We miss the dunes that we got used to on the east coast of Scotland some years back. If you could point us some nice dunes this summer that would be great!
We will certainly do.
About Nori-sheets and Hulse sea-greens for iodine intake: I use them very moderate because of the high salt content.
Glad you found out the same possible iodine-pitfall by going 100% Greger.
Leisure/outdoor: DW and I got a subscription for this season on an outdoor swimming pool (50 m) in a village on bike distance. We go there 2 times a week.
My family is going to the same pool once a month. I'd like to try it out when I'm back in the Netherlands this summer.
Swimming as exercise becomes an even better option with age compared to other activities, because it carries such a low risk of injury.
About Nori-sheets and Hulse sea-greens for iodine intake: I use them very moderate because of the high salt content.
Glad you found out the same possible iodine-pitfall by going 100% Greger.
Quite right about the salt content in sea greens. For nori sheets, two of them should be about 6-8g with only 0.1 - 0.15 g salt content.
Separately, when in Spain we got into the habit of eating pineapples which habit we then brought back to Scotland. There's an affordable fruit and veggies outlet on my way to the garden so I get them when I can. Every time I eat a pineapple I'm thinking of yous!
To say we go 100% Greger is generous. We try to but in effect we go probably about 85%. At the least though we go 98% plant based and hit the daily dozen on an estimated average of about 6.8 days a week.
DIY
DW repaired and painted the rear facade (cracks from building works neighbour, repainting the wall, painting window frames and windows). I applied insulation against heat in 6 windows with aluminium bubble foil which I tacked to a small round wooden rod. I made the rod and foil clammed between the window-frame inside the house so wind cannot blow it away. Further insulation with foam boards for the bigger windows. On the outside of the ground-floor windows overlooking the garden I made white painted movable "heat-shields". It works, the outside temperature rose last week to 35C (95 F). Inside to 25C (77 F).
Garden
Our little town-garden needs a lot of trimming of bushes and trees to keep the dimensions right for its plot. The pear trees bare only 3 fruits, the two apple trees are growing over one hundred apples.
The alotment vegetable garden elswhere is doing perfect this year. Beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and plenty of berries.
Legal battle (wall case)
We withdrew our legal claim. Although I suggested myself to see it as a game, it gave me no peace of mind.
Health
My racing heart thing is solved and is now ticking normal again. The iodine suppletion did the trick. I have not to slowdown any more. So I can walk, swim and row without holding back again.
Hi delay, I read elsewhere you have a back-problem. Can you cure it by exercise or change your nutrition?
I could cure my heart-problem with nutrition as follows. (The cardiologist had not such a solution). Your heart rate is regulated by your thyroid gland. It makes a special hormone which influences the heart-rate. The thyroid itself becomes instruction from the hypothalamus via the pituitary gland. The thyroid needs iodine to produce the hormone. My nutrition did not contain iodine, so I started to supplement with iodine drops which you can by in every vitamine-shop. After about two months I was cured.
Perhaps you can find also a not standard way to cure your back?
Hi delay, I read elsewhere you have a back-problem. Can you cure it by exercise or change your nutrition?
Hi J_, thanks for the suggestion! I solved my back problem with a different seat, a stool without back rest. I tried many chairs and can only guess why this one works. Perhaps sitting in this way makes my muscles assist my back.
Maybe my sit/stand desk also helped, or the back strengthening exercises I do. Guitarplayer suggested burpees, which I just tried. I can't jump from plank to squad position, so I'll try to work my way to a full burpee in smaller steps
I haven't heard of any nutrition solutions to lower back pain, and the book I bought on back pain doesn't mention any either.
Lower back pain is one of the issues humanity faces due to walking upright instead of on four legs. Freeing up our arms to do other things with has been very useful, though. Lower back pain is the price we pay for our evolutionary dominance. Maybe that helps
Lower back pain is the price we pay for our evolutionary dominance. Maybe that helps
That's exactly what a neurologist told me last a few months ago.
@J_ I am glad to read your hearth health issue has been resolved again. Our trees are showing the same pattern: lots of apples, but only a few pears and less than a handfull cherries and plums. Not sure if it us, the trees or something else. I haven't looked into it yet.
