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[Skyguy2005]

Please bear with me:

 

For a while now I get a feeling, whose strength varies depending on a few random things, when I take any of the following, even from sniffing a jar of the herb in some cases:

 

-Ginkgo Biloba

-Red Reishi

-He Shou Wu

-Ginger

-Turmeric

-Resveratrol

-Gotu Kola

-Cumin, Garlic, pretty much most dried herbs in the supermarket

-Hot chilli

-Foods: Olive Oil, Cocoa, Mushrooms etc.

-Vitamin D (especially when I didn't take it for a while), and vitamin K a little bit. Not sure whether to include B vitamins (it feels a bit different).

-I even get it from some fresh vegetables like peas, cauliflower, kale.

 

The feeling is almost like a facelift, uplifting feeling. In some cases it is absolutely amazing (especially for things near the top of the list).

 

My brother can't believe I can tell the difference between a tiny amount of Ginkgo Biloba or Red Reishi vs a placebo powder in water... but I can.

 

Does anyone else receive strong immediate (as in instantaneous) feelings when eating/sniffing/swallowing anything?

 

Perhaps this is normal, but wouldn't there be a word for it or something? It's really quite conspicuously similar for all the things I mentioned in the above description, what mainly varies is the strength.

 

I did also want to mention a few things that *don't* induce this kind of feeling:

 

-NAC

-CoQ10

-Astaxanthin

-Acetyl-L-Carnitine

-Vitamin E

-Vitamin C (I feel something, but the feeling is very... different)

-Glycine or other protein powders

-Aspirin (I'm not a big fan of pharmaceuticals, but sniffing/licking one didn't do anything for me)

-Trehalose

 

The feeling seems to be mainly but not entirely restricted to herbs, as well as isolates like resveratrol, and includes vitamin D and K.

 

 

Edited by Skyguy2005, 04 January 2016 - 08:57 PM.

[pamojja]

Interesting.

 

Read about a supplement company, can't remember the name now, which uses this principle to test for which minerals one might be lacking. They have a collection of small dropper with each element, and by tasting your deficiency is allegedly determined.

[Skyguy2005]

Interesting.

 

Read about a supplement company, can't remember the name now, which uses this principle to test for which minerals one might be lacking. They have a collection of small dropper with each element, and by tasting your deficiency is allegedly determined.

 

Hmm, never heard about that before, thanks anyways.

 

If it is a vitamin deficiency I am happy to remain deficient (it feels good).

 

I supplement LEF two per day (one per day) and eat a lot of dark chocolate so I do not know what the mineral for a deficiency may be.

[pamojja]

Found again:

 

http://www.bodybio.c...ategory110.aspx

[elfanjo]

Have you tried smoking any of these?

[Skyguy2005]

Found again:

 

http://www.bodybio.c...ategory110.aspx

 

OK, thanks. I don't think this is what I am experiencing however, as I take LEF one per day, eat healthily, and the sensation I get has nothing whatsoever to do with my sense of taste, it's a physical sensation. For example resveratrol, it is odourless, yet I get the same sensation as I get from Ginkgo Biloba.