more observations

So, I have a lemon that grew white mold first with a green tinge, then the green creeping up and taking over. I set it aside to see what would happen. I washed all the mold off of it, which left a discolored yellow swath around the center of the peel. I set it aside by my sink. The white grew back with a tinge of green then the green seemed to take over since it became mostly dusty green with a tinge of white. I see this mold repeatedly. I wonder what type it is. I had some ginger root which yielded interesting results. Ginger has astringent properties, whihc I tend to associate with clean. However this ginger root develop a white fluffy mold in one spot, which seemed to have been a healed wound (perhaps where the root was cut) I cut it off and the ginger beneath seemed fine--thus perhaps a mold that develops and feeds on the skin of the root? or scar tissue of the root? It was slow developing.

Ah, and I bought tomatos from krogers the other day which seemed to develop weeping sores It was a whitish,pinkish weeping that screamed infection to me. I watched them for a few days and and the infection indeed seemed to spread, causing swelling of the tomato and a type of non-patchwork bruising that indicated that the contents under the skin were liquifying. With sadness at the loss of viable nutrients, at at the general concept of loss to the spread of infection, I settled the tomato into its compost grave.

In other news,I am the worst cook in the world. When I get super rich I am hiring someone who likes to cook and tossing this kitchen silliness out the door.

The Medical Library

Have you ever gone into a medical library to browse through books and be drawn in deeper and deeper into the texts as if enchanted. Fairies carrying your mind in, spiraling down dimly lit tunnels, until you are so deeply swathed in the texts of the library that you are cocooned by the world inside the books. Time fades away, and 'I swear only fifteen minutes' turns into an hour, then two. Wandering through the pages, your brain swells with information as if you have bitten a magic mushroom. Whispers you can barely here stroke you, bombard you, telling you the answers. You know if you can delve just a little bit deeper, read a little bit more, think, and think and think, as if drunk on the very act, then the whispers will turn to a shout of Eureka. So you do, and they do become louder. But a ringing bell draws you up up and out of that world landing you back at the wooden table surrounded by tomes and volumes. The library is about to close, and you've probably gotten a ticket since you parked in a thirty minute only spot. Wisps of that scientific world drift from your pores, and reluctantly you head toward the stairs, feeling an empty spot, a longing. An echo of whispers follows you down the stairwell and  you ache as you know you were only a few more minutes, a few more pages, a few more pieces of the puzzle before the click that would have transformed your hungry need from seeking to understanding.

God, I'm such a geek

Still a science nerd all these years later. Medical School/Graduate school better accept me, or I'm going to set up my own personal lab in my storage closet out of desperation. Try explaining that to the FBI. "No sir, this lab is for my own personal satisfaction. I swear. No, I didn't get those molds from Russia. I grew them on a banana."

Yeah, I need the science fix.

fungal nutrient broth?

Okay, to satisfy my own need for scientific investigation, no matter how amateur, I've begun inspecting any types of growth or organisms growing on foods accidentally left out (or stuff in unknown places by my children to be discovered later or left in the fridge to long). One of the interesting things is that plates with oil on them (we use olive oil and flaxseed oil) left out for the same amount of times having been used for similiar dishes tend to NOT visibly grow things (from mold to creepy crawlies) or develop nasty odors. However when I mixed straight vitamin C with flaxseed oil and water and accidentally left it in the spare room in a fit of absentmindedness it DID grow a particularly beautiful green white mold. It grew on the surface and not into the oil between the surface and the water. It seemed very healthy looking. I wanted to save some for microscope inspection but had no suitible safe place to keep it until I could do so. Sad:(. But it leads me to suspect (using experiential learning, not what I can go look up in a text book) that oil is a useful inhibitor of maggots, fruit flies, mold, and though I could not directly observe it without microscopic aid, I suspect bacteria. However, when the appropriate nutrients in the appropriate forms (such as dissolvable powder) are mixed, oil may be a suitable media or surface to grow specific fungi (and/or bacteria). Olives with garlic stored in vinegar(with possilbe sulfites) salt, water and lactic acid attract fruit flies. I was always under the impression that vineger (acetic acid) isa preservative. Perhaps its not a preservative in the case of fruit flies, but preserves against bacteria and mold (I believe garlic has been shown to be anti-fungal and anti-bacterial) or perhaps another ingredient negates certain preservative properties such as the lactic acid. Without proof, who knows. I suspect it doesn't significanty repel fruit flies, the preservative properties of the ingredients are limited to bacteria and mold.

Cancer, Flax oil, Mercury

Dreamers Dance and

Dancers dream

Voices raise

Together Sing

cacophony to sweet desire

string symphony inside the fire

bound around a vision quest

where dreamers dance at dancers bequest

 

By the way, check out the response I got to my very first post. I wasn't expecting any one to read it, but Don West, you are beautiful! Imagine  a fabric being woven together. This information is like a string in that fabric that helps put it all in place. By the way, if any of you have mercury amlagams, have them removed. If you go to this link: http://hometown.aol.com/donwest70/myhomepage/index.html you'll notice it says the flax oil must be activated by a sulfur based protein. Guess what? Mercury, even from almalgams, does attack sulphur containing compounds in the body.And there are sulphur bridges in the areas commonly suffering from arthritis. Now this is pure hypothesis, since I have not read Dr. Budwigs material  yet but lets say mercury (HG) has attacked the sulphur bridges in a persons knees, causing arthritic symptoms. Now you put flax oil with a an activating sulphenate compound. Now if  it were to help repair the sulphur bridges, then that would help treat the arthritis, which is part of the title of Dr. Budwig's book. Pretty neat how it all ties together. Theres more but I only get 2,500 characters.

 

 

Medical School, Graduate school

I just had a meeting with the assistant dean of a medical school I'm interested in. Last week I had a meeting with the chair and assistant  chair of the biomedical sciences program. They were both encouraging. The PhD program gave me an application, and the MD program extended the AMCAS deadline for me. I'm really hopeful and will be working all week to get it done. Physician Scientist. Sounds right to me. I believe that to be my niche. My other choice I think would be astro physicist or quantum physicist. Maybe when I'm old and have more time.

 

the winds

a purple color

brush my brow

I close

hopeful eyes

so I may imagine

my destiny

Not my greatest, but it expresses how I feel. I know no one reads this. Thats okay. It makes it all the better. Put it out there but no one sees it. Here's a test. Nathan, if your reading this, call me. :)

This is a continuation of http://journals.aol.com/nixxle1/thepoetsscience/entries/65

Now, my confusion is, why isn't this common knowledge. Why isn't the world, or at least the word of curing cancer waiting on the edge of their seats for the results of this teams work? Why haven't researchers picked up on this in the states and run with it (minus a few murmurs I have just read abstracts for on pub med.)? Why aren't sources of funding and resources pumping these sources and resources into researching this?

I would love to research this (well, since science is my calling, most research, from down syndrome and cancer to viruses to vaccines draw me). I e-mailed the University of Lund. It makes me want to start up a project all by myself, even though I am an unemployed BS. (the job market in this area is very tight). Seriously people, if you want to fund me in the pursuit of this research, e-mail me, nixxle1 at aol.com. The money would be used for materials, supplies, modest scientist salaries (you gotta pay people to do the work) work space and collarborations. If you want to be my mentor, e-mail me.

Breast milk cures cancer?

I am confused and confounded. I read an article in discover magazine about a compound that scientists found that makes cancer cells kill themselves. I followed these scientists and their discoveries while I went to school and wrote a literature review for my senior project. I've since graduated, yet have heard next to nothing in American media. Even scientists I have been lucky enough to talk to blink a blank eye, 'no, I've never heard of that', when I bring it up. So let me tell the world on this little blog  thatI hope people stumble across. I'll keep it simple. E-mail me if you want to hear the scientific technical language.

    Way, way back in '95 some scientist were investigating breast milk.  Breast milk has all sorts of amazing properties that help our babies be healthy. These scientists wanted to learn more about how breast milk fought germies. So they did what scientists usually do. They grew a bunch of cancerous cells in a dish, did some science stuff to the breast milk and poured it on the cells. SHABAM! When they next looked, the breast milk had convinced the cancer cell life wasn't worth living. The cells curled up and committed suicide! The researchers were surprised. The Lund University researchers, being  inquisitive scientists, settled in for the long haul of investigating this phenomenon. They found out which parts of the breast milk convince tumor cells to die and some part of how they do it. They found they could synthesize these parts. They unleashed this team of cancer killers on a lot of different tumors. The parts, we'll call them Alpha-Lac (top secret cancer killing agent) and Oleic Acid (technical support to Alpha-Lac in the spy war on cancer), got in and executed every type of cancer they were put up against. Pretty nifty huh?

Note: Before everybody goes out and starts to drink breastmilk, you gotta know that some pretty specific stuff has to happen to straight breastmilk to activate it before it can be called to duty. You can think of Alpha-lac and Oleic Acid as sleeper cells that need to be given a signal to come out of hiding and  turn into cancer killing machines.