Thanks Buzsaw, I appreciate your thoughtful and faith-filled suggestions. Right now, the last thing I can do is exercise 5-6 times a week, you have to understand I suffer from a pretty serious virus that I've had for years now and cannot exercise normally without getting far sicker. This is something i have to monitor very carefully.

It's hard for people to understand who can exercise, even with mercury (which i was once able to do). Now, even an extended walk, or going slightly too fast or doing a few push ups, or too often can do a lot of harm to me. And right now I am severely exhausted.

probiotics, very expensive and didn't appear to help. I have done the ph testing thing too. I think I can limit my protein intake to a point. I do get organic eggs, and the meat is New Zealand, so is pretty good anyway.

I cannot use many things that other people can use that help them. Things are far more complicated than they once more, it's taken me this long to figure out a diet that I can actually handle. What works for one may not work for another I guess and deviating from my diet, usually brings disastrous consequences.

Good on you at age 72 for being in the condition you're in, thanks to your prayer life, your own efforts, patience and hard work. That's wonderful and something of an inspiration to the younger generation. My Father is 76 and is in better condition than me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> but again he does not have what I have either. I make more health efforts than he does, he still eats sugars etc, but he's taken onboard a few of my suggestions and doing well (eating more salads, having healthier salt, etc). He can run circles around me, but as I said, he's never really ailed very much. But in his older years, he began to notice a few problems starting, so he's taken stock of himself and made some helpful changes.

Both of us are pretty health conscious now and have to me. him due to his age, me due to my ongoing health challenges that really never cease. The best I get is gaining a little bit more "control" over them.