@thebodyelectric_ I have tried to fiugure out how to follow threads but there doesn't seem to be a way. Perhaps our gracious and benevolent overlord @brad could implement a follow thread feature? @brad

@thebodyelectric_ If it can heal myofascial trigger points that means that NeuX works on not just muscle tissue but also on fascia? That is very exciting. Lots of potential to heal people from all kinds of things if you can heal disordered fascia!

@PUFADestroyerPPO If oxidizing vitamin A is a problem, should we be concerned about cooking liver? Seems like that ends as an argument for eating it raw. Liver has a lot of vitamin E in it as well.

Have you ever used the NeuX to treat muscle knots?

@thebodyelectric_ What are your thoughts on isometric contraction? Is it similarly stressful as eccentric contraction or is it a middle ground between concentric and eccentric?

Yes this will be a source of much humor. Great idea!

@Sepp-Dietrich Look at how much Ben Greenfield has aged himself over the last few years. He looks pretty bad now. I wouldn't take anything he says too seriously.

@Norwegian-Mugabe Great post! Where can I read more about Jerry Barnes? I couldn't find his work on restrain that you refer to.

An analogy can be drawn between animal neoteny and plant neoteny. Young plants have specific neotenous proportions, similar to animals. Young plants have a high proportion of photosynthetic/respiratory:vascular tissue, and a high proportion of root tissue:vascular tissue. Although plants do not have an endocrine system per se, they do have hormones. Auxin can be thought of as an aging hormone, while cytokinin can be thought of as a youth-associated hormone. Seaweed contains high levels of cytokinins, and some growers use foliar applications of cytokinin to promote a "root-dominant" state in their plants.

Another aspect of plant neoteny is larger leaves and leaves with a high width-to-length ratio. Red light is the more photosynthetically active portion of the spectrum, and I have found that supplemental red light induces this neotenous leaf phenotype.

Your mention of balanced fertilization is correct, and over-fertilization of any one nutrient or mineral can induce deficiencies of other nutrients.

Milk is beneficial to plants and is used by many people as an effective way to treat foliar fungal diseases.

Analogizing between plants and animals can be misleading. Plant metabolism is much more proliferative than animal metabolism. I like to keep this on mind so I do not get to carried away with analogizing between plant and animal metabolism. That being said, a move towards greater bioenergy in plants is probably a move away from encouraging proliferative functions.

Muscle tissue synthesizes androgens. More muscle means more androgen synthesis. This is very well established. But it doesn;t happen in a vacuum. It happens in the mitochondria and requires specific inputs and conditions.

Let's assume that we have proper thyroid function, and adequate cholesterol. Vitamin A is now the limiting reactant. The more mitochondria in the muscle tissue, the greater the potential for androgen synthesis to be taking place. Many of us CO2maxx, generating even more mitochondria.

Following this, Vitamin A can be easily made deficient, especially if you don't tolerate carotene.

It would be useful to estimate Vitamin A requirement based on muscle mass and mitochondrial density but it is probably easier to simply eat liver several times a week. If you are lifting and CO2 maxxing it is difficult to consume too much vitamin A, and very easy to consume too little.

@brad I did not peel them because the skin should contain a high amount of antimicrobials. I was not aware of the issue with the chlorine bath, this could be the issue--I am very sensitive to chlorine!

Ray mentioned once how parrots are so intelligent and long-lived due to their very short digestive tract--they poop very soon after eating. Such an intelligent companion would be very good for a person, not to mention the exosomal enrichment that they would receive! Of course, cages are not peaty so consider moving to South America and living with your parrot in a tree.