Quotecolindo I have found with my blood pressure machine that the first sample can be all over the place and I discount it, so I take 4 readings and average of the last three. I sit upright in a chair, breath in for the count of 5 through my nose then breath out for the count of 5. This gives me more even readings. Thanks for this tip colindo. I will take mine that way from now onj. And Elizby PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Glad to hear this, Carey. Thank you!by PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
I usually take 3 readings in a row over about 2 minutes, using a battery operated auto-inflating type, not manual where you squeeze the pump thing. I am surprised by the variance... and also that it is not getting consistently lower as I sit and settle and come to rest. Is this variance standard? 117/79 129/64 95/68 It also flagged me as arrhythmic on the first, but NSR on the 2 afterby PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
I would take a zinc ionophore with the zinc, to transport the zinc ions into your cells where they actually may have anti-viral effect (purportedly do). My understanding is that taking zinc without a zinc ionophore does not have much effect because zinc remains in blood until eliminated. Examples of zinc ionophores are: quercetin, hydroxychloroquine, EGCG. I plan to use the quercetin with zinc ifby PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
QuoteElizabeth jackie: Do you eat any fruit? Your food data says pears and cherries are high in fructose, i eat a lot of cherries when they come in season, i raise my own corn and when it is in season, i eat a few cobs everyday, i stagger the plantings and eat corn for more than a month. i am about a year older than you are Jackie, now if fruit is so bad, how did i make it to this age? Therby PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Thank you Jackie! I have ordered some and will start slow and low. Did not order the brand with the packets that you are using. I ordered this one - Liposomal Vitamin C from Sunflowers (with no China ingredients and no soy): I am curious to start this.by PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey Conspiracy alert: Except one other thing, those placebos are constructed to cause sickness, not a benign saline solution as you believe. Conspiracy alert is right. Produce a reliable citation to support that claim or I'm calling BS. Citation for claim that the Covid vaccine placebos are not always just saline and are sometimes designed to make you feel crappy: "by PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Thank you George! That's all quite helpful (as always! ). I will check out the links to the other discussions on our site. I think for now I will stick with my low-tech tools of fingertips on radial pulse, stethoscope, and fingertip pulse oximeter. "Stone knives and bearskins" as Bones on Star Trek would say when he was asked to doctor in some primitive society.by PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
An afib person on another group bought this this $39 smart watch, compatible with i-Phone 5, and says "works marvelous, does everything an i-watch 5 does and more for way less $." I am so clueless about wireless technology because I own none by choice. 1. does it look like this watch would be useful for identifying afib? for distinguishing one type of arrhythmia from another?by PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie, does the Lipo C remain in circulation longer than regular Vit C? Or is excess also peed out in first few hours like regular C, thereby requiring more than one dose a day to keep a level up?by PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
Wow! I'm glad I insisted on getting BOTH Vitamin D tests done instead of just settling for the single one my GP ordered (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D), which measures the active form of D in the body at that moment but gives no indication as to the body's stores of Vitamin D. I went to my functional medicine doctor for the other test (25-hydroxyvitamin D) that evaluates stores to determine dby PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Cool! Thank you!by PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Thanks George!by PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Thanks George. Yes, I remember now - you buy melatonin powder in quantity.by PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
George, which of those two books is more useful for person who wants to get started on this? Would the handbook with the protocol be better than the first book that lays out the theory?by PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
What form do you melatonin users take your melatonin in? I am looking at BioAlternatives as the cleanest source - no additives at all. Just alcohol and purified water. And the eyedropper allows me to dispense very low dose (which i would want, since higher doses agitate me). But will the alcohol denature the melatonin? Or is that ok?by PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
It's a crazy question. But I was just reading about the ReliefBand for controlling nausea (people on a group I am on say it really works for that). And the description of how it works made me wonder if it could help control vagal afib: "Reliefband® is worn on the wrist, with the band holding the device to the underside of the wrist. When it’s turned on, it releases a specific patternby PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotecolindo I have used both and didn't find any difference. I used local unfrozen natto for the first 6 months then changed to frozen because it was more convenient to get and have used it for the last 2 years. Dean has used frozen natto for 14 years and has been free of Afib for that long. I'm glad to hear that!by PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
I have been looking into whether the frozen natto from Japan,which is all that is available to us in supermarkets actually has any live bacterial culture. And all I am finding is that it does not. So I am,at this point, not sure whether frozen natto will deliver what we are looking for and expecting in terms of both the nattokinase and the K2. The solution seems to be to either find a personby PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotecolindo I suggest you have read of this post, it's long but very informative. The last post by Jackie in particular. Wow that is very interesting and helpful post and comment thread, colindo. thanks for sharing. It's from 3 years ago and I was not member here then. so i definitely missed that one.by PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotecolindo This may answer your question. Thanks colindo. That's interesting. It says: "while calcidiol (25-hydroxyvitamin D3) has a half-life of about 15 days." So I take that to mean I would have to halt supplement for long time, more than 15 days, to clear the effects of the supplement from my body before testing for my body's current 'natural' stores of Vitby PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Related question: If I start supplementing now with Vitamin D (since so many people seem to think that it's important for Afib protection, Covid protection, osteoporosis protection), and then later am able to take the correct Vitamin D test (25-Hydroxyvitamin D)... How long in advance of test do I need to halt Vitamin D to get accurate blood level rather than level that reflects the supplemeby PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Today I asked my doctor for Vitamin D test because I am not supplementing but would like to start, and would like to get a baseline first. It turns out she ordered 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D instead of 25-hydroxyvitamin D. From what I am reading, this is the wrong test and is useless for assessing Vitamin D stores and deficiency/toxicity. Only 25-hydroxyvitamin D can do that. Is that correct? Shouldby PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Quotehwkmn05 My wife and I just finished our preventive Ivermectin 2 doses after a discussion with our ND doctor. She had treated a patient with covid, 72, with comorbidities, stage 3 cancer survivor who did not want the vaccine. 2 days of Iver and Doxy , then 3 days of Regeneron. Symptoms reduced greatly on day 2 and completely gone day 5. His wife then caught it and taking only Iver , symptomsby PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Wonderful! Good work! Thank you.by PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
Every time I post a comment on any post, a message comes up telling me "The information you have sent over this page will be sent over an insecure connection and could be read by a third party. Are you sure you want to send this information?" Then I have to click 'continue' to actually post it. Seems kind of like an unnecessary encumbrance but perhaps mandatory aspectby PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thank you very much for this explanation and the article link, PC! I somehow missed it when you first posted. Just seeing this now.by PoetKim - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Quotecolindo I take two capsule of nattokinase, one first thing in the morning and one last thing at night. I use this brand Which you can get from iherb. I have one of the frozen packs of Natto every 2nd day for breakfast and take one 5000IU of vitamin D every 2nd non natto day. I had a vitamin D test and the results indicated I was almost deficient, I started taking 10000IU a day but fouby PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey I'm not sure about Canadian doctors but American doctors generally follow ACC guidelines, and those guidelines were updated in 2019 to reflect what you're saying. A CHADS 1 patient (up to 2 if female) won't generally be placed on anticoagulants unless they've recently undergone a procedure or there are other reasons specific to the patient. Thank Carey. Canada dby PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM
I couldn't log in with my bookmarked link to this site this morning. And I couldn't log in with just "afibbers(dot)org" in search engine. In both cases I got connection error message that firefox doesn't like security certificate. It did not give me option to go forward anyway. I had no way in. HOWEVER... when I then googled "afibbers forum", i was able to cby PoetKim - AFIBBERS FORUM