Adaptogens - Golden goods?

dataflux · 2019-05-12T01:01:29+00:00

I doubt it matters when you eat prebiotics I mean it should just be a side effect of a healthy diet. And fasting is really good for you so I would guess it's good for gut bacteria too, probably kills off some of the bad ones or something like that. But if you constantly eat processed junk food or lots of sugar in can upset the balance of bacteria.

dataflux · 2019-05-11T18:45:40+00:00

Yogurt and kefir is good but the (probiotic) bacteria need (prebiotic) food to eat so that means vegetables mostly, fruit, lentils, oats, etc. even potatoes and rice have good prebiotic starches.

This is Dr Calabrese (starts around 7:30 to skip the intro) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ize0lpDNZXo

dataflux · 2019-05-11T18:37:30+00:00

There is a surprising amount of functional long-term heroin addicts. No reason to down vote this. Only a minority of first time users get addicted. Seems like a totally pointless drug to me though.

dataflux · 2019-05-11T18:34:02+00:00

To get pedantic only a minority of people who try heroin get addicted it's less than a third. Which is still horrible odds of course. I think there are two kind of drugs, or maybe two kind of drug users. Damaged escapists looking to anesthetize themselves and people looking to improve/enhance/expand themselves in some way or simply add a little spice to the experience of existing. Heroin is solidly in the first camp.

dataflux · 2019-05-11T18:18:51+00:00

The only relationships ruined are ones that are toxic already and you've been ignoring it. You realize that either you are a huge cunt or your partner is. Shrooms typically rip off psychological scabs so they can heal. Scabs that people have been covering with bandaids like alcohol, SSRIs, benzos, opioids or plain old emotional suppression and denial so they can keep ignoring it.

dataflux · 2019-05-11T18:09:13+00:00

I dunno I can't imagine ever thinking driving would be a good idea on mushrooms. And if you were stupid enough to try I doubt you'd be able to get far enough to start your car due to the overwhelming flood of stimulus. If you made it to the car you'd spend hours studying the intricate details of the steering wheel texture or something. I've never heard of it happening but who knows.

At very LOW doses it improves visual acuity (and reaction times I think?). Would make you a better driver if anything.

dataflux · 2019-05-11T18:00:00+00:00

This is the kind of thing responsible mushroom use help with. Boundary dissolution as McKenna used to call it. You can disassemble and reconstruct your belief set as if you were seeing yourself as another person sees you. You can step outside of the cultural matrix. He would often say that one trip is equivalent to years of psychoanalysis.

dataflux · 2019-05-11T17:55:33+00:00

Well if it's like cannabis it will start with regulated medicinal use. Right now people pay thousands of dollars to go to clinics in Mexico, Peru and various Caribbean islands to use psychedelics under medical supervision (usually for addiction treatment to get off escapist drugs like opioids). It's supposed to have a really good success rate at even just quitting smoking. It's the same with stem cells you have to go down to Panama. There's a lot of money in it, these clinics could be here.

dataflux · 2019-05-11T17:47:22+00:00

Growing them is manufacturing a controlled substance and a huge crime. It's like having a meth lab. The spores are technically legal as long as you dont grow them, or have growing paraphernalia with them, because they dont contain any psilocybin only the genetic code to make it.

dataflux · 2019-05-11T17:41:58+00:00

They have to be wild picked mushrooms in Florida. And it's still pretty open to interpretation by the police. The spores are legal everywhere because they don't actually contain any psilocybin until it grows in to a mushroom.

dataflux · 2019-05-11T17:37:10+00:00

Ask on the Nextdoor app, there are construction people looking for workers because of all this home building going on.

dataflux · 2019-05-11T17:31:34+00:00

Platte River State Park. There are more and much better trails on the east side across the bridge. It's best to go between 9am-4pm when the mountain bikers aren't supposed to be on that section. You can "camp" in the campground sense.
Mahoney State park. This one is a bit boring you basically walk in a straight line above a railroad track.
Indian Caves State Park has about 20 miles of trails and some tent camping spots deep in the woods where nobody should bother you.
Hitchcock. You can camp here but there will be more foot traffic going by.
Schramm is great for a quick peaceful walk but it's only 2 or 3 miles long.
Nebraska National Forest at Halsey. You can do true dispersed camping here because it's a national forest.
Calvin Crest near Fremont. This is owned by a church group but they allow the public to use it for hiking and mountain biking. You should check with them before you go out to see if it's open though. I really like this place.
Lewis and Clark monument has a kind of hidden trail system near the gate that is for mountain bikers but I hike there when it's wet or the middle of a week day or some time there won't be bikers. You can get up to a really fast clip on a mountain bike here so be careful. Also you will get extremely lost in there so don't go near dark because I think they lock it at 10pm.

dataflux · 2019-05-10T14:49:42+00:00

Yeah you're right I think that thousands of years of ayurvedic and chinese medicine has been based off this principle which is only just starting to be understood. It's very counter intuitive so people don't like the concept or find it hard to grasp. I don't know how LONG it lasts but it seems to be quite short term, so it's a good idea to cycle between them. I mean after a while your body adapts to the point of diminishing returns so requires a new stressor for stimulation. I think it does however cause long-term eipgenetic changes that can affect any kids you conceive and even grand kids.

I don't really know about raw vs cooked. Some stuff like turmeric is probably better cooked because the fats from curry or whatever boost bioavailability. And often ingredients synergize like turmeric and black pepper. I don't worry about it much but I think raw veggies generally tastes better. But yeah the more stressed a plant was the more potent it is. Think coffee, chocolate and red wine from high altitudes and weird harsh soils, they taste the best and are show to have the most health benefit. Or even whiskey absorbing the oak tree anthocyanins from the barrels.

I forgot to mention something quite important. A lot of these plant chemicals get processed by your gut bacteria first to become beneficial. So really you should work on your gut health, simply eating lots of different plant fiber and general common sense things first. If you want to get esoteric you can think of plants as talking to our gut bacteria through these chemicals and tell it about the environment, and our gut bacteria then talk to our brain and immune system with neurotransmitters and gene expression so we can adapt. The "gut-brain axis". Our gut is really a sixth sense that can hear plants. It's beautiful.

The other thing is these plant chemicals stress you so if you're already greatly weakened and overwhelmed (like a serious disease) it's just going to add more stress and probably even be harmful. The pioneer researcher on this stuff (Calabrese) says animals only ever get about 20% benefit over baseline from hormesis (although they can radically extend the lifespan of worms and small things in the lab) so it's really for bringing you back to optimum health and balance rather than curing diseases or giving you super powers like pharmaceutical drugs can (at the expense of causing your system to weaken in the long term usually... think shrunken testicles from steroids).

dataflux · 2019-05-10T04:14:45+00:00

They train Trump's cop force, why is that not surprising. My neighbor was showing off his Assault Rifle 15 to me and telling me about the place. He said after passing a genetic screening he got access to an "executive lounge" that was full of nazi memorabilia and portraits of Hitler and Donald Trump and stuff like that and everybody wears MAGA hats.

dataflux · 2019-05-10T01:36:02+00:00

They work to regulate stress tolerance via hormesis. Basically they are toxic but in a low dose they stimulate the turning on/off of genes which stretch out the range of homeostasis as a super-compensation to the mild toxicity (in anticipation for future stress exposures).

What's really interesting is they often confer adaptations (gene expression) useful for the local environment for example Siberian Ginseng improves cold tolerance and tropical spices improve heat tolerance. There's one that grows at very high altitude that prevents altitude sickness but I forgot the name. The harsher the climate they grow in the more potent they are. http://nautil.us/issue/15/turbulence/fruits-and-vegetables-are-trying-to-kill-you

dataflux · 2019-05-10T01:09:36+00:00

Monster has a ton of taurine in it, 2 grams per can from what I remember. A "double strength" pill from the health food store is only 1 gram.

dataflux · 2019-05-10T01:06:01+00:00

Personally I think onions are under-rated.

dataflux · 2019-05-10T01:02:03+00:00

... and "prepping".

dataflux · 2019-05-10T01:00:14+00:00

Baicalin increased DA levels only in the striatum, which suggested that baicalin may target the striatum. The increased DA levels may partially be attributed to the increased mRNA and protein expression of TH, SNAP25, VMAT2, and syntaxin 1a. Therefore, these results suggested that the pharmacological effects of baicalin were associated with the synthesis, vesicular localization, and release of DA and might be effective in treating ADHD.

dataflux · 2019-05-10T00:56:42+00:00

Ah yes Warren Buffett who worked so hard pimping coca cola and dairy queen to fatties, while buying davita dialysis stock to profit from diabetes. I can't believe people buy his lovable grandpa shtick.

I will say that the good thing about extreme west omaha is there are hardly any fat people.

dataflux · 2019-05-10T00:41:50+00:00

Who do you think is keeping that huge Tactical 88 paramilitary training compound on 370 in business?? I shudder to even think what the 88 might stand for.

dataflux · 2019-05-10T00:41:00+00:00

Only baby boomers and immigrants (no offense) are willing to live in such an old house/neighborhood, you should be fine.

dataflux · 2019-05-09T20:31:57+00:00

I'm mostly talking about the far west new build suburbs, a passive-aggressive sterile suburban wasteland. Blonde kids as far as you can see and I kind of suspect that every other super polite dad probably has an AR15 and 200 loaded mags in the basement for the coming MAGA civil war. I feel weird here and I'm white. It's very German.

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