Showing posts with label soil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soil. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Science: Why Spanish lady lived to be 117


Maria Branyas in 1925
Scientists have discovered the secrets behind how a Spanish woman became the world's oldest person, until her death last year at age 117.

Researchers found Maria Branyas' "exceptional" genes and "frugal" Mediterranean diet -- made up of lots of vegetables, fruits, legumes (beans), and olive oil -- were the most likely reasons she lived for so long.

I keep my gut healthy with yoghurt, not cake.
The study collected samples of blood, saliva, and stool from Ms. Branyas when she was 116-years-old to analyze her genetics.

Prof Manel Esteller, leader of the research team, noted that Ms. Branyas avoided drinking alcohol or smoking and ate three servings of plain, sugar-free yoghurt [rich in probiotics] every day. More

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Some germs eat plastic: new microbe


Can the Elementals help clean up?
Will microbes and mushrooms save the planet, clean the world, and make human and animal life sustainable like they have for millions of years even after we pump petroleum from the ground and make plastic out of it? Paul Stamets (fungi.com) knows that various species of fungi can remediate the soil by sequestering and cleaning up even atomic waste from Fukushima, to say nothing of oil spills and other corporate human waste products.
  • CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Friday, October 4, 2024

Giant Amazonian cities (Graham Hancock)

Plenty of records exist. Terra preta is a living tradition in the Americas. See my books.

Joe Rogan, are you surprised? The ancients had biochar tech



Amazonian terra preta or biochar "dark earth," "black earth," nutrient-rich composted dirt and natural fertilizer full of minerals (micronutrients) and colonies of microbes. It is manmade. It is thousands of years old. And one can take the "Amazon rainforest" with them from one place to another, as the jungle expanded to become the lungs of the planet (along with the plankton of the ocean and snowy forest of Siberia). What does research Graham Hancock know? He has written books on what was lost in the Americas most of us have never heard. Just as what the European conquerors found when they arrived in ancient Mexico City and could not believe their eyes (clean streets, canals, markets, cosmopolitan traders, pyramids, trash collection, boats, channels, foods of all kinds), a city bigger than anything in Europe.

Did ETs bring techn, or did plant spirits give it?
Extraterrestrials and trans-dimensionals both
Kaddafi wanted a Pan-Africa, so CIA killed him