Life Bizness & Health Issues
Attempting to distract myself today... from thinking far too much about missing my brother Mikey, and wishing I had more close friends around here. Such things will get better in time. I have some great job prospects, and spring is slooooowly coming into bloom in Seattle. I actually saw the sun like 4 times this week. I even felt it warming my hair
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That said, I've never been good at giving full, scientific explanations for my methods. Some things are just so common that they become second nature when you see them or hear about them enough, especially when you hear about people's health all the time from somebody who is passionate about well-living. So, rather than give sympathy, I'll try to be more valuable by at least giving you my two cents. You sound like you have a food allergy at the core of your diet. The severity and prevalence, even the very variety of issues, normally comes with a very strong root cause. Maybe you've heard this before and dismissed it. Maybe hearing it yet again from this perspective will help you understand when the next person points it out.
You already have some intuition about it, that you recognize that, by all rights, you should be young and healthy, benefiting from all the energy and flexibility of an un-aged immune system and metabolism. I'm giving all this lead-up to any specific suggestion because we, people/human/whatever, are very emotionally attached to food in general. It's comforting, it makes us feel better. And it should, really, when we eat and drink the right things. But you can also build up a tolerance to something that is not good for you, and it's hard to see its effects on your health until you start to try removing it from your diet.
Here are the most common food allergens, as per the Mayo Clinic:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-allergies/AA00057
Milk
Eggs
Peanuts
Tree nuts (such as almonds, cashews, walnuts)
Fish (such as bass, cod, flounder)
Shellfish (such as crab, lobster, shrimp)
Soy
Wheat
For me, it was wheat. That means bread, pasta, crackers, pizza, soy-sauce(thankfully, there's still tamari for use with sushi and stir fries), and all but a handful of esoteric beers. I removed it from my diet and after a few days to a week I felt like my system was being rocked by powerful, wonderful stimulants that had no come-down. The change was that dramatic for me. I stopped being randomly tired after breakfast, lunch, dinner. I didn't need 4 cups of coffee in the morning to wake up anymore, just one or less. My brother-in-law tried my diet this past winter, and the same thing worked for him. Damn-near personality shift.
Oh wait, more than two cents. Here is a favorite remedy for kidney issues: http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/learn/hydrangea_root.php
It's a tea, you drink it. No doctor visits required. Though, when an ex-girlfriend was recovering from Xanex withdrawel(which comes with very, very taxed kidnies), she drank Nettle Tea.
I hope this advice finds you well, or at the very minimum shows that I care enough to type out this long of a proscription.
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A food allergy is something I've been wondering about, and I will check out your links and info as soon as I get a chance. I have noticed patterns in how I feel after eating certain foods, and plan to visit a holistic practitioner as soon as I can afford to do so in order to investigate these things further.
Also I agree with your statement that "chemical pharma and hospitals are really good at keeping you from dying, and herbal medicine is really good at keeping you healthy." In addition to just needing to vent my ongoing frustrations for a bit, the main reason why I took the time to write this out was in the hope that I could find help & suggestions that were outside of the more mainstream health options that I don't really have access to anyway.
You've given me much food for thought... it is much appreciated. :)
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