Someone who knows allot about lungs

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Originally Posted by flamingskullballs

smoking pot isnt nearly as bad as ciggerettes...unlesss your one of these so-cool-super-smokers-i-cannot-even-stand-im-so-cool-look-at-me-five-ounce-blunt kids, you probably wont smoke more then 2-3 grams a day...thats about a pack a day of ciggerettes...so then you see the guy with a 3 pack a day habit...and yeah...

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Weed is nowhere near as bad as cigs, id bet my life on it. Pot has been around for aprox. 3.6 billion years people have been smoking it since the early pre-nomadic days. The human body has actually evolved and adapted for its use (cannabinoids to be more precise) why do you think the human brain has cannabinoid receptors? Endocannabinoids? PAH. Endocannabinoids are just your body trying to compensate for lack of THC and other cannabinoids. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Lol, Roberto, cut the red wire.

i've heard that weed or thc or something in it is actually a brionchiodialator or something like that, which is actually good for your lungs and like asthma and stuff, although maybe the bad carcinogens outweigh the good stuff, but does anybody know if thats true at all?

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Originally Posted by ickystkyme

weed does affect the lungs as it is a pollutant to your lungs, but it isnt a carcinogen.

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that's just down right wrong man, burning ANYTHING creates carcinogens. if I smoke the iron maiden flag on my wall, I'm going to inhale carcinogens.

Hey guy,

Talk to you the other day.

Try this link.

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/consCondit...lmonaryDisease

Pay close attention to your antioxidant groups.

Ascorbic, (vitamin c in doseage I reccomended the other day)
Vitamin E
Vitamin A

These are the most powerful antioxidants for removing free radicals from smoking, (anything) from the body.

The article also will tell you the protective effects of these to the lungs.

Also mentioned is Bromelien an enzyme from pineapples that breaks up the phlem in the lungs.

The other things mentioned is magnesium and omega 3,6,9 oil.

All these supplements with a good sound diet in fruits and vegs and fish will dramatically help your condition of COPD.


I cant stress how important these things are for your condition.


Take care.

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/consCondit...lmonaryDisease

having trouble with the link. Its through University of Maryland.

Enter search box: copd ascorbic acid

Should be on the second or third page via msn.

Can i buy this stuff at a pharmacy? Im assuming i could?

Sure,you can get all these just about anywhere. Drug store, grocery store, online, pham.

Best place to purchase the ascorbic is through the vitamin c foundation, online. But you can find this at any of these places.

Just make sure if you purchase the ascorbic somewhere else that it is NOT
magnesium ascorbic. You want to use pure ascorbic fine powder. Tablets are ok also but in powder form its easier to get down with juice as opposed to a bunch of tablets.

YOu can combine tablets and powdered form if you like. If your on the go just carry some in your pocket. Lots of water and remember every 6 hours or so keeps plasma levels steady. You can use tablets containing ascorbic with bioflavinoid as well thats even better. But pure ascorbic powder mixes best with fluid.

When you measure out the powdered form to covert milligrams to grams just move the decimal three places to the left. For example:

1000 milligrams=1gram.

So 3 grams is roughly a heaping teaspoon.

One important note.

Since you have this lung condition it is imperative to avoid a pneumonia type condition. This could kill you. The ascorbic will help keep your lymphocytes very active in combating virus such as pneumonia. lymphocytes are the bodies own killers of foriegn invaders. They are directly fueled by ascorbic.

So if you feel a cold starting to come on it is real important to start increasing this doseage even higher.

I have taken up to 200 full grams in 24 hours to wipe out pneumonia. Perfectly safe. Just make sure to take at least 200iu of vitamin e with it. And lots of water.

You take these high doses of during an illness to stop a free radical cascade
from overwhelming the body. The ascorbic carries an extra electron. This extra electron will neutralize a free radical cascade. But you must take much higher doses during the onset of illness to stop the cascade. If a free radical is not neutralized it can do damage elsewhere in the body.

So the method is called "titration" developed by a Stamford scientist.

You take 3 full grams of powdered ascorbic every 3 hours until diarea occurs.
Once diarea occurs back off that amount slightly until the diarea stops hold that amount until symptoms clear. Works very well.

Your body can use much more ascorbic when your sick than when your not sick so it is using this fuel to give energy to lymphocytes to fight the free radical cascade of the virus. Works on flu also.

vitamin A and E are fat soulble so your body will store these in fat cells.
Vitamin C, (ascorbic) is water soulble and is quickly eliminated in the urine in hours that is why you need to take ascorbic every 6 hours or so.

Aside from the dose of ascorbic of 10-12 grams a day, follow label directions on everything else. Dont take more than label directions on A and E since they are stored in the body.

A yearly pneumonia shot is highly recommended also.

Take care.