i'm posting the most recent version of the tables in order to print it for my doctor.

disclaimer:

i've gone to town with a few things - i'm not making up vitamins but rather filling things in. i mean, there's all these "missing vitamin names". what were they, exactly? it also gives me an excuse to work in a few things like choline that are hard to otherwise define as they are essential in some amount but not technically vitamins.

note that these numbers are scavenged and should be interpreted approximately. that's partly why i'm aiming to overshoot on most of it.

		pre- meal water	fruit soy shake bowl 7 fruits: raspberry, guava, banana, strawberry, avocado, kiwi, cherry + 3 dairy: soy milk, ice cream, yogurt  + 3 cereal: vector, all bran, wheat bran + 2 seeds: sunflower, flax + nutritional yeast, algal oil																		post- meal water	coffee
		water 850 ml + 1/4 cup tooth paste	rasp berry raw 9-11 45 g	guava raw cut 1-3 30 g	banana raw cut 1 118 g	straw berry raw cut 4-8 100 g	avocado raw cut 2 150 g	kiwi raw cut 1 69 g	van soy milk light 1.6 cups 400 ml	prem cherry ice cream 150 ml (82.5 g)	0% cherry yogurt 2 tbsp 50 g	nut yeast 1 tsp 5 g	vector cereal 3/4 cup 40 g	all bran 3/4 cup 45 g	wheat bran 2 tsp 7 g	sun flower seeds 1 tsp 8 g	grd flax seed 1 tbsp 12 g	algal oil 1 tsp 5 ml	sum	bounds	water 850 ml +  1/4 cup tooth paste	coffee 1 cup 350 ml	choc soy 50 ml	tooth paste spit 1/4 cup 2 tsp	total
	raison d'etre	f h20	c s b	b8 c s	cal b5  b16 cl,k h h20	c s cr h20	cal b5,8,9 b16,20 c,e,f1 k1,s b,na,s k,cr,zn h,l,k,m c h20	b8 c k1 b,cr	cal a b5,7,8 b16,20 d,f1 b,na,p s,k,ca fe,co,cu zn,mo h,i,l,k m,c,v h20	cal a b5 b12,13 b16,20 k2 na, s  zn i,l,k,m v	a b16,20 na,s,co zn i,l,k,m c,v	b1,2 b3,4 b6,7 b9,12 b16 s, cr k,c	cal a b3,5,7 b9,b15 b20 e, f1 na,cl fe,zn,i	cal b5,8 b15,16 b20, f1 na,mg, p,s,cl,k mn,fe zn h,i,l,k m,c,v	b8 b15 s,cl,zn c	cal e,f1 s c	cal b16 f1,f2 b,si s,ni,zn c	b12,16 f3,f4			f
	calories	0	23.4	20.4	105	32	240	42	96	168	17.5	18.75	159.27	125	15.12	46.72	64.08	40	1213.24	>1000 <1200	0	0	32	0	1245.24
	cost	0	.64	.40	.15	.77	.96	.39	.85	.43	.19	.22	.38	.39	.02	.06	.06	.92	$6.83	<$6.50	0	.14	.11	0	$7.08
v i t a m i n l i k e c o m p o u n d s	a retinol (900 μg rae)	0	.9 μg	9.3 μg	3.54 μg	1 μg	10.5 μg	2.76 μg	16 %	9.6 %	3 %	0	~ 12.3636 %	0	0	0	0	0	44 r:41 c:3	40<r<150	0	0	r:2 %	0	46 r:43 c:3
	b1 thiamin (1.2 mg)	0	.0144 mg	.0201 mg	.037 mg	.024 mg	.101 mg	.019 mg	12.8 %	~ .033825 mg	3 %	259.375 %	~ 12.3636 %	75 %	.03661 mg	.1184 mg	.19728 mg	.04488 mg	416 u:53.5	>125	0	4 %	1.5 %	0	421.5
	b2 [g, j] riboflavin (1.3 mg)	0	.0171 mg	.012 mg	.086 mg	.022 mg	.195 mg	.017 mg	40 %	.198 mg	5 %	240.625 %	~ 22.5454 %	12.5 %	.04039 mg	.0284 mg	.01932 mg	.02958 mg	371.5 u:51	>131	0	20.5 %	5 %	0	397
	b3 niacin (16 mg)	0	.2691 mg	.3252 mg	.785 mg	.386 mg	2.61 mg	.235 mg	16 %	.0957 mg	.059 mg	109.375 %	~ 38.5454 %	31.25 %	.95046 mg	.6668 mg	.3696 mg	.1428 mg	238 n:74 f:164	>125 f<200	0	4 %	2 %	0	244 n:78 f:166
	b4* adenine (75 mg)	0	?	?	1.416 mg	0.5 mg	15.9 mg	?	30.88 mg	~ 1.94494 mg	1.025 mg	82.3 mg	1.6 mg	1.8 mg	.28 mg	?	?	?	182	>100	0	?	5 %	0	187
	b5 pantothenic acid (5 mg)	0	.14805 mg	.1353 mg	.394 mg	.125 mg	2.08 mg	.126 mg	24 %	.479325 mg	.194 mg	3.75 %	~ 18.9090 %	10 %	.15267 mg	.0904 mg	.1182 mg	.0357 mg	138 u:81.5	>110	0	18 %	3 %	0	159
	b6 pyridoxine (1.7 mg)	0	.02475 mg	.033 mg	.433 mg	.047 mg	.386 mg	.043 mg	9.6 %	.0396 mg	.029 mg	221.875 %	~ 15.2727 %	12.5 %	.09121 mg	.1076 mg	.05676 mg	.01428 mg	336 u:76.5	>118	0	0	1 %	0	337
	b7 [h] biotin (35 μg)	0	.9 μg	? μg	1.652 μg	0.8 μg	7.95 μg	.966 μg	15.6 μg	2.145 μg	1 μg	75 %	~ 56.1039 %	7.515 μg	1.169 μg	6.408 μg	4.32 μg	3.06 μg	284 u:152.5	>171	0	0	5.5 %	0	289.5
	b8* inositol (1000 mg)	0	0 mg	30 mg	0 mg	13 mg	69 mg	93.84 mg	27.552 mg	7.425 mg	8 mg	24.75 mg	12.24 mg	240.435 mg	47.95 mg	.96 mg	23.4 mg	?	59.5	>50	0	0	1 %	0	60.5
	b9 [m, b11, r] folic acid (400 μg dfe)	0	9.45 μg	14.7 μg	23.6 μg	24 μg	122 μg	17.2 μg	n:9.6 f:0 %	4.125 μg	1 μg	59.375 %	40 %	12.5 %	5.53 μg	18.16 μg	10.44 μg	1.02 µg	184 n:72.5 f:111.5	>100 f<133	0	1.75 %	1.25 %	0	187 n:75.5 f:111.5
	b12 [t] cobalamin (2.4 μg)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	80 %	.6435 μg	7.5 %	312.5 %	0	0	0	0	0	.55998 μg	450 n:57.5 f:392.5	>250 n>50	0	0	10 %	0	460 n:57.5 f:402.5
	b13* orotic acid (10 mg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	~ 12.8906 mg	2.578125 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	155	>100	-	-	-	-	155
	b15* betaine (550 mg)	0	.36 mg	.03 mg	.118 mg	.2 mg	1.05 mg	.345 mg	3.2 mg	.9075 mg	.35 mg	0	68 mg	162 mg	93.73 mg	2.832 mg	.372 mg	?	60.5	>50	0	~ 0	~ 0	0	60.5
	b16* choline (550 mg)	0	5.535 mg	2.28 mg	11.6 mg	5.7 mg	21.3 mg	5.38 mg	96 mg	21.45 mg	8 mg	20.5 mg	7.6 mg	22.05 mg	5.208 mg	4.408 mg	9.444 mg	14.688 mg	47	>40	0	~ 1.68 %	~ 2.23 %	0	51
	b20* [I] l-carnitine (29 mg)	0	?	.06 mg	.236 mg	0 mg	1.95 mg	.138 mg	.24 mg	3.3 mg	2.0 mg	.12 mg	.6 mg	.675 mg	.105 mg	.08 mg	.0612 mg	?	33	30>s>35	0	0	0	0	33
	c ascorbate (90 mg)	0	11.79 mg	68.4 mg	10.3 mg	58.8 mg	15 mg	64 mg	0	0	0	0	~ 12.3636 %	0	0	.112 mg	.072 mg	0	266 u:253.5	>234	0	0	0	0	266
	d calciferol (20 μg)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	d2: 72 %	d3: .165 μg	d3: 7.5 %	0	d3: ~ .727272 %	0	0	0	0	d3: .816 μg	85 u:5 d2:72 d3:13	>40	0	0	d2: 9 %	0	94 d2:81 d3:13
	e alpha- tocopherol (15 mg)	0	.3915 mg	.219 mg	.118 mg	.29 mg	3.1 mg	1.01 mg	.24 mg	.2475 mg	0 mg	0 mg	~ 21.8181 %	.5355 mg	.1043 mg	2.8136 mg	.0372 mg	.00459 mg	82.5 n:60.5	>60 n>50	0	0	0	0	82.5 n:60.5
	f1* linoleic acid (17 g)	0	.11205 g	.0864 g	.0543 g	.09 g	2.511 g	.17 g	2.24 g	.226875 g	0	0	~ .8727 g	.837 g	.14273 g	1.84384 g	.70836 g	0	58	>50	0	0	2.35 %	0	60.5
	f2* alpha linolenic acid (1.6 g)	0	.0567 g	.0336 g	.0319 g	.065 g	.167 g	.029 g	.32 g	.144375 g	0	0	~ .07272 g	.0639 g	.01169 g	.0048 g	2.73756 g	0	233.5	>50	0	0	3.75 %	0	237
	f3* eicosa pentaenoic acid (0.375 g)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	200 mg	53	>50	-	-	-	-	53
	f4* docosa hexaenoic acid (0.250 g)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	300 mg	120	>50	-	-	-	-	120
	f1:(f2+f3+f4) ratio	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.33475	<4	-	-	-	-	2.3951
	k1 phyllo quinone  (120 μg)	0	3.51 μg	.78 μg	.59 μg	2.2 μg	31.5 μg	27.8 μg	11.712 μg	.2475 μg	.1 μg	0	.3636 μg	2.34 μg	.133 μg	0	.516 μg	?	68	40<s<100	0	0	1 %	0	69
	k2 mena quinone  (180 μg)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	~ 78.1853 μg	~ 0 μg	0	0	0	0	0	0	?	43	40<s<100	0	0	0	0	43
	k1+k2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	111	100<s<130	-	-	-	-	112
	s* salicylic acid (10 mg)	0	2.313 mg	.606 mg	0	1.36 mg	.9 mg	.2208 mg	0	.085 mg	.0425 mg	.04 mg	0	0	0	.0096 mg	0	?	55.5	>50	0	17.5 %	0	0	73
e l e m e n t s	b boron (3 mg)	.17 mg	.6525 mg	?	.12272 mg	.135 mg	1.665 mg	.1794 mg	.457624 mg	.0297 mg	.023 mg	~ 0	.0258 mg	.144 mg	.0224 mg	.00908 mg	.192 mg	?	127.5	>100	5.67 %	7 %	1.9 %	0	142
	f fluorine (4000 μg)	1616.25 μg	.7065 μg	10.2 μg	2.6 μg	4 μg	10.5 μg	.69 μg	49.58 μg	12.375 μg	6 μg	~ 0	7.65 μg	12.15 μg	.289 µg	7.28 µg	~ 0	~ 0	43.5	>50 --->	40 %	1.09 %	.15 %	37.5 %	122.5
	na sodium (1500 mg)	~ 6.7569 mg	.45 mg	.6 mg	1.18 mg	1 mg	10.5 mg	2.07 mg	48 mg	54 mg	27.5 mg	9.375 mg	~ 154.181 mg	237.5 mg	.14 mg	.72 mg	3.6 mg	1.02 mg	37	35<s<60	.45 %	.4746 %	.4 %	.12 %	38.5
	mg magnesium (420 mg)	6.94875 mg	9.9 mg	6.6 mg	31.9 mg	13 mg	43.5 mg	11.7 mg	32 %	11.55 mg	8 mg	0	~ 7.2727 %	62.5 %	42.77 mg	26 mg	47.04 mg	?	163	>40	1.65 %	2.54 %	4 %	0	171.5
	si silicon (20 mg)	1.275 mg	.2925 mg	0	5.6286 mg	~ .9916 mg	.96 mg	.1495 mg	2.32 mg	.0152 mg	.038 mg	~ 0	.866 mg	4.95 mg	.1078 mg	.64 mg	28.8 mg	?	235	>100	6.375 %	2.625 %	1.45 %	>0	245.5
	p phosphorus (1250 mg)	.5605 mg	13.05 mg	12 mg	26 mg	24 mg	78 mg	23.5 mg	16 %	86.625 mg	4 %	5 %	~ 7.2727 %	37.5 %	70.91 mg	52.8 mg	77.04 mg	4.794 mg	107	>40	.04 %	1.7 %	2 %	>0	111
	cl chlorine (2300 mg)	1.275 mg	9 mg	3 mg	94.4 mg	20 mg	9 mg	~ 3.17 mg	~ 73.519 mg	~ 82.7089 mg	~ 42.12025 mg	~ 14.359 mg	~ 236.15 mg	~ 363.76 mg	131.25 mg	3.76 mg	~ 5.5139 mg	?	47.5	35<s<60	.055 %	.023 %	.4 %	>0	48
	k potassium (4700 mg)	1.0075 mg	67.95 mg	125.1 mg	422 mg	153 mg	728 mg	215 mg	368 mg	164.175 mg	90 mg	106.875 mg	~ 127.272 mg	475 mg	82.74 mg	51.6 mg	97.56 mg	5.61 mg	69.5%	>40	.02 %	3.71 %	.9787 %	0	74.5
	k:na ratio	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.873	>2.5	-	-	-	-	6.0355
	ca calcium (1300 mg)	34 mg	11.25 mg	5.4 mg	5.9 mg	16 mg	18 mg	23.5 mg	48 %	4.8 %	5 %	0	~ 1.4545 %	5 %	5.11 mg	6.24 mg	30.6 mg	3.468 mg	76.5	40<s<100	2.615 %	1.09 %	6 %	>0	86
	cr chromium (35 μg)	.1445 μg	?	?	1 μg	3.2 μg	2.865 μg	~ 4.987 μg	~ .35058 μg	.225 μg	.447 μg	5.6 μg	1.56 μg	1.755 μg	.273 μg	.08 μg	.06 μg	?	64	>40	.413 %	.17 %	.326 %	0	65
	mn manganese (2.3 mg)	.102 mg	.3015 mg	.045 mg	.319 mg	.386 mg	.213 mg	.068 mg	~ .149174 mg	.0066 mg	.0025 mg	0	~ .7272 mg	4.5 mg	.805 mg	.07176 mg	.2976 mg	?	347.5	>40	4.435 %	7.1739 %	2.971 %	0	362
	fe iron (18 mg)	.0425 mg	.3105 mg	.078 mg	.307 mg	.41 mg	.825 mg	.214 mg	16 %	0	0	.3125 mg	~ 20.3636 %	43.75 %	.7399 mg	.1936 mg	.6876 mg	.01326 mg	103	>80	.2361 %	.4 %	2 %	0	105.5
	ni nickel (100 μg)	6.12 μg	?	?	4.72 μg	4.3 μg	51 μg	?	96 μg	0	0	10.25 μg	7.18 μg	8.685 μg	1.351 µg	25.6 µg	204 μg	?	419	>100	6.12 %	2.52 %	12 %	0	439.5
	cu copper (900 μg)	149.6 µg	40.5 µg	69 µg	92 µg	48 µg	285 µg	90 µg	500 µg	18.975 µg	7.5 µg	18 µg	~ 436.36 µg	468 µg	69.86 µg	66.24 µg	146.4 µg	2.04 µg	278.5	>40	16.62 %	1.66 %	6.94 %	0	303.5
	zn zinc (11 mg)	.0085 mg	.189 mg-	.069 mg	.177 mg	.14 mg	.96 mg	.097 mg	16 %	.56925 mg	.485 mg	0	~ 26.1818 %	31.25 %	.5089 mg	.184 mg	.5208 mg	.03672 mg	109	>100	.077 %	1.28 %	2 %	0	112.5
	se selenium (55 μg)	1.7 μg	.09 µg	.18 μg	1.18 μg	.4 μg	.6 μg	.138 μg	8.944 μg	2.8875 μg	1.8 μg	10 %	9.96 μg	4.23 μg	5.432 µg	4.24 µg	3.048 μg	.1326 μg	88.5	>100	3.09 %	0	1.636 %	0	93
	mo molybdenum (45 μg)	3.4 μg	?	?	8.26 μg	9 μg	3 μg	~ 0 μg	216 μg	5.775 μg	2 μg	26.75 %	4 μg	4.5 μg	.7 μg	1.56 μg	?	?	600.5	>100	7.55 %	3.1 %	60 %	0	671
	i iodine (150 μg)	3.4 μg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40.1775 μg	19.45 μg	0	~ 43.6363 %	4.725 μg	.735 µg	.632 µg	0	?	89.5	>40	2.26 %	.933 %	0	0	93
a m i n o a c i d s	h histidine (carnosine) (histamine) (980 mg)	0	?	6.6 mg	91 mg	12 mg	74 mg	19 mg	140 mg	72.6 mg	71 mg	61.25 mg	-	193.5 mg	30.1 mg	50.56 mg	56.64 mg	~ 3.07789 mg	90	>50 <145	0	1.5 %	1.7857 %	0	93
	i isoleucine (1400 mg)	0	?	27.9 mg	33 mg	16 mg	126 mg	35 mg	264 mg	160.875 mg	156.5 mg	127.5 mg	-	218.7 mg	34.02 mg	91.12 mg	107.52 mg	~ 6.9007 mg	100	>50	0	2.57 %	2.357 %	0	105
	l leucine (2940 mg)	0	?	51.3 mg	80 mg	34 mg	214 mg	46 mg	428 mg	260.7 mg	288.5 mg	193.75 mg	-	417.6 mg	64.96 mg	132.72 mg	148.2 mg	~ 19.526 mg	81	>50 <425	0	1.22 %	1.8197 %	0	84
	k lysine (carnitine) (2660 mg)	0	?	21.6 mg	59 mg	26 mg	198 mg	42 mg	304 mg	212.85 mg	257 mg	229.5 mg	-	270 mg	42 mg	74.96 mg	103.44 mg	~ 11.35 mg	69.5	>50 <280	0	.22556 %	1.4286 %	0	71
	m methionine (ch3: sam) (s: cysteine) (728 mg)	0	?	4.8 mg	9 mg	2 mg	57 mg	17 mg	64 mg	66.825 mg	84.5 mg	46 mg	-	105.3 mg	16.3 mg	39.52 mg	44.4 mg	~ 2.64659 mg	76.5	>50 <158	0	0	.8667 %	0	77.5
	c cysteine (taurine) (glutathione) (1072 mg)	0	?	?	11 mg	6 mg	41 mg	21 mg	180.8 mg	23.925 mg	26 mg	25.5 mg	-	166.95 mg	25.97 mg	36.08 mg	40.8 mg	~ 1.21547 mg	56.5	>50 <107	0	3.676 %	0	0	60
	f phenylalanine (ubiquinol) (2310 mg)	0	?	1.8 mg	58 mg	19 mg	146 mg	30 mg	260 mg	129.525 mg	156.5 mg	67.35 mg	-	267.75 mg	-	-	67 mg	~ 6.1989 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	y tyrosine (560 mg)	0	?	9.3 mg	11 mg	22 mg	74 mg	23 mg	204 mg	127.875 mg	144.5 mg	58.2 mg	-	196.2 mg	-	-	35 mg	~ 3.1994 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	f + y phenylalanine + tyrosine (2310 mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	t threonine (1400 mg)	0	?	28.8 mg	33 mg	20 mg	109 mg	32 mg	248 mg	120.45 mg	117.5 mg	85.65 mg	-	225 mg	-	-	54 mg	~ 4.6227 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	w tryptophan (350 mg)	0	?	6.6 mg	11 mg	8 mg	38 mg	10 mg	88 mg	37.125 mg	16 mg	15.3 mg	-	126.9 mg	-	-	21 mg	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	v valine (1820 mg)	0	?	26.1 mg	55 mg	19 mg	161 mg	39 mg	268 mg	179.025 mg	237 mg	153 mg	-	326.7 mg	50.82 mg	105.2 mg	128.64 mg	~ 10.135 mg	96.5	>50 <	0	-	-	0	-
	r arginine (mg)	0	?	19.5 mg	58 mg	28 mg	132 mg	56 mg	432 mg	103.125 mg	86 mg	76.5 mg	-	489.15 mg	-	-	135 mg	~ 9.1866 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	q glutamine (mg)	0	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	-	?	-	-	?	?	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	g glycine (creatine) (heme) (glutathione) (1100+ mg)	0	?	38.4 mg	45 mg	26 mg	156 mg	41 mg	236 mg	76.725 mg	69 mg	76.5 mg	-	404.1 mg	-	-	87 mg	~ 4.5639 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	p proline (mg)	0	?	23.4 mg	33 mg	20 mg	147 mg	30 mg	340 mg	268.95 mg	339.5 mg	64.2 mg	-	396.9 mg	-	-	56 mg	~ 4.8933 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	a alanine (carnosine) (mg)	0	?	38.4 mg	47 mg	33 mg	164 mg	37 mg	240 mg	99.825 mg	122.5 mg	107.1 mg	-	344.25 mg	-	-	65 mg	~ 6.211 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	d aspartic acid (mg)	0	?	48.6 mg	146 mg	149 mg	354 mg	87 mg	664 mg	206.25 mg	227 mg	174.45 mg	-	508.5 mg	-	-	143 mg	~ 18.69 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	n asparagine ( mg)	0	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	-	?	-	-	?	?	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	e glutamic acid (glutathione) ( mg)	0	?	99.9 mg	179 mg	98 mg	430 mg	127 mg	1124 mg	561.825 mg	561 mg	281.55 mg	-	1293.3 mg	-	-	283 mg	~ 20.7728 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	s serine (mg)	0	?	22.5 mg	47 mg	25 mg	171 mg	37 mg	324 mg	146.025 mg	177.5 mg	85.65 mg	-	307.8 mg	-	-	68 mg	~ 6.37535 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	total (56 g)	0	.54 g	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	-	?	-	-	?	?	-	>50 <89	-	-	-	-	-
i n o r g a n i c s	h2o water (3700 ml)	850 ml	39.9375 ml	24.24 ml	88.4 ml	90.95 ml	110 ml	57.3 ml	368.12 ml	50.325 ml	37.7 ml	.254 ml	.848 ml	.954 ml	.6923 ml	.3784 ml	.8352 ml	.0255 ml	46.5	>40 <100	23 %	~ 9.49 %	~ 1.2436 %	~ .4 %	80.5
	no3 nitrate (0 mg)	2.975 mg	1.62 mg	?	2.36 mg	~ 3.6 mg	3.9388 mg	?	21.3328 mg	.239479 mg	.065294 mg	?	.184 mg	.207 mg	.0322 mg	?	?	?	>36.55 mg <45 mg	<60 mg	2.975 mg	1.225 mg	2.666 mg	-	52 mg

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		durum wheat fettuccine 55 g (dry) + h20	red pepper raw cut 1-2 175 g	carrot raw cut 1-3 110 g	beet raw cut 1-2 82 g	lime raw cut with pith 1 67 g	g a r l i c	medium cheddar cheese raw cut 60 g	van soy milk .8 cups 200 ml	pro biotic yogurt 2 tbsp 50 g	cayenne sauce 3-4 tbsp 15-20 ml	nut yeast 1 tsp 3 g	hull hemp seed 1 tbsp 10 g	sun flower seed 1 tbsp 10 g	m u s t a r d	p a p r i k a r 1 tbsp	t u r m e r i c	p e p p e r 30 mg	o r e g a n o	a n c h o v y *3	sum	bounds	coffee 1 cup 350 ml	choc soy 50 ml	total
	raison d'etre	b3,8,9 b15 f1 fe, cu	a b3,4,8 b9 c,e k,fe	a b3,8 na,k	b9,15 k,fe	b8	-	a b12,13 f1, k2 na,p,ca zn	b3,8 b12 d, f1 na,mg k,fe,zn	b12 d	a	b1,2,3 b4,6,8 b9,12	f1, f2 mg,p mn, fe cu, zn	b5 e	-	-	-	-	-	f2
	calories	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	>750 <1200	0	32	-
	cost	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	<$4.50	.10	.12	-
v i t a m i n l i k e c o m p o u n d s	a retinol (900 μg rae)	0	274.75 μg	918.5 μg	1.64 μg	1.34 μg	-	30 %	8 %	38 μg	385 μg	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	217.5 r:38 c:179.5	40<r<150 c>150	0	r:2 %	219.5 r:40 c:179.5
	b1 thiamin (1.2 mg)	.55 mg	.0945 mg	.0726 mg	.025 mg	.02 mg	-	.0174 mg	6.4 %	-	-	155.625 %	.098 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	235 u:73	>125	4 %	1.5 %	240.5
	b2 [g, j] riboflavin (1.3 mg)	~ .2912 mg	.14875 mg	.0638 mg	.033 mg	.013 mg	-	.2568 mg	20 %	~ .1143 mg	-	144.375 %	.02 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	236.5 u:72	>131	20.5 %	5 %	262
	b3 niacin (16 mg)	~ 5.824 mg	1.71325 mg	1.0813 mg	.274 mg	.134 mg	-	.0354 mg	8 %	-	-	65.625 %	0.954 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	136 n:26 f:110	>125 f<200	4 %	2 %	142 n:30 f:112
	b4* adenine (75 mg)	2.2 mg	27.825 mg	.77 mg	?	?	-	4.92 mg	15.44 mg	1.025 mg	-	49.38 mg	?	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	135	>100	?	5 %	140
	b5 pantothenic acid (5 mg)	.23705 mg	.55475 mg	.3003 mg	.127 mg	.145 mg	-	.246 mg	12 %	~ .357 mg	-	2.25 %	.056 mg	.113 mg		.171 mg	-	.42 mg	-	1.08 mg	90 u:76	>110	18 %	3 %	111
	b6 pyridoxine (1.7 mg)	.0781 mg	.50925 mg	.1518 mg	.055 mg	.029 mg	-	.0396 mg	4.8 %	-	-	133.125 %	.06 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	192 u:54	>118	0	1 %	193
	b7 [h] biotin (35 μg)	2.2 μg	5.775 μg	5.5 μg	~ 0 μg	.335 μg	-	1.62 μg	7.8 μg	-	-	45 %	2.73 μg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	119 u:74	>171	0	5.5 %	124.5
	b8* inositol (1000 mg)	41.25 mg	99.75 mg	13.2 mg	9.84 mg	129.98 mg	-	5.4 mg	13.776 mg	-	-	14.85 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	32.5	>50	0	1 %	33.5
	b9 [m, b11, r] folic acid (400 μg dfe)	~ 155.29 μg	80.5 μg	20.9 μg	89.4 μg	5.36 μg	-	16.2 μg	4.8 %	-	-	35.625 %	14.98 μg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	136 n:61.5 f:74.5	>100 f<133	1.75 %	1.25 %	139 n:64.5 f:74.5
	b12 [t] cobalamin (2.4 μg)	0	0	0	0	0	0	.66 μg	40 %	~ .142857 μg	0	187.5 %	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	261 n:33.5 f:227.5	>250 n>50	0	10 %	271 n:33.5 f:237.5
	b13* orotic acid (10 mg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	37.5 mg	-	>	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	375	>100	-	-	375
	b14* taurine (100 mg)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	>	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	t:>180 --->	-	-	---->
	b15* betaine (550 mg)	77 mg	.175 mg	.44 mg	106 mg	.134 mg	-	.42 mg	1.6 mg	-	-	.50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	33.5	>50	~ 0	~ 0	33.5
	b16* choline (550 mg)	8.25 mg	9.8 mg	9.68 mg	4.92 mg	3.42 mg	-	9.9 mg	48 mg	-	-	12.3 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	>40	~ 1.68 %	~ 2.23 %	23
	b20* [I] l-carnitine (29 mg)	.43175 mg	?	.44 mg	~ 0 mg	?	-	2 mg	.12 mg	2 mg	-	.072 mg	?	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	30<s<35	0	0	17
	c ascorbate (90 mg)	0	223.485 mg	6.49 mg	4.02 mg	19.5 mg	-	0	0	0	-	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	281.5 u: 281	>234	0	0	281.5
	d calciferol (20 μg)	0	0	0	0	0	-	d3: .36 μg	d2: 36 %	d3: 1 μg	-	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	42.5 u:6.5 d2:36 d3:6.5	>40	0	d2: 9 %	51.5 d2:45 d3:6.5
	e alpha- tocopherol (15 mg)	.0605 mg	2.765 mg	.726 mg	.033 mg	.147 mg	-	.426 mg	.12 mg	0	5.53 mg	0	.313 mg	2.61 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	84.5 n:84.5	>60 n>50	0	0	48 n:48
	f1* linoleic acid (17 g)	.297 g	.175 g	.11 g	.045 g	.024 g	-	.3462 g	1.6 g	-	-	0	3.027 g	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.6242 g 33.08%	>50	~0	.4 g 2.35%	6.0242 g 35.4%
	f2* alpha linolenic acid (1.6 g)	.0132 g	.098 g	.0022 g	.004 g	.013 g	-	.219 g	.24 g	-	-	0	.902 g	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.4914 g 93.2 %	>50	~0	.06 g 3.75%	1.5514 g 96.96%
	f3* eicosa pentaenoic acid (0.375 g)	-	-	-	-	-	-	.006 g	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.006 g 1.6%	>50 <	-	-	.006 g 1.6%
	f4* docosa hexaenoic acid (0.250 g)	-	-	-	-	-	-	.018 g	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.018 g 7.2%	>50 <	-	-	.018 g 7.2%
	f1:(f2+f3+f4) ratio	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.73	<4	-	-	-
	k1 phyllo quinone  (120 μg)	.055 μg	8.575 μg	14.52 μg	.164 μg	.402 μg	-	1.44 μg	5.856 μg	-	-	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25.5	40<s<100	0	1 %	26.5
	k2 mena quinone  (180 μg)	0	0	0	0	0	-	115.32 μg	0	~ 0 μg	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	64	40<s<100	0	0	64
	k1+k2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	89.5	100<s<130	0	1	90.5
	s* salicylic acid (10 mg)	0	1.05 mg	.253 mg	.0902 mg	-	-	0	0	0	-	.024 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	>50	17.5 %	0	33.5
e l e m e n t s	f fluorine (4000 μg)	-	-	3.52 μg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.088	-	-	-	-
	na sodium (1500 mg)	0	7 mg	75.9 mg	64 mg	1.34 mg	-	360 mg	64 mg	~ 21.4286 mg	-	5.625 mg	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	599.2936 39.95%	-	-	-	-
	mg magnesium (420 mg)	29.15 mg	21 mg	13.2 mg	18.9 mg	4.02 mg	-	16.2 mg	16 %	~ 6.8571 mg	-	0	65.646 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	57.66	-	-	-	-
	p phosphorus (1250 mg)	103.95 mg	45.5 mg	38.5 mg	32.8 mg	12.1 mg	-	273 mg	8 %	-	-	3 %	153.033 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	63.71	-	-	-	-
	cl chlorine (2300 mg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.3 %	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.3	-	-	-	-
	k potassium (4700 mg)	~ 129.412 mg	369.25 mg	352 mg	266 mg	68.3 mg	-	60 mg	216 mg	100 mg	374.5 mg	~ 64.125 mg	110.933 mg	64.5 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	2175.02 46%	-	-	-	-
	ca calcium (1300 mg)	~ 19.412 mg	12.25 mg	36.3 mg	13.1 mg	22.1 mg	-	400 mg	24 %	~ 64.2857 mg	-	0	6.263 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	67.36	-	-	-	-
	cr chromium (35 μg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	mn manganese (2.3 mg)	.50435 mg	.196 mg	.1573 mg	.27 mg	.005 mg	-	.0162 mg	-	-	-	.9 %	.766 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	84	-	-	-	-
	fe iron (18 mg)	~ 1.9412 mg	.7525 mg	.33 mg	.656 mg	.402 mg	-	0	8 %	~ .02857 mg	-	.1875 mg	1.26 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	38.88	-	-	-	-
	cu copper (900 μg)	.15895 mg	.02975 mg	.0495 mg	.061 mg	.044 mg	-	.018 mg	-	-	-	1.2 %	.142 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	57.111	-	-	-	-
	zn zinc (11 mg)	.7755 mg	.4375 mg	.264 mg	.287 mg	.074 mg	-	2.184 mg	8 %	-	-	3.75 %	.941 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	56.868	-	-	-	-
	se selenium (55 μg)	34.76 μg	.175 μg	.11 μg	.574 μg	.268 μg	-	17.1 μg	-	-	-	6 %	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	102	-	-	-	-
	mo molybdenum (45 μg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16.05 %	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	-	-	-	-
	i iodine (150 μg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

		fried eggs plate
		fried egg 4* 70 g	medium cheddar cheese raw sliced 60 g	margarine 4 tsp 20 g	whole wheat bread w/ germ + flax raw 2 slice 74 g	nut yeast 2 tsp 6 g	grape fruit juice 100 ml	sum	bounds
	raison d'etre	a b5,7,9 b12,b16 f1 p,fe zn,se	b5 b13 k2 ca	d, e	b5,8 f2 mn,fe	b1,2,3 b4,5,6 b9,12	b8,c
	calories	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	>500 <1200
	cost	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	<$4.00
v i t a m i n l i k e c o m p o u n d s	a retinol (900 μg rae)	r:58 % c:13.8 μg	30 %	20 %	0	0	-	109.5 r:108 c:1.5	40<r<150
	b1 thiamin (1.2 mg)	0.12 mg	.0174 mg	0	21 %	311.25 %	-	343.5	>125
	b2 [g, j] riboflavin (1.3 mg)	1.368 mg	.2568 mg	0	6 %	288.75 %	-	419.5	>131
	b3 niacin (16 mg)	.228 mg	.0354 mg	0	13%	131.25 %	-	145.5 n:1.5 f: 144	>125 f<200
	b4* adenine (75 mg)	4.48 mg	4.92 mg	0	9.028 mg	98.76 mg	-	156	>100
	b5 pantothenic acid (5 mg)	4.584 mg	.246 mg	0	10 %	4.5 %	-	111 u:96.6	>110
	b6 pyridoxine (1.7 mg)	.510 mg	.0396 mg	0	7 %	266.25 %	-	305.5 u:32	>118
	b7 [h] biotin (35 μg)	~ 116.66 μg	1.038 μg	~ 9.094 μg	6 %	90 %	-	458 u:362	>171
	b8* inositol (1000 mg)	25.2 mg	5.4 mg	~ 32 mg	105.08 mg	29.7 mg	✓	30	>50
	b9 [m, b11, r] folic acid (400 μg dfe)	141 μg	36.2 μg	0	10 %	71.25 %	-	125.5 n:54.5 f: 71	>100 f<130
	b12 [t] cobalamin (2.4 μg)	2.676 μg	.66 μg	0	0	375 %	-	514 n:139 f:375	>250 n>50
	b13* orotic acid (10 mg)	-	~ 36 mg	-	-	-	-	360	>100
	b14* taurine (100 mg)	0	0	>0	0	0	0	-	t:>180 ---->
	b15* betaine (550 mg)	.818 mg	.42 mg	.02 mg	~ 149.04 mg	0	-	27	>50
	b16* choline (550 mg)	876 mg	9.9 mg	2.2 mg	19.98 mg	24.6 mg	-	169.5	>40
	b20* [I] l-carnitine (29 mg)	1.12 mg	2 mg	.21 mg	.5994 mg	.144 mg	-	14	30>s>35
	c ascorbate (90 mg)	0	0	0	0	0	✓	250	>234
	d calciferol (20 μg)	d3: 6.06 μg	d3: .36 μg	d3: 60 %	0	0	-	92 u:32 d2:0 d3:92	>40
	e alpha- tocopherol (15 mg)	3.6 mg	.468 mg	40 %	3 %	0		70 n:70	>60 n>50
	f1* linoleic acid (17 g)	6.46 g	.3462 g	3 g	1 g	0	-	10.8062 g 63.5%	>50
	f2* alpha linolenic acid (1.6 g)	.456 g	.2190 g	1 g	1.5 g	0	-	3.175 g 198%	>50
	f3* eicosa pentaenoic acid (0.375 g)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	>50
	f4* docosa hexaenoic acid (0.250 g)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	>50
	f1:(f2+f3+f4) ratio	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.40	<4
	k1 phyllo quinone  (120 μg)	15.48 μg	1.44 μg	12 μg	1 %	0	-	25	40<s<100
	k2 mena quinone  (180 μg)	17.3 μg	115.32 μg	0	0	0	0	73.5	40<s<100
	k1+k2	-	-	-	-	-	-	98.5	100<s<130
	s* salicylic acid (10 mg)	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	>50
e l e m e n t s	f fluorine (4000 μg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	na sodium (1500 mg)	571.2 mg	360 mg	90 mg	270 mg	-	-	1291.2 86%	-
	mg magnesium (420 mg)	35.88 mg	16.2 mg	-	70 mg	-	-	29	-
	p phosphorus (1250 mg)	593.4 mg	276 mg	-	150 mg	-	-	81.5	-
	cl chlorine (2300 mg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	k potassium (4700 mg)	419.4 mg	60 mg	-	200 mg	-	-	679.4 14%	-
	ca calcium (1300 mg)	171 mg	400 mg	-	75 mg	-	-	49.5
	cr chromium (35 μg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	mn manganese (2.3 mg)	.084 mg	.0144 mg	-	1.15 mg	-	-	52
	fe iron (18 mg)	5.214 mg	.096 mg	-	2 mg	-	-	40.5	>80
	cu copper (900 μg)	.216 mg	.021 mg	-	-	-	-	26
	zn zinc (11 mg)	3.834 mg	2.244 mg	-	1.5 mg	-	-	68.5
	se selenium (55 μg)	91.2 μg	16.98 μg	-	28 μg	-	-	247.5
	mo molybdenum (45 μg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	i iodine (150 μg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

		fruit soy shake bowl w/ coffee	caesar pasta salad bowl w/coffee	fried eggs plate
		sum	sum	sum	total	requirements	ul
	calories	1245.24	-	-	1245.24	2250	3000
	cost	$7.08	-	-	$7.08		$15.00
v i t a m i n l i k e c o m p o u n d s	a retinol (900 μg rae)	46 r:43 c:3	219.5 r:40 c:179.5	109.5 r:108 c:1.5	375 r:191 c: 184	r>180 c>150	t:- r:450 c:-
	b1 thiamin (1.2 mg)	421.5	240.5	343.5	1005.5	>375	-
	b2 [g, j] riboflavin (1.3 mg)	397	262	419.5	1078.5	>393	-
	b3 niacin (16 mg)	244 n:78 f:166	142 n:30 f:112	145.5 n:1.5 f:144	531.5 n:109.5 f:422	>375	f:900
	b4* adenine (75 mg)	187	140	156	483	>300	-
	b5 pantothenic acid (5 mg)	159	111	111	381	>330	-
	b6 pyridoxine (1.7 mg)	337	193	305.5	835.5	>354	8823
	b7 [h] biotin (35 μg)	289.5	124.5	458	872	>857	-
	b8* inositol (1000 mg)	60.5	33.5	30	124	>180	-
	b9 [m, b11, r] folic acid (400 μg dfe)	187 n:75.5 f:111.5	139 n:64.5 f:74.5	125.5 n:54.5 f:71	451.5 n:194.5 f:257	>300	f:600
	b12 [t] cobalamin (2.4 μg)	460 n:57.5 f:402.5	271 n:33.5 f:237.5	514 n:139 f:375	1245 n:230 f:1015	>750 n>180	-
	b13* orotic acid (10 mg)	155	375	360	890	>300
	b14* taurine (100 mg)	60 from excess cysteine	>0	>0	60	>180
	b15* betaine (550 mg)	60.5	33.5	27	121	>180	300
	b16* choline (550 mg)	51	23	169.5	243.5	>180	300
	b20* [I] l-carnitine (29 mg)	33	17	14	64	>100	162
	c ascorbate (90 mg)	266	281.5	250	797.5	>700	2222
	d calciferol (20 μg)	94 d2:81 d3:13	51.5 d2:45 d3:6.5	92 d2:0 d3:92	237.5 d2:126 d3:111.5	>180 d3>150	750
	e alpha- tocopherol (15 mg)	82.5 n:60.5	84.5 n:84.5	70 n:70	237 n:215	>240 n>180	9999
	f1* linoleic acid (17 g)	10.294755 g 60.5	6.0242 g 35.5	10.8062 g 63.5	27.125155 g 159.5	>180	-
	f2* alpha linolenic acid (1.6 g)	3.798245 g 237	1.5514 g 97	3.175 g 198.5	8.524645 g 532.5	>180 >.25*f1	f1
	f3* eicosa pentaenoic acid (0.375 g)	.2 g 53	.006 g 1.6	-	.206 g 54.6	>180	360
	f4* docosa hexaenoic acid (0.250 g)	.3 g 120	.018 g 7.2	-	.318 g 127.2	>180	360
	f1:(f2+f3+f4) ratio	2.3951	3.73	3.40	2.9977	-	4
	k1 phyllo quinone  (120 μg)	69	26.5	25	120.5	>180	300
	k2 mena quinone  (180 μg)	43	64	73.5	180.5	>180	300
	k1+k2	112	90.5	98.5	301	>360	390
	s* salicylic acid (10 mg)	73	33.5	-	106.5	>180	14999
e l e m e n t s	b boron (3 mg)	142	-	-	142	>300	999
	f fluorine (4000 μg)	122.5	117.5+	80+	320+	>180	375
	na sodium (1500 mg)	580.2619 38.6841266667%	599.2936 39.95%	1291.2 86.08%	2470.7555 164,717%	>150	min(k/2.5, 175)
	mg magnesium (420 mg)	171.5	57.5	29	258	>180	1500
	si silicon (20 mg)	245.5	-	-	245.5	>300	150000
	p phosphorus (1250 mg)	111	63.5	81.5	256	>>180	360
	cl chlorine (2300 mg)	48	.3	-	48	>150	min(k/2.5, 175)
	k potassium (4700 mg)	3502.1984 74.5148595745%	2175.02 46.277%	679.4 14.4%	6356.6184 135	>180	-
	k:na ratio	6.0355	-	-	2.5727	>2.5	-
	ca calcium (1300 mg)	86	67	49.5	202.5	>180	346.5
	cr chromium (35 μg)	65	-	-	65	>150	750
	mn manganese (2.3 mg)	362	84	52	498	>180	717
	fe iron (18 mg)	105.5	38.5	40.5	184.5	>270	675
	ni nickel (100 μg)	439.5	--	--	439.5	>300	900
	cu copper (900 μg)	303.5	57	26	386.5	>180	1666
	zn zinc (11 mg)	109	56.5	68.5	234	>300	546
	se selenium (55 μg)	93	102	247.5	442.5	>300	1090
	mo molybdenum (45 μg)	671	16	-	687	>300	6666
	i iodine (150 μg)	93	-	-	93	>180	1099.5
a m i n o a c i d s	h histidine (carnosine) (histamine) (980 mg)	93	-	-	93	>150	435
	i isoleucine (1400 mg)	105	-	-	105	>150	-
	l leucine (2940 mg)	84	-	-	84	>150	1275
	k lysine (carnitine) (2660 mg)	71	-	-	71	>150	845
	m methionine (ch3: sam) (s: cysteine) (728 mg)	77.5	-	-	77.5	>150	474
	c cysteine (taurine) (glutathione) (1072 mg)	60	-	-	60	>150	322
	f phenylalanine (ubiquinol) (2310 mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	y tyrosine (560 mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	f + y phenylalanine + tyrosine ( mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	t threonine (1400 mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	w tryptophan (350 mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	v valine (1820 mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	r arginine (mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	q glutamine (mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	g glycine (creatine) (heme) (glutathione) (1100+ mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	p proline ( mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	a alanine (carnosine) (mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	d aspartic acid (mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	n asparagine ( mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	e glutamic acid (glutathione) ( mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	s serine (mg)	0	-	-	-	-	-
	total (56 mg)	0	-	-	-	>150	265
i n o r g a n i c s	h2o water (3700 ml)	80.5	-	-	80.5	>180	450
	no3 nitrate (0 mg)	52 mg	-	-	52 mg	0	200 mg

*not really

so, here's where i'm at with this; i just sent this to my dentist:

==========

hi.

i got your message this morning, but i'm waiting to finish up some reading before i call you back. i previously indicated i was looking to see a perio about gum recession particularly, but i've called around and it doesn't matter because none of them take disability - unless you know one that does. they've just all told me they don't accept the insurance.

so, i was hoping to see somebody for a consultation and go from there. i think it's clear i should get some grafting asap, and am frustrated by the barrier to care, so i'm happy to come in to talk. the initial thought was: if i need grafting, do i need a planing first, or is it just 100% stains as dr ========= suggested? what i wanted was a battle plan to get my gums back to 100%.

but, after realizing that nobody in town will see me anyways, i started looking at other options, and what i need to talk about now is options regarding collagenase inhibitors and gingival "overgrowth" rather than root planing and gum grafts, for the simple reason that antibiotics that inhibit collagenase are covered and the mechanical operations are not.

i live on disability, but i have a math degree and a pretty deep academic background, so i'm comfortable just browsing through scientific papers and learning on the fly. i have convinced myself that there are two classes of drugs that may be of use for this purpose:

- tetracyclines 

- metronidazole

both of these drugs should act as collagenase inhibitors and therefore aid in the regrowth of gum tissue, if i also reasonably increase my vitamin c intake (i already eat a lot of fruit, but i'm looking at taking 100 mg twice daily for the c, which is the maximum absorption level, and which i can of course get at the store. that will make sure i'm getting as much c as i can absorb to maximize collagen production).

the reason i'm writing you this letter is to attach some links to scientific documents.

it is important to understand that i take 8 mg of estrogen per day, orally, because estrogen is a factor in both collagen and collagenase production.

so, this article talks about metronidazole & doxycycline-hcl together as an mmp-3 inhibitor, which should inhibit the production of collagenase and help with gum regrowth:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273180027_The_Inhibitory_Effect_of_Metronidazole_and_Doxycycline-HCl_on_proMMP-3_Production_in_Gingival_Fibroblast

a gum graft may be preferable, but these drugs are both covered and a gum graft is not.

likewise, this is a review that suggests that the use of these drugs is unnecessary if you have access to root planing. but...i don't. unfortunately. and, remember that i specifically want the anti-collagenase effects because i want to stimulate gum regrowth:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10454411980090030501

from the above:

(1) Low-dose formulations

A new approach to non-antibacterial periodontal therapy is the administration of specially prepared low-dose capsules containing as low as 20 mg of doxycycline. These specially formulated capsules contain a lower concentration of doxycycline than the regular commercial dosage form, with blood levels reaching around 0.2 to 0.3 [tg/mL. Low-dose doxycycline eliminates the drug's antibacterial function, while allowing the drug to block collagenase activity.

Patients with adult periodontitis were administered either 30 mg doxycycline BID or a placebo for two weeks. Patients received oral hygiene instructions, scaling and root planing, and surgery which included the removal of gingiva and the collection of GCF. A reduction in extracellular collagenase activity by approximately 60-80% was seen in the crevicular fluid of periodontal pockets and in the gingival tissue (Golub et al., 1990). A later study clarified that this effect was due to a direct inhibition of collagenase by therapeutic doxycycline levels (Golub et al., 1995).

In a recent double-blind controlled clinical study, 16 patients with adult periodontitis were administered a "cyclical" regimen over six months of low-dose doxycycline or a placebo after one session of scaling. Results showed a significant reduction in probing depths as measured with a computer-assisted, constant-pressure probe. In addition, there was a 40-45% reduction in GCF collagenase activity (Crout et al., 1996).

--

i can only find abstracts of the studies cited online, by golub et al. and, i'm constantly frustrated that i can't get access to anything online through the library at carleton university anymore since i graduated.

but, this is from the 1995 paper:

We conclude that MMPS in inflamed gingival tissue of AP patients, like those in GCF, originate primarily from infiltrating PMNs rather than resident gingival cells (fibroblasts and epithelial cells) or monocyte/macrophages, and that their pathologically-elevated tissue-degrading activities can be directly inhibited by pharmacologic levels of doxycycline.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7775665/

collagenase inhibition seems to be the same mechanism cited in this paper about gingival overgrowth:

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bpb/28/10/28_10_1817/_pdf

and, without citing the late, great linus pauling on megadoses of vitamin c and their efficacy, or lack thereof, here is a systemic review of vitamin c and oral health:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678404/

so, where i'm at with this is that i've convinced myself that i want to do this, but am seeking direction in application. should i utilize a topical? are topicals covered? i stumbled upon this by reading up on corneal regrowth, so i wonder if i want a more general application anyways - taking a collagenase inhibitor orally might also be good for my eyes and my hair, and if my gums are going on me, maybe it's reflective of a broader overproduction of collagenase (and i have recently boosted the folate in my diet out of concern for liver function, oblivious to potential c/b9 equilibrium issues that i'm now going to adjust for by taking oral c pills). are some of these drugs better than others? this is where a doctor's experience becomes useful, even in the face of the most abject nerdiness and careful individual research.

i'm also wondering if you have any direction on the application of topical cysteine on the question of collagenase inhibition, which again comes from studies on corneal regrowth:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rob_Keller3/post/Collagenase_inhibited_by_Cysteine/attachment/5fb25e08543da600017f53ea/AS%3A958455472996357%401605525000751/download/harper1974.pdf

...or the use of coffee or tea as a collagenase inhibitor:

1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6493221/

2) https://bmccomplementmedtherapies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6882-9-27

3) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810085312.htm

i'll give you a call in the morning, but i have another appointment on friday morning at 10:00, and am going to be at the blood lab across the street from your office a little later on that day, so if there's a way to squeeze me in on friday, i'll be right there.

i'll call you tomorrow.

====

that's more or less the sum total of the tabs i had open, with the exception of the following two links:

this study also discusses low dosage tetracycline use for collagenase inhibition:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3402/jom.v4i0.19227

this discuses use of the broader class of drugs that metronidazole is in:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283320751_Use_of_5-Nitroimidazole_drugs_in_the_treatment_of_periodontitis

plus, that's no doubt going to boost my caffeine intake dramatically.

so, i'm working on a letter i'm sending to my dentist, but i'm also going to get some white tea to put in my coffee, based on the following studies:

1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6493221/

2) https://bmccomplementmedtherapies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6882-9-27

3) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810085312.htm

is that actually going to work?

i'd be a little skeptical that it would work on it's own. but, it looks like it might help.

and, in fact, that is where i'm going to stop for now, before i get back to the dentistry stuff.

i've got the comment stream open in youtube and will clear it out as i transfer it here, along with building the pandemic & diet documents, when i get through the dentistry run.

the smoker upstairs has been terrible for the last few days, but i'm dealing with it by leaving the window open. it's not ideal, but he's an asshole and a liar, and i'm not wasting my time bothering with it. i'll just quietly bankrupt the idiot, instead - and return the lies, as required.  

what i need is a ruling on the karen case so i can start to plan a way out of here.

so, i got lazy cross-posting to this site and have spent a few days fixing it up. it's not done yet.

but, back in november, my youtube site got deleted for a few days and i thought it might have had to do with the post i made to rolling stone, which struck me as absurd.

all of the posts i made over that period have been restored with the apparent single exception of this one, which i thankfully archived here:

https://dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja.blogspot.com/2020/11/hes-rightfully-pissed-off-in-his-usual.html

so, it actually seems to have been that above post that i made to fox news that got me shut down for a few days.

read it at your own peril. i guess.

the signals are pointing to an early spring, and i really want to be able to do something fun without being restricted in my positive freedom by all of these laws to protect dying old people.

fuck.

no, listen, you idiots.

calling hitchens a neo-con, or suggesting he aligned with the right later in life, is a smear. he adamantly denied all such accusations, repeatedly. but, he found himself cut-off - and dealing with a right that was more open to his statements than the left was.

it is closer to the truth to suggest that the neo-cons were taking ideas from hitchens than that hitchens toook ideas from the neo-cons.

i have been clear that i'm not defending hitchens' arguments, but it's just not true. at all.

so, you can take little pieces of text out of context all you want and try and warp the record with them, but you're just continuing the smear campaign past his death. let's have an honest debate about a dead man that died lost in naivete - but honestly so. the fact that i have to have this debate with people that don't even know that michael parenti was an apologist for the worst kinds of stalinist atrocities (i have a soft spot for parenti, because he was less bad than a lot of the other people he aligned with, so i was generous, but this is a guy that stands up for the worst communist bullshit, and then slams hitchens for being naive on iraq. it's a farce.) is just a reflection of the mass ignorance out there.

again.

so, i will state this again clearly, and you can take it upon yourself to look it up: while hitchens' arguments on iraq ended up aligned with the neo-cons, and he consequently found himself faced with the fact that they seems to be a more revolutionary force than the left (a true realization encompassed in the term 'radical right'), he consistently argued from the left, and was consistently driven by leftist impulses, even as he ended up aligned with the worst kinds of imperialist policy. his arguments for supporting this war were thoroughly ideologically trotskyist, and only overlapped with the neocons by a combination of chance and shared trotskyist influence.

this is a matter of the historical record, and is easily verified by people that actually understand what they're talking about - as are the neocon smears, by a pacifist left that, around this time, merged with the isolationist right.

listen, i don't care if whiny, privileged, upper class, bourgeois fake leftists like me or not.

i welcome their hate.

deathtokoalas

and, yes - hitchens ripped him apart in the q & a.

he's christopher hitchens.

he'd do that to anybody.

Throw Away

Were we watching the same debate, Hitchens was juvenile, doing nothing but parroting neolib talking points.

deathtokoalas

i actually found much of what parenti said in the q & a section (such as resorting to questioning the motives of the rulers, which is irrelevant) to be somewhat idealistic and juvenile. but, you forget that what you call "neoliberalism" (the more correct neologism is neoconservatism) is rebranded trostkyism, and hitchens was a self-identified trotskyist. the difference is in the honesty of the discourse; the neo-cons presented left-wing arguments in a dishonest manner to advance their empire, and all evidence is that hitchens actually believed what he said. so, it's the difference between a fake trostkyist and a real one.

but, i've noticed this continually over the last 15 years - yes, hitchens was wrong. but, he was also badly misunderstood. few people seemed to really follow his argument.

mr t

Many neoconservatives did start out as Trotskyists but the ones that did usually renounced Trotskyism by the time they became neocons (Hitchens, Horowitz, Howe, Schachtman etc.) There's definitely a "pipeline" between the two since Trotskyists indirectly support imperialism, and continuing to follow their logic and mindset can lead hem to coming full circle and becoming totally pro-empire. That being said, the broader ideology of Trotskyism and neoconservatism are totally incompatible. Neocon arguments are definitely not left-wing. I'm saying this as someone who hates Trotskyism by the way.

deathtokoalas

hitchens did not denounce trotskyism, and you can find videos of him identifying as a trotskyist as late as 2009 - four years after this debate. hitchens' arguments here are explicitly trostkyist, and only resemble neo-conservatism by proxy.

i mean, he starts off by citing hegel, ffs.

hitchens points it out himself - this is really a debate between a trostkyist and a...i'm not going to call parenti a stalinist. maybe a titoist. but, it's a debate between two different strains of the left, and the actual truth is that hitchens is really representing the further left variant of the two.

mr. t

Hitchens explicitly renounces Marxism (of which Trotskyism is a variant) in God is Not Great. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FcBeyEWgSM) Even in this debate he alludes to having formerly been "in the same church" with Parenti, ie he used to be a socialist. And supporting imperialist war and the deaths of thousands of innocent people for corporate profits is not left-wing in any possible sense and is certainly not "more left-wing" than not wanting to do that. No offense but I honestly laughed out loud at that last part i mean wow.

 

deathotkoalas

that's not a renunciation of trotskyism or a step away from the left, it's a statement of skepticism towards the dogmatic precepts of theory in the context of a text written to uphold independent thought. you've completely misunderstood what he said there, as you are misunderstanding what he's said here. listen to that short excerpt again and you can hear why hitchens supported the invasion, and it had nothing to do with supporting imperialism or corporate profits - it was a legitimate, if misguided, statement of solidarity with the iraqi people from an explicitly trostkyist position, in an honest attempt to liberate them from abject tyranny. so, yes - supporting imperialist war and the deaths of thousands of innocent people for corporate profit is entirely consistent with a trostkyist position if that imperialism and death also leads to the overthrow of a bourgeois state, and the emancipation of millions more - which is the point he hoped for and the point he was wrong about, and not any of these other things, which are irrelevant to any argument he made. to a leftist, it is the outcome that matters and not the intent, because the left is pragmatic and not idealistic.

 

(edit: hitchens also argued repeatedly that the nazi state was deeply christian, so that picture of hitler in the video is instructive in it's intent to mislead. that video was no doubt put together by one of hitchens' admirers on the far right, which has co-opted his statements for it's own purposes. to state that hitchens was not a member of the bill o'reilly faction on atheism, which is no doubt where the implication in putting the picture in the video originates, is an understatement; he would have argued that nazi atrocities were carried out in the name of religion and were a reason to abolish religion, rather than that they were carried out in the name of atheism, or a reason to support religion. the statement no doubt referred primarily to mao, and also to stalin - and he would have made those arguments during his days as an accepted leftist, as well.)

you can see hitchens reaffirm his trotskyist identity in a 2009 video at the hoover institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pkWQ-DwgmA

when he says he "used to be in the same church as parenti" and "used to be a marxist", what he means is he got kicked out, not that he left - and that is true. hitchens was renounced by the left and had to react, but he did not renounce the left, himself.

on the socialist spectrum, you have anarchists like chomsky (and myself) in the furthest left position, and then you have the rosa luxemburgs, and then the "permanent revolution" folks at the fourth international that far-left anarchists can mostly deal with. parenti is a kind of centrist socialist, so i'm being kind by calling him a titoist - he has flirted with the far-right variants, as presented by stalin. and, hitch is right to point out that parenti is acting out a sympathy with systems of authoritarian dictatorship, as embodied by the failed "arab socialist" revolution of the baath party. parenti is not as far right as zizek, but he's well to the right of hitchens. 

that's just a question of actually knowing who these people actually are.

a good way to understand what happened to hitchens is to look at what's happening to glenn greenwald. greenwald has been denounced by much of the left, but he'll still identify as belonging to it. the reality is that he's been banned from virtually every left-wing media outlet - and still gets invited to speak to audiences of conservatives. over time, will people call him a conservative? well, they might. but, glenn hasn't left the left - rather, the left has thrown him out.

there is a 2009 article written in the atlantic entitled "the revenge of karl marx", where hitchens makes his continuing marxist views abundantly clear.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/04/the-revenge-of-karl-marx/307317/

if i'm to concede slightly, it seems as though the late hitchens - who we have to realize actually understood this stuff - seemed to shift his focus towards the need for a fuller capitalist expression in the existing period, which, if anything, is a shift towards leninism. remember: marxists don't argue that capitalism and communism are in opposition to another, but that capitalism is the required first stage towards socialist evolution. so, what you hear in hitchens' later years is a sort of realization (after 1989, although it took until 2003 to fully form) of the need to actually go through the capitalist phase. but, his criticism was always constructive, and he never embraced capitalism as an alternative to the left, or stood back from his insistence on the struggle against tyranny and oppression.

and, so while there is certainly room to introduce subtlety in the late hitchens' views towards marxist theory it is absolutely clear that he never lost an identification with the left, or with the ideals of the left, even as he became aware of the limitations of it, and ended up disenfranchised by it for not falling in line.

mr. t

First of all, just in the interest of reality I have to contradict that interpretation of both of those videos. I don't personally care if he was a Trotskyist or not but in both cases he so clearly identifies himself as not being one. In the 2009 one he simply explains why he used to be one and why he still admires Trotsky as an individual in some ways. You're basically saying that because he still claims to have a certain "leftist spirit" surrounding his beliefs that he's still a Marxist even though he doesn't call himself one, doesn't identify with any Marxist movements or governments, actively supports Western imperialism against Marxist movements, and doesn't support any Marxist positions (apart from perhaps some long-term, utopian vision for the future, but he supports none of the short-term goals that might bring us there). 

And as far as excuses for imperialism goes you could make the same argument for George Bush. He didn't say he was going into Iraq to steal the oil and overthrow an uncooperative government, he used the same arguments Hitchens used. They all make up humanitarian sounding reasons for imperialism, whether they believe it or not, but that doesn't make it leftist. Anyone who thinks that the overthrow of the 20th century socialist countries was a good thing, and that things are better off since then, is not holding a left-wing position on that question. You can say you disagree with those countries or you don't think they were real socialism, but to say that the US-installed neoliberalism of the 90s was better (as he says in this video) is straight-up pro-imperialism.

deathtokoalas

you're tearing down a strawman of hitchens, and i'm not interested in counteracting what amounts to a smear campaign on a dead man. the historical record is clear enough, and people that know what they're talking about can look it up. i would ask you to back up some of your claims, though - and claim you have the burden of proof when arguing that hitchens "doesn't call himself a marxist" (in fact, he continued to call himself one until his death, as i demonstrated with two links), "doesn't support any marxist governments" (which means what, exactly? where are there marxist governments? and he certainly continued to identify with marxist movements.), "actively supported western imperialism" (an absurd claim) or "doesn't support any marxist positions" (when he clearly did, until his death).

and, talking about "short term goals that might bring us to marxism" means what exactly? have you read any marx at all? that's absurd on it's face, unless you're an anarchist.

if you think that bush and hitchens used the same argument, you either haven't listened to hitchens, haven't listened to bush or haven't listened to either. maybe you read that in some progressive rag or something, but that's absolute nonsense. or, maybe you've managed to listen thoroughly to hitchens and fail to understand a word he said.

i'd love to see a clip of dubya citing hegel in his justification for the overthrow of saddam hussein, though. that'd make my day.

and, i mean, what to make of this?:

Anyone who thinks that the overthrow of the 20th century socialist countries was a good thing, and that things are better off since then, is not holding a left-wing position on that question.

i mean, we'd have to cross off a long list of people, then - your list of leftists would be restricted to the hardest right stalinists and the most genocidal maoists. that's a ridiculous, offensively stupid statement. the quality of life in eastern europe has gone through the fucking roof.

the bizarre confusion underlying your post is setting capitalism and socialism off against each other, which just indicates you don't understand either.

 

mr. t

Wow, well alright, I definitely did learn something from this (about psychology if nothing else). I'll just leave with this, and I mean this in as helpful of a way as possible. It sounds like some of your statements regarding Hitchens are some form of projection. The idea that the "far-right stalinist left" won't take you "real leftists" seriously when you go around supporting imperialist war and CIA interventions in socialist countries.

Leftism is more than just saying "I'm for good things and against bad things." There's no ideology on the planet that doesn't make the same claim. Leftism is a specific definition of what that "pro-good things" vision looks like, and how to get there.

One of the main movements associated with leftism is workers' rights and workers' liberation. That's probably the most basic thing. So if a capitalist imperialist empire is invading a country where the workers have liberated themselves, and attempting to bring capitalism back into that country, supporting that is not leftist. You should just call yourself a neoliberal if you're gonna do that. Then this wouldn't be so confusing, but I'm glad you helped clarify it anyway. Good luck.

 

deathtokoalas

again: the stupidity inherent in this comment is baffling - as though iraq was a socialist country (baffling stupidity.) and the reason hitchens supported it had anything to do with the cia. i will state this again: no leftist would give the slightest fuck what the reason the american military goes into a country is, or base their support or opposition for the action on why it is occurring. the left cares strictly about outcomes and would base it's opposition or support strictly on what would happen or would not happen should such an event occur. so, for somebody that clearly has not read much of any marx, or know anything about the left to try to lecture me that leftism isn't deontological is just baffling in it's application of the dunning-kruger effect - you are the one presenting a conservative,  kantian ethics here, and i'm the one channeling the liberalism of machiavelli, as per trotsky, via hitchens.

 let me ask you this, though: what was your position on the recent fiasco regarding the american withdrawal from syria, insofar as to how it pertained to "protecting the kurds"? i'm just curious if you can even string together a coherent thought on the topic.

to be clear: hitchens was not making a deontological argument - he was making a consequentialist argument. and, that's why he was making a more purely left-wing argument, and why parenti's deontological defense is inherently conservative. but, you don't even know what those words mean, do you?

 ...and hitchens was wrong - because he misunderstood the consequence, not because he misinterpreted the intent.

and, to alter your facile and stupid language, let me clarify that you have the concept backwards - leftism is for saying "i don't remotely fucking care if the intent is good or bad, i care only if the outcome is positive".

this is useful, though - it demonstrates just how badly hitchens was misunderstood by people that did not have the intellectual capability to understand what he said.

...it was this uprising of incredibly stupid people, reacting to his arguments in the most base, facile way possible.

no wonder he become withdrawn and distraught.

so, i got an answer on the conflict of interest:

the karen used to work for the crown's office.

so, it's clear enough what happened: she called up her friends in the crown's office, had them file bullshit charges and it goes from there.

i want this woman thrown in jail.

Mikey Schilling

Jessica Murray is a disinformation agent and probably a bot account. Screaming about China on a video that has nothing to do with China, lmao.

deathtokoalas

so, i accuse them of propaganda, and they just repeat the accusation back at me.

the fact that you think this has nothing to do with china indicates that the propaganda has been effective.

Mikey Schilling

kisses. Have fun with WWIII. Hope Biden sees this.

deathtokoalas

it's quite baffling how people will make stupid assumptions of binary political alignment based on ignorant media framing. my recent posts have both denounced this as chinese propaganda, and attacked the canadian parliament for politically denouncing the uighur "genocide". what side do you think i'm on, here? i'll tell you clearly - i'm an anarchist, and i align with the underclass, everywhere, the lumpen, the slaves, the dispossessed...

but, what are we to do about china?

the chinese are an aggressive, expansionist, imperialist, colonialist and hypercapitalist empire. they're just like us. history teaches us that conflict in these situations is difficult, but not impossible, to avoid. if we are to avoid conflict how are we to do it?

and, we must rely on the fact that the chinese are at least rational.

if we do not project strength, they will attack us and reduce us to their slaves, if they don't just eliminate us for lebensraum, as they invade and extract our resources. some form of defense is consequently required for peace. but, we must also be flexible in recognizing that we are currently infringing in their historical civilizational sphere, and be reasonable in pulling back somewhat - albeit not for a reasonable exchange.

the intent of these mechanisms is to prevent war, and not to advance it. let us hope we don't get so far gone as to rely on mutually assured destruction, but we have to jam up the board if we want to stop them from acting.

and, if biden is relying on me for advice, that's a sad reflection on the quality of the people around him.

Mikey Schilling

I'd much rather live under Chinese rule at this point. Anarchists don't want to protect the US State, or any state for that matter. Sounds like you're an AnCap and that's not real. Bye bye.

deathtokoalas

no, i'm not an ancap, nor would any ancap identify with the lumpenproletariat or the dispossessed. you fucking idiot.

but, let's hope you're first in line for the slaughter when it happens. it'll be good for the gene pool...

but, we need more censorship to fight right-wing extremism.

ugh. you idiots. you walked right the fuck into it.

and, you'll be the first to go.

remember: the party of competent fascism is the democrats.

what do i think about this theory?

i think paul seems to be drawing attention to something that is curious, but i also think that the real power actually got what they wanted, which was to get rid of trump. we have a tendency to grasp on to these monolithic narratives on the left, about "the elite" while forgetting that the elite has factions. paul seem to eventually get the point right after playing with hypotheticals for a while.

i think there's some danger in looking into this too carefully; paul is arguing against censorship of a report that would have the outcome of him getting censored, if it were to be acted upon in any serious way. it's a non-story, in my estimation.

toppling dictators and bringing in democracies is what the left is about.

if you deny that, or disagree with it, you have, somewhere along the way, lost the plot.

"splendid isolation", "non-interventionism" and "isolationism" are ideas that are historically associated with the political right.

and, this is the irony everybody misses - hitchens was wrong, because he misinterpreted the facts in front of him. i offer no defense of his conclusions or deductions at all. but, he represented the left in almost every debate i've seen him have regarding the topic - and his opponents, who opposed intervention on ideological grounds, were almost exclusively ideological conservatives. in the sense that this debate represents the left v the right on ideological grounds of intervention v non-intervention, the spectrum has entirely reversed.

so, something happened to the spectrum in those years, but it wasn't a rightwards movement of christopher hitchens, it was much more of a broader shift of forces on the ground to the right. reagan famously said that the democratic party left him. and, this is much closer to the truth: hitch didn't leave the left, so much as the left left him behind.

and, today, we have fake leftists everywhere we turn, that think the left is about ensuring equal pay for upper middle class employees of non-unionized corporations and revolution is an idea that belongs to the uneducated poor people on the political right.

for that reason, a part of me wants history to prove hitchens right. i prefer his argument, on a purely aesthetic basis.

but i know better, when he so obviously and so tragically didn't, as a consequence of his disastrous americanization.

let me ask this question here and we can have this discourse if you'd like - in terms of composition and ideology, how different do you think that the mob that stormed the capitol on jan 6th was from the one that stormed the winter palace in 1917?

like him or hate him, and call him naive and criticize his ability to ascertain truth from fiction all you like, but mr hitchens was the purest leftist that you ever will find - a real left in a sea of fraudulence and a critical mass of poseurs.

his arguments were empirically wrong.

but, they were thoroughly left-wing, nonetheless.

i have to continually state that hitchens was wrong about iraq. now, maybe you have some secret information about hitch taking checks from lockheed martin, but i strongly doubt that such a suspicion is rooted in any fact. rather, all evidence is that he was just legitimately wrong. and, we can be frustrated by how such an intelligent person can be so easily misled, but it ultimately doesn't add much to the analysis of whether he was right or wrong.

i blame it on his americanization, in a process i refer bleakly to as the americanization of christopher hitchens. this text is a tragedy.

and, i've stated previously that he might not have been wrong, if the empire had acted slightly differently, or the facts on the ground had been somewhat altered. further, events in iraq may still transpire in such a way that makes him seem less wrong - although we should not be tricked or confused by that. there may still be a twist of irony, yet to come - but he was wrong, and it can't be undone.

so, the next time that you foolishly attack mr. hitchens for parroting "neo-liberal talking points" (and, you mean neo-con, not neo-lib), it may do you some good to remind yourself that mr. hitchens was a self-identified trostkyist, and he was consequently approaching many of these arguments from many of the same places, except honestly rather than disingenuously.

unlike the neo-con cabal, i have every reason to think he believed what he said.

he was just wrong - because he was naive.

it happens to all of us, sometimes.

deathtokoalas

and, yes - hitchens ripped him apart in the q & a.

he's christopher hitchens.

he'd do that to anybody.

Throw Away

Were we watching the same debate, Hitchens was juvenile, doing nothing but parroting neolib talking points.

deathtokoalas

i actually found much of what parenti said in the q & a section (such as resorting to questioning the motives of the rulers, which is irrelevant) to be somewhat idealistic and juvenile. but, you forget that what you call "neoliberalism" (the more correct neologism is neoconservatism) is rebranded trostkyism, and hitchens was a self-identified trotskyist. the difference is in the honesty of the discourse; the neo-cons presented left-wing arguments in a dishonest manner to advance their empire, and all evidence is that hitchens actually believed what he said. so, it's the difference between a fake trostkyist and a real one.

but, i've noticed this continually over the last 15 years - yes, hitchens was wrong. but, he was also badly misunderstood. few people seemed to really follow his argument.

what you really need to do is fix the thirteenth amendment so that it abolishes all slavery.

before i get to that...

this is from the lengthy paper i just posted on reversing corneal damage:

Anti-collagenases include tetracycline antibiotics, chelating agents and blood products (serum and plasma). 

chelating agents are a bad idea on teeth.

blood serum seems unrealistic or medieval.

what about tetracycline antiobiotics?

and, in fact there is some literature on this that i'm going to summarize as follows: it seems like this works, but is considered unnecessary in the face of traditional dental practices.

well....these antibiotics are covered and "traditional dental practices" are not.

search and you'll find, right? 

so, i think i've got something close to an answer here, maybe, finally. let me look this up carefully. i'll need an rx, and i'll need to run it by my doctor, but this neither seems unsafe nor experimental - this is an understood class of drugs that has been used for this purpose and has been demonstrated to be effective. it's just not used because normal dental procedures (root planing, gum grafting) work as well or better.

i'm going to stop to take a shower and get back to it after.

the answer appears to be 'no' - i can't buy serum, i can't buy plasma and i can't buy alpha 2-macroglobulin, either.

the paper seems to be strictly about topical use. even if i could generate this stuff in my liver, it's not clear what my body would do with it.

so, that's the next series of questions.

so, this is a hefty paper that suggests that topical application of blood serum and plasma can help reduce degradation of the cornea.

....which perhaps suggests that the problem was a lack of bloodflow and that merely increasing bloodflow might help, too? but, again: no sane person would purposefully increase their blood pressure.

i'm doing everything right in terms of maximizing blood flow, although i realize i may have a genetic condition (my father had the same problem). the only thing that might be somewhat of a problem is that it's cold in here sometimes. are there studies tying air conditioning to gum recession? it would make some sense.

gargling with my own blood seems a little medieval for me.

can i isolate the mechanism here? it seems to be "alpha 2-macroglobulin". can i get that in a supplement? are there side effects?

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2296&context=open_access_theses

it's not just that the marketization of education has reduced access to it.

it's also that it's reduced the quality of it.

it's just a product for sale. really. we say that; let's actually believe it and understand it and adjust to it.

it's a status symbol - a marker of wealth.

it's not much more. and, it's not of much further value.

analyze my writings for what they're worth, don't get bourgeois on me and start waving around letters and papers. they mean nothing at all...

listen.

a degree, nowadays, is a product that you purchase on a market. i don't like that, but i came to terms with it a very long time ago.

that doesn't mean you shouldn't go to school, if you can afford it, or if buying that degree is a step on the path to the life that you want to live.

but, the premise of "consulting experts" has been broken by the marketization of education; the sanctity of the process has been utterly decimated, and it is now as easy to find an expert in a topic without a degree in it as it is to find somebody with a degree that doesn't have a clue what they're talking about. the affirmation process has become meaningless for any substantive or meaningful purpose.

it really doesn't mean anything at all.

so, yeah - i'm adamant about my anarchism, and we're not keen on divisions of labour or hierarchies of knowledge. but, i claim my rejection of formal education is empirical.

the best and worst schools are all diploma mills at this point, because all you're really doing is purchasing the product, for sale.

i'm going to start a kickstarter to raise funds to pay for surgery to remove my tongue from my cheek.

i wonder if surgery to separate my tongue from my cheek is covered...

something else i can't rule out entirely is that this recession may be caused by my tongue being lodged firmly in my cheek tissue, creating a force of pressure on my jaw that is separating the gingiva from the bone.

i'd need xrays to know for sure.

calcium is generally presented in media reports as a white powder, which is probably just another example of structural racism.

this is actually elemental calcium, believe it or not:

to be clear: if you were to inject a calcium blocker in your arm, it would remove calcium from your blood, which would lower your blood pressure - and seems to often have the side-effect of gingival overgrowth.

injecting edta seems likely to actually kill you, although it seems to be used in small doses to clear the body of metal like lead. it might act as a calcium blocker in that context, by clearing the blood of calcium, if it doesn't give you a stroke first by calcifying it out.

but, if you put a collagenase inhibitor like edta on your teeth, it should pull the calcium out and leave your tooth a mushy mess of phosphate and whatever else has been uptaken into them.

so, if i'm going to use a collagenase inhibitor topically, i need to make sure it's not a chelating agent, as most of them seem to be, because it will just dissolve the metals in your mouth (calcium is technically a metal, kids) like a powerful acid.

this is making more sense as i'm reading more, but it's not helping me develop usable answers.

one of the complications is that these molecules seem to dissolve calcium on contact, so i don't want to put them on my teeth.

collagenase inhibitors are actually well studied in terms of:

- how or where they exist in plaque buildups, which might be of some use topically but largely isn't what i'm dealing with

- cornea and vision loss

the collagen/collagenase equilibrium seems to be the same mechanism underlying certain types of age-related vision loss. so, i wonder if boosting production in the liver might help with more than gum recession. i said that already, but it was less clear then than it is now.

i've got some lengthy, paper-length reports to read before i comment further, if i can stay awake long enough. and, we'll see in the end if i think that trying to get my liver to produce something and distribute it is an effective strategy or not - or if i think i have to do this purely topically.

it's an embarrassing show of ignorance by our parliament.

but, i don't expect much better.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/uighur-genocide-motion-vote-1.5922711

am i awake yet?

let's try again.

she used to tease me for wearing mascara and denying it because i had perfect eyelashes.

but, i never wore mascara...

i was just born with it. i guess.

whatever air tight logic she had in the fourth grade had evaporated by the 8th, as i had to deal with her giving me lap dances on the bus - and fully realized she expected me to ignore her, but wanted me to grab her. and, i did ignore her. so, it turned into a twisted game - how far could she push me?

i was happy when the routes changed.

and, i strictly avoided that one until graduation.

so, i have a distinct memory of getting fag hagged in the girl's washroom at the school dance in the fourth grade after she dragged me to it and i didn't react to her at all, and realizing the logic and absurdity of it at the same time.

hey, give the kid credit - she tried five or six times and after getting no response at all reacted empirically to what she observed in front of her - i was, in fact, obviously a girl. and, she was right, too.

after a few fails, that little girl that i tattletaled on for, amongst other things, trying to kiss me in the library was the first person to actually figure it out and decide i was actually a girl.

she figured it out before i did.

all i knew is that i didn't like the attention and wanted her to stop.

consequently, all that drugging me is going to do is make me more depressed and less social.

it's the worst thing you could possibly do to me.

i know that people might guffaw at this, but the annoying truth is that i've never been able to build substantive friendships with women because they all want to fuck me, and the feeling just simply isn't mutual. every time i've tried, i've just ended up frustrated by the reality that they're not able to interpret me in the gender i identify as. i don't bother.

further, i can't build friendships with men because i end up repressing an attraction to them, and it's not fair for me to be dishonest about that. i've avoided this in recent years, as well.

i cannot expect any kind of meaningful social existence until i can fully transition, first, and people can drop their delusions and misperceptions - until women are no longer attracted to me and can interpret me as one of them, and until men stop broing me, without realizing i want them to fuck me. there's just no reasonable way forward, there; there's no set of outcomes besides frustration and wastes of time.

until then, i will continue to live a solitary existence because the social pressures are too difficult for me to deal with. 

i'd rather just sit alone by myself than have to deal with expectations i don't want.

....but i'm not interested in a sex life at this point in my life.

what i want is to suppress and eliminate all sexuality; i want to be post-sexuality and post-sex.

my only experiment was a short relationship with a woman in my early 20s, almost 20 years ago.

that experiment failed.

while i haven't acted anything out because i don't have the body parts to do it with, i have, generally, been more interested in sex with men.

i'm still unable to stay awake, and i'm not confused about the reasons for that - i understand i'm being drugged against my will, and i don't know the source. if i did, i would reverse it. but, again, i can't starve myself.

i'm convinced that this drugging is rooted in a misperception of my sexuality, which i've written about the long way here on multiple occasions. so, let me try the short version.

- while i always felt more like a girl, serious gender dysphoria didn't start to sink in until around high school

- i have memories of young girls being attracted to me as a pre-teen and being confused when i didn't react to them. there was one little girl that explicitly hit on me, and i went to the teacher to ask him to ask her to stop, and he didn't understand, either. so, while i didn't have a formed identity at the time, i was certainly a queer kid, and the only reaction i got from anybody around me was that i was too stupid to understand the benefits of girls chasing me around. 

- i have distinct memories of being attracted to boys in my class in grades 7-12, and also the first two years of university, but no memories of being attracted to girls in my class. i didn't act on these impulses, and didn't even really understand them at the time. i know that people that knew me at the time have remarked to me that my disinterest in girls was an idiosyncrasy, and something they noticed about me; i had no interest, and they knew i had no interest because i broadcast it pretty clearly, and i'm pretty sure they had to tell a few that asked about me that i had no interest. 

- in fact, i was not as oblivious as i came off as - i did in fact realize that there were girls that were attracted to me in high school, and i reacted by going out of my way to avoid them because i didn't want to deal with the stigma of coming out as explicitly queer. when i knew that a girl was interested in me, i would avoid being in the same space as them for as long as it took for them to move on. some didn't move on at all, and the avoidance occurred over 4 or 5 years. my prerogative, at the time, was strict avoidance in an attempt to prevent a conflict. the unintended consequence of this was that i didn't build any substantive friendships with the gender i identified as, because i was too busy avoiding their sexual interest, which i did not want.

- during this period, i identified as a homosexual male online and simply didn't explore the issue in real life. i had dysphoric feelings from the start of puberty or before it, around the age of 13-14, but i suppressed them as unrealistic fantasies. these feelings became unmanageable around the age of 20. 

- so, i did not date in high school. at all. my tactic was total avoidance of the issue, and i assumed at the time that i would maintain a tactic of avoidance for as long as i was alive. 

- the dysphoria became unmanageable during the second year of university, and i went to see a psychiatrist about it, eventually starting hormone therapy at the end of second year.

- i was a complete and total virgin when i went on hormones - i had never had sex, i had never kissed anybody, i had never been on a date, i had never asked anybody on a date and i had turned down a few people that indicated interest in me. i had the sexual (im)maturity and experience of a 10-11 year-old.

- i got a job as a coffee barista in the fall of that year.

- there was a girl that worked there that aggressively pursued me, and i finally relented. smartly appealing to my empirically-driven nature, she insisted i couldn't know if i liked sex until i tried it and convinced me to conduct an experiment.

- my absolute lack of sexual and emotional maturity was unable to deal with what followed, at first. but, in the end, i made a clear decision: the experiment failed.

- that was in the mid 00s, and i have not had sex since.

so, i tried the experiment, and the experiment produce a clear result - i didn't like it.

the rdi for vitamin c for me would be 90 mg. again - i don't know why the health authorities would suggest differing rdis for men and women for vitamin c, except basing it on sexist (and very bad.) assumptions about body weight and height. but, i want to pick the higher number to err on the side of caution. (menstruating) women have higher iron requirements, and that at least makes sense, and i've chosen the higher numbers, as well. and, then i've lowballed everything...

so, why take 100 mg per meal, then?

because vitamin c is cleared by your body within hours - it's the reason these megadoses don't work. pauling didn't understand that because the science wasn't there yet. his argument was not bad, but he assumed that we'd store vitamin c for a while if we took huge amounts of it and we just don't - we process it as we come into contact with it and eliminate it as soon as we're done with it.

so, all that taking a 2000 mg pill of vitamin c is going to actually do is put unnecessary strain on your kidneys. unfortunately.

if we could hack ourselves to actually store and release - or potentially even synthesize - vitamin c, the kinds of things that people like pauling talked about could reassert themselves. we all know that we need vitamin c because we can't produce it, but we might not realize that most animals can make their own c and don't need to consume much at all. your dog can make it's own vitamin c, but your cat can't make it's own taurine. we're similar, but these are differences - and they're genetic.

we could flip the switch:

https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2019/1/221/5556105

and, then these megadoses would transport c to the liver, where it would be released.

as it is, we just get rid of it very fast - so replenishment is necessary at regular intervals. so, if you're going to do this, you should take 100 mg 2-3 times daily, rather than a large dose all at once.

the truth is that what i'm doing right now is how real advances in the field of health science have always actually occurred.

so, what i've got here is something like this:

- collagen needs vitamin c & various amino acids

- collagenase seems to require folate

- so, whatever the rdis and intakes are, i may be experiencing the effects of more folate than c; i may be getting more than enough of both, but the b9:c equilibrium appears to be out of whack

- as a consequence, i'm producing more collagense than collagen

don't publish that or anything, but i think it's what is actually correct.

what do i do about it?

- i could take more vitamin c, but i may be maxxed out. i could try topical c on my mouth.

- topical collagen in my mouth

- i want to find a study of some sort before i jump to reducing folate, but i need to find some kind of collagenase inhibitor, regardless.

i don't want to say that this is cutting edge science; it seems like it's more along the lines of butter-knife science, in that nobody seems to want to approach gum loss with medication. it's just not how anybody does this. but, i have more brains than dollars, and little choice but to try and make some guesses and carry out the experiment. you can publish the result somewhere if you'd like, in the end.

there's a study here about vitamin c and oral health:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678404/

i can't find any studies arguing that excess folates may cause recession.

but, i'm back to the c. as i'm nodding off. again.

the studies on vitamin c are consistent over a long period: bombarding yourself with c won't undo anything, and won't cure anything, but it's exceedingly important to ensure you're getting enough, as a preventative.

in theory, i should be getting lots of c - but that relies on the fruit i'm eating actually containing it, and that's a little sketchy. strawberries, kiwis, red peppers, grapefruit & guava are all very high in c; limes, raspberries, bananas & avocados are useful supplements.

but i don't know for sure.

i can't, really.

so, what if i start popping c? it's one of the very few pills i'd consider popping...

that's not going to stop me from needing to find some kind of way to get the collagen in topically, and some kind of way to inhibit collagenase. but, i need to ensure i have sufficient c to start with, and it's perhaps the only way to do it.

i'm not talking about a superdose.

but, 100 mg with each meal in addition to what i'm taking will make sure i'm getting enough, for sure.

so, i don't want to take cyclosporin or any type of anticonvulsant (well, what if it works, right? but i don't want to shut off my t-cells, especially not in a pandemic) and calcium channel blockers strike me as dangerous, given my low blood pressure and general fit health.

further, the mechanism for the anticonvulsants seems to have to do with folate deficiency. that is, gingival enlargement may be caused by folate deficiency.

my folate intake levels are pushing the maximum daily safe amounts.

so, if folate deficiency causes gingival overgrowth, does that mean the excess folate can lead to gum recession? chemistry isn't logical - that's the foundational observation defining modern science. so, i can't and shouldn't make that deduction. but, what do experiments suggest about excess folate on gum health?

decreasing my folic acid intake is something i could do with minimal effort.

what fixed the b5 deficiency?

avocados. mostly.

i also increased the amount of fortified soy milk i was drinking dramatically, started eating a specific kind of highly fortified cereal and started eating fortified yogurt. i replaced my store bought caesar salad dressing with a homemade dressing that used fortified probiotic yogurt & fortified soy as a base. in the process, i went from getting about 60% of the rdi on a good day to getting over 200% of it, regularly. i also started eating eggs far more regularly, instead of as a once-a-week top-up. 

i think that was a potential cause. i don't know...

the increased amount of soy also boosted my vitamin d count. low d in the winter is a known risk factor for ms.

as seems to be normal in this country, the doctor assumed i was exaggerating it, and told me it was just a headache. so, i don't really know. again, universal coverage and competent care are different things.

the frustrations i'm having with the smoking cop upstairs aside, i should point out that it's near the end of february now and i haven't had a migraine since december, and i hadn't had one before that since the spring. so, the frequency of the attacks is decreasing.

and, i'm calling these "hemiplegic migraines" and suggesting they're triggered by smoke and pollution, but they could very well be ms attacks or a dozen other things. i last spoke to a neurologist over the phone a few months ago and he wasn't very helpful.

what has changed? my diet has improved, in terms of nutrition. this time last year, i was eating infrequently and modulating between soy fruit smoothies and pasta dishes - neither of which were terrible, but when i actually worked it out, i realized i was low on almost everything. i was very, very low on b5. 

so, was i just malnourished?

well, i say that like it's a triviality.

"oh. i was merely malnourished. i'm ok now."

but, chronic malnutrition has some pretty serious side effects, and we just don't even know what causes half of this stuff.

the last time i said this, i got a migraine, so i don't want to get cocky. but, it's also the only one i've had in roughly a year. so, let's hope i've fixed this...

what the progesterone does is increase blood flow to the mouth, which causes a series of problems.

that does not seem to be what i'm dealing with. at all.

i'm actually ruling out the progesterone, which appears to be known to cause bleeding and inflammation, but not recession, exactly.

again: i've had no bleeding, no inflammation, no redness, etc. it's just solely recession, with no signs of actual gingivitis.

"you're free to do what you're told"

"freedom of religion" is always a contradiction in terms.

one is never "free to worship" - one can only be captured by the system of religion, enslaved by it, brainwashed by it and placed under it's subservience and control.

it's just a strictly orwellian phrase, that is equivalent to "freedom is slavery".

that said, this may be of some interest to you if you think your recession is bacteria-related:

https://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jdms/papers/Vol16-issue9/Version-5/H1609053646.pdf

so, i stumbled upon the aspirin bit when sorting through this article, one of the few i've seen that addresses the potential of drug use to regrow gingival tissue, while looking for options regarding collagenase inhibitors:

https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2014.905#Tab2

....but this is related specifically to plaque, which is not what i'm dealing with.

i don't have cavities, and my oral health is quite good; i'm dealing with recession due to some combination of factors that does not appear to be related to gingivitis at all.

so, we'll forget about the aspirin, it's not what i want.

but, i am getting some salicylates in my diet, regardless.

so, aspirin would help by acting as a prostaglandin inhibitor.

what does that actually mean, though?

this weekend was utterly wasted and i'm not happy about it.

let's see if i can get back to what i was doing, which is trying to derive some way to try to stimulate gingival growth in my mouth - which does appear to be possible, if perhaps somewhat perilous due to a lack of development, despite what the dentistry industry says.

the indigenous cultures of central asia and siberia are actually startlingly similar to the indigenous cultures of north america, to the point that it's hard to really believe that they're separated by 15,000 years of history.

i'm also going to smack you down if you try to argue that muslims are indigenous to anywhere.

no - islam is an imperial system of control. it is not indigenous to anywhere, and certainly not indigenous to central asia.

if anything, the turks are an eastern people that were colonized by imperialist arabs and undoing that is a process of reconnecting them to their ancestry. but, i'm a leftist -  i don't think in terms of identity, like that.