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Homeopathy may not be fast acting, but it is really the only medicine I know that can cure diseases from the root. I had warts not too long ago and I tried everything to get rid of them. Carving them out worked (sort of) until they came back, showing that the problem was not fixed from the root. The only thing that worked was homeopathic medicine I took to get rid of the virus internally and externally with pills and cream (respectively). It wasn't all fun and games, I had to take those pills ritually, three times a day for almost two months! Considering that warts do not go away due to time alone, I think homeopathy is more than placebo. Granted, you can't fix cancer or cystic fibrosis with homeopathy, but it's good for everyday sicknesses we all get every once in a while.

I'm a beginner beekeeper. Last year I had 2 hives, but one collapsed after about a week. The other was hanging on for the rest of the summer, only to lose its queen over the winter. I'm starting from scratch again, bees should be arriving this April. Interestingly, I hear that bee hives do quite well in cities and suburbs because of all the flowers people keep on their balconies and plant in their yards.

I disagree. Calorie reduction is just a theory that if you metabolise less food, you generate less free radicals (O2-1, ·OH, O2-2 among others). Such reductions ensure that your cells age less quickly. Also, this theory implies that your metabolism slows down to a reasonable rate for a human, not down to that of a mouse. I have to disagree with "living a shitty life". Don't speculate from your armchair; armchair speculation is one thing I loath above everything else. This is how we came up with "fats are bad for you because they enter your bloodstream and clog it up". Having lived both in excess and through voluntary calorie restriction, I can tell you that calorie restriction was the best thing I did for myself. Strange "allergies" "eczema" and other health problems disappeared when I started eating less. I encourage anyone considering restricting their diet to go right ahead.

I know, that is why I choose fats over carbs and sugars any day of the week. In my mind, arteriosclerosis comes from the consumption of sugar, not saturated fats. Here's something many people overlook, fatty acids get absorbed into the LYMPH, not directly into the blood stream. People think that fats enter directly into the blood stream and clog it up; that's simply not true. They first pass through the lymph, the gutter of the body if you will, where they are further processed and then put back into the blood stream. Too many people these days speculate from their armchairs and come up with bogus theories that make sense on the surface, those are claims of the worst kind, as they become myths deeply set in people's minds.

Many mushrooms carry out what is called bioluminescence. Some mushrooms carry it out very slowly and dimly, so much so that light can only be detected via a long film exposure. The purpose of fungal bioluminescence remains a mystery, but some speculate that the dim green glow might attract insects that may spread the spores of the fungus in question. If you want a good place to start, Omphalotus olearius is a stunning example of fungal bioluminescence, as is Panellus stipticus. There are countless other species that display this phenomenon, Armillaria gallica for example, the glow of which is quite faint, and as mentioned before can only be recorded via a long camera film exposure.

I've only started to hunt mushrooms recently. I don't carry around a guide, instead, I remember what interesting mushrooms look like and identify them at home. It exercises your memory quite a bit. I keep them all apart in case one is poisonous, so it doesn't ruin all the others. I usually look for mushrooms with medicinal properties, a summary of which can be found here One problem is that mushroom season coincides with deer hunting season where I live, so there is a narrow window of opportunity.

Those meals probably smell awful in purpose. When something smells bad, you don't want to eat it and you reduce your calorie intake. I know someone in my family who went to get advice on how to lose weight and the doctor suggested he ate bread made without salt. The idea was that bread without salt tastes so awful that after a while he would stop eating it altogether. You'd be surprised about how many idiots are swayed by those adds. Some people are really desperate. If no one was swayed by those ads, they would disappear after a while, but it seems like there are more and more every year.

My eating habits are strange to say the least. I drink green tea (no sugar no milk) for breakfast, but I eat a small sandwich at about midday, usually cheese or lunch meat. I get home and eat a substantial meal at 3PM and I don't eat anything else until the next day. I eat a little of everything, but my diet lacks fiber, so I'm trying to get some more salads in my diet. They're light, full of fiber and water. Interestingly, I eat more fatty foods than a regular person, not fast food, I'm talking butter, oils, fish, cheese etc... (fast food makes me sick). Those are the only foods I have found that I can eat in moderate quantities and not feel sick afterwards. Is it possible that the body can process lipids better than carbs for energy? I appologise; I felt like this thread was worth bringing up again. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like there is much more pseudo-science about diet nowadays compared to five years ago. People don't seem to understand that you lose weight when you eat less, not when you take advice from a stupid add.

I made a list of mushrooms with medicinal properties a few months ago and posted it on a chemistry forum I am also active in: Here's the link Let me know if you find it useful.

Hmm, interesting. Your Trametes versicolor isn't too colourful. I had some growing in my yard and this is what it looked like: I'm in the process of extracting PSK, a long arduous procedure that has so far yielded mixed results.

I've actually experimented with calorie restriction and it seems like the less I eat, the better I feel. I am a teenager, so perhaps it's not fair to make a comparison to adults, but I feel better on an empty stomach than on a full one. I've never actually tried to fast for more than three days because I'm close to an anorexic as it stands. I am by no means an anorexic, because I don't have the same mental disposition, I reduce my calorie intake not to look better, but to feel better. Here's the odd thing, I used to be slightly overweight, 15 pounds-ish and I decided to lose the excess. I did manage with a combination of low food intake an a tad bit more exercise. Now I'm at a healthy weight and I feel better than ever. The trouble is that I lose about 50 grams of body weight on average every day, even when I eat well and live a sedentary lifestyle. It may not seem like much but at the end of a week, I lose a substantial amount of weight (something close to a pound). I then have to eat more during weekends to compensate for the energy loss, but whenever I do that I feel awful and sick and wish I ate less. My parents think I'm an anorexic and I don't blame them. My weight once dropped below 49kg (108lbs) and that's low for someone who's ~170cm tall. They tell me to eat more and as soon as I do that, eczema breaks out on my hands, I get cold like symptoms in the morning, and I feel awful. I go right back to eating less (it's a sort of reverse addiction) Every once in a while, it is good to escape the excesses of society, and simply consume less.