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The Golf Thread & elsewhere seems to have all manner of ailments & health tips under discussion, so I think it's time we had a dedicated thread.  

doubleup mentions walnuts as they contain Omega 3, whatever that is.

Perhaps easier & more practical, I buy Omega 3 Fish Oil tablets from Tesco, they work out at 7p per day so cheap enough & much easier than faffing about with walnuts every day.

teh internet

Yes, walnuts are an excellent plant-based source of omega-3 fatty acids, specifically alpha-linolenic acid (ALA). A one-ounce serving (about a handful) provides 2.5 grams of ALA, making them the only nut significantly high in this essential fat. These omega-3s are associated with heart health, brain function, and reduced inflammation

Comparison to Fish: While fish provide EPA and DHA, walnuts provide ALA. The body converts a small amount of ALA into EPA and DHA, but ALA has its own independent health benefits

I noticed that both my hands and ankles had improved over the last couple of months and the only dietary change was walnuts (I didn't specifically know about their anti-inflammatory health benefits, so that rules out a placebo effect). So they might be worth a try.

These aching feet, mostly my left has only surfaced since my return to golf after a 2 month break. I can't eat walnuts, absolutely hate them so the capsules seem a good alternative.

I have a good diet I think. Fruit and veg every day, I love it. Food portions have had to be reduced to keep my weight down to my post operation levels.

Off to check out the omega tablet/capsules

As my age & assorted medical conditions relentlessly increase, I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I've started taking all sorts of health supplements to try to delay the inevitable & help oil the creaky wheels.

Omega 3 Fish Oil

Vitamin C & Zinc

Magnesium

Multi-Vitamins & Iron

Tumeric & Vitamin D

Vitamin E

High Strength Vitamin D.


Do they do any good? No idea, but mentally, it ticks a few boxes.


I also have 6 Prescribed Medications, Lansoprazole, Bisoprolol Fumurate, Aspirin, Atorvastatin, Jardiance & a new one, just started, Clopidogrel.

The twice a day tablet-taking routine is almost a meal in itself, & the once a week routine of filling the Tablet Box thing is a half hour job.



In my mind, I feel better for taking them. In my mind...

Plus, things containing natural vitamins and goodness are not part of his diet.

The Doctor asked me last week if I ate enough green stuff. Told him I consume loads of peas & Mint Sauce.

More seriously, I discussed my dislike of vegetables generally, & he said "no matter, fruit is just as good. Think colours, the more different colours you can eat, the better."

Terry's chocolate orange doesn't count.

I used to be prescribed Clopidogrel ,to be taken for a month,after each heart operation.

You been in the Hospital lately?

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I did take cod liver oil for a while, that has the fishy omega 3s, but didn't notice any aches and pains benefits.

I have bruised big toenails. I just thought they were a symptom of approaching middle-age. I'll try some walnuts.

I also take 5/6 assorted tablets, inhalers etc. daily, to keep me ticking over.

The toenail thing for me is def old style golf shoes with a hard upper and generally stiff construction. Stopped as soon as moved to a more trainer style with a soft upper.

"approaching middle age"....

Good try Ralph, but you were never getting that through.

Clopidogrel

You've made that one up

tbf, it does sound made up.

Probably has some Latin or Greek roots.

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oops

I'm bang in trouble then :D

Sometimes I really despair at how rubbish our NHS can be.

Here's the highlights of my conversation with the Practice Diabetic Nurse 2 days ago-

ME-Why have I still not been referred (for 2 years) for my 1st Annual Diabetic Eye Test? My Optician says I now have cataracts and possible optic nerve damage
Nurse. Because you are not Diabetic. Your last reading was 41-that's pre-diabetic
Me: No, it's not. My reading before was 100, and I have been on Metformin, prescribed by you, for the last 2 years
Nurse. Sorry, that's my mistake. I'll sort it. I can see from your notes that you had a reading from a blood test supplied via us in 2024 of 100. Tell me-why did you never action the diagnosis of diabetes via a Reading of 92 from your last GP Practice in 2017?
Me: I'm guessing that is because, before today, nobody has ever told me about that 2017 diagnosis/result? For 9 years! Or told me I was Diabetic for 7 years
Nurse: Oh, dear...

Good job I haven't got high blood pressure :)

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I think high blood pressure is a given for Arsenal supporters of a certain age.

Mine's being reviewed this week.

Must be tricky for you lot. All that hope, almost all season, just to bottle it at the end. Every. Single. Year.

Easier for us Spuds. Our hope only lasts until the end of August. Every. Single. Year. I'm 63. League Titles in those 63 Seasons? 0. Times we finished 2nd? 2. And 1 of those was in 1963 :)

And at least we are now bring "entertained" by a new Manager who, in addition to being clueless about English Football, seems to be slightly unhinged :)

Good luck-on the Blood Pressure. Not the Football, obvs ;)

PS. That Ref in the Arse v Chelsea game was hopeless (whereas we just didn't get the rub of the green with ours, despite the ravings of our Manager). Takes a lot for me to agree with Arteta...

Ah an aches and pains thread, I've found my spiritual home.

I turned 60 in December and can confirm that from 50 onwards is all downhill so far. I try and stay active with tennis but physically everything is getting harder (or not, make up your own joke....)
Bruised toenails are an occupational hazard for tennis players, sometimes resulting in lost nails, not a pretty sight. My other half however outdid me last week when she dropped a post rammer onto her big toe, very nasty and her mood wasn't helped when I pointed out that post rammers aren't meant to be dropped on ones toes.
Medications? just an inhaler to control very mild asthma which I've had all my life but both my father and brother died of COPD so it's a concern.
Supplements? Loads - Glucosamine, cod liver oil, turmeric & black pepper, as well as a multibiotic and a multivitamin, both of which have too many ingredients to list here.
I have vowed to try and get fitter when I retire as sitting at a desk for hours a day isn't good for posture, health etc. Fingers crossed for that retirement.

Well I'm okay then - I only turn 50 next week.



oh.... I see...   :|

I've been on the raspberry express since my mid 20s, so I'm freerolling my way downhill to 50 now :D

For years I never read the leaflets inside medications, I trusted that Dr's knew what they were doing until I was perscribed something that was new to me and I googled it.

Turned out it was a complete no no to something else I was on and it had a huge chance of killing me.

Safe to say I always read those leaflets now.

That's really shocking. You would think that the most basic prescribing system would automatically cross check and flag this kind of thing.

late Sunday night last week i started feeling a bit queasy, started getting into my bed and my body collapsed, i wasn't able to lift my legs into my bed so spent the whole night half in half out the bed. About 3am i started convulsing, unable to actually vomit, this carried on until 9am.
9am nurse visit to change my many wound dressings, i am not quite with it. At same time a SKY engineer turns up to fix my TV (was kicked to touch still got a broken SKY system). Nurse helps me get my legs into my bed, this allows to start vomiting a lovely black and red muck.
Nurse calls health centre DR calls 999. Ambulance arrives at 3:30pm after i text the nurse at 2:30 asking if their was any update on ambulance and the nurse chased it up. By this stage my vomit bucket was kinda full with me throwing up every 5 or 10 minutes. At this stage i was told i couldn't even take sips of water to hide the vile taste in my mouth. Get to the hospital just after 4pm.
Was in the ambulance till 7pm and then taken into a waiting room to allow the crew to get back to their base (35 miles away). Finally got admitted to A&E at 11:30pm was put on a drip and given some anti sickness meds stopped vomiting around 2am. Scans and X-rays taken in the morning, still no fluids allowed until they could "scope" me. Had the scope around 1pm and allow to "slowly" sip on water. They found i some of the vomit in my lungs. Taken to the ward on a drip, and fed antibiotics and some other crap. Wednesday morning was feeling much better just needed Dr's approval, letter and drugs. OH and of course transportation. No wheelchair taxis available, patient transport knocks off at 4pm. So their i was bed blocking for the next 18 hours. The wheelchair cab they found for me didn't have contract with the hospital so a nice chunk of change lost there but worth every penny to get home.

Other than that just a constant pain in every part of my body below my spinal cord break (pretty much everywhere lower than the chest).
But i am alive on waiting list for one more operation then nothing for 6 years and hopefully get my head round to throwing chips into pots again.

I got a rice cookin' in the microwave
Got a three-day beard I don't plan to shave
And it's a goofy thing but I just gotta say
Hey I'm a-doin' alright

DRUG list
Duloxetine
Pregabalin
Nefopam
Atorvastatin
Cetirizine
trazadone
zolpidem
Docusate
Bisacodyl
Omeprazole
Non Prescribed
Iron
Magnesium
Vitamin D
Wellman 50+
rescue me night



and people wonder why i get snappy and fly off the handle every now and then, Being a hermit and rarely leaving the house has solved that problem though. :-)))

Ironside wins thread!

Hope you get your operation soon and things improve for you.

You get pain BELOW the break Iron?

Wishing you a speedy recovery Ironside.

All the best Iron

yeah my Spinal Cord was not completely severed, it was partial severed and the rest merely crushed, T1,T3 and T4. My classification is a T1 incomplete.
I cannot feel if someone is touching me but it constantly feels like a hot liquid is pulsating through my whole lower body.
On bad days i get really badly tempered and lock myself in my room as when i am really sore i can seriously offend. Which is properly why i like to act the jestor on good days.

didn't know it was a contest sometime its good to vent though



thanks guys been out of hospital a few days now i feel better than i did a fortnight ago which is always a plus.

"My head is bloody, but unbowed"


You're an amazing man Iron. It's my privilege to know you.

Crikey Alistair, God only knows how you cope.

Hope you are soon over this latest setback.

My Daily Supplement Routine

Alongside 10,000 steps a day and gym training 4 times per week (walking is usually along the beach which makes it easier ), this is the supplement routine I currently follow.

Morning (with breakfast)
• 1 tsp Psyllium husk with water ( many health benefits )
• Daiteca Vitamin D 3 + K2 – 2 capsules (5,000 IU D 3 + 200 mcg K2)
• Omega-3 Fish Oil 1000 mg – 1 capsule

Lunch (with food)
• Turmeric Joint Complex – 1 capsule
• Omega-3 Fish Oil 1000 mg – 1 capsule

Evening (with dinner or before bed)
• Magnesium Glycinate 450 mg – 1 capsule

 ;tk;

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/09/taking-multivitamin-daily-could-help-to-slow-biological-ageing-study-suggests

blonde ahead of the curve

A big yes from me too, that's a hell of a list Alistar x

I've been taking Vitamin D for a while, it is supposed to combat Alzheimer's but you have to take at least a certain mg per day and you need to take it together with Vitamin C too as they work together. My Dr didn't know that  ;carlocitrone;

Although there definitely is a general problem with doctors not generally keeping up to date with new research - there is no study (as of yet) to confirm this link

This sums it up

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/alzheimers-and-dementia/what-do-we-know-about-diet-and-prevention-alzheimers-disease

In particular the paragraph

Which is to say various vitamins and supplements might help - but statistically there isn't enough evidence to back that up yet - that would be why the average GP wouldn't necessarily know anything about it

25 years ago my other half had cancer, we went to Mexico for 'alternative' treatment. The clinic was run by Dr Contreras, one of the world leading experts in cancer treatment and 'alternative' therapies, he still runs it. One of the things that we learnt from him is that there are many, many studies carried out into cancer treatments, almost all paid for by the drug companies, however if they seem to be producing evidence that natural remedies ARE effective against cancer then the funding almost always gets pulled and the results are not published. On his advice my other half had chemo back in the UK, she had 4 drugs, 3 were artificial copies of natural remedies. If the drugs companies can't make money out of something they are unlikely to pay for research to prove that it works. I wonder if the same is true for vitamin D, C or any other natural supplement and it's possible prevention of dementia and alzheimers? 

The whole pharma industry is full of conflicts of interest, the biggest being,imo, if they can sell a treatment for the symptoms of some ailment rather than the cause (a cure), they have many years of product sales rather than a single course of drugs.

I do take the multivits, but not sure if they do any good. Last year I got the vit D sell from someone whose brother is a prof of oncology at Royal Marsden, so it does seemingly have some support among relevant professionals.

There is always not enough money to research everything, but the usual criteria for ranking isn't how much money it might make but how likely it is to work

If it works - pharma companies can make money out of it

We know this because - you've already stated that they do it

Anything that is naturally curative in nature is more convenient and often more effective once a company has worked out a way to mass produce it and put it in a shop

On the economic side, the idea of hiding a cure because they make more out of selling the treatment - just doesn't make sense economically

Because if every other company is covering up a cure - it means the one company that releases the actual cure gets a decades long patent and immediately takes all the money away from all their competitors
 
The only time when not making money stops research is when the entire market for a disease - are poor

This is why there's a whole branch called "neglected tropical disease" - these are all the diseases that it is not profitable for private companies to research because it wouldn't be guaranteed to get their research money back - so they rely on charitable foundations and government grants. it's worth noting the majority of all scientific research done worldwide is government grants and not private companies - for example even if zero pharma companies spent money on cancer research it would still be one of the most researched areas because of all the government grants that go towards it.

Unless anyone is planning on moving to deepest African then they're not really going to be affected by that

Anything that can be sold to comfortable middle class westerners will always be researched because it will always make money

And we definitely know this - because the Wellness alternative health industry makes more money than Big Pharma does

I take your point here, but there is a huge difference between "hiding a cure" and being happy having a "decades long patent" on something that alleviates symptoms (which may have arisen from an attempt to find a cure).

 

I'm not sure you do entirely get the point

If a company such as AstraZeneca researches a cure for something and ends up with a good treatment for it - that might have taken about $1bn to get to market.

If they have a 20 year patent that means they must make at least $50 million a year to get their R&D money back

If a different company, such as Pfizer were researching the same cure and get beaten to the treatment by AZ - they'll keep on researching the cure.

If they get a cure 5 years after AZ got their treatment it means Pfizer will patent their cure for 20 years.

And AstraZeneca has 15 years left on a patent which is basically worthless - because who is going to pay for the treatment when they can just pay for the cure

In this model the profit maximisation is for AZ to patent the treatment - and still carry on researching the cure.

That's obviously hugely simplified - but it's basically the reason why research will never get stifled.

If it works (for a middle class western customer) - it will make a profit

And if your pharma company doesn't make that profit - one of your competitors will.

On a recommendation, I've started drinking ginger and green tea. It apparently helps with painful joints etc. I've been able to resume weight training and running again but that might be due to me laying off it a while. Will keep drinking it cos I'm happy being back training.

For about 10 years (54 now) I've suffered from an unusual inflammatory polyarthritis which mostly affects my hands & fingers (swelling/stiffness).    I've tried many things over the years that 'help joints/inflammation' (like high dosage/quality Omege-3 for example), none of which helped in any way. In fact some like the O3 actually make the pain worse. May as well be scoffing Jelly Babies.
Methotrexate is what I actually need apparently, which should be started soon...