My pal went to an alt med practitioner after years off having IBS type stomach problems. She jumped through all the hoops, did all the tests and never had an answer. She also had five first trimenter miscarriges and no live births.
So she goes to this alt med guy, pays about $500 for visit and tests and he tells her she has a gluten-casien allergy. I thought what utter bullshit-I am a biochemist- but I didn't want to argue with her as what else was she supposed to do? So she stops eating gluten and cow milk.
And all her stomach problems went away. Then she would eat some, and they'd some back. That was about 2 years ago and symptoms still turn on and off just by avoiding the gluten and casien.
She also carried her first baby to term.
Maybe it is just luck, but given that first trimester miscarriges and food allergies are immune system issues, makes you wonder.
So about a month back my gall bladder, stomach, and duedenum were all torn up again-I have been checked for stones four times, so I though what the hell. I committed to a seven day gluten free diet. By day three the stomach inflammation and dueodenal pain was gone, and the gall bladder was done to the occasional sputter. Now if I eat Gluten, the inflammation will come back for the next day or so, then go away agin. It is hard to resist as I LOVE bread but I am enough Pavlov's dog that the bread is starting to look less yummy.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
tyrant
Baby is a tyrant
we walked at about 9.5 months. Still nursing at 14 months. He is a loud demanding little fellow, growls and bites, and only cuddles when sleepy. He thinks I am pretty weak and not a particularly good parent, but will have to do...
Alas, I think he will have high standards once he is grown.
He is more organized and structured than my first son ever was. He is doubtful of strangers, ske[ptical of strange things, and will sit and ponder for several minutes at a time. He loves to put lids back on containers. All things must have lids. He takes them off and puts them on.
This morning he pulled out the gallon of milk, took off the lid and dumped it all over the floor.
His face is so expressive. You can see his skepticism in all the tiny, minute movements of his eyes and a touch of pursed lips. Already at 15 months he gets pissed , with spells of indignant fury. How dare you deny him the wire wisk? How could you keep HIM out of the pantry? He cries a few pissed screams, throws his spoon on the floor, and stomps off to the livingroom. God forbid I try and hug or kiss, or even talk to him. Talk about cold glares.
I have to try not to laugh as it is freaking hysterical. He says Mama, dada, papa, eeth (ethan), puppy, and meows at the cats. He likes to hug and kiss all the pets and his brother but then tries to whack them with whatever cooking utensil he happens to be holding. We are also a fan of dropping food after mama told us not to just to see what mama will do.
On another note my older son told me I drop the F-bomb so often I could have completely destroyed america by now.
we walked at about 9.5 months. Still nursing at 14 months. He is a loud demanding little fellow, growls and bites, and only cuddles when sleepy. He thinks I am pretty weak and not a particularly good parent, but will have to do...
Alas, I think he will have high standards once he is grown.
He is more organized and structured than my first son ever was. He is doubtful of strangers, ske[ptical of strange things, and will sit and ponder for several minutes at a time. He loves to put lids back on containers. All things must have lids. He takes them off and puts them on.
This morning he pulled out the gallon of milk, took off the lid and dumped it all over the floor.
His face is so expressive. You can see his skepticism in all the tiny, minute movements of his eyes and a touch of pursed lips. Already at 15 months he gets pissed , with spells of indignant fury. How dare you deny him the wire wisk? How could you keep HIM out of the pantry? He cries a few pissed screams, throws his spoon on the floor, and stomps off to the livingroom. God forbid I try and hug or kiss, or even talk to him. Talk about cold glares.
I have to try not to laugh as it is freaking hysterical. He says Mama, dada, papa, eeth (ethan), puppy, and meows at the cats. He likes to hug and kiss all the pets and his brother but then tries to whack them with whatever cooking utensil he happens to be holding. We are also a fan of dropping food after mama told us not to just to see what mama will do.
On another note my older son told me I drop the F-bomb so often I could have completely destroyed america by now.
what's wrong with society?
Perhaps, turning our country into the nanny state it has become is necessary to save the millions of consumers who are genetically inclined not to care about anyone but themselves. Perhaps we are fighting natural selection by supporting a genetic trait whos weakness requires the support of others to survive. Instead of only the fittest surviving, we are encouraging the consumer traits to thrive with our craddle to grave support. Perhaps we have to. For the sake of compassion. Funding consumers at every turn to survive in a capitalistic land built by producers. Perhaps we don't have a choice. As a compassionate society. If someone is born into producer or consumer status, perhaps we should stop trying so hard to bring turn them into something they are not and accept that they are genetic consumers and we must take care of them for the sake of compassion and fighting the forces of Darwin.
Hi Happy,
I noticed this old post and thought I'd comment up here so it didn;t get lost. What you are seeing is reflected very clearly in MBTI personality types. 40% are SJ, those are your producers, 40% are SP, those are your natural born party gone wild consumers, 10% are NTs-you and all you dr buds, scientists in general, and 10% are NFs-the tree huggers, priests, artists and such.
so what happens is the SJs are engaged in an never ending battle to keep the SPs in line and be a contributing part of society and all the Ns just get stuck in the middle. Just ignore the Ns.
SPs live in the moment, are spontaneous, have very poor long term planning skills and are very impulsive. Coprorate america exploits this on every turn. Marketers love the SPs because they are EASY. They miss all the fine print, the interest rate increases, the late fees, the overdraft fees, the strings attached to any offer. They buy whatever pops into thier dumb little brains as soon as they see it and are the target of the vast majoirty of media communications.
Impulsivity appears to have a strong biological corrolate and when you combine that with someone who is very in touch with sensory information, its a party.
Is it wrong to exploit the biological imperfrections of the stupid SPs? In the past religion and societal pressure kept the guys more in line. Peer pressure can work really well on these guys. But nowdays we speak out of both sides of our mouths. "be a responsbile, contributing member of society" and "dont you want to buy this really cool thing?" which makes our 401Ks grow bigger as the corporate stocks rise due to thier consumerism. We kinda set them up for failure honestly.
I favor graduated adulthood where they have to earn rights to consume, and some level of protection for then from folks who financially prey on them. Did you know in greece no TV commercials are allowed that market to children?
Hi Happy,
I noticed this old post and thought I'd comment up here so it didn;t get lost. What you are seeing is reflected very clearly in MBTI personality types. 40% are SJ, those are your producers, 40% are SP, those are your natural born party gone wild consumers, 10% are NTs-you and all you dr buds, scientists in general, and 10% are NFs-the tree huggers, priests, artists and such.
so what happens is the SJs are engaged in an never ending battle to keep the SPs in line and be a contributing part of society and all the Ns just get stuck in the middle. Just ignore the Ns.
SPs live in the moment, are spontaneous, have very poor long term planning skills and are very impulsive. Coprorate america exploits this on every turn. Marketers love the SPs because they are EASY. They miss all the fine print, the interest rate increases, the late fees, the overdraft fees, the strings attached to any offer. They buy whatever pops into thier dumb little brains as soon as they see it and are the target of the vast majoirty of media communications.
Impulsivity appears to have a strong biological corrolate and when you combine that with someone who is very in touch with sensory information, its a party.
Is it wrong to exploit the biological imperfrections of the stupid SPs? In the past religion and societal pressure kept the guys more in line. Peer pressure can work really well on these guys. But nowdays we speak out of both sides of our mouths. "be a responsbile, contributing member of society" and "dont you want to buy this really cool thing?" which makes our 401Ks grow bigger as the corporate stocks rise due to thier consumerism. We kinda set them up for failure honestly.
I favor graduated adulthood where they have to earn rights to consume, and some level of protection for then from folks who financially prey on them. Did you know in greece no TV commercials are allowed that market to children?
empathy
Empahty is technically sesning the emotions of others. We understand how they feel. Biologically? It is the feeling of emotional pain when we wee a fellow human in pain or discomfort, physical, mental or emotional. What does this look like biological? What set of chemical cascades trickle down? In effect we really are sesning some level of true biological pain by being surrounded by others in pain.
Pain would cause action-ie helping the other so that it does not suffer-the biological, evolutionary basis of empathy as a society depends on having each of us support the other so reciprocally, wehn we need help, the other will support us.
If a true biologically induced sensation, then the empathic person can suffer stress, a biological phenomena, from not being able to alieviate the suffering of the other. High stree can trigger all types of other problems-depression, CFS, fibromyalgia-all thought to be mental but as of late found to have true biological components.
Thus, it follows that highly empathic people are more likely to suffer from stress induced types of illnesses.
Another aspect:
When surrounded by others in pain, to relieve the empathic pain, the empath does something to help the other. If they cannot, not only do they continue to feel the other's pain but also experience guilt at not being able to allieve the other's pain. After years of being surrounded by a society full of suffering the empath is weighed doen by loads of guilt and remorse that don't really have a specific origin. They seek forgiveness for this lack of ability to do anything via religion, self-injury, or sado-masochisitic relationships where they give conrtol to another. That person/god then can "punish" them for their inability to act in the past and then "forgive" them.
The empath oddly enough gets a sens of joy and euphoria when helping others. For them charitible work can also be a source of forgiveness and "action" in aleiviating the other's pain thus stopping the internal pain as well.
Empath personality types: SFJ and NFP. The SFJ will be better off as they can fall back on societal norms as the reson they did not help the other or build up walls that redefine how they relate to the other. ie "I will help my neighbor but those people on the east side are just lazy and cause thier own problems". NFPs will experience the full gamut of being an empath as they cannot rationalize away the other's pain.
Pain would cause action-ie helping the other so that it does not suffer-the biological, evolutionary basis of empathy as a society depends on having each of us support the other so reciprocally, wehn we need help, the other will support us.
If a true biologically induced sensation, then the empathic person can suffer stress, a biological phenomena, from not being able to alieviate the suffering of the other. High stree can trigger all types of other problems-depression, CFS, fibromyalgia-all thought to be mental but as of late found to have true biological components.
Thus, it follows that highly empathic people are more likely to suffer from stress induced types of illnesses.
Another aspect:
When surrounded by others in pain, to relieve the empathic pain, the empath does something to help the other. If they cannot, not only do they continue to feel the other's pain but also experience guilt at not being able to allieve the other's pain. After years of being surrounded by a society full of suffering the empath is weighed doen by loads of guilt and remorse that don't really have a specific origin. They seek forgiveness for this lack of ability to do anything via religion, self-injury, or sado-masochisitic relationships where they give conrtol to another. That person/god then can "punish" them for their inability to act in the past and then "forgive" them.
The empath oddly enough gets a sens of joy and euphoria when helping others. For them charitible work can also be a source of forgiveness and "action" in aleiviating the other's pain thus stopping the internal pain as well.
Empath personality types: SFJ and NFP. The SFJ will be better off as they can fall back on societal norms as the reson they did not help the other or build up walls that redefine how they relate to the other. ie "I will help my neighbor but those people on the east side are just lazy and cause thier own problems". NFPs will experience the full gamut of being an empath as they cannot rationalize away the other's pain.
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