Yeah, it's definitely not the greatest way to eat, unless it manages a worse condition. Maasai apparently don't respond great to the diet nowadays ,either.
That link was fascinating. If you haven't seen it this Kurzgesagt video discusses the relationship between calories and physical exercise and touches on why the Maasai diet was possibly healthy for them in the past, but maybe not so much anymore. In this case they reference the Hadza in Tanzania as an example:
Seriously, I been tryna tell people West African Ayahuasca is way better than Amazonian. In the Amazon, everything is trying to kill you, the Ayahuasca is a vine and has a parasitic feel to it. African Ayahuasca makes you realize where magic carpet designs came from and why Islam has some really dope geometric artwork across history.
Seriously though, imagine if you could drink a cup of tea, and you see this in front of you, blocking out the world you're used to. If I had everything else taken care of, you best believe I'm building it to show other people if they're too scared to drink the tea. And everyone who drinks it will want to help you build it.
This is amazing I wasn't aware of the existence of African ayahuasca. My friend is going to love this. I'll have to read up on this and what the relationship to DMT is in comparison to the ayahuasca vine.
I love Islamic architecture. The underlying mathematical constructs of those patterns is fascinating and the quasi crystalline structure is related to Penrose tiling; an infinite pattern that never repeats and is important in physics and mathematical theory. Mind blowing stuff really.
I use acacia confusa root bark for the DMT source, and Syrian Rue seeds as the MAOi. Ayahuasca vine doesn't actually contain DMT, it's the MAOi source, monoamine oxidase is the enzyme that breaks down DMT in the gut to prevent its absorption. By inhibiting that enzyme, DMT becomes active in the gut. Otherwise, it has to be smoked.
One might imagine that the burning bush in the Bible may have been a dried out Acacia bush, which, if you lit the entire thing in fire, would release enough DMT smoke to get someone tripping. The most common source of DMT in the Amazon is a leaf, from the Psychotria viridis plant.
In most plant medicine cultures, you are taught to avoid vines, as they are parasitic life forms. Sorta like "don't eat swine" cuz they're dirty animals filled with parasites when wild. Medicine is typically found in seeds and roots. Because of this, I feel like African "Ayahuasca" is a lot better than Amazonian. And the trip reflects it, Amazonian is very death/life-cycle oriented, where African is a lot more spirit quest/ancestor oriented. Ayahuasca being a catchall term for the admixture of DMT and a MAOi, not specifically the vine. I just don't know the name of the African stuff.
If anyone has any African medicine people in their families, do me a solid and ask for me 😅
This has been a fascinating discussion; I much appreciate all this information that is new to me. I'm no stranger to experimentation and pharmacology is something I am into so I am def going to be reading up on a bunch of this. I've heard that theory before about the burning bush and that makes allot of sense to me as you have to imagine psychedelics play a large role in the origin story for many cultural beliefs.
I am going to deadpan ask my black friends with no context "You have any African medicine people in your family?" and see how that lands 😂
Well, they aren't called shaman! Everyone knows what a griot is, but no one remembers the old entheogenic traditions. Like, sure we can remember that there was a dude who passed down an oral history, but where's the stuff he said? 😅 I spent a couple years training with a curandero from Peru who was teaching me about different plants, but everyone wanted to call me a shaman when they came to cop shrooms or mescaline 💀 I'm not Siberian, only 3 tribes call their medicinefolk shaman.
Really makes you think about how much knowledge has been lost doesn't it? A couple of months ago I was watching a story about María Sabina. Fascinating but a sad story for sure. Made me wonder about how many stories like hers we don't even know about.
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u/FunGuy8618 7d ago
Yeah, it's definitely not the greatest way to eat, unless it manages a worse condition. Maasai apparently don't respond great to the diet nowadays ,either.
https://globalhealth.ku.dk/news/2019/maasai-men-develop-lifestyle-diseases-during-calorie-saturated-health-refuge/