Body and it's back to the smooth running machine

 

I'm embarrassed to admit that it was so commonplace for me
I just thought it was how I was going to live for the rest of my days.

The pain would wake me up.



In fact the pain would wake me up all night.

I could barely get a good night's sleep because of the constant
pain in my hips, legs, and lower back.

But the mornings, UGH, mornings were the worst.

Swinging my legs over the side of the bed, it felt like a thousand muscles were screaming at me.

And standing up, it was like my back was a rusty old gate. Barely able to budge.

Then, just to be able to walk upright, I'd have to go through nearly 30 minutes of painful and tedious stretches.

It was like I had to talk my body into just doing basic movements.

I would see those drawings of neanderthals from thousands of years ago hunched
over and think: "Yep that's me!"

And throughout the day I'd have to come back to that routine just so I could move
around without holding onto walls and railings.

But all that changed when I found this Now? Now I sleep like a rock.

Now I wake completely rested and refreshed.

I spring out of bed like I'm 8 years old and it's a snow day.

I move without pain throughout the day.

It's like someone took a giant oil can and lubricated my entire body
and it's back to the smooth running machine I had in my youth.

Now I exercise more, I walk and hike more, I even work on the house
more because bending over doesn't cause excruciating pain like it used to.

And it's all thanks to this.


















 

The predecessor organization of Sea Shepherd, the "Earth Force Society", was formed in 1977, after its founder, Paul Watson was ousted from the board of Greenpeace for disagreements over his direct action activism which clashed with their pacifist nature. Watson soon left Greenpeace. Initially without funding and with only a small group of supporters, in 1978 Watson convinced Cleveland Amory, head of the Fund for Animals to fund Watson's first vessel, the Sea Shepherd. The first direct action undertaken by Sea Shepherd was against Canadian seal hunting in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in March 1979. Also in 1979, the group made headlines when, for the first time, they rammed a pirate whaling vessel, the notorious Sierra. Such acts continued with Sea Shepherd ing responsibility for damaging or sinking multiple whaling ships, through sabotage or ramming. The group has attempted to intervene against Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Makah, Faroese, and Japanese whalers in multiple campaigns around the globe. Setting a pattern that the group would keep up in later years, the group managed to scuttle a Portuguese whaling vessel, though the first Sea Shepherd was impounded, and lost. Watson states he used the money gained from selling the story rights to fund his next vessel.
After having spent the 1980s undertaking a variety of controversial and dangerous operations in support of various marine conservation aims, in the 1990s the group has been described as having undertaken a shift in their public attitude. Having previously argued primarily from an ethical viewpoint, from the 1990s, Watson's group now also started ascribing themselves law enforcement powers, using its interpretation of maritime and conservation law, to describe themselves as an anti-poaching agency. Throughout the 1990s The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had also made a lot of progress with not only with the establishment of their group but also saving wildlife. In March 1990, the society teamed up with others to look closer at methods of driftnet and were successful. 1994 was another successful year for The Sea Shepherd crew as they went after an illegal Norwegian whaling vessel. Sea Shepherd crew ended up sinking this vessel and they were not charged for doing this because the vessel had more illegal behavior than expected. The group started the new decade with a clean up after the oil spill by Petrobras Oil Company. Sea Shepherd helped clean up and set up ways to rescue the wildlife affected by the spill and were contracted by The Rio government to help with this devastation to the ocean. In some cases in the 2000s, they cooperated with official government efforts against maritime poaching, such as in Costa Rican waters, though the agreements often did not last long before conflict ensued. 2008 was another big year for Sea Shepherd in managing the waterways. They took two trips around Antarctica to disturb illegal whaling practices that went on. However, there is increasing co-operation with national governments in assisting anti-poaching activity in national territorial waters and marine reserves, including in 2016 with the Italian Coast guard in Sicily (Operation Siracusa), Mexican Navy (Operation Milagro) and the Coastguards of Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe (Operation Albacore) which included having Gabonese military marines aboard. Starting in September 2010, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has positioned a crew in Taiji, Japan to monitor and report their annual dolphin drive hunt.