A possible use for silver

Silver, for no apparent reason, has been a valuable metal for a very long time. It doesn't make good jewelry or dishes because of its tendency to quickly tarnish, yet people have traveled the world and enslaved others to get it. Why?

I might have found one little-known use for it: making beauty products. I got the idea from my old dictionary, which included an entry for marrow spoons and noted specifically that they were made from silver. So I took some turkey bones from a recently cooked turkey, simmered them for a while to get all the other turkey matter off them, smashed them open with a kitchen hammer, then cooked them in my slow cooker with distilled water and some old silver spoons. Once the resulting liquid was cooled, I used it to take a bath in. Even diluted with tap water, I could feel instant "moisturizing" effects from my turkey marrow-silver broth. I used the broth on my face for the next week, and I haven't looked that good for years! Very moisturizing with no weird side effects.

What might I have made? Because of the occurrence of rubidium in bone marrow (at least where the animals have been able to eat foods containing rubidium), I am leaning towards having made a rubidium-silver compound. I bought some free-range chicken and am trying the experiment again now to see if that changes my results.

If my current experiment gives good results, that would be ironic, for people spend so much money on beauty products when really they should have been turning their money (i.e., silver) into the beauty products directly.

A little-discussed kind of fish

In all my research on fish, I don't recall coming across mentions of the toxic nature of some wrasse species of fish. Growing up in the USA, like everyone else here, I heard often of the toxicity of pufferfish (fugu), but that wasn't a worry because they only ate it in faraway Japan. However, we have fish living off the US coast that can also cause health problems.

Yesterday, while looking around in my big, old dictionary, I came across a mention of the senorita fish species, which lives off the coast of California. It is part of a group of fish called wrasses, and they can be toxic. Toxic, as in put-you-in-a-coma toxic. Here's one study describing the health effects of the humphead wrasse:

"In addition to the gastrointestinal, neurological and other features that were typical of ciguatera, some subjects developed sinus bradycardia, hypotension, shock, neuropsychiatric features (e.g. mental exhaustion, depression, insomnia and memory loss), other central nervous system symptoms (e.g. coma, convulsions and ataxia) and myocardial ischaemia. Other subjects still experienced residual symptoms 6 months later; these were mainly neurological or neuropsychiatric complaints and skin pruritus."

See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24141055/

My father is a Californian, and I grew up hearing stories from him about how Californians would go catch a fish with their bare hands at night in "grunion fishing" outings. But I never met anyone who'd actually made such an outing, and they seemed mythical with how my dad described them. It's unfortunate that he didn't have more solid, interesting fish stories to tell us.

Newest weight loss hypothesis: Phenylhydroxylamine (or nitrosobenzene) consumed together with a promoter of tyrosinase

Canned fish just isn't working for weight loss the way it used to, so I've gone over my notes and come up with a new weight loss hypothesis: consuming phenylhydroxylamine (or nitrosobenzene) along with a tyrosinase promoter together at the same, modest meal.

I think I have been using my high-speed blender (a Blendtec) to make sulfuric acid from sulfur (H2S in fresh broccoli), acid (in apple cider vinegar), purified water, and cacao nibs (a source of copper and lipids). Then I cool down the steaming mix with room-temperature purified water and pour in celery leaf/toasted banana leaf water (a source of nitrous acid and nitric acid), which combination changes benzoic acid to nitrobenzene. Then into my blender (which I think has exposed zinc at the bottom), I pour some rehydrated beef gelatin (a probable source of ammonia) and all that, combined with a little bit of agar agar (which I think is helping due to chlorine used to bleach it), might be synthesizing phenylhydroxylamine. It's possible that I might also be converting one step further to nitrosobenzene with sodium dichromate since there is some sodium in celery and some chromium in broccoli and/or apple cider vinegar. Then again, maybe I want lithium instead of sodium.Yes, all very complicated, and I'm still working on the details of temperature and amount and sequence of what gets added when, but that's what science is about.

Promoters of tyrosinase include watery extracts of pomelo and grapefruit (which means they might be from the rind or the white tissue in the fruit instead of their juices), capers (this probably depends on how they are preserved, though), and some condensation products of ellagic acid/ellagitannins (I think these condensation products can be made by exposing the ellagitannins to ozone/fluorine gas/certain cobalt compounds; I'm leery of too much cobalt since it seems to be linked to colon cancer). I blogged about tyrosinase back in 2017: https://petticoatgovernment.blogspot.com/2017/11/schizophrenia-tyrosinase-ginseng-and.html. There are many inhibitors of tyrosinase in the modern diet, including wheat. [Update 12/15/2022--I've been testing this hypothesis, and there appears to be something specifically in the zesty part of the rind of grapefruit/pummelo that does actually help with weight loss. Cool!]

I have to keep looking for weight loss methods that don't involve canned fish because so many people I know refuse to eat it. 

[Update 12/21/2022: Because of what I'm seeing happen as I continue to experiment, I'm leaning toward the grapefruit having retained a pesticide or disinfectant (due to the large pores on its rind) and that chemical interacting with something specific that is found in animal gelatin. My focus at present is the first substance possibly being the disinfectant H2SiF6 or H2SiBr6 and the substance in the animal gelatin being lithium. A combination of silica, sulfur, toasted "stuff" (I've been using banana leaves, and I think they have some bromine in them), and celery seem to be essential, and those look like they could form H2SiF6 or H2SiBr6. I think lithium is involved because 1) raw, thoroughly washed tomatoes (a lithium accumulator) seem to help, and 2) NaCl and excessive water (H2O) seem to interfere, pointing to the possible involvement of little Li right between Na and H.]

Experiment: Using a rare earth magnet bead in my navel to influence electromagnetic fields in/around the human body

 A friend who suffered from a messed-up taste of sense and smell after having COVID-19 went to an energy healer for treatment, and she reported afterward that she was basically healed by the treatment.

Clearly western medicine has missed out on benefitting from study of the electromagnetic fields that surround and move through our bodies. While thinking about electrical energy and our bodies, I remembered that magnets can be quite disruptive to electricity, for electricity and magnetism are inseparably connected. I saw a benefit from removing my metal rings, so I decided to try whether magnets could affect me for good or bad in some way, too. 

My experiment involved taking a small rare earth magnet bead and holding it in my navel (i.e., my belly button) with clear, non-conductive plastic tape. I've been doing it for about a week now, and my sleeping patterns have improved in that I find it easier to wake up when the sun rises. Magnetism can influence our circadian rhythms (see "Cryptochrome Mediates Light-Dependent Magnetosensitivity of Drosophila's Circadian Clock" at https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000086). I also feel more "in control" of my thoughts and emotions; for the first few days, I kept noticing that I felt like I was back in the 1980s when it came to how I sensed my environment and myself.

I think that what is going on is that this small, condensed magnet is making its own electromagnetic fields in and around the center of my body (which is mostly water) and those fields are having a small but noticeable disruptive effect on the rest of my body. Because the magnet bead is not held in just one place, the electromagnetic fields it produces are shifting around, too. For a parallel, think about how the Earth's magnetic fields are theorized to be a result of its solid metallic core within a liquid mantle and how the earth's fields shift over time.

My adult daughter is trying this experiment, too, and she might be having similar results. It's too early to be sure, but she did seem less groggy this morning when I woke her, and she's had a hard time waking up early for years. I'll update later with how our experiments are going.