Interesting theory on the link between bodily tension and marijuana use, but does anyone have insights on how Netflix also fits into this 'relaxation revolution'? Maybe binge-watching is another coping mechanism!
There are many other "relaxers" that people have used. Alcohol has been hugely popular for many centuries (which EGK has also referenced in regard to his own period of heavy use). Other obvious things include meditation classes and relaxation massages and anti-anxiety psychiatric drugs... or even something relatively indirect like buying a pet.
I think the Covid era contributed to the structural collapse as well. The immediate depression and anxiety that followed the jab or lack of started a movement of isolation within our society. More people worked remotely, I personally retired because of the so called virus and was forced more or less to not work where people gathered . I was a very active hairstylist working in a salon , playing softball in the summer, and leading a normal life.
For some reason, I had never had the time nor made the time to fix my teeth, I had two ill fitting partials, well a lower which I couldn't wear, not functional, my upper was 20 years old and functional , however losing appeal, not so white anymore, but I could eat.
I had wanted implants, or one of these supposed quick fix, Clear Choice. All of these thousands of dollars, I couldn't justify at almost 70yrs. So I opted for dentures, on top.
My life has never been the same. Can't eat meat, I have poor, digestion, headaches, my neck hurts.My lack of energy and motivation has affected everything. I started first consuming THC gummies then decided to start making them. There were other women friends that I met, going through similar situations, couldn't sleep, poor digestion, implants or dentures. I find it ironic that a lot of people after, the Covid lockdown was lifted got their teeth worked on, or shiny new fake ones. "To make them feel better?" After such isolation? Self esteem? I'm commenting on this because it had been 40 plus years since I had any form of THC. The gummies gave me a better appetite and helped me sleep. I think there is a correlation between the marijuana or THC use and collapse of our brain, jaw, and teeth
Hi EGK, this reply is to content of yours in multiple posts. Since I have to put it somewhere, here it is.
For example, you have another post (or a few) about a war to ridicule and destroy the orthodontics industry as it is. In that war post, you did not say to reform it or to take over that market or to simply make the existing field irrelevant.
Further, my comments below will bridge from orthodontics to other specialties of healthcare and other types of health intervention, such as the topic of this post, marijuana.
I also replied to a comment on this post (by Carol) about different methods for self medication for stress relief, such as cigarette smoking. However, at the time of making that other reply, I didn’t think of cigarette smoking. I do think of it now- and smoking of tobacco cigarettes has such an obvious connection to smoking of marijuana.
From what I understand, many people get addicted to cigarettes because the toxicity of the smoke triggers a release of B vitamins, which gives people a significant sudden relief from stress. Unfortunately, it doesn’t replenish the vitamins, and so the dosage of cigarette smoke needed to produce a noticeable amount of relief can quickly soar.
Here, I’m not making a comment specifically on whether cigarette smoking is always good or bad or whether using marijuana (smoking it or otherwise) is always better or always worse. I’m just gradually setting up my larger focus.
One option is a single-minded focus on orthodontics. For instance, do you think that the only practice or habit that is widely publicized and widely promoted to the mainstream West and that is detrimental… is mainstream orthodontics?
Do you think that there are any other practices that it would be better to stop or reduce for a typical person? These could be in relation to health or in relation to things that are not specifically labeled as within the medical field or health related.
In other words, do you generally think of mainstream medicine and even of mainstream culture as absolutely wonderful and infallible, except for that one remarkable exception of mainstream orthodontics?
In the realm of other topics mentioned in this post, how familiar are you with the history of mainstream medicine and how it was radically altered during the 19th century to systematically discourage people from certain practices and to basically create demand for a set of new interventions? You might know that the change In marketing corresponded to a radical change in regard to the licensing of physicians and the licensing of training institutions for physicians.
Two of my favorite innovators in the field of medicine were specifically targeted in relation to licenses. The first case involved the revoking of the license of psychiatrist Milton Erickson (because his results were judged to be impossible, even though they were clearly far more effective and far more consistent than all of his peers). Ironically, his specialty was hypnosis, and the story goes that he secretly hypnotized the review panel during his appeal hearing, and he left as a licensed physician with no further legal trouble from any licensing board.
Another case is Virginia Sapir Wolff. Many psychiatrists eventually noticed that she, similarly to Milton, was getting results far better than them, and without the use of drugs at all. She was jailed for practicing medicine without a license, But eventually was released and won her legal battles such that her effectiveness led to the creation of a new licensure: licensed mental health counselor.
I could go on and on with examples of medical researchers who encountered professional resistance or legal attacks or worse (as in physical assaults). You must be aware of cases of "unfavorable consequences" for people who openly criticize "the powers that be."
Galileo was not killed. He was simply silenced through institutional power. But the history of the various Holy Inquisitions is... rather violent.
"Some caution could be prudent," said Jeff Clinton to Billary Epstein before silencing him (by placing a noose around his neck and sending him to a sudden encounter with gravity). I had a dream in which Foster Vince asked me "why do so many *suicide* victims have multiple gunshot wounds to the head lately?"
Back to our main topic, a final example of a medical researcher who encountered resistance was the man who created cochlear implants, which became widely popular. But before that, his results were ignored and then challenged and then ridiculed. Why?
Perhaps because his results repeatedly showed that neuroplasticity did not end within a few years of a human’s birth. (The only problem was that “everyone knew” that neuroplasticity ended within a few years of birth, so there was intense resistance to the fact that this researcher and also soon a variety of people were reproducing results showing that the mainstream model was "suddenly" wrong and perhaps always had been.)
You, EGK, might propose that these issues of resistance to medical innovations by the mainstream medical field are actually solely the result of the neurological impairment caused by modern orthodontics. However, perhaps we could consider examples from long before that timeframe.
I seem to recall something about a fellow receiving a rather cold reception to his miraculous medical results... in a book called The New Testament. Why do some institutions make a lot of effort to publicize those "warning stories" to their flocks? Are they really just celebrating bravery... or systematically discouraging it?
Next, back to cigarettes (and within the timeframe of modern orthodontics), one widely known detail is that the manufacturers made so much money from the selling of cigarettes that they used their massive profits for influence campaigns. Is it possible that they systematically influenced scientific researchers (to commit fraud) and then, based on the fraudulent research, wrote laws for their agents in the US government to pass? When those laws were challenged in court and in civil cases, did the cigarette manufacturers then hire world-class lawyers to knowingly further promote fraud and lies (to delay the reduction of their profit margins)?
The demonizing of marijuana use in the early 20th century was also a widely known example of fraudulent medical research being publicized by the US government. In fact, what if they not only funded it but even made the desired conclusion clear in their grant-funding solicitations? Was the marketing campaign of the infamous “newsreel” called “Reefer Madness” organized in the service of the interests that funded and controlled the US government? And was that unusual relative to everything else ever done by the US government (plus any other government in the history of governments)?
Obviously, this is a very long comment so I’ll begin to conclude. But first... Carol's reply to this post makes reference to a certain virus. That reminds me of the topic of a certain injection of mRNA.
I’ve seen researchers talk about how the injection is not technically a vaccine (plus that no one who understands the basics of immunity would never use an injected vaccine to defend against an airborne virus). For that, there are airborne vaccines that are taken by inhalation. And that could lead to topics like the VICP etc etc etc….
So EGK, (and you might already be aware that I used to work for a law firm as I ask questions like I’m asking here), is it your position that the damages caused in mainstream medicine are exclusively caused through orthodontics? Is it also your position that within the entire history of western culture, misinformation and a lack of well-structured research is exclusively found within the field of astrophysics no sorry I mean medicine?
If not, do you care to mention other things that you think it would be better for people to question or reduce or stop doing? If so, then for what other fields or topics beyond medical science would you invite skepticism and critical thought?
Regarding health but not orthodontics, you’ve often referenced the idea that diet and exercise may be greatly over-valued within mainstream PR programming and indoctrination campaigns. On that note, I even know that you frequently mention that popular exercise routines not only may have much less benefit than people are led to hope, but also can contribute to biomechanical dysfunction (even if only for people who already have a compromised curve of spee).
Generally, would you claim that the only realm of popular culture today that is misleading is education? More specifically, would you claim that the only realm of education that is “terrible” is the training of medical professionals? Finally, would you claim that the only field within medical school that is “weak” is orthodontics?
You might be missing out on... the contributions of virtually all of the allies available to you. They might be missing out on what you could offer to them (as in better biomechanics and the related benefits neurologically / functionally).
ANd you're right that this war should extend well beyond orthodontics and into mainstream medicine.
But i view ortho as the gatekeeper that will be one of the first to go down. Later, however, i completely think we will run rampant all over stupid medical practices everywhere.
I think we will take a massive chunk both out of pharma and the medical system.
But i do not think "I" am going to be the one to do that. Rather i just wanna get the ball rolling, get people to start thinking, and then let other armies form that take on a lot of those battles.
In the end i need to not fight too many battles.. and i need the win the ones i choose to engage in.
So i'm a bit choosy about that.
For example, i do not want to fight others in the looksmaxxing space. I dont see what i get out of it.
In the end they will need to accept the fact that i was right anyway. As they'll just lose followers over time who want better results.
None-sense. Marijuana use hasn't exploded it's just become legal. Prior to it being illegal, the usage was the same if not higher. Imagine alcohol tomorrow becomes illegal. And then 10 years later becomes legal again. Liquor shops, bars, etc would open up to the level they are now and maybe more as people capitlize on the revenue opportunity.
interesting…. i dont use marjiuana so it seemed from what a bunch of folks told me that it helps them relax. And it ‘seems’ like there are a lot more older people using it these days.
My experience with occasionally using small amounts of marijuana extract while also using a mouth insert to raise dental height and doing exercises to stretch my chin and jaw and face... was that *sometimes* the marijuana seemed to dramatically increase the rate of change. I had some very big releases while "high."
This reminds me of EGK making some comments years ago about certain methods for accelerating the stretching of the connective tissue... like some kind of physical manipulation of the skin and fascia- maybe a niche thing that was developed mainly in Asia.
interesting.. i def think you can feel and understand the soft tissue much better and this can lead to improving a lot faster on it when doing exercises
Predators are created from there being too many prey.
The khazarian mafia does not represent all Jews.
Just like the mob doesn't represent all italians
I recommend you do a pine gum turpentine cleanse.
The anger you're feeling isn't natural, I think there's a high chance you're filled with actual parasites and they're influencing your emotions and feeding off of you.
That and your salt levels are low, your adrenals are in fight or flight right now.
Sea-90 ocean salt will help balance your adrenals(let a pinch dissolve under your tongue)
Interesting theory on the link between bodily tension and marijuana use, but does anyone have insights on how Netflix also fits into this 'relaxation revolution'? Maybe binge-watching is another coping mechanism!
for sure it is.
I went from binge watching netflix from 6pm - midnight everyday in 2021 when i was first recovering
to now i perhaps watch 30-60min
After working straight up till about 1030pm everyday
good topic for an article actually!
There are many other "relaxers" that people have used. Alcohol has been hugely popular for many centuries (which EGK has also referenced in regard to his own period of heavy use). Other obvious things include meditation classes and relaxation massages and anti-anxiety psychiatric drugs... or even something relatively indirect like buying a pet.
I think the Covid era contributed to the structural collapse as well. The immediate depression and anxiety that followed the jab or lack of started a movement of isolation within our society. More people worked remotely, I personally retired because of the so called virus and was forced more or less to not work where people gathered . I was a very active hairstylist working in a salon , playing softball in the summer, and leading a normal life.
For some reason, I had never had the time nor made the time to fix my teeth, I had two ill fitting partials, well a lower which I couldn't wear, not functional, my upper was 20 years old and functional , however losing appeal, not so white anymore, but I could eat.
I had wanted implants, or one of these supposed quick fix, Clear Choice. All of these thousands of dollars, I couldn't justify at almost 70yrs. So I opted for dentures, on top.
My life has never been the same. Can't eat meat, I have poor, digestion, headaches, my neck hurts.My lack of energy and motivation has affected everything. I started first consuming THC gummies then decided to start making them. There were other women friends that I met, going through similar situations, couldn't sleep, poor digestion, implants or dentures. I find it ironic that a lot of people after, the Covid lockdown was lifted got their teeth worked on, or shiny new fake ones. "To make them feel better?" After such isolation? Self esteem? I'm commenting on this because it had been 40 plus years since I had any form of THC. The gummies gave me a better appetite and helped me sleep. I think there is a correlation between the marijuana or THC use and collapse of our brain, jaw, and teeth
Also, see my post moments ago to the main thread in which I reference your reply twice.
So did you explore the intervention promoted here? If so, how have things changed?
Hi EGK, this reply is to content of yours in multiple posts. Since I have to put it somewhere, here it is.
For example, you have another post (or a few) about a war to ridicule and destroy the orthodontics industry as it is. In that war post, you did not say to reform it or to take over that market or to simply make the existing field irrelevant.
Further, my comments below will bridge from orthodontics to other specialties of healthcare and other types of health intervention, such as the topic of this post, marijuana.
I also replied to a comment on this post (by Carol) about different methods for self medication for stress relief, such as cigarette smoking. However, at the time of making that other reply, I didn’t think of cigarette smoking. I do think of it now- and smoking of tobacco cigarettes has such an obvious connection to smoking of marijuana.
From what I understand, many people get addicted to cigarettes because the toxicity of the smoke triggers a release of B vitamins, which gives people a significant sudden relief from stress. Unfortunately, it doesn’t replenish the vitamins, and so the dosage of cigarette smoke needed to produce a noticeable amount of relief can quickly soar.
Here, I’m not making a comment specifically on whether cigarette smoking is always good or bad or whether using marijuana (smoking it or otherwise) is always better or always worse. I’m just gradually setting up my larger focus.
One option is a single-minded focus on orthodontics. For instance, do you think that the only practice or habit that is widely publicized and widely promoted to the mainstream West and that is detrimental… is mainstream orthodontics?
Do you think that there are any other practices that it would be better to stop or reduce for a typical person? These could be in relation to health or in relation to things that are not specifically labeled as within the medical field or health related.
In other words, do you generally think of mainstream medicine and even of mainstream culture as absolutely wonderful and infallible, except for that one remarkable exception of mainstream orthodontics?
In the realm of other topics mentioned in this post, how familiar are you with the history of mainstream medicine and how it was radically altered during the 19th century to systematically discourage people from certain practices and to basically create demand for a set of new interventions? You might know that the change In marketing corresponded to a radical change in regard to the licensing of physicians and the licensing of training institutions for physicians.
Two of my favorite innovators in the field of medicine were specifically targeted in relation to licenses. The first case involved the revoking of the license of psychiatrist Milton Erickson (because his results were judged to be impossible, even though they were clearly far more effective and far more consistent than all of his peers). Ironically, his specialty was hypnosis, and the story goes that he secretly hypnotized the review panel during his appeal hearing, and he left as a licensed physician with no further legal trouble from any licensing board.
Another case is Virginia Sapir Wolff. Many psychiatrists eventually noticed that she, similarly to Milton, was getting results far better than them, and without the use of drugs at all. She was jailed for practicing medicine without a license, But eventually was released and won her legal battles such that her effectiveness led to the creation of a new licensure: licensed mental health counselor.
I could go on and on with examples of medical researchers who encountered professional resistance or legal attacks or worse (as in physical assaults). You must be aware of cases of "unfavorable consequences" for people who openly criticize "the powers that be."
Galileo was not killed. He was simply silenced through institutional power. But the history of the various Holy Inquisitions is... rather violent.
"Some caution could be prudent," said Jeff Clinton to Billary Epstein before silencing him (by placing a noose around his neck and sending him to a sudden encounter with gravity). I had a dream in which Foster Vince asked me "why do so many *suicide* victims have multiple gunshot wounds to the head lately?"
Back to our main topic, a final example of a medical researcher who encountered resistance was the man who created cochlear implants, which became widely popular. But before that, his results were ignored and then challenged and then ridiculed. Why?
Perhaps because his results repeatedly showed that neuroplasticity did not end within a few years of a human’s birth. (The only problem was that “everyone knew” that neuroplasticity ended within a few years of birth, so there was intense resistance to the fact that this researcher and also soon a variety of people were reproducing results showing that the mainstream model was "suddenly" wrong and perhaps always had been.)
You, EGK, might propose that these issues of resistance to medical innovations by the mainstream medical field are actually solely the result of the neurological impairment caused by modern orthodontics. However, perhaps we could consider examples from long before that timeframe.
I seem to recall something about a fellow receiving a rather cold reception to his miraculous medical results... in a book called The New Testament. Why do some institutions make a lot of effort to publicize those "warning stories" to their flocks? Are they really just celebrating bravery... or systematically discouraging it?
Next, back to cigarettes (and within the timeframe of modern orthodontics), one widely known detail is that the manufacturers made so much money from the selling of cigarettes that they used their massive profits for influence campaigns. Is it possible that they systematically influenced scientific researchers (to commit fraud) and then, based on the fraudulent research, wrote laws for their agents in the US government to pass? When those laws were challenged in court and in civil cases, did the cigarette manufacturers then hire world-class lawyers to knowingly further promote fraud and lies (to delay the reduction of their profit margins)?
The demonizing of marijuana use in the early 20th century was also a widely known example of fraudulent medical research being publicized by the US government. In fact, what if they not only funded it but even made the desired conclusion clear in their grant-funding solicitations? Was the marketing campaign of the infamous “newsreel” called “Reefer Madness” organized in the service of the interests that funded and controlled the US government? And was that unusual relative to everything else ever done by the US government (plus any other government in the history of governments)?
Obviously, this is a very long comment so I’ll begin to conclude. But first... Carol's reply to this post makes reference to a certain virus. That reminds me of the topic of a certain injection of mRNA.
I’ve seen researchers talk about how the injection is not technically a vaccine (plus that no one who understands the basics of immunity would never use an injected vaccine to defend against an airborne virus). For that, there are airborne vaccines that are taken by inhalation. And that could lead to topics like the VICP etc etc etc….
So EGK, (and you might already be aware that I used to work for a law firm as I ask questions like I’m asking here), is it your position that the damages caused in mainstream medicine are exclusively caused through orthodontics? Is it also your position that within the entire history of western culture, misinformation and a lack of well-structured research is exclusively found within the field of astrophysics no sorry I mean medicine?
If not, do you care to mention other things that you think it would be better for people to question or reduce or stop doing? If so, then for what other fields or topics beyond medical science would you invite skepticism and critical thought?
Regarding health but not orthodontics, you’ve often referenced the idea that diet and exercise may be greatly over-valued within mainstream PR programming and indoctrination campaigns. On that note, I even know that you frequently mention that popular exercise routines not only may have much less benefit than people are led to hope, but also can contribute to biomechanical dysfunction (even if only for people who already have a compromised curve of spee).
Generally, would you claim that the only realm of popular culture today that is misleading is education? More specifically, would you claim that the only realm of education that is “terrible” is the training of medical professionals? Finally, would you claim that the only field within medical school that is “weak” is orthodontics?
You might be missing out on... the contributions of virtually all of the allies available to you. They might be missing out on what you could offer to them (as in better biomechanics and the related benefits neurologically / functionally).
wow... that was one long comment!
But really terrific stuff.
ANd you're right that this war should extend well beyond orthodontics and into mainstream medicine.
But i view ortho as the gatekeeper that will be one of the first to go down. Later, however, i completely think we will run rampant all over stupid medical practices everywhere.
I think we will take a massive chunk both out of pharma and the medical system.
But i do not think "I" am going to be the one to do that. Rather i just wanna get the ball rolling, get people to start thinking, and then let other armies form that take on a lot of those battles.
In the end i need to not fight too many battles.. and i need the win the ones i choose to engage in.
So i'm a bit choosy about that.
For example, i do not want to fight others in the looksmaxxing space. I dont see what i get out of it.
In the end they will need to accept the fact that i was right anyway. As they'll just lose followers over time who want better results.
Some battles can be won without fighting.
We're gonna play this shit like Sun Tzu baby!
None-sense. Marijuana use hasn't exploded it's just become legal. Prior to it being illegal, the usage was the same if not higher. Imagine alcohol tomorrow becomes illegal. And then 10 years later becomes legal again. Liquor shops, bars, etc would open up to the level they are now and maybe more as people capitlize on the revenue opportunity.
How old are you?
I bet you're relatively young.
I'm 47.
And I remember what marijuana use was like back in the late 80's/90's. It was very niche despite being quite readily available.
You could have legalized it and it would have anyway remained quite niche.
Take my dad's generation (he's 78). You could have legalized it back then and it would have been even more niche.
Don't believe me... just ask people of that generation. I think they will agree with me.
interesting…. i dont use marjiuana so it seemed from what a bunch of folks told me that it helps them relax. And it ‘seems’ like there are a lot more older people using it these days.
My experience with occasionally using small amounts of marijuana extract while also using a mouth insert to raise dental height and doing exercises to stretch my chin and jaw and face... was that *sometimes* the marijuana seemed to dramatically increase the rate of change. I had some very big releases while "high."
This reminds me of EGK making some comments years ago about certain methods for accelerating the stretching of the connective tissue... like some kind of physical manipulation of the skin and fascia- maybe a niche thing that was developed mainly in Asia.
interesting.. i def think you can feel and understand the soft tissue much better and this can lead to improving a lot faster on it when doing exercises
Predators are created from there being too many prey.
The khazarian mafia does not represent all Jews.
Just like the mob doesn't represent all italians
I recommend you do a pine gum turpentine cleanse.
The anger you're feeling isn't natural, I think there's a high chance you're filled with actual parasites and they're influencing your emotions and feeding off of you.
That and your salt levels are low, your adrenals are in fight or flight right now.
Sea-90 ocean salt will help balance your adrenals(let a pinch dissolve under your tongue)
I wish you the best of luck.
Hope you get better