I can't find good baking cocoa in the grocery stores. I don't recall any news headlines about that being an issue, but there simply isn't any on the shelves. That's going to drastically change what I and now my teenage daughters do in the way of weight loss experiments.
Also, I have run out of red raspberry seed powder. I won't be buying more. It's expensive and hasn't had the same effects as batches of the same brand bought and used several years ago.
Have you noticed that "superfoods" don't stay super?
Because of my recent (and lasting) two-pound weight loss from expensive deli meat (Boar's Head) with just four ingredients--sodium phosphate, turkey, water, and sugar--I'm wondering if there are some helpful gas molecules produced in processing the meat and sugar on special equipment that has been cleaned with certain chemicals. Remember decades ago when we all got told to beware of cleaning with both chlorine bleach and ammonia together? What if they, used sequentially on food processing equipment, actually were beneficial to making needed chemicals in food?
For now, I'm looking at different things that happen chemically in the kitchen with beryllium (especially as Be(2+) ions), gold, iodine, and possibly ruthenium or bromine (especially as BrO3(1-) ions before H is bonded to them), particularly in combination with phospholipid-type molecules that have arsenic/bismuth/antimony instead of the phosphorus atom.
[Update 4/23/2025: I don't know whether it's related to weight loss, but today I repeated an experiment from a month ago that brought on "hot flashes" (especially in my back, where we tend to have brown fat deposits) then and now. Quite unexpected. Sure, it could be hormones or perimenopause, but I don't recall ever having had those sensations besides those two times, and the "heat" today didn't start until I consumed exactly the same things that I did a month ago; a partial copying was insufficient. Caffeine, which sometimes gets partially blamed for hot flashes, alone wasn't enough. Here's what I ate/drank that seemed to bring on the heat both today and a month ago:
Item 1: My usual celery leaf/distilled water/roasted banana leaf beverage just after waking.
Item 2: A little raw green cabbage on and off before, during, and after small experiments.
Item 3: Sips of a slightly varied version of my snack and mealtime broccoli smoothie:
Prepare in a jar a little beef gelatin powder mixed with room-temperature distilled water.In a high-speed blender, blend some fresh, rinsed broccoli florets with rinsed raw cacao nibs and distilled water.
Pour the blender contents once pureed and steaming (that takes about 50 seconds in my Blendtec at its top speed) into a second jar with some distilled water and a couple tablespoons of the beverage listed as Item 1 above (strain out the celery leaf and ash with a plastic mesh strainer). Then pour that into the first jar of gelatin-water. Mix together in the jar.
Dilute with more distilled water to a pleasant drinkable texture.
Item 4: A new kind of juniper berry/soybean smoothie:
Microwave 4 raw juniper berries with dried parsley uncovered in a ceramic mug for about 1 minute. Press the juniper berries into some salted butter on the blades of a small personal blender.
Microwave around 8 raw juniper berries with powdered white eggshell and beer salt (as a source of silicon dioxide) in a mug uncovered for about 1 minute. Stir with a small golden earring (I used a "Black Hills gold" earring because that is what I have on hand). Add ash from toasted banana leaf and a little just-grated cinnamon bark; swirl in and microwave for 60 seconds more, then stir with the handle of a silver fork. Press the juniper berries onto the same salted butter in the blender.
When everything on the blender blades is at room temperature, make a puree with the treated juniper berries, the salted butter, and distilled water.
In a different personal blender, puree distilled water and 1 dry soybean.
Pre-mix some of the two purees together into a plastic container. Keep at room temperature.
In an IKEA plastic cup, microwave dried dill weed and home-ground chili powder (made from inexpensive Walmart-brand red chili flakes) about 2 minutes. [Hmmm....I tried to recreate this later on the same day, and it looks like, based on my log, that the correct combo is actually gelatin powder on dill weed on Hershey's cocoa powder. I'll try again in the next few days.] Pour the mixture of purees into the IKEA cup and swirl to mix. Drink it all.
Until I made Item 4 with the specific juniper berry treatment above, I did not get any feelings of heat. I used cocoa powder three times for various experiments sort of like Item 4 this morning with no apparent results, which is why I think that caffeine alone is insufficient.
I noticed the heat in my back an hour ago, fifteen minutes after consuming Item 4, and it has continued to be noticeable since then even though I am wearing light clothing and sitting a place where I usually feel chilled.
I don't know what molecule(s) might be connected to this feeling of heat; I will have to repeat these specific food tests to see whether I get the same sensations. Wouldn't that be useful to find a clear food trigger for "hot flashes"!]
[Update 4/24/2025: I haven't been able to recreate yesterday's feeling of "heat." The only differences I can see between what I've been doing today and what I did yesterday is that the experiment that was most likely the one connected to the warmth was done by microwaving gelatin, dill weed, and cocoa in an old Classico spaghetti sauce Mason jar, which cracked during the one minute I had it in the microwave; it didn't break, so I used the result, but I didn't recreate the experiment exactly because I didn't want to break another jar. Perhaps there is something about needing a specific kind of sheared crystal structure as a catalyst. I guess I could break some quartz and try that as an ingredient, as that should mimic having fractured glass.
I tried the fractured quartz and didn't notice anything. Thinking back to the stevia/silicon dioxide that my daughter successfully used for weight loss years ago, I wonder whether there was something in the stevia that "doped" the silicon dioxide to make it do what it did for her. Glass jars do have sodium and sometimes aluminum or boron in them, from what I've read. Stevia is a leaf, and I already have roasted banana leaf ash on hand, as well as roasted banana leaf that was first soaked in magnesium sulfate. Maybe the roasted banana leaf has sodium or a similar element (lithium, rubidium, etc.) in the right form. I'm trying microwaving a combination of roasted banana leaf, gelatin, and dill weed in a ceramic bowl and then stirring in some sulfured-roasted banana leaf. I'm also trying the same combination but with a combination of roasted banana leaf, gelatin, home-ground chili pepper and dill weed (this second one seemed to cause a slimming feeling right afterwards, while the previous one did not, but I also put some sulfured-roasted banana leaf in with the pre-made mixture of purees, so I didn't isolate the variables sufficiently).]
[Update 4/25/2025: Years ago, I came across a big chunk of glass in a can of canned salmon. I laughed a little, remembering headlines about people suing companies for scary things found in processed food, and then threw it away without making a fuss since it was obviously too big to go unnoticed and thus not dangerous to me. While it would be dangerous to a child, young children don't tend to operate can openers and wouldn't be opening this brand of cans. The mere existence of big chunks of glass in or next to food is not dangerous. We eat food out of glass jars and vessels all the time. Just don't ingest glass pieces that could hurt you.
Today I microwaved four recently-fractured chunks of food-grade glass in a ceramic bowl together with cocoa, dill weed, red chili powder, and gelatin powder; those last two are included because apparent interference by sodium chloride with the silicon dioxide in my beer salt, as well as the often-added boron and aluminum in store-bought glass jars, makes me think that perhaps I want to combine beryllium or strontium with heated glass to make a catalyst.
After microwaving, I mixed in the two purees from above and consumed the liquid part of the mixture (being careful to remove all four glass chunks because I'm curious but not stupid), I did feel a new sensation in my thighs and my fingers seem to feel thinner. I would like to retry this experiment with roasted banana leaf ash and/or cinnamon bark in place of the chili powder, but I'm out of purees for today. One batch suffices for a day. I want to consume real food, too!]
[Update 4/26/2025: I saw Hershey's cocoa back on the shelves, but it looks repackaged, as if the labels had been reglued on for some reason. Odd.]
[Update 4/27/2025: Now that I'm out of red raspberry powder, I'm experimenting with using beef gelatin powder in place of it, i.e., microwaving a mug with a little gelatin powder on a little roasted banana leaf ash on a little onion powder on some Hershey's cocoa. I might have gotten a "cooling" sensation from that. I think it would be from making tetrahedral bismuth/antimony/arsenic given the ingredients.]
[Update 4/30/2025: Temperatures when mixing ingredients look like they might be important. Yet another variable to track....]
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