I'm more or less certain now my health problems are gut related. On Saturday night I didn't feel my usual cold, wearing a t-shirt at 13c indoors. Unfortunately I had a few beers and was wiped out all Sunday. Today, Monday, I felt very cold until a while after my afternoon glass of kefir, when I warmed up. Being really cold limits your mobility, you ( Read more... )

I found a better spot to ferment my kefir than the kitchen shelf I've used up to now. I don't have heating on, as I'm a nutter, and the kitchen has a large single glazed window, so it gets cold, especially at night. The little room under the stairs, however, is warm due to the heating from my neighbour's house. It never occurred to me to put the ( Read more... )

Quitting milk and milk products for five days didn't do anything, not one iota, but at least I have a baseline now - 2pm, the time I dragged myself out of bed for the past few days. I really missed kefir, which is funny as I only started drinking it three months ago. I did lose a bit of weight, you forget that milk is high in carbs, and I was ( Read more... )

Since I'm taking a casein and lactose free month I can't make porridge, it wouldn't be great with almond milk, not matter what vegans might claim, it'd be thin and watery. I'm going to make this recipe instead. You can't buy corned beef in tins over here annoyingly, as you can in England, It's just beef brined as far as I know. I can buy it ( Read more... )

I wonder if graphite could be used as a material for the disk in this. It would be cool if it worked, I know what I think of when I read about a large spinning disk anyway, little green men. This is something Elon Musk should look at, he would have the resources to find out if it's BS or not.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/welcome-to-mars-express- ( Read more... )

I'm taking a different track with my health woes, looking at a possible dairy allergy. I was reading Sarah Myhill's website, thinking of going back to keto, not surprisingly I suppose, this time the paleo ketogenic diet, as she recommends, paleo keto doesn't allow dairy. I always drank a lot of milk, even when I did my ten day fast I drank gallons ( Read more... )

I take Reddit comments with a large handful of salt but the many comments on the benefits of kefir in the second half of this post seem genuine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kefir/comments/1f3krvs/how_long_you_been_drinking_kefir_are_you_healthier/

... of cooking and I never knew this.

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I used a sharpening steel for a year or two and found it didn't sharpen, I needed a honing steel as well, and it would have worked if I'd used the sharpening steel lightly the odd time. I'm tempted to break my run of saving and buy one, they're only about seventy quid. I have whetstones, good Japanese Naniwa ( Read more... )

I had three domestic upsets that I had to replace this year, a few months after I could start saving in earnest, as I had stopped buying new supplements for the most part. They don't compare to real misfortune, but the microwave and tap needed replacing - well, I could have just replaced the washers on the tap spout it turns out - and the attic ( Read more... )

I can't really say that kefir hasn't had any effect. I had one of my rare less-cold-than-normal experiences last night, playing a video game, the DLC of the remake of Resident Evil 4 actually, without my electric overblanket in my front room, which was about 12c, for an hour or two. When I have my cold shower I can get straight in these days, this ( Read more... )