Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Why Is This Magic Mushroom About to Save Humanity?" video.

  1. I take lions mane everyday, and it's seriously like adderall. It really wakes your brain up! I read a ton of reviews on Amazon and everyone was raving about how amazing it is, and I am older, and getting slower, so I decided to try it, and it works! This got me interested in a bunch of other remedies, and found lettuce extract and kratom for arthritis pain, cinnamon and turmeric for cholesterol and blood pressure...in the last year I have been able to go off all my prescription meds (with the doctors approval)! All those prescriptions had side effects which were not good, so getting off them made me feel a LOT better. I started losing weight, and lost so much I went from a size 16 to a size 4! So I started running to get some muscle tone. I now run 8 miles a day! I am 60 years old and was told a year ago that my health was bad, I had a bad heart, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, rheumatoid arthritis and not to do too much....if I hadn't tried mushrooms, I'd be dead now. I've learned to ALWAYS look for other answers, even in the most unlikely places!. I hope someone reads this and gets inspired to look at alternatives. Doctors can be great, but don't always know what will work for us....
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  2.  Jock McSporran  I really helped my mental state too. I'm ashamed to say that I was very upset by covid and its dangers. My best friend, who is only 45, got it and now has heart damage and asthma. We had worked together years ago and had both gained a lot of weight since then. It was very obvious that excess weight and no exercise would make it harder to recover. My husband is a heavy smoker, and when he got covid, he had to go on all kinds of antibiotics and inhalers. This was last January, before we all knew what was going on. He is five years younger than me, and covid turned him into a 75 year old man, short of breath, tired all the time, aching with arthritis... I was horrified by the pain they were going through. I got the flu but had already started vitamins and excercise, and I think it made a big difference. I was determined to do whatever I could to avoid too much damage. I never smoked, or drank much, so losing weight was the challenge, and it just happened. I have rescue dogs, so I walk with them a lot, and run every morning. I get up at 4:30 every day, and go out and go. I spent enough years on tons of medicines and doctors visits, i just could not keep doing it, pandemic or no pandemic. I wanted to try. I am very, very proud of my city, because everyone has really stepped up, volunteering, exercising, donating time and money to help.. Knowing everyone is encouraging you and looking out for you makes all the difference...
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  3. Timothy Leary had a relationship with Uma Thurmans mom, who was apparently a total wild animal and gorgeous, like her daughter...as a child, Uma spent a lot time watching intellectuals trip out and discuss whatever planets they were on at the time...(during this experimental time, her father was living as an ordained Buddhist monk and her mother had been a high fashion model, they raised their 4 or 5 children as Buddhists...). Mushrooms seem to be a key component of hipness and can turn the most boring guests into Carlos Castaneda like prophets of cool. Pro tip: always bring enough mushrooms for everyone in the class. No one wants to just hear about YOUR mental journey down the yellow brick road, they want to be invited to go with you. You'll always be extremely popular and may even get a former Swedish/Bhuddist high fashion model muse of your own to show off to friends and family, so don't be stingy, baby..
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  4.  Jock McSporran  I'm so proud of you!! As someone who loves to cook and eat, I know that it is so difficult!! One phrase i heard somewhere that seriously helped me, i don't know really why, but it did, was "practicing delayed gratification". I found if I delayed eating, I often didn't feel the same urge to really dig in. I started baking but just putting a cookie (or whatever it was) aside to have with coffee the next morning. It slowly got easier and easier. Another thing that really helped too was chia pudding. That stuff is great! I mix chia seeds (from Amazon) with almond milk ((unsweetened, 30 calories a cup) protien powder and egg white powder. Mix in a blender, stick in glass bowls in the fridge and top with sliced almonds. Even if you eat a whole bowl it's only a couple hundred calories, and it's so full of protien, amino acids, and fiber, that it seriously fills you up! Also I read two books by Christopher McDougal, "Born to Run" and "Natural Born Heros", which got me running and eating a lot better. I started losing weight so fast it was ridiculous. Every week I dropped off clothes at the thrift store that were too big and got a couple sizes smaller. Then the next week I had to go down again. I ended up giving away ALL my clothes, because they were way too big. I couldn't afford to buy a whole new wardrobe, so just kept getting a pair of pants and a shirt each week from the thrift stores. I had spent years and years trying to lose weight and it was just dropping off. Don't ever give up, you are on the right track! Edit: my husband has started taking vitamins and walking with me! He truly suffers from the effects of the illness, and we even make an effort to get out in the sun an hour a day, just for the natural vitamin D and fresh air. We have decided to move to the beach as soon as we can, because we've always loved it. Life can change so fast, we don't want to put anything off anymore!
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