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I might suggest a liquid vitamin D supplement. I get excellent results with Vitamin D softgels.

taking bone meal really seems to have helped my teeth. Scallops have helped too.

I have found that taking Vitamin D supplements seems to reduce the amount of plaque. I use the liquigel tablets, anywhere from 1000-5000 IU per day.

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BTW, I won this thread 2 months ago. If you don't realize that, then you haven't studied astronomy and star/planet formation well enough, nor have you done enough reading into UFO reports. It's not shocking that the most well-informed voice on a particular topic (that's me) isn't necessarily recognized as being the most well-informed. No one here has to listen to me, but I'll be laughing when we have proof of aliens. it might be a few decades, but laugh I will.

I would eat fresh cherries daily. I would also cut out the heavily-cooked foods. You might want to do some vegetable juicing, particularly celery and maybe cucumber. Try a short juice fast, maybe 3-4 days.

Karen, Can you show us a link to your instructions online? I had been thinking about trying the tooth blotting, but wasn't sure it would be worth the spend.

I see the interactions between Gossamer and the other dude as excellent reasons to avoid religious organizations. You see the same sort of nasty backbiting in dozens of religions, even Buddhism. You see it in Christianity and the other mainstream "Western" no less so. That doesn't mean every church is rife with it, but it definitely is more widespread than many believers want. Seriously, how is anything that has gone on between these two characters even close to productive? How has any of it been other than a total waste of their time and energy? I would prefer to not waste my limited time and energy on such obvious tomfoolery. Who cares who is the head pagan of East Podunk, Arkansas, or any other tiny hole in the wall town? It just isn't worth all this energy. Guess what I won't do now? Sit around and argue the merits of what I just said, because then I'd be wasting my time and energy. Watch my lesson and learn, taobums.

Alchemists will often collect dew, particularly the dew during a full moon. It is said to have extra ormus.

Anything that moves the cranial bones can help control migraines, including osteopathic manipulation, a.k.a. Craniosacral work. Neurocranial Restructuring, which I have done on myself, the "balloons up the nose", is also reported to be very, very good for stopping migraines.

Happy b-day.

I find that breathing out as much air as possible, and then not breathing any air in, will heat you up.

How common are tooth problems with fruitarians? I'd say between 90-100% of fruitarians have serious teeth problems. Johnny Love, a fruitarian in Hawaii, said he figured teeth weren't necessary, so who cares if they fall out? He lost all of his on the fruit diet, from what I understand. Your teeth can survive longer if you stick with non-watery fruits like banana, mamey sapote, and persimmons. If you let yourself eat fatty fruits, like avocado and olives, those will definitely cause less tooth damage. If you allow coconut as as fruit, you can make it a very long time, because coconut actually heals teeth, in my experience. The problem is basically 3-fold. 1. Not enough minerals. With the exception of coconuts, which may or may not be a fruit, depending on your exact definition, fruits just don't have enough mineral content to satisfy your daily needs for calcium and magnesium. 2. Not enough vitamins. You need certain amounts of Vitamin D to keep your teeth in good shape, and fruits don't have it. You can get plenty of Vitamin D from sunlight. However, not every does, for various reasons. Also, you need Vitamin K-2 for good bones and teeth, which is a fairly recent discovery. Fruits don't have it. 3. Fruits are full of sugar. The reason your teeth actually GET cavities in them is because the bacteria in your mouth eat sugar and excrete acid. The acid eats your teeth. Voila! You now have a cavity. Like I mentioned earlier, to address your last point, yes, plant fats can be pretty good, if you know which ones to use, and how much. I eat a couple of tablespoons of raw coconut oil every day, and about the same amount of red palm oil. I have found that nuts are not particularly good for your teeth, with the possible partial exception of raw cashews. This may depend on the person, as to how their body handles cashews, because I haven't heard anyone else say they think cashews are an exception. I say this from not only my own personal experience, but from the anecdotal experience of dozens of raw foodists who have tried eating lots of nuts on an ongoing basis. Olives are fine, although I wouldn't say they are a standout compared to coconuts. Hemp, I can't speak for, I haven't eaten much of it. In general, I advise people to know what they are doing before they make big dietary changes. Unfortunately, Americans eat a terrible diet ,and are also very ignorant about diet. This produces hilarious (and health-damaging) results when people discover some bullshit like the low-fat diet, or veganism. They think that, because they now know a teensy bit more about diet than the average American, they must, by deafult, be eating healthier than the average American. What the don't know is that, when it comes to food and Americans, the little mantra of "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" is really, really true. I promise you one thing about dietary information in this country of ours--everybody is lying to you about something. Few are completely wrong, because it's hard to actually be totally wrong. My suggestion is to read Dr. Price's book, and then read the Raw Paleo Diet pages. Feel free to read the articles at The Weston Price site and the Price-Pottenger site, too. Some are bunk, some are gold. LOL I also suggest reading all the major books out there about diet. Compare them with what you have read from Dr. Price, etc. I also suggest your read the yahoo groups and other message boards for all the major diets for several months. You'll see that the raw fruitarians are all dreaming of the tropics and have teeth problems. You'll find various different problems are found with each extreme diet. About the only problem I've found with my diet is social isolation. You people are always talking about how much my food smells bad! LOL They won't even let me bring my lunch in the building at work anymore. Absolutely everything you do in life has effects and consequences. If you are doing anything long-term, and more-than-average, you will eventually see some kind of effect. That's true with diet and supplements, and it's important to connect with people online who are doing the same thing, (whether that's taking extra Vitamin D, or eating lots of coconut oil, or whatever it is you're doing) to compare notes, to keep from going off the deep end with it...doing that is an adjunct to paying close attention to what's happening with your health. So, whatever. Ask me questions if you have them. I'm learning all the time. I'd like to point out that it's all well and good to be a vegetarian in 100 degree heat in India...just try that shit in an Alaskan/Canadian winter. You will learn fast. Diet needs to conform to what's realistic for the conditions you live in. Before we go off the deep end with THAT shit, though, let's remember that the meat-eating Masai were much healthier than the mostly-vegetarian Bantu/Kikuyu, and they were/are in a pretty hot part of Africa. Personally, I think a little flesh food gives you the stability to withstand the emotional stresses of life better than a pure veggie diet. It's all great to live on the ashram and be away from the world, but SOMEbody has to actually deal with the world, and do the hard work and deal with the unpleasant things in life. That's my humble opinion.

My thoughts on aliens They definitely exist. Here's why. Our solar system is a pretty average one, we're finding. There are plenty of rocky planets in nearby star systems, and our sun is of average size/age/etc. Our sun (and therefore the planets in our system) has more metals than the average (metals are pretty important for developing high technology), but not by a tremendous amount. Unless we get unlucky and either die off or kill ourselves off, or end up back in the Stone Age, we will probably be exploring other star systems in a few hundred or thousand years. In a million years, who knows how far we'll have travelled? Think about the difference between human knowledge and technology in 100,000 BC, versus 1900 AD, versus today. Computers are getting faster all the time, and all we really need to do to figure out the advanced physics necessary for star travel is have fast enough computers to crunch the numbers to do the equations, with some experimental verification thrown in too. I figure all there as to be are a few planets like ours a few million years ahead of us in development in the entire Milky Way Galaxy for us to have already been visited by aliens. I'd bet every dollar I'll ever earn that aliens exist. I'd bet my next 50 paychecks we've been visited, too. The anecdotal evidence of UFO visitations is tremendous, and we're learning more and more that our solar system, and probably Earth too, are pretty doggone non-unique. Granted, some of the UFO stuff is BS/hoaxes/etc., but, when I look at the following facts: 1. We developed naturally here, most likely 2. Our solar system and planet don't appear to be very unique 3. This planet may have interstellar travel in a few thousand years, or a few hundred 4. There are several excellent UFO encounter reports that don't seem to be the product of natural phenomena or crazy/attention-seeking/greedy people 5. Our sun is of average age, compared to other suns in this galaxy I have to say, yeah, if you forced me to say one way or the other, I think we have had some visitors.

I was taught a Tibetan form called "Suhn Pre Lhags Pa" that involves extremely low-pitched vocalizing. I am pretty sure it opens up the capillaries, and it is helpful in cold weather to keep you warm, which is part of why (I think) it was developed in Tibet. Also, I was taught that that form is very good for the liver and kidneys.

Diet is a bigger issue than "meat versus not-meat". Healthwise, I'd say it's definitely possible to get by without eating "meat", per se, if you are willing to eat other animal products that have the same or similar nutritional factors. As far as Dr. Price's work goes, yes, it is outdated...but he showed that crooked teeth are mostly caused by poor nutrition, and he was the very first person (and pretty much the only, for many decades) to say that. If you doubt that particular conclusion, you haven't read his book. If anyone wonders if they should read his book, here are 3 reasons to think his basic conclusion is worth investigating (assuming you doubt his thoughts on crooked teeth): 1. Rickets, the curving/weakening/softening of the lower leg bones, is caused by deficiencies of Vitamin D and calcium. Rickets can be cured by supplementing with these two substances. 2. Native tribes have much less problem with crooked teeth (and cavities) than people on a modern diet. If you are unsure of this, Google search about evolutionary changes in jaw size in humans. Our jaws have suddenly gotten smaller since we started eating lots of grains, around 10 thousand years ago, but our teeth haven't gotten smaller, and we still, in most cases, have 32 adult teeth, which have not changed size at all, unlike our jaws. Anthropologists think the change is a result of our evolution, but Dr. Price's work shows otherwise. So does common sense. Nature wouldn't try to shove the same number of the same sized teeth into a smaller jaw. We are simply forced, by our poor diets, to have smaller jaws. 3. Native diets have much more calcium and Vitamin D than "modern" diets, up to 10 times more. The real question is, exactly what is the ideal human diet, healthwise? After reading Dr. Price's book, it's clear that eating a little seafood/meat and maybe some shellfish/roe is a pretty safe bet, in terms of health. The healthiest tribes he found were the ones that ate either lots of organ meats, lots of fish/shellfish, or both. These groups were much healthier, in terms of bone structure and dental health, than the groups that were less able to get access to lots of meat and seafoods. You should be careful about your sources, but, in general, the fears about mercury in seafood are overblown, as long as you are careful about which fish and which body parts you eat. Ask me, if you don't know which fish and body parts to eat. Most meat is pretty OK, too, as long as the animal is raised on something very close to its natural diet. I'm not saying you HAVE to eat meat to be healthy...but I suggest to ANYONE to read Dr. Price's book and consider it CAREFULLY before making grand pronouncements and sweeping generalizations about health and diet. Seriously. I majorly fucked up my health with a low-fat raw fruits-and-greens chimpanzee-style diet. It screwed up my brain big-time, and it took a couple of years of a high-fat diet with lots of good-quality fish, meat, and animal fats (mostly raw) to get rid of the panic attacks and the constant low-grade fear/worry/dread. That's not even mentioning the terrible tooth sensitivity that I developed, and am still getting over through mineral supplements and good quality fats. We really are meant to eat some animal products to achieve our best health, and the more you limit your personal diet for moral/religious/ethical/emotional reasons, the smarter you had better be in getting the necessary nutrients. I know a LOT of long-term vegans whose brains will probably never recover. Don't believe the anti-animal-fat hype. The raw fat of a healthy animal is a healthy food. The Eskimos had excellent health on their blubber-and-oil diet, They believed that seal oil is a health food, and it is incredibly high in Vitamin A. They didn't know that, but their dietary intuition told them they needed to eat it. Also, you don't have to live in a cold climate to eat a lot of raw animal fat. They Masai of East Africa had excellent health on their meat and milk diet. Their diet was very high-fat, and they had much better teeth and skeletal health on their diet than the Bantu, who ate a lower-fat, mostly-vegetarian diet. The Bantu had 13 times the rate of cavities as the Masai. not 13%. 1300%. People, this is why your teeth suck. You have no idea how to eat. After listening to the Buddhists about eating meat, and listening to the fruitarians about their diet, and the raw foodists, and getting my brain and teeth seriously fucked up, I am WAY TOO FUCKING SMART to follow any dietary ideology too closely. (Experience is a good teacher, but the tuition is high.) I study constantly, and I suggest that anybody who changes their diet better know their shit beforehand, and ask those more knowledgable about what to do and what to read. Go ahead, read the China Study...and then read Dr. Price's book. Particularly, chapters 15-20. Here is a link: Dr. Price's book, the first 20 chapters. Take a long, loooooong look at chapters 15-20. If you want to actually know something about food and health, you need to know chapters 15-20 as well as a bicyclist knows how to pedal a bike. Seriously. It's not the only book you'll need to read carefully about diet, but none of the others make as much sense without it. Again, I'm not an ideologue. I do what works. You want to get a good, basic idea of what works, in terms diet and health? That's one of the best places to to start. I don't want much blowback on this, right now. IF you disagree with me, read those 5 chapters about 3 times. Take a month to think it over, then read it again. If you STILL disagree with me, then post. Otherwise, I'm quite likely to place you firmly in the "might get it right in 10 years" category, and will quite likely ignore anything you say about this. Like I said, read it, give a few weeks or a month, read it again, THEN post. Also, if I get dogpiled by a bunch of vegetarians over this, I'll probably never post about diet here again. I've already had my one-man battle about these issues on another message board, and feelings are still pretty hurt about it, years later. I find that even the fairly idiotic among you has some quality of genius in some cases, and I don't feel like making angry those who might casually teach me a precious thing that I can use for many years hence. I've learned some awesome stuff from you guys, and I don't want to cause a bunch of hurt feelings here, OK? I waited several days before I posted on this thread, so my response would be calmer and cooler, and I think we could all take a page from that book, if we want productive discussions, mmkay? LOL

So Gossamer-- This all sounds highly suspicious. It has simply got to take a lot of time and energy for this guy to do this to you. Does he do this to EVERYBODY who pisses him off on the internet? Shit, if I did what he's doing to you to everybody who irritates me online, I'd be hacking 80+ hours a week. Has this question crossed anybody else's mind? This guy simply can't be doing this indiscriminately to everyone. I'm thinking 1 of 3 things is happening, or some combination of 1 or more of them: 1. The original girl that convinced him to do this to you has a LOT of sway over this guy. Possible, but not EXTREMELY likely. It would have to be a LOT of sway. 2. Perhaps you really are extremely abrasive in your role as Yahoo Group moderator, and finally managed to really annoy someone with a lot of computing/hacking mojo. Also unlikely, because you're not THAT annoying that I can tell, but I'm throwing it out there, because there have been a couple of moderators on other boards I might have hacked, if I had the skills. Moderators can really get under your skin, if they aren't being careful with their tone and approach. 3. This guy has very few buttons, but you managed to push one of those buttons BIG time, and he is singling you out. I mean, maybe you could post the exchange of messages between you and him, to give us some idea of what actually happened. I don't know, I'm just throwing that out there.

I might suggest staying away from the sweet fruits and sweeter veggies, and going with the dark leafy greens, like dark green leaf lettuce, spinach, kale, etc. Fruit is not great for you teeth, but leafy greens really are, in my experience.

It didn't take all that long, maybe 6 months, to achieve the orgasms. Unless, of course, you consider 6 months a long time. LOL You have to do the contractions a lot, like, at least 30-40 a day, to get the best results. I found that using a ma roller on that whole region of the buttocks, lower back, etc,. really opened things up down there. It improved my orgasms and sex drive a lot. Massage may help with this, but the ma roller really worked for me., although heavy massage may also work. The ma roller is cheaper, though. The Aneros also had similar effects for me. I don't use it anymore, but it really helped when I needed help. Occasionally I'll have my girlfriend lube up her finger and give me a prostate massage while performing fellatio simply because it feels so good/gives such an intense orgasm, but I don't really need prostate massage now. All those tailbone contractions really keep my prostate free of stagnation.

Try putting the tip of your finger on the very end of your tailbone. Start contracting various muscles in that area. Eventurally, you will feel the tailbone move. Keep working until you have isolated the exact muscles to clench. That's it. It has the side effect of reducing stagnation in the prostate area, which is very good, particularly as you get older.

Balloons up the nose seem to be pretty effective for this sort of thing, if you can find a doctor near you who does this. I have actually done the balloons on myself several hundred times ,with excellent results, and I have been guiding another member of taobums in doing this on himself. I don't necessarily recommend doing it on yourself without in-person training. It does take some practice with sticking things up your nose. Ideally you can find a local doctor who does this.

I'm pretty sure the 4th of the 4 videos that Mal posted was a strike to the carotid sinus. That's why the black fellow went down like sack of bricks. It's a knockout/kill point. Anybody who thinks you can't use pressure points in fighting needs to watch that video.

Minkus. That is some gorgeous Bagua in the first video. The girl in the 3rd video is pretty good too, although the old man in the first video has a slightly better root. I'm lovin' it. That was beautiful.

That's a cool site.

Recently I have been trying several different calcium supplements. The best that I have tried is just bone, ground into powder. It's extremely calming and groundind, and helps me keep my temper when I am irritated. It's important to balance it with magnesium, because it's mostly calcium. Does anybody have any other thoughts on mineral supplements?