@LetTheRedeemed said: The best answer is for our economy to get fixed, not to punish people stepping out and taking a risk.

@Milk-Destroyer said: Any coffee drinking plants in the audience, care to elaborate? Plants appreciate coffee grounds as fertilizer. But what about coffee poured on the soil? Short answer: No. Undiluted caffeine = herbicide. It's a trap many people fall into, thinking they're doing the right thing. While coffee grounds (already brewed and decomposed) are often appreciated in moderation, pouring the rest of your cup of liquid coffee directly onto the soil is generally a bad idea, especially for potted plants. The liquid coffee we drink doesn't have the same properties as the solid residue (the grounds). It presents three major risks to plants: Caffeine is an herbicide In nature, the coffee plant produces caffeine* for a very specific reason: to inhibit the growth of other plants around it, thus preventing competition for water and nutrients. It is a natural herbicide. Liquid coffee still contains a high concentration of caffeine, unlike coffee grounds, which have been leached by hot water. Pouring it on the soil can inhibit root development in your plants. NB: It's the role* of polyphenols to bring defense. Chlorogenic acids are the primary polyphenols in the coffee plant to be considered. Excessive acidity Black coffee is very acidic (its pH is often between 4.5 and 5.0). If you pour it undiluted onto a plant that prefers neutral or alkaline soils (such as thyme, lavender, or geraniums), you will acidify the substrate too drastically, which blocks nutrient absorption… The Additive Trap (Sugar and Milk) If your leftover coffee contains sugar or milk, it's a recipe for disaster for a houseplant. The sugar will feed harmful bacteria and attract fungus gnats, while the milk fats will rot, create mold, and clog the soil pores, suffocating the roots. How to recycle your leftover coffee cleanly? Diluted coffee grounds in compost = hormesis effect. 100 ml of black coffee in one liter of water (10%), but only for plants that prefer acidic soil: hydrangeas, camellias, rhododendrons, or houseplants like ficus, and no more than once a month. Still too concentrated.

the accumulated positive ions from the hot weather creates a generally more serotonergic atmosphere

@ZackVegas ever considered black ginger?

@Elella Wow,looks pretty unusual and splendid. Great job)

Replying to an old thread on off chance it might help someone. Have had tinnitus on and off for months. It was never fully gone in that time. I assumed it was caused by endotoxin (diet has been mixed at best lately) and/or higher than usual aspirin use. I took 250mg of niacinamide earlier and the tinnitus is now completely gone. It's a shock to not even hear it as a background hum, which shows me just how constant it's been these past months. Ray gave the advice years ago that niacinamide can treat it. Worth trying.

Would it be a good idea to add minoxidil to the mixture for extra hair growth? If you are making it homemade, the main issue with minoxidil (needing to use it constantly or lose the benefits) ceases to exist because the cost gets pushed so low. Edit: According to Grok, it looks like minoxodil wouldn't work because of the salicylic acid, which breaks down the sulfotransferase enzymes that minoxidil depends on to function.

@alfredoolivas said: androstane x2

@Mossy thanks v much for that. Looks similar to one I'm currently using. I also seem to do better on sodium ascorbate, esp if it's free of corm and ideally free of silica.

@sunsunsun lol. Yes You can buy lots of combo pills of this though. I find it strange. It doesn’t seem to be taken together but who knows.

@Korven yeah I just avoid it now. it's the mark of a low quality food product anyways, or it was designed by a food scientist that has selective attention when reading the research on these additives.

@lobotomize lol but emphasis on the “babe” …my joke failed

@jamezb46 some animals might not inactivate DHT in muscle to the same extent seen in humans

Dopamine (D_{2}) receptors are inhibitory. When dopamine binds to them, they act as a negative feedback loop to decrease further dopamine release and suppress excitability.; https://bioenergetic.forum/post/56042 ""The dopamine system of healthy, highly creative people is similar to that found in people with schizophrenia" lower d2 in creative people and schizos low D2 receptor density (not to be mistaken with D3) is correlated to creativity low protein high carb diet decreases D2 receptor density antipsychotic medicine increases D2 density and lowers dopamine, so one can argue that high baseline dopamine reduces D2 density "" @mauritio

CrumblingCookie said: So far there's not a hint of hematological / bone marrow suppression. CBC is as fine as always. Retrospective addendum on this: At 95mg/kg BW FCy/5-FC daily and peak serum levels just under the therapeutic optimum my CBC showed a mild drug toxicity in the form of eosinophilia and basophilia. I did have a rash on the light-exposed backs of my hands for a few days around that blood-draw. Total lymphocyte and leucycyte counts weren't suppressed, though, which was most important to me. Overall: • My sinuses and upper airways have remained much clearer (perhaps itraconazole alone would have sufficed for this?). • I can't really put it into words but my mental and physiological response to carbohydrates and sweets has distinctly changed to being calmer and more reserved. • Still feeling dull in my head 10 days after finishing FCy/5-FC. @evan.hinkle Thanks for your reply wrt BPC 157. Good info on 10mcg/kg BW minimum for systemic effects from oral dosing! I've been pinning 500mcg subcutanously. Had really, really strong reactions to it for over a week, as in purge-like watery eliminations. Several people online report on such initial effects but for < 3 days so I'm clearly offside the usual, again. I also used 500mcg of the s.c. solution orally for three days in a row and that was just too much and seemed wasteful in the face of this ongoing "purging" reaction. Ideally I'd like to binge on BPC also from the GI side but I don't have enough of it to do so at the moment.

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@CrumblingCookie it isnt direct the only evidence for bdnf caused hair loss is in animal models so take that statment with a grain of glucose

@KM88 so you only eat chicken and eggs ? you are yet to answer what your diet is made out of