MeaMaximaCulpa

I agree that Greek yogurt is the best, since it is usually full of good fats as well. Beware low fat yogurt, since they will replace the fat with sugar to keep the taste and mouth-feel. For plenty of good protein eat organic/free-range eggs, fatty fish and grassfed beef.

I will attempt to answer your first question. Water is water no matter what form it has, so yes fruit (or e.g. coffee or beer) will add to your water intake. Now the downside is that fruits are very sweet, and each gram of sugar will require around four grams of water to "process" in your body. This water is not part of your hydration as such, as it gets stored. This is also true for beer which contains a lot of sugar (carbs). Coffee and beer also have the effect of being diuretics, so therefore drinking coffee and beer will dehydrate you, requiring you to drink even more water. Finally hydration has to do with salt as well ("water follows salt"), so if you drink too much pure water without enough salt (and electrolytes), the body cannot hold on to the water. But that doesn't mean it's a good idea to drink seawater, because that is another can of worms altogether!

OK, I have to bite one final time: Many lived much longer, but sure, falls, wild animals and infections culled quite a few. So way too simplistic for my liking. No thanks, more of the same (bad studies) doesn't make bad science good. And you keep talking about processed meats, which I agree are not good for you. My point was red, unprocessed meat (perhaps I was not clear enough earlier). Please let's leave it at that, I respect your right to have whatever opinion you like.

My last word on this here, since the OP didn't ask for this discussion, and we're highjacking his thread. The study you quote is as I guessed an observational study, based on questionnaires. This type of study is very unreliable and can at best indicate correlation and not causation. For that you need a randomized double blind placebo controlled study. A correlation can be used to form a hypothesis and can indicate where to do further study, but not to draw causative conclusions. If you seriously want to learn about this more in depth, you must put aside your preconceived opinions and look much deeper, otherwise you just will suffer from confirmation bias. Look for Peter Attia, Chris Kresser, Mark Hyman, Mark Sisson and many others to learn more. Eat what you like, full on vegan for all I care, but be aware that humans have eaten red meat (but not processed meat) for hundreds of thousands of years and thrived on that. Why should it suddenly be dangerous? Answer that question and you will get closer to a real answer. Good luck!

I know this issue is controversial, but I think if you do some research with an open mind you will find that the studies that point to red meat as colorectal cancer risk are mostly observational. And often not well enough corrected for confounding variables. It tends to be the sum total of what red meat eaters eat, drink, smoke and do w.r.t. lifestyle that can increase the cancer risk, not the red meat itself.

I would be careful with multivitamin/mineral tablets, since several of the ingredients may be harmful if you get too much, unless you specifically are deficient. Examples from the list you provided are: A, E, B6, calcium, potentially also selenium. Edit: I would also mention iron, don't take unless deficient. Better to eat some red meat 🙂.

Hello @backstreet I have experienced similar issues so I know how hard it can be, and what I find is that some simple meditation helps. Also a gratefulness routine is good, every day think about what you can be grateful for that day, instead of focussing on the problems you see (real or imagined). Proper breathing is very important, and learn how to use diaphragmatic breathing or breathing with your stomach. Look this up. The 5 minute video below with Andrew Huberman explains how to do something called the double sigh, a very useful technique to use when you need to slow down your heart rate to go to sleep. Or to reduce stress during the day as well. It really works, and quite quickly! As for medication: I would stay far away unless deep clinical issues, and focus on better eating (low carb/high fat) and whatever exercise you can manage to do within the limits of your foot injury and age. As for supplements, magnesium has been mentioned, I would add one which is GABA, a calming neurotransmitter I think it is classified as. I take it before bed (2*500 mg), and it can seem to give me better sleep (difficult to know for sure what causes what). You can buy it from iHerb.com, they ship to Thailand and is the number one website for supplements, with very good product range and an excellent customer service. Meditation and gratefulness are both good, and some personal therapy with a good psychologist might also help. But you have to find a person you "click" with, otherwise it will not work very well. I wish you good luck with finding some calm and peace, we older gents should live a quiet life, and not worry too much! 😀

Thanks a lot Sheryl, I will check this out. I am actually seeing a doctor at Rutnin at the moment, but not the one you mention. But since I will not be in Bangkok regularly after new year, I hoped to move to a local hospital. I have a thinning of the optical nerve sheet as seen on OCT scans, but with normal eye pressure, and no real, clinical symptoms of glaucoma. So my doctor asked a colleague as well, and they both could not explain fully. So I need to monitor, but for now no treatment. I will talk to my doc about getting a 2nd opinion from your recommended doc (hope no loss of face...). And to go once or twice a year there is OK, but they still insist on wearing a mask, they even tape it on your face... As for my question number two, my wife is Thai but quite westernized, and can check out the resources you highlighted. She will also be Pattaya based after new year, but once she finds a therapist she is comfortable with, they can do video meetings. So again, thanks and good to have you back, you're a great help to the community! MMC

Welcome back @Sheryl, I hope you had a nice break and are not too busy helping your big flock to answer my question! Today no "conspiracy theories", only recommendations for "real" doctors 🙂. Btw, this is not only for Sheryl, please let me know good and not so good experiences from everyone who can contribute. 1) Glaucoma specialist at Bangkok Hospital Pattaya to investigate, monitor and treat possible early glaucoma. Another hospital in "the 'hood" can also be considered if warranted. 2) A good "behavioral psychologist" at Bumrungrad Hospital, but also at Bangkok Hospital Pattaya. Individual (non-hospital) practitioners can be considered if warranted. I am not looking for a psychiatrist with a big bag of SSRIs to "treat" mental illness, but someone who can help my wife deal with and process both old emotions (mainly family related) and current (to do with complex and traumatic work dynamics). Thanks for all help! MMC

Recently at Jomtien they wanted TM30 (from 2017 accepted), TM47 and PP copies.

OK, my bad

I tend to go mid week, arriving a bit after 09:00 (I hit my bank 08:30 same day for the bank letter/800K which is always accepted). By then most of the eager beavers are through the system. I have in all my time at Jomtien Immigration (at least since they moved from town) NEVER got my passport back the same day for retirement extension, regardless of time of day. As in NOT EVER. Last year it took two days even. So I am surprised to see this issue even being discussed. I guess it is the same as I have NEVER, for anything I need to do at the Land Transport Department in Pattaya been able to use my yellow book/pink card as proof of address, but have to get a certificate of residency at Immigration (who in turn uses my yellow book. Oh, the sweet, circular irony of it all). But still there are people saying they can use their yellow book, and I must be unpresentable or badly dressed or drunk who doesn't. Go figure...

@Sheryl you are of course correct in the fact that we have no studies on humans with anti-parasitic drugs. However there are some very encouraging anecdotal cases worth checking out, more with Fenbendazole than with Ivermectin. And knowing that big, randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trials are very expensive and will never be funded by big pharma, when there is no potential to recover the investment. The drugs in question are out-of-patent, cheap and generic drugs, and safe for humans. Would I try these drugs if I had cancer? You bet I would, why not? Would I turn down traditional treatment? That would depend on the specific case, type of cancer, progression, probability of cure, etc. There is also now renewed interest in Otto Warburg's close to 100 year old theory of cancer as mainly a metabolic disease, where most cancers prefer sugar as fuel (apparently pancreatic cancer cells can also thrive on ketones). The damaged DNA theory has not yielded much in terms of inroads into beating cancer, and the drugs in this class are extremely expensive and not that effective. There is now some who thinks that the DNA damage is not the direct cause of cancer, but rather a result of damaged mitochondria. More research is obviously needed here, but it can seem promising. So there is more to this complex problem than we might think, and if we do not try simple, safe and cheap alternatives we will have to wait a very long time for big pharma and the established medical science to help us. And we better be rich!

I have also heard about this. Another anti-parasitic drug called Fenbendazole is also reported to have anti-cancer effects. Very interesting, since mainstream medicine seems to have been stuck on another track for quite a while.

There are some that would claim that a healthy diet is high fat, but not omega 6 seed oils. Animal fats are the real deal, and restrict the carbs instead, especially grains and processed sugars. Protein depending on requirements.