Rejuveny

19/08/2022

Besides affording JB to sail his super yacht my Amazon purchases also benefit victims of war. Amazon just informed me that AmazonSmile has made a charitable donation to the charity I selected, Doctors Without Borders, in the amount of $181,014.38 as a result of qualifying purchases made by me and other customers between January 1st-March 31st. Playing the charity game is easy: instead of visiting ‘Amazon.com’ you type in the address, ‘smile.Amazon.com’. Elsewhere on the site you can select the charity of your choice.

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27/03/2020

Maybe you have run out of toilet paper and to you that’s more like the end of the world than running out of Scrabble pieces, but it doesn’t have to be if you learn to squat flat footed, like Asian people, and your great great grandparents and most mammals.
You see, the squat opens up your p**per, you drop your load, and it closes when you get up a second later. No toilet paper needed, just like your dog or cat don’t need it.
Toilet paper is a new invention, just like the modern toilet, which anatomically causes the mess by squeezing p**p through the unopened sphincter, which you are going to spread around with multiple pieces from the roll until you deem it clean enough because your nose can’t reach there—although some people do manage to stick their own head up their ass.
Many Eastern countries, including sophisticated Japan, still have squat toilets, which I consider a healthier and more hygienic option than the half-standing-up Western model rapidly replacing them. My personal solution has long been a $5 plastic stool bought in Chinatown that raises the feet and thereby simulates the squat position on a regular toilet. If that’s TMI, how about I only buy one roll of toilet paper a year just to blow my nose in.

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03/03/2020

Now is the time to take action to boost our health. Again, these are my ideas and may contradict what your health pro tells you. Personally, I don’t have much faith in health "experts." I like common sense, but that can be based on wrong presumptions. Here’s what I’ve been doing and will be doing more of and why: Take long, cold showers - in 1976 or so I began foregoing hot showers. Not only does the heat dry out skin and hair, it’s unnatural, and cold showers boost the immune system; Use Turmeric lavishly on food for its anti-inflammatory qualities - Inflammation is the pathway to ill health; Buy fresh vegetables - "organic" contains more vitamins; Eliminate packaged foods - They’re produced for shop shelves; Buy what your body needs, not what your mind craves; Avoid foods with flour - it falls in the problem category; Avoid dairy - it creates mucous, sticky stuff in the respiratory system; Quit alcohol - it’s poison; Drink plenty; Quit sugar, even fruit - it tasks the pancreas, facilitates diabetes, and rots teeth; Eat less, drink more water; Avoid meat - cut out the middleman and go directly to the source—vegetables, seeds, eggs, fish, nuts, etc. Remember, your immune system is the first line of defense. Be nice to it.

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19/01/2020

I was recently talking with a friend about personal change, something one can do right now that changes a habit forever and is something someone else can do too, like stop being part of the mass-methane -ozone-layer-destroying production that is the meat industry, a voracious killing machine at that.
As an example of personal changes I listed:
* Stopping using "product", like shampoo, conditioner, anything soapy in a plastic bottle (after a scientist Uber passenger elucidated me about the millions of bacteria we carry and destroy with chemicals but actually serve us, but once gone promote dry skin, dandruff, aging, and ill health);
* Stopping buying factory packaged foods as much as possible and trying to have nothing to recycle—which is a sham;
* Eating eat one meal a day, thereby reducing waste, and sometimes nothing for 2 or 3 days, which relieves one of hunger (people are fantastic over-eating machines, expending little energy, thereby failing to burn massive quantities of calories);
* Stopping taking hot showers (I was just in Brooklyn, where the water was icy and loved it);
* Taking cold showers daily. It boosts your immune system, energy levels (check out "Wim Hof");
* Stopping buying deodorant because everybody in my Uber stinks, which included me. Now I use tea tree oil. Healthier and problem gone. I can now wear my shirts for 3-4 days in a row if I want to;
* Squatting flat-footed to read or eat, like an Asian, in hopes of always having great mobility;
* Passing my collected and bagged coins on to homeless people begging by the road;
* Buying bento meals for poor souls at the supermarket entrance.

I thought long about each of my decisions and will explain each one in another post. But, we rarely take interest in each other, because we are vulnerable to criticism. Trump is easier, or bitchin’ about evil corporations, but try to make one change yourself, and you’re faced with great difficulty and we easily give up, and keep being a small cog in Evil’s game. Make every decision one of vision. Be the change you want.
Aloha.

©2020 Rejuveny

08/10/2019

It’s clear by looking at our behavior on Facebook that in spite of the notion of urgency to take action in support of Greta Thunberg's ideas (remember her?) we can't seem to respond other than by reposting funny bits dug up from around the Internet. Our need to be entertained may prove stronger than our sense of self preservation and finding ways for our generation and the next to implement personal changes in behaviors that merely mimic other folks' unconscious behaviors.

Let's not remain victims of the socially induced sleep that has fallen over this world while we thoughtlessly continue the sleepwalk that has brought us to the edge of the abyss. Are we even still having conversations other than about Trump? Is it easier to focus on one idiot than tell each other about little things we all can do to avoid the consumerist mind fog under whose spell we wish we could shop our way out of the mess?

Can we begin by radically refusing to buy "product" packaged in plastic bottles? I promise, it’s an eye opener to start removing them from our cabinets in the kitchen, the bathroom, the hallway, especially the extra ones picked up as "great savings" and put away, the extra mouthwash because they're packaged as pairs, even triplets. I raise my hand. Guilty.
Ultimately you and I are the ones who make it happen.
And Greta.

Be like Greta.

© 2019 Rejuveny

28/09/2019

Did you stop polluting today? Did you stop filling your trash can? Did you stop buying things packaged in plastic? Did you stop eating meat and dairy, which is part of a global pollution machine of enormous proportion? Did you stop eating fish? Did you stop using and buying products that are shipped from halfway around the world? Can we even stop? It’s not about reducing all that stuff. We cannot kill the environment a little less if it means we’re still killing it. Greta is great, but we are not the solution to the climate crisis. We’re the cause. You and I and everyone. The hippies were right and tried. Tune in and drop out.

(C) 2019 Rejuveny

26/09/2019

The Endgame
The writer knows that every story ending has a beginning and a period in between. The end is the logical conclusion of what comes before. Sometimes the conclusion is not revealed until the very end. We can call that a surprise ending because we didn’t see it coming. Most endings are predictable once we know the facts of the story. In that case we merely follow the characters to the logical conclusion. Maybe a happy ending, maybe not. It doesn’t matter, the end comes no matter what.

So, now the world’s coming to an end, they say. Did anyone not see it coming? Come on, we actively participated in its demise, even if we thought we were "saving," or "helping" the planet by recycling all the products we never thought of not buying because many of them served only a limited purpose and likely none at all. We thoughtlessly accepted the "solutions" corporations presented us with, enriching them with every personal "need" they fulfilled through design, marketing, and research for their own benefit. And today we continue.

Don’t feel bad. The planet needs no saving, nor our help. It will do fine without us, so let’s stop repeating those silly phrases that only show our ignorance of how nature works.

Nature destroys and regenerates, collapses and thrives, mindlessly, indiscriminately, relentlessly, massively, and beautifully. We’ll be here to see it happen until along with the 200 species that face extinction every day we too will be no more.

In the meantime, we have a choice to either continue our stupidities or change. Change is hard. We’ve all struggled with change, mostly with changing ourselves. Frankly, I’ve not seen anyone I know succeed. If it was that easy everything would be alright.

Well, how about giving it our best by beginning with ourselves? The end will come and by then it doesn’t matter if you look good in the mirror. It’s about that period in between. That’s when we can fulfill our dreams, realize our ideas, prove to ourselves and each other it can be done. It’s not about hope and putting it off until tomorrow, but about beginning the process of changing yourself today. The world is not our "experiment." We are the experiment. You and I. Today, let’s look inside and see the inner mess we’ve created and begin by fixing it, fixing our thoughts, our habits, our choices, our likes and dislikes, and the traps we walked into eyes wide open.

Greta Thunberg gets it. It’s not about "the world," or "the planet," but about us and the way we treat ourselves, not as part of the problem, but as the solution to the problems. We are not different from her. Each one of us can create change.

If you are fat, skinny, poor, or depressed by today’s news, it’s no one’s fault, but between being born and dying there’s a period in between everything depends on your choices. As individuals we have limited control over changes outside of us, but unlimited control over changes within. Make one change for yourself today and it will reverberate if you can inspire others to make their own changes. Call it a sacrifice if you have to let go off bad habits, it will empower others, maybe empower a child. The only reason children have lost respect for us is because we lost respect for ourselves and let things get out of hand; our weight; our health; our garden; our neighborhood; our planet. Let’s show change is possible by stopping doing things that are bad, and expose how uncaring we are toward ourselves, and by extension toward those we love, and yes, the world.
One change, today, possibly to immeasurable positive, inspirational effect. You know you’ve been wanting to.

Rudolf Helder

©2019 Rejuveny

09/05/2019

Don’t Sigh With Relief When Your Doctor Says, "That’s Normal For Your Age."
Have you looked around you and noticed that most folks your age look terrible? That the hospitals are filled with people your age? If you are "normal" within your age group maybe you look fine according to you and your doctor, but you may be heading for the hospital, because that’s "normal" for your age too.

Recently, 3 of my friends in my age group, one after the other, were diagnosed with heart problems, severe enough for one to have open heart surgery, for another to be scheduled for it, and my third friend heading in and out of ER multiple times in the course of a few weeks. Each one was convinced he/she is living a healthy lifestyle, you know, with low-fat ice cream in the fridge, and doing their shopping at Whole Foods. They are label-aware, avoiding to buy products that contained GMO's and high-fructose corn syrup, and feel a bit cheated on by fate, because how could this happen when they were living "normal" for their age group of well educated, conscious consumers? They’d bought into the food pyramid, ate "healthy" snacks, quinoa, whole grain, low-carb, gluten-free, organic everything, reduced fat, less-sugar, sodium free, heart-healthy..., well..., eh..., industrial, packaged, designed for long shelf life, smartly-marketed, crap that spiked their insulin, stored carbs in their fat cells, overloaded their liver, pancreas, thyroid, kidney, and heart.

In other words, they’d been busy killing themselves, albeit slowly and pleasantly, and I realized that I was maybe not far behind when my optometrist told me I suffered the beginning of cataracts, and added as to placate me, "But that's normal for your age group."

Crap! I too, with my 50 year long vegetarian lifestyle, being label aware, avoiding gluten, GMO's, etc., was not far behind. The only difference was maybe that I never bought into the low-fat craze because my theory was that as humans we had since the dawn of times craved fats and hunted the fattest animals and not the skinniest, eaten their fats, and excelled on it until the 20th century put a stop to it. We weren’t hunting for sugars, but that became our staple with the introduction of grains into our diet some 10-20,000 years ago.
And we're all paying the price with diet-related organ failures, morbid obesity, sugar-fueled cancer, clogged arteries, and high blood pressure.

So, there's nothing more alarming than hearing your condition is "normal for your age group."

Be well.

(c) 2019 Rejuveny

08/05/2019

Hello Fat, where have you been all my life (except around my waist)?

I’ve been a vegetarian for 50 years and still got obese, according to the numbers, even after going Paleo 7 years ago, because I lacked the underlying nutritional knowledge that Dr Berg so handsomely disperses on his YouTube channel.
Luckily, my vegetarian commitment had prepared me for adopting a slightly different lifestyle by introducing healthy fats and intermittent fasting, which fall under the nomer Keto. Letting go off wine, beer, and a few other indulgents seemed hard but wasn’t because the cravings simply went away. The most remarkable outcome of substituting fats for carbs and become a fat burner (including the body's stored fat) is the liberating disappearance of hunger, and while I transitioned to one meal a day I often feel like I could easily skip that too and not eat at all for a day, and that's just great, knowing that my dependence on regular timed meals is gone.

And then of course there's the scale and my smile in the mirror and both tell me I’m doing better than I have in a long time. Another benefit is that my blood pressure is creeping down as well.

If any of my friends read this I urge them no matter what their health is to watch some of Dr Berg's YouTube videos in which he calmly explains how our body functions and why we may be heading for problems down the road if we don't start living and eating according to the way the body is designed to operate.

Bon appetite.

(c) 2019 Rejuveny

03/05/2019

My out of bed morning drink:
teaspoon wheat grass juice powder
teaspoon raw organic cocoa powder
teaspoon organic turmeric powder
pinch black pepper
pinch cayenne pepper
pinch sea salt
teaspoon organic macca powder
few drops organic cold pressed virgin olive oil
wedge organic butter
teaspoon organic apple cider vinegar
teaspoon organic raw honey
fresh lemon squeezed with the lemon fiber
warm water

What it does:
suppresses hunger
provides vitamins
provides energy
sustains autophagy
sustains ketogenic state
sustains a fast if you’re fasting
is anti-inflammatory

And is followed by:
one regular size meal a day within a 1 hour period
in my case around 7pm, vegetarian, all organic, containing no carbs such as pasta, bread, rice, quinoa, etc., but rather vegetables, egg, fish, nuts, seeds... maybe in a salad.
organic blueberries for desert.

Throughout the day:
plenty water with a squeeze of lemon
bullet-proof coffee (mid-morning, mid-afternoon)
no snacking, no alcohol

Long before bed:
glass of water with teaspoon apple cider vinegar

What happens, you will:
lose weight by burning stored fat (5Lbs in 3 days!)
lower blood pressure
unclog arteries
eliminate joint pain
feel great

I did similar in 2011 and lost 50Lbs, but slowly reverted to some old habits.

I’ll follow up: beginning weight, 220Lbs, 3 days later 215Lbs.

Next: more walking, 40Lb kettle bell
References on YouTube: Dr Berg, Dr Mandell (anti-pharma common-sense guys that advocate healing via nutrition)

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