Polyuria

The elephant in the room is that as men get in their 50s they sometimes experience having to get up in the middle of the night to urinate. That happened to me and I didn't like it because a good nights sleep is very precious to me. So, I went to the doctor and found out nothing medically was wrong. Conventional wisdom is that as we get older we don't sleep as well so any pressure on the bladder wakes up, so we get up and urinate. I didn't accept that and as a result I sleep all night now. There are two reasons for that. First, I recognized that urination has a huge psychological component to it. We hear water running so we have to go, for example. For me whenever I pull in the driveway my bladder wants to "let go" and I used to accomodate it. We develop urination habits that subconsciously "train" our bladders. The solution? Re-train your bladder. Just say no. For me I would wake up during the middle of the night needing to go but I wouldn't get up until about 7 am. That made for a fitful sleep but over time it has gotten better. My bladder had to learn that we don't go until 7 am. Secondly, by frequent urination we cause our bladders to shrink and then they only have a small capacity. We want bladders with a huge capacity. This was illustrated to me by going to the urinal after a movie. I finished pretty quickly but the guy next to me urinated forever. I stood there for a long time in fascination at his bladder capacity. I recognized that me bladder needed to be bigger. We can increase our bladder capacity by going at longer intervals. Start small and work big. Some will say, "what about bladder infections?". Bladder infections are caused by bacteria climbing up the urethra into the bladder. Urination flushes the bacteria out. Normal bladders (capacity wise) don't get infected. All I'm saying is that we have made our bladders abnormally small. Work to stretch those bladders out. Sleep well my friends.

Chronic GI Problems

One of the things I have learned in Veterinary medicine is that animals with chronic GI problems do not absorb Vitamin B12 very well and that until you replace Vitamin B12 nothing else you do treatment wise will help very well. So how do you replace Vitamin B12 if it cannot be absorbed well? It has to be given via injection. A light clicked on for me recently... I have people that I am very close to that have chronic GI problems. Could Vit B12 help them? I urged them to consult with their doctors and they started taking Vit B12 injections once weekly. The results have been dramatic and quick... feeling better and being able to eat things they could not have eaten previously. Since then I have learned that people who are on various medications for gastric reflux, etc. also poorly absorb B12, i.e. the medications impair the absorption of B12. Vitamin B12 is a water soluble vitamin that is vital in many of the physiologic processes of the body. It's amazing that something so cheap and so simple can have such dramatic effects.

Excessive Vaccination

I never take a Flu vaccine... never. Immunologically, I think it's better to get sick every once in awhile with the wild strain of Flu. In fact the only kind of vaccines I believe in taking are vaccines for diseases that can kill you. I do occasionally take a Rabies vaccine.

In my profession over the years I have seen a lot of vaccines come out from drug companies. Many of those vaccines have proven to been non-effective and unnecessary. Drug companies are businesses, businesses are out to make money. Drug companies sometimes create vaccines and through their drug reps create paranoia to make a profit.

Be careful about the kinds of vaccines you take.

Healthy Immune Systems

It's OK to get sick... it really is. Getting an illness provides good exercise for your immune system. A lot of people do a lot of things not to get sick; hand sanitizers, excessive cleaning, limiting exposure to germs, etc. We need to occassionally get sick to prepare our immune systems for bigger illnesses.

In Veterinary school they told us that something like 80% of your patients are going to get better not matter what you do so... don't make them worse!

The best doctor that we have lives within us... Dr. Immune System... let him work. Provide him with plenty of continuing education.

At the first sign of illness we usually want to jump in with some kind of medication tomodify that symptom. If we have a cough we take a cough suppressant. If we have diarrhea we take Pepto Bismol. If we sneeze we sniff vrious inds of medications. Early on a lot of these symptoms are therapeutic. Yes, therapeutic sneezing, therapeutic coughing, therapeutic vomiting, therapeutic diarrhea...

Certainly at some point of the condition these things may have to be modified but sneezing, coughing, vomiting and diarrhea are Dr. Immune systems tools for treating various ailments.

Exercise your immune system, make it strong and vigorous, it is God's gift to help you stay well.

Acetone and Automatic Transmission Fluid

A 50:50 mixture of the above mixture is the best thing I have found for frring up metal parts that are "locked-up" by time and rust.

It is very volatile and the acetone evaporates away preety quickly so you have to keep it sealed up and brush on the amount you need.

I had a flywheel on a Briggs and Stratton engine I couldn't get off until I let this mixture work for about a week.

I found out about this mixture from an internet forum.

How to Take a Pill

Here's how I taught my kids how to swallow a pill. Hold the pill in your front teeth so you can't taste it or gag on it. Take a huge gulp of water.

It worked for us.

Earth

All we have in this world, physically, is dirt and water. When you couple those elements with sunshine you can get color, structure, scents and everything else that we have in this world. It only requires one thing... a recipe.

You find that recipe in a seed. When a seed comes in contact with moist earth a reaction occurs that allows the seed to select different minerals from the earth to initiate a chemical reaction that causes something to grow.

When you look at that old brown dirt you cannot see green, yellow or any of the colors, but they are all there.

Thank you God for bringing life to a planet that used to be just dirt and water.