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Initial report on pumpernickel: Wow. Most satiating food I've ever experienced.

When health food promoters say food X does Y, I don't generally dismiss it, but I don't put much weight upon it. Usually such effects, while statistically significant, aren't actually enough to make much practical difference. Or it doesn't work on me. Even if the food promoter says something like "four-fold" I still don't generally get excited about something.

So it was with "fiber" and "gut microbiome", and in particular "rye". Supposedly rye has a lot of resistant starch and digests much slower, especially whole rye, and feeds your gut cell walls with short-chain fatty acids which have a long list of supposed health effects. I read (or heard) that some of these effects including reducing your appetite for high-energy foods.

In a post I made about a week ago, I baked 2 loaves of pumpernickel bread. Not for health. Just to try it. These loaves are massively dense, completely unleavened, but remain moist enough to slice thinly and they apparently never go bad (can store in a tin as emergency food). Note that there are variants of pumpernickel that are leavened and do not have quite the same properties... I'm talking about the stuff with no bubbles, just packed dense slow-cooked whole rye kibble.

On the first day of eating this, I probably went in too much at once and it roughed my guts. But I kept eating it at low levels anyways since I had no other bread in the house.

As of today I'm not even half way through the first of these 2 loaves. I've had no other bread or wheat-based product other than this bread. And what has happened has kinda shocked me: I'm not hungry for bread or carbs. I'm eating less than normal. And I keep getting up and doing things, even without the drive of being caffeinated. I've lost some weight, but not a lot yet, but really the appetite supression or let's say the satiety that this bread provides is unbelievable... I would not have believed it had I not experienced it myself.

My grandfather always had "Bruno's" Rye bread, a staple at his house, believe it was made in Chicago. This stuff was so solid my mom called it "cement bread" but he (and I) I loved it with some butter and thin sliced Lachsschinken. I used to buy a loaf and keep it in my desk at work for lunch or whenever I needed a snack. Everyone called it pumpernickel, even though it was a rye. They either stopped distributing it to our area or went outta biz circa 2016 and this note reminded me of how much I miss that satiating dense, forever lasting unperishable loaf of goodness! Do you have a recipe you're willing can share? I knew the feeling you describe and want to experience it again

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I'm on your website looking at the cedarwood tallow 5oz bar. Packaging and description all look good to me, doesn't strike me as being redundant. If you want to change something, bring back the bundles! Would like to try this after my pine tar tallow is used up😉

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Question for Nostr Fam.

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That being said, should we keep calling/ naming our soap

Pine Tar "Tallow"

Lavender "Tallow"

Lemongrass "Tallow"

Etc?

Or,..

Pine Tar?

Lavender!

Lemongrass?

Would appreciate your feedback. 🙏

Tallow's on the can't cut list

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Longtime #Amethyst user and suddenly lost all of my follows. Tried resetting relays to defaults without any luck. Tried a different client, same problem, no longer following anyone. Any thoughts or recommendations? #asknostr

Replying to Avatar Ross Ulbricht

nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q8dzj6n showed me nostr recently. Reminds me of a writeup I did back in 2021 on decentralized social media:

https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99

I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.

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