Health of the week

For the past six days I've been living and breathing work & sleep. To counteract the stress that inevitably hits me like a ton of bricks when I've got work I decided to try taking some B vitamins and a daily aspirin. What's so great about B vitamins? Strangely enough, work decided to immerse me in the necessity of B vitamins..by giving me patient after patient who had B vitamin deficiency because of excessive alcohol. Wh-hoo. Now I don't have that problem. Actually, on the contrary I am probably 100%+ on my B vitamins. But... nonetheless. B vitamins are good for supporting metabolism--which means the body is better at processing the food we take in into energy that we need.  Ensuring that I've got enough, means that I can process more efficiently & effectively. which means...more energy? I'm hoping. Some studies say Yes. Some studies say, Hey you already get enough from your food so you're just peeing it all off since they are water soluble. I just decided to see what it does for me.
The aspirin...well that is for 2 things. One, my back hurts like nothing else when I'm at work. Two, it happens to be in my excedrin which also contains the amazingness we all know as--caffeiene. :) But health-wise... as we all get older it doesn't hurt (unless you have anemia or some kind of bleeding problem), to thin the blood out a little bit so we can prevent getting clots which either lead to DVTs or the big one that I get to deal with on a daily basis-- strokes. Without delving too deep- DVT stands for Deep Vein Thrombosis-- Not so good because it means blood has pooled somewhere..usually it's in your legs, and when blood stays in one place for too long it clots--therefore creating major pain, and risk for throwing the clot to somewhere more serious (heart, lungs..etc), andd it obstructs blood flow. So that's my health acquired thing of the week. Sleep was my excercise this week. :)