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Than suffer Plantar facsciitis.
Yes but which houseplant could possibly trump that hideous blight on one's soles? Giant redwood would be unwieldy, but not useless... Venus Flytrap? Giant Hogweed? You must have had a plant in mind, to have made such a perplexing statement. Is it a plant which chews your feet?
 

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Watch out! Nuts contain very high percentages of fat... I read somewhere that blood vessel walls stiffen in shock, when one consumes too much fat in one go.
Yet people have scoffed vast quantities of fat, both in single snacks, meals and through their lives without obvious issues!

I think one of the best things I did was stop taking sugar in tea and coffee. Which I did over forty years ago. (Stopped milk in both somewhat later.)
 
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I disagree re not getting anaerobic fitness on ebike.
Look on the body as a machine, a complicated one, but never the less a machine.
Mine is currently capable of producing around 140 watts(guess)... I can use that 140 Watts to jog, cycle, swim or whatever I want... pretty much indefinitely... Trouble is that 140 watt when running, cycling is hardly enough to get up hills, so I make it give 160 going up and on a bike almost nothing going down.
Now our bodies train much better at steady state out puts... Going into short term debt, coughing and spluttering actually is of hardly any benefit at all. Benefits to heart, lungs and muscles are achieved with sustained and probably minor rates over our max steady state out put..
On an ebike you can use your 140 watt out put combined with that of bike to avoid serious short term oxygen debt but sustain a beneficial output for a time long enough to achieve real gains. Going into short term oxygen debt will simply tell the machine... Stop. (especially so when weakened by illness)
It might feel to be beneficial to pant, cough and splutter, and it might help you think you are training but you aren't.
Get on your ebike, set an achievable constant out put, use the econtroller accordingly, ie more help on hills, less so elsewhere and cycle for at least one hour. (a heart rate monitor helps, ie train to a certain constant heart rate..., when not in AF I train to 140)
Jogging when unfit and going into short. term severe O2 debt with soaring heart rate is extremely dangerous and actually is of very little if any benefit.
All this from my heart surgeon..
Train to a raised but sustainable level and enjoy it. Ebike perfect tool.
Douglas Adams died after indulging a sudden enthusiasm for jogging. Maybe I should cast far and wide for a replacement ebike conroller after all..
 
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Yep, I got two and a half hours and felt the irresistible urge to jump out of bed, so I did. I was hoping to avoid the whole medication whack-a-mole symptom quashing game.. take one drug, then you have to take another to treat side effects, then another for the new side effects, then another and another ad infinitum... I'll be yet another marionette to drug company whims, but we all are now.
Yep. I take my levothyroxine at bed-time (always have done so). And usually fall asleep fairly easily and stay soundly asleep through the night.

It is the only medicine I take. Can't think of any medicine I have had prescribed since diagnosis except in the early days when there was a bit of whack-a-mole prescribing. (OK - the occasional paracetamol. And vitamins B12 and D.)
 
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Yes but which houseplant could possibly trump that hideous blight on one's soles? Giant redwood would be unwieldy, but not useless... Venus Flytrap? Giant Hogweed? You must have had a plant in mind, to have made such a perplexing statement. Is it a plant which chews your feet?
No - I didn't have a single plant in mind that I'd prefer. I couldn't think of a single plant that is commonly regarded as a house plant, that I wouldn't very much prefer to PF. At the margins I did think of some of the plants like durian (stinky) or poison ivy (poisonous to touch) where it might not end well. But they are not (usually) regarded as house plants.
 
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No - I didn't have a single plant in mind that I'd prefer. I couldn't think of a single plant that is commonly regarded as a house plant, that I wouldn't very much prefer to PF. At the margins i did think of some of the plants like durian (stinky) or poison ivy (poisonous to touch) where it might not end well. But they are not (usually) regarded as house plants.
 
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Yep. I take my levothyroxine at bed-time (always have done so). And usually fall asleep fairly easily and stay soundly asleep through the night.

It is the only medicine I take. Can't think of any medicine I have had prescribed since diagnosis except in the early days when there was a bit of whack-a-mole prescribing. (OK - the occasional paracetamol. And vitamins B12 and D.)
Interesting.. I was suffering from sleep apnea ..or something very akin, to the extent that I was unwilling to go to bed and ended up dozing off on chairs at the TV etc. Anyway the problem totally went away the 3 rd night after I was started on a blood pressure medication .. and has not reoccured
 
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I do hope some Tories get named during their conference:

Does tory donor count?

Major Tory donor advised on Uzbekistan deal later found to be $220m bribe
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/04/major-tory-donor-advised-on-uzbekistan-deal-later-found-to-be-bribe-mohamed-amersi
 
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That must have been amazing, getting rid of plantar fasciitis! I've had it since 2010 - tried everything. If I keep walking a couple/few miles every few days, it's generally kept in check, but it'd be wonderful to get rid of it for good. Fancy that... a link between thyroid hormone and plantar fasciitis... Do they give you pills of some sort? Is it this?

A close friend of mine cured his plantar fasciitis by rubbing raw onion on the soles of his feet before bed..he didn't believe it when I told him about it and thought I was winding him up.(I read it on another forum) it worked after only 4 days.
 

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There are circumstances in which the boss should resign even if they are not personally guilty.

Cressida Dick ‘deeply concerned’ after Met police officer charged with rape
PC David Carrick to appear in court on Monday over incident in Hertfordshire in September 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/03/metropolitan-police-officer-charged-rape-hertfordshire

I suspect that CD probably has less reason to be concerned about the actual crime - being raped - than a vast number of women across the country. To refer to her own concern ahead of that of the public emphasises that she needs to go.
 
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A close friend of mine cured his plantar fasciitis by rubbing raw onion on the soles of his feet before bed..he didn't believe it when I told him about it and thought I was winding him up.(I read it on another forum) it worked after only 4 days.
I can see this working if the smell was bad enough to avert attention from the pain...
 
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I disagree re not getting anaerobic fitness on ebike.
Look on the body as a machine, a complicated one, but never the less a machine.
Mine is currently capable of producing around 140 watts(guess)... I can use that 140 Watts to jog, cycle, swim or whatever I want... pretty much indefinitely... Trouble is that 140 watt when running, cycling is hardly enough to get up hills, so I make it give 160 going up and on a bike almost nothing going down.
Now our bodies train much better at steady state out puts... Going into short term debt, coughing and spluttering actually is of hardly any benefit at all. Benefits to heart, lungs and muscles are achieved with sustained and probably minor rates over our max steady state out put..
On an ebike you can use your 140 watt out put combined with that of bike to avoid serious short term oxygen debt but sustain a beneficial output for a time long enough to achieve real gains. Going into short term oxygen debt will simply tell the machine... Stop. (especially so when weakened by illness)
It might feel to be beneficial to pant, cough and splutter, and it might help you think you are training but you aren't.
Get on your ebike, set an achievable constant out put, use the econtroller accordingly, ie more help on hills, less so elsewhere and cycle for at least one hour. (a heart rate monitor helps, ie train to a certain constant heart rate..., when not in AF I train to 140)
Jogging when unfit and going into short. term severe O2 debt with soaring heart rate is extremely dangerous and actually is of very little if any benefit.
All this from my heart surgeon..
Train to a raised but sustainable level and enjoy it. Ebike perfect tool.
You're absolutely right - oxygen debt also increases stress hormones like cortisol, constricting blood vessels. I used to run extremely slowly, drifting along slower than walking. And mostly downhill, to start with. I managed about ten feet when I first embarked on this foolish quest for runner fitness, about a year before before the pandemic. So I ran ten feet and yelled (hoarsely) "What the hell has happened to my body?! It's only been a decade or three!" , then walked slowly for awile till I was ready to have another go, then shuffled comically for another ten feet etc. After doing this twice a week for several multiples of 10 feet each time, by the end of the year I managed (with some difficulty), to run (shuffle slowly) 3 miles non stop. Then the pandemic hit and the world was full of coughing spluttering people, so I stopped and converted the bike. I'll get it fixed and set levels appropriately as you've suggested, but I do believe there is a limit to how strong my legs can get, because of my godawful knees. Old age eh?
 
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A close friend of mine cured his plantar fasciitis by rubbing raw onion on the soles of his feet before bed..he didn't believe it when I told him about it and thought I was winding him up.(I read it on another forum) it worked after only 4 days.
Thank you for this, I will actually have a go - you'd have to have had PF to truly understand why...
 

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Thank you for this, I will actually have a go at this - you'd have to have had PF to truly understand why...
In the beginning, I had advice from a GP, an orthopaedic consultation at a specialist clinic, sessions with an orthotics expert and custom orthotic inserts. All a complete waste - and, worse, made it deteriorate significantly. Twenty minutes wearing the inserts left me in agony for a fortnight.

It was adequate levothyroxine and soft diabetic insoles, in shoes intended to take such insoles, that worked.

I realised they simply do not connect thyroid issues with PF.
 
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Watch out! Nuts contain very high percentages of fat... I read somewhere that blood vessel walls stiffen in shock, when one consumes too much fat in one go.
Teaching granny to suck eggs again!

Specific knowledge is necessary. Certainly some nuts like peanuts contain over 75% fat, but on the other hand chestnuts contain just 10% fat, being mostly carbohydrate (25%) and water.

And I don't need Google for such knowledge, I already have it.
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Teaching granny to suck eggs again!

Specific knowledge is necessary. Certainly some nuts like peanuts contain over 75% fat, but on the other hand chestnuts contain just 10% fat, being mostly carbohydrate (25%) and water.

And I don't need Google for such knowledge, I already have it.
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I'm happy that you already know. You mentioned that something awful happened on ... Monday, was it? Do you have a lot of incidents like that? (Whatever that was). I've been throwing out general (some highly questionable) info scattergun style, because it's a fast way to find out how much one knows, as well gleaning potentially useful health knowledge for myself.
 
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Teaching granny to suck eggs again!

Specific knowledge is necessary. Certainly some nuts like peanuts contain over 75% fat, but on the other hand chestnuts contain just 10% fat, being mostly carbohydrate (25%) and water.

And I don't need Google for such knowledge, I already have it.
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There do seem to be a lot of ill people on these boards!
 

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Yet people have scoffed vast quantities of fat, both in single snacks, meals and through their lives without obvious issues!

I think one of the best things I did was stop taking sugar in tea and coffee. Which I did over forty years ago. (Stopped milk in both somewhat later.)
A friend with stents can't consume even small amounts of fat, without feeling very unwell. His liver produces far more cholesterol than normal, for some reason... in pain, dizzy and nauseous (many symptoms are from the medication) and he's only 43. It's what restarted me running.
 

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