link to tweet re alkaline diet/supporting our livers

[HazelAustralia]

Hello everyone,

I hope you are finding your treatment okay. I am still anaemic, but I am getting used to it and luckily, am still on annual leave. Other than that  I am finding the treatment fine and I remain so happy to be able to access it.

I wanted to ask about the tweets on the bottom left hand side of the pages. I have tried to link from the tweet that refers to the pros and cons of an alkaline diet - and I have done a word search and flicked through many of the possible pages that it might be on, but I can't find it. I have done a lot of incidental and interesting reading in the meantime - like the old days of going to a library and finding lots of other books I wanted to read, in the shelves around the one I was looking for. I loved that!

Does anyone know a way to navigate to it (I'm not "tweet literate")? I want to be more conscious of my diet.

I get the impression that some of the side effects that we are experiencing are effects of the liver - our livers are preoccupied being attacked by the treatment and are no doubt agitated. We are expecting them to do their normal work as well, and they were already more or less damaged. I'd just like to ease the digestive burden on my liver a bit during treatment and beyond - show it a bit of appreciation and support! I'm not necessarily going to be that successful at doing that - but i want to get some more ideas about how I might.

Best wishes all,

Hazel

[lporterrn]

I must confess that I am not seeing tweets in my screen. I only know a little about the alkaline diet - there are many myths surrounding it, and people do it for different reasons. It does sound like you are trying to lower your gastric acidity rather than blood or urine. Do I have that right?

An alkaline diet has the advantage in that it includes foods that are heart and liver-friendly and easily digestible (fruits and veggies). However, a balanced diet that includes lean proteins (especially plant-based) and whole grains is a good goal for most of us without special medical concerns.

If you do an evidence-based search, you won't find much support for an alkaline diet. Many moons ago I decided it sounded good to me and after I did the research, I said forget it. Here is a little help to get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_diet

[HazelAustralia]

Thanks Lucinda,

This is the tweet:

Hep Magazine @hepatitismag
 From the Forums: Pros and Cons of Alkaline Diet while on Harvoni? ow.ly/T1BxH #hepatitis

Hazel

[BillT]

Hi Hazel,

I found the post for you.It wasn't much but this is where that tweet led.Let me look and I'll see if there was more to it.


http://forums.hepmag.com/index.php?topic=3412

Scroll down to the 19th hour.As I said this is where it came back to.

https://twitter.com/hepatitismag

[lporterrn]

Thanks Bill.
Hazel, by now you can see that this was a conversation on the Forum - Kim's input was spot on.

[HazelAustralia]

Thanks Bill and Lucinda - I'll have to learn how to negotiate that while I'm here so that I get a different kind of side effect of treatment - improving my tweet skills.
Hazel

[BillT]

I wouldn't know the first thing about tweeting Hazel(and don't want to know).What I did was take the...
Pros and Cons of Alkaline Diet while on Harvoni? ow.ly/T1BxH #hepatitis,and put it in the search.

[HazelAustralia]

Clever! I just searched for 'alkaline diet'!