@cs3000
This stuff is all so fascinating to me! I had never seen that before in the old forum. I am a total novice lay person. I just like finding things that I heard Ray talk about and share with people like yourself who can run with these ideas! I personally love the quinones from Pau D’arco bark, cascara sagrada. I also love emodin from aloe Vera juice. Emodin is a natural hydroxyanthraquinone compound found in Aloe vera juice, specifically in the latex of the plant. Antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer effects. But, yes! Thanks for diving into Kocks stuff and sharing! It’s helping me explore it more too!
Peace!

@AlphaCog

To put it succinctly, shading is done to keep the L-theanine content high, and the formation of catechins low. L-theanine is responsible for the umami taste, whereas catechins are responsible for the tea tasting astringent or bitter.

Additionally, shading produces a sweeter leaf because of the higher sugar content. It also tends to create darker and greener leaves due to the plant creating more chlorophyll.

I never quite understand the sweet vs bitter benefits of tea. So the tannins are undesirable from a taste profile but aren’t bitter qualities in foods considered medicinal in like traditional medicines. Like TCM etc. I even remember hearing Ray talk about bitter substances being great at stimulating the liver and bile production and whatnot. Does this just not really apply with green tea?

I wanted to share a fun cheap trick. This is very helpful for travel but also at home. Fill a glass of water. Pour it into a second glass. Then pour it back into the first glass… repeat.
Ok! Some details. Pour the water and look at the water flowing into the other glass. You pour it slowly, not super slow. But look at the water. The water stretches on itself. It pulls and spins because it wants to be stable but can’t cuz you’re forcing it to move. If you keep going back and forth from glass to glass and lift the pouring glass higher so you’re splashing alittle, (nature is abundant don’t worry) you really start to oxygenate the water in the lower glass. Structuring and enlivening the water! It’s fun and exciting! And the coolest part if your watch the water being poured in larger quantities, so that you can watch if for longer duration, you see that the water structure is the double helix!!!
🧬 ♾️

The natural action technologies hand held vortex devices is remarkable for moving water from sink to a table top filter and then again to a pitcher of water left out in the counter with some sea salt in it. The vortex device perfectly helps fill a water bottle in the morning. I use a miron black glass bottle. I have years experience playing with water. I’m a gardener and have tried a few structuring devices for watering lots of plants. And if anyone wants to know more about that let me know.

@Corngold

Politics aside, of course, but he also uses child-like language: simple words repeated ad nauseam: a reflection of the child-like metabolism of eating Mickey D's and flying around on a private jet?

Ha! Totally. If you wanted 80,000,000 ~ troubled people to listen to you for thirty seconds, one hour, whatever… what would you say to them? You have a top notch metabolism, and your goal is to get someone’s vote. You’re gonna use common language y’all. You’re gonna say things like, let me be perfectly clear, my opponent is a complete idiot.” “To be honest” “we’re gonna do really great things.” Yay! Clap!

Ray was a genius intellectual. Absolutely. But he was not a salesman because he loathed the idea. DJT is a born salesman. His IQ? He would never take the test and find away to get the teacher fired after making them give him an A in the class. It’s chicken Mcnugget language for sure!
I have no great point really just that, you don’t use a flamboyant cursive font to sell a cheese burger, you use a bold all capital juicy font.
On purpose. His look and language fits his message. Big boss gonna take charge not afraid of little things like French fries and I own the place etc…

Something that everyone is missing on this thread, I think, unless I missed it… ha! Is that trump is always moving. There is something to being on the road constantly traveling which I have done many times. I don’t mean heading out on one little vacation. I mean next town, next, next go, keep going next. Next meeting, stimulating, always variation.

This is extremely Peatastic. Ray always talked about this, mentally, but trump is truly living it. He doesn’t fallow a script. Peaty. He doesn’t always give the same answers. Peaty. He has leisure in his life. Peaty. He is just screwing around and stumbled into the white house because he’s just playing around with his life. And has apparently his entire life. He lives like a kid. He isn’t trying to make his metabolism like a kids, he is living like a kid. But with an adult mind. I would assume the day trump dies he will have had 5 meetings went to a great dinner party and maybe a boxing match and hit 18 holes of golf. And fired some losers! Ha! Live and let live.

@LucH very cool. Thanks you for your time and thoughts in the b1 b2 b6 balance. Had not heard that before.
Do you think high Biotin is going to through things out of whack? Sometimes I take 5mg b7 in case I have some mitochondria not working properly. ( I definitely have some damaged Mito’s!)
Peace!

From my keyboard research on true Mediterranean diets not the H keys version, the version people like Mary Ruddick a keto advocate has done many YouTube videos on her travels to very rural towns along the Mediterranean region. She shows that these people eat glorious amounts of cheese dairy with a side a cream and an extra helping of more cheese. A little wine to keep the cholesterol high to keep youth hormones cranking! A little mountain meat to. But a better name for the Mediterranean diet at least in some areas could be the Cheese diet.
I often wonder why all the years Dr Peat did interviews I never heard him talk much about southern Europe cuisine. I mean Parmesan yeah. All this writing is making me think I’ll have some Mac n Cheese tonight with a glass of grape juice!

@doifus I think you got the right idea for sure.
Only thing I know to mitigate your concern for mono lighting life experience is a great recommendation I’ve heard for office workers, to make sure to look at the sky for 5 10 minutes at sunrise mid day and evening.
This variation of light exposure on the eye 3 times a day should keep stress low. And keep you synced up.

@doifus
Hi! My thoughts are, are you also using white light? Meaning the full rainbow? So like if you have over head incandescent to see and then add a 150 W red that would be good. That’s definitely what I’ve heard Ray talk about too. Just being in very bright light if you are indoors. It takes a ridiculous amount of lightbulbs to make a room as bright as a sunny day.

@LucH
Thanks for the good feedback. I do intuitively skip this a few times a week now that you mention not taking everyday. I do like Haiduts recommendation that it’s better to supplement Bs when needed rather then just over doing them every day.
LucH, did you happen to look at there other B complex? The non methylated one? It is very similar but yet very different in nuanced ways. I tried a couple bottles of each and couldn’t really tell the difference so I settled on the methylated version. Thanks again!