Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! I sound like a school girl freaking out. I’ve gone and followed the trail to cure my grandmother’s chronic fatigue syndrome and weakness suspecting a malfunctioning thyroid due to iodine deficiency. This lead me to lugol’s solution, which is basically potassium iodide and iodine.

Surprise surprise. This lugol’s solution is not sold in your drug store. It is sold in your aquarium supplies store. You know aquariums where you take care of little fishes in your home or office. I stumbled onto the tank of the month for 2002 and it has a list of the things the hobbyist does that made his aquarium a winner:

• Calcium addition is weekly.
• Alkalinity addition is done twice weekly.
• Magnesium addition is done once every 2 weeks.
• Lugols Iodine addition is one drop weekly.
• DT’s Phytoplankton is added 2-3 times weekly (one full cap per dose).
• Reef Solution addition is done weekly (one full cap per dose).
• The fish are fed twice weekly.

What a rush. What an exciting similarity. My weeks of searching for cures for various illnesses point to maintaining the salinity, alkalinity and cleanliness of BLOOD! And the aquarium hobbyists knew these all along. You just look at the parallels with human health and you have the perfect formula.

What does the manufacturer of Kent’s Lugol Solution say about the product?

…Lugol’s will help rid the animals of unwanted parasites and harmful bacteria …Kent Lugol’s Solution provides a key nutrient for marine invertebrates and fishes…

By gosh! I’m gonna be an aquarium hobbyist. For the purpose of learning their healthy secrets to be applied to humans!

I just watched Fast Food Nation the movie. I must tell you now that I have not read the book, though as the family healer, I have taught my children that all those fast food chains are selling junk food. We look at eating out as a risk. We do not control the marketing or the cooking. The food is probably not organic, the safety standards slacking, the condiments are the cheapest the restaurant can get away with, health and nutrition are non-existent in their set of priorities.

The movie does not expound on why fast food eating is detrimental to your health. We have a good number of relatives living in the urban United States and they are victims of the fast food culture. They have no time, no money, no resources to eat home cooked meals on a regular basis. Regular fast food eaters are the height of grinding POVERTY, and they have poor health to show for it.

The movie focused on the plight of poor Mexicans crossing into the US border and wanting jobs, even if it has to be in the most dangerous places like the meat processing plants.

The movie exposes the money saving shortcuts done to survive in a cut throat fast food industry focusing on the big one beef harmburger. There are the artificial smells being concocted by chemists, the cleanliness in the stores run by lowly paid students, the contaminated meats in the processing plants, all in the pursuit of lowering prices for competition and profits.

The movie is star studded to attract the regular folk. But I did not find it very entertaining, nor did I feel any large impact. Maybe I’m being unfair, but for impact, Terrorstorm, Freedom to Fascism, and Super Size Me do a better job.

My grandmother’s chronic fatigue syndrome is bugging me no end.  I already ordered a parasite cleanse from humaworm.com but we will have to wait until it arrives.  My grandmother is getting weaker by the day.

To increase her energy, we will have to add apple cider vinegar to her regimen.  The earth clinic website recommends 2 tablespoons ACV in 8 oz of water 3x per day and in 2 days my grandmother should have more energy!

This should also be worth a try for my brother and his skin allergies.

Of course I will experiment this on myself as well.

The recipe for the apple cider vinegar dosage is on earth clinic. 

We had just come home after watching fireworks at the SM Mall of Asia.  We were having a late dinner.  My 3 year old boy suddenly comes up to me with tears in his eyes asking for his nannie.

I did bring him to his nannie and told him it was nothing for him to cry over.  A few minutes later the nannie tells me that my son told her that he has a peanut stuck in is left nostril!  What?  I immediately dress up and think of sending my son to the nearest community hospital, they can poke it out with their instruments.

My wife was having a massage and I told her the situation.  She got up and had a look at our son.  Now I remember, my wife has eagle eyes, she checks on our other son when he has ear problems.  Sure enough we got a flashlight and I got the ear pick shovel we use for our older boy.  With my wife’s sharp eyesight and dextrous hands, out popped the peanut!  Whew!

I did not do these things when I was a child, neither did my brothers and sisters.  My wife says she didn’t do these things either.  Well our first son once stuck an air gun plastic  pellet up his nose, and this second son stuck a peanut up his nose!

This is the first batch of what I believe will be a series of resources I will be posting regarding CFS.

• Learn How Bob cured himself naturally of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & IBS. Also see his website at www.bobmantz.com. Very interesting personal story. He went through the typical nightmare of all those clueless western pharmaceutical doctors until he stumbled on the real healers, the natural kind.
• Earth Clinic – Folk Remedies and Cures has a good take on chronic fatigue syndrome.
• A Garden Web forum post has interesting bits on chronic fatigue syndrome.

The key ingredients against CFS is that it is caused by parasites, maybe viruses, oxygenating the body works, magnesium in chloride or taurate or natural foods, vitamin E and cayenne pepper will do wonders. Thyroid affected. Amount of red blood cells affected.

I wonder which one will work for my grandma.  Do them all.

Maybe the stainless steel scenario in my previous post should be taken in the context of just a few moments ago, my wife and her sister ordered the banning of the use of canned mushroom soup with the Campbell brand.  The reason? MSG! Campbell brand mushroom soup has MSG!  Horrors!

Apparently the cook felt it unreasonable for good canned soup to be thrown away, or that she has never cooked mushroom soup from scratch and see it as a bother.

Then she asks me if the Nestle branded cream is okay for use or if that should be as well.  Hmmm… I did not see that coming, because I was not privy to the campbell mushroom soup banning scene.  I only understood the whole event when I discussed the situation with my wife.

My wife says, “Let them be, they’ve got no choice.”

Anyway, my wife approved the use of the Nestle cream for the fruit salad later.

Ah the trials of trying to be healthy without offending your household help.

I was so happy coming home from the grocery, we finally got an 18/10 stainless steel pot for cooking rice and an 18/10 stainless steel frying pan with cover.  I gathered our maids, nannies and the cook for a short presentation on the new cooking utensils.  They were reluctant to even come and I had to go into their room and ask them out to the kitchen.

I read to them the instructions on the stainless steel cookware manual: Remove all labels.  Wash with soapy water.  If there are stuck food, do not use a steel wool or other abrasive material, do not use metal utensils.  I got a plastic utensil and a wooden utensil and showed them that these are the items to use.

My wife and I promptly instructed them to throw away the old aluminum pot and pan as I explained that these were dangerous to our health.   That aluminum is known to poison the brain, for example getting sick with alzheimer’s disease.

In the course of the conversation I immediately picked up their tonal disgust with what we were doing.  Probably they think the aluminum scare is full of bunk, maybe they think we are throwing away good money, maybe they are jealous that they feel doomed that their own families cannot afford to buy stainless steel cookware.

Bah some women, you can never really please them.  Maybe our cook is just suffering from menopause.