Aside from having a passion for the environment, I am a stickler for my health. Yes, though I smoke, the day is coming where I will no longer be “the dreaded smoker,” and that should boost my individual health.
By the time, I was twenty-five I started to notice the wear and tear on myself. I knew that too much fast food, sodas, smoking, lack of vitamin D, and much more “lack of” or “too much of,” was going to cause me problems.
I took to my mother’s advice and started a vitamin regiment – at twenty-nine. Yup, I had not been following the advice given here on this blog about REALLY paying attention to the whole picture till twenty-nine, the time this blog started.
So, what does it mean to have environmental awareness and health conscious attitude?
First, for me, I hate going to the doctor’s office. It has been my experience that doctors are in a hurry and I am just another insurance carrier to be charged.
Though I have followed the advice of “find a doctor that will listen,” it always ends up the same.
Strictly an opinion here, doctors still only practice medicine. Doctors only know what is happening with me if I tell them or have my journal. Doctors weed through the possibilities till the health issue presents itself. (Hence, this why I have adopted more of the environmental awareness and health conscious attitude for myself and share it.)
At twenty-nine years old, for three days, I lost the ability to walk. Whatever this “it” thing was, it had been building up to those three days of no walking. Your life is put into a whole new awareness, and I am happy it was not due to heart attack.
I did what any normal person would do, hopped to the doctor’s office, and got my referral to a specialist and…[drum roll]…they found nothing wrong with me.
That’s not the half of it – this has been an ongoing issue from childhood.
I had known from childhood that if I was standing, walking or sitting for too long, the lower part of my back and legs would “freeze.” The worst part would be either trying to get to sleep or being extremely sore the following day.
So, after the run on the doctor’s office, lots of appointments and co-payments, I told my mother (finally) what was going on and how I was feeling. The back exercises I had been doing and finally the inability to walk.
She kindly let me know about CO-Q10 and fish oil, that those two vitamins should do the trick.
Well, not only did the Co-Q10 and fish oil work, I had started kicking myself in the butt about not listening. If I had listened, I would have avoided the inability to walk. Not only that, all of the money burned up from the doctor appointments would have easily covered the cost of the vitamins.
We all know lessons in life are sometimes costly, but when our health is directly related to the environment AND you begin to realize it – more and more – you have a tendency to want to dig for more information.
Self-education through the little observation we complete on ourselves does go a long way in maintaining excellent health.
What is Co-Q10 (otherwise known as Coenzyme Q10)?
“…is a vitaminlike substance found in all parts of the body, the action of which resembles that of vitamin E. It may be an even more powerful antioxidant. …Co-Q10 is found in the human tissue.”
The fact that it is found in human tissue means that it helps with “and aids in circulation, stimulates the immune system, increases tissue oxygenation, and has vital antiaging effects.”
Our body is organic and relies on nutrition. Yeah, we all get that and we have all heard it before, but there is more truth behind it than you realize.
Our own body produces this coenzyme – naturally. Our body is suppose to produce a lot of vitamins naturally, to maintain health.
Why take Co-Q10 with fish oil?
“…is oil soluble and is best absorbed when taken with oily or fatty foods, such as fish.”
The body has to absorb the vitamins we put into it – especially since it aids the body in mobility.
Where can you find Co-Q10, naturally?
If you are like me, you know that vitamins are expensive. While we all live in the penny pinching mode now, strapped for cash anyway, and your legs do not work, you find the alternative.
Best source for Co-Q10:
“Mackerel, salmon, and sardines contain the largest amounts of coenzyme Q10 (Co-Q10). It is also found in beef, peanuts, and spinach.”
The hiccup of getting to the Co-Q10
The reports are finally out about the mercury in all fish. This was just reported the other day, and sure enough, if it is already found in nature – away from polluting sources – then you can bet mercury is in larger amounts in the atmosphere. (This would explain why some species of frogs (thought to been extinct) are back but poisonous now.)
For my own personal use of getting Co-Q10, I have two resources.
First: I visit the vegan website called The Vegan Store to obtain the vitamin. The vitamin actually is a “dark bright yellow…and a bit powdered.” Then I take it with the fish oil that has the Omega-3.
Second: If funds are running low or I just plain forget to order, I get some spinach and make up a good salad. I find that when I make my own salad and use my own homemade dressing, I feel so much better.
The time frame to getting the Co-Q10 in my system is about a solid week of one salad a day.
Third: Over the last year, my Wonderful and I have gone to a vegan/vegetarian lifestyle. It has taken a year, and the results are amazing. (Caution though, when you start to learn more about the environment, you begin to realize that even adopting a vegetarian lifestyle still has a downside. That is a story for a different entry though.)
Summary
Having the ability to be environmental aware or eco-friendly is great. Using tips to save energy, recycling, limiting the carbon footprint all count. However, when you apply what most of us are doing for a Greener Life, it begins to lead to other questions.
This is where self-education plays a bigger part for being environmental aware and health conscious. By adopting self-education, taking the time out to figure things out, and paying attention to your own organic body, will lead to healthy results for yourself.
Everything is connected to the environment.
What we put into it, is what we will get out of it.
In other words, if we poop where we lay, we will get poop back.
Manure Picture, From Public Domain Pictures.net
Source:
Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition, Avery, p. 28-29
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