Medicine II
Tonight's entry is going to be mostly about keeping healthy and having what you need in a survival situation. First of all I am a firm believer in vitamins and supplements. If you look at many of them, you may be able to replace some of the prescription meds you are taking. For instance: garlic tablets do a fine job of keeping your blood pressure and cholesterol. You need to take a lot of this item, but it will do almost as good. Now, I am not advising going off your blood pressure medicine or your cholesterol medicine. What I am suggesting is knowing that if things really get bad and you simply cannot get your medicines, garlic will definitely do you good. And if you are raising some of your own garlic and can use that, it will help even more.
Let's get down to what I think that we should all be doing right now. First of all, I believe that everyone should, at the very least, be taking a multiple vitamin. Even if we believe that we are eating a balanced diet, many of the foods we purchase commercially are so over-processed that we are not really getting all of the vitamins and minerals that we need. Processing removes a lot of trace minerals that our bodies need. By taking a multiple vitamin/mineral tablet, you can correct that shortage. That is the least I feel you should do. I also feel that you should have a store of these on hand in case of a large enough upheaval that you are unable to purchase any.
Now, let's look at some specialty vitamins and minerals. As I already stated, garlic should be on your list if you are currently on blood pressure or cholesterol medicine. It will not hurt you to take it now with your other pills and if you cannot get the prescription you are covered. Most vitamins and supplements have an expiration date two to two and one-half years from the date you buy them. I feel that they are probably good for at least a year after that, so you should be able to keep them for at least two years and possibly three.
I currently take cod-liver oil capsules, zinc tablets, 1,000 mg vitamin C and 400 mg vitamin E. All of these are to improve your immune system. I take double doses of all of these in the winter to deep from getting sick. I do not believe in flu shots and take these in place of getting shot full of rotten eggs. Depending on your metabolism, there are several supplements you can take. Acai, cayenne and super B complex are just three of these. I take these in various combinations at various times and find that they do help, especially in the winter when we are inside more. That is one of the reasons I take cod-liver oil, for the A and D vitamins they contain. In the winter when we are not out in the sun we can get deficient in vitamin D especially. As for as the other metabolism aiding supplements I believe that we should be taking the B complex at the least.
Iron is another supplement that will help promote a healthy heart. It is also something that many people are deficient in. They are very cheap and worth having on hand or even taking to insure that we are getting what we need. there are a couple of supplements that are specialized that you may want to think about also. One of them is milk thistle. This is used to improve liver function. Only you know if you should take something like that. Another special supplement and one that I take is bilberry/lutein. This is for the eyes. I have found that it helped improve my already excellent night vision and it also helps control any allergies that affect my eyes. Another one you may want to keep on hand is potassium. I personally prefer to eat bananas now while they are available but in a survival situation they may not be. It is best if you know your current potassium level as I know people that cannot have anything with potassium because they already have too much in their body.
these are the ones that I am familiar with and as a minimum I believe that everyone should take the multiple all year long and zinc, C, E and cod-liver oil during the winter. these are also the ones that you should keep on hand for emergencies. During a major catastrophe the food you are eating may not give you all you need in the way of vitamins and minerals. All of the other ones you can make up your own mind about.
Only you know what your health is like now and only you can decide on what to take. I am just letting you know a few things that I do and a few others that I know about. Next week I will wrap up the medicine entries with some more natural remedies for things like depression, bad memory etc. There is so much you can do without going to the doctor. I recommend that you go to the doctor and get one good physical and make your decisions from there. Until next week, as always, check out my political blog and my web store.
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