I can smell you from here....

I got nailed by about a dozen fireants yesterday morning on my left hand, working on a tree. Stung at the time, but can't even tell today, only faint markings. Previously, I'da had a dozen swells on me. Maybe I'm lucky, maybe it's the iodine, and maybe the ants were tired or it's something else. It is kind of cool though.

Walked through some brush on a hike yesterday - spotted a rattler in the brush on the trail 10 feet ahead of me, Made some noise and it took off. Colorblindness has its advantages - it was plainly evident. Question is, what do you do then ? Turn around and go home , or go forward ? I kept walking.

Lately Ive been soaking my hands in warm / hot water for five minutes, to open the pores, then rubbing straight Lugols on them. Feels good, I feel a slightly euphoric effect from that in the backs of my thighs and lower rear end, as though there is some kind of nerve connection between them. More importantly, my hands are appearing younger. The "staining" doesn't last long at all - at least on me. Perhaps this is why the bites of my aunts do't have much effect.

I'm buried with work.

It is normal and essential to have Body Odor . What is abnormal is to smell more of bacterial growth on a dirty sweaty body, to smell of disease, or from toxins exuding from the skin. It is also abnormal to smell from applied or ingested chemicals.

I used to know a woman who took massive amounts of vitamin B-12. She was a retired nurse and gave herself injections a couple of times a day. It was not due to a medical condition, she just felt it gave her energy. One time a group of us went to a seminar near Little Rock. Riding in a closed car with her was agony. The woman, her car and her clothes reeked of B-12. When a person takes so much of anything that it oozes through the skin can't be healthy.

In another instance, I work with someone who wears huge amounts of a certain cologne. It is very strong smelling and its easy to know when she enters the building. When she enters the break room while I am eating, my food tastes like her cologne. A few days ago I followed her into the restroom. She is not a flusher, and even her urine smelled like Elizabeth Taylor's passion. That seems so wrong to me, to wear so much chemical on the outside, that the body absorbs it and the kidneys must excrete it. The skin is an excretory organ and we need to remember a lot of those scents that come from us can reflect the toxic levels within the body. Even the things we rub on the body to mask our natural (or unnatural) smells may wind up inside and be treated as something poisonous to the body.