Fresh coffee...skullcap, pom peel tea; and gastroparesis - mAChR dysfunction can be causal.

I have a new recipe for my coffee.

I have been making a pot of coffee with 3 tablespoons of coffee, a teaspoon of Skullcap leaf and about a one inch section of fresh or dried pomegranate peel. I then blend it for 30 seconds with a couple spoons of MCT oil, and a little Stevia sweetener, 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda or potassium bicarbonate, and a few other additives. The MCT oil or ghee, blended, makes structured water out of the beverage - creamy with a cappuccino like texture and appearance. (Structured water recipes post)

Fresh pom peel with skullcap herb and coffee in a reusable coffee filter for a coffee maker. I also make coffee this way in an open saucepan too.

Addition - Skullcap herb, Scutellaria baicalensis, because it is a source of the phytonutrient baicalin and that is a potent antimicrobial/antifungal to add to the power of pomegranate peel. It prevents the HIV-1 fusion cleavage and cell entry similarly to pomegranate peel too. Traditional Chinese Medicine preparations of Skullcap have been found very effective to treat liver disease or cancer. Neurocognitive benefits are in earlier stages of study. Review article: Scutellaria baicalensis, the golden herb from the garden of Chinese medicinal plants, (Zhao, Chen and Martin, 2016)

Fig. 1 (Color online) The medicinal plant Scutellaria baicalensis, known as Huang-Qin. a Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi plant. b The dried root of S. baicalensis used in traditional Chinese medicine. c A hand-drawn figure of S. baicalensis in Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica) by Li Shizhen. (Zhao, Chen and Martin, 2016)

Regarding my patient story - I saw a doctor last week and his focus was the thyroid TSH being elevated and he prescribed Synthroid for me. I am wondering if a switch in water filtration left me unprotected from fluoride and I need to get a better filter.

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The Synthroid has given me more energy, but the coffee did too. But coffee energy runs out and then I nap. Stressing the body from overwork is unhealthy too. I may have to stop the coffee again, but not yet. I have a post almost ready about “laziness” as a survival strategy - from a book by Dave Asprey. Perking myself up with coffee is not a health habit for me though, genetically I don’t metabolize it well and it has caused bowel symptoms, but I think acidity and oxalate was part of that sensitivity.

Pain:

What was disappointing, on reflection, about the doctor appointment was his lack of interest or information about autoimmune disease or alopecia. My pain had resolved so I didn't ask more questions at the visit, but it later left me feeling sorry for other people whose hair follicles might be hurting them still. During the onset of my hair loss, the hair follicle areas were painful and itchy. Rubbing increased hair loss on my eyebrows and back of my head.

Solutions:

Lavender and Frankincense essential oils were soothing. The Cheerful Juice glycine beverage also seems helpful. (Cheerful juice Recipe post) Lavender oil and other alopecia aides: repost from GreenMedInfo: (Substack)

Castor oil seemed soothing but seemed to leave me worse later - I may be individually sensitive to it. Some people are allergic/intolerant of castor oil and trying a test patch is recommended with topicals in case of a bad reaction. I did learn that castor beans have some of the plant albumin too, but I don’t see how a protein would remain in an oil extract.

Many dietary factors can help support hair health and mine improved when I added my normal routine vitamin/mineral and Cheerful Juice supplements back into my day.

• Fennel seeds/oil and other things that help hair growth: (transcendingsquare.com)

• ‘Hair today, gone tomorrow’ post also has a list of things that can help hair growth. (Substack)

I had gotten lazy about taking care of myself. However, I have slacked before without losing my hair. I am suspicious of chimeric spike effects on cholinergic function.

Gastroparesis - lack of movement of the stomach smooth muscles - which need mAChR signaling to contract.

A commenter on the last post shared that gastroparesis, slow or non-moving muscles of the stomach has become common- leading to a death of a 26-year-old and bowel surgery for another person. 😳 Cutting out sections of bowel is sadly fairly standard for inflamed bowel conditions - which I knew as a dietitian, and I didn't want. Removing TRP channel activators from my diet worked along with adding mucilaginous starches - then CoV injections arrived, and my usual strategies didn't work until I added the nicotine. About 10 mg per day seemed adequate and taking way too much should be avoided. It causes nausea, jittery racing heart, and may lead to overeating from elevated dopamine levels.

Gastroparesis is rare and typically had been seen in later stage diabetes from high blood sugar related nerve damage. “mAChR Dysfunction in Gastroparesis” (Brave AI Summary) Inflammatory cytokines cause down regulation of the mAChRs which are needed for digestive muscle contractions - so anything causing increased stress will lead to increased cytokines and down regulation of the digestive process ~ which is inhibiting/impairing the parasympathetic response. See: Follow-up, “How do inflammatory cytokines and immune cell activation contribute to mAChR desensitization and downregulation in gastroparesis?” (Brave AI summary)

• ‘Rate of gastroparesis over time’ - seems to be increasing but exact numbers are difficult because it tends to be underdiagnosed possibly due to unclear screening guidance - When is gastric motility too slow, or not present? How bad is bad? (Brave AI summary)

Is the underlying problem, for many varied symptoms, really paralysis from a cholinergic blocking toxin? . . . which we aren’t supposed to talk about because our government is funding and mandating it? If chimeric spike is blocking cholinergic function, then the increase in myocarditis and miscarriage rates would also be related to acetylcholine receptor dysfunction. … and Parkinson’s disease (Substack). I have a lot of posts, search my archives for ‘nAChRs’ or ‘nAChR’. Yesterday’s post was the first on mAChRs - and it was news that I needed to know.

Coffee and nicotine - health habits for our new era? Cholinergic blocking of mAChRs can affect hair growth - is my alopecia a shedding 'booster' side effect?

For my hair follicle pain, removing the foods that had become autoimmune triggers reduced the pain for me - the pain stopped, rather than being soothed temporarily by a topical oil. Albumin in animal products was already an autoimmune problem for me, I had found and there are plant versions of albumin in ginger, and also Pecans, almonds, and other nuts. While they didn’t cause the skin rash symptoms that eggs had caused, eating ginger or pecans did seem to directly lead to more itchiness or pain in the areas of hair loss.

Alopecia universalis or alopecia areata universalis, might be the diagnostic label for me, since I lost more than scalp hair. I do have some regrowth happening on my scalp, yeah. Given six months of diet change to reduce the autoimmune antibody flair-up, maybe my eyelashes will grow back too.

Are eyebrows overrated? No. ;-) The swollen eyelids may be part of the hypothyroidism - myxedema. (healthline.com/myxedema)

The Selfie nose knows...where to find Froot Loops I guess.

The ankle bone is connected to the knee bone, and all the rest, and it is all connected to our electrical flow - our nerve signaling and the plasma fields of electromagnetic energy that are throughout us and extend outward in our ‘aura’ or ‘torsion field’. Sitting too much doesn’t help keep it moving. Rhythmic walking or other exercise helps coordinate our energy flow and help generate more flow.

• ‘Cardiac torsion and electromagnetic fields: The cardiac bioinformation hypothesis’, (Burleson and Schwartz, 2005)

Our Earth’s ‘ambipolar’ energy field - explained by NASA (video in article), (indianexpress.com/nasa-discovers-earths-third-energy-field-polar-wind), leaves me suggesting you read James DeMeo’s book if you are interested in the topic of the energy field that is around the Earth and all around and in us too.

The Dynamic Ether of Cosmic Space, a book summary (series), Part 1. / Regreening of Israel by Cloud Buster & Iranian clouds?

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Reference List

(Zhao, Chen and Martin, 2016) Zhao Q, Chen XY, Martin C. Scutellaria baicalensis, the golden herb from the garden of Chinese medicinal plants. Sci Bull (Beijing). 2016;61(18):1391-1398. doi: 10.1007/s11434-016-1136-5. Epub 2016 Jul 8. PMID: 27730005; PMCID: PMC5031759. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031759/