Random, interesting studies

Mauritio

Seems like they do eat the honeycomb as well.
@cs3000
Youtube Video

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@Mauritio said in Random, interesting studies:

Seems like they do eat the honeycomb as well.
@cs3000
Youtube Video

There's no moment in this video where we see the Africans eating the honey for several seconds without the shot changing, so there's not even time to see if they swallow it or spit the comb out after chewing, there is 2 hunters eating honey, and the first hunter legit still has a ball of wax in the inside of his right cheek right before camera switch. Are you looking for confirmation bias?

Mauritio

@random Yeah maybe they spit it out. Just came across this video randomly and thought it was interesting.

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@Mauritio said in Random, interesting studies:

@random Yeah maybe they spit it out. Just came across this video randomly and thought it was interesting.

I suggest try to find videos where the camera focus on the hunters for long enough with out switching to see if they spit or swallow the comb

cs3000

@Mauritio wax is about 10% of the size when u chew it down so they might let it build up a bit
in this one the older guy spits out the wax (& the dude with the 80s hairstyle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJXpp8A1MSA#t=34m35s
and the guy on the right did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMbbxwLyZLc#t=23m22s but the guy on the left was swallowing some tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMbbxwLyZLc#t=19m25s

can build up & block the stomach / intestine anyway swallowing enough at once and not much to gain as can get the compounds in the wax other places & absorbed

CrumblingCookie

@cs3000
Thanks for clearing up this issue of the policosanols in beeswax being non-hydrolysed and therefore essentially useless.

I had been using 20mg policosanols daily (the Swanson product) for a couple of months: Mildly beneficial for digestion and maybe overall.
Then I had used yellow beeswax for a while and every now and then at equivalent amounts of c. 2grams, as per the older info on the RPF, and that never helped with anything and distinctly worsened digestion. From your answer I now finally know why.

cs3000

@CrumblingCookie np ah fits then, funny how this stuff works sometimes. soon after seeing this i got honeycomb as a gift. probably would have ate a decent amount & irritated my intestine damage more if not for this thread & looking into it. great timing

Mauritio

@cs3000 same I was about to reorder honeycomb from Italy, but don't want to risk stomach blockade or anything similar.

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@Mauritio said in Random, interesting studies:

@cs3000 same I was about to reorder honeycomb from Italy, but don't want to risk stomach blockade or anything similar.

@cs3000

You Can still get different effects from it even if you dont swallow the comb, sometimes more powerfull than honey in jar.

There is claims on internet associated with ayurveda that scealed honey comb retain his prana much longer than honey in jar.

I suggest to buy it only from a beekeepers you Can ask questions, due to some beekeepers using plastic/synthetic materials that end up in the comb

revenant

Regarding low protein:

"Hong Kong has one of the highest meat consumption per capita in the world at 664g per day."

"Hong Kong people have a very long life expectancy. In 2023, the expectancy of life at birth for men and women was 83 years and 88 years."

Okinawans ate a lot of pork too when they topped the longevity charts. Not sure how to explain this contradiction. In general meat consumption correlates positively with lifespan:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8881926/

Low protein looks great in studies but I didn't feel particularly good on it, nor did I lose weight.

TexugoDoMel

Low protein looks great in studies but I didn't feel particularly good on it, nor did I lose weight.

I'm simplifying, but I think the benefits of restricting protein (or some amino acids) are proportional to the degree of metabolic dysfunction someone is in. The more dysfunctional the metabolism, the greater the possible benefits of restriction, the less dysfunctional the metabolism, the greater the potential detriments of restriction.

Ray's approach interests me more because it considers how needs change with ageing. Amino acids such as methionine, cysteine and tryptophan seem to have been considered in a growth context, they are “essential” but the amount in adulthood is much lower than in a growth phase, so the priority of amino acids changes