On Sun, 21 Feb 1999,  Mary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> >high in calcium (sardines; canned salmon; leafy greens; some varieties of
> >nuts; if you can't stomach the fish, then take a bone-meal supplement), high
> >
> Which nuts?
>
> Also, you recommended aspirin. However, doesn't aspirin increase intestinal
> permeability (leaky gut?)

Mary, almonds aren't too bad a source-- 80 mg per ounce (28.4g); filberts
(hazelnuts) and Brazil nuts aren't bad either-- about 50 mg.

As for your aspirin question, my orginal post was in reply to a list
member's concerns about colon cancer.  If you're worried about
gastrointestinal cancer or heart disease (about 2/3 of all deaths in the
U.S. are from cardiovascular disease and cancer . . . if the prospects of
dying give you concern, these are the biggies to be worrying about!), then
ingesting aspirin would seem one course of action to take.  Any
(every) food, any (every) herb, has both positive and negative effects.
What each of us has to do is to try to nourish ourselves with those
substances in which the ratio of positive to negative is very high;
however, the same substance can have a different ratio for different
individuals.  Indicators that you're picking the right substances for you
are how you feel, how you look, your percentage of body fat, the condition
of your skin and hair, and the numbers reflective of your internal
workings (blood pressure; pulse; lipid profile stats; presence of
autoantibodies; white blood cell count; fasting blood sugar).  In my own
case, none of these changed after I started taking aspirin regularly (80mg
once or twice a day; a megadose, once or twice a month); and in my
personal calculus, the potential benefits of this substance seem fairly
high, while the potential detriments seem very low.

Cheers!

Gregg
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