The Free Radical

This is just a quick followup to yesterday’s Forest Report, where I relayed my near immobility.

Thanks for your concern, People! And your well-wishing. It’s nearly back to normal now.

This has been typical. Intense pain visits for about a day and a half… and then fades away slowly, mirroring how it gradually came on in the first place. I’m definitely in the fading part now.

And for those who don’t really know me, no, I didn’t go to the doctor’s. As a 48-year-old adult I have only been to the doctor’s twice… and each time I felt the visit was pretty much useless. When issues like these come up, I know how to speed the process along, and also how to effectively manage pain.

Pictured above is kratom– the leaf of a tropical plant from Malaysia. Anyone having difficulty managing pain might want to look into this wonderful plant. I use kratom frequently, mostly for its pleasant euphoric effect. Ingesting a few grams of the powdered leaf is very much like a mild ecstasy trip.

Yesterday, before my walk, I took about ten grams with water, followed by three aspirin. I don’t do aspirin often. I’ve definitely had less than 100 aspirin tablets in my life. The pain was severe and unrelenting however, so I felt justified. It worked like a charm. For the next four hours I felt terrific. Once the analgesics wore off, the shoulder pain had reduced to just a dull but tolerable ache. Yay!

Something else I used large doses of during these last three days were metabolic enzymes. Pain always involves inflammation in the body. Wherever there’s pain, there’s some kind of inflammation. Metabolic enzymes taken on an empty stomach reduce inflammation throughout the body systemically.

And nutritionally, in order to provide my body with the most complete and easily absorbable food I know of, I doubled my daily dose of Ocean’s Alive marine phytoplankton. I also made sure to take my whole-lemon lemonade along with spirulina , chlorella and hemp hearts on each of these three days.

When something comes along, I ramp up the nutrition and cleansing at the very first signs. Often it results in an acute crisis lasting a day to a day and a half… and then it quickly fades. Preventative medicine is, so far, the only kind for me.