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by teslabox 10y ago
Johann Hari wrote an excellent book [1] about how the bad plants came to be demonized and persecuted. Yes, Cocaine and heroin cause problems for people, but does that justify turning addicts' supply chains over to organized crime? Woul
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I've read speculation that chickenpox is a seasonal disease, and that one difference between severe cases and mild cases is the child's vitamin D level. It is unfortunate that children are now commonly vaccinated against chickenpo
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> Banning or further restricting [...] the best solutions we have doesn't sound like something I would support. The solutions offered by the medical profession are far from the best solutions we have, they're what are profitab
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When children are put in unnatural environments that are totally incompatible with the way children's minds actually work, they will not do well. Children should be actively learning, but school puts them in desks. I could have been di
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I wonder how humanity ever got anything done, before we had stimulants to treat our ADHD.
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After reading your comment I watched the video -thanks. The presenter has some really good points, in this and his other videos, about how Apple makes it hard for people like him to fix people's products. Furthermore, Apple Service doe
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> After going through a lot of pub-med researches about decreasing my blood triglyceride levels, I found out that I have to get rid of sugar and saturated fat completely, and eat foods with low glycemic index. I'm doing basically th
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I'm thinking about something like this, thanks for posting your link. My father's house has a greywater septic system. The treated water is sprayed on an "orchard". The trees don't get watered when people aren'
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Ellen Brown's article, "What We Could Do with a Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure that Doesn’t Cost Taxpayers a Dime" [1], advocates for allowing the post office to expand its banking services. I send postal money orders so
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The rise of heroin is probably related somehow to the legalization of cannabis (medicinal and 'recreational'). When organized crime's cash cow went away, they just picked new products to supply to their target market.
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> and monoamine transporters for stimulants like MDMA and cocaine and so on, as well as a few others. A very useful monoamine drug is available at most aquarium stores. I wonder if they will try to outlaw 'getting high with restaura
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I took the gmail client off my phone, for various reasons. One was that I wouldn't write people back after reading their email on the phone, and it'd be a few days. I'm cutting back on my Facebook time too, trying to limit th
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The bilderbergers [1] now acknowledge their group's existence, though 25 years ago it was just a conspiracy theory. Little people don't know what to believe - when "authorities" are caught lying regularly, anything'
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>>> If anything the taxi model is more exploitative, reminiscent of the 'company town' era when the employee rented their living space and tools from the company. > I have stopped driving as of July... ... because you
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Wall Street's inconvenient problem is that refined/deodorized/rancid vegetable oils commonly used in manufactured foods are not appropriate for human consumption. Before deodorization was figured out, these oils (soybean, lin
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This "anti-ageing drug" is actually just Metformin, an old drug commonly used to not help those suffering from type-2 diabetes. Some people like it, some people hate it. > Scientists think the best candidate for an anti-ageing
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Trump's success, and Bernie's threat, seem to indicate that "the little people" passionately hate the professional political commentators. I wonder if the media gave Mr. Trump so much free advertising because they though
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John Gatto used to send his 7th grade students out into the real world, to learn from adults doing real things. He would have them write a report about what they'd learned. [1] [1] http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/ Real
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by teslabox 11y ago
The Linus Pauling Institute has a good page on folate: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/vitamins/folate I'be recently started eating liver regularly, which is a pretty good source of this vitamin.
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John Taylor Gatto [1] says that it's more important to skip as much of the early years of schooling as possible. If the child spends that time in the real world, nothing of importance will be missed. For me, kindergarten was incredibly
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The article is pretty good, but neglects to mention that there are more types of fatty acids than the saturated kind. Unsaturated fatty acids become more unstable as the level of unsaturation increases. The so-called "essential" f
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This essay is much needed, especially considering the site that it's posted at. The American Heart Association has spent decades promoting bad advice. The worst of this advice is telling us to use cooking oils which are predominately p
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This comment was posted from my phone, and I think I should clarify two things: 1. Matt is one of two classmates that I remember from that high school. I switched schools for the last two years, didn't integrate well, and was recoverin
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Most cases of postnatal depression can also be helped with Progesterone USP supplementation. Pregnancy is a time of very high progesterone production, and when levels of this steroid crash to "almost nothing", nothing works like i
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I went to high school with Matt, and followed his son's blog - https://overcomingmovementdisorder.blogspot.com/ - regularly about six years ago, while they were trying to figure out what was wrong. One of the problems
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> I find it slimy and too saturated with grease. McDonald's used to fry their foods in a blend of coconut oil, tallow & lard. Then the charlatans pressured them into switching their fryers to biodiesel (aka Soybean oil). Now M
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Some of the prescription opioids are contaminated with Tylenol, which is very toxic to the liver when consumed in excess.
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The first memory booster I found was a tea from the local herb store called "An Elephant Never Forgets". Anything that improves the brain's ability to burn sugar - that is, optimizes brain's metabolism - is good for memo
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> And then there's another factor at play. Many, though certainly not all, of the scientists who opine loudest about the uselessness of philosophy are public atheists. I have a book by Linus Pauling with an excellent quote about as
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My brother found a basically-new memory foam mattress on Craigslist years ago - it was someone's guest bed. He had just started medical school, and quite proud of his find. This mattress has migrated to his guest bedroom - he'd re

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