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sarcopenia, visceral fat
This list reads so generic to the seasoned health nut that many of us are:
This doctor takes a very strict stance on reducing visceral fat, and has found that certain methodologies help such as:
- the right kind of exercise (sprint type)
- getting rid of empty foods
- reducing alcohol
- reducing stress
- getting good sleep
- good flora
- sunshine
- sauna
I'm pretty sure most people here are aware of these recommendations. I'm having trouble with "good flora". What does that even mean? There is this craze about improving gut flora, but what really sticks? Most probiotics don't work for me. In fact, some antibiotics seem to help, like doxycycline and azithromycin.
I'd add:
- Avoid EMFs as much as possible. Don't use your smartphone for hours every day.
- Stay as warm as possible, especially in the winter. I sleep with three blankets and even wear a hat. Being cold is terrible. It really slows me down, I don't want to do things. It's not even the lack of sunlight, it's the freezing body that makes me miserable.
Cozyness, as a way of life, is something my daughter has lately turned me on to. Yah!
Yes, you are right people are well aware of these recommendations (and of course, we'd add "take in less VA"). To me, the most "novel" one is the sprint-like exercise vs the distance-type exercise. Even though I think about health a lot, there is a lot of room in my life for being more like that list.
The thing about this doc is that he is forcing his patients not to just give the recs lip service. His system of serial MRI'ing them makes them realize these tenets might take some serious work. He catches them not practicing, and makes them face the music.
I think I fixed my baby son's flora with plain organic yogurt, and mine with kefir so I like flora that comes with it's own food. Husband has been taking a probiotic that he likes but I don't like pills. @christian, I wonder if culinary herbs might help you if antibiotics help you. On another site, there was a person who had good results with prebiotics, in her case it was a kind of fiber called konjac.
Somewhere in that long interview I think I heard him say that we start to die in our feet first? I saw that with one of our oldies who recently passed.
It makes me wonder about all the restless legs, foot and leg cramps we lowered-VA people are experiencing. And they seem to go on at night, perhaps because we are lying flat. Maybe the body is trying to detox those areas and taking advantage of the fact that the feet are at the same level as the excretion organs, and not down low like during the day. I had some facial "bug crawling" feelings when I first began my detox, I wonder if I had restless face hahaha.
Anyways, I think we here also have our share of problems with feet wanting to be unhealthy and I think it is a challenge to have both WARM feet and DRY feet. I feel the need not to wear shoes, or even slippers can get sweaty, so I guess my choice is going to be thick wool socks and a fire to warm my feet by. If I was going to build a house, I would build it with the floors that radiate heat, despite it's expense.
Dr. Wilson (he has some, actually a lot of interesting ideas, but some border on whowhoo) recommends down-breathing, which means bringing your attention to your feet, even 20 centimeters into the ground as you breathe. To also take the attention away from the head where trauma tends to get stuck. So by breathing all the way down to the earth, you are grounding yourself, which is basically just another way to get into a more parasympathetic state in the body, which is conducive to healing. There's definitely something to the idea of dying in your feet first. Look at the feet of old people, they tend to look ugly. Compare them to the juvenile feet of children, which you wouldn't hesitate to bite for fun.
Another T-shirt tag:
Cozy
(instead of supreme or obey)
Gosh this is really affecting me. If you can tell if something is working by how crap you feel... I might have hit the mark. I feel exhausted, my ears are ringing and it's kind of silly because I'm only just not snacking and doing a quick harsh workout with a little bit of stretching. Sprinting is something my body knows, as I was a sprinter in high school. So, for me, I'm taking the idea of sprint-like exercise very literally.
Some things are instantly better like my lips are peeling less, my bowels are moving something wonderful. My bowels have been weird since I had a stomach virus a month or so ago. (I don't know if I ever wrote about this, but I felt as though my lower gut was "swollen" during that illness)
Even though my muscles are sore from the new kind of exercise, I feel like I'm already getting a bit less "fibromyalgia" type sore? I once had a guy who was selling some sort of snake oil grab me by the upper arm and squeeze and he said if that hurts, you probably need my elixir. (They guy knew who he was choosing, as my inflammation level was clear as the red nose on my face.). (and it did hurt). Perhaps people here know what I mean.
Today I'm going to clear the bedroom of all extraneous furniture and crap and lights and sounds so that it can be pristine and help with sleep. Right now it's half office and half bedroom.
Earlobes and tongue!
These are two places that I've read that visceral fat can show up.
People on the internet are suggesting that this is what snoring comes from--visceral fat in the tongue. It can be so mysterious, the snoring affect. And it's not always the obese who snore. (and it isn't just the obese who have visceral fat). I bet visceral fat in the tongue could also lead to wrong mouth habits and makes "Mewing" harder and possibly not as successful. I wonder if it could lead to mouth breathing, and wrong breathing.
I can't find it now, but I once had the most interesting convo with @ourania about earlobes here on this site. My earlobes have shrunk a LOT on my 3.75 years on lowered VA. Ourania mentioned that some sort of monks have a special piercing that causes a detox in this area.
Here is the before-and-after pics of Dr O'Mara's face again. I wonder if the head pressure of VA toxicity could be related to this visceral fat in the head area. If I blow up the picture, it does appear to me that (among other things) his earlobes shrank.
Dr O'Mara was not obese, but his head shrank a lot.
My first week of following some of his tenets I experienced that well-known feeling of a slight hangover, that to me always speaks of VA detox. It came and went several times.
I'm also reminded of the facial and tongue swelling that is associated with all types of hypothyroidism.
