#mushrooms cure cancer

[survivorsareus]

Shocking Revelation: Chemical Hair Relaxers Linked to Cancer

A disturbing story has emerged, shedding light on the potential dangers of chemical hair relaxers. A long-time user of Softee Hair Grease, has come forward with a harrowing account of the health issues she experienced. From 1995 to 2008, a woman who regularly used the hair product, only to be hospitalized hours after each application due to severe abdominal pain. This pattern continued for…

[starlightseraph]

house md will always be remebered as the most insane thing ever broadcast because of how unabashedly feral everyone involved was.

a short collection of things that happen on the show, just off the top of my head, not even scratching the surface:

- house shoots a random dead body in the morgue and then sticks him in an mri machine, which pulls the bullet out of the dead guy’s head and destroys the machine, costing the hospital millions

- foreman gets bitten by a person with rabies

- chase kills an african dictator

- cameron steals drugs from a patient after possibly getting hiv from said patient

- house induces a migraine and then takes a drug made by his arch nemesis (who he’s been stalking for 25 years) to get the drug taken off the market. he then takes lsd (in the hospital, in the middle of a case) to cure the migraine.

- chase goes into anaphylaxis after doing body shots

- house stops an elevator so he can perform a cavity (vaginal) search on a teenage heart transplant patient who’s in cardiorespiratory arrest

- they give a neurosurgeon mushrooms to cure his food poisoning, then they stick him in an operating room. the neurosurgeon strips in front of a health board assessor.

- kutner dies for gay marriage

- house sets an autopsy room on fire while trying to juggle flaming bottles

- house gets recruited by the cia

- taub gets held at gun point after diagnosing a stripper with skin cancer

- in almost every single episode, the team breaks into multiple houses

- house fakes terminal brain cancer so he can get drugs implanted directly into the pleasure centre of his brain

- house cons us immigration to get his fake wife a green card. he also uses his fake wife’s ukrainian food truck to spy on people

- house tries to get wilson, his closet case boybestfriend, into bed every few episodes. every other sentence out of house’s mouth is about wanting to rail wilson.

- taub has a kid with his ex-wife, after they divorce, at the same time he has a kid with his 25 yo side piece. the kids’ names are sophie and sophia.

- house and wilson have a bet on who can hide a chicken in the hospital the longest without anyone finding out

- house tries to kill himself like 6 times and always fails (insulin shock, overdoses, electrocution, jumping off a building, cutting, etc)

- house fakes his death to get out of a prison sentence after violating his parole so he can live out his bi love story with his gay best friend who has 5 months to live

[gayhenrycreel]

okay i filled out a google doc survey of aro experiences in the queer community and at the end i kinda went on a commie rant, so this is it copy pasted. (yes my mutuals, im aware as i reread this that this sounds like the blorbos 4.07 monologue)

i want people to know that no one should ever be in a relationship just because they want to be considered normal. alloros included. the relationship hierarchy hurts everyone.

hierarchy has always been the problem. its time that people start realising that we are all equals, and the idea of any particular thing being inherently better than another is the basis for amatonormativity, homophobia, racism, transphobia, misogyny, eugenics, and ultimately fascism. "superiority" does not exist.

even the natural world is negatively affected by human ideas of hierarchy. conservation efforts are for animals, occasionally plants, and never for fungi. fungi are barely even researched properly compared to other clades. how many fungi have gone extinct without anyone knowing, because no one cares?

this affects humans directly. penicillin comes from a fungus. hallucinigenic mushrooms can treat anxiety, depression, adhd, and even ptsd. lions mane contains biochemicals that prevent cell death, which means (and research is ongoing) it could slow aging, lead to longer lives, and quite significantly, prevent dementia.

those are just known fungi. imagine how many are out there that could save lives that are endangered and dying, but no one cares to save them because they are small and not very noticeable. theres an antioxidant thats exclusively found in fungi. that means it too could prevent cell damage, such as those that cause cancer.

if i were to get into human prejudice this would go on forever. hierarchy kills. it destroys entire species, cultures, lives. the solution to defeating amatonormativity is to remove hierarchy.

this would also solve infinite other problems. we could no longer have to work our asses off for the profit of billionares. we would use resources when we need them, not for some hypothetical world where they might be bought on mass. no one needs a billion iphones. the slaves who make them certainly dont.

things should be produced when they are actually in demand, not just so elon can get money he will never use. that money could go to education, science, sustainable energy, medicine, conservation, and literally billions of people who are starving because elon and bezos want to think about their sci fi fantasys that they do not allow to become reality by not bloody paying their slaves, as well as hoarding money that could be used by places that could legitimately get people to mars like nasa.

elon works closely with nasa, but nasa cant afford to pay their own scientists. many of nasas workers hate spacex. one even quit over it. there are so many people who could help humanity, who could invent cures for AIDS, vaccines for deadly diseases, better solar panels, solutions for space junk, more efficient farming, more nutritious native plants that people have harvested for centuries before colonizers decided nutrient poor cabbage is better than the vitamin rich indigenous vegetables.

like seriously, there are so many plants that indigenous societies have been eating for thousands of years that the world just doesn't know about anymore.

the wider queer community could do a lot for arospecs by taking off the hierarchy glasses. we all need to take off the hierarchy glasses. its killing the world.

[justforbooks]

Dr Michael Mosley

Popular celebrity medic who offered health advice to millions through his TV and radio roles, most notably on fasting

Dr Michael Mosley, who has died aged 67 on the Greek island of Symi, explored health and fitness issues of interest to big audiences. He was a versatile communicator, whether as a television diet guru, newspaper columnist or podcaster.

He became a household name for diet books promoting calorie reduction and fasting, including The Fast Diet (2013), written with the journalist Mimi Spencer. His work gained in popularity from his self-experimentation, which included swallowing tapeworms, magic mushrooms, internal cameras and – most famously – fasting to cure his own type 2 diabetes, diagnosed in 2012. He became a well known TV and radio celebrity medic, regularly appearing on The One Show for the BBC and This Morning for ITV. On BBC Radio 4’s Just One Thing podcast he offered health tips to the nation, from the benefits of daily spoonfuls of olive oil to the usefulness of the plank position.

Yet his own medical career was brief. Mosley, who studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at New College, Oxford, trained in medicine at the Royal Free hospital, north London, after two years of working as a banker. He wanted to become a psychiatrist, saying that he found people more interesting than finance, but was disappointed to find that “there were severe limitations to what you could do”, he told the British Medical Journal in 2004.

He opted instead to exert influence through the medium of television, joining the BBC training scheme as an assistant producer in 1985, and going on to produce documentaries based mostly in science, mathematics and history.

His most glorious moment arguably came with the Horizon programme Ulcer Wars, which he made in 1994 about the work of Barry Marshall of the University of Western Australia, who was convinced that the bacteria he had identified called Helicobacter pylori was responsible for most gastric cancers and ulcers.

The story appealed to Mosley and inspired his own self-experimentation: Marshall had drunk a solution of H pylori from a beaker in the 1980s and his stomach had been colonised by the bacteria, which disappeared when he took antibiotics.

Marshall was right and later, with his colleague Robin Warren, won a Nobel prize. Mosley received more than 20,000 letters from people cured of their ulcer pain by antibiotics. The film brought him awards. “I probably did, in a funny way, more good with that one programme than if I had stayed in medicine for 30 years,” said Mosley in the BMJ.

In 2002, Mosley was nominated for an Emmy as executive producer on the documentary featuring John Cleese, The Human Face. In 2013, he began to host the series Trust Me, I’m a Doctor for the BBC. His most recent TV series were for Channel 4: Who Made Britain Fat? (2022) and Secrets of Your Big Shop (2024).

The Fast Diet book, which launched the 5:2 diet, also came out of a Horizon documentary. Eat, Fast and Live Longer (2012) was inspired by Mosley’s own diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, which is linked to excess weight. The disease ran in the family. His father, Bill, had died of the complications at the age of 74. Mosley came across the American neuroscientist Mark Mattson’s work on intermittent fasting, and adopted the pattern he advocated of normal eating for five days and consumption of just 500-600 calories on the other two.

He claimed to have lost 20lbs and reversed his own type 2 diabetes. Mattson appeared in the documentary, which is credited with popularising the 5:2 diet. In 2021, Mosley published The Fast 800 Keto, which combines fasting with a ketogenic diet, high in fat and low in carbohydrates, but in its later stages allows carbohydrates back in.

Mosley’s diet work was controversial because of its focus on calorie reduction to lose weight. In 2021, the eating disorder charity Beat said of his Channel 4 series Lose a Stone in 21 Days that “the programme caused enough stress and anxiety to our beneficiaries that we extended our helpline hours to support anyone affected and received 51% more contact during that time”.

He said he had suffered from chronic insomnia from his late 30s. That became the subject of another BBC documentary and also a book published in 2019, called Fast Asleep.

Born in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, Michael was the son of a banker, Bill Mosley, and his wife, Joan. At the age of seven he was sent to boarding school in Britain. Mosley said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald that his mother was heartbroken to send him away to school, but that his father worked in Hong Kong and the Philippines, wanted Michael and his other son, John, to become bankers as he had, and that sending children to boarding school back in Britain was part of the culture of that time.

His maternal grandfather was an Anglican bishop. Mosley said he came from a long line of missionaries, but “the closest I get to religion is incorporating fasting in my diet”.

Mosley met Clare Bailey at the Royal Free hospital medical school, now part of UCL medical school, and they married in 1987. Bailey, who became a GP, was an active partner in Mosley’s dietary work and wrote recipe books for people embarking on the Fast 800 diet as well as newspaper columns in her own right. She told interviewers that she did not fast, because she had never needed to lose weight, and that she would hide chocolate from Mosley, who had a sweet tooth.

She survives him, along with their three sons, Alex, Jack and Daniel, and a daughter, Kate.

🔔 Michael Mosley, doctor, writer and broadcaster, born 22 March 1957; found dead 9 June 2024

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[mysicklove]

is there a specific, or multiple medical fields / specialities you’re interested in?

I LOVE THIS QUESTION !!!!

thinking dermatology, pediatrics, oncology, or psychiatry (ranked in order of how interested i am in them)

dermatology: pros-best work/life ratio out of all of these fields. one of the highest paid doctors. i would do beauty dermotology most likely which is huge in california (where i live lol) and my dream is to open my own clinic!! supposedly one the happiest doctors. plus i like pimple popping lolol. i have wanted to be this since i was like 11 years old. cons-so so so so so so competetive. like i heard it is super hard to match into derm. its supposedly rlly hard residency too.

pediatrics: pros-kids!! i love kids!!!, noncompetetive residency match, decent work balance life. cons-one of the least paying doctors, parents are INSANE about their kids, i wont be able to hyperfocus on a organ to treat, i would just have broad info unless i complete a fellowship

oncology: pros-cancer is SOOOO interesting to me. like i would want to be a researcher more than a doctor tbh. lots of connectiions with patients cons-death. lots n lots of death and idk if i can deal with that. also could be out of a job if the cure for cancer does exist

psychiatry: pros-psychology is super interesting to me. i love the patient aspect of it all too. i have been told that i am a really good with working with ppl, and its high in face to face conversations. if i did go into this field, i would want to do research on the effects of psilocybin mushrooms on the brain and how microdosing actually helps with depression! there is very little research on it, but my aunt got perscribed this when she was depressed from canada and it helped. so thats intruiging to me. cons-lowest paid like i think out of all fields. i think i may crave working with my hands after awile. just not as interesting to me, i think i may do psilocybin reasearch as an undergrad to get into medical school

if anyone is a doctor or in medschool n sees any mistakes/misconceptins in this list, please please please let me know!! i have no connections to any doctors so this is all from online research. oh n any doctors/medschool students want to share experiences/anything with me i will litterally eat it up

ok sorry im rambling u did not ask for this LOL i just got exicted

[augment-techs]

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

As Writing Prompts~

wife, sister, virgin, whore

an incantation, a naming, a blessing, a curse

weavers, potters, cooks, and healers

flip to any page; follow your wyrd

conjurer of hurricanes, zombies, and tall tales

with each story, the basket gains an apple

alchymist of monsters, children, the living and the dead

a terrible baby, their very arrival a murder

even the freshest thing is mixed with rot

a painful tale about the creation of life and what happens to shunned, abandoned children

shaman of dew, hummingbirds, and mushroom language

could not read or write and lived in poverty on the mountains

healer and oral poet

hermit of hospitals, belonging, and lost souls

"You think you're the only one who doesn't belong?"

at least some creatures can find a home

receiving two hundred electroshock treatments and narrowly escaping a lobotomy

grand dame of trickery, murder, and teatime

"Most unpleasant."

a consolatory apricot biscuit

sibyl of masks, extraterrestrial eggs, and twisted fantasies

smashes the crystal ball on the ground

what remains--glass shards and a black, sticky substance

the room is clean and the crystal ball intact

madame of roses, geometry, and repetition

grow feathers, slink into worms, shrink into dragonflies--anything to get out

undine of introspection, opulent dreams, and voyages

some collect seashells, others chart the sun's movement

some keep house, make lace, pursue lovers

dakini of holy ecstasy, the dark one, and ankle bells

poison becomes ashamed

miraculously escaped their poisoning attempts twice

fantasma of silence, death, and lilacs

a bird of blue bones drops a piece of paper

the paper unfolds into a palace

step in through the door

the music hollows

cursed to hear it forever

give in, eat the bird whole

storyteller of rattlesnakes, turquoise, and the sacred desert

the drought has gone on too long

spider's silk holding all things together shines with the light

high priestess of scholars, volcanoes, and eros

a grim jewel of astronomical price

fondles their muscles over coffee and toast

sorceress of islands, venom, and histories

the soup boils down to a thick black sludge

soothsayer of utopias, creeping women, and evil wallpaper

the unseen fairy

the people must realize the changes for themselves

the disastrous, sexist "rest cure" prescribed for postpartum depression

sorceress of names, houses, and solitude

sometimes the mango is perfectly juicy, sometimes underripe, sometimes too sweet, or bruised

cigar in hand, walk into the jacaranda trees, hanging black bras off the branches

'Use this to climb out,' read the notes tied on with ribbon

guardian of the waters, the porcelain, and the lexicon

they love these puddles

they will not survive this one

wolf child fight their way to the bank of the river; they survive

after a lifelong struggle with mental illness

fairy godparent of bloody tales, the circus, and mirror

"Not another one."

doll in a red riding habit

and a bleeding wolf escapes from under the cloth

dark drops of blood sink into the soil and the roses bloom a deeper, more delicious red

sumptuous tapestries depicting sexual, violent scenes

ornamented with symbols and adjectives

warrior witch of otherness, bodies electric, and sisterhood

the sword is for slaying ghosts and demons along the way

lava filling their wounds

the coroner writes

populated with mothers, children, sisters, anger, cancer, the erotic, unicorns, snails eating dead snakes, witches, fire, and the importance of refusing silence

specter of windows, flies, and the unexpected

travels freely between the afterworld and this world

a white dress kneeling in the flowerbeds

rebel of sensual love, green gardens, and perfume

they never speak of it, but each man is haunted by his vision

withered leaves, wilted geraniums and lilacs

write explicitly about sexuality

siren of the lyre, honey, and ruins

the rest of the words are illegible

how seriously each child puts those wings on in the mirror

seer of peacocks, weird country people, and glass eyes

pray to see humanity clearly

the doors creak open

cosmic traveler of crows, horses, and survival

joy lies down in a field

the music is a spell

courageously survived an oppressive childhood, teenage pregnancy, and domestic abuse

koldunya of winter, endurance, and willows

the sodden papers become bandages for the wounded

rations of potatoes, cabbage, and milk

queen of miracles, generations, and memory

fury of motherhood, marriage, and the moon

dismembers mannequins with ferocious, precise claws

terrified into the thrill of living

enchantress of bitter love, treachery, and jewels

summons a moonbeam into a locked room

climb down to find an underground chamber

"I am the ruler of this prison."

locked up in the bedroom for six months

witch of villages, domestic horrors, and omens

rabid cats, poisoned beetles, blood-tipped needles

the ice cream section of the twenty-four-hour grocery store at three a.m.

doesn't need help finding anything

marries the ordinary with the supernatural

sower of strange seeds, species, and the future

mutating with violent need for food, power, and sex

covertly tosses seeds kept in pockets into the neighbors' yards

watcher of the moors, fantasy, and cruel romance

brushed the carpets and took walks in the hills

death of tuberculosis at thirty

[smudgingpumpkins]

13.09.2023

Hericium americanum

-Commonly known as Bear's Head or Bear's Tooth-

Where: Northeastern US & Canada

Grows in deciduous/hardwood forests from living and decaying trees. Typically from oak and birchwood.

When: August-November

My friends and I found this little guy in September at Molly's Falls State Park, located in Cabot and Marshfield, Vermont.

There are many ways to consume this edible mushroom, but since we had been camping for weeks, due to our lack of resources we simply just intensely fried them in olive oil with salt and pepper seasoning. Nonetheless, it was super delicious!

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Appearance:

Bear's Head are relatively large mushrooms that grow 15-30 cm in diameter (6-11 inches) in compact clusters. It looks like thick, tufty, and smooth icicles or teeth that branch downwards. Bear's Head mushrooms are initially white in color when young and become more yellow as they age.

This mushroom releases spores through its "teeth," rather than gills or pores.

Taste:

The Bear's Tooth mushroom is known for having a tender, mild seafood-like taste, most akin to a slight crab or lobster flavor. It is best to pick these mushrooms while they are young and white because it becomes more bitter as the mushroom ages. When cooked, Bear's Tooth becomes brown in color.

This mushroom contains fiber, protein, antioxidants, and vitamin D!

You should ALWAYS cook wild mushrooms for the safest outcome, even if they are known to be edible. Bear's Head works well with sautéing, frying, and even baking.

I have heard that these mushrooms work really well as crab or lobster substitutes. Try them in crab cakes, seafood tacos, and soups! Its fishy, meaty flavor pairs well with butter, garlic, shallots, and lemon.

Medicinal Uses:

It is believed (by tribes in the northern parts of North America) that Bear's Head mushrooms, as well as other Hericium, can be utilized to treat bleeding wounds in their dried or powdered form, due to their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

There has been some research that shows that certain properties of Hericium can stimulate the synthesis of the NGF protein, which aids with improving memory and mood, and prevents brain cells from dying. This means that it can help prevent or combat Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

In Japan, clinical tests have shown that Hericium's antibacterial properties helped with the treatment of gastrointestinal issues such as stomach ulcers, chronic gastritis, Crohn's Disease, and esophageal cancer.

Of course, these mushrooms do not substitute medical attention and prescriptions. Further research is needed, and these studies only show that Hericium helps with treating symptoms--it is not a cure.

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** Bear's Head/Tooth is commonly confused to be synonymous with the Lion's Mane mushroom. However, these mushrooms are not the same species but are very closely related in the genus Hericium.

Bear's Head has longer branching fruiting bodies than the Lion's Mane. It looks more like melting candlewax whereas Lion's Mane looks more like a pom pom. The Coral Tooth Mushroom is also closely related, but as in the name, it has much shorter branches that look very much like corals.

Here is a good chart by the website Real Mushrooms:

[darkmaga-retard]

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The Truth About Cancer

Sep 01, 2024

Episode 4 of ‘A Global Quest’ is a game-changer titled “Excitotoxins that Fuel Cancer, Nature's Pharmacy, and Healing Cancer with Sound & Light.” We’re taking you inside a groundbreaking cancer clinic in Mexico to uncover an “unconventional” treatment that’s delivering jaw-dropping results—and you’ll meet the survivors who are living proof.

Here’s a sneak peek at the eye-opening revelations waiting for you…

✅The food industry’s dirty secret: How they’re pushing us to consume “dead” food and why it’s making us sick.

✅An Indian doctor’s wisdom: The sugars that cancer patients can safely eat and the ones that are pure poison.

✅Grow your own superfoods: Learn how to easily cultivate nutrient-dense food for just pennies a day.

✅Two deadly excitotoxins: These sneaky chemicals are causing cancer right under our noses.

✅The cancer industrial complex: A multi-trillion-dollar scam designed to keep you sick without ever curing you.

✅Tour a doctor’s private garden: See how “nature’s pharmacy” holds the key to healing.

✅Medicinal mushrooms vs. chemo: Discover the fungi that outperform chemo and why Big Pharma is desperate to keep this under wraps (spoiler: it’s all about the money).

✅Vine-ripened vs. picked green: Why the fruits and veggies that ripen naturally pack a powerful punch against cancer, while those picked green fall flat.

·         Just wait ‘til you get to the part about using sound and light waves -- we guarantee you’ve never seen anything like THIS before!

✅And so much more..

[littlenighttales]

Spoilers up ahead for The Sounds of Nightmares, Chapter 5. Live thoughts as I listen through, so not necessarily entirely accurate. Afterthoughts in parentheses.

I got a surprising amount of attention on the last one from you guys, so I really appreciate that you enjoyed reading my thoughts (:

A Deluge of the Inevitable

So Otto says that Noone was being used by the Ferryman to speak? Last night, I dreamed I could fly. These are two entirely unrelated things. I just wanted to share.

Noone was right about still being sick. Tumor. So the water sickness was a type of cancer? I figured it was more in line with a more simple but harder to kill parasite.

Otto’s mentor had written that the key to reach the Nowhere could be fear.

“It’ll blossom year after year, just like you.”

Awwww, that was kinda sweet, Otto. But I still think you’re sus.

Noone wanting to open up about her parents. She sounds like she really needs hugs ):

Demands for no machines to be wired up to her.

CiCi is Otto’s sister? I guess Otto did mention it being a long time ago, but… still, I didn’t expect that. So the idea of Six having a big brother in canon is kinda wholesome, though now that I think about it, never thought of Six as British (rather, pictured her to be Japanese). That is still assuming CiCi=Six, though. With only one episode left, I’m not sure we’ll get any confirmation.

In Noone’s nightmare, there are a lot of other kids peeking down on her from above. She’s down in a tunnel.

Monster with a sack over his shoulder. Sounds like squeaking shoes. And rising sewage. How pleasant. Not a threat for now. Leech in the water?

Nope! Nome! :D Nome, Nome, yeah! *excited hand flapping*

There’s a girl delighted by the Nome, wanting to take it, maybe wanting to eat it. But Noone saves them, so that means she joins RK and Rain (and Frisk) in the Mushroom Friend Protection Club. Also dang, rich Nome living like a king.

Theme sounds a bit like the Lady’s theme for a brief second? Are we in the Maw? (Probably definitely not.)

The man that had carried a sack was wearing a rubbery suit. The sack was the back of his head. Spine deformed, whole body sounds like. The Janitor? Doubtful, from description, but possible. Noone mentions the place itself had deformed him. (Definitely not him, I’m just reaching here.)

Noone remembers the other kids- Jester, the kid with gooey hair, and Rusty. So Noone jumps from her hiding place to save the Nome. Kids above are probably porcelain bullies, or at least related in a way.

The monster has some sort of gadget to detect… something.

And the Nome tried to abandon Noone ):

Otto falls asleep- also my tablet wants to correct his name to potato. When she’s awake, Noone continues.

And a LOT of Nomes appear (:

But… a wave of sewage water comes blasting through, taking Noone away. The Ferryman appears now, though Noone isn’t sure he’s evil.

Also his voice isn’t what I pictured. Seems a lot more demonic than I pictured. Almost like Colony’s (Halo Wars 2 character, if anyone is curious) voice, with the reverb.

The kids in Little Nightmares seem to have some afflictions cured when they’re taken from how Noone talks. Their problems are gone. I’m assuming this is only disease, maybe some mental illnesses as well, but I doubt all. Mono still having a LOT of problems (damn you, Signal Tower).

Noone floats the idea that Otto might not be a good guy. Otto catches her ruffling around paperwork in his desk and straight up gets rid of her. He tells her a tumor is in her brain, kinda coldly. He’s definitely being a dick, but at least he reflects (that he was too harsh on a literal child. Noone is like seven or something, dude. You’re an adult. Act like it and have some hecking empathy and stuff.)

Otto theorizes that the tumor is a gateway to the bad place. But hearing his voice right now makes me want to punch him in the throat. My tablet was right to compare him to a potato.

Later, he watched her sleep. Hooks her up to those machines he promised against using. Her little voice….. )’:

“Otto… you promised….”

Why is this stories so darn heartbreaking?!

Noone’s nightmaring while Otto watches, the machine seems to be able to see an outline… then, Noone starts glowing like the sun and disappears (?)

Whatever Otto was watching watched back. Maybe it took him rather than her. That’s what he wanted, after all. And that’s it for this episode. (Could also be one of those laser eyes that turn kids to ash in the Maw and Nest. Maybe a proxy of the Eyes from the Signal Tower?)

So the fifth episode probably on episode 3 level of quality so far. I still think episode 3 was peak, so that’s pretty high comparison. Pretty close to a tie.

[bruinhilda]

Ah, rock shows. The mix of serious gem and fossil sellers, amazing crafters, random jewelry sellers, and woo-woo crystal magic followers.

One booth owner assured me all the jewelry was infused with Reiki energy and that music bowls were involved and so forth. To me, this is code saying, "all wares are marked up because magic," so I moved on pretty quickly. The next booth had wonderful prices on simple carvings and random tumbled/polished stones. I dropped some money there, while listening to a family discuss the magical properties of various stones while they tried to decide what to buy. At one point, the booth owner was asked about the particular magic abilities of a particular stone, and I'm impressed at how she refrained from rolling her eyes as she recommend they look it up on google. Her booth was NOT selling magical items, so I'm not sure why this group thought she'd know whether serpentine has healing energy or whatnot.

Upon reflection, I probably should have gone back and bought more from her. The agate dragon heads were pretty cool.

I guess I just find it weird because back when I was into all things occult and mystic, "crystal magic" was explained as, "the rocks aren't actually magic. Some rocks are just good at focusing and amplifying certain energies, so they make good tools for doing magic." As in, any magic going on is coming from you, the rock is a rock to anyone else. And these days practitioners insist that the rocks are full of magic energy and just holding or wearing such and such stone will heal all your ills! Funny how there can be bins of $5 quartz readily available in a lot of places, but people still die of cancer, huh?

It's also possibly irritating to me because a lot of my selection IS based on personal vibes, and I don't like people blathering about magic that they haven't even researched properly while I'm trying to decide if this piece of jasper I'm holding will make me happy when I roll it around in my hands and study the abstract pictures in it. "Do you like rock? Does rock make you feel happy when you hold it? Buy rock. Don't expect rock to cure love life. Rock only bring love if you trying to attract geologist."

Which brings us to the multiple bins of penis carvings. The ones with little feet were charming, but most of them were just, "here's a bunch of dicks carved out of onyx!" Not that I'm objecting or anything. I fully understand why you might want a stone dick on your shelf or endtable. It's just with the magic talk floating around, I suspect some sellers would be giving me a lecture on how the carving will cure a person's erectile dysfunction if I showed any interest.

I don't know why the most common carving throughout the show was mushrooms. Except that it's probably a really easy thing to carve. I did consider buying one of the carved t-rex heads that were next to the dicks, but I would have had to risk using a downtown ATM to afford one, and that always gets my cards locked due to "suspicious activity."

I ended up with a bag of angelite that I'm going to try my hand at carving, a bag of I don't know what but they were pretty and the deal was for two bags, and I didn't need TWO bags of angelite, two nice tumbled pieces of ocean jasper that had interesting eye-like patterns, a crude sphere of I don't know what stone, but it looks neat, some beads that were on severe discount, a little bag of little fossils meant as a collector's starter kit, four cut pieces of quartz that were in the bargain bin because they were cloudy and full of inclusions (which is how I prefer them), and one rough opal that I couldn't take my eyes off of. I regret passing up some of the affordable carvings, but I don't exactly have display shelf space, and the cats routinely send everything they encounter crashing to the floor anyway. Maybe next time.

[emsee22]

Symbols in Still

1. Snake, and peeling the skin off with Beth watching in the background. Snakes are a common regeneration symbol, especially with the shedding of skin. The fact they ensure to have Beth watching in that shot is interesting.

2. Spotless red ladybug held by Beth and placed in the water bottle. This specific ladybug symbolizes luck, a blank slate, and a transformation.

3. 4 of club/clover card when Daryl is beating in the green sweater walker with a golf club. They show the card next to the zombie's left side. Daryl smashes its head in and the blood spatters on Beth's white cardigan, which she removes. If the card represents the 4 leaf clover, this is a symbol of luck. However, in cartomancy the 4 of club symbolizes an oncoming threat.

4. She takes off the cardigan with the blood splatter and then passes the painting of the Little Blue Heron, which I believe is symbolic for Bennu, a resurrection heron in Egyptian mythology. With that said, I believe adding this with any interpretation of the card shows an oncoming threat and resurrection or luck in dealing with that threat.

5. On the pool table in the bar there is a red ball (3) and an orange ball (5). I am not sure of the exact meaning of it, but Daryl picks up the red 3 ball and fiddles with it and then tosses it back on the Green table. I know 3 is a resurrection number.

6. As Beth and Daryl approach the moonshine shack, there is a tool belt, a green coat, an opossum, a wheel, an open container with a star punched into the lid, a possible pelvic bone I think, fishing poles?, and a mirror.

7. What looks like a turkey tail wall decor is over Beth and Daryl while playing drinking games in the moonshine shack. While I was googling the symbolic meaning of turkey tails/feathers, turkey tail mushroom came up in the results. I read into it and it is actually a treatment of cancer. I thought this was interesting given that wall decor is near the eagle decor (Grady) and Dawn really really wanted Edwards to save Dr. Trevitt, the oncologist from St. Ignatius. I believe there used to be cure theories surrounding Grady and why Dawn wanted an oncologist. I am not certain the prop is turkey, it just looks like that to me. It could also just be a giant fan. I believe it is supposed to look like a turkey tail though, because it looks like it has turkey feathers erupting from a wood stump, where turkey tail mushrooms grow.

8. Eagle and stars wall decor in moonshine shack. Although it bears similarity to the Dieu Vous Aime art in the TWDDD, I think it is actually alluding to Grady and the cops.

[edgepunk]

the show made me *kinda* interested in tlou, but not really. the fcking mushroom that actually exists unlocked a new fear, which is ironic bc the cordyceps is currently used as medication and is actually beneficial to the human body. it strengthens the immune system and can reduce carcinogenic cells in your body, it can even weaken a tumor to a certain degree. it's not a definitive cure for cancer, but it does help.

[thatmentallystablechick]

#Funguary is wrapping up in a few days - but for today, we have the Lion’s Mane fungus!

I’ve never seen another fungus quite like these. Aside from looking really cool, they’re also edible AND medicinal; they can be used to treat the heart, the immune system, the nervous system, anxiety and depression, cognitive and digestive health - even diabetes and cancer! For a time, it was even thought that Lion’s Mane could help cure dementia, but sadly, this isn’t the case…

What’s funny is that for pretty much all of my fungus girlies this month, I’ve had the mushroom caps (or the fungi themselves) growing out of their hair - but here, this fungus IS her hair! (It was too good an opportunity to pass up…) And of course, I had to give her a fringed skirt and furry leg-warmers to keep up the same vibe.

Made with Ohuhu markers and Shuttle Art pencil crayons

[serene-sun]

Now that it was made clear that you are a little fungus nerd (affectionate <3) would you like to show your favorite mushrooms? 🍄

YES!

1. Veiled lady

2. BloodyTooth

3. Lions main (one of my favs since a few of these capsules cured my sisters breast cancer 🤟🏻)

4. Ink cap

[promiseiwillwrite]

Mushroom, Mold, and Mildew

Part 2 of the mushroom post, for the asker.

I have a Field Guide to Mushrooms that is quite specific to my Area.

(MUSHROOMS of the Pacific Northwest, by Steve Trudell & Joe Ammirati) I prefer photograph plates for field ID because my practical skills are limited.

This region of the US is very wet.

Where you find very wet soils, you tend to have big biodiversity with mushrooms.

This is a rather thick book.

Most of the mushrooms in it are Very Similar. Some are so similar in fact, that they join up underground and share phytochemicals! What you see (above ground structures) is not always what you get. (the little buggers can hybridize with just about whatever mushrooms are around them!)

Death by consumption of poisonous mushrooms is quite rare. Don't assume the identity of these living things, and don't pick mushrooms that could have come into contact with contaminated soil or water. As I said, some are very tasty. Know for sure what a thing is before it ever goes in your mouth. If you aren't sure, Don't pick it and don't eat it.

Unless you are a scientist. Or a Doctor. Or a Brewer. Or a Baker. Or a Cheese maker... Then definitely experiment, so we can find more useful molds and fungi. And learn how to cure cancer, and make tasty cheeses.

Bread, Beer, Cheese, Antibiotics, Industrial Chemicals, Building Materials... There is nothing they can't do, and no part of human life and culture than fungi have not touched.

So no, the stuff that lives under your sink is different from those succulent shiitakes you have in your fridge, and different again to the tiny creatures that live inside your body.

But they share a common ancestor.

@solostinmysea

[vidalistaaa]

SixBenefits of Ayurgeeks Cordyceps, All Supported by Science

A genus of parasitic fungi called Cordyceps grows on insect larvae.

After attacking their host, these fungi replace the tissue with long, thin stems that protrude outside the body of the host.

For millennia, Traditional Chinese Medicine has utilized the manually gathered and dried remains of insects and fungi to cure ailments such as exhaustion, illness, low libido, and renal disease.

Because of the numerous health benefits that cordyceps extract is said to have, goods and supplements containing it have grown in popularity.

Two of the more than 400 species of Cordyceps that have been identified are the subject of medical research: Cordyceps militaris 

Their prospective health advantages are encouraging, though.

Based on scientific evidence, this article lists six possible advantages of cordyceps.

1. Could Improve Performance during Exercise

It is believed that cordyceps enhance the body's synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a chemical necessary for providing energy to the muscles.

This could enhance how well your body utilizes oxygen, particularly when you're exercising.

In one study, utilizing a stationary bike, researchers examined their effects on the ability of thirty healthy older persons to exercise. For six weeks, participants were given a placebo pill or 3 grams of a synthetic strain of Cordyceps named CS-4 every day.

Those who took CS-4 experienced a 7% rise in VO2 max by the end of the research, but those who took a placebo pill exhibited no change 

One metric used to assess fitness level is VO2 max

In a related trial, 20 elderly, healthy participants were given a placebo tablet or one gram of CS-4 every 12 weeks.

While VO2 max did not alter in either group, participants who received CS-4 showed improvements in other exercise performance metrics, according to the researchers.

Another study examined the impact of a combination of mushrooms containing cordyceps on young adults' ability to exercise.

In comparison to a placebo, after three weeks, participants' VO2 max had increased by 11%.

But according to recent research, cordyceps may not be useful for enhancing trained athletes' exercise performance.

2. Properties That Prevent Aging

Cordyceps has long been used by the elderly to increase sex drive, vigor, and relieve weariness.

its antioxidant concentration, according to researchers, may account for its putative anti-aging effects.

According to a number of studies, cordyceps boost antioxidant levels in old mice, which may enhance sexual and memory performance.

Free radicals, which can otherwise lead to illness and aging, are neutralized by antioxidant molecules, preventing cell damage.

Mice fed Cordyceps lived several months longer than mice given a placebo, according to one study.

Further evidence that cordyceps have anti-aging properties comes from a study that found the plant can prolong the life of fruit flies.

If cordyceps have the same anti-aging properties in people, it is uncertain.

3. Possible Antitumor Benefits

The ability of cordyceps to suppress tumor growth has attracted a lot of attention lately.

The fungi may have many anti-tumor actions, according to researchers.

Numerous human cancer cell types, including those of the lung, colon, skin, and liver, have been demonstrated to be inhibited in growth by Cordyceps in test-tube experiments.

Additionally, research on mice has demonstrated that cordyceps can treat lung cancer, melanoma, and lymphoma with anti-tumor properties.

Additionally, cordyceps has the potential to mitigate the adverse effects of numerous cancer treatments. Leukopenia is one of these adverse consequences.

Leukopenia, which should not be confused with malignant leukemia, is a disorder where the body's white blood cell (leukocyte) count falls, reducing immunity and raising the risk of infection.

In one study, mice that acquired leukopenia following radiation therapy and treatments with the conventional chemotherapy medication Taxol were used to evaluate the effects of Cordyceps.

It's interesting to note that Cordyceps stopped the leukemia. These findings imply that the fungi might aid in lowering side effects related to some cancer therapies.

It's crucial to remember that test tubes and animals, not people, were used in these investigations.

Health professionals are unable to make any judgments at this time regarding Cordyceps' impact on leukopenia and tumor growth in humans.

It's crucial to remember that test tubes and animals, not people, were used in these investigations.

Health professionals are unable to make any judgments at this time regarding Cordyceps' impact on leukopenia and tumor growth in humans.

4. Could Help in Diabetes Type 2 Management

A unique kind of sugar found in cordyceps may be used to treat diabetes.

Diabetes is a condition where the hormone insulin, which typically carries glucose into your cells for energy, is either not produced by the body or does not react to it.

Glucose cannot enter cells when your body does not create enough insulin or does not react to it properly, therefore it remains in the circulation. Excess blood glucose levels can lead to major health issues over time.

Consequently, it's critical that diabetics maintain proper control over their blood sugar levels.

Interestingly, by imitating the effects of insulin, cordyceps may help maintain blood sugar levels within a healthy range.

Based on certain findings, they might potentially offer protection against renal disease, which is a frequent consequence of diabetes.

Supplementing with Cordyceps led to improved kidney function in an analysis of 22 studies involving 1,746 patients with chronic kidney disease.

These findings, however, are not definitive. Many of the research, according to the review's authors, were of poor quality. Therefore, it was not possible to draw any conclusions about how Cordyceps affected kidneys in people who had chronic kidney disease.

5. Potential Advantages for Heart Wellness

The advantages of the fungus are becoming more and more clear as studies on Cordyceps' impact on heart health surface.

In reality, arrhythmia—a disorder in which the heartbeat is too fast, erratic, or overly slow—can be treated with cordyceps in China.

In rats with chronic kidney illness, cordyceps drastically decreased heart damage, according to a study. Reducing these injuries may help prevent heart failure, as it is believed that cardiac injuries resulting from chronic renal disease increase the risk of heart failure.

These results were ascribed by the researchers to Cordyceps's adenosine concentration. A naturally occurring substance with heart-protective properties is adenosine.

Additionally, cordyceps might be good for cholesterol levels.

Cordyceps reduce "bad" LDL cholesterol, according to study on animals.

LDL causes a build-up of cholesterol in the arteries, which increases your risk of heart disease.

In a similar vein, studies have demonstrated that Cordyceps lowers mice's triglyceride levels.

Your blood contains a form of fat called triglycerides. Elevated levels are associated with an increased risk of cardiac problems.

Regretfully, there is not enough data to say whether cordyceps are good for human heart health.

6. Could Aid in Inflammation Fighting

Cordyceps is believed to aid in the body's battle against inflammation.

While some inflammation is beneficial, excessive amounts can cause conditions like cancer and heart disease.

Studies have demonstrated that when human cells are exposed to Cordyceps, some proteins that cause the body to become more inflammatory are repressed.

Because of these possible benefits, scientists think cordyceps could be a helpful anti-inflammatory dietary supplement or medication.

Indeed, cordyceps have been demonstrated to lessen inflammation in mice's airways, suggesting that they may be used as an asthma treatment. But the fungus don't seem to work as well as regularly prescribed medications to relieve inflammatory body parts.

Moreover, cordyceps may be applied topically. Its anti-inflammatory qualities were further shown by a study that found that applying it topically to rats decreased their skin inflammation.

We have not yet seen any evidence of Cordyceps' possible ability to reduce inflammation in humans.

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