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Great list. Maybe add vitamin K2 foods. They promote clean arteries, strong bones/teeth and much more. The best sources are natto (easily fermented soy beans), butter, egg yokes and organ meats.
Great list. Maybe add vitamin K2 foods. They promote
clean arteries, strong bones/teeth and much more. The best source is natto (easily fermented soy beans). Other good sources are products from grass fed animals (cheese, egg yokes, organ meats, bones and meat).
Excellent article. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Be sure to use Ceylon cinnamon from Sri Lanka, not cassia cinnamon. This is very important. There is lots of information online about the difference.
This article is a keeper. Sharing it with my family.
“Your health during SHTF scenarios is more important than:
1) All your training,
2) All your stored goods, and
3) Your bug out location”
A good article, but I don’t agree with your opening statement at all.
What do you disagree with? His statement is just common sense!
Yes good health is important, more more important than ALL of your training or food preps?
It’s pretty easy to imagine going into a SHTF scenario in good health but with no food or skills. You would quickly be SOL.
It’s all about balance. You need skills, stored goods AND good health.
What good is having anything stocked, or knowing how to use it, or having a safe place to put it, if you’re too sick/dead/debilitated tonuse any of it? I don’t mean to rant, but I look around and see a ton of obese, fat, lazy American Preppers who own 260 guns and 20,000 rounds of ammo and love to talk about S hitting TF, but can’t so much as knocknout 10 pull-ups, let alone carry a combat load uphill for 2 miles. I swear it’s like Preppers think they are going to magically lose 75 lbs the day after something happens. God help them, they’re in for a RUDE awakening.
Exactly. There are some things we cannot control as our bodies age (hearing/eyesight) but physical fitness should be a goal far above drooling over that new Tavor from IWI. Especially if you’re in CERT or Oath Keepers.
Jason, I am one of those out of shape survivalists you talked about. My wake up call was when I got a simple recurve bow of 35 pounds draw weight and went out back to shoot it. I could not pull it back without my muscles having tremors. A sign of total lack of tone. I am not at Rambo levels yet, but I can at least pull that bow back now. I am with you that most preppers (like most Americans) are completely out of shape, but then again none of us plan on humping a full combat load uphill for 2 miles. You will not be able to do it either when you are in your 60’s.
Retired
My intent was not to denigrate my elders or the disabled, who’s decline in ability can be traced to factors beyond their control (such as aging). My frustration comes from seeing younger men like myself (I’m 36) 75 pounds overweight in the couch drinking Pepsi eating cheese puffs watching Reality TV typing on there phones about how when SHTF they intend on turning their suburban 2 story cape cod on 1/10 of an acre into a retreat while simultaneously becoming the next General George Washington SEAL Team Member, but can’t do much as walk to their mailbox and back without losing there breath. It’s real hard to run when you’re carrying 50 extra pounds in your gut
Regarding exercise, don’t forget the Burpee. It was developed by an exercise physiologist to measure overall body fitness. It requires little room and no equipment. It works multiple muscle groups. I didn’t think much of it as a young, fit lad because it seemed easy then. Boring even. Now that I am rather older, it is something to be done in small quantities with multiple sets throughout the day.
I knew a so called “survival guru” on a gun forum who sat up on high and arrogantly made is pronouncements about what we all should do after SHTF, then one day he drops dead. Sounds like he had his priorities all wrong and should have read more articles like this one.
Another way to stock up on lemon is a product call ‘True lemon’. It is dried lemon in individual packets equivalent to a slice. All natural no preservatives. Also packets in lime and orange.
Couldn’t find a link “below” on easy to make sauerkraut.
I feel the article dances around the [unhealthy/healthy] + [weak/strong] matrix. Superfoods alone will not make you strong, and I’ll argue they can’t make you healthy by themselves. Problem is, WTSHTF, I’ll bet on the unhealthy yet still relatively strong Gen Xers and Millennials overwhelming the healthy but physically more frail Baby Boomers that have done all the right things with their food and wellness preps.
I’m in my early 40s, still running 10ks and such, still in good shape, but I can see very well that by the time I’m in my early 60s I’m not going to be much good in a firefight, particularly against a bunch of people. Heck 4 or 5 against 1 is hard enough when you’re in perfect health and have terrific reflexes. Sure, older guys like Michael Bane and Jerry Miculek make it look easy but they are savants, 1% of 1% kind of shooters.
In short, I disagree with the author. If you can’t defend your cache, you’d better bring in some muscle from the outside to help you keep it. JWR has done a good job in his books detailing these sorts of scenarios more than once.
I agree, but I would not confuse gamesmen like Miculek to a combat shooter. Gamesmen stand out in the open, use tricked out “shooting machines” and are in it for points. I will be 62 at the end of this month and am under no illusions of how good I used to be. However, I feel rioters & takers akin to bullies. They want to riot and take, not fight. Once faced with stiff resistance, they will go someplace else…I hope.
Good article. But I have a serious question. I am deathly allergic to peppers of any kind, in ALL forms. That limits my food choices, which I have dealt with my whole life. Is there a substitute that I could use in these tonics? The health benefits are great, if it doesn’t make you quit breathing!
Elderberry juice is an extremely powerful anti-viral and anti-biotic. Grow the black kind only. It MUST be heated for a few minutes, or it will make you sick. It can be simmered into a concentrated syrup for storage, or made into elderberry wine, which was the traditional method.
It is so valuable that some cultures absolutely forbade cutting it down for any reason.
Second is sunlight, as long as you avoid burning yourself. Vitamin D is also an extremely potent anti-viral. However, you cannot take a hot, soapy shower for at least a day or so afterwards, or you will wash off all the Vitamin D oils before your skin absorbs it. Spot clean any dirty or smelly places.
When TSHTF the great culling will begin, and for many of the reasons you suggest.
Look at Amerika:
1. Less Than 3 Percent of Americans Live a ‘Healthy Lifestyle’: https://www.theatlantic.com…
2. 1 in 6 Americans Takes a Psychiatric Drug: https://www.scientificameri…
3. Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Take Prescription Drugs: https://newsnetwork.mayocli…
When food becomes scarce, so will prescription medications (think Venezuela today, or Zimbabwe of 10 years ago, or Wiemar Germany). When one’s antidepressant is no longer available and people stop taking them abruptly, their lives will become a living hell. To properly go off of an antidepressant it can take months of gradually decreasing the dose. If done suddenly, it will lead to unimaginable horrors for that person and those around them. Zombies, anyone?
If one is taking antihypertensives (~30% Americans = 75 M = 1 in 3 adults), and many take 2 or 3, (and not the starting dosage – they have their dose increased as well as the number of drugs to maintain a BP number) and stop suddenly, they will quickly come to understand what “hypertensive crisis” means. For those on the most antihypertensive meds who have been on them for a lengthy time, as in years, I wouldn’t give them a week to live. And, that last week will be hell. Stroke, anyone?
I’m guessing that this is one of the ways that the Georgia Guidestones accomplishes their first commandment: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000”
It’s time to wake up folks. Your very survival depends upon it.
“These things I believe: That government should butt out. That freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant government will take it all away. That individual freedom demands individual responsibility. That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil. That the executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. That political parties have become close to meaningless. That government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away. That government should provide for the national defense and work to insure domestic tranquillity. That foreign trade should be fair rather than free. That once a year we should hang someone in government as an example to his fellows.”
Lyn Nofziger
Going off anti-depressants abruptly can be extremely dangerous. A family member was forcibly taken off, against medical advice, when she was hospitalized, and had a psychotic episode, screaming at the ceiling.
However, a great many people have gone off their anti-depressant meds abruptly, on their own, and do fine. It is playing Russian roulette, but most of the chambers are empty.
The scenario of millions of people suddenly going crazy when their meds run out is false. Some will, most won’t. I am a clinical psychologist, and have had many clients confess to me that they had done just that, knowing they shouldn’t, and they got away with it.
JW
Agreed. There seems to be a prevailing notion that once many of these folks no longer have there SSRI’s or other category of psychiatric medicines, the world will be full of stark raving lunatics. Most people and family members I know use them as quality of life issues to deal with excessive anxiety, mild depression, or OCD. Off the meds, they are neither a danger to themselves or others. Life is harder, but far from impossible. DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor of any sort and do not advocate going on or coming off any medication except under the supervision of a licensed trained medical professional.
Dental health. Take care of your teeth. Five years ago my Air Force wife had left home for a typical 2 weeks on the road as air crew. That Friday night came around and me and our then 5 year old were just hanging out-pizza and movies on friday night. About 5:30 p.m. I got a tooth ache. It was an absess. No family around, and no friends I knew well enough to call up for real help. I could go about 2 minutes max, and then ‘d have to rinse with salt water or the pain spiraled quickly to excruciating. But as long as the salt water was being swished about I was A-okay. I made it two days like that-salt water rinses until we ran out of salt. Then saturday night I ran out of table salt. So I rummmaged around and found some precocet from a previous tooth extraction. 4 of them spaced out over several hours did not even dent the pain. So I did what ever resourceful person does. I improvised and found a bottle of my wife’s wine and took a another percocet with that. By this time I was ready to collapse from exhaustion. The percocet/wine combo took hold after 4 hours & let me get 8 hours sleep. My point is, I had options but didn’t want to impose on people I knew of but didn’t know, but what happens when the shtf? In that same scenario I would likely have ended up dead; that coming from the Air Force Colonel who saw me 2 months later in this process when I ended up on pre-deployment orders. Apparently the wine/percocet mix slammed the cycle of oral self-torture down, tho didn’t fix the abcess issue. That had eaten a hole in my jaw by the time a dentist saw I had a problem and not just symptoms. I’d had four dental visits and each one shuffled me along without anyone saying that the abcess could kill me. So when you are doing all your preps, keep in mind dental problems, either as a preventative or keep up on regular visits. I’d fallen into the habit of brushing with the original lysterine and my 2 year gap from my last visit had my dentist impressed by the extreme lack of plaque. Still stupid to wait. So when my 10 year old balks at brushing or doing a half-assed job, I make him look at all the silver and composites in my mouth, then point back to the sink and his toothbrush. Thank god I don’t need opposing teeth to open a blackpowder cartridge any more.
Great article. Agree with most of it. My issue is that apple cider vinegar and sauerkraut trigger severe gout and I would not be able to walk. I avoid them gout with meds readily available. I have had gout so painful in my feet that it hurt to look at them.
I am One of the Few that survive too 80 Wife is older
we do what we can and hope one of the children in their 50s is close enough to pick up our saved up goodies
People are Dying to get away from US all the time
Peace
A good reminder, thank you. I have purchased products called “Super Tonic” and “Fire Cider” which have similar ingredients as your homemade tonic. They really seem to help with everyday colds, sore throats, congestion, etc. and the natural ingredients are said to have many benefits. I really don’t mind the taste, but they are spicy!
In middle-age, I have come to realize that it’s easy to take our health for granted. At some point, you notice that you aren’t going to be 25 forever.
Those of you who are preparing for a major event or disaster should consider that those things may or may not ever happen, but Lord willing, getting OLDER is going to happen! Your health is valuable in every situation, and I appreciate the reminder.
Turmeric mixed with black pepper
can help with inflammation. 5 parts turmeric to 1 part black pepper placed in 00 capsules. My husband has an auto immune disease and takes 5 two times a day. By taking this he doesn’t have to take the toxic medicines that were prescribed him. It has helped many of our friends that have dealt with inflammation. It’s easy to store for long term.
Personally, I think exercise is the most important think on this list. All those supplemental foods and spices may be good, but they can’t make up for the health issues that result from being 20 or more pounds overweight. Being in your 40’s or older doesn’t mean you can’t do hard workouts, but it does mean you have to start slow or embrace Tylenol.
I’m 49 and I make my way through a number of those beach body home exercise programs, including the hard ones like max:30 and body beast. The results were that I lost 60lbs of fat, and can actually make it through my local athletic shooting competitions with less huffing and puffing than many 10 years my junior.
Less aches and pains were a major plus too. I just need to follow one basic rule. Always add one or two extra weeks to any program where I use minimum weights or lower intensity- if not, I’ll spend the next week or two in pain.