I have been trying to counter this I also get itchy skin sometimes. It does not happen if you wash off your skin after a few hours. I found out the reason so I thought I would share it with you. Our skin PH is ideally 4.6 to 6 The lesser the better. As good bacteria survive in slightly acidic PH Our skin has trillions of good bacteria that save our skin from thousands of bad bacteria that are flesh eating(yeah thats what happens when you die bacteria eat your flesh because the PH value goes up/alkaline). You know those itchy rashes and microscopic cuts when you get infection in your gr ...
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what did you eat after BM? Its better to ease into it and get your digestion working Its best to be raw vegan for some time   [End]
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Put your money where your mouth is, Would you like to be a part of an experiment in eating tons of MSG??   [End]
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What BS!!!. What sensitivity are you talking. MSG is addictive also causes obesity. I have seen research papers where they feed MSG to lab rats to make it fat.(to conduct experiments of slimming drugs) There are links online yet I could not add it in the wiki. So go figure. You are being fed lies about MSG. It is a lot more, I never get any of the symptoms mentioned except headache. I at MSG for 7 years and did not have any symptoms. It is not part of the populations it takes time for MSG to break the blood-brain-barrier. Once it is broken you are screwed. It takes time and varies ...
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You are not aware of all fruits then Have you heard of Moringo? Do some search on it. It is typically cooked as a vegetable but technically it is a fruit. Infact all nuts are fruits. You are eating the seed. Anything that has seeds in it is the fruit. We only thing Sweet and raw when it comes to fruit. Moringo is fruit that contains highest proteins. Also A lot of nuts contains proteins. For example normally people eat only the nuts of the cashew, but In India some people eat the fruit also We chew on the almond fruits Its has a nice sour taste. But many have not seen almond frui ...
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Typo. I meant I would NOT recommend people to ”fuel” a fever as a cure for flu or other diseases as there is no research and there are too many complications involved. For example you get fever in malaria but it is not enough to kill the malaria causing parasite. I don’t think it would be dangerous to allow the fever to go high and try and cure malaria in that method(just an example). But ofcourse in defense of the ”treatment” :-P. Malaria is parasite and not a normal bacteria or virus. Whereas bacteria and viruses are know to perish at low temperatures. Swine flue for example does not ...
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I too believe like you did. But I do not believe that some people need to eat meat. Some people benefit from eating meats but there are alternative vegetarian diets that can support them. Looking at meat for such people a ”narrow-minded” approach or a lazy approach. Also this myth has been promoted by the anti-vegetarians and by ”health gurus” who make money by telling people what they like to hear. Everybody likes a diet book that says that ”You can lose weight by eating anything you want” They are the ones that become bestseller. So on similar lines this myth has also been pro ...
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Thank you for you comments. I could not believe that people in a bid to alkalize the body are prescribing baking soda. baking soda makes me sick. I never could believe it. Thank god I found someone who thinks the same way. Infact whenever I had acidity I would drink lime juice or kokum juice(garcinia Indica). Also helps in ”pitha” or when i had symptoms that were similar to what ”they” say when your body is too acidic. I would drink Garcinia Indica juice(around half a liter a day) for a week and I would be perfect and back to normal.   [End]
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I have never heard of asafoetida taken for these purposes. My guru tells us to avoid asafoetida. It is really bad. Here many people use it to kill trees. If you want to cut a tree you have to go through a lot of paperwork and permission. Instead they just take a ball of asafoetida and stuff in a hole in the bottom of the tree trunk. In a few days(or weeks) the tree dies off. There are lore that Tansen(A great singer who could invoke rain with his singing) a singer in the court of the Indian Moghul ruler Akbar. Used to consume a tablespoon of asafoetida with ghee(clarified butter) everyd ...
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Thanks for the search. Alibaba has a good ranking but it is almost dead. Most of them never respond. You find everything in there but no ones responds. I think this is my best bet http://trade.indiamart.com/details.mp?offer=1282449991 Take a look at the bottle does that look like the original one? I hope my search has ended. Thank you   [End]
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Thank you, Yes that seems like the best place to start. Also I found a lugol manufacturer now I have to contact them and find out where they retail. Thanks again :-)   [End]
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The herbs that can help you fight against swine flue are, turmeric, neem, guggol(giloy) and tulsi(occimum sanctum). Ginger and pepper helps in any kind of flu. There are different kinds of ”Kashaya” kind of warm drink you can make to consume these. If you do not have a problem with ”heaty” things(Ginger and pepper create a lot of heat) then you can consume it daily or several times a day like tea. The simplest form to take turmeric is boiling it with milk. Add pepper to it. For vegans you can take turmeric, ginger and pepper and boil it to get a decoction. I once had a kashaya of gi ...
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BTW spirulina does not contain iodine. It is a freshwater seaweed so it does not contain iodine. Have to find lugols solutions. :-( Thank you for your comments :-)   [End]
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You are right. Seriously after I read Victoria Boutenko’s book I laughed at her. She was on raw food for so many years and was not consuming greens. How did she ever become an authority on raw foods in the first place. Even after eating raw foods for years she and her family look unhealthy(they are still overweight and have loose bodies). Victoria Boutenko was talking about green leafy vegetables like it was the discovery of the century. Please all you people in the west take a look at ayurveda. Raw foods has been curing people in ayurveda for centuries. Only thing is that it is ...
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Yes it could be true but not the fault of Raw food, But actually fault with ”RAW gourmet food” When they are trying to replicate cooked food, they narrow down their options. They end up consuming just a fraction of the raw foods that can be consumed. End up with dangerous deficiencies. The health benefits they get in the first years is more of not consuming junk, Than from consuming raw food. Most of them do not consume greens and sprouts, but just go on eating eggplant parmesan(raw and vegan) where almost nutriontionless vegetable like eggplant is dehydrate for more than 12 hours.(yo ...
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The tomato having more lycopene is deliberate misleading. This is all based on Tomato processing Industry based research. In a bid to promote people to use tomato paste and other processed tomato products, ”the Industry” came up with devious research. They basically went by weight. They took 100 grams of tomato paste and 100 grams of tomatoes and compared the lycopene levels. What is wrong is that if you ever use tomato paste you will know that around 2-3 spoons are equal to 1 tomato(it varies based on the thickness of the paste). So 100 grams of tomato paste could actually be equal ...
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LOL you are one of the owners!!! Ok now I got it. But like I already told by the second comment I knew you just got me wrong. So please I never thought of you as a troll. I was just waiting for your second comment and in that it was very obvious. You cannot blame for being paranoid. Almost every healthsite I have visited there are have been infiltrators who become authors and those who comment all sorts of nonsense. I just thought because it seemed from your first comment that you did not believe at all in iodine deficiency. It appeared as if you did not believe in any deficiency and ...
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Thank you for the wonderful site. Just thought I would post the correct link http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ You missed the e :-) I am so glad I came to curezone, this site you posted looks amazing. Thanks again   [End]
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:-) Did I forget to mention that Now I don’t think you are one. I think your response was a little harsh because of the frustration, yes the frustration of seeing so many people on forums like this who are looking for the ”miracle pill/drug/supplement”. When I asked about Iodine and just mentioned weight loss you thought I was one of them. I later on realised that the way I posted my comment many would jump to the conclusions that I am looking at iodine as a weight loss supplement. I realized there is not miracle pill/drug/supplement years ago. I know the only thing that can give you ...
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Thanks for you response. I think you are right about this ”Spirulina is grown in fresh water”. So I think there is no iodine. Since the one I am talking about is organic and has not heavy metals and arsenic I am pretty sure it is fresh water spirulina. No Kelp available where I live. BTW I live in Mangalore(currently in Surat) in India. Both are Tier 3 cities so what you get here is limited. Especially health and organic stuff(even appliances and restaurants are limited). The problem with ordering is that Even on priority shipping it takes around a month for anything on the net to rea ...
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Thanks for the tips. I have some hopes about finding Lugols solutions. Yes I will include Spirulina in my diet anyways. I was just hoping(since I read that spirulina does contain iodine) if I could just depend on Spirulina for my iodine needs and not have to go in for a supplement. I am on a raw diet. I am also doing pranayama and yoga, will also include light cardio excercise and some resistance ground excercises. I will check out youtube. I cannot order online. There is a 33% duty and also it takes almost a month for it arrive.(shipping is around 35$)   [End]
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Yes I did think you were unsupportive rather I thought that the trolls and misinformers have invaded curezone too :-P Yes I know iodine is not a magic pill. Cardio is on my plans too. I also have a weight training method I developed during my college days, where by just excercising the entire body I would lose weight off my belly(3 inches in 15 days). And it is not heavy excercise but it is slow movements. Around 12 years later I see that many people have (re)discovered the this method and there is even research showing that this kind of weight lifting burns fat. There are various si ...
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Yes I do agree with you, I am aware that iodine alone will not help me lose weight. Currently I am on a raw diet. I am also doing pranayama and yoga. The problem like I told you is that I cannot be on a raw diet forever due to circumstances. Whenever I go off it I put on weight even though I try to eat healthy. Actually after going raw I cannot eat junk food or overeat because it makes me feel sick. When on raw food I have my dinner as late as 9pm. But after I get off raw and if I am eating normal food I need to finish my dinner by 8pm max or I will not ”retain” that wonderful feeling( ...
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Start eating bread that has pottassium bromate as a preservative :-P. Sorry I was just kidding. On a serious note, I have read that iodine get back to normal very fast so you should just back off the iodine. There was a test I saw on a website. They said take some liquid iodine and apply it at 3 different place, just dab a fingertip size. If the iodine stain remains for long it means you body has enough iodine. If it disappears soon that means you have less iodine. So you could back of the iodine and use this method to check if your levels have reduced. If you find a difference the ...
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I would not consider this as reaction to overdose of Kelp but reaction to arsenic. Are people crazy? Well I should not be too surprised because recently CSPI declared Green leafy vegetables in their top 10 Unsafe foods list. Just because green leafy vegetables are being contaminated with E.coli. Nobody wants to get the depth of the issue and find out why it is being contaminated. E.coli is not a natural part of Green vegetables. Infact it is unhygenic environment in which the leafy vegetables are stored and transported that is causing the contamination. The same here the Kelp is contami ...
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Forgot to add Wombat.(still wondering how did you assume I have bad eating habits) That now I lead a very healthy lifestyle. Because of the circumstances in my city(that is MSG added in all restaurants and in all foods even in rice. really bad oil and lot of chemicals and colors in foods and the lack of availability of organic foods). I temporarily shifted to a another city where my parent live. I have been living with my mom for the last 4 months now and will be leaving next month. In this 5 months i have been on a 100% organic diet. I have not been dieting but I have been on a raw di ...
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Thank you wombat for your comment. But it does not answer my question. I want to know how much iodine is there in spirulina and how much can I consume safely. This is not a question on weight loss. About calories, any person who has gone the depth of weight loss methods should know that calories is not the ONLY measure of weight loss. I used to consume 12000 calories a day when I had an active lifestyle. After that I continued consuming around 8000-10000 calories a day even after I stopped exercising for around 5 years and never put on weight. I used to put on weight in holidays w ...
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I dont think you should have any problem finding lugols solutions in paris. Dr lugol who invented lugols solutions if from paris!!!! You are just going to the home of lugols solutions :-)   [End]
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Hello everybody. I read an article on Iodine deficiency. I am overweight, I keep going on and off a raw diet, It helps but I put my weight back on. I then read about Iodine and I think I have an iodine deficiency. In my city/country there seems to be no Iodine supplement. Even Iodine liquid is not available at chemists(they has something called IP Paint, and it looks like voilet paint!!! they give me that when I ask for iodine). Fortunately, I can order one of the best spirulina in the world. Organic, natural, Heavy metal free and no fillers or preservatives. I hear that spirulina is ...
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You have to be joking. That link is a big joke. All it does is refute everything in just words. It neither cites any research papers or shows any photographs(of the actual HIV virus). It very authoritatively refutes each and every argument put forward by the ”hiv does not cause aids” theory. And please dont give me that ”do you really think that no one would have found out”. My dear friend scientists have found out. Yes scientist not some conspiracy theorist on the internet. The scientist have found out that there is no HIV. One of the research I remember is that they take the bloo ...
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Yes I had a cyst and now it is gone. First of all a cyst is a sign that you are abusing your body. I was on a diet of fast food and colas and no excercise(smoked and drank daily for 9 years and 4 years respectively). I had a cyst in my stomach was painful and was growing.(2 years since I left smoking and cleaned up my diet but I tend to lose control and eat lots of bad food often) I am overweight and have been trying to lose weight since forever. I started a diet of steamed vegetables and the cyst stopped being painful it was just a hard lump in 1 week.(I was eating steamed vegetabl ...
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