The Venn diagram between people who think you should get fired for using the R word and people who think you should be able to euthanize your child if it has Down syndrome is almost a circle
@SeedOilDsrspctr This is fascinating.. Have you looked at taurine re it's relation to tinnitus as well? Taurine killed the random tinnitus I have had intermittently throughout my life.
Doxycycline is well known in the Ray Peat lore as well. The biggest rabbit hole of holes I have gone down.
@PunkyAce@celestialbe1ng Honestly, I kind of wing it. We have an instant hot water dispenser and I fill half - 2/3 full of a glass spray bottle with it, then backfill with the flakes. Shake it around, if I can add more and they dissolve - I do so until I see they don't instantly dissolve anymore.
Stick Your Tongue Out: The Silent Release
Dr. Elena Vasquez had seen thousands of patients at Mount Sinai, but Marcus was different.
A 42 year old software engineer, he arrived with shoulders permanently hunched, eyes shadowed by perpetual exhaustion, and cortisol levels deep in the clinical anxiety range.
Therapy and medication adjustments brought little change. His body was locked in a silent civil war.
One afternoon, after reviewing his latest scans, Elena made an unusual request.
“Stick out your tongue,” she said. “As far as you can. Hold it for forty seconds.”
Marcus blinked. “Is this a test?”
“Consider it an experiment,” she replied, her voice calm but certain.
He complied, feeling ridiculous at first. The muscle strained, unfamiliar and awkward. His jaw trembled. His neck, usually rigid from years at a desk, began to burn with a deep, releasing ache. Forty seconds felt eternal.
“Do this twice a day,” Elena instructed. “Morning and evening. That’s all.”
Marcus left skeptical. But he tried it anyway.
The first few days brought nothing but mild soreness. Then, on day six, he noticed something strange during his morning routine: his shoulders dropped an inch without effort. The constant low hum of background tension, the one he had lived with so long he forgot it existed, had quieted.
By day twelve, his wife commented that he seemed lighter. Less reactive to traffic, to deadlines, to the thousand small irritations that once wound him tight. When he returned for bloodwork two weeks later, the numbers confirmed what he already felt: his cortisol had plummeted from dangerously high to the middle of the normal range. No medication changes. No new therapy. Just the daily tongue extension.
Elena was not surprised. She had studied the hidden architecture of chronic stress for years.
The neck carries an enormous burden, often 60 to 80 percent of the body’s accumulated tension. That tension does not stay polite. It compresses the vagus nerve, the body’s master regulator of calm.
It restricts the gentle flow of cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain. It keeps the entire nervous system whispering danger even when the world is quiet.
The tongue, surprisingly, is the key. It connects directly to the hyoid bone, that floating anchor for the deep muscles of the throat and neck.
When you extend the tongue fully, you create a gentle but powerful traction through the fascial chains, those webs of connective tissue running from jaw to chest. Like loosening a knot that has been pulling on everything downstream.
One simple movement. Forty seconds. Twice a day.
Marcus became her quiet advocate. He taught the technique to his overworked colleagues, his stressed sister, even his skeptical father. Some felt nothing. Others, like him, experienced a profound unwinding.
Years later, when people asked Elena about her most elegant intervention, she would smile and say:
“The brain is rarely the villain. More often, it is simply what is wrapped around it, layer after layer of unnoticed armor. Sometimes the most powerful medicine is learning how to take it off.”
And in those moments, she would remember Marcus: the man who learned to release what he did not even know he was holding.
For related research on vagus nerve stimulation and stress reduction mechanisms, see: https://t.co/kxOsZBU3bQ
@BMcGrewvy I stopped drinking ice water when I was 20 weeks with our oldest because he would flip flop around and I was afraid it made him uncomfortable.
I honestly don't even know how to process that another mother could do this to her own baby.
@PunkyAce@celestialbe1ng No, itches too much on my face. Usually my stomach/back/upper legs but I do try to put it on the back of my neck and shoulders tho. I make my own with magnesium flakes dissolved in hot water and added to a spray bottle, but you can buy it premade. Works wonders!
@tamilionaire@lowmegatron Interesting.. How did it go? Just nibbled a bit on a cypro and the last time I took it, I chalked my moodiness to PMS. lol Now I’m curious. (The sleep is wonderful however)
@realjoshuareid@realjoshuareid did you happen to catch Elon's reply re mosquitoes the other day? Thought it was interesting and jumped to the forefront of my mind..
https://t.co/t6TXryzhXN