Month: October 2016

New batches of Bravo – Success

After my last batch of Bravo yoghurt failing completely due to over heating, I’ve made a new batch, and then used that new batch to create a second generation. I measured the temp inside the yoghurt maker at up to 46C at the end of the batch, although the yoghurt looks good (gooood) so I’m really happy with this.

I bought a new pyrex pourer which makes mixing in the powders really easy using the smaller pyrex pourer I bought.

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Dr Rowen on vaccines

Dr Rowen:

Former Merck (Pharma Giant) Salesman Tells you Why He Chose NOT to Vaccinate his Son, and This was in 1990-1991.

“If you believe what you are told by the AMA and the CDC and your doctor, you’re not doing enough research.” These words were spoken by former Merck salesman Scott Cooper.

He strongly believed in vaccines, then did his own research, and changed his mind. His wife was pro-vaccine. While she was pregnant (1990), he dug up medical research in the libraries, and returned with boxes full of materials that were against vaccines, far more with negative information on vaccines than pro-vaccine. She ultimately changed her mind in tears. This was 1990! 
Mr. Cooper held true to his newfound knowledge and did not vaccinate his son, who he states grew up very healthy. Cooper admits that the Merck attorneys admitted, while he was employed there, that bulk of Merck’s lawsuits at the time were vaccine related. He implores you to do your own research.

 

Using my new yoghurt maker

So last Friday was as interesting experience in regard to this whole sugar sensitivity situation I’ve been dealing with for basically this whole year. I’ve been thinking about the interplay between psychological and physiological factors, I think it’s both, perhaps I have psychologically conditioned myself to identify with the toxic feelings associated with this sugar/gluten/caffeine sensitivity. Regardless of the interplay operations, the end result I’m taking away is to be aware of when anxiety presents itself, catching it and breathing deeply. Being aware of the feeling in my guy as well as chest my tightening, I can just take a deep breath. This boost of oxygen to my blood is profound.

So on Friday I missed a shift due to feeling really crappy, this was brought on… by eating too much sweet potato… would have been interesting to meditate on Friday and see if coercing deep breathing could have changed my awareness. None the less, Saturday I was feeling crappy due to missing my shift, being anxious about how to avoid a reaction for my Sunday shift, as well as ruining a 1L yogurt batch.

Sunday went fine, after tiny pedantically measured batches of food hourly to avoid an insulin spike.

Yogurt Maker

I bought a yoghurt maker for $10 in great condition. It has one setting, heat up to 42 degrees C, which is great, just under the max mentioned in part 6 of the FAQ here. This is quite a bit simpler than the PID controller solution I was literally looking at building. I think using gumtree.com.au for a solution is just common sense aka good engineering.

I made a practice batch with this recipe, only using inoculated raw milk and a small amount of the organic yogurt I had in the fridge.. After 11 hours in the yogurt maker, I have great tasting yogurt, which tastes basically the same as the yogurt I put in. great!

So I’ve done 3 batches of Dr Daniels protocol, last Thursday, Saturday then Monday.

Either way I’ve been having more liberal normal sized meals and felt a sense of normality in my hunger levels, something somewhat foreign. So not feeling constantly hungry is good. Now perhaps I can use hunger to guide my primal meal choices. This is a good feeling, the option of adding in various supplements/ozone steam saunas/exercise and building up my immune system is something I look forward to. I have had flashes of this feeling going back however many months; it’s good to feel a more holistic depth of understanding here.

Deep Breathing(!)

So I had some thoughts re meditation…

Meditate watching breath, noticing shallow breathing – associated with anxiety, becoming conscious of this and obviously  changing my breaths, then through the day, I catch some anxiety and automatically find myself take a deep breath…. if its this simple then thats redic.

Needs more experimentation, so my lesson is to keep my centre, we’ll see how this goes..

Interesting though that in meditation/whenever when I take a deep breath there’s like this voice saying like ‘don’t go there that will just bring attention to your anxiety’