vessels, dehydration, & affecting bones.. but without telling the WHOLE PICTURE.
It's indicated vs. Alzheimer prevention, Parkinsons & diabetes.
You can take calcium chews a few hours after coffee, for bones.
You can take heart-healthy foods in conjunction with coffee.
You can rehydrate via taking, say, peaches & humectant foods.
The above is the tip of iceberg.
There's LOTS more i've discovered the doctors to be morons about.
But, as i say: The more the lessons, the less the morons!
(except they never learn their lesson - because they're not trained to be intuitive, unlike the "dumb" elephants who were intuitive enough to run from the tsunami. For example, a few of them scoffed at me upon my mentioning the symptoms caused me by computers. What a nerve. Instead of listening to me, so they can warn others, they're jerks, guilty of criminal negligence, trained by a one-size-fits-all system to use linear, not circular logic.
PLEASE NOTE:
This doesn't mean I'm cured! I'm still mulling over stem-cell lotions for eyelids. Yada Yada.
I'm still photosensitive, and computer sensitive.
But without coffee? I'd be a MUCH worse wreck. How i wish i'd drunk coffee ALL my life.
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