Lordy, these posts keep hitting my "up-to-the-minute" issues. Age 71 and not beholden mostly to other peoples' schedules, I am struggling with a degree of night-owlness that impairs my business-hours functionality. Oh, well. Wanted to add, re: inflammation, I suffer rosacea. By my late thirties, also in high-stress career, I was breaking out with rash and pimples badly. Dermatologist seemed clueless. Fortunately, my husband had an interest in non-pharmaceutical possibilities, and there was a book by Dr. Andrew Weil in the house, forget which one. In the context of inflammation, Weil had a page about GLA: gamma-linoleic acid. Some observations about medical dogma being that ALL humans metabolized their own. BUT; certain populations of Northern European ancestry, maybe not so much. Well, I am as white as white gets, so I started supplementing with Borage oil. You get my drift. Weil recommended higher dose to start, cautioned maybe three months to replenish baseline. Pimples and rash gone, down through decades on maintenance dose. If I lapse for awhile, darn if I don't break out. It is hard to imagine there is no relationship to inflammation throughout my body, including blood vessels. Humbly offered as totally anecdotal public service.
Lordy, these posts keep hitting my "up-to-the-minute" issues. Age 71 and not beholden mostly to other peoples' schedules, I am struggling with a degree of night-owlness that impairs my business-hours functionality. Oh, well. Wanted to add, re: inflammation, I suffer rosacea. By my late thirties, also in high-stress career, I was breaking out with rash and pimples badly. Dermatologist seemed clueless. Fortunately, my husband had an interest in non-pharmaceutical possibilities, and there was a book by Dr. Andrew Weil in the house, forget which one. In the context of inflammation, Weil had a page about GLA: gamma-linoleic acid. Some observations about medical dogma being that ALL humans metabolized their own. BUT; certain populations of Northern European ancestry, maybe not so much. Well, I am as white as white gets, so I started supplementing with Borage oil. You get my drift. Weil recommended higher dose to start, cautioned maybe three months to replenish baseline. Pimples and rash gone, down through decades on maintenance dose. If I lapse for awhile, darn if I don't break out. It is hard to imagine there is no relationship to inflammation throughout my body, including blood vessels. Humbly offered as totally anecdotal public service.