[Samantha Rogers]

ROFLMAO!!!!
Lisa, shame on you.... you made coffee come out of my nose.
Tee hee, I thought I was the only one struggling.
Lotus, honey, I concur, really I do. I am in awe of your ability to locate, process and make sense of the reams of info you dig up. You are a supremely important to this forum, and we dearly love (you and envy your delicious ta ta's, of course, too!).
But, as Lisa so nicely put it, some of us have trouble keeping up. Remember, honey...this girl is an actress...an artist...my last science class took place back in the middle ages some where when they were still teaching the value of enemas, bloodletting and purging (no, the OTHER kind...yecch)
Now, I am trying hard to keep up. I always follow your links and try to understand them but with better success sometimes than others. Some of the terminology presumes an understanding way beyond mine.
In a way, keeping up with this board is like going back to school (oooh, if only my hair was long enough for a ponytail...drat), only the syllabus has been broken up and scattered into a million places. Sometimes you (me) come across a bit out of 4th year Advanced Honors Level NBE long before you (me)have found all the bits that make up Freshman Intro to NBE, and it is way too soon to make sense of it. Those are the brain frying moments.
I just made my way all the way through Abidrews thread, reading much of it for the first time (even though I was a member then I was not regularly visiting or even trying to keep up with everything or everyone). Some of her stuff was daunting to me as well. Especially her incredible knowledge and insight into nutrition and diet...still trying to wrap my understanding around some of that, too.
And I am diligently ploughing through Isabelle's long, long thread. And Wahaika, not to mention Eve herself, or any of the other powerfully important contributors. Yes, my eyes are bleeding, Lotus! LOL. (We should have an emoticon
for "gone totally crazy, don't you think?)
But every one of these expeditions provokes regular side trips into other areas in order to research comments made and so be able to continue following the original thread. Kinda like constantly having to look up words while you are reading, to the point where you are so fragmented you can't follow the original at all. It ain't as easy for some of us. And I am sure there are some who visit here who cannot follow the science at all. Of course, that doesn't matter. You keep ploughing on because you have to. Like they always taught us about acting Shakespeare...we had to know and understand exactly what we were saying, and perform it as it was intended, correctly, because even though a large part of the audience would not really get every tiny reference or follow every oblique allusion, it had to be there and correct for that one guy or gurl who DID get it.
No, I don't want you to even think about stopping, or slowing down, dear one. But none of us want to seem stupid so we may sometimes nod sagely in apparent agreement, while inside the more accurate look is that of a deer in the headlights. Tee hee. "I am not a real doctor but I play one on TV"...( Hee hee, and I have,too) but it qualified me for nothing but wearing a lab coat (and an occasional residual).
I never leave off reading a piece of research until I feel I at least have the gist in general, but, wow, some of the specifics are more than a little daunting, and I will admit to skipping over some bits. Have patience with us, dear. We are trying.