Lungs......dry vs humid environment question

[gjmalcyon]

Most of my life, including the last 15 years.

I was born in Boulder.

I'm looking at a big picture of the Flatirons that my dad took with his Rolleiflex in the winter of '58 or '59. It hung in his offices during his career and when he retired I scarfed it up for my offices.

Every time we go out for family events, it is tougher to come back east.

 

[Midnight Toker]

FDA can bite my rear, their constant failures are legendary.

You're putting saline in the Neti, it's pretty antiseptic.

We've never done anything but a simple rinse when done. Wife swears by it, uses it a lot. Neither one of us has been sick in eons. No health insurance and I could give a rip. Not really into doctors or western medicine. Like Carlin said "They only know how to do two things, give you a pill or remove part of your anatomy".

And Carlin still dropped dead at 71.

I wouldn't ever say "western medicine" is bad. Moreso American medicine, which is all profit/pharma/quick fix driven. Go to a doctor in Germany or France w/ a circulatory condition, you'll be prescribed a diet and exercise regimine, not a pill. First, you may even be sent to a sanitarium for a few weeks to get you on the right track. Their medicine is more holistic based. Natural remedies are still considered real medicines there. In the US, if it's not some chemical made in a lab, it can't be designated a "real medicine" (even though it's worked for over 1000 years) and is automatically labeled as a "dietary supplement". I regularly order holistic medicines from Europe online for my mother. When you read the label of the product IN Germany, it says what it is for and what it does. That exact same product's label for America says nothing more than "dietary supplement". It's beyond maddening. It all comes down to one thing. $$$$ The governing board members of the FDA are typically ex CEO's of pharmaceutical companies. Business majors!! They are the last people I want regulating medicines.

 

[Guildedagain]

I went to my doc - when I had one - eons ago, he says "you got high blood pressure" - I weighed 30lbs more then than I do now - and I'll have to get you started on a pill. I said "Is there another way I can fix it?", he said "lose weight and cut salt". That's what I did and I've never taken a pill for it ever.

That guy was quite the doc, this is at a CHAS, Comm Health Association. I had a thing on the back of my calf just below the knee bugged me, thought it might be malignant. I said "Art, what do you think of this?" He reaches for a scalpel, cuts it off, and sent it to a lab. Really impressed me, a real doctor. It wasn't malignant.

 

[spoox]

Ah, Neti pot. So when I lived in Redondo Beach in the '60s I would body surf from May through November (no body suit) and each night when I would read salt water would drip out of my nose. Even with the 2nd. hand smoke from my mother I never had sinus problems. In the early 2000s living in North San Diego County I developed an allergy from the pollen from our pine trees and my doctor prescribed steroid sprays and antihistamines to deal with the severe sinus headaches I would get. When our insurance changed my new doctor upon hearing my history suggested a neti pot when I told her about the body surfing that I had stopped around the time the allergies started. That has done the trick--whenever I feel any congestion or sinus pressure I flush once or twice with that little torture teapot and problem goes away.
Back in 1962 we visited Boot Hill in Tombstone and I saw the majority of grave markers stated: DIED OF CONSUMPTION.
I asked my dad what was "consumption". He said that was the old term for TB, and that it was common for tuberculosis sufferers to travel to dry climates like AZ to mitigate their condition.