06-07-2011, 09:46 PM
Hi Soonenough, thank you, and you're welcome
Give it time: his opinion may change when your health is becoming better than his My ex is asking for advice nowadays, gave her FG and nigella sativa this weekend
Just ate my two tablespoons of dried hops flowers in milk, microwaved, with added breakfast cereals including oats and broken flaxseed, and sweetened with honey and raisins, OK - carbs - I know, but I hardly tasted the hops this time. I don't even like beer
I still wonder how Eve stayed awake. There is some work on how hops promotes sleep. The sleep-inducing-effects of hops extract are possibly mediated through activation of melatonin receptors:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.12...9/abstract
The competitive melatonin receptor antagonist luzindole helps, but I'm not going to add some creepy chemical to my program.
Hops is related to hemp, but it's clean:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...6476803616
So I looked deeper into melatonin receptors. Many NBE herbs actually contain melatonin, even though the dose is small when compared to the dose in OTC sleeping pills:
Melatonin in plants.
Table 1 Melatonin contents in some plants organs
Common name... Scientific name...................... Organ Melatonin (ng/g)
Fenugreek........ Trigonella foenum-graecum (L.). Seeds 43
Fennel............. Foeniculum vulgare (Gilib.)........ Seeds 28
Alfalfa............. Medicago Sativum (L.)............. Seeds 16
Flax................ Linum usitatissimum (L.)........... Seeds 12
Anise.............. Pimpinella anisum (L.)............... Seeds 7
Corn............... Zea mays (L.)......................... Seeds 2
Milk Thistle...... Silybum Marianum..................... Seeds 2
Oat................ Avena Sativa (L.)..................... Seeds 2
Barley............. Hordeum vulgare (L.)................ Seeds 0.4
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r12145642683235q/
The full table is also accessible:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r121....html#Tab1
Melatonin sets the clock to night time. Maybe there's something in Eve's program that sets it back to daytime, using serotonin. The only ingredient in Eve M's program that could help serotonin is soy:
These findings suggest that genistein up-regulates the activity of neuronal monoamine transporters, noradrenaline transporter and serotonin transporter:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10...7/abstract
I thought soy was only in Eve M's program as a source of protein. I'll try soy milk, and maybe even the powder too. I know Wahaika is not a fan of soy in NBE, because it slows the thyroid. So I may have to supplement for that - kelp and L-tyrosine. But I want to check the obvious ones first: just started by checking my toothpaste. It contains fluoride, so I need a fluoride free one while I'm experimenting with soy.
Fortunately, there is good literature on the interactions between hops, soy, and flax
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/139/12/2293.short
Give it time: his opinion may change when your health is becoming better than his My ex is asking for advice nowadays, gave her FG and nigella sativa this weekend
Just ate my two tablespoons of dried hops flowers in milk, microwaved, with added breakfast cereals including oats and broken flaxseed, and sweetened with honey and raisins, OK - carbs - I know, but I hardly tasted the hops this time. I don't even like beer
I still wonder how Eve stayed awake. There is some work on how hops promotes sleep. The sleep-inducing-effects of hops extract are possibly mediated through activation of melatonin receptors:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.12...9/abstract
The competitive melatonin receptor antagonist luzindole helps, but I'm not going to add some creepy chemical to my program.
Hops is related to hemp, but it's clean:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...6476803616
So I looked deeper into melatonin receptors. Many NBE herbs actually contain melatonin, even though the dose is small when compared to the dose in OTC sleeping pills:
Melatonin in plants.
Table 1 Melatonin contents in some plants organs
Common name... Scientific name...................... Organ Melatonin (ng/g)
Fenugreek........ Trigonella foenum-graecum (L.). Seeds 43
Fennel............. Foeniculum vulgare (Gilib.)........ Seeds 28
Alfalfa............. Medicago Sativum (L.)............. Seeds 16
Flax................ Linum usitatissimum (L.)........... Seeds 12
Anise.............. Pimpinella anisum (L.)............... Seeds 7
Corn............... Zea mays (L.)......................... Seeds 2
Milk Thistle...... Silybum Marianum..................... Seeds 2
Oat................ Avena Sativa (L.)..................... Seeds 2
Barley............. Hordeum vulgare (L.)................ Seeds 0.4
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r12145642683235q/
The full table is also accessible:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r121....html#Tab1
Melatonin sets the clock to night time. Maybe there's something in Eve's program that sets it back to daytime, using serotonin. The only ingredient in Eve M's program that could help serotonin is soy:
These findings suggest that genistein up-regulates the activity of neuronal monoamine transporters, noradrenaline transporter and serotonin transporter:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10...7/abstract
I thought soy was only in Eve M's program as a source of protein. I'll try soy milk, and maybe even the powder too. I know Wahaika is not a fan of soy in NBE, because it slows the thyroid. So I may have to supplement for that - kelp and L-tyrosine. But I want to check the obvious ones first: just started by checking my toothpaste. It contains fluoride, so I need a fluoride free one while I'm experimenting with soy.
Fortunately, there is good literature on the interactions between hops, soy, and flax
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/139/12/2293.short