Warning: Be careful using ginger!
I just discovered (the hard way) the very painful possible side-effect of ginger. :oops: My doctor just said I have gallstones, and a gallstone probably got stuck in the tube leading from the gal...
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edit: Hmmm, shouldn't this be in the off topic forum?
The first time I had a Gallstone attack was 9 years ago and at the time I was in college eating lots of jarred salmon and spaghetti as I wasn't used to cooking my own meals. It was triggered by a spontaneous pizza night and I was in the ER for 4 hours thinking I was having a heart attack.
The second time was actually last month. I was dieting and then one day I had wings and I had a really bad Gallstone attack in the middle of Molyjam (but after I got home 12 hours later, I still finished while on drugs hahaha). Had to go to the ER and get an ultrasound and everything. It was magnitudes worse than the first time it happened and there were actually TWO pains. One from a stone in the duct, and another from the gall bladder just panicking. They recommended surgery, but I was like "screw that". I figured I'll just eat properly and die if I was a big enough idiot to cut back on so much food and then spontaneously do something like eat chicken skin on buffalo wings or really fatty foods again.
At different levels of severity, Gallstone/Gallbladder attacks can be worse than pregnancy pains. After you have an attack that bad, you're pretty much limited from eating certain foods for life though. You can do a lot more damage to your body by being inconsistent in your eating habits. It's a lot more complicated than just having ginger or ginger tea.
For example if you don't eat very often (1 or 2 meals a day), and consume low amounts of cholesterol, which your body needs (in addition to an acid) to make bile in the first place, your body will compensate by creating its own cholesterol. You need some of that acid from apples too to prevent the stones from forming due to imbalance between the acid and cholesterol. Apple a day will keep the doctor away.
I'm no doctor, but I'd recommend if you're not eating several small meals a day, you should do it just to keep your metabolism up and keep your fat intake lower than 25g per day. Also just eat with a little more variety to make sure you're not missing anything. To think earlier this year I was interested in Soylent, but you know, there's a lot more to our health then just getting allegedly "everything the body needs". Chewing on foods, keeping your stomach full of stuff, regularly getting gas every now and then. There could be some benefit to it.
The first time I had a Gallstone attack was 9 years ago and at the time I was in college eating lots of jarred salmon and spaghetti as I wasn't used to cooking my own meals. It was triggered by a spontaneous pizza night and I was in the ER for 4 hours thinking I was having a heart attack.
The second time was actually last month. I was dieting and then one day I had wings and I had a really bad Gallstone attack in the middle of Molyjam (but after I got home 12 hours later, I still finished while on drugs hahaha). Had to go to the ER and get an ultrasound and everything. It was magnitudes worse than the first time it happened and there were actually TWO pains. One from a stone in the duct, and another from the gall bladder just panicking. They recommended surgery, but I was like "screw that". I figured I'll just eat properly and die if I was a big enough idiot to cut back on so much food and then spontaneously do something like eat chicken skin on buffalo wings or really fatty foods again.
At different levels of severity, Gallstone/Gallbladder attacks can be worse than pregnancy pains. After you have an attack that bad, you're pretty much limited from eating certain foods for life though. You can do a lot more damage to your body by being inconsistent in your eating habits. It's a lot more complicated than just having ginger or ginger tea.
For example if you don't eat very often (1 or 2 meals a day), and consume low amounts of cholesterol, which your body needs (in addition to an acid) to make bile in the first place, your body will compensate by creating its own cholesterol. You need some of that acid from apples too to prevent the stones from forming due to imbalance between the acid and cholesterol. Apple a day will keep the doctor away.
I'm no doctor, but I'd recommend if you're not eating several small meals a day, you should do it just to keep your metabolism up and keep your fat intake lower than 25g per day. Also just eat with a little more variety to make sure you're not missing anything. To think earlier this year I was interested in Soylent, but you know, there's a lot more to our health then just getting allegedly "everything the body needs". Chewing on foods, keeping your stomach full of stuff, regularly getting gas every now and then. There could be some benefit to it.