Guest Post by CCRider
I’ll be eternally grateful to Ayn Rand. When I read Atlas Shrugged shortly after college in the mid-1970s it redirected my life. Her works liberated me. I had come to realize that public schooling was in large part obedience training programmed to create contented tax slaves and dead soldiers. Rand taught me to be a sovereign individual and I remain one fifty years hence. I dedicated my life to her admonition to “Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind”.
When the COVID storm was thrust upon us last year I was instantly on guard. Here were Big Pharma and Bill Gates owned bureaucrats screaming virus in a crowded hospital. It had all the earmarks of a government psy-op. Do what you’re told, abandon what’s left of your constitutional rights, let us use a good crisis to our sole benefit or you’re all going to die. It was right out of the Hegelian playbook.
Still, there is an (engineered) nasty virus out there and at seventy-two I’m more susceptible to its harm than when I wore a younger man’s clothes. The survival rate for people in our seventies is 94.6. That’s still an A in any school I ever attended and it includes the deaths of those with comorbidities primarily obesity and type 2 diabetes. So, I reasoned not having either condition I was pretty safe.
One of the wondrous effects of employing Rand’s admonition is that it requires one to do his own due diligence. A verdict requires investigation. After studying the facts from all sides I decided prudent steps were in order. Lots of older people die from the flu. There would be no harm and perhaps a significant benefit for going on a health kick.
I switched to a largely vegan diet. I still eat meat but in much fewer quantities than before. I eat lots of vegetables, beans and green salads. I drink at least five glasses of water a day, including one with every meal. Water irrigates the kidneys which is a crucial element to good immune health. Every morning I drink a cleanse made up of citrus juices, fresh ginger, honey, cayenne, and Tumeric. For lunch, I have a mixture of grains, nuts, ground flaxseed, fresh fruit, and berries with almond milk. This aids gut health, another crucial component of a healthy immune system. Finally, I go for a 40-minute walk daily. It worked. I lost 25 pounds and I feel great. I feel no need to poison my healthy body with Fauci’s evil concoction.
The last element of my regimen is taking vitamins. I take B-12 (important for vegans) C, Zinc, and especially vitamin D. The thrust of my message here is to get the TBP family to look hard at the amazing benefits of Vitamin D and its role in immune health. It’s actually not a vitamin at all but a hormone. My investigation has convinced me that a high Vitamin D level will make you bulletproof from COVID. The evil Fauci let slip that he takes high doses of D in one interview. He then went on to promote remdesivir, a useless treatment for COVID but for the benefit of his Big Pharma masters who rake in $3,200 a treatment.
An interesting fact is that we metabolize Vitamin D from sunshine. We’ve been told sunshine is an enemy of good health. It is precisely the opposite, so mom was right all along. It is no coincidence that flu seasons happen during the colder months when the sun is less radiant and when we spend much less time outside unless fully clothed. You can find peer-reviewed studies of the incidence of low D levels of COVID patients causing elevated symptoms and greater fatalities. Think of what being lockdowned inside your homes actually accomplishes.
It’s an interesting fact that darker-skinned people metabolize sunshine into D much less efficiently than lighter-skinned people. Over eighty percent of blacks and nearly seventy percent of Hispanics suffer from low levels of D. Do you find it odd that these hack politicians who spout a constant stream of ‘white supremacy’ and promote reverse racism because of their love for people of color are totally silent on this crucial point, in fact, suppress it? I’m not. Biden and Harris have sent trainloads of black and Hispanic men into bondage. Obscuring this fact is consistent with that history.
There is plenty of information on this subject so please do your own study, especially if you are older or have comorbidities. I include a video I found enlightening to get you started. I am not a doctor, nor a scientist. I care about the TBP family and I want us all to survive and carry on the fight for liberty. If you saw Senator Paul’s grilling of Fauci recently on ‘gain of function’ research you know more lethal viruses are on the way. I won’t trust Bill Gates to protect me but I will rely on my miraculous immune system properly maintained.
Good luck and God bless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyUoK71uATU
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Explain to me how 72-year-old man walks 40 minutes each day. I am a generation younger and my legs won’t recover fast enough for that. I’m sure my inability to sleep is part of it, but 50s aint 70s. Who here gets their recommended 3.5 hours of exercise each week? Is that realistic?
Doug, after my knee surgeries early this year, I asked my Ortho Dr. what the best exercise is for building up my legs so as to better support my knees. He told me a stationary bike. There is almost zero impact on the knees unlike even a treadmill. (A treadmill that was on a pretty good incline and one I was jogging on is how I tore the meniscus in one of my knees).
Anyhow, I looked in Craigslist and I found a guy selling a stationary bike for $60. (It was originally around $600). I now use it about 5 days a week and I am slowing building up on the amount of time and the tension on the pedals.
You need to start somewhere. Take a 10 minute walk for about a week or so. Then increase it to a 20 minute walk and go from there. Rome was not built in a day and neither is building up our bodies.
One thing is for sure, if you are not doing something to improve it, your body will continue to deteriate.
regarding exercise bikes,i am about to put 2 tunturi bikes on craigslist–
they both look like hell but they will work 4 you–
my wife hurt her knee & does not use them anymore & it hurts my back to sit on them–
if you’re close to tampa & want them they’re free 4 a tbp er who wants them–
Doug – I spent 2 hours in my garden this morning, soaking up the sunshine, bending over, walking, hoeing & stretching fence. I just finished lunch and will be in the flower beds this afternoon weeding, trimming and giving them a good dose of maintenance. I am 70 and do this 5 or 6 times a week this time of year. Every 5 days, I use my push mower to mow the area around my house and flower beds. Between it and weed eating, I spend about an hour. I do not walk for the sake of walking, but I manage to get in a mile or two each day by staying busy around the house, shop and yard.
Sunshine, fresh air and a little exercise doing my daily chores.
That’s what I am just about to do, after I get done mowing.
I’m a 72 year old guy, and those hours are like every few days for me, I can’t imagine not doing it. I am fortunate to live in a hiking mecca with year round hiking including fabulous scrambling (requiring both hands in addition to feet to climb). I have a new hiking app and so I only have the last 60 days recorded, but in that time I did 152 miles, 44,134′ of elevation gain, 91.25 hours of moving time and burned 59035 calories. Humans are not meant to be sedentary, we must keep moving.
Everyone is a little different and so we each need to figure out what works for us, but it starts with nutrition – eat real food. Our gut is our principle immune system and is called our second brain. Respect it and give it what the trillions of bacteria and viruses that live there need to keep us healthy. The new biology is Epigenetics as opposed to Genetics; you are in control of who you are.
Figure out what nutrition works for you, from keto, paleo, high carb, high fat, etc. Have a look at your blood type and what foods to include and what not to include. Stomach acidity is important, for example with low acidity, eat meat at the beginning of the meal so that the meat is fully in the acids and not resting above to better digestion. Check out intermittent fasting; we eat too much and eat for too long of a time frame.
Have a look at PRP (platelet rich plasma) and stem cells for joint issues. I have used both and strongly support.
Start small and keep a challenge going.
I tried keno for a week and could not take it any more. I am struggling with my diet and experimenting as I go. Getting the volume down is a struggle, but I am not morbidly obese, just weary of how easy it would be to get there.
Maybe you’ll have more luck with the keto diet.
My nutrition certificate is from staying in a Holiday Inn Express about 3 years ago just so you know!
My experience is that eating organic food and eliminating processed food has a dramatic effect on weight and energy. We usually think of food as being fuel, but it is much more than that, it is more like information. The information from processed food is all muddled up with things our bodies do not know how to interpret; GMOs, sugar, seed oils (vegetable oil), etc. The body wants real food, organic food. Nature does not make bad food, factories do. Processed food and fast food are ‘engineered’ to be addictive, not nourishing, they don’t want to kill you, but they do want you addicted. The saying is don’t eat SAD – Standard American Diet.
We used to go to Costa Rica quite a bit, and one person we knew there would tell us how he would lose weight in CR, and then gain it back in Florida. He ate real local farm food in CR.
Best to figure out what works for you.
Stopped eating sugar 3 years ago ( a lot harder than it sounds.) lost 57 lbs. use to take 6 pills to stay alive, now I take nothing except what was described above. 63 male, perfect health. Covid hit me last April, came and went no biggie. Great article.
I’m 56 and I swim 5 hours a week. No problems at all. No joint issues, just good healthy exercise.
I’m 62, after I stopped running marathons (too many soccer injuries) I do 40 min on a rower, 30 min on a spinning bike, and 35 min walking on a treadmill at 3 mph while curling 12 lbs, I do this every other day. I like to watch Naked and Afraid while I work out, dumb show but better than looking at a wall and listening to music.
On the off days my wife and I take a five mile walk, even in the winter.
I take supplements like Vit K, Vit B3, Vit C, Black Seed, Turmeric, Curcumin, Zinc. Magnesium, Potassium and Melatonin at night. Really helps with sleeping, and a wee bit of Bourbon.
Great comments. Just exactly the sort of discussion I hoped the piece would spark. And, yes Doug I walk daily and I live in a mountainous area so there is pretty steep elevation in the park I use. Losing that weight made it possible. When I started it took me 53 minutes to walk the course. Depending on the weather and conditions I now do it in just under 40. It can be done. Get started.
I am 72 , too. Today I spent 1hr. sawing a birch into logs, loading it into the pickup and then splitting most of it. A 40 min. walk is no problem.
Thanks everyone for the input. I like to do a 45-minute walk with some running/jogging and a short agility drill, depending on my energy, leg soreness, and knees. I guess my physical endowments are worse than I thought. Good for all of you. Someone suggested I get a bike to save knees not long ago. I can’t seem to progress in fitness. I am starting to think that sitting long hours on this computer is a problem. Oh, well. My options are few.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Start slow, build up. If you are really out of shape then push for ten minutes at a time and build up. Do it every day, just a little. Soon it becomes a habit. I build exercise into my day. I push mow, hang laundry outside, work in the yard, haul dirt, etc. Like the rest of the crew here, I’m pushing seventy. I’m reminded of the old wag who stated: I may not be as good as I once was but I’m as good once as I ever was. Or something like that….
I have broken my arm, torn knees, suffered from planar fasciitis and sciatica, all annoyances that slowed me down and sometime kept me from walking but I healed up and went back to it. Slow and steady.
Maybe it was bullshit?
Getting 3+ hours/week is vitally important. I am almost 69 years old and I spend about 5 to 6 hours per week in a gym in sessions from 1.5-2 hours. If I had a farm I would probably get enough exercise that way, but I don’t. In my fifties I was in severe pain nearly all the time – shoulders, hips, back, sometimes knees and hands. I could barely get out of a tshirt. I was about 40 pounds overweight and had chest pains any time I worked up a sweat. The turning point was when I realized modern medicine combined with my lifestyle was going to kill me, and my health was my responsibility. Oh, and my mental state was rotten too.
I joined a gym, worked with a trainer once a week for maybe 3 months, hired a physical therapist to help me fix my messed up posture and joint mobility. I went on a diet and lost the weight. Cut back on the sugar and carbs, increased the protein. I increased the quality of my food. Workouts are typically about 50 minutes of lifting weights, 15 minutes stretching, some posture or body-weight exercises and the rest cardio on a treadmill (usually ramp walking, sometimes running, sometimes rowing). Yes it costs a lot of time and money and effort, but it beats being dead.
Now the only pain I have is occasional slightly sore muscles and joints which invariably feel better within two days. BTW, if you can’t walk 40 minutes per day you are probably doing something wrong, or you are severely out of shape or sick.
This fitness thing turned my life around for the better. If I did it, so can most people if they still have an ounce of resolve and haven’t deteriorated past the point of no return.
Absolutely realistic. You’ve gotta keep moving. If you don’t, you begin to slow down. You get slower and slower. Then you stop. And lie down. And die.
CCRider, that was a great article. Thank you for taking the time to write it and to put in the details. I’m not far off in age from you and, like you, I’ve changed some bad habits into ‘better’ habits with regard to my health.
Part of my reason for changing my daily regimen is a hospital stay this past February. Without a lot of details I had some shortness of breath and was admitted with clots in both lungs. I had surgery in Jan & Feb on both knees for torn meniscus. I did not follow procedures post surgery of wearing the compression socks and a device that is like a blood pressure cuff. Both are supposed to help avoid clots. Well, I got them and I spent 3 days in the hospital and I’m still on a blood thinner. They also found a thoracic aortic aneurysm and now on blood pressure meds too.
Anyway, it was an eye opener for me. I’m currently on a low-carb diet and I’ve lost 15 lbs. and want to loose another 10-15 lbs. I did have Covid last November (a very mild case that was mild, I believe, because I jumped on taking HCQ, Zinc, Vitamin D3 & high doses of Vitamin C). My only symptom was the loss of my taste buds and smell for about 5 days.
Back to the hospital. Guess what they said I had? If you said Covid then BINGO! They put me in a defcon 4 room and treated me with that useless remdesivir. Can you say ‘follow the money’? They got $14,000 when they said I had Covid and $3,000 a pop for 2 nights of that drug.
Anyway, I would be very interested to hear exactly what quantities you put into that morning drink “…I drink a cleanse made up of citrus juices, fresh ginger, honey, cayenne, and Tumeric.”
Thanks again for a great article. And, good health to you!
Blessings, Gary aka Brewer55
Thank you Brew. Sorry about the medical issues but delighted to hear you’re on the mend. We can know for sure we’re being played. There is no-zero- reason to first forbid, now dissuade the use of HCQ and Ivermectin. It’s slam-dunk proof they’re trying to kill us. I’ve come to think of food as delicious medicine and pharmaceuticals as poison.
I take a gallon of spring water with one grapefruit and 4 lemons cut into slices. I cut up a good sized ginger root and simmer it for about 45 minutes, until the pulp is separated from the rines. Once it cools down to lukewarm I add honey and the spices. There’s no magic formula. It’s done to taste.
Thanks!
When someone mentions Ayn Rand, I stop listening. According to that sexually frustrated bitch, bankers and corporate executives are “producers.” Bull fucking shit.
You missed a really good essay and the reference to Ann was merely a starting point to CC’s awakening to the ways of the world and how he has handled the plandemic.
That is the problem with narrative cogitation. Everyone is a narrative index in a herd social credit system. She was a ((())), but some of her ideas were important. Controlled opposition? Smart way to earn a livelihood? The ability to filter information is only getting more and more essential. I hope the dummies are bred out, but too late for me.
Every idea she sold people was someone else’s repackaged. And not in a ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ way.
A. Rosenbaum is indistiguishable from a psyop against Whites. Just another jewish cult leader.
Dr Ryan Cole made the great observation that for Winter months we don’t have a cold and flu season, instead we have a low vitamin D season.
Exactly.
you guys are talking about health drinks,a question regarding a different health drink–
when the covid caca started,i like many of you made a batch of fire cider,except that i forgot to strain & have never touched it–it was never strained but was never opened & has always been refrigerated–
what are the chances that it will be safe to use?
My guess is it is 100% safe. Vinegar is highly acidic. Bacteria will not grow in that environment. Not sure about mould, though.
But highly acid vinegar based products (ie pickles) last unspoiled a very long time. They really do not even need to be refrigerated. But hey, buyer beware! If we do not hear from you, we will know I was wrong.
That was a very thorough article CC, thanks for that. Positive and uplifting, you left no stone unturned. Of all the great things you included I think h2o and vitamin D are the most important. Our bodies are amazing machines capable of all kinds of repair and regeneration. Eliminating stress and good sleep are two more things that make a difference.
When I look at large unhealthy people. People who still trust big Pharma and big government in all manners health related I can’t help but wonder how we as a country fell so far, so fast. I am only 55 and I remember growing up there were no fatties. Or at least so few that on the rare occasion when you saw one you might wonder if the circus was in town. Now here in Az they are everywhere. If you see em in the store they inevitably have a cart full of diet soda, chips, and frozen toaster strudels.
The solution to this countries dis-ease is so simple its laughable. But I guess its as the Bible says ‘they perish because of a lack of knowledge.’ All the things you outlined in your article. eliminate or at least cut down the carbs and sugar/HFCS. Mild exercise, periodic fasting, mindfulness and seeking shelter in the presence of the almighty. If more people lived this way we wouldn’t be an enslaved nation about to be thrown into bondage.
I’m not making fun or anything, but eating less meat is in no way vegan. It’s just more vegetarian than you used be. Nothing wrong with any of that.
“It’s an interesting fact that darker-skinned people metabolize sunshine into D much less efficiently than lighter-skinned people. Over eighty percent of blacks and nearly seventy percent of Hispanics suffer from low levels of D.”
Then they should move back to the tropics where they belong.
“Biden and Harris have sent trainloads of black and Hispanic men into bondage.”
They commit crimes at rates many times that of whites. You can find old FBI data that shows this. That was one of the reasons they started classifying ‘hispanics’ as white.
Back in my bodybuilding days there was one book that was the golden standard, IMHO, for nutritional and exercise information, “Optimum Sports Nutrition” by Dr. Michael Colgan. One chapter in particular, “Strong Immunity” was full of this very same advice and insights you have just provided. Other chapters explained the function of vitamins (the nuts and bolts) and minerals (the framework) of your core bodily biochemistry. Although geared towards competitive athletes, the book is an excellent nutritional resource for anyone.
I managed to keep weight training up into my early 50’s until the joints just could not handle it anymore. But the nutritional aspect I still follow. I don’t get sick.