MORE ABOUT THAT GLORIOUS FOOD

I have not written this month, and that is bad! I have so much to say and so many other people get dumped on with all of those things I have to say. They get long email epistles and I fail to write here where my wonderful words could be way more wide spread. And so, I need to say what it is I have been doing rather than writing. 


And what have I been doing?  Mostly, I have been reading and eating, reading the books of Dr. Oz and Dr. Whitaker and Dr. Amen and Dr. Teitelbaum and several other physicians who have left the straight and narrow path and speak to various ideas from alternative medicine. Yes, even Dr. Oz, "American's most beloved doctor"  as the PR blurbs so often call him, advocates several of the tenets so often attributed to doctors who are derided as quacks and scam artists. Not so. So many of the things that these doctors have written about and said in public for many years are now being accepted as conventional. Once, only the nuts in California took vitamin supplements and ate yogurt; today, you can find both in almost every household and supermarket, drugstore,  mini-mart, and gas station.


That is what I have been reading. Why? Well, for one reason, I live with three syndromes for which modern medicine has no answer:  Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, and Myofascial Pain. At least, some of those in alternative medicine are actively engaged in trying to find relief for those of us with  these 'orphan" diseases.  Dr. Teitelbaum, who has both Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, has revised his first book, From Fatigued to Fantastic, and in it, has advocated the use of D-ribose to help the body develop more energy. He wrote, 


For years, I talked about the importance of B vitamins, which are a key component of these molecules. These helped to a degree, but it was clear that a key component was missing. In looking at the biochemistry of these energy molecules, they are also made of 2 other key components-adenine and ribose. Adenine is plentiful in the body and supplementing with adenine did not help CFS. We then turned our attention to Ribose. Ribose is made in your body in a slow, laborious process and cannot be found in food. We knew that CFS/FMS causes your body to dump other key energy molecules like acetyl-l-carnitine. We then found that the body did the same with Ribose, making it hard to get your furnaces working again even after the other problems were treated. 


 Not having Ribose would be like trying to build a fire without kindling—nothing would happen. We wondered if giving Ribose to people with CFS would jump-start their energy furnaces. The answer was a resounding yes! 

http://www.endfatigue.com/tools-support/D-ribose.html

And so, having read his discussion of D-ribose and how it works to fire up the furnace, I am taking it every day. Now, if you all remember, I journal what I eat every day on the MyPLate website, every bite that I eat. And so, I entered the name of the product, Corvalen-M, and lo! there it was, listed as a food  that others using the site must also be using. If it provides the energy that I have not had since 1980, you all will be among the first to hear about it. I am actually looking forward to feeling good enough to do some of the things I have wanted to do for several years.


And, oh yes, all of those doctors are writing about the food I should and should not eat; and I am about to write about what I am eating.