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Healing diets: what work and what doesn't, and why 18 y
...correcting these primary culprits of any "wrong"
diet will result in much of the generic "proper nutrition" mission having been accomplished.
Where do we go from here? Towards fine-tuning for specific needs...
Chemical additives, unnaturally processed foods, unnatural non-traditional concentrations of various natural traditional foods (e.g., the amount of sugar in a soda can or the amount of lectins in genetically modified wheat), coupled with the absence of natural and necessary nutrients, are the primary culprits in any ”wrong” diet, and correcting them will result in much of the generic ”proper nutrition” mission having been accomplished.
Where do we go from here? Towards fine-tuning for specific needs...
one route to take may look as follows:
fine-tuning for...
for an INDIVIDUAL of a ... read more Who defines our values? 18 y
Food is no substitute for love (matter of fact, nothing is... but too many children grow up on too many substitutes and not enough of the real thing.)
Who determines what amount of focus on what issue is too much and what’s not enough? Who teaches us what’s ”really important in life” and what isn’t?
In the final analysis, what are the real values worth focusing on? The ones that satisfy real needs. Food, air, water, shelter, freedom, love. The rest is fringes.
In many households, food and issues around it are always a big production,
but it isn’t bad in and of itself... what’s wrong with this picture is that other things might be missing... love, freedom, safety... and so food is peddled as a universal equivalent. Lots of parents ... read more Methylxanthines 18 y
Methylxanthines: caffeine, theobromine and theophylline.
Methylxanthines: caffeine, theobromine and theophylline.
Action: will bind D3 Receptors.
Sources: coffee, cacao (chocolate), tea, mate, cola nut, guarana.
Caffeine is the most efficient one, and coffee is the richest source.
Smoking in coffee drinkers enhances dopaminergic effects of caffeine and its protective effects on the CNS; in its turn, coffee drinking in smokers provides efficient protection against lung damage. (Source of info: Bennett Allan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer, ”The World of Caffeine,” with 35 pages of scientific references at the end).
The following proc ... read more A blitz foray into TCM 19 y
Below is a blitz foray into traditional taoist philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine (which is rooted in the former in its entirety)...
Below is a blitz foray into traditional taoist
philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine (which is
rooted in the former in its entirety), intermixed with
my own take (as is everything in my world, where
there’s no such thing as ”objective,” ”impartial” and
”impersonal,” unlike in the ”let’s pretend I don’t
exist,” ”never mind me, I’m nothing really, I’m not
even here, objective science is happening all by
itself, no one is personally responsible for the shape
and form it takes!” make-believe world of
”peer-reviewed,” ”modern,” ”double-blind,”
”statistically significant,” etc., ... read more I remember more... 19 y
Mind is a function of the brain, and brain is 65% fat. Fat floats on top of water.
”Getting there” is getting where? It’s all inside, and most of it is water... Water with memories of everything it’s been through dissolved in it. Water shaped by everything ever thrown into it. Water Memory. Memory Water.
A good practice settles your memory. Then you look through the transparent cellular water and everything on the bottom of every cell is clear, and everything you see is you. The real you -- Memory Water.
Now what about things that aren’t water soluble? Like fat? They will float on top...
Mind is a function of the brain, and brain is 65% fat. Fat floats ... read more Survivor game in the supermarket 19 y
Every breath we take... Every move we make... Every label we fail to read...
Industry currently produces about 100,000 chemicals, of which 70,000 are proven toxins harmful to humans and the rest have ”unknown” effects. Every breath we take... Every move we make... Every label we fail to read... is a danger to our health and well-being. I view label-reading as surveilance of enemy activity. The pretty wrapper on a food item lures me into a cunning trap. I walk a supermarket isle like a minefield. On a couple of occasions, I did food shopping with a friend whom I was trying to teach how to decipher enemy communication codes on labels (things like ”natural flavor” or ... read more What is health? 19 y
Interestingly, there's no definition of "health" anywhere where you can find all kinds of definitions for all kinds of illnesses. So we are free to decide for ourselves what it is that we will think of as "health."
Interestingly, there’s no definition of ”health” anywhere where you can find all kinds of definitions for all kinds of illnesses. So we are free to decide for ourselves what it is that we will think of as ”health.” Health is not just something you have when you don’t have a debilitating illness -- though it can be as simple as that, sure thing, and for so many people it’s totally good enough -- anything that’s ”better” or ”much better” or even ”great” can be good enough! And beyond that, health can also be more. One can get ambitious about health. And want more. And more on top of that.
... read more Doctor, heal thyself 19 y
In 1933, The New York Times announced the death of Professor Li Chung Yun, a Chinese herbalist, at the age of 256 years.
In 1933, The New York Times announced the death of Professor Li Chung Yun, a Chinese herbalist, at the age of 256 years. His age was officially recorded by the Chinese government (from which he received happy birthday congratulations on his 150th and 200th birthdays) and confirmed by various independent investigators, including the French and British government committees. Li had reportedly outlived 23 wives and was living with his 24th at the time of his death.
Professor Li, who taught herbal medicine at Beijing University on and off for two hundred years (sic!), asserted that all his ... read more Messengers and messages 19 y
Chemicals work as messengers. Messages have meanings. They are easy to translate into spoken human languages if you listen closely.
Chemicals work as messengers. Messages have meanings. They are easy to translate into spoken human languages if you listen closely.
E.g., when I water my plants I’m actually pouring out a clear meaningful message: ”Live.”
I don’t need to know how exactly each plant’s system will go about interpreting it in biochemical terms, what reactions will occur, etc. -- all I need to know is, the intent of transmitting this message is to support ”aliveness,” and the outcome of transmitting it is life.
When pesticide manufacturers drown the environment in their various concoctions, you have to ... read more Do you believe in space and time? 19 y
As a physicist once put it, "space and time are nature's way of preventing everything from happening all at once in one spot."
As a physicist once put it, ”space and time are nature’s way of preventing everything from happening all at once in one spot.”
If you believe in space and time, chances are you already know what you should and shouldn’t eat.
Different places, at different times, were inhabited by different peoples eating different foods they prepared in many different ways. Do you believe it?
Then came migrations. Still plausible?
E.g., your own grandparents may have migrated from Europe to America. True or false?
In Europe, your grandparents’ ancestors never ate corn, tomatoes, or potato ... read more I remember... 19 y
There were seventy-six varieties of honey bees in the forest, and only six of them were willing to share their honey with my people.
There were seventy-six varieties of honey bees in the forest, and only six of them were willing to share their honey with my people. The other seventy told us to stay away or else... so we did, of course.
Of the six varieties that said it was OK to take some honey when we needed it, my favorite ones were the pale, dewdrop-eyed night bees that gathered nectar only off those secretive, shy flowers, too delicate to withstand the heat and light of the day, that opened only at night and closed at dawn. The night bees’ honey was almost colorless, complexly fragrant, and not as piercingly s ... read more |