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Hehe!Disclaimer: Always consult your grocer before changing your fruit preparation methods.
Haha! I should get working on that. It'll be riveting!Perhaps this could be explored in a new documentary: "Spoons over knives"!
Thank you very much, Sheila. I feel I'm in good company. I see lots of determination around here. :)Hello Jennifer
Thank you for continuing to detail your findings and progress, all credit to you, very well done. I really marvel at your determination and fortitude.
I would like to ask your opinion about cooked broccoli and its effect on filtration. You noted that it reduced sedimentation but increased pee frequency. Whereas foods that 'agree' with you increase sedimentation with urination, and urination IIRC becomes less frequent, but more appropriate so to speak.
Please see my last comment. :)Presuming I have understood you correctly, do you think the anti-metabolic effect (my words) of a food (like broccoli) that does not agree with you (currently) occurs more at the intestines or at the kidneys?
I can see the kidneys increasing the frequency of urination in an attempt to dump toxins, sure. How exactly an inflammatory response generated from toxins in the blood directly affects the kidneys, I'm not sure. It's a stress response so could it be signaling to the adrenals to release adrenaline, turning nerve response off and on, controlling the kidneys' speed and volume of elimination? That may be far too simplistic. I'll have to think about this some more and do some reading. It's probably best to ask Travis. Haha!I have noted that foods that do not agree with people can a) cause fluid retention b) frequent but minimal urination or a combination. An irritated bowel seems to cause (more often) more frequent, but minimal urination so in some ways a body's reaction to these foods could be thought of as anti-diuretic. My understanding of bowel irritation to increased urination causation has tended to centre around maldigested/toxic/toxins from the bowel getting into the blood stream and the inflammatory response generated affecting kidney function and ultimately urination frequency and quantity.
I agree that the kidneys are very sensitive to toxins/acids, particularly when they're weak and their buffering system is compromised.Dr Peat has said that the kidneys are very sensitive to bacterial toxins and as such I suspect that many people have some form of low grade chronic kidney dysfunction that stems, ultimately from a toxic bowel. It is not surprising perhaps that kidney disease is sky rocketing. Another correlation that I see often re. urinary frequency/bedwetting/kidney sensitivity/disease is a past history of severe or recurrent tonsillitis. I am presuming there was some lasting damage at the kidney level from these bacteria, or that they were not ever fully cleared. Maybe it is just the cohort that I have seen.
To me, it starts with digestion, then absorption, then utilization and then elimination. If digestion is off, the other three are thrown off, too. The kidneys are part of the systems of elimination so I agree that improving gut function will have a positive effect on the kidneys.I have made any sense to you at all, what is your perspective/understanding here please? I do understand that I have left out a whole slew of mineral relationships/acid:alkalinity/adrenal function and other factors but have found in the past that improving the competence of gut function (and, presumably reducing toxin ingress to the bloodstream) has usually a positive effect on kidney function from there on too. I look forward to your thoughts if you have the time and inclination to do so.
Hi Blossom, I eat it cooked. There's something about its texture when raw that I don't like. I tried making noodles out of it on numerous occasions and using different techniques to soften them like soaking them in lemon juice or freezing them (to rupture the cell walls), but they always kept a crunchy texture and continued to release juice, making the sauce I dressed them with watery.Hi Jennifer, I was curious if you cook zucchini or eat it raw?
I love zucchini but I couldn't imagine it raw. I'm growing some in my garden this year. If you were my neighbor I'd have you over for for zucchini!Hi Blossom, I eat it cooked. There's something about its texture when raw that I don't like. I tried making noodles out of it on numerous occasions and using different techniques to soften them like soaking them in lemon juice or freezing them (to rupture the cell walls), but they always kept a crunchy texture and continued to release juice, making the sauce I dressed them with watery.
I'm not sure. My husband bought the seeds. I'll see if I can find out though.Haha! Thanks, @Blossom! I'd bring an Edible Arrangement.
What variety are you growing? I'm planning on growing one of the Italian varieties after I move. They're supposedly very flavorful. I've seen some described as having a nutty flavor.
I don't know what Indiana climate's like, but my experience with growing zucchini is that it's been worth growing one or two more plants than I think I need, because nearly every season I've grown them, at least one has failed or been blown over by wind (big leaves, vulnerable stalk at base) before fruiting much. The ones I've had don't tolerate frost, and they slow right down when it gets cold. Worth growing - satisfying to pick them fresh every day. :)Summer squash is fussy in terms of soil and air temperature and I recall the advice to wait until temps reach a minimum of 70° when direct-seeding.
Thanks @tara! I hope there isn't frost until late October or early November.I don't know what Indiana climate's like, but my experience with growing zucchini is that it's been worth growing one or two more plants than I think I need, because nearly every season I've grown them, at least one has failed or been blown over by wind (big leaves, vulnerable stalk at base) before fruiting much. The ones I've had don't tolerate frost, and they slow right down when it gets cold. Worth growing - satisfying to pick them fresh every day. :)