I know that fermented food is good but not over consumption.
Well, it has always been my point that moderate use of fermented foods, such as beer and wine, could be used as medicine. Most days I try to have one beer for health. Doing so, I find my health improved. However, sometimes I either forget to have my daily beer, or I cannot afford it.
When I got that beer was a health food, in moderation was when I began to look at all beverages, as well as beer, in a new light. Most beverages rely heavily upon sugar as a flavoring agent.
Becoming diabetic meant I could not drink most beverages, other than water, which is fine. However, since beer is fermented, then the sugars and starches will have been consumed by the yeasts and converted into alcohol and protein. This means beer is just a beverage, in moderation.
Additionally, when I first discovered that there was something in beer, that was not in most liquids, or other alcoholic beverages, that reduced the inflammation of my arthritis, it was then that I realized that beer was not just a low-carb, and low-sugar beverage, but that it was an anti-inflammatory, which is medicine.
Now, as someone with an auto-immune disorder, one has to find an anti-inflammatory. When I looked into anti-inflammatories, I realized that they all have some serious side effects, most of which is ulcers, because they are hard on the stomach lining. However, beer is not in moderation. This meant I could treat my auto-immune disorder with moderate use of beer.
So, now we have to determine what is moderate use of beer? I do not know if this is true or not, but somewhere along the line I learned that a full-grown, average sized, male could drink one 12oz beer every hour without having his blood-alcohol level ever go above the legal limit, because the rate of metabolism and evaporation through the skin and breath, etc, would keep the blood-alcohol level below the legal limit. It seems reasonable.
I recently had an inflammation event that went on for a week and a half. To treat it I started out with rest, and drinking three 12oz beers a day. It helped, but not enough to make progress with what has to be done to prepare for this retreat. So, I tried increasing the does to six 12oz beers a day. It helped, but it did not end the inflammation cycle.
I then resorted to taking one 325mg aspirin every 4 hours, which turned into 5 a day by taking one upon arising from sleep and one at each meal, and one just before bed. I noticed an immediate improvement; and 2 days on that regimen broke the inflammation cycle.
I plan from now on to take aspirin every day, but I need to find a dosage level that will not cause ulcers. I am going to guess that one a day at the first meal will not cause adverse side effects. However, I plan to also keep on my daily beer intake, to further help with controlling these inflammation events, while reducing my dependence upon anti-inflammatories, which tend to be hard on the stomach lining.
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http://www.jarretmorrow.com/health-benefits-astaxanthin/
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