Happy trails, Seth Roberts
A farewell to author-blogger-self-experimenter extraordinaire Seth Roberts, who died in April 2014 at 61. Seth’s review of my blog in December 2011 increased my traffic by about 19,000 percent.
Articles for author: Marjorie
Fun with ancient psychoactives: blue lotus and African dream root
It all started with The Spirit Molecule. My interest in the mind-bending end of self-experimentation started after reading about DMT, the active ingredient of the now-infamous ayahuasca brew, in Rick Strassman’s The Spirit Molecule.
All the pills I’ve loved before
Here’s a roundup of the vitamin and mineral supplements that have had the most dramatic effect on my various health annoyances.
Watch out for registered trademarks (®) in supplement ingredients
After a decade or so of experimenting with nutritional therapy, more and more supplements and foods began suppressing my breathing, which needless to say caused me some anxiety.
Tips on self-experimenting with nutritional therapy
1. Don’t worry about proving anything to anyone.
Can’t tolerate a supplement? Try an alternate formulation
If a trashed liver, freaked-out nervous system, or fried digestion makes you super-sensitive to various supplements, you might try another delivery method or formulation.
Discussion forum misinformation
(Last updated in July 2022.) Some of us still remember when “regular” people were dressed, coached, prompted and edited before they were allowed to appear on any wide-reaching media — on TV or in newspapers or magazines.
Annoying crap people will say re: your mystery health issue
After you’ve spent a few months/years wandering through the medical system with a complaint no one can help you with — hair loss, psoriasis, fatigue, dizzy spells, insomnia, whatever — you start to hear the same refrains from supposedly well-meaning doctors and civilians.
And then there was the time vitamin B-complex drove me insane…
One of the first things you discover when you start investigating nutritional therapy is that vitamin B-complex formulations are badly designed.
Menorrhagia, meet methionine
After a disastrous niacin self experiment made me suspect that my liver is a shadow of its former self, I experimented with a selection of OTC supplements frequently mentioned in discussion forums on liver damage.
