Even if so, I can still picture the masses taking overdoses and asking why they are getting worse instead of better, and those who take too little and say it doesn’t work, and those who do not take it long enough. Heck, I can picture some going back on the very thing that caused their syndrome in the first pace if they recovered. I have actually seen that. Moreover, pharma has no interest in curing people. A cure is a 1-time transaction. Temporarily masking the symptoms with a continuous supply of drugs is repeat business. Come on, those who talk about gene manipulation. Want a fix from pharma? Expect it to be a pill, cream, or shot as most their products are. Gene therapy will likely be approved only for life threatening diseases such as cancer, at least at first.
Not all that familiar with osha, just that it is an immune booster along with goldeseal and echinacea. Rather than copy and paste or repost, here is a hyperlink of my experience with these 2. I'm convinced it's autoimmunity
I have only seen white asparagus in glass jars on the canned food aisles on the shelves next to okra, olives, banana peppers, etc. Never saw fresh on the produce aisle. There is another variety of asparagus called shatavari. I take it you refer to the sweet fruits rather than oily fruits such as avocados. Not to be the semantics police, but the pod that holds the seed is the fruit of a plant. This makes okra a fruit technically. This makes avocados as much a fruit as peaches. It really depends what part of the plant we are referring. The red berries that grow on the asparagus plant are technically fruits. Asparagus can be a vegetable or a fruit. Then again, the berries of saw palm are fruits, oily ones at that. Red berries also grow on the ashwagandha plant, but nobody sells or consumes those for I don’t know why.
Wish I could recommend a propolis brand. I used the solid resin pieces with a generic label, so I’m not sure the brand. I prefer to make a liquid tincture from it and burn the leftover resin as a sort of incense. I don’t get clear answers from companies whether it is sourced from a region where that midget palm grows, so I abstain. There is a company in New York who doesn’t filter their honey leaving in the product the pollen, royal jelly, and propolis - very tasty. Don’t want to openly name the brand for reasons a plenty. I prefer to advocate sourcing supplements for free over giving the industries money. You and I were affected by the supplement industry while most the others were affected by the drug industry. It pains me utterly to the core to give money to an industry who caused major problems for me. That palm tree has the cons of trees and the cons of weeds. The only good thing is it won’t get so tall that a branch would be heavy enough to damage property or person. It has some sharp thorns though. Its only good use is as fire tinder, except a bit scared to inhale the smoke. Anyway, I prefer to harvest or grow my own supplement material. If not possible, I go for whole or cut material. Powders and liquid can be mixed with filler easier than whole or even cut pieces. You know what you get when you produce it yourself. The long list of additives on the labels makes me cringe. I expect you know these things already, but the masses may not. They only have to list ingredients directly added to the final product. They don’t have to list “processing aids”. Lets say they use lubricating oils on the machinery, it does not get on the label. Importantly, 1 thing to be very weary is products that say “proprietary blend”. Trade secret laws protect that information except for the top allergens. This means it could include saw palmetto or almost anything. Speaking of Indian cuisine and the likes, fenugreek makes me feel off by itself, but not in the context of curry blends. I have used curry seasoning to flavor dishes for years and years pre-saw, no problems.
I don’t trust most medical offices to calibrate the pressures cuffs correctly. They have an interest to make it seem higher to prescribe more drugs, make more money. When I check it at home, a store, a pharmacy even, it always much lower than a doctors office. I prefer water kefir over kombucha, and milk kefir over yogurt anyway. My favorite probiotics are from home-fermented meats. The stench and taste are foul, but mighty powerful.
It irks me that I cannot find any details behind the sida acuta hair loss. Ephedra causes hair loss too, except that is not a DHT pathway. Chemo also causes hair loss. If you try, keep me posted. I’m inclined to suspect sida acts on DHT pathways because it made my scalp itch, and my scalp never itched. It goes to show how desperate you are to be you again that you don’t care about the risk of hair loss. Speaking of labs, I never even saw a doctor for saw. I can see it going this way based off past unrelated experiences:
Kava has a natural creamy consistency. I do not use the powder; I use the cut and sifted root, boiled in water and filtered. I only used 3 brands without knowing whether they were heady or heavy. I will tell you the brands privately. I only used 1 brand of kratom. Likewise, I used the cut and sifted leaves; maeng da red, green, and white, preferring red. I shall name the brand discreetly.
It would be nice to get a blood, tissue, urine, and hair test of what vitamins, minerals are high or low. It will be more telling than just 1 route. It would be nice to check all these parameters with hormones and etc too. Alas, they can do it, but they don’t because, because, because, because of the wonderful things they do (n’t). I’m sure you get the reference. It would be expensive anyway. Nonetheless, good on you for taking action. I shudder to think how awful I would have gotten if I hadn’t. I can hear the masses now: “Donate to research” and rolling their eyes. I get it, except the research is on finasteride, not saw palm. Early on in my journey, I figured even if a treatment did eventually arise, it would be expensive, not given out for free as most think, and it would only be offered to those who used finasteride, not those who took saw, ssris, or accutane.
Muira puama and damiana taste very similar, except the former is woody tasting and the latter is leafy tasting. They must have similar active chemicals. Wild tribulus leaves and aparagus taste similar; they both contain protodioscin. But yeah, that asshole clerk did not ask other customers in line ahead of me “what’s it for” or say “you have to tell me first”. If she wound up suffering from this or a similar disease, I would not feel bad for her. I wonder if she would have asked “what for” if I was looking for horny goat weed. She is ugly inside and outside. Once upon a time, I ordered horny goat weed along with groceries online through a delivery service, and the young pretty lady delivering did not comment. I felt so embarrassed and pathetic. I wonder what she thought. Even though I have won against the disease and can live a normal life, I still feel the sting of shame when recounting these embarrassing experiences. I guess that is 1 thing I have not recovered from at all.
I know of someone who ate an angel trumpet flower, passed out behind a dumspter, spent a few days in the hospital, and recovered as if nothing ever happened. She even talks about doing it again from time to time. You and I would not say that about saw. I also know of someone who had renal and liver failure after a toxic mushroom, was put on a transplant waiting list, and recovered as if nothing ever happened. Funny thing is he won’t even eat mushrooms from stores or restaurants now. Really, what this palm tree did to you and I are horrors that not even movie or cartoons writers could think up. “Fact is stranger than fiction”, as the saying goes.
What about fish liver? I enjoy canned cod liver; cannot find it fresh. I prefer a specific brand because it has more pieces and less oil than other brands. I prefer almond, pistachio, walnut, hazelnut, and cashew butter over peanut butter, taste-wise. Macadamia is my fave. Peanut is the cheapest though. I know people have allergic reactions to peanuts and die, but I firmly believe there is something demonic about saw palm. People can have allergic reactions to nearly anything, but how many plants are capable of what saw is? 100 years ago, fin, accu, etc did not exist, but saw palm existed long before native Americans. I imagine ancient people gave it to their prisoners and enemies. Speaking of, most nuts are seasonal and most fruits are seasonal. I believe there is something about seasonal eating. Variety, for 1 thing. I laugh at those who have say milk and cheerios for breakfast and then a grilled cheese for lunch is variety. It is the same thing. The cereal and bread are both made with wheat, and the milk and cheese is both dairy. They are basically eating the same thing.
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1026/l-carnitine
I wonder if the reverse is true. Would valproic acid help carnitine toxicity? Valproic acid and valeric acid found in the valerian plant are structurally similar.