Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system

[freshwest]

28. When I transitioned to mostly raw, vegan some years ago, I fasted twice a week. No hunger at all.

It took me two years to get there and I never felt better. Yes, I know that's radical, but then just plain vegetarian or lacto vegetarians is radical to some, I don't judge anyone. Eating is more than sustenance.

But a series of events got me to what for me is the S.A.D. (standard american diet) and it's been downhill ever since. Sadly, I had no real life support for it and a lot going against it, and I felt like an outlaw, LOL.

Another link there discussed excess animal proteins and immune issues, and while my vegan routine had drawbacks, they were exceeded by the benefits. I am using a lot of dairy and it doesn't agree with me. I don't preach to anyone, everyone is different, everyone is somone else's cra-cra.

But that piece has inspired me to return to whatever is as close to where I was a few years ago.

Also saw articles about the work of Fulbright scholars. Yes, the demise of the program has been greatly exaggerated, they haven't even lost funding, just shifted to different directions.

There were senior housing solutions and many other things, even an analysis of the ACA and Canadian systems:

Obamacare explained by USC Price professor

“One thing Canadians think distinguishes them in a favorable manner from the U.S. is that they can offer everybody what they think is an inalienable right,” Greenwald said of health insurance. “It’s a very big cultural distinction for them between the two countries.

The focus of his speeches was to set up two possible outcomes for health care in the United States following the implementation of the ACA. One possibility is that reform will lead to the sustainability of the current private sector system by ensuring access, improving the quality of care and controlling costs or the expansion of coverage will lead to a system so expensive that it will be necessary to change to a model more like Canada where it’s entirely publicly funded.

“This is either the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end,” Greenwald said. “We’ve started on a sustainable path or we’ve crossed the Rubicon to where expanding coverage and increasing expenditures will lead to major reforms that depart from the current system.”

http://news.usc.edu/62111/obamacare-as-explained-by-usc-price-professor/

Thanks again for the inspiration.