The crucial importance of getting enough iodine is so often overlooked, firstly with regard to how sorely it is needed, and secondly to its deficiency in the foods we eat. The mineral content of food has been reducing over the decades simply because crops are harvested, sold and consumed while their mineral content is not returned to the ground. If food is organic then we are at a reduced risk from artificial fertilisers and pesticides but it is still likely that there is still some degradation in mineral content. In the days before long-distance transport and water flushing toilets, mineral content would have been naturally returned to the ground.

Even in days long gone by there were high rates of mental retardation in areas of the world where iodine levels were naturally low. These areas included the Valais region in Switzerland.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/history-of-cretinism/

We tend to romanticise the idea of eating local food. Although there are advantages to eating food fresh from near where we live, there is still a place for foods from further afield and it has to be said that the ability to transport food has benefitted many of us.

I tend to recommend applying either Lugo’s or nascent iodine topically and using it regularly.  Seaweed is a great addition to the diet but as the rest of our food is almost certainly iodine-deficient a relatively small amount of seafood won’t make up for it.

Dr Brownstein’s book gives us the latest research on iodine. It includes topics such as the thyroid gland, the different forms of iodine, autoimmune diseases and breast health. It’s currently very expensive on Amazon but, if you are interested,  you can obtain it from us.

Iodine—Why You Need It, Why You Can’t Live Without It. David Brownstein

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Dr. George of Jing Herbs delves into Deer Antler and its many benefits for health, energy, longevity, creativity, and libido.

It’s not so well known how deer antler supplements can support a woman’s hormone levels too, at all stages, including menopause. They can bring oestrogen levels up in older women and even out menstrual ups and downs in younger women.

Deer antler essence is best absorbed sublingually and bucally.

Jing Herbs Deer Antler Essence 2 Fl. Oz. Liquid Extract

The rest of these notes are extracted from information from Jing Herbs and Dragon Herbs.

Deer grazing on wild Reishi – a Korean longevity painting

Deer Antler is believed in the Orient, and by many around the world, to strengthen all aspects of a person’s life. It’s a Yin jing tonic and warm Yang tonic, although it is also known to provide Yin Jing and helps both sexes.

It supports adrenal, reproductive and brain functions. Extracts of Deer Antler have been found to strengthen the central nervous system and the heart. Deer Antler is used to improve mental power.

Deer Antler is mainly used as a rejuvenating agent. Short term use is believed to quickly build strength and power, while consistent long-term use is believed to rebuild deep life force, preserve youthfulness and to support the potential for a long life.

Deer are not generally killed for their antler. The soft antler of the deer is painlessly removed from the deer when it has grown just two or three spikes and is still covered by velvet. The deer grow new antlers that same season and this second growth is not harvested. In the case of suppliers such as Jing herbs and Dragon Herbs the product is carefully sourced from farms where the deer are very well cared for and are allowed to roam wild during the day.

The tip of the antler is the most potent part because it contains the most active substances. The “tip” is the last inch of the antler, which is the active growing part of the Deer Antler.

In the spring antlers naturally grow at an astounding rate of almost 2 cm daily. At approximately day 60 of the growing cycle, the deer are gathered together from the free range, and the antlers are harvested under the auspices of licensed and trained veterinarians. After a few days, when it has been determined that the animals are all in good health, they are returned the free range for the remainder of the year.

After harvesting the antlers are freeze dried and then sliced into thin wafers. It is these thin slices tthat arer processed to produce  Deer Antler Essence.

Minerals and Trace Minerals present in deer antler

Calcium(Ca)- provides structure for healthy bones and teeth, it is also an essential element for nerve impulse conduction, muscle contraction, and blood clotting. It is also interesting to note in the Taoist tradition that this mineral has a calming effect on the spirit.

Copper(Cu)-necessary for the production of red blood cells, bones and nerves.

Iron(Fe)- essential for the ability of red blood cells to transport oxygen to every cell in the body.

Manganese(Mn)- essential for the production and development of bones and connective tissue, and for the normal functioning of the central nervous system.

Magnesium(Mg)- very important in making calcium bio-available and essential in metabolic reactions and the storing and releasing of energy in the cells.

Phosphorus(P)- another element of bones and teeth, and is a component of the vast majority of metabolic reactions.

Potassium(K)- essential to all nerve and muscle functions.

Selenium(Se)-one of the bodies’ most powerful antioxidants and essential to a strong immune system.

Sodium(Na)- essential in osmotic pressure regulation and nerve and muscle function.

Sulfur(S)- an essential component of hormones, vitamins, proteins , amino acids and insulin.

Zinc(Zn)- an important mineral in optimal immune function also part of the enzymes involved in digestion and respiration and it is necessary for normal wound healing and healthy skin.

Proteins

There are several proteins found in deer antler, but the major one is Collagen in the forms of Type I,II,III,IV,VI and X. This protein is a major component of bones, tendons, ligaments and cartilage.

Amino Acids

Amino acids are the building blocks the body uses to construct proteins and are the structural materials in the cell. They are directly involved in the growth and repair of all tissue in the body. Deer antler contains both essential and non-essential amino acids, they are:

Alanine, Asparagine, Aspartic acid, Arginine, Cysteine, Glutamine, Glycine, Glutamic acid, Histidine, Isoleucine, Lysine, Leucine, Phenylalanine, Methionine, Orthinine, Serine, Proline, Taurine, Tryptophan, Threonine, Tyrosine and Valine.

Growth Factors

When we are young, the concentration of growth factors is relatively high which promotes lean muscle mass and low body fat. But as we age, the production of growth factors slowly begins to decline and the muscles begin to atrophy and body fat begins to be deposited especially for inactive individuals. The growth factors found in deer antler are the following:

Insulin-like Growth Factor 1(IGF-1) and Factor 2 (IGF-2). Has an anabolic effect on muscle mass, helps maintain normal fat distribution, helps promote bone health and nerve health. Insulin-like growth factors are also involved in the metabolism of glucose.

Epidermal Growth Factor(EGF). Have an effect on the growth and maintenance of bones, promoting protein and fat metabolism, stimulating cartilage growth, and thickening and lengthening bones in children. EGFs also have growth promoting action on the skin.

Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF). This growth factor is responsible for priming the cell to enter the cycle of cell division; it also assists other growth factors to stimulate and regulate the re-growth of blood vessels to wound sites and damaged bone.

Interleukins

These endogenous pyrogens belong to a family of chemical messengers called cytokines. Cytokines stimulate the immune response and activate the phagocyte cells.

Interleukin 1- T cell activation by macrophages, fever induction, inflammation promotion.

Interleukin 2- T and B cell differentiation and mitosis.

Interleukin 6- Stimulates the proliferation and killing activities of T cells.

Interleukin 12- promotes the proliferation of Natural Killer cells and promotes cell-mediated.

Some of the therapeutic benefits include:

Improved athletic performance.

Anti-inflammatory properties.

Accelerated wound healing.

Improved lean muscle mass.

Increased production of red blood cells.

Improved mental facility and acuity.

Anabolic and growth stimulating properties.

Healthy libido and sexual function.

Increased sense of well being.

Support for the whole endocrine system.

Support of the cardio vascular system.

Improvement in arthritic conditions.

Slow the deteriorating effect of ageing.

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“The human brain, over a period of perhaps a million years, expanded at an increasingly rapid rate then, some 200,000 years ago, this expansion suddenly stopped. There is, to date, no plausible scientific explanation for either of these linked events.

Religious and mythic traditions of paradise inform us that we once lived in a benign state of perpetual wonder and joy but from this we regressed. The reasons for this are obscure. Do these apparently unrelated perspectives have something in common?”

A recent article by Tony Wright likens the situation to that of an aborted fetus,

https://www.childrenoftheforest.info/node/22

Again mythology tells the same story in a different way. The Hypostasis of the Archons states that

“A veil exists between the world above [Pleroma], and the realms that are below [Kenoma]; and shadow (haibe) came into being beneath the veil. Some of the shadow became matter, and was projected apart. And what Sophia created became a product in the matter, like an aborted fetus (houhai).”
– The Hypostasis of the Archons, 94: 5 – 15

http://gnosis.org/naghamm/hypostas.html

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The final version of a presentation developed by Tony Wright over the last few years.
It was intended to provide some context for the disparate jigsaw pieces that Tony thinks fit together and tell the story of our symbiotic origins and our post symbiotic descent into delusion and madness.
Most importantly of all, it is a story that could if we so choose have a very different ending to the dystopian nightmare we are currently writing.

More information here https://www.childrenoftheforest.info/

Support this project @ https://www.patreon.com/Children_of_t.

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An effect that I observe which I cannot prove is the way it seems to lift people out of their habitual thought patterns.

Indiumease – The Silver Bullet 1/2-oz.glass dropper bottle

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I asked this question many years ago and the search for the answers led me to some unexpected places.

To cut a long story short, since humans left the way of life that is biologically suited to our species, we have physically changed in the way our bodies, brains and neural systems are constructed. We are no longer built to the optimal design that is ultimately possible from our DNA.

One of the changes includes the reduction of pineal gland activity. This means we have a deficiency of melatonin and also of some very special chemicals – monoamine oxidase inhibitors (also known as MAOI’s) which are responsible for keeping brain chemicals at optimal levels.

Correcting these deficiencies is a key step you can take to improve the quality of your life. It helps the neural system to orchestrate healing and helps you to get into the mental states you would like to be in.

The first step is to move towards a modem day equivalent of the natural human biological diet.Primatologist Katherine Milton found that our nearest evolutionary primate cousins in the wild consume about 50 times more micronutrients than a human in modern civilisation. To build our neural systems to their optimal state we need ample undamaged (uncooked and unprocessed) fatty acids, amino acids and fruit compounds. The ideal way to obtain these is from raw fruit, soaked seeds, cold-pressed oils and salads plus smaller quantities of various other foods to complete our nutritional needs.

Even with a nutrient-rich living diet, it’s a good idea to boost the missing pineal chemicals.

I recommend the use of an infra-red lamp for about 20 minutes in the evening to naturally stimulate melatonin production. The ideal wavelengths are 700 to 1000 nm. Depending on your budget you can choose a high-powered model or, alternatively, you can get a simple version online for less than £30.

The simplest way to boost MAOI’s is to drink passionflower tea. This can be part of an energy drink or elixir with coconut oil, and healthy sweetener, exotic ingredients such as cacao and maca plus other health-enhancing herbs such as Brahmi.

Montmorency cherry powder, Asphalia (a blend of wheat, oats, barley and other edible grasses) and passionflower tea good ways to boost your neural chemistry and are available on this site.

If you would like more advanced advice with any of this, you can find me at https://www.nutritionist-resource.org.uk/nutritionists/holly-paige

References:

https://nature.berkeley.edu/miltonlab/pdfs/backbasics.pdf

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17321060/

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‘Our ancestral symbiotic host for 50 million years, the reproductive system of the angiosperms built us a cosmological looking glass so highly polished that we could see our true reflection in it. The relationship was based on the ingestion of swollen ovaries, think about that for a minute or two. The hormonal impact re-arranged the cellular and sub-cellular architecture of our ancient mammalian neural system creating a flawless perceptual lens of such high resolution it could know the nature of reality itself. When the relationship broke down the lens cracked and began shattering into billions of individual neuronal shards. Our ancestors slowly became more perceptually and profoundly blind without very powerful treatments. They left us accounts of the perceptual trauma they suffered in losing connection with their divine source and a raft of treatments that could offer relief from the symptoms of perceptual darkness. Without repairing our perceptual lens and restoring at least a glimpse of light we risk being lost forever as the structural failure of our perceptual lens continues to accelerate.

A rough sketch and links to current research that suggests our neural system is still capable of a radically different kind of function when sufficiently stimulated.’

‘Our ancestral neural technology was orders of magnitude greater than pretty much anything we can imagine today. The perceptual equipment our ancestral sense of self was facilitated by was the culmination of incredibly rare circumstances. Our new brain was created in a symbiotic hybrid reproductive system and grown slowly, layer by layer in a state of perpetual gestation.
Its emergence had more in common with growing a flawless pearl or crystal than classic adaptive selection.
The end result was a huge mass of undifferentiated neural cells that had the capacity to behave in a very different way to our early neural system and induce a perceptual state that is impossible to even begin to comprehend unless you have experienced what today we call a perceptually altered state.
Basically all the expansion happened in the forest. Evidence for our non forest dwelling ancestors are simply examples of post symbiotic refugees that attempted to survive and eventually speciate with the intelligence the symbiotic gestation in the forest womb provided, all the while their new neural tissue was slowly maturing and atrophying.

The crucial difference is that our massive new brain was not more of the same, quite clearly size alone is hardly a measure of intelligence or individually we would be one of 7 billion geniuses.
The trait that set these kind of symbiotic perceptual systems apart was the uniform structure of the neural tissue. Our new brain had more in common with fetal brain tissue and it is related to our giant fetal like traits that persist to some extent today. So think of our new brain as more of a jellyfish like proliferation of embryonic neural tissue without specific survival functions as they were already well catered for by our early mammalian brain.

So what could it do?

Well scientific data is pointing to quantum resonance (a term for something we don’t really understand but we are beginning to observe its properties) as the underlying ground state of biology. Specific sub-cellular structures and the substrate they provide for ordered or more crystalline forms of water appear to be part of the interface between reality as we think we know it and the infinite and mysterious reality that underlies it. Whatever the phenomena turns out to be it has been proposed as the spark of consciousness that seems to exist in even the most simple unicellular forms of life. It appears to be based on what are called coherent states, a kind of vibrating field that has properties more in common with the mysterious reality of quantum physics but that manifests or intrudes into the atomic or molecular world we recognise usually at the micro level.’

Tony Wright, author of Return to the Brain of Eden

Read more in Tony Wright’s article here

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Social psychologist Amy Cuddy explains how the way we hold our bodies affects testosterone and cortisol levels, our response to stress, behaviours and the way we feel about ourselves.

Posture (and physiology) is part of Tony Robbins’ ‘Emotional Triad’.

“Any emotional feeling is just a pattern. It is a pattern of how you use your body. It is a pattern of how you use language. And it is a pattern of what you decide to focus on and believe about it. Those three patterns make up all your emotions”. – Tony Robbins

In the words of Amy Cuddy ‘Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes’.

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