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> <<This has had a big impact>>

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> I'd be interested in hearing how it has affected you:-))

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Sure. :-)

My belly has shrunk dramatically in a week. It has been bloated for years and

tends to be cool to the touch. Capsaicin (the active ingredient in this family

of peppers) causes a channel to open in the cell at lower than normal temps. The

channel usually only opens at 98.6F or above and apparently helps control body

temperature. My guess is that it allowed my body to drain off fluid by opening

channels in the cool-ish parts of my belly. It also has antimicrobial and

antifungal effects and, historically, it is common for me to go to the bathroom

more and see some moderate shrinkage of my belly when we are treating for things

like that. But this was really dramatic. And the bloating has not come back.

I have said for a long time that " when my belly is flat, I will basically be

well " . This is moving that forward very rapidly.

I also threw up before work on Friday morning and had to leave work early

because I was so sick. I've thrown up at least once a month for over 4 years.

What I throw up is something chemical. It's usually either very bitter or very

sour and it feels really corrosive to my throat (and other tissues). When this

first began happening, I thought I was " just sick " but it eventually became

clear that some kind of chemical or chemicals were coming out of me and I

eventually concluded that whatever is coming out of me is the stuff involved in

" the normal progression of CF " which causes you to get sicker and sicker until

you eventually die (often at a very young age). The defective channel in my

body causes a bottleneck and the cells just get more and more out of whack and

you get sicker and sicker. I have concluded that I am getting healthier because

I have improved the bottleneck -- it almost certainly still exists but isn't as

severely problematic -- and reversed the progression. All that stuff that has

built up has to come out. I've thrown up a great deal more in the last year

than I used to, a time during which I have made rapid forward progress in my

health. So the capsaicin pushed this process forward somehow.

I've done lots of walking every single day starting the day after we began with

the habanero. Yesterday, I walked 7 miles and today I walked about 12. I live

without a car, so some of this is just normal routine shopping but a lot is not.

I have a great deal more stamina than I have had. Historically, I needed a long

recovery time after doing these longs walks. I'm sunburned and tired and all

that, but I feel pretty darn good overall. I am not dehydrating as easily as I

used to -- something that has been improving gradually for a long time but is

obviously greatly improved. These recent walks were much easier on me. The

long walks we do have always been torture. Over time, they became less

torturous but were still really hard on me (and helped push my healing process

forward, so I put up with it but it started as something my son pushed for, not

me). I didn't feel tortured this weekend on either walk until about the last

mile of today's 12 miler. So really dramatic improvements in many important

ways.

I've done spicy food, including stuff with capsaicin in it, for a long time as a

means to treat infection and move my healing process forward. But habanero

peppers have way more active ingredient than other peppers I have consumed, so

it's like taking a much more massive dose of it.

I'm sleeping better too.

That's all I can think of right now. And I'm exhausted. :-)

Later.

Michele

http://www.healthgazelle.com

http://www.kidslikemine.com

My kids' blog: http://www.vigaroe.com