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The only text that really talks about his childhood is the infancy gospel of Thomas but I'd seriously take it with a grain of salt. Much of it is lore from the Medievil era. Jesus from 12 to 30 is a huge mystery. We know next to nothing (if there is anything at all) about him during this time, and it's mostly speculation, rumors, legends, and lore.

Mitrochondria might be a good research subject. Make use of your free access to scientific journals to see what research has been done on Mitrochondria. Most universities give their students free access to Ebsco or something similar.

Take advantage of your free scholarly journal access while you can.

That is good news. Congrats on being a new uncle.

That would get annoying fast. Back when I was single I would get similar questions, "when are you getting a girlfriend?" Or other odd accusations. stare

Mitochondria is interesting... DNA only passed by the mother, and something that Sumerians seemed to have some sort of understanding of...

There was a passage found in one of the tablets that said something along the lines of a child being 2/3s of a mother and 1/2 of a father... A puzzle except if you consider the proportions of cell DNA... I will try hard to find which book of mine puzzles that one... I know Von Daniken used it, but I don't take him too seriously... He got that from another source.

As to the HCG diet... anytime hormones are involved I get suspicious. The fact is, there is no serious long term study on how this will carry out into old age. Also, the fact that the human body is not designed to absorb hormones through the digestive tract means that more of what you ingest ends up coming out the other end, and hormones are not biodegradable.

I'm not saying that there is no reason to try it. The golden glow on this miracle of Science has me considering a back off of my anti-hormone stance. I still have been burned pretty bad, several times in my life, on things that were just too good to be true, and the HCG hormone seems like one of those things.

I am trying to be a little more careful though by trying supplements that are older and have a longer track record.ATM, There are two sets of supplements that I am considering, that I am more comfortable about taking long term.

One set is what is used for the 4-Hour-Body diet or PAGG diet.
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Aged Garlic Extract with high Allicin potential
Decaffeinated Green Tea Flavanols - 60% potency = 325mg pure EGCG
Biotin(vitamin B7)

These are just various supplements that have different effects in the war on fat...

Calcium Pyruvate 1000mg before meals- Calcium helps cell absorb pyruvate which is supposed to make cells more ready to burn fat instead of hoard it.

Chitosan 1000mg half an hour before meals- If given a chance to enter the intestines, it blocks fat from mixing in bile and being absorbed into the body.


Gamma Linolenic Acid 800mg before meals- reduces inflammation of fat cells. It pretty much makes it harder for fat cells to keep the mass they collected and then it keep s them from becoming inflamed again once they go down.

I will probably make a thread discussing this crap in my guild once I have done all my homework.

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I can't spell anything... Spell check does ALL of my work.

Hormones are just plain scary to me. My mom asks me every time we get together what I think of the HCG diet. I tell her every time that I would rather try everything else that doesn't involve hormones, first. She tells me she agrees with me, but the golden shinyness and happy rainbowiness of its immediate success is getting to her, I can tell... Otherwise she wouldn't bring it up like it's a new conversation every time we see each other.

We actually know 3 people who are on it or have used it. Two ladies right now are dropping weight fast.

One of the ladies has a habit of doing extreme diets every 2 years to drop 50 to 80 pounds for a vacation to the Bahamas, and she gains back what she lost over the next two years...

The other lady who is still on it is one of those gals who want everything the easy way. She had a gastric bypass a couple years back, and although she still isn't as big as she was before she underwent the surgery, she is using the pill to undo some damage she did by not following doctors orders after she lost allot of weight way back when.

The other got off of it a month or so ago, because she got strapped for money, and she is gaining weight back nearly as quickly as she dropped it. Not saying that her regaining of the weight isn't from stress, but either way, it seems to me it is like any other diet pill, and isn't lasting without a serious lifestyle change.

But because of obvious fast results people are flocking to it... and from what I can tell, many of those people are people who have been wanting the easy way since Ephedrine was removed from over-the-counter access... Even my mom, who has been watching Doc Oz religiously for a miracle diet, because she has trouble making time for truly healthy, is getting sucked in... I figure it will take one more person showing a smaller waistline to her for her to buy in.

I guess I shouldn't talk much though, because if I am still plateaued (it feels more like beached) by the end of Summer, I might just give in as well...

Intermediate fasting used to be my lifestyle, and I still have a tendency to fall into that when I am not paying attention. I think it is a part of my problem really, because my body likes to hoard what it gets now.

I have added weights, but I have a problem that seems to be peculiar. I gain muscle faster than I burn fat... So I gain more than I lose... and I usually don't let myself get bothered because muscle weighs more than fat, but after losing 40 last year, and now I have gained 15 of that back, and my pant size is no longer going anywhere.... Well, I had the reputation of being a beefy girl when I was younger, and it bothered me back then... Now I have allot more fat than I ever had and it is all turning into muscle. My biceps are bigger than my trainers, and my legs would probably equal the pillars of Athena's temple in circumference...

I need to find a way to get the fat cells to let go of what they are keeping without building any more muscle. I switch my exercise routine up every six or so weeks to keep my muscles from getting to used to a work-out, and I have let up on the use of increasing weights to try and stem some of my bulking out... and tried to incorporate more reps and higher pace instead... It has helped slow the bulking process, but I still haven't seen much more progress in the size-down department.

So, until recently, most of my supplements have been mostly for health, but I am hoping to incorporate some that are actually used in helping my body do away with fat. Gonna price the above supplements tomorrow, and if I can afford it, gonna buy one set or the other.

Then I am going to set up two weeks of the diet I put myself on when I started this whole thing last year... I got used to it last year, and plateaued after 6 weeks, but I am going to start switching the diets I seemed to have the most success with at two week intervals...

I'll probably start my new thread tomorrow after I get back from my gym/shopping trip.

One thing, a pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle... a pound is still a pound razz

But if you body is hoarding, it may mean that you aren't giving it enough. In cases where your body isn't getting enough, you body tends to break down food better, in an attempt to take everything it can from it.

In the case of hgc people, they aren't even giving their bodies the right amount to keep anything. Their bodies would burn though the minor energy they would get from a meal, though a normal day... even more so if they did anything more than sit.

Have you ever tracked how many cal.s you have eaten over say a week?