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by guest author Kara NOTE REGARDING THE COMMENTS:Kara is the post author, but is no longer able to respond to comments herself. I (Marjorie) have been responding in her stead. I am NOT the post author. Apologies for the confusion. An unsightly, uncomfortable condition My experiences with geographic tongue (GT) started about ten years ago. ...
by guest blogger Steph Steph is maharani at Midlife Makeover Year, where she’s exploring new approaches to her health, diet, attitude, family life, and shoes, among other things. She is also one of my few commenters to refrain from mentioning w-bcam s-x, for which I will be eternally grateful. — mr When I went on ...
I occasionally encounter people who use the expression “developed a tolerance” to describe that annoying phenomenon in which a supplement works for a while to treat whatever symptoms you’re complaining of, and then stops.
After discovering that thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency might be a factor in my insomnia, fatigue, brain fog, and chocolate/sugar cravings, I began experimenting with different formulations of it. Starting with the usual drugstore stuff, I moved on to two Japanese concoctions and then for a grand finale I tried a series of IV treatments to ...
In July 2011 Marla at Perfume-Smellin’ Things blogged about perfumes featuring frankincense, a component of incense which, according to a 2008 research study that somehow completely missed me, is a psychoactive agent that can affect depression and anxiety. Apparently history is full of censer-swinging dope fiends: the use of frankincense, aka oliban or olibanum, goes ...
For anyone out there wondering to what extent the pesticide methyl bromide builds up in our bodies, I offer my recent bromide-detox experience after I switched to organic chocolate. Iodine experiment strangely unproductive Seven months into my iodine experiment, I still couldn’t seem to lower the dose below 100 mg a day without losing its ...
(Updated July 2024.) In the years I had to deal with limited mental and physical energy, I made some adjustments to my life that were individually small but added up to make a significant difference in my sense of well-being. Some of them I adapted from the various “lifestyle design” books I’ve read over the ...
I’ve gone on and on about how many so-called side effects of supplements are actually interactions with other nutrients that are being depleted. After all, it isn’t really likely that you’re deficient in only one nutrient, and they all work together in ways no one on the planet seems to have catalogued entirely. The “nerve ...
Someone on a B12 deficiency discussion group mentioned that he’d found that if he took folic acid (the synthetic version of the naturally-occurring folate) at the same time as methylfolate (a much more bioavailable supplement of folate; AKA Metafolin), he would start to get folate deficiency symptoms, even though he was supplementing it like a ...
While investigating insomnia I came across this 2008 series of Scientific American articles on eight people who’ve been experimenting on themselves to investigate a variety of hypotheses. The subjects include a cybernetics professor who’s wired his nervous system to a computer, the playwright who made the movie “Super Size Me,” and a cardiologist who tried ...
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