Ever wonder.....?

mom2lillian · Aug 8, 2007

Forgot to reply to original topic

There is alot of research into aging showing that any one time strenous life event such a death of a spouse can age you significantly over that short period of time, there is also research showing that chronic illness's greatly affect aging in a big way. I am not sure I want to go so far as to say progeria -- but I definately think we age prematurely. I always say my age is 27 but in CF years it is XYZ <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif" border="0">-- kind of like dog years <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> But I digress

Secondly, I think our lifestyle in US leads to alot of our problems. We work too much, have high paced competitive lifestyles, eat and take care of ourselfves poorly etc

And I will admit that all the drugs we take suck and definately have a huge effect on our body, ever read the side effects inserts? I think we overlook it because most of us have been on it so long we no longer notice any side effects that we do have as being a side effect and thus adopt it as our norm.

One thing I have been thinking of trying is an anti-inflammatory way of eating. I am stopping by the library this week, to pick up or order Dr. Perricone's book. If there is anyoen interested in trying i twith me a buddy woudl be great <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

**I also read in a book somewhere this view point and love it: Our bodies are more like high end specialty cars (or antique cars whatever you prefer) where they need alot extra attention and love<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">, special fuel, etc. Unfortunately none of us inhereted the honda civic that just runs and runs and runs no matter what you do to it <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

mom2lillian · Aug 8, 2007

Forgot to reply to original topic

There is alot of research into aging showing that any one time strenous life event such a death of a spouse can age you significantly over that short period of time, there is also research showing that chronic illness's greatly affect aging in a big way. I am not sure I want to go so far as to say progeria -- but I definately think we age prematurely. I always say my age is 27 but in CF years it is XYZ <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif" border="0">-- kind of like dog years <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> But I digress

Secondly, I think our lifestyle in US leads to alot of our problems. We work too much, have high paced competitive lifestyles, eat and take care of ourselfves poorly etc

And I will admit that all the drugs we take suck and definately have a huge effect on our body, ever read the side effects inserts? I think we overlook it because most of us have been on it so long we no longer notice any side effects that we do have as being a side effect and thus adopt it as our norm.

One thing I have been thinking of trying is an anti-inflammatory way of eating. I am stopping by the library this week, to pick up or order Dr. Perricone's book. If there is anyoen interested in trying i twith me a buddy woudl be great <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

**I also read in a book somewhere this view point and love it: Our bodies are more like high end specialty cars (or antique cars whatever you prefer) where they need alot extra attention and love<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">, special fuel, etc. Unfortunately none of us inhereted the honda civic that just runs and runs and runs no matter what you do to it <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

mom2lillian · Aug 8, 2007

Forgot to reply to original topic

There is alot of research into aging showing that any one time strenous life event such a death of a spouse can age you significantly over that short period of time, there is also research showing that chronic illness's greatly affect aging in a big way. I am not sure I want to go so far as to say progeria -- but I definately think we age prematurely. I always say my age is 27 but in CF years it is XYZ <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif" border="0">-- kind of like dog years <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> But I digress

Secondly, I think our lifestyle in US leads to alot of our problems. We work too much, have high paced competitive lifestyles, eat and take care of ourselfves poorly etc

And I will admit that all the drugs we take suck and definately have a huge effect on our body, ever read the side effects inserts? I think we overlook it because most of us have been on it so long we no longer notice any side effects that we do have as being a side effect and thus adopt it as our norm.

One thing I have been thinking of trying is an anti-inflammatory way of eating. I am stopping by the library this week, to pick up or order Dr. Perricone's book. If there is anyoen interested in trying i twith me a buddy woudl be great <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

**I also read in a book somewhere this view point and love it: Our bodies are more like high end specialty cars (or antique cars whatever you prefer) where they need alot extra attention and love<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">, special fuel, etc. Unfortunately none of us inhereted the honda civic that just runs and runs and runs no matter what you do to it <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

mom2lillian · Aug 8, 2007

Forgot to reply to original topic

There is alot of research into aging showing that any one time strenous life event such a death of a spouse can age you significantly over that short period of time, there is also research showing that chronic illness's greatly affect aging in a big way. I am not sure I want to go so far as to say progeria -- but I definately think we age prematurely. I always say my age is 27 but in CF years it is XYZ <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif" border="0">-- kind of like dog years <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> But I digress

Secondly, I think our lifestyle in US leads to alot of our problems. We work too much, have high paced competitive lifestyles, eat and take care of ourselfves poorly etc

And I will admit that all the drugs we take suck and definately have a huge effect on our body, ever read the side effects inserts? I think we overlook it because most of us have been on it so long we no longer notice any side effects that we do have as being a side effect and thus adopt it as our norm.

One thing I have been thinking of trying is an anti-inflammatory way of eating. I am stopping by the library this week, to pick up or order Dr. Perricone's book. If there is anyoen interested in trying i twith me a buddy woudl be great <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

**I also read in a book somewhere this view point and love it: Our bodies are more like high end specialty cars (or antique cars whatever you prefer) where they need alot extra attention and love<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">, special fuel, etc. Unfortunately none of us inhereted the honda civic that just runs and runs and runs no matter what you do to it <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

mom2lillian · Aug 8, 2007

Forgot to reply to original topic

There is alot of research into aging showing that any one time strenous life event such a death of a spouse can age you significantly over that short period of time, there is also research showing that chronic illness's greatly affect aging in a big way. I am not sure I want to go so far as to say progeria -- but I definately think we age prematurely. I always say my age is 27 but in CF years it is XYZ <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif" border="0">-- kind of like dog years <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> But I digress

Secondly, I think our lifestyle in US leads to alot of our problems. We work too much, have high paced competitive lifestyles, eat and take care of ourselfves poorly etc

And I will admit that all the drugs we take suck and definately have a huge effect on our body, ever read the side effects inserts? I think we overlook it because most of us have been on it so long we no longer notice any side effects that we do have as being a side effect and thus adopt it as our norm.

One thing I have been thinking of trying is an anti-inflammatory way of eating. I am stopping by the library this week, to pick up or order Dr. Perricone's book. If there is anyoen interested in trying i twith me a buddy woudl be great <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

**I also read in a book somewhere this view point and love it: Our bodies are more like high end specialty cars (or antique cars whatever you prefer) where they need alot extra attention and love<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">, special fuel, etc. Unfortunately none of us inhereted the honda civic that just runs and runs and runs no matter what you do to it <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

Faust · Aug 8, 2007

@krazykat: Yeah that shot you do at night contains a crapload of goodies in it, keep doing it!!

@mon2lillian: Yeah comparing us exactly to Progeria patients was an exageration of course, but we do "hyperage" due to the constant war going on in our system. Comparing it to "dog years" isn't too far off.

Here is the thing about supplements, and i've said it before: I will never be an advocate of going out and buying all the crazy new fad stuff that comes out. You will go broke and could possibly just be using snake oil/sugar pill. But do your research. Like what krazykat has been doing, and looking into stuff on her own that applies to her condition. She heard/read somewhere that due to our malabsorption and drug interactions, we drastically lose magnesium, so she looks into magnesium and taking that as a supplement to replace a helpful body chemical. That is what lead me to oregano oil due to my personal experiences with getting sick and conventional medicine not being able to do anything more for me. I wasn't willing to roll over and die, and I knew at a base level, I was still very healthy, so why not take my extra time that I had and do my own research with the lovely tool called the internet? One thing led to another, and another, and another, soon I had found a mountain of helpful information regarding many different substances that could possibly help us. Then what? Well, you use applied common sense, resource databases such as the National Institutes of Healthm countless other searchable peer reviewed experiments, others anecdotal evidence, and then at the end of the day you ask yourself, after you have gathered all the data, "Do I want to give this a shot and see if it helps me?". I haven't tried everything I have found that probably has helpful benefits, it would cost me 5,000 bucks a month probably if I did.

I select the leading candidates that I find that I can apply to my top 3 required categories (cell repair/protection, antimicrobials, and antioxidants-antiinflammatories), see what I can afford, see which ones should have the largest impact, I get them, I try them as properly as I know how, and give each one at least 2 or 3 months before I fully either stay on it or stop using it. In my opinion, being your own aggressive health advocate and sticking to aggressive vest therapies and being compliant with your other care is the secret to getting as much life out of our ravaged bodies as possible, not to mention quality of life.

Faust · Aug 8, 2007

@krazykat: Yeah that shot you do at night contains a crapload of goodies in it, keep doing it!!

@mon2lillian: Yeah comparing us exactly to Progeria patients was an exageration of course, but we do "hyperage" due to the constant war going on in our system. Comparing it to "dog years" isn't too far off.

Here is the thing about supplements, and i've said it before: I will never be an advocate of going out and buying all the crazy new fad stuff that comes out. You will go broke and could possibly just be using snake oil/sugar pill. But do your research. Like what krazykat has been doing, and looking into stuff on her own that applies to her condition. She heard/read somewhere that due to our malabsorption and drug interactions, we drastically lose magnesium, so she looks into magnesium and taking that as a supplement to replace a helpful body chemical. That is what lead me to oregano oil due to my personal experiences with getting sick and conventional medicine not being able to do anything more for me. I wasn't willing to roll over and die, and I knew at a base level, I was still very healthy, so why not take my extra time that I had and do my own research with the lovely tool called the internet? One thing led to another, and another, and another, soon I had found a mountain of helpful information regarding many different substances that could possibly help us. Then what? Well, you use applied common sense, resource databases such as the National Institutes of Healthm countless other searchable peer reviewed experiments, others anecdotal evidence, and then at the end of the day you ask yourself, after you have gathered all the data, "Do I want to give this a shot and see if it helps me?". I haven't tried everything I have found that probably has helpful benefits, it would cost me 5,000 bucks a month probably if I did.

I select the leading candidates that I find that I can apply to my top 3 required categories (cell repair/protection, antimicrobials, and antioxidants-antiinflammatories), see what I can afford, see which ones should have the largest impact, I get them, I try them as properly as I know how, and give each one at least 2 or 3 months before I fully either stay on it or stop using it. In my opinion, being your own aggressive health advocate and sticking to aggressive vest therapies and being compliant with your other care is the secret to getting as much life out of our ravaged bodies as possible, not to mention quality of life.

Faust · Aug 8, 2007

@krazykat: Yeah that shot you do at night contains a crapload of goodies in it, keep doing it!!

@mon2lillian: Yeah comparing us exactly to Progeria patients was an exageration of course, but we do "hyperage" due to the constant war going on in our system. Comparing it to "dog years" isn't too far off.

Here is the thing about supplements, and i've said it before: I will never be an advocate of going out and buying all the crazy new fad stuff that comes out. You will go broke and could possibly just be using snake oil/sugar pill. But do your research. Like what krazykat has been doing, and looking into stuff on her own that applies to her condition. She heard/read somewhere that due to our malabsorption and drug interactions, we drastically lose magnesium, so she looks into magnesium and taking that as a supplement to replace a helpful body chemical. That is what lead me to oregano oil due to my personal experiences with getting sick and conventional medicine not being able to do anything more for me. I wasn't willing to roll over and die, and I knew at a base level, I was still very healthy, so why not take my extra time that I had and do my own research with the lovely tool called the internet? One thing led to another, and another, and another, soon I had found a mountain of helpful information regarding many different substances that could possibly help us. Then what? Well, you use applied common sense, resource databases such as the National Institutes of Healthm countless other searchable peer reviewed experiments, others anecdotal evidence, and then at the end of the day you ask yourself, after you have gathered all the data, "Do I want to give this a shot and see if it helps me?". I haven't tried everything I have found that probably has helpful benefits, it would cost me 5,000 bucks a month probably if I did.

I select the leading candidates that I find that I can apply to my top 3 required categories (cell repair/protection, antimicrobials, and antioxidants-antiinflammatories), see what I can afford, see which ones should have the largest impact, I get them, I try them as properly as I know how, and give each one at least 2 or 3 months before I fully either stay on it or stop using it. In my opinion, being your own aggressive health advocate and sticking to aggressive vest therapies and being compliant with your other care is the secret to getting as much life out of our ravaged bodies as possible, not to mention quality of life.

Faust · Aug 8, 2007

@krazykat: Yeah that shot you do at night contains a crapload of goodies in it, keep doing it!!

@mon2lillian: Yeah comparing us exactly to Progeria patients was an exageration of course, but we do "hyperage" due to the constant war going on in our system. Comparing it to "dog years" isn't too far off.

Here is the thing about supplements, and i've said it before: I will never be an advocate of going out and buying all the crazy new fad stuff that comes out. You will go broke and could possibly just be using snake oil/sugar pill. But do your research. Like what krazykat has been doing, and looking into stuff on her own that applies to her condition. She heard/read somewhere that due to our malabsorption and drug interactions, we drastically lose magnesium, so she looks into magnesium and taking that as a supplement to replace a helpful body chemical. That is what lead me to oregano oil due to my personal experiences with getting sick and conventional medicine not being able to do anything more for me. I wasn't willing to roll over and die, and I knew at a base level, I was still very healthy, so why not take my extra time that I had and do my own research with the lovely tool called the internet? One thing led to another, and another, and another, soon I had found a mountain of helpful information regarding many different substances that could possibly help us. Then what? Well, you use applied common sense, resource databases such as the National Institutes of Healthm countless other searchable peer reviewed experiments, others anecdotal evidence, and then at the end of the day you ask yourself, after you have gathered all the data, "Do I want to give this a shot and see if it helps me?". I haven't tried everything I have found that probably has helpful benefits, it would cost me 5,000 bucks a month probably if I did.

I select the leading candidates that I find that I can apply to my top 3 required categories (cell repair/protection, antimicrobials, and antioxidants-antiinflammatories), see what I can afford, see which ones should have the largest impact, I get them, I try them as properly as I know how, and give each one at least 2 or 3 months before I fully either stay on it or stop using it. In my opinion, being your own aggressive health advocate and sticking to aggressive vest therapies and being compliant with your other care is the secret to getting as much life out of our ravaged bodies as possible, not to mention quality of life.

Faust · Aug 8, 2007

@krazykat: Yeah that shot you do at night contains a crapload of goodies in it, keep doing it!!

@mon2lillian: Yeah comparing us exactly to Progeria patients was an exageration of course, but we do "hyperage" due to the constant war going on in our system. Comparing it to "dog years" isn't too far off.

Here is the thing about supplements, and i've said it before: I will never be an advocate of going out and buying all the crazy new fad stuff that comes out. You will go broke and could possibly just be using snake oil/sugar pill. But do your research. Like what krazykat has been doing, and looking into stuff on her own that applies to her condition. She heard/read somewhere that due to our malabsorption and drug interactions, we drastically lose magnesium, so she looks into magnesium and taking that as a supplement to replace a helpful body chemical. That is what lead me to oregano oil due to my personal experiences with getting sick and conventional medicine not being able to do anything more for me. I wasn't willing to roll over and die, and I knew at a base level, I was still very healthy, so why not take my extra time that I had and do my own research with the lovely tool called the internet? One thing led to another, and another, and another, soon I had found a mountain of helpful information regarding many different substances that could possibly help us. Then what? Well, you use applied common sense, resource databases such as the National Institutes of Healthm countless other searchable peer reviewed experiments, others anecdotal evidence, and then at the end of the day you ask yourself, after you have gathered all the data, "Do I want to give this a shot and see if it helps me?". I haven't tried everything I have found that probably has helpful benefits, it would cost me 5,000 bucks a month probably if I did.

I select the leading candidates that I find that I can apply to my top 3 required categories (cell repair/protection, antimicrobials, and antioxidants-antiinflammatories), see what I can afford, see which ones should have the largest impact, I get them, I try them as properly as I know how, and give each one at least 2 or 3 months before I fully either stay on it or stop using it. In my opinion, being your own aggressive health advocate and sticking to aggressive vest therapies and being compliant with your other care is the secret to getting as much life out of our ravaged bodies as possible, not to mention quality of life.

thefrogprincess · Aug 8, 2007

I should mention that I am not on a lot of meds. HTS, albuterol, enzymes, and an entire supliment isle of vitamins. Tylenol or Aleve if I need it. I exercise as much as I can, walking, bike riding when my back doesn't hurt too bad, light weight lifting (can't handle more than 5 pounds of free weights usually but I try). I am tarting accupuncture tomorrow and really looking forward to it.

thefrogprincess · Aug 8, 2007

I should mention that I am not on a lot of meds. HTS, albuterol, enzymes, and an entire supliment isle of vitamins. Tylenol or Aleve if I need it. I exercise as much as I can, walking, bike riding when my back doesn't hurt too bad, light weight lifting (can't handle more than 5 pounds of free weights usually but I try). I am tarting accupuncture tomorrow and really looking forward to it.

thefrogprincess · Aug 8, 2007

I should mention that I am not on a lot of meds. HTS, albuterol, enzymes, and an entire supliment isle of vitamins. Tylenol or Aleve if I need it. I exercise as much as I can, walking, bike riding when my back doesn't hurt too bad, light weight lifting (can't handle more than 5 pounds of free weights usually but I try). I am tarting accupuncture tomorrow and really looking forward to it.

thefrogprincess · Aug 8, 2007

I should mention that I am not on a lot of meds. HTS, albuterol, enzymes, and an entire supliment isle of vitamins. Tylenol or Aleve if I need it. I exercise as much as I can, walking, bike riding when my back doesn't hurt too bad, light weight lifting (can't handle more than 5 pounds of free weights usually but I try). I am tarting accupuncture tomorrow and really looking forward to it.

thefrogprincess · Aug 8, 2007

I should mention that I am not on a lot of meds. HTS, albuterol, enzymes, and an entire supliment isle of vitamins. Tylenol or Aleve if I need it. I exercise as much as I can, walking, bike riding when my back doesn't hurt too bad, light weight lifting (can't handle more than 5 pounds of free weights usually but I try). I am tarting accupuncture tomorrow and really looking forward to it.

Faust · Aug 8, 2007