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New museum, digs, and displays in Roman Rome:

Couple of subarctic surgeons give humorous wisdom on supplements and more: (subscribe!)

Thanks; I had already just revamped my approach to skip the super-combo approach which limits the number of pills but proliferate the number of supplements. I will look into reishi and lion mane, but may have the neurological angle covered by my wild success with Alpha Lipoic Acid. Steady use is eliminating peripheral neuropathy and who knows what other beneficial side effects for nerves. I had very low expectations, so there was no placebo delusion. Vit B12 also cured motor nerve issues; I am strangely unconcerned whether benefits extend to my brain With at least 3 smashing successes, here is my very latest way to experiment without going overboard. I keep 3 tiers, with new experiments in the middle to be promoted up or demoted. Top tier is proven and urgent taken about daily. Middle core tier is taken about once weekly so pills run out by expiration. Bottom wind-down tier taken about once per month just because the money was spent and it may have some undetectable benefit. Do not renew those in bottom and dispose when expired. I scour the middle core so as not to take so many pills per week. Promote or demote ruthlessly. Try to introduce one new one at a time to be able to assign blame or benefit, maybe at a higher rate at first. Also manage cost. My insurance plan lets me order a few things for free. I wish the beta-sitosterol could be prescribed for me; it seems to only be available added to premium prostate remedies. Expensive on Amazon, and on ebay there are hints some of it is counterfeit. In rigged cases like this, the club warehouses give the only (modest) discount. P.S. I realize the above system falsely equates urgency with frequency, while a supplement may be urgent but only needed infrequently. So I have exceptions, for example vit B12 which most bodies recycle for months internally. But in general I strive to take things in less than recommended doses, unless really needed such as to pass pesky lab tests required by insurance.

Darn it, I just lost $30 worth dancing out of my shopping cart thru the toddler leg holes. Now my obstinacy may prevent me from investing more into them. I tried cordyceps without apparent results, and same for the NAC family of "life extending" supps, so am thinking of reprioritizing. On one hand I want to focus on supps that made a big difference to me, like vit b12, ALA, and now "naturally derived phytopin" beta-sitosterol (not just for prostrate). I may be adding retinol cream to that after more skin tests. Furthermore I have a couple of ones to address medical lab test results. On the other hand, I want to prevent proliferation of less obvious winners. One way to prune my supplement list is to take a multi one. By a search typo in preparing this post I noticed a combo of about 50 vitamin/supplements that covered more than I need. It was for a very embarrassing men's condition where they threw every conceivable otc treatment at it, but at far less cost of the several I wanted covered. So that would substitute for the inessential supps, and may let me reduce if not end purchases for items that come highly recommended but seem to have little effect, like magnesium, L-arginine, berberine. The beta-sitosterol normally comes combined with vit D and weird minerals, but even for this non prostate sufferer of a certain age it can immediately slash restroom visits by 2/3. Now I can go to recreational areas with the ever more vandalized or shut down rest rooms and do carefree stuff like this:

I am reposting 2 outstanding pieces that have had problems in their earlier forms. Will see if a playlist format works this time. First is the world's best fall asleep album from Eno (new space music) and then Club des Belugas song miss spelled as Quite Dawn:

A manhunt has been conducted in Germany for members of the Last Generation (Letzte Generation) radical climate activism organization resulting in the charging of seven people with the founding or supporting of a criminal organization.

Club des Belugas - 3 hours of best instrumentals (unembedable)

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1741/top-5-roman-sites-in-southern-spain/

I've mentioned this before, but don't miss the chance to try rose petal gelato or better yet sorbetto in Italy. I usually have visited in May, so maybe they mainly offer it this month. Walk around the right hand side of Pantheon and continue past it's rear almost a block. I think it shows up in google maps. Their gelato seems less flavorful than others in neighborhood, so also look for rose elsewhere. In Cefalu Sicily I had rose petal gelato that just launched my tastebuds into orbit. It was on the main square with twin towers:

I wonder if there is any evidence how Romans tied their sandals - the final knot rather than the lacing. Was it a common bow tie? Maybe you have seen recent videos on how most folks naively tie shoelaces into a slipknot rather than proper one. The slipknot tends to make the bows sit crooked as below, but you can tell best by grabbing the non-loose lace side of the knot and seeing if it slips. Instead of tying the bows an additional time, (ugly and hard to untie) you can just retie it with the initial overhand knot reversed. For more security, I hereby mandate the easy variation "Parisian knot"; maybe the Romans called it the Gaul knot. After making the first bow, wrap it along with your finger twice instead of once before pulling the second bow thru. You may have to adjust it slightly so the double clenching of the bows sits tidy in the middle (check for slip too). Of a dozen bow knots I think it is the cleanest extra grip one, especially worth the effort when you leave it always tied:

Here is an amazing Iberian channel of largely Roman archeo re-creations and explanation, sort of documentary fragments usually dubbed in english. See the vast Roman structures under Lisbon, or the aqueduct siphons pushing water uphill in Gaul for instance: https://www.youtube.com/@imageen2030/videos

The underappreciated racetrack and golden house

"the documentary promotes the kind of Afrocentrism which aims at distorting and obliterating Egyptian identity and contradicts the country’s history." P.S.: Speaking of televised afrocentrism, the reason U.S. commercials have turned 85% into depictions of afro american life (15% of audience) is ESG. Pensions and other investments have been de-linked from their owners and weaponized for ideology. It used to be that investors would vote for company board members and policies, but this has recently been taken over by institutions who mandate Orwellian Social Good policies. Free markets with their "invisible hand" adapting to consumers are increasingly sabotaged.

Another slam dunk ancient egypt channel, making sober, scientific claims that the mainstream narratives are bunk and systematically biased;

Sophia's alpine counterpart, Marisa Allasio, was preferred by spiritual leaders 17-0. Honestly, her IQ and EQ elevates her rare movies to a more watchable level today:

Looks like the figurine at 2m12s in below film. Isn't this from Paestum's Greek rather than Roman period?

One thing I wish somebody introduced me earlier to are "zero-drop" type shoes, as typified by the Xero brand. That refers to no heel elevation, but goes along with a barefoot feel with super thin flat uncushioned soles, super wide toe box, and tight fit lengthwise. Especially the last sounds like heresy, but one of Xero's videos by the founder (which I have misplaced) sold me on their concepts, and I was so pleased with an example that I stockpiled more for every need. Somehow they make your feet feel really alive without being entombed by cushions or without the rawness of being conventionally near barefoot. The soles seem to be a resilient superball-like material that supposedly stands up to umpteen marathons. Actual Xero's are typically breathtakingly expensive, and shipping can range to $75 to refused altogether, so I have experimented with knockoffs under the Amazon Whitin brand and others which are hit and miss. I wonder if affordable new unboxed Xeros occasionally found on ebay were likely shoplifted? Beware that I could yak on for a dozen paragraphs on how these can keep the podiatrist away. Altho they make boots and all, below is an extreme minimalist cut-it-out-yourself kit:

JERUSALEM - Roman authorities are investigating controversial religious leader Jesus of Nazareth for violating the Empire's clear "stay in tomb" order.