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Header should say Feb 19, 2022. Sorry.



On 2/20/2022 10:19 AM, Clutterfreak wrote:

Feb 19, 2022:

Sunny and hot again! But not that hot. With lightest attire you'd find
it perfect to walk even under the sun. That's what I did!

3 angingas. Only the Chink of all the regulars on the track. I should
right off all the rest as "regulars." They're either taking other routes
or have attained what they could get from walking and are spending their
time for other matters.

In about two years of walking I have found where the Chink starts and
drives what cars. He starts at the opposite end of the track to where I start, and makes round trips like me. I suspect that sometimes he makes
more than one round trip. He is fit and fast, finishes one trip in about
one hour. I saw him at other end reaching back to his car but hanging
around doing some other types of superficial exercise, or just waiting
till I get far enough to start a second round trip. I don't think I'll
ever be that good and fit as far as walking is concerned.

Today I walked farther than usual, and on returning home discovered
something for the first time. When walking barefoot I felt a pain in my feet's tendons on the posterior side, right where Achilles tendon is. I
was wearing the sketchers which has a slightly thicker sole than the
walmart one. Yet another shortcoming of sketchers. On my next try to
walk longer distance I'll have my walmart shoes to see if I encounter
the same problem.

It is possible that I have reached my limit of how far I can walk each
day. My age is placing rigid boundaries around what my body can do. I
guess that's why Eskimos used to leave their elderlies behind. A time
would come that they couldn't keep up with the rest of them for similar reasons that I'm experiencing. In other words, it was not the younger
ones who'd leave them behind, but the old ones seeing their limits and deciding not to follow the young ones anymore.

I bet this happens among animals also. If it won't be in relatively weak youth years, it will then be in their old age that they will be forced
to choose not to follow the herd and begin the beginning of the end.

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Dec 26, 2021:

Hot day, 85 degrees F. Walked more comfortably cause digestive system is
now fully adjusted to pre-Yalda period.

Have got a few home repairs to begin and finish before the end of the
year and am running out of time, so I might not take my daily walks
until first day of next year. This was a promise to myself, so I'm going
to honor that.

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Feb 20, 2022:

Cloudy all day but it was thin cloud and sun could still make a
difference in temperature in sunny areas compared to the shadowy parts.

Saw 3 anhingas, two of them in the pond doing their dives. Later at
another pond saw two more anhingas on the water diving. Could be two of
the same flock who had come to that one later. Unlike myself they can
traverse the distance between the two ponds in a jiffy. In less than a
minute really :)

Used the walmart shoe which made the walk easier. But at home later
still the Achille tendon hurt when walking barefoot, but not as bad as
last night.

I recently began to experience itch all over the body and one of the
tries I made to find out what was behind it was to reduce the amount of vitamins I take to 1/6th of what I took before. This, in a few short
days, stopped the month long itch. I was about to begin taking them
again at the old dosages but one by one to zero in on the culprit
vitamin but postponed that and am still taking very little vitamins. I'm thinking this tendon thing may be the result of aborting use of one or
more of the vitamins.

There were so many people outing this Sunday. And so many kids with
bicycles, so many little poppies who'd turn around, leave their owners
and followed me :) Little poppies kept adopting me as their owners.
Wonderful little poppies.

Little kids too. You won't believe how many kids Hispanics are raising
right now. 4 or 5 with each set of parents, and you'd look at parents
and see that they were in their early 20s, already with that many kids.
Usually two on little bikes, two too small to ride, so just walking, and
one toddler in the carriage, and of course the super young wife and
husband. I saw at least several tens of such groups today outing on the
track. No idea what the occasion was except that it was Sunday. Some
people I think are off tomorrow Monday. It's one of those days that some employers accept as a holiday and some don't.






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On 2/20/2022 10:34 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:

I recently began to experience itch all over the body and one of the
tries I made to find out what was behind it was to reduce the amount of vitamins I take to 1/6th of what I took before. This, in a few short
days, stopped the month long itch. I was about to begin taking them
again at the old dosages but one by one to zero in on the culprit
vitamin but postponed that and am still taking very little vitamins. I'm thinking this tendon thing may be the result of aborting use of one or
more of the vitamins.

Remember that I only eat once every two days! So these matters are extra sensitive for me. There's only so much you can manipulate when you have
that chance only once in about 48 hours. People who eat like humans of
today have at least 6 times more chance to manipulate it within same
time period.

That's why I suspected the itch was coming from how I eat, not any other
factor or new illnesses, etc. And I was right. The itch went away.

By all probability it had to do with the two different forms of niacin.
As is known, the nicotinic acid has to be taken under 100 mg a day
otherwise creates itch and skin rashes. But its other form, the
nicotinamide, it does not create skin rashes, and the usual dosage of
pills or capsules for it is 500 mg.

If you take one 500 mg pill of nicotinamide you don't get skin rash and
itch. But what I discovered after developing non-stop itch was that if
you take nicotinamide at such doses, and add just a little bit of
nicotinic acid, like 50 mg to the diet, then the entire amount of niacin becomes like nicotinic acid for the body! Hence the skin rash and itch.

I first reduced them like this: I kept taking 50 mg of nicotinic acid
plus only 1/4th of the 500 mg pill of nicotinamide, i.e. 125 mg of nicotinamide. But found out that even with such reduction the itch
continued for total intake of 175 mg niacin.

So I decided to take them separately. 50 mg of nicotinic acid with meal,
then 125 mg of nicotinamide with the meal two days later, essentially
halving the total niacin to 87.5 mg average which is below 100 mg limit.
And this worked! Itch stopped.

So no matter how little nicotinic acid you take, much below the
threshold of 100 mg, if you concurrently take nicotinamide making the
total niacin going above 100 mg you begin to experience itch :-)

In the presence of nicotinic acid in body, no matter how small, the
entire nicotinamide taken will be dealt with by body as if the whole
thing is nicotinic acid.

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Feb 21, 2022:

Suddenly 85 degrees F here in Texas. I had to wear the lightest attire I
could think of, just like smack inside a typical August day. I almost
didn't make it to walk today cause my bowels wouldn't budge, but very
close to walking time they woke up at last and I was ready for a walk
after that. I wish I had more control over my bowels regularity, but as
I explained earlier I only eat one meal every two days, and nothing but
water in between, so I really don't have much control over my bowel
regularity. Adjusting the timing of it is not as simple as it is for
those who eat three times a day!

If this bowel movement matter continues as unpredictable as it is now, I
may have to replace days that I don't eat with days that I will have one
meal of pure vegetables. A simple salad but large enough to help me
regulate myself and make bowel movements more predictable.

It makes sense too, cause I don't think the man who lived before
agricultural era began and before domestication of animals began would
go two days without eating anything. They most probably ate vegetables
and sometimes fruits or nuts in between more complete meals. Problem
with me is that I don't do this only to imitate human of
pre-agricultural periods; I also do it to keep my diabetes under
control. Eating anything but pure water will trigger insulin release
which is why people develop diabetes in the first place.

So I am undecided for the time being. Will have to research it more.

Saw 3 anhingas on top of the same tree.

Spotted the Chink and passed by the other Chinese looking younger guy
but this time took a better look at him. Underneath all that foliage of
hair that's all around and pinned on top of his hair (new fashion) is
not a Chinese person. He's got all the signs and symptoms of Aztec race
in him, so from now on I'll name him the Aztec :)

Aztecs, and virtually all native American people are not that far off
the Chinese race anyway. It was some of the same people who made it to
Americas via northeastern passage of Asia into Alaska and down all over Americas a few thousand years back.

Hair, eyes, skin color, etc are identical to most of the Chinese people.
The distinguishing difference is the nose of course. Aztecs have larger
hawkish noses.


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Feb 22, 2022:


Suddenly back to Winter again! Yesterday was 85 degrees, today is 44
degrees. Bowels moved so I put my winter attire on and walked.

Saw the Chink, the Aztec, and the Beaner again. Almost no other human
was there. A few cars were parked in the adjacent parks but none of the
people were outside of them. I don't know what they're doing inside
their cars. New kind of homeless? Rents have gone up to ridiculous
levels and those who don't work and have some sort of retirement benefit
may have decided to live in their cars to save a lot of money each
month. This may work for them as long as it is cold cause handling cold
is possible while handling summer heat isn't.

A few rifle rounds could be heard from the shooting range. Probably only
one attendant, cause it was pretty cold and breezy today.

Only one anhinga on that tree.

Tomorrow is supposed to get much colder. I might stay home and have an
eye on plumbing. I don't want to be walking when my plumbing bursts open.






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