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Why , do you need money for flea treatment

Wished that worked for me, i havent used shampoo in years.
I tend to shave my head these days so the dandruff cant build up to a visible level.
I always read that dandruff is the skins allergic reaction to a fungus we all have at the base of the hair, i must be extra allergic, but it only started as a teenager.



I cant find any links JM, i may have remembered wrong, it may have just been mainstream media bullcrap that i heard and misremembered.

Most of the folk I have met who conquered their dandruff put it down to drinking the recommended (by those crrrrazzzy alternative people ) amount of water per day. i.e. 6 to 8 glasses. Dandruff is, as far as I have been able to find out, simply dry skin. Building the water content of the body helps prevent it happening.

Worked for me...

I drink nothing but water and milk usually.
I carry a water bottle with me at all times, but i work in a hot environment and get a dry mouth sometimes when not at work. i dont drink 6 glasses a day, but go through the whole water bottle (bicycle) each day basically.

Most people think of coffee as a drug of addiction, even those who have trouble going without their daily dose(s) but it's worth taking a look at what benefits can come from moderate drinking of good coffee...

For more info check out CoffeeTalk | Top 10 Reasons - they provide the research details for each of the points. And not just lightweight for-purpose research, there are some respected names in the list abbreviated below...

One of my customers is blue. The first time I saw him, it kind of freaked me out. Of course I make sure to not be visibly freaked out by customers.

When my piles flare up, I take a bath as opposed to a shower, or go for a swim. The water pressure seems to help. I chalk it up to the upright walking being a byproduct of being semi-aquatic. That is another "not mainstream" theory about how humans evolved. The Semi-Aquatic Ape theory states that walking in shallow water is what caused hominids to walk upright. It also explains why we have sebaceous glands, subcutaneous fat, sparse body hair, and down turned noses. Water births are also vastly easier on women's bodies too. There is substantial evidence to support the theory. However the anthropological old guard are still stuck on the idea that it made savannah life easier... That would explain all those hairless bipedals walking around the savannah.

Don't forget the ridges on our teeth - specific to animals eating lush plants at lakesides etc. There are quite a number of strangenesses in human makeup.

I'm not much on baths and not big on swimming in chlorine and living in Bendigo it is difficult to find fresh or ocean water for swimming.

Here's another strangeness...

Most people have heard about brain states, particularly as Alpha, Theta and Delta brainwaves. These are frequency groupings seen when the Mind is at certain states. e.g. theta is meditation and sleep, Delta is deep sleep and trance, Alpha is calm and alert. There is also Beta, the state we are normally in when awake and participating.

Ignoring Gamma for now, a very high frequency state acheived only under special conditions, Beta is the highest frequency state - above about 12Hz or so. Think of the frequencies as to how fast a mind can react - it might take one cycle to accept input, another to process it, another to associate it and another to send out a response. At 16Hz, this is about 0.25 seconds - normally seen as the fastest reaction time.

At each of the lower frequencies, each cycle takes slightly longer.

Zen Monks have been tested and show, after years of training, the ability to sink down through the levels voluntarily. Using neurofeedback measuring, some 40 year monks could regularly reach deep theta in meditation. Why we have these levels and how they would develop is a fascinating tour through concepts such as 'waht is consciousness' and 'what is a human' but that isn't my point.

A way to reach down into Alpha without years of training can be done by almost everyone. Alpha is an interesting state; in Alpha we are alert but relaxed, aware but not focussed. Not sure if I have written on it on here but I have elsewhere - I have (stolen in part from Edward de Bono ) a view that we live in Spotlight Awareness and are carefully trained out of Floodlight Awareness, almost from birth.

I think Alpha is very close to Floodlight Awareness and the symptoms of Alpha approximate very closely an ideal training or learning state. You can buy Light&Sound 'glasses' that use sound an LED's to induce an Alpha state for learning and studying; movement tends to slam us back into Beta so it isn't much good for learning active disciplines, but it is excellent for learning from books or lectures etc.

And a simple way of achieving Alpha is to sit comfortably and upright, look at a spot at eye level on the wall in front of you, then lift your eyes about 20º above level and hold your gaze there. After about 7 or 8 minutes, you will be measurably at Alpha.

So, all very interesting and probably all of you are thinking, 'WTF has this got to do with Ronmaggi's post?'

Here's the fascinating thing to think on... WHY would we have what is clearly a 'training state of mind' if we are simply a slightly complex version of primates? How can we find an explanation in evolutionary terms for a state of mind that requires we sit still for long periods in order to learn non-physical tasks?

Another more accessible way to explore the 'altered states' is to use what is known as brain entrainment. Another interesting fact is that if you play a tone in one ear (or flash a particular rhythm of light in one eye) and a slightly different one in the other ear (or eye) the brain (& I am fairly sure it is a brain trick, not a mind one) will synthesize a 'beat from it.

Let's say you play 100Hz into the left ear, and 110Hz in the other - the brain will manufacture a 'beat' that doesn't otherwise exist, at 10Hzm that has an apparent source in the middle of the head. After about 7 - 8 minutes, the brain frequency, as measured by EEG, will centre around 10Hz. (10Hz is smack in the middle of Alpha)

There are many things possible using this technology - Robert Monroe, a rather fascinating guy to research if any of this interests you, used the technology to induce states of being where Out of Body experiences can be initiated at will. Sleep problems can be easily dealt with, pain can be alleviated, healing can be helped along, and creativity enhanced, along with meditation states and trance conditions.

Now... how the hell would a plain 'survival of the fittest' evolutionary path produce anything like this?

I would actually go against this and say that most people dont consider coffee to be a drug at all.
ever notice almost everyone who says "i dont do drugs" willingly drinks coffee?
I find this to be most people, watch what sort of reaction you get from those people when you tell them they do do drugs and are probably addicts.

Hm... you could be right. But alternatively many people also freely admit to being addicted to coffee - 'I can't go without my cuppa' admissions are common and many even say 'I am addicted to my coffee in the morning'

Maybe there's a disconnect between statements admitting addiction and the stigma of being a druggie?

yea i think thats what it comes down to, i dont think any of those people who say they are addicted would admit to being a druggie.
Not that i want to get into a debate/discussion of the good and bad of all drugs, its just always been a pet peeve of mine since i was a kid and sitting around the family kitchen table, i remember my mother/grandparents saying to me " your never going to take drugs right?" and i went along, but there they all were sitting there with thier coffee in hand when saying that, if any of them were alcoholics or smokers they would have had them in hand too while making such silly statements, i even remember being allowed to drink coffee as a kid if i wanted - not a 5yr old at the time.

This seems to be what most parents are like, not just parents, but they are the ones pushing thier kids away from drugs while doing drugs themselves.

You Victorians think too much

no thinking is good, especially about drugs.

Actually, I was thinking about the first circuit board I ever etched... It was for decoding the signal in brainwave entrainment programs to work a pair of glasses I made.

My other half suffers from high blood pressue - a 'by product' of being a type 1 diabetic.

One day I read an article in a news paper claiming that tomotoes are good for high blood pressure so she started to buy a bottle of tomoto juice each shopping day and drink a glass each day - as she was still taking her medication for it she started to suffer dizzy spells and ended up taking a half/quarter of a tablet every second day.

Docter wasn't overly happy.....probably wasn't getting as big a kick back from the pharmacutical company...

Doh, I knew I was in the wrong state