For All World Travelers

As you travel the world even if you take bottled water and only drink that wherever you go, usually you are still eating local food wherever you go. Because of this and because often human feces is used throughout most of the world to fertilize that food and because the more third world you go the more likely water supplies are contaminated with things like giardea or even amoebic dysentery you have to think about the consequences of world travel on this level too.

I met an American lady who avoided ever getting giardia in India while living there by eating 25 to 30 oranges or limes or lemons every day. She said this either converted her system to be either too acidic or too alkaline (I can't remember which)  by doing this for any giardia to live in and she seemed fine.

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However, one of the many reasons that people in India are thin generally speaking is that they all have giardia in their intestines. So, the giardia parasites are eating some of their food all the time which prevents them from ever getting fat.

However, there are many health problems associated with having parasites like Giardia in your intestines for a long time. And people in the U.S. are usually much less aware of things like this even though 

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tends to be in literally all municipal water supplies in the U.S. in the late summer or fall because they condense in reservoirs as the water supplies decrease. 

Cryptosporidium cannot be killed by either chlorination or  fluoridation because Cryptosporidium has become immune to both over time.

IT also can kill people with compromised immune systems here in the U.S. especially people with HIV. 

So, it is very important not to drink tap water (without reverse osmosis tippets) during especially the summer and fall from tap water anywhere in the U.S.

So, even though giardia can be killed by clorination or fluoridation in the U.S. from water sources like reservoirs Cyrptosporidium is not killed anywhere by anything I'm aware of that water processors presently use except reverse osmosis and boiling the water 5 minutes and some other filtering type of devices or dropping certain kinds of tablets into water that usually make the water taste bad.

However, as you travel around the world even though  you might bring good bottled water you still are going to be eating food and breathing air that could have parasites in them as you eat them at restaurants. For example, in the air feces often is in the air blowing in the dust and you can also get parasites this way.

Symptoms of giardea are unmistakable if you have ever had Montesuma's revenge in Mexico. Uncontrollable bowels for up to a week or more and severe cramping is one of the first symptoms of a giardia protazoa infestation in your intestines.

However, eventually this subsides but if they remain in your intestines in some form over time some other things can happen like hypothyroidism and auto-immune diseases over 10 to 20 years. 

So, it is important to be a aware that all these things can happen even without cramping and uncontrollable bowels in many people. So, being aware of all these things might save your life ongoing as you travel the world now and into the future.

People who have been in the Peace Core around the world already know what I'm talking about.

I already got hypothyroidism (likely by age 40) but I was undiagnosed with this until I was 58 so I almost died several times from getting bronchitis which undiagnosed hypothyroidism helped create. However, finally in 2006 my trainer had hypothyroidism and had been trained as a physician's assistant in Germany and told me my symptoms were the same as hers. So, I took a T3 and T4 blood test which confirmed I had hypothyroidism and began taking armour thyroid which made me feel like I was 20 once again at age 58.

Luckily, I stopped eating gluten 1 1/2 years ago which stopped me from getting an auto-immune disease related to having been exposed to giardia in 1985 and 1986 in India and Nepal and possibly Thailand.

So, I'm speaking to you through my own experiences which I have found ways to survive to my present age of 66. So, good luck to you in your discoveries of how to stay alive too.