Re: Health and Fitness, April 2013
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:29 pm
Just 7 inches high? HRH might like that - he sometimes uses mine from the pneumonia time and it's too high for comfort sometimes. In other words, you can actually feel discomfort at the waist/ribs when you turn to the side in your sleep. How long is it from head to tapering off, Harmony?
Acid reflux - Lately I've been seeing 2 things I started using for other reasons, now mentioned as acid reflux helps.
Astaxanthin is something I started taking shortly after Dr. Oz had Dr. Mercola guest on his program and they both bragged so much on it, agreeing they both would recommend 4 mg of it daily. I was impressed with how good it is for eyes and brain - nobody even mentioned acid reflux back then. Hard to find a date of when that happened now that I check the net for it - certainly I took it through all 2012. Now it seems there's been a randomized double-blind placebo controlled Sweden/Demark/Lithuania study of 130 people and the Astaxanthin did seem to help. Here is the summary:
And Himalayan Sea Salt from the natural grocery store has been mentioned several times lately because it has so many trace minerals and one is chloride your body needs to make hydrochloric acid. The idea is that you WANT to have more hydrochloric acid in your stomach, like a young person, not less. Having less as an older person can lead to acid reflux. So providing what your body needs to make it should help. ? This may fall into the "couldn't hurt" category.
Acid reflux - Lately I've been seeing 2 things I started using for other reasons, now mentioned as acid reflux helps.
Astaxanthin is something I started taking shortly after Dr. Oz had Dr. Mercola guest on his program and they both bragged so much on it, agreeing they both would recommend 4 mg of it daily. I was impressed with how good it is for eyes and brain - nobody even mentioned acid reflux back then. Hard to find a date of when that happened now that I check the net for it - certainly I took it through all 2012. Now it seems there's been a randomized double-blind placebo controlled Sweden/Demark/Lithuania study of 130 people and the Astaxanthin did seem to help. Here is the summary:
The mechanisms of action include the following: decreasing oxidative stress by astaxanthin’s potent antioxidant property; controlling bacterial infection by shifting the immune response; and alleviating dyspeptic symptoms by retarding inflammation. Furthermore, these results infer that acid reflux in connection with either H. pylori positive or negative conditions can still expect improvements with astaxanthin. - Kaunas University Hospital, Lithuania; Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen; University of Lund and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden
And Himalayan Sea Salt from the natural grocery store has been mentioned several times lately because it has so many trace minerals and one is chloride your body needs to make hydrochloric acid. The idea is that you WANT to have more hydrochloric acid in your stomach, like a young person, not less. Having less as an older person can lead to acid reflux. So providing what your body needs to make it should help. ? This may fall into the "couldn't hurt" category.
