Hi Lotus,
I ended up here because I was looking for a place to put some questions to you. First the technical ones.
I'm currently taking as part of my regime and as what goes first into me in the morning a paste made with plain yogurt, the whole of my daily dose of PM powder, a measured teaspoonful of shatavari powder and a measured teaspoonful of Maca powder (I'm currently taking an additional two 500mg maca capsules in the evening but when the capsules run out I'm thinking of adding another half teaspoonful of powder to the morning mix. I find that the maca makes the mix more palatable than it would be otherwise, though I understand that some people don't like the smell and taste. The mixture seems to be working: my breasts are more tender than they've been for a while, and I seem to be getting noticeable (to my wife) butt growth. My question - is there any downside to this sort of mix?
Going back to grapefruit juice (and for that matter cranberry juice), it seems to me that there may be what I'd term a threshold effect here. In moderate quantities they can both be beneficial (moderation in all things may be a cliche but is a good life principle: or better still know just how far to go and then go a very little bit further), and the serious side effects are confined to those who grossly overindulge. For myself, I was at one time consuming vast quantities of grapefruit and other citrus juices first thing in the morning under the mistaken belief that it was good for me while it was actually driving me rapidly towards diabetes. It seems to me that there are a number of herbs,foods and pharmaceuticals that while they are beneficial inn moderate dosages have a possibly relatively sudden tipping points at which they become damaging. One example seems to be beta blockers, which at some threshold level start to have a much more than proportional deleterious effect on male function. My question - is there any guide to spotting things that have thresholds above which downside effects increase disproportionately? I'm sorry this is a bit vague.
Moving on, someone on this board recently accused me of being a diplomat, to which I responded that I only knew one professional diplomat at all well and I'm not actually certain that I really like him. I tend to see him as a bit of a manipulative near bully. You on the other hand have accused me of being a leader, which is very flattering, dear Lotus, but why? If I'm any sort of leader I think I am more like the Duke of Plaza Toro, who led his regiment from behind - he found it less exciting. And when away his regiment ran - his place was in the fore-o.
Hugs and best wishes
I ended up here because I was looking for a place to put some questions to you. First the technical ones.
I'm currently taking as part of my regime and as what goes first into me in the morning a paste made with plain yogurt, the whole of my daily dose of PM powder, a measured teaspoonful of shatavari powder and a measured teaspoonful of Maca powder (I'm currently taking an additional two 500mg maca capsules in the evening but when the capsules run out I'm thinking of adding another half teaspoonful of powder to the morning mix. I find that the maca makes the mix more palatable than it would be otherwise, though I understand that some people don't like the smell and taste. The mixture seems to be working: my breasts are more tender than they've been for a while, and I seem to be getting noticeable (to my wife) butt growth. My question - is there any downside to this sort of mix?
Going back to grapefruit juice (and for that matter cranberry juice), it seems to me that there may be what I'd term a threshold effect here. In moderate quantities they can both be beneficial (moderation in all things may be a cliche but is a good life principle: or better still know just how far to go and then go a very little bit further), and the serious side effects are confined to those who grossly overindulge. For myself, I was at one time consuming vast quantities of grapefruit and other citrus juices first thing in the morning under the mistaken belief that it was good for me while it was actually driving me rapidly towards diabetes. It seems to me that there are a number of herbs,foods and pharmaceuticals that while they are beneficial inn moderate dosages have a possibly relatively sudden tipping points at which they become damaging. One example seems to be beta blockers, which at some threshold level start to have a much more than proportional deleterious effect on male function. My question - is there any guide to spotting things that have thresholds above which downside effects increase disproportionately? I'm sorry this is a bit vague.
Moving on, someone on this board recently accused me of being a diplomat, to which I responded that I only knew one professional diplomat at all well and I'm not actually certain that I really like him. I tend to see him as a bit of a manipulative near bully. You on the other hand have accused me of being a leader, which is very flattering, dear Lotus, but why? If I'm any sort of leader I think I am more like the Duke of Plaza Toro, who led his regiment from behind - he found it less exciting. And when away his regiment ran - his place was in the fore-o.
Hugs and best wishes
In our litigious society, manufacturers and suppliers are so anxious to cover their backsides with an endless list of warnings accompanying everything that we tend just to tune them out (and I suspect that Big Pharma at least relies on those who watch their ads for their latest and greatest overpriced drug simply to tune out the gabbled background refrain of side effects). Of course side effects can and do occur, but I tend to treat anything I'm starting on with caution and have on the whole been fairly lucky, except recently for gabapentin.