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07-04-2011, 11:44 AM | #11 | ||
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Oh you are actually all serious about the banana peels! I must be getting old. In the 60's there was a banana summer when people dried the interior side of banana skins and smoked them, sitting on the stairs of the police station, daring the government to make bananas illegal,
Maybe there really is something to it. |
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07-04-2011, 12:45 PM | #12 | ||
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You gotta love the babyboomers....they have provided more information about drugs, both then and now and provided so many drug czars with yachts...always popping or smoking something to help humanity
i'm happy to know about the banana. I eat one almost every day. but the skin? Why is the healthiest part always the skin? paula
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07-04-2011, 01:00 PM | #13 | ||
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You ain't seen nothin' yet. About 8 million American boomers will have PD, and they are going to cause quite a ruckus once they discover the dysfunctionality and general uncoolness of the PD scene. Be prepared to be overwhelmed! "By the time we got to sinemet, we were eight million strong...
and we've got to get back to organic smokeables; we are star-dust, we are always On..." China heading fast into old age; one neuro in China predicts they will have 30 million PWP. They have built the largest sinemet factory in the world, and are opening PD clinics and increasing the research. The doc i met worked entirely on PD research - for the Red Army Military Hospital. Serious people. And we, of course, in isolation from them and them from us. Do we even know what research is going on around the world? |
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07-04-2011, 02:11 PM | #14 | ||
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It makes sense, as the skin provides the main interface with the environment. My wife makes excellent jam from oranges skin. I will need all my wits to convince her not to throw away the banana peel!
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07-04-2011, 05:56 PM | #15 | |||
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No, I was kidding about smoking banana peels, but in all seriousness, they dont look very appetizing
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07-05-2011, 10:25 AM | #16 | |||
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Dear LindyLanka,
If you have that recipe for banana peels from SE Asia I would love to get it and by the way are you from Sri Lanka? Thanks
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10-10-2011, 05:04 PM | #17 | ||
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Hi. I've been away for quite some time and now am ready to rejoin the group. Assuming there are no objections, I was wondering if there is any new news, from patients, media, pharm's, testimonials, and so on regarding Mucuna.
I know it has been discussed at great length in the past. Just wondering if anything has changed or improved the case for its use? Or worsened the case for its use? Thanks for any light you can shed on this. Reverett123, I think that on Neurotalk, you were on the front line of this item. Any comments or thoughts? kk13 |
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10-11-2011, 08:13 AM | #18 | |||
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I have been remiss in my research here and have nothing new to add. But ain't "remiss" a great word??!
But seriously, there are a number of threads that need to be picked up. Mucuna, of course, but also dextromethorphan and turmeric, for example. Those interested should review the archive here and figure out where to jump in. -Rick Quote:
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Born in 1953, 1st symptoms and misdiagnosed as essential tremor in 1992. Dx with PD in 2000. Currently (2011) taking 200/50 Sinemet CR 8 times a day + 10/100 Sinemet 3 times a day. Functional 90% of waking day but fragile. Failure at exercise but still trying. Constantly experimenting. Beta blocker and ACE inhibitor at present. Currently (01/2013) taking ldopa/carbadopa 200/50 CR six times a day + 10/100 form 3 times daily. Functional 90% of day. Update 04/2013: L/C 200/50 8x; Beta Blocker; ACE Inhib; Ginger; Turmeric; Creatine; Magnesium; Potassium. Doing well. |
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10-11-2011, 09:19 AM | #19 | |||
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VICTORIALOU - said "I'm going to go dig out that banana peel I just threw into the garbage."
Funny you should say this, as I was just thinking about a Sunday School teacher at church who must have made quite an impact on me. We were discussing how we measure "wealth" differently in various cultures. Then she painted with words the most vivid picture of what it is like to see starving people in third-world countries. She said that while visiting there she saw these kids going through the trash. They would diisappear by crawling into overturned trashcans. When they finally re-emerged, they wwould have discarded banana peels, raking them against their bottom row of teeth to get all of the "lining.' I could literally taste those bitter banana peels! One's trash is another's treasure. peg |
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