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Post by Toasty on Oct 1, 2014 16:12:07 GMT
This will be a growing list of foods that have detectable levels of psychoactivity, which will alter your receptor levels away from baseline, superimposing variable inaccuracies over any experiments you are trying to run.
Refined sugar: temporarily raises serotonin and endorphin levels, and lets them crash afterwards. This affects all serotonin receptors, most importantly 5-HT1A, 5-HT2A, 5-HT5, and 5-HT7, because these are some of the color-generating receptors. Also affects mu opioid and kappa opioid receptor levels. Also affects D2 and D5 dopamine receptor levels through complex downstream mechanisms (5-HT2A upregulates D2, mu opioid downregulates D2, 5-HT5 upregulates D5, D2 itself upregulates D5).
Refined sugar also severely depletes magnesium from the body, which will drastically increase tolerance accumulation for all psychoactive substances. It will also dangerously lower 5-HT1A levels, into the far-far-bipolar rage zone.
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Post by alkaloidaholic on Oct 4, 2014 23:25:53 GMT
Intresting... Refined sugar is Sucrose... other sweeteners like Fructose glucose may also have similar or slightly different receptor affects
Other things like Aspartame and Monosodium glutamate may have some week or possibly undesirable effects.
I would add Bananas(especially unripe ones) and any food high in Tyrosine to the list
There's also a surprising amount of different tryptamines in the peels of the bananas, specifically dopamine Eating bananas (or any food high in Tyrosine) has a significant impact on dreams.
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Post by username on Oct 5, 2014 0:49:37 GMT
Careful taking alcohols and or aldehydes and or mao a or b inhibitors before, with, or after bananas.
Aspartame causes more damage to the brain then meth.
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Post by alkaloidaholic on Oct 5, 2014 1:15:33 GMT
wow, I've just recently had the revelation of the significance of everyday nutrition in relation with neurotransmitters and overall perception of reality.
does anyone have any links or just some good information to start me off eating well?
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Post by username on Oct 5, 2014 2:29:32 GMT
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Post by coreybamboo on Oct 5, 2014 15:32:10 GMT
I like the healthdigezt site. Also naturalcuresnotmedicine and themindunleashed. If you have a facebook I'd recommend following these pages. It's pretty simple (but not easy in this modern age): Eat organic, whole foods with balance betweeen the food groups moderately. Try to eat more fruits/veggies than animal products. Drink purified or natural spring water--no tap! Each person is unique but I have heard of some "raising their frequency" on a vegan diet. Eat less processed foods and refined sugars. I don't eat any refined sugar and the only sugars i do eat are small, occasional amounts of raw honey and maple syrup as they are not processed. ( I know a guy who collects organic honey). My diet is a mixture of the mediterranean and okinawan (Japanese) diet as of now.I like the pungent latino and unique african flavorings as well. My favorite book is Healing with Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford. I will check out that site, Username!
Some of my favorite foods are hemp seeds, avocados, almonds, kale, chard,lemons, cranberries, cherries, sweet potatoes, ginger, carrots, salmon, coconut, cacao, apple cider vinegar, tea, sesame seeds, cabbage, ghee, garlic, turmeric goji berries, and schisandra berries, amongst plenty of others. I've turned into quite the foodie lately as its been the main tool in the recuperation of my health.
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Post by Toasty on Oct 5, 2014 17:49:41 GMT
Fructose and glucose have the same receptor effects, but in different intensities because of different styles of absorption into the body and brain. Fructose feels like it goes everywhere and activates everything more intensely than sucrose and glucose. It feels like an uncontrollable blood-poison that can only be controlled if it has the living vitamins and minerals that are needed to metabolize it. It is psychedelic in me... I get very ridiculously strong magenta, pink, purple, lime green, and crystalline white visuals. I get a cocaine-like rush that lasts for about 10 minutes, after which I crash hard and it sucks... lol
This is probably diabetes because most people don't get a cocaine-like high just from eating raisins or dates (these fruits are partially dead so they don't have the right enzymes and vitamins anymore to help metabolize it without the cocaine high).
Coreybamboo that sounds like an epic group of foods! haha
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Post by alkaloidaholic on Oct 5, 2014 20:33:59 GMT
Thanks for all the info guys!
does anyone here recommend intermediate fasting?
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Post by Toasty on Oct 5, 2014 21:10:27 GMT
yes, fast as much as you can. it resets everything in your body and lets you balance out from the continual food intake. often, the unbearable discomfort that results from fasting is the detoxification your body is undergoing as it flushes out accumulated toxins from continual food intake.
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Post by coreybamboo on Oct 6, 2014 6:09:04 GMT
Fructose and glucose have the same receptor effects, but in different intensities because of different styles of absorption into the body and brain. Fructose feels like it goes everywhere and activates everything more intensely than sucrose and glucose. It feels like an uncontrollable blood-poison that can only be controlled if it has the living vitamins and minerals that are needed to metabolize it. It is psychedelic in me... I get very ridiculously strong magenta, pink, purple, lime green, and crystalline white visuals. I get a cocaine-like rush that lasts for about 10 minutes, after which I crash hard and it sucks... lol This is probably diabetes because most people don't get a cocaine-like high just from eating raisins or dates (these fruits are partially dead so they don't have the right enzymes and vitamins anymore to help metabolize it without the cocaine high). Coreybamboo that sounds like an epic group of foods! haha Wow, Toasty! Have you always been that sensitive to foods...I have hypothesized that more people would be more psychoactive-sensitive to chemicals in foods if their pineal glands were functioning at higher levels. Many things in our modern lives deter pineal gland function--man-made light, fluoridation, chemicals in processed foods, stress, less time with plants and sunlight, amongst other things. You get colored visuals from fructose! I yearn for that lol! Consider yourself fortunate. Does honey do anything for you as it contains both glucose and fructose? Did you do anything in particular to decalcify/activate your pineal gland? I know mine is calcified from all the fluoride I have ingested during my childhood. I'm curious about your background and perhaps if you made a conscious effort to improve the functioning of your pineal gland.
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Post by Toasty on Oct 6, 2014 17:57:17 GMT
I don't know why other people aren't getting the same visual patterns that I am. What I did was just take a few things to detoxify the pineal gland, eat organic for a while and use wheatgrass juice somewhat often, smoke cannabis for a few years (I do not do this anymore), and use lemon oil with cannabis a lot.
It taught me to predictably and repeatably see visuals in my imagination... Visuals that I was not causing but could manipulate.
Even username has said that he does not experience these visual colors in the same way that I do.
But I think this is important, because I believe it is the mechanism through which the tantric researchers discovered the chakras thousands of years ago. These receptors generate colors in the AMPA field, and they can coalesce and condense into lotus-like forms within the body. All of the chakras seem to be detectable through AMPA and their respective receptor activation.
This would mean, for example, that the throat chakra is bundled up between neurons that contain D5 dopamine receptors, and that activating these receptors activates the pathway between the brain and this chakra. You can tell because D5 will generate the mandala for the throat chakra in your mind's eye, and it will loosen up the muscles in the throat as the chakra becomes more active.
It will also activate every function that the throat chakra is mystically known to govern.
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Post by username on Oct 7, 2014 1:15:50 GMT
Actually I experience much of the same types of things you describe, there are a few I don't experience as often but most I don't focus so much on mapping the layers and instead tend to direct them into fuelling the cascade of exponentially accelerating expansion that I experience almost all the time, it's a general expansion sometimes I gone it into spacific activities other times I do t focus it any ware and just let it infinify itself further.
I have experienced much of the colors toastus talks about the difference he has spent much time hammering out what comes from ware, why, how, when etc etc
Wile I have not paid as much attention to the actual colors and mostly just went really far in a lot of different directions.
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Post by alkaloidaholic on Oct 7, 2014 2:46:12 GMT
It seems that the secret to getting really "high" is by taking the least amount possible for alteration and having the awareness of the "sober" mind to explore consciousness this way is the least impactful to the living body.
I now believe putting anything in body has a very big effect on consciousness you just have to look for it.
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Post by Toasty on Oct 7, 2014 20:36:30 GMT
One of the secrets to getting really high that I have found is to do what you said: take the least amount possible for alteration, exploring this consciousness with the awareness of your (nearly) sober mind... And when you are sensitized to it, jump deep into it with high doses. You will experience more than you would without this surface-layer sensitivity. One of the things I immediately experienced was grid-connection.
You may want to go slower with the powerful psychedelics.
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Post by powerfulmedicine on Oct 9, 2014 0:46:19 GMT
I've often found eggs to be significantly psychoactive when consumed on a relatively empty stomach. They don't cause anything crazy like visuals for me (no food in typical amounts ever has for me), but they cause a noticeable mood lift.
Eggs contain choline, lysine, and arginine - all of which can have some level of psychoactive effects. I've read that choline supplementation can have especially significant antidepressant effects in those who have a diet deficient in choline. Perhaps I don't get enough choline in my diet?
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