Aging --- how are you doing it?

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CeeCee72 said:
Oh, I know we could change our lifestyle and probably add a bunch of years to our lives. But seriously, why? I wouldn't want to live forever if I had to live being miserable.
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If your concern is being miserable or feeling deprived, I think you'd be surprised how fast your tastes and preferences can change. I made drastic changes to my eating and activity habits about 10 years ago. I thought, at the time, I was sucking all of the joy out of my life. I miss none of it, not even a bit. Most of the stuff I considered tasty is now nauseating to me. I don't feel deprived because the things I enjoy and crave now are different (and healthier) than they were a decade ago.

Whether you want to or need to make changes to your life is personal, but I can guarantee you that in a few years time you would not miss the things you think you would miss.
 
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Frank Underwood said:
That's basically how I feel too. I turned 43 last month, and my health had been steadily going downhill since my mid-30s. I ended up making a lot of dietary changes and started exercising more, and it has done wonders for me. I feel better now than I did during my entire 30s. That said, I still try to not get too obsessive about the food I consume. I've never smoked or drank, so food has really been my only vice. And while I've worked hard to make better choices, I also allow myself to enjoy certain foods from time to time so I don't feel completely deprived. I know it's not what's best or recommended, but I'm not hung up on the number of years I have left to live. I just want to strike the right balance between decent health and enjoying myself while I'm still alive. As long as I have my physical and mental faculties, I don't mind enjoying something decadent now and then.
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My character issues surround sugar. I have no problem avoiding any carbohydrate, be it refined or complex, except for sugar.

Proper Vitamin D-3 levels help everything. It's so effective for immunity, there have been big pharma efforts to suppress the information -- they don't even want the medical community to talk about it... Big pharma are aware of the benefits from D-3, which is why they've attempted to get a patent on it, but when the courts wouldn't permit that patent, there were then attempts to trivialize the benefits of the vitamin (which is really a hormone) using too low a level of supplementation to prove D-3 was "worthless."

In some counties, one has to obtain a prescription for D-3. (Which presumably keeps the price up).
 
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Snarky Oracle! said:
My character issues surround sugar. I have no problem avoiding any carbohydrate, be it refined or complex, except for sugar.

Proper Vitamin D-3 levels help everything. It's so effective for immunity, there have been big pharma efforts to suppress the information -- they don't even want the medical community to talk about it... Big pharma are aware of the benefits from D-3, which is why they've attempted to get a patent on it, but when the courts wouldn't permit that patent, there were then attempts to trivialize the benefits of the vitamin (which is really a hormone) using too low a level of supplementation to prove D-3 was "worthless."

In some counties, one has to obtain a prescription for D-3. (Which presumably keeps the price up).
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I still get cravings for sugar as well, but that's lessened for me considerably since I made my dietary changes last year. However, I still get cravings for savory carbs. I'll allow myself to have a cheeseburger or a couple slices of pizza on special occasions. That's when I have my sugary drinks/desserts too. I just don't make it a regular thing like I used to.

As for vitamin D-3, I have a prescription that I get filled for free because I'm on Medicaid. But it's only for 1000 IU, and my doctor hasn't increased the dose. I bought my own 2000 IU D-3 supplement, as well as a multivitamin with 1000 IU because I had heard the "upper safe limit" was 4000 IU daily. But the research confirms that the correct dose is indeed 9000 IU like you said, so I started taking 4 of the 2000 IU tablets to get the full, correct dose. Once that runs out, I'll start buying the 10,000 IU tablets. I'm also taking vitamin K and magnesium supplements because I heard that they aid in vitamin D-3 absorption and activation. I was hospitalized in February due to severe dehydration (the Metformin I was on led to "bathroom issues" and a rapid loss of fluid), so I also removed a pharmaceutical from my life. Luckily, my dietary changes have lowered my A1-C.
 
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Frank Underwood said:
I still get cravings for sugar as well, but that's lessened for me considerably since I made my dietary changes last year. However, I still get cravings for savory carbs. I'll allow myself to have a cheeseburger or a couple slices of pizza on special occasions. That's when I have my sugary drinks/desserts too. I just don't make it a regular thing like I used to.

As for vitamin D-3, I have a prescription that I get filled for free because I'm on Medicaid. But it's only for 1000 IU, and my doctor hasn't increased the dose. I bought my own 2000 IU D-3 supplement, as well as a multivitamin with 1000 IU because I had heard the "upper safe limit" was 4000 IU daily. But the research confirms that the correct dose is indeed 9000 IU like you said, so I started taking 4 of the 2000 IU tablets to get the full, correct dose. Once that runs out, I'll start buying the 10000 I U tablets. I'm also taking vitamin K and magnesium supplements because I heard that they aid in vitamin d-3 absorption and activation. I was hospitalized in February due to severe dehydration (the Metformin I was on led to "bathroom issues" and a rapid loss of fluid), so I also removed a pharmaceutical from my life. Luckily, my dietary changes have lowered my A1-C.
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Berberine and/or dihydroberberine is the best replacement for metformin, and it's far less likely to give potty problems. Plus, metformin causes you to lose thiamine (Vitamin B-1) which is the last thing you need to do if you've got blood sugar issues -- let alone any form of diabetes.

And berberine/dihydroberberine has another benefit metformin could never dream of providing: it heals your gut microbiome -- from whence all health emanates -- such that after only one year of berberine supplementation, if you stop taking it for whatever reason, much of the benefit to your gut remains several years later!

So, it takes a while to heal that gut microbiome, but it also takes a while to mess it up again.

**And kudos on the K-2 and magnesium for absorption...
 
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