https://solarfoods.com/ solar-powered industrial-fermentation food? they have a microbial protein called Solein. it’s made from bacteria, probably Cupriavidus necator.
the inventor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allene_Jeanes, also pioneered mass production of dextran (from industrial fermentation) which saved many lives as an ingredient in an emergency blood substitute in the Korean and Vietnam wars
the pop-culture chakra model comes from modern Theosophical books, not ancient Indian scripture
Kind of true, although the core of it is a system of 6 or 7 chakras which the author acknowledges (way down in the comments) was dominant in India “by 1500”.
This made me curious about the credentials of Transcendental Meditation, the system espoused by David Lynch (RIP) and Jerry Seinfeld among others. Turns out their guru was a student of the head of one of the four big Vedic monasteries founded over 1000 years ago by the Kant of Hinduism (that’s just my name for him), Adi Shankara. So at least in this case, there are no troubling Russian or British intermediaries. :-)
links 1/31/25: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/01-31-2025
https://hareesh.org/blog/2016/2/5/the-real-story-on-the-chakras the pop-culture chakra model comes from modern Theosophical books, not ancient Indian scripture.
https://solarfoods.com/ solar-powered industrial-fermentation food? they have a microbial protein called Solein. it’s made from bacteria, probably Cupriavidus necator.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8719805/
is this competitive with whey, legume, or fungal protein, from a cost or sustainability standpoint? haven’t checked yet
https://vetmed.illinois.edu/i-tick/2019/08/09/iceman-lyme-mummy-tattle-the-tick-blog/Otzi the iceman had Lyme disease??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthan_gum is made from bacteria
the inventor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allene_Jeanes, also pioneered mass production of dextran (from industrial fermentation) which saved many lives as an ingredient in an emergency blood substitute in the Korean and Vietnam wars
https://emalliaraki.com/
Kind of true, although the core of it is a system of 6 or 7 chakras which the author acknowledges (way down in the comments) was dominant in India “by 1500”.
This made me curious about the credentials of Transcendental Meditation, the system espoused by David Lynch (RIP) and Jerry Seinfeld among others. Turns out their guru was a student of the head of one of the four big Vedic monasteries founded over 1000 years ago by the Kant of Hinduism (that’s just my name for him), Adi Shankara. So at least in this case, there are no troubling Russian or British intermediaries. :-)