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My Gout Experience

My experience with gout has been painful.  I’ve experimented with different ‘natural’ methods of treatment and I think that I’ve found one that works for me – so I thought I’d share it with others. 

I am convinced that not all natural methods of treatment work for everyone, one particular treatment may work for you and not for others.  So you will need to find one that works for you.  I’m going to list some of the things I’ve tried.  You’ll be glad to know that the following won’t break your budget.

Also, I’m not a doctor or a certified practitioner, I’ve just had gout for a number of years now and am just sharing my experience and providing links that I found useful and not providing advice.

Firstly, what is Gout.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gout)

Gout (also known as podagra when it involves the big toe) is a medical condition usually characterized by recurrent attacks of acute inflammatory arthritis—a red, tender, hot, swollen joint.

Gout can present in a number of ways, although the most usual is a recurrent attack of acute inflammatory arthritis (a red, tender, hot, swollen joint).  The metatarsal-phalangeal joint at the base of the big toe is affected most often, accounting for half of cases. Other joints, such as the heels, knees, wrists and fingers, may also be affected. Joint pain usually begins over 2–4 hours and during the night.  The reason for onset at night is due to the lower body temperature then. Other symptoms may rarely occur along with the joint pain, including fatigue and a high fever.

Hyperuricemia is the underlying cause of gout. This can occur for a number of reasons, including diet, genetic predisposition, or underexcretion of urate, the salts of uric acid.  Renal underexcretion of uric acid is the primary cause of hyperuricemia in about 90% of cases, while overproduction is the cause in less than 10%.

Foods that bring on gout

If you look hard enough, you’ll find almost everything brings on gout...well almost.  The main foods that bring on gout and that are widely accepted are:

• Red meat
• Beer/alcohol
• Shellfish (oysters, prawns etc)
• Lack of water
• Too much salt

Things that I’ve tried

Water – you must have a load of water when you have gout.  When you don’t have gout, keep hydrated. I remember reading somewhere that you should have enough water so that you urinate about 2L/day.

AppleCider Vinegar –  Apple Cider Vinegar contributes to the breaking down of food in the body, it prevents harmful bacteria from multiplying, aids respiratory infections, sore throats, nasal discharges,  it aids blood purification and circulation. 

When having ACV, you should try to get organic with the ‘mother’ – do some research, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

http://www.gout-aware.com/apple-cider-vinegar-for-gout.html 

http://www.livestrong.com/article/532249-can-apple-cider-vinegar-treat-gout/

Vegetable/fruit Juice – Mainly celery and beetroot. Beetroot and parsley have been said to have qualities that clean blood. I’ve also tried cherry juice – don’t get the reconstituted ones.

http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2007/3/28/columnists/foodsafety/17239112&sec=Food+Safety

http://cinnamonvision.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/parsley-helps-clean-your-blood.html

Herbal Tablets – My favourite, and one that I think works for me is Celery Seed tablets.  I regularly (whenever I remember) take Celery Seed tablets (2500mg) and I find that it does relieve the pain when I feel gout coming along.  Ever since I’ve been taking it, I haven’t had a blow out. I have also been taking Milk Thistle tablets (35000g) – it’s a liver tonic, a health liver helps keeps the blood clean and toxins out.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/111768-advantages-milk-thistle/

Spirulina Tablets - is a high alkaline seaweed food. It can change the weak acidic body condition to a healthy alkaline condition. It is also a natural health food with rich nutrients can be taken for a long time, for its non-toxic and has no side effect.

http://healthmad.com/conditions-and-diseases/spirulina-alkaline-food-supplement/

Blood donation/blood letting/wet cupping – by donating blood regularly (6 monthly) or performing wet cupping, removes blood from your body and encourages your body to produce new clean blood. You can perform wet cupping monthly if needed.

http://www.goutonline.net/showthread.php?t=10755

http://www.goutonline.net/showthread.php?t=10842

In Short

• When I got hit with gout
• I’d skip the foods that causes gout (listed above)
• Increase my veges
• Increase my water intake
• Decrease salt
• Have heaps of vege/fruit juice
• All that in addition to my regular celery, milk thistle and spirulina tables

I hope it works out for you.

MOST Rider's Practice Range in Homebush

Just wanted to share with the Learner Riders out there in NSW that there is a Rider's practice range for those that are going for the Provisional Riders Licences (P's test) in NSW.

Its around the Homebush Olympic park and its along Bennelong Parkway, near Marjorie Jackson Parkway.

It has the MOST (P's) course all marked out, the left turn, cone weave, U-turn, emergency braking and obstacle turn.

I was there on a Sunday morning about 9am and I was by myself for about an hour until another guy came along.  I had a chat with him and he said that it was always this quiet around there.

Cars are blocked off from the area, so you won't be bothered by them.

Just remember what you were taught in the Stay Upright course (eg. head checks and fast idle, friction point & rear brake) and you should be okay.

If you have troubles finding the MOST P's test in Homebush, just let me know.

A description of the MOST (P's test) is here http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/licensing/tests/most/index.html
and http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/licensing/downloads/most.pdf

A video demonstrating the MOST (P's test) can be viewed at  http://www.wheel-skills.com.au/RTA-motorcycle-operator-skills-test-MOST


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My Bathroom Renovations

My old bathroom

The Demolition starts

The door to the old toilet has been closed up

Sand cement

Waterproofing

300 x 300 floor tiles

300 x 600 wall tiles

Thanks Mustapha =)

Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists

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Israel's Missed Opportunities

Original post: Al Jazeera

Anwar Ibrahim

15 Sep 2011

Netanyahu's refusal to apologise over the Gaza flotilla killings shows that Israel is misreading the new Middle East.

In the prologue to The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, the author Josephus tells us that works written earlier by others "were marred by inaccuracies and prejudice" and that he "hopes to comfort the conquered and to deter others from attempting innovations".


Josephus' classic account is indeed a gripping story evoking powerful emotions and leaves us in no doubt as to where our sympathy lies: As the mighty Romans lord over the powerless Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem perpetuating cruelty and injustice, the story is as old as mankind. The oppression of human beings by fellow human beings is not a tale told by an idiot but by the chronicle of time. And as this history repeats itself, the once oppressed can easily become the oppressor. Where once it was the all-powerful Romans against the downtrodden Jews, today it is the high and mighty regime of Israel against the helpless Palestinians.


Adding to this state of oppression is the deadly flotilla attack by Israeli commandos under the Netanyahu government, in which nine people were killed - with at least seven having been handcuffed and shot in the back of the head. Yet the latest United Nations report on the attack has completely gone off the mark by concluding that Israel's blockade of Gaza was a legitimate act of self-defence.


According to the Palmer Commission's report, the legitimacy purportedly arises from Israel having to take necessary steps to protect its people from violent acts by Palestinian militants in Gaza, such as the firing of illegal rockets into Israel.


While no one condones violent acts that threaten the security of the people of Israel, the purported rationale for self-defence in this case flies against the facts, the most telling of which is that a unilateral ceasefire by Hamas had already been in place since early 2009. Bereft of this pretext, the entire edifice for the perpetuation of deadly force by Israel crumbles.


But that is cold comfort for the 1.5 million Palestinians being incarcerated in Gaza, who are now at the mercy of Israel's land and naval blockade, which continues to deny them their right to move freely within and between all countries. Sanctioning such a military siege against a helpless civilian population is to turn the global rule of law on its head. And this is a community that has already been so dispossessed. As Edward Said once said, few national groups have been stripped of their humanity in the eyes of the world more blatantly than ordinary Palestinian men and women.


The attack on the humanitarian flotilla can neither be sanctioned nor rationalised. Apart from violating international maritime law, it was an act of ruthless aggression against an innocent party. No sovereign government can allow such a transgression to take place with impunity.


When two Israeli soldiers were captured by Hezbollah, Israel invaded Lebanon. Nine Turkish citizens have been brutally killed in international waters, and no one should expect Turkey to sleep over the death of its citizens. One of those killed was also an American citizen, the 19-year-old Furkan Dogan, about whom the Obama administration has kept silent. Turkey is therefore right in unequivocally rejecting the UN report and all attempts to justify the military siege of Gaza as legal.


Netanyahu's announcement that Israel will not apologise to Turkey demonstrates his dereliction of responsibilities and a particular callousness towards a nation that used to be a military ally. He is completely misreading the dynamic of the new Middle East, in which justice, not oppression and authoritarianism, will shape history.

More significantly, it has missed a golden opportunity to further the prospects of peace through an enhanced collaboration with democratic Turkey under Prime Minister Erdogan. There is no better time than now, particularly in the wake of the Arab Spring, for all parties to move towards a more enduring peace in the Middle East driven by universal ideals for freedom, democra
cy and justice.






Anwar Ibrahim is currently opposition leader of Malaysia and was formerly the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister.