Thomas Riggins

I grow online health brands through email and social media marketing.

I talk about health experiments a lot too.

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@MagnusVigso I experienced this with the left side of my face. I used a gua sha stone from my nose to under my eye and to my temple until I stopped hearing crunches.

Almost everytime I was able to breathe better through my left nostril. This was done in conjunction with proper tongue posture

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Fasting without consuming an eletrolyte drink is brutal.

I finally found a good recipe for one that lets me skip breakfast and still play chess for a couple hours without a headache

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Change of scenery is underappreciated for greatly improving perceived quality of life.

The sight alone isn't enough
You must also feel different
Be immersed

[Thomas Riggins @ThomasBRiggins]

If you feel like you have great ideas after you finish writing

Finalize your draft
Feel the relief of completion
Let the fresh thoughts inspire your next draft

Then repeat

Finishing up early and messy will allow the final draft to be clean and complete

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It's important to step outside of your field of familiarity

Entering new worlds not only revives creativity but stops any feeling of social limitation or being stuck

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To me it has a similar taste to cough syrup, but others said it was like beer or a fermented rosemary drink🤔

It feels like a thin sugar syrup. It is much better warm, so try it before you store it.

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My first pine soda of 2026

I made it differently this time and it tastes so much better

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I fermented this in the sun for ~6 days. It was cold out and the sun didn't shine very often, so I should've waited another day or two for a stronger fizz

The entire top was white from fizz when I uncapped it

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Harvested a white pine branch during some urban foraging. Can't wait to make pine soda with the needles.

If I have any leftover I'll use it for pine needle tea.

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The lemon tree in our conservatory has a flower

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Update: no negative effects noticed. If anything I felt good afterward

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White pine needles taste good on their own.

Roll a cluster in a ball like you would lemon grass and let it soak in your mouth

[Thomas Riggins @ThomasBRiggins]

White pine needles taste good on their own.

Roll a cluster in a ball like you would lemon grass and let it soak in your mouth

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@RyanZohoury @Helios_Movement My experience shows it increases, but there is the opportunity cost of time spent in the inferior condition.
Baseline is your starting state, not the IQ your peers are at.
Exposure to toxins after cleanses will lower it again.

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There are still local businesses that don't have a website

Not even a carrd page with name and phone number to book appointments.

Huge opportunity for an instant advantage over competitors.

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Ginger bug soda posts will be paused since they've been more wines and beers recently

Most of my bottles now explode and yield ~30-50%, but they're incredibly bubbly

All explosions and geysers will be posted soon

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@TheJackWorrall Confused customers don't buy

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@wotancore It also makes a good bed time drink, but I much prefer chocolate milk.

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Mango Juice:
Tastes more like mango than ginger, unlike most of the other juices. Pulp holds the bubbles nicely.

It has been described as wine-like and having a tang or zing to it.

Tastes good, but I don't like mango that much.

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Ginger Bug Soda Reviews!!!
A thread...

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Prune Juice:
Tastes like the smell of a homeopathy store. Much better than it's normal flavor. It has the same effects as normal.

Smells oddly like medicine.

Others have said it tastes like coigh syrup.

Overall it is pleasant, but I would not passively desire this as a soda.

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Since 2020, appeals to nature are common in marketing.

The dangerous part is that lots of people take it at face value, but more recently actual evidence has been needed to sell well😃.

Cannabis is an escapism with sugarcoating of "medicinal" and "natural."

It's not worth it

[Clark Engelbert @MetalsBrah]

𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙨 𝙄𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙎𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙫𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙇𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙤 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚. ⁣
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We’ve gotten to the part of the show with the Cannabis industry that it can no longer claim to be a scrappy upstart humbly selling you a product that’s safer and more effective than pharmaceutical products.⁣
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Don’t misunderstand me, I am no fan of most pharmaceuticals for chronic conditions.⁣
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But this notion that Cannabis is safe and effective because it’s “from the earth,” is quite frankly, a delusional fantasy peddled by industry insiders and marketers more than anyone else.⁣
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And, in reality, the idea that cannabis comes from the earth could be an argument used very strongly against it.⁣
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The earth is loaded with more metals now than at any other time in history.⁣
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And it so happens that certain strains of cannabis grown in the earth have a very strong affinity for toxic metals.⁣
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This is what we mean when we say that cannabis is a 𝙋𝙝𝙮𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧.⁣
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Certain plants have the ability to withstand metal toxicity without dying, while accumulating heavy metals from the soils in which they are planted.⁣
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This is a vital strategy to try and clean up the earth of its toxic metal problem.⁣
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However this becomes a problem when those same plants are sold to people to consume and to get high with.⁣
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Which happens often in the Cannabis industry now, and is well documented at this point in various research papers.⁣
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Other issues with Cannabis are that certain manufacturers of these products have actually been caught adding heavy metals to their products to increase their weight!⁣
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A Dutch study was conducted a few years ago which found close to 100 people had to be hospitalized because they were sold cannabis products laced with ADDED lead.⁣
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Couple this with the fact that most cannabis products are grown in soils that use phosphate fertilizers - notorious for cadmium toxicity - and we definitely have a problem that those in the industry would rather keep quiet.⁣⁣
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I’m just reporting what’s in the literature and what makes sense from a biochemical perspective.⁣
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Food for thought today.⁣