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Joe's Progress
The skin is a key indicator in our progress in this. I hauled by hand 2 ft. diameter bucked logs into my truck which were covered in poison ivy. The only place I got poison ivy was where the skin was broken by abrasions, along my wrist where I was tightly gripping the heavy bastards. It goes back to what Grant said in his book about the best way to avoid these problems is to have strong epithelial tissue in the first place. One of the poodles on the farm with a big mammary tumor... the tumor has just suppurated through a new hole, in the same way my own mastiff's tumor did (and my mastiff only lasted a few days afterward) The poodle's left eye is also clouded, and her eye boogers are bad enough that i have a terrible trouble picking/pulling them clear without causing her pain. We just got some new dog food for the most valuable breeds on the farm, and it is called "Chicken and brown rice". It includes peas, spinach, sweet potato, carrot, fish oil and vitamin a supplement. I wonder how we separate the ones who are doing this intentionally from the ones who are merely ignorant, so that we know who to feed to fire ants when the time comes..
I've got another thread where I went a bit off the rails. Reading Grant's books through 3x had made me quite incensed at the situation, and seeing the reality where everybody is so cavalier, and then to read through the forum and find it the same, got my dander right up. I mean, the actual amount of real world human suffering on account of a little "botched science" (I never believed it was botched for a second, and at first thought Grant was carrying water for genocidal maniacs) is past anything Micheal Bay ever dreamed up. I mean it is something to make me want to throw up when I think about it. And when I spoke of Munchausen's by proxy, I should have just said plain Munchausen's. I had read an old thread on this forum where a woman found Grant's books, read them in a flurry, shouted at her husband, changed the children's diet instantly, and then a few weeks later found a new guru and lost interest in Grant's theory ...
Anyway, I still haven't read the comments on that thread. Perhaps I should one day, and eat my well-deserved humble pie. But hell, we all have our rough days, and sometimes we're unlucky enough to have access to a computer at the time. It's as if we're in a world where people's medical diagnoses are a core part of their identity, and if you show them a legitimate escape hatch, they hate you for it (because you're offering to mutilate their identity). What's the point of even trying to help people like that? One of my early insights (when I was superman) was that natural law was simple cause and effect. Believe in lies and you will experience the suffering of the damned. But it's not the liar's fault. The buck stops at the mark. Tough pill to swallow. But don't we want the real consequences to follow real bad decisions? How else will people eventually be led to the right?
I took my sisters out to dinner tonight in my town. Mexican. They had veggie tacos and cheese quesadillas; I had a pitcher of Modelo. My little sister told us about a groundhog which devastated her vegetable garden and left her jalapenos and tomatoes totally untouched. I was like, whoah man that makes perfect sense. I work with animals every day; they are very dumb in many things, and very smart in a few. This was a smart instance.
I still struggle with low wanna-do, but it could be down to my drinking 6-12 beers every single night, and smoking plenty of my hand-rolled cigarettes. I'm certainly not a saint when it comes to chemicals. The bottom line is that my teeth feel stronger, my skin is stronger, I have hair growing on my forearms and even the tops of my hand (where I never had hair before). So much of this (our progress) is revealed through observing the skin.
I suppose that's about it, and I'll post again in a month if the forum is still here. Still sticking to beef, black beans, rice, salt, olive oil, honey. Beer and tobacco. My friend's brother in law just got sudden onset diabetes in his 40's, and a few weeks later his wife got a small cut gardening which inflamed her leg to twice its size. Strong hides are what we need in this brave new world. And a film recommendation to those who have the stomach for David Cronenberg's masterful work: The Shrouds, 2024: https://old.bitchute.com/video/sHjJzOKKv46I/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shrouds?ysclid=mejef64ro3544589294
Wow. Saved myself the time. I would have had to watch that movie five times to have a clue. Dickens could not have kept up with that plot.
BTW, how is the poison ivy? Found an easy profound way to deal with it in 2 or 3 days what used to take 3 weeks. Besides that if you wash it off with dish soap and a rag the way you would axle grease within 8 hours, nothing comes of it. Urushiol is same stickiness and consistency of axle grease.
As to the integrity of the skin thing, I used to take blood at blood center. Yep, it comes in all different textures. Not just based on but also based on race. About 20 years ago, I had a donor in screening booth. Old carpenter. Probably 60. Big guy. 6'6", 330#. Good guy. Got to grab his finger, torque down on the last knuckle and dam up the blood in the tip. The harder we squeeze the less the finger prick hurts, the more easily the blood flows for the sample. So I did. Knew he was thick and thick skinned so I jabbed hard. Nothing. He chuckled. Squeezed harder thinking some would ooze out. Nothing. Looked at my lancet to see if blade even worked. He chuckled more. Told me he gets that all the time, that it worked, that I just needed to squeeze harder. Thought he was nuts. So I ratcheted down hard on that finger tip. Sucker spouted 2' up all over my desk. Now I got bio hazard I got to clean up per FDA baloney. Whatever. Wiped it with alcohol, came back to his finger in under 10 seconds, squeezed again with a cover this time and NOTHING.
Now he starts laughing. Said yeh, that came in handy in Africa in the Peace Corps. Seriously. It healed in under 10 seconds. Guy had not used a bandaid in decades.
Went another round on another finger and got it but geez that was the thickest skin I have ever seen on our species. Guy like that prevails in all knife fights. Built in body armor. I cut up shark with thinner hide. Like he was part griz.
God poison ivy sucks, I've only read the first paragraph but wanted to tell you that I've not had it since I watched this video and followed the advice:
Yep. Love that old woodsman's youtube. Treat it like axle grease and get it all off in first 8 hours = no problems. In fact, it is not a bad idea to smear axle grease on areas in question. The grease has the same consistency and stickiness as urushiol. It is also visible so after washing it off any places that still have axle grease show where there is probably still contaminated with urushiol. Get out the dish soap and wash cloth and clean it again.
Gave up drinking 120 oz of beer every night, about 10 days ago. I had an inkling that it was slowing my progress a tad. Coming off of it caused nothing more than a few nights of it taking longer for me to fall asleep. Now I seem to be getting the classic (?) signs of retinol leaving the liver. Itching skin around the face,chest and neck, usually at night, bumps on my back which are here today and gone tomorrow, feeling spacey/hung over in the morning when I haven't had a drop, and a new one which is a doozy - a swelling ache just below my ribs on my right side (liver, stand and be recognized). Flared it up a bit chopping wood yesterday, but today's chopping didn't bother it a bit. Another "here today and gone tomorrow".
I think there's a disconnect between myself and the good people here, whether posting or lurking. I did not come to Grant's ideas as an answer to health problems; I wasn't aware that I had any. I came to his ideas by mere chance and when I read his works I saw the truth. For me, the truth is the end, it is not a means.
The growth of hair where I've never had it before is no longer a maybe but a definite. On my forearms, top and bottom. Also, it is much less where my watch covers my wrist, and the same where my t shirts cover my upper arms. The reason is self-evident.
My patience is still remarkable; nothing I've faced since beginning this course of action has even tested it. If the horses broke out of their paddock, it's cause for a laugh and not alarm. If insurance went up again, well why wouldn't it haha? They clearly need it more than I do. From the Tao:
There is no greater sin than desire,
No greater curse than discontent,
No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself.
Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
I think the "indefatigable" Joe2 was correct when he wrote in another thread that if detox keeps up with excretion and is above intox, things will only improve, albeit slowly. Of course, the process requires lots of energy. I now believe that, besides drinking like a deacon every night, the other thing slowing me up was simply not eating enough. The beef I eat is so darn expensive and my income is so darn low that I tried to get away with 1 lb of beef a day, with the obligatory 2lbs beans and rice. This simply wasn't enough calories. Before embarking on this course, I went through a few pounds of butter a week, dozens of eggs and sausages, blocks upon blocks of hoop cheddar cheese. All very energy-dense. The simplest answer to my fatigue is that I'm just not eating enough. I'm changing that now.
I saw that Garret Smith is pimping MSG to his loyal followers now. I could not find one critical comment (amongst hundreds) in the youtube video where he introduces the farce. Obviously that means censorship. Now I admit to reading the entire (!) 551 pages of the Grant Genereux thread on the lowtoxin forum. There was one comment which was quite telling, and it involved parsing Grant's name: "Grant Genereux" or "A generous grant". Well let me go ahead and parse Garret's name. "Garret Smith" or "the maker of a ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire, or fishing line, used to strangle a person." (from "Garrote").
Now obviously this is my reading of the symbols on top of another man's. I see the world as full of them. The colors of high vitamin a fruits and vegetables for example, are predominantly red, orange and yellow. Likewise for poisonous insects and serpents. In our world, red is a warning and it means to stop. Safety orange is a thing because it contrasts so vividly with an azure sky. Yellow is the color of caution tape. To take this further, what are the colors of Mcdonalds, Burger King, Bojangles, etc? Those who understand the symbols will implicitly see these establishments as obvious purveyors of poison.
I've been speculating that retinol is not all that's released from the liver. It would be all kinds of toxic crap, and with our world these days that means an easter basket full of eggs encapsulating multifaceted wonders of petrochemicals. I was just reading that a solid 1/3 of Americans have fatty livers, whether they drink or not. There are now 2 year olds with fatty livers. Usually there are no symptoms, until there are. I also read a study where beef cattle were intentionally finished on a vitamin a deplete diet, then slaughtered and their cuts of meat analyzed. It was found that the deplete cattle had better marbling and achieved a higher grading on average. And that's as sciency as I'm going to get on this post - beginning to ramble a bit.
So, to sum up, for those of you blessed like I am with a computer which duplicates screen and sound to a television, receiver and speakers, here is a taste of all the films you could ever want. May they help you along on your journey:
SayHiToTheMikeGuy - https://old.bitchute.com/channel/httpsrumblecomusermichael50/
QUARTERMAIN'S QUARTER - https://old.bitchute.com/channel/quartermains-quarter/
Thomas Glebe - https://old.bitchute.com/channel/vjPOjTgAEyCu/
The Video Dump - https://old.bitchute.com/channel/7uCtC5BonxEI/
woodworkkittensproductions - https://old.bitchute.com/channel/QzdmOcdGZbBD/
Rea's Creature Features! - https://old.bitchute.com/channel/reas-creature-features/
Wade-x - https://old.bitchute.com/channel/wade-x/
TrueMoviesMan - https://old.bitchute.com/channel/truemanbk/
There are plenty more repositories like these but the above would keep any film buff busy for at least the next 100 years. It was a little disturbing to me when at a certain point I (a past long-time collector of VHS tapes) realized that to collect even 1% of the decent films made I would need a large house to store them.
You can put the beer money toward more beef!
I've had a very hard time avoiding alcohol, but it sure seems smart. I've got one kid that never touches alcohol and he's very healthy. I hope you are much better than me about back sliding. However, no matter how many times you back slide, you can always get back on the wagon.
Yeast pee! You can't make these things up. I sure am an idiot.
Go man go. You sound like cold turkey is in your fridge and not more problem than that. Cigarettes were hardest for me. Horrific taste in morning made me want one on waking. After quitting often enough to become a pro quitter, I wised up. I bought a pack, opened it, smoked one. Left rest of pack open on my dresser. Woke every morning and looked at it angry at the farmer who grew it, the chemists who poisoned it and the RJR and Phillips executives driving cars worth more than my house. Nothing more pleasing than opening a brand new pack and pulling out that first one in the morning. Staring at that already opened pack just made me mad. Turkey got colder after that. And more turkey made it to the fridge on the money I stopped spending.
Besides the money saved on beer and all the vA foods, I found that eating ground was tastier than eating steaks. We have a roast every once in a while. Last cow we bought we got 80% ground. Farmer thought it was hilarious. He made more money for the deal. Cheapest cow we bought too. Yeh, I know it did not come form the same cow. It did leave him more steaks to sell though.
Either way, I was eating 32 to 40 oz daily years ago low carb. After starting back on carbs for low vA it came down to 24 to 32 oz. In last year it came down to 12 to 16 oz. I think Grant came down to 16 oz or less in his last update. Will have to reread that.
Speaking of indefatigue-able patience. Amazing what else comes in process. Those horses are treating you different. Also you are picking up on things previously missed. Mowed a customer's 3 acres yesterday. On a Sunday yet. I keep mowers in top shape. Little 50" zero turn sung through her first 2 acres. Bumpy last acre I felt / heard a change in that Kawasaki. Felt almost like running low on fuel. Turned her for home. She made it the 200 yards to the truck and died. Took a break. Peed. Ate a few dates. Drank water. Pulled out the 36" stander and finished the rest. Easier to fly over bumps standing than sitting anyway.
Mowed 2 other lawns, then headed back to trailer. Packpack blower all 3 properties and machines. By then 50" started ok. Stowed in trailer. Stowed everything else. Will take mower to my partner's shop tomorrow. Missed no time on jobs. Took everything in stride. I still do have zero clue how I felt / heard that signal so early. And fuel tank was 3/4 full. Probably shook carburetor up too hard on bumpy acre.
Either way, 3 years ago, I would have boiled over. Doubt I would have picked up change in pitch. I would have tried to finish even if I had. I would have lost hours getting that machine off her back last acre back to the trailer. There is a whole lot of bad woulda that woulda happened even 2 years ago. I probably would have damaged something too. This time, zero time lost. Zero upset. Wife asked what's up and took a short minute to explain. Ho hum.
You know this patience and tolerance and more energy thing is pretty damn boring by comparison. In a good way. In the best of ways.
BTW, I think a lot of what gets us improvements is activity. Grant's bike and weights. My shovels and pitchforks. Your woodpile. There is a commonality here. Looking forward to tomorrow. Drop off the mower with a story and then pickup few yards of mulch to spread in the afternoon. Keep moving.
Well they say that sickness is the doorway to health and they're right; it is the meaning behind the philosopher's stone. I had my once weekly drinking with friends last Thursday night and overdid it. Woke with a crushing headache and used it as a reason to quit my incessant chain smoking, which I've been doing for twenty years. I've quit once before but it only lasted a few weeks. I am much calmer this time around due I am sure to the low a. The first time I wanted to strangle somebody. This is the missing piece for me, to give me my energy back, and confidence, and to not smell like burnt pesticides anymore. This quote is appropriate:
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always run to simplicity.
Bruce Lee
I've been pondering that Bruce Lee quote since you posted it, it's a good one, and a philosophy you probably have to grow into! I do suppose there are limits to simplicity and elimination. But in general we do err on the side of complexity!
This quote is attributed to Einstein, who said, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler". It's kind of a funny quote actually.
Good luck, Joseph!
I've often wondered what the heck people find so offensive (LOL) about the notion that vitamin A can cause problems (if it gets overloaded).
Perhaps they just WANT life to be simpler than that, and... its not. You can't fault them for wanting simplicity.