Oddbean

I used to think I had an allergy to milk. Then I discovered that I might actually be allergic to seed oils that contaminate the milk via the feed given to the cattle. Also, there is A2 protein, from jersey cows, that is said to be less irritating than the usual Friesian black and white cow. And then there's goat and sheep milk, sheep is very high fat (6-7%) and goat moderately high fat, but high in MCTs and with fat globules small enough to emulsify naturally and not require homogenisation. Another thing I discovered was that eggs, which have a lot of cholesterol, are also problematic due to being fed on unnatural seed feeds for the chickens. This gave me a skin allergy and upset belly for literally 25 years. In addition, it was giving me gall stones, which I think that part of my former alcohol addiction was all about burning that cholesterol to make hormones. Just wanted to share that because you may not have realised that milk might not be as allergenic as you thought, may not be the actual cause of your allergic reactions, at least not wholly, or maybe not at all. Milk is amazing food. The perception that it is bad for you largely stems from the fact that it's direct competition to seed oils, and distracting you from exploring the idea that other causes, that the big megacorps are profiting off, while soft-killing people and diminishing their lives, they do everything they can to muddy the waters and piss in the pool. Lactose intolerance is actually quite rare in people who have substantial indo-european genetics, and the mutation that allows adult humans to tolerate lactose sugars first appeared around 40,000 years ago, basically it's a switch that most mammals have that turns off after some time after weaning. It was this mutation that led very quickly to humans herding cattle and breeding them from Aurochs into the modern, sedate and passive animal we have today. I'm drinking a lot of milk lately. I wish I could have unpasteurised raw goat milk but maybe next year I can get that organised.

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I've not actually done any work yet with the Lightning protocol API, although I did try to do a refactor on the protocol buffer specs on LND, those guys are pretty incompetent, quite frankly, you should see how epic the bugs in the configuration system are of btcd and lnd. Beyond ridiculous, and they won't probably ever get fixed (as such I'm planning to use CLN and Bitcoin Core with Indra, even though btcd/lnd are in Go, and I wish they weren't garbage). I'm not a "protocol user" I'm a protocol designer. I'm easily bored with following other people's patterns if, and usually they are, the APIs constrain what I can do with it. Though if someone is looking for someone to do protocol design and prototyping, I'm quite adequate at it. Also cryptosystems, cryptography, binary encoding, error correction, event handlers, network handlers, and concurrent programs in general. Obviously, I'm pretty fast at typing too.

Ah I didn't know that Signal used XMPP. It was also called "jabber" before. Anyhow, it's just an event bus system, like Nostr, with a narrow band not broadcast. There's two ways to do multi party, one is with a relay, the other is using multicast. Really they are just specific cases of network protocol. One could easily extend Nostr to do both types of messaging.

I only just now looked closer at it to see who it is. No thanks. This man seems under a cloud that I want no part of tyvm. Nor am I interested in travelling on planes to places that will probably once again try to sell medicines to me that I don't want, and assault me with constant mind control hooks to try and turn me into a cultist. Also, I might just say that I think that LN stuff is a bit rocky, a big ball of mud, most of the codebases, and the protocol has calcified, and we are not likely to see a resolution of the liveness problem with the protocol from any of the established devs who as I see it are mostly just doing fireman work these days.

Yeah it's been a big thing. How I figured it out was last week I ate like 8 eggs in a sitting, and the next day in the evening I had an episode of biliary colic, which I looked up and figured out it was the cholesterol from the eggs. So I was going to phase them out of my diet, and then nostr:nprofile1qqsr26r4lltjnvrwadxp67ns58m4qpzaqemhf5sup7hlujhjh7t296qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs7amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv53exel3 pointed out that most eggs are made by chickens fed on grain, and the garbage in the seeds gets into the eggs. And the last part was, because I got the colic, I also had an episode of nasty skin rash, some sort of irritation of the pores, I think, because it is red spots, really itchy. The reaction also required sun exposure, as I had been sunning beside a pool at the Airbnb I was staying at. I thought at first when it broke out it was the chlorine, and maybe chlorine was part of it, but it seems to be the eggs, and from the eggs via the seeds fed to the birds. Chickens don't naturally eat seeds. Neither do cattle, goats, or any other animal that they feed seeds to. And the carnivores that get fed seeds get diabetes! Seeds = allergies, diabetes, heart disease, cancer. Avoid. Also, just so we are clear, every single plant protein has glue-like proteins in them, which irritate the intestinal membranes and can trigger leaky gut, allowing allergenic peptides to enter the blood and cause a general rise in inflammation levels, as well as anaphylaxis. The anaphylaxis is more commonly manifest as "allergic asthma". This I also suffer from. So, everything that gives allergies, look for the seeds, the seed protein, the seed oils. That's where most of it originates. Most people are not allergic to lactose in the West. A very large proportion of people who have white ancestors even one or two, probably aren't lactose intolerant either. The A1 protein can be allergenic but again, it's probably more to do with the contaminated fats.

Very interesting. I have had skin problems as well, but what changes everything and all my skin problems go away is going to the gym. During the psicopsndemic I could not go to gym and I felt my health very bad, now back to gym and I feel great.

yeah, I've been taking it easy the last few days, as I went substantially too far in the previous week walking up and down very steep hills. Gotta get me a bike, too... this place is hella hilly, but the old roads that were built before cars are windy but gentle, and thus also good for cycling, plus, not so full of insane drivers who are nearly as bad as italians.

Raw milk is can be handled by those who are sensitive to dairy in many cases. Besides the crap feed in commercial dairy, when milk is pasteurized it destroys the enzyme lactase which helps digest dairy

I have no idea about the laws. EU, so probably technically not. But plenty of people keep them, I can even hear goats bleating from my balcony somewhere on the other side of the valley. There is loads of patches of uncultivated areas everywhere that would comfortably accommodate a small herd. The majority of milk here is not just pasteurised but UHT, which is even worse. And out of all that, the majority of it is skim, half fat, lactose free, only about 1/8th of what you look at is just milk, only boiled, in fact often I can't even find full fat milk on the shelf, and plain pasteurised whole milk doesn't exist at all. I actually almost started working as a goat herder for a bulgarian dairy farm some time back. I kinda regret it now, but I very nearly did it.

Commercial milk in US is just as crap as what yours sounds like. At least full fat is still common though. I wont touch the stuff ever since I found a few locations within walking distance that sells it years back. Would be nice to know someone with cows thougjlh for some fresh from the teat action. Some farms around do direct sales, but no car so gotta stick with what the shops got. Better than nothing though. I