RobertP

At times I have tested food storage 100% and always find that the food gets heavy and boring. I have never found a way around this. Fresh milk and eggs at the very least seem to take the edge off. Powdered milk or just plain water get old and heavy. I get to a point where I have to decide if I am more hungry or more sick of the choices available. Although an acquired taste that many may not like at first, may I suggest home made yogurt as a partial solution. This takes the edge off the monotony and contributes to digestion. Almost everyone has a yogurt maker. Put a 60 watt bulb in your oven, crack it open with a thick folded towel, and if you have a thermometer, make sure it doesn't go over 115º F, mine stays around 105º this way. I have also closed the door, it gets to about 125º F and dehydrates some food. Find a yogurt starter that you like, or you can start by buying plain yogurt and putting a tablespoon into a quart of boiled (to kill the bacteria and only use the bacteria you provde as a starter) and cooled to no more than 110 degrees, it won't burn your wrist at all to touch the container but will be comfortably warm, and let sit at least 12 hours, 24 hours is better if someone is lactose intolerant. The bacteria will take the lactose content down 95+ percent during this extra time. Store yogurt tends to culture for 8-12 hours I am told. Voila, happy yogurt that is alive and will help digest some of that dead dried stuff you are eating. Could take the edge off some of the discomfort if something like this were actually used. I have taken powdered milk from heavy and boring to alive and fresh this way, and some may not mind adding it to milk to get the best of both worlds. I have gotten at least 10 generations out of this, so it saves the starter even more. There are many additional benefits to probiotics, improved immune, stronger digestion, healthy intestinal walls, so many other things. Seems to me a good and simple thing to add to any preparedness program. This is even easier with powdered milk since you can boil the water pretty much on high without burning it, and then adding a cup of thick powdered milk mixed already so it isn't lumpy. I use 1 scoop sweet dairy whey and 1 scoop casein protein to one quart water, sometimes a little whey but this isn't good for yogurt I don't think. Turn the heat down, stir while it gets back to boiling. There is no oil in this and no high fructose corn syrup from normal powdered milk recipes, so I am not sure how those milk powders would ferment, but I imagine they would be fine. There are many strains of bacteria, so you can choose between strong digestion, smooth and creamy, different mixes.

Just out of curiosity, what form of vitamin D caused those problems? Cholecalciferol is the one I pay attention to for now, but you could change that. I was taught it could be toxic, but that seemed to be more in theory to me before that post. What dose were you taking? How often? I have heard up to 1000 IU is good from sources I have come to trust. I am wondering if you are in that range or even higher than that?

Er, my second post here and I might be about to pluck the same string. I told my wife to stop me here but she is laughing at me, so I guess that is the go ahead. I get wordy, so conscious effort to not get wordy here. Candida is a normal inhabitant of the GI tract. Sugar feeds candida directly and brings it from its correct single celled stated to a multicelled aggressor that chemically and physically breaks down your body. Unsaturated fats such as Canola and Flax (I know, you were told they were good for you) are gasoline for Candida. They are not good at all for someone in this mode. It reproduces very quickly in a person inclined to have this happen. Sweet junk food with lots of junky fats, transfats, healthy fats mentioned above, others, have no inhibitory mechanism from keeping the candida from eating these substances. This can cause people to feel extremely unwell. A quick glance across the cupboards of America will show refined flours, sugar, and unsaturated oils. Every one of these by itself and together feeds candida (and 400+ species of bad bacteria) directly and encourages it to colonize and poison you. This is just a wildfire waiting to be ignited. When you start seeing that dysbiosis is related to autism, autism spectrum, OCD, depression, PMS, and you look at our society and wonder why we have things that were not heard of before while adding new additives to our foods expecting each one and all together have no significant effect, well, I would suggest another point of view. At the heart of all of these mental and emotional issues is a set of nerve toxins, different for everyone in ratios and mechanism of coping, chemically (liver detox capacity etc.) and emotionally. Having known this for years, but found more information recently that has gotten me further through it than ever, I say this is not supposition or theory, I am doing this. If I walk this alone, I will do it happily, but I would be glad if people came along. It seems like a plague being poured out to me, and I am hoping to dodge this one as best I can, and possibly point out how others can consider doing the same. Like minded people can create a market where this becomes more possible. And keep reading your scriptures and saying your prayers, but hopefully that is a given around these parts. On the other hand, as I think about this, I only know a few who admit to being plagued by these. I know quite a few more who are just normal happy people. I say diet is 80%. I first learned it from my dad, who learned it trading home remodeling for Mr Olympia at the time, and I have been working on that for 20 years. Will be interesting to see what I think of this in 20 more years. I have no problem identifying how an LDS diet could possibly contribute to this. Think of refreshments at any given activity. I can't eat any of them most of the time without obvious and semi-severe to severe consequences, so I just watch others eat them. It is not a mystery on that front at all. Also a delicious dinner brought over when my wife had a baby took me out hard core for a couple of days. I can't fault anyone, but being one who could look like the number in the question, this seems like a part of my ticket out.

Going out on a limb, but I have found help on this front. Google candida symptoms, candida depression, candida OCD, Autism spectrum, others. You will see a lot of things with an insidious little root of nervous system poisoning. It could sound strange, but there is a bacteria balance in your gut, and it can be helpful, among other things that were mentioned below that I would not try to detract from, to find out if an anti candida program could be helpful. More directly, there are over 400 species of good bacteria and more than 400 bad, so it can get complex quickly. I like the specific carbohydrate diet for now. www.pecanbread.com and www.breakingtheviciouscycle.com or www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info are some places to start. It is not for the faint of heart. I am 4 months into it, have more patience, less feeling down. If the answer is in more than one piece, I would suggest this as an angle to consider, but not a whole answer by itself either. For those interested in the physiology, there are over 150 toxins, acetyl aldehyde, a formaldehyde cousin seems to get the most attention. It is the same compound produced in alcohol metabolism. Candida eats your food and creates this as a by-product of its anaerobic metabolism. Alcoholics are famous for bad tempers... Other toxins are mentiond by name along with the bacteria/fungi that cause them here. www.healthyawareness.com. The brain fog link is also relevant. Any time I see temper issues or irritation for no apparent reason, I have to think about this. Make your nervous system happy by not poisoning it. Then other things shouldn't bother you so much. In either case, the gospel is true, hang in there and don't give up. You can tell you are up against resistance, so push against it, or duck and go under or something, don't let it drive you where it wants. Then you are not controlling your destiny, whatever you are pushing against will push you where it wants you. It hopefully is clear that is not a good place. Keep up the good fight. As sure as those words make sense, it is clear you are fighting for something good. www.candeo.com mentioned below looks pretty good. I have spoken with Bernell Christensen, quite a few years ago, probably 12. He is a good man and has a strong understanding of things spiritually and temporally. I would have to recommend that site above others as well. Where they talk about brain healing, I would be aware of BDNF, brain derived neurotrophic factor and possibly things that can boost production of that while doing the exercises. Not a requirement, but seems to have something to do with wiring and rewiring the brain. Handy for those of us who want our brains to work. Hope it's not too much. Use what seems to interest you and follow your best judgment. Be good.