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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Getback on August 22, 2026, 07:41:14 PM
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This somewhat builds from my post, "Everything Starts with Nutrition".
In my journey to health, I have come to believe that the worse thing isn't necessarily fat, it's inflammation. Once I dropped Carbs and Sugar my sleep apnea went away in about a week. Another odd thing was then I was able to turn my head further left and right. That was so appreciated. I used to take certain routes, so I didn't have to turn my head backwards and now I don't bother.
Another item is knee and joint pain. I don't have either where I once had to go to a physical therapist.
Now sugar and carbs are not the only causes of inflammation, as we all know. However, I have a shocker. Early this year I had terrible shoulder pain. My doctor sent me to a physical therapist. It helped somewhat and afterwards I kept doing the physical therapy exercises. The shoulder pain did ease somewhat. At the Wellness Center I had to drop my shoulder press weight from 10 pounds to 5 pounds. That was using both arms. Even then it was excruciating. Including all 30 reps I would only get up to 150 lbs. It was so difficult to stretch my arms above my head.
Then I ran across a YouTube video that had a silhouette of a guy with inflamed shoulders. The doctor was talking about Statins and their effects. I said What!! My doctor had prescribed me a Statin when I first was diagnosed with Diabetes. I've since reversed it, going from an A1C of 14.7 to 5.7. It seems when you are diagnosed with Diabetes, they automatically assume you have heart trouble. Well, my heart scan showed I was in the top 25% of my age group, I'm 72. I don't think that's super, but I'll take it.
After watching this video, I decided to stop the Statins. I hadn't taken my morning dose, so I stopped that moment. Within 24 hours my shoulders were feeling much better and within 3 weeks I had increased my shoulder press from 5 to 35 lbs. I know it's not Olympic status but when you're starting from zero it looks good.
When I discussed my statins with a friend he had the same experience, only it was in his legs.
These are things worth looking into and discussing with your doctor. I'd do some research before you make any changes.
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Way to go on giving up the sugar and carbs...it is where I struggle most! I do intermittent fasting to help with inflammation and go up to 72hrs to hit max autophagy...yet still, I have a sweet tooth and love my bread.
Keep up the great work and God bless you! :salute :cheers:
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Way to go on giving up the sugar and carbs...it is where I struggle most! I do intermittent fasting to help with inflammation and go up to 72hrs to hit max autophagy...yet still, I have a sweet tooth and love my bread.
Keep up the great work and God bless you! :salute :cheers:
Bolt, Thank you so much!
I fast quite a bit too. Though it's usually around 24 hours and sometimes to 48. Fasting allows your body to heal and also reduces inflammation caused by your food.
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Sounds like you’re doing well on the journey, Getback.
Keep it going!
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I dropped Metformin & Statins in 2019, started intermittent fasting and low carb. It was rough. It was 6mo & 20lbs(at least) before my 9.1 AIC was down around 7. I'd fast 1 or 2 times a week. Made it to 72hrs once (dinner date, kinda had to stop and I had a lot left to keep going). Eventually my A1C settled in around 6.8. Just couldn't get it to come down.
So, I maintained it all pretty good until last year, threw my back out getting my "exercise" (splitting firewood... I don't recommend). Went completely sedentary until this last June, became a LOT more free with carbs. Weight went back up... but, A1C barely moved. So, I got with Doc about GLP's. She was all for it, but the VA is rather toejamty about it. I knew the GLP stuff it would be a month or more getting ahold of, so I went hard Carnivore with fasting again, and started monitoring glucose closely, starting July 14th.
Since the 14th of last month, I'm down 26lbs, 10 of it in the first week... but, glucose is running low 80s, and has been since less than a week after I started. This round of (little) effort compared to last time has been unreal. I can't believe how well I'm responding. Barely getting over 1100cals a day, and not noticing, that's nice. It's impossible to understand the reasons, but I've decided to do the long haul back to 180lbs or so. The GLP-1 is safely stored in the fridge just in case I ever need it... haven't touched the stuff (don't freekin need to).
Anyway, dropping the Statins never seemed to make a difference with my cholestoral. I can't say I noticed it doing anything at all. I know from repeated experience, Metformin is trash. It lowers glucose, sure fine, but it makes you feel like crap, generally. I was taking Berberine regularly, and it appeared to work quite well on glucose. Haven't had any of that since the 14th either.
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Best of luck Tumor!
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Just got back from my annual checkup...they asked more mental health questions than they do physical health questions these days..at least they didn't ask about my pronouns.. :banana:
174lbs 5'9".. bp 123/78..67 years old.. :old:
Curious to see how the blood work comes back..been eating 2 eggs every morning for the last year..
Past the nuclear stress test and echocardeogram earlier this year with flying colors..it had been 6 years since my last/1st one..
Good luck guys...health is everything :aok
Eagler
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WTG Tumor, also stay away from any of that modern medicine BS.
God has given this miraculous body all it needs to thrive...we just need to remember and abide. Fasting and eat only what grows from the soil or walks on it, also lots of clean pure water...it's okay to enjoy society poison every now and then, just to keep the immunity up to it :D
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Just got back from my annual checkup...they asked more mental health questions than they do physical health questions these days..at least they didn't ask about my pronouns.. :banana:
174lbs 5'9".. bp 123/78..67 years old.. :old:
Curious to see how the blood work comes back..been eating 2 eggs every morning for the last year..
Past the nuclear stress test and echocardeogram earlier this year with flying colors..it had been 6 years since my last/1st one..
Good luck guys...health is everything :aok
Eagler
About peed my pants on that one Eagler :rofl
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About peed my pants on that one Eagler :rofl
Ya, that was a good one.
Speaking of stupid... I had an "incident" with a VA nurse a few years ago over that spanned about a week. She called for a quick pre-op surgery thing. When she asked if I was (can we say Vaxxed here?). I replied, "no.. and don't ask me to get that way", fully expecting to have the surgery cancelled. All was well, and I didn't think anything of it. Then I had to show up in person for the next pre-op appt, and sat in the lobby for right at an hour after the appt time, late in the day too. There was NOBODY else there. So she (turns out, same nurse) finally comes out and says, "Sorry, we forgot about you." That's when I moved from annoyed to irritated. So, we go back and she has all these questions, then tells me they need more x-rays, it's almost 5pm, and I have to rush over to get them done. Mind you, I'm 2hrs from home (my VA is a tiny little Community one (CBOC)), and was meeting my mom for dinner, and was already almost late. I said "No, I have somewhere to be, and you already wasted an hour. Have my home town VA do the x-rays and send them." She goes off. No really. Slammed her clipboard on the desk then turned and,... it wasn't a poke, but it wasn't a pat either, on my chest and said, "Well, you just let us know when it's convenient for you" in a very snarly tone and stormed out of the room. I was flummoxed. My wife was with me, and I thought she was going to punch the squeak, had to stop her from chasing her down the hall. So there I (wife and I) was in this exam room, nobody else around, wondering what the hell? I was too confused to be mad. So we found our way out and left.
Maybe 15-20min later (otw to dinner), I wanted to make sure the x-ray issue was sent to my home VA, so I called and as luck would have it, guess who I got on the phone? :x All I did was ask if they(she) was doing the x-ray appt or was I supposed to. Then she launched again, almost yelling (you know the tone)... it's started with "I TOLD YOU...", that's when I hung up. I called the CBOC the next day and got it all arrainged.
About a week and a half later, after the x-rays were done, 4 days or so prior to surgery, I get a call from you-know-who. I had already had a lengthy conversation with the local VSO and the VA Hosp patient advocate regarding this particular nurse and her behavior, AND found out she was the head nurse of that particular section. Anyway, she was suddenly SUPER nice (another one of those "tones" we all know). She asked if I had got the x-rays done. I said, "Yep, I got them done and told them to send them to you people over there." Then she goes, "Well, nobody told me." My reply, "Well, now you know", and hung up. I had told the Patent advocate that under no circumstances, including delaying the surgery, would that dingus be anywhere near me during anesthesia. As far as I could tell, she wasn't. In fact, it was just a couple months later I found out she'd retired... I wonder. lol
Honestly, it was a LONG time before I tied the whole not-vaxxed-conversation thing into this. Even now I'm not entirely certain, there's no way to know. But I'll bet my last dime that was the root of the whole thing. :bolt:
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WTG Tumor!
I had a nurse slam a window on me because I wouldn't wear a mask. She was let go.
I had a positive experience just Thursday. I went to the driving range. I haven't played golf in over 20 years. How'd that go?! Well, when I got home, I looked up stretching videos for golf and spent the next couple of hours watching them.
Here's the positive thing, I could keep my head down as I turned my body which allowed me to keep my eyes on the ball. 20 years ago, I had to look out of the corner of my eye in order to get a complete body turn. That is all because I have dropped sugar.
I'm down 120 lbs. from my heaviest. I was down 130 lbs. (Sigh) However, the doctor thinks it's because I have gained muscle. I exercise 3 times a week and walk 4 times a week. Also, because my pant size has not increased and has actually decreased.
For the record I do carnivore. That makes it easy to avoid carbs. I getting ready to have bacon, eggs, and sausage patties.
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Have asked around half dozen nurses and blood techs and none of them took the jab..
Eagler
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Just got back from my annual checkup...they asked more mental health questions than they do physical health questions these days..at least they didn't ask about my pronouns.. :banana:
174lbs 5'9".. bp 123/78..67 years old.. :old:
Curious to see how the blood work comes back..been eating 2 eggs every morning for the last year..
Past the nuclear stress test and echocardeogram earlier this year with flying colors..it had been 6 years since my last/1st one..
Good luck guys...health is everything :aok
Eagler
That's impressive! My blood pressure was a bit high at the last visit. Amazingly, my resting pulse was 51 bpm.
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Sounds like you’re doing well on the journey, Getback.
Keep it going!
Thank you Fuzeman!
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PSA went up a bit but is still in the acceptable range..
My other numbers were all in the range except a new cholesterol measurement called lipoprotein (A)..
High range is >125..
Mine was 174nmol/L..
It's a hereditary indicator for how sticky your blood is..
Got mine from my mom's side .. and is probably why I got the two stents 8 years ago..
Will continue to watch what I eat to minimize future circulation issues....:aok :old:
Eagler
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PSA went up a bit but is still in the acceptable range..
My other numbers were all in the range except a new cholesterol measurement called lipoprotein (A)..
High range is >125..
Mine was 174nmol/L..
It's a hereditary indicator for how sticky your blood is..
Got mine from my mom's side .. and is probably why I got the two stents 8 years ago..
Will continue to watch what I eat to minimize future circulation issues....:aok :old:
Eagler
I don't worry about Cholesterol. As I understand it blockage comes from two sources, Carbs, and smoking, with carbs being the worst. Cholesterol is produced by the body and helps with the healing process. I would strongly encourage you to do some research.