Glad to hear you're still with us Angela, & putting up a good fight. Hopefully things will get better. Perhaps the change of seasons will help. Had a few pretty rough days after some fair days. But by this afternoon I seem to be improving quite a bit again.
I've grown used to being a shut-in now. Back about 7 years ago where I had to stop & sit on somebody's steps every block to catch my breath, I was already becoming a shut-in. Even getting a mild cold would knock me down causing me to be pretty much immobile for a week or so. Some fumes, air pollution, heavy traffic, or a busy intersection could send me desperately gasping for air.
It was like being in prison. But just like people sentenced to life or POWs, they learn to adapt, or die, or commit suicide. Fortunately I have the cats, nice view from a small window of trees & yards, the internet, TV, & music. I've even been able to keep a work at home job doing computer & small appliance stuff to maintain a bare-bones survival & independence too.
For aging, & age related problems, may I suggest 100mg of CoQ10 every 5-6 hours... 300-400mg a day. We don't retain enough of it when we get older, & really need it. Beet juice or beet juice powder, or spinach powder is a great energy boost. Just don't drink it like crazy or you'll get kidney stones or other problems. Too much of anything is very bad for you. It tastes nasty but you get used to it. I'd have about 5 oz of beet juice with lots of sugar to help the taste.
Beet juice powder & spinach powder have to be mixed in cold things, or just warm things. Heat kills the stuff that helps. I mix beet juice powder or spinach powder in with instant coffee, lots of sugar, a little bit of milk, & some instant chocolate milk, then add cold or warm water. It tastes pretty good once you get used to it. The stuff settles back out, so you have to stir vigorously between sips. Coffee helps my COPD a lot.
The beneficial effects of beet juice or beet juice powder peaks in about 3 hours after ingesting.
The beneficial effects of spinach powder peaks in about 5 hours after ingesting according to actual real medical studies.
Use lots of garlic or garlic powder in your foods, soups, & stews. It helps fight off aging & makes you healthier. Take an aspirin a day. If your stomach isn't too sensitive to it, take a second one before bedtime to prevent artery clots at rest. Clotting & clogging builds up the most when you're just laying around. Use the regular, or small aspirin, not those huge extra strength pills.
I'm getting nice results from the "One A Day" brand of +65 vitamins. I know it doesn't make sense because it actually has less stuff than Centrum & other popular/recommended brands formulated for older people, but it works better. Perhaps this is yet another example of too much of a good thing is worse than not enough. Overloading our old frail bodies with a lot of stuff they can't handle anymore may not be a good thing... even if the label says it's good for you.
I see many sick or elderly make this mistake all the time. Desperately grasping anything that might make them feel a little better, they do too much of it, so it doesn't help, or makes things worse, so they either just load up with even more stuff, or give up using it.
Coffee for instance, helps my COPD more than anything else. I can import any medicine (not the fake stuff) cheaper than I can buy it locally. Medically approved inhalers & medicines did not compare to how well coffee worked. Back when I still had some medical insurance, or was paying doctors, they all said to avoid coffee, or that it would conflict with medicine. Well, they were very wrong.
But there is a catch. I've tried caffeine tablets as a test. It helped a little, but not as much. There may be antioxidants, other alkaloids, & micro nutrients involved with coffee. Others & I also report significantly better results from instant coffee rather than brewed. Perhaps the higher contact point temperature of brewing coffee kills off some of the beneficial ingredients, or maybe it's because you have better control over the dosage with instant. Instant coffee can be warm or cold, not just very hot. With little milk, sugar, or chocolate, it's an excellent cold summer drink.
Anywho, too much coffee makes things worse. A 12 oz cup more than every 5 or 6 hours didn't help more. Having too much decreased sensitivity to it, so won't help at all later or the next day. If you get a headache when you haven't had any in a while, that's caffeine withdrawal. You need to cut back & use less. And although the caffeine effects are felt 20 minutes after drinking coffee, COPD or other beneficial effects won't happen until about 2 hours later.
Getting back to too much of a good thing... Family, friends, or yourself will try to push a lot of fresh or raw vegetables & fruit on you to help. This is absolutely the worse thing you can do to an old or sick person. Your body, & organs are already in a weakened state. The last thing you need is something that will work it too hard to digest, or something that you may not be able to digest all of or some. Chicken soup may be praised as a cure for all, but it's not because of what's in it, it's because it's easy & quick to digest, causing less stress on your body.
That raw & fresh stuff may also contain bacteria that a young body can cope with but a sick or old body can't. The germs you swallow not only lay in your belly, but in your mouth, throat, & get into your lungs. Washing it, bushing your teeth, or mouthwash won't help. Cook your food whenever possible. Chew it up well too, so you can actually digest some of it without stressing your body too much.
Fresh fruit & veggies is a good idea for young normal bodies, or people overweight. If you're sick or old, it's not a good idea. If you're having a hard time just getting around, coping with things, or just surviving, you don't want to put anything in your body that will cause it or your organs to work overtime unnecessarily harder, not be able to handle it at all, or poop most of it back out. You need nutrition you can actually easily digest & use. When we get older or sick, our bodies, organs, & belly become as weak & delicate as a baby's. We need the adult version of baby food, not fresh or raw fruit & veggies.
EAT YOUR GLUTEN TOO. It's a healthy, essential, & easily digestible protein that we REALLY NEED. About 1% of the population is mildly affected by too much gluten. That's less than affected by nuts, & we don't see everyone giving up nuts or peanut butter, or calling it a bad thing! Cut down on your salt by using another incredibly healthy & harmless protein, MSG as a substitute. Oh, MSG is so bad for you if you read the blogs, or listen to someone having their period when they think they may had some. FACT: Tomatoes are naturally overloaded with MSG, most nuts are naturally overloaded with MSG, cheese is naturally overloaded with MSG, most meat is naturally overloaded with MSG, butter & margarine is overloaded with MSG, & milk has some MSG. If it is as bad for you as they say, why do you still eat the stuff that has loads of it? Asians didn't corner the market on MSG. They just identified it in the food we all eat all the time.
TIP: At least 90% of everything you read from links & shared posts on Facebook or other social media, odd blogs... especially self proclaimed nutrition & health sites is either fake, half-truths, unverified, unconfirmed, & will not hold up to any fact-checks or medical science.
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