Friday, September 01, 2006
back ache, back problems
Originally written to a friend with back spasms:
No doubt everyone you've talked to has their own treatments for back problems, but you can add my two cents to the pile, no reply necessary:
I used to have recurrent back problems, but haven't since I've been observing a natural night (real darkness and lots of it, at consistent times - a la Carlos Castaneda, actually, and a lot of new science too (chronobiology).) The reason may be that the collagen (intercellular glue as you'll know) we make at night in darkness seems to be different, and stronger than the stuff we make during light. So consistent hours, and more darkness when you sleep (red light is okay) might help, strange as that might seem. But the science is new, one's improved metabolism with more darkness might also be the cause, not differences in collagen formation, if darkness is helping my back as I think it is. And of course, it's new science, so I could be wrong about all this and report back problems tomorrow.
I'm starting what may seem to be a fairly crank medical site at photoperiod.com on this, but one citing lots and lots of studies (eventually.) (Warning: very much under construction, most links won't work.)
Also, I might mention that I have found that in the past when I had any sort of leg problem, I got in the habit of using my back too much and that's when problems with the back became likely. Reminding myself to use my leg muscles whenever possible helped quite a bit. But of course, your problems, and their causes, may vary - again, no reply necessary.
Today I'm experimenting with Writely and finding that with litecable, Web 2.0 is really Molasses 2.0 Back to Open Office which removes those extra line breaks from text files very easily, it turns out.
Russ
No doubt everyone you've talked to has their own treatments for back problems, but you can add my two cents to the pile, no reply necessary:
I used to have recurrent back problems, but haven't since I've been observing a natural night (real darkness and lots of it, at consistent times - a la Carlos Castaneda, actually, and a lot of new science too (chronobiology).) The reason may be that the collagen (intercellular glue as you'll know) we make at night in darkness seems to be different, and stronger than the stuff we make during light. So consistent hours, and more darkness when you sleep (red light is okay) might help, strange as that might seem. But the science is new, one's improved metabolism with more darkness might also be the cause, not differences in collagen formation, if darkness is helping my back as I think it is. And of course, it's new science, so I could be wrong about all this and report back problems tomorrow.
I'm starting what may seem to be a fairly crank medical site at photoperiod.com on this, but one citing lots and lots of studies (eventually.) (Warning: very much under construction, most links won't work.)
Also, I might mention that I have found that in the past when I had any sort of leg problem, I got in the habit of using my back too much and that's when problems with the back became likely. Reminding myself to use my leg muscles whenever possible helped quite a bit. But of course, your problems, and their causes, may vary - again, no reply necessary.
Today I'm experimenting with Writely and finding that with litecable, Web 2.0 is really Molasses 2.0 Back to Open Office which removes those extra line breaks from text files very easily, it turns out.
Russ
