Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Rhodiola

Hey, y'all, welcome to this week's show. Today we're going to talk about a really interesting herb. It's it's an adaptagen. It's one that I will not say in any way is it new to Western medicine. But I think it's adaptogenic qualities have really just been I don't know, popularized in the past ten or twenty years. Okay, so what's an adaptogen. We've talked about adaptagens before. You're talking gen singh aralios. Various herbs like that, right, usually rather expensive. Guinas stema is actually my favorite. It's probably the least extensive, expensive and most effective of all the adaptagens am my. I mean, for regular use rodeola and it does have its specific properties, but Guina stema tea you can get like I don't know, five or ten bucks for like six months worse supply, I mean, it's really inexpensive. Ashwa ganda is also an adaptagen that's fairly inexpensive. Go to cola. Yeah, different ones, But when you think of gensying, I mean where I live in the mountains of North Carolina, people have their gen seng patches and they go out and they harvest that, and that's part of their annual income. You know, in a couple of weeks out there harvesting maybe a month, they can make ten or twenty thousand dollars and they'll shoot you if you go on their patch. You have to be very, very careful when we get to rodeola. Various varieties of it can be quite expensive, and others are fairly common, and there's not really been enough research to kind of sort them all out. I'll put it that way. It's the same with like the Smilex family. Smilex is your common greenbrier also smiles one member of the family of sasparilla. One of the most powerful adaptagens here is. Some are stronger than others, obviously, but most have not really been researched to find out their utility. An adaptagen is an herb that essentially helps manage stress within the glandular system. There's one way of looking at it has certain effects on brain function and has certain effects on muscle recovery, and then on environmental or psychological stress. When it comes to say gensing, of course, the most popular of all adaptagens. It was really popularized in the eighties and nineties, mainly based on Soviet and Chinese research. It had always been known to be a very valuable herb. And I mean in early America, everybody was trying to find and sing and grow gen sing and export gen sing. I mean the entire way that trade was actually open to China. China did not want to have anything to do with the United States, needed to Japan for that matter. And basically, our navy took a ship full of gen sing right up into the harbor and a couple of gunships and said, we have more gen sing in this ship than your entire country will produce in a year, and you're either go trade with us or we're going to open fire. He did that in Pershing, you know Pershing's big black ships. They basically did that in China and in Japan, and not surprisingly, and far less than one hundred years, Japan then came and attacked us. They did not appreciate that. And frankly, I don't blame them, No, I definitely blamed them for Pearl Harbor. But why the hell did they have to trade with us? I mean, they didn't want anything to do with us. And if we had just left them alone, we'd have been okay. And they'd have been Okay, don't ask me. I don't get that part of history. But apparently, because England had so much trade with China and India, we felt like we had to have so much trade with China and India, and frankly, if we had just minded our own business, we probably would never have had World War Two in the first place. I mean, most historians will admit that had America not gotten involved in World War One, Germany would have won and England would have lost, and big frickin' deal. I don't care about England. I never have cared about England, wet. We fought two wars to get them out of our country and the Irish have been trying to get rid of them for five hundred years. The English are bastards, I mean literally, I have nothing good to say about England post fifteen hundred or so. Just absolute jackasses. I mean, they enslaved half the population of Ireland and basically are of the other half to death. Not good. I mean, you know, people to hold the magna cart to this and the bullshit. England has been a curse on the face of the earth since King Henry the Eighth. Before then, it was a pretty good nation before then. England was one of the first nations to renounce slavery. Did you know that? Yeah, it was only after England became a Protestant nation that they went around started slaving people, mainly to the sugar trade. They bought a bunch of Africans from Arabs. They opened up trade with the Arabs. There's another good idea, right, let's get involved with Muslims. Opened up trade to the Arabs, shipped a bunch of Africans and Irish off to places they didn't want to be, and forced them to work in sugar plantations to make rum and candy. And what are you to do? I mean the English base he said, we're English, so we rule the world. We bailed their asses out in two World Wars, sacrificed tens of thousands of American lives, and had we not there would never be Nazis. Yeah, that's right. If we hadn't gotten involved in World War One, Hitler would never have come to power. Had we never got involved in World War One, there would never have been a communist revolution in Russia. So because of the freaking English assholes like King Charles, who I don't even call him, King Charles, He's just the inbred git with the big ears. Okay, assholes like that. We propped up England, we helped create Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, and that led to the Maoist Revolution in China and set us up for the next one hundred years of war. Fifty thousand Americans killed in Vietnam. Why because we helped England in World War One and then we helped out France in Vietnam? Why tell me why? Why did we ever have to get involved with anything England was doing? Because they talk nice? Is that it? Because they talk nice and they sip on their tea and have fancy suits. You know I honestly, and you know I'm the third English. I'm saying, this is a person who's actually my great great great grandfather. Maybe add another grade to that was Lord Cheshire. I'm actually directly descendant of the House of Wessex. Like when you watch Robin Hood and you seen King Richard Lionheart, that's like my great great great great great grandfather, etc. King Edward the Confessor, Aarrowwaith and various names I cannot pronounce. I would have every reason to be proud of England and to be a proud person of English descent. Were they not such horror people? And I mean truly England is a horrible, horrible country. And now they've sold out their own people. And there you have it. I mean, you know they've brought in all these Muslims, You've got rape gangs and all that. They don't care. The ruling class of England is horrible. The countryside, the common people are great. I've had so many great English friends from place. I'm one of my best friends, you know, I talked with all the times from Cornwall. I love England and English people. I hate their ruling class and especially Parliament and the Prime Minister and their fricking, ridiculous, illegitimate king. The House of Windsor is not the legitimate monarchy of England. There has not been a legitimate monarch in England in almost five hundred years. But anyway, where was I going with that? Genseing? Yes, jenseng is very important for the Russian Studies in the Chinese studies showed that it would help recover athletes recover, improved athletic performance, improved muscle recovery, enhanced immune system, breathing better oxygen absorption and all that. Okay, so that's essentially what an adaptogen does. And there are a lot of them, and a lot of them are not as expensive as gensing. Some of them are really weird, like Corticeps cordyceps is actually a mushroom that is parasitic to insects. The mushroom, the fungui, my cilium whatever, will actually establish itself in the body of an insect, and then the mushroom will burst right out of it. It's freaky. It's like something It actually zombifies its host. I mean literally the mushroom takes over the insect and then grows out of its body. Okay, really weird. Okay. A lot of them are really common, like briers, I mean literally greenbriers. But we're gonna talk about rodeo, which you've probably seen before and you may know it as stone crop. Now, I mean they know it is rose root. Okay. Rose root is another common name. Let's get sip of water here. Oh hey, you I just get so worked up. I mean so called King Charles doing his little visit the other day pisses me off. I mean, I am, you know, half Irish, and my English side of my family is House of Wessex. These people I have nothing but contempt for them, nothing but contempt. I mean, my ancestors fought in the Revolution and in eighteen twelve and fought hard and we're I mean, people are slaughtered and we're mm. Yeah. I had my great grandfather. It was in World War One. He told me what happened, and that was for the freaking English. We had no dog in that fight whatsoever. Okay, I'm not going to go down that road again. I am going to hold myself back. But I have nothing but contempt for the ruling class of England. I'm also part French. I have nothing but contempt for the ruling class of France. From the French Revolution on, it has been one of the worst forces in this entire world. France is a horrible, horrible player in world affairs. Got a little Spanish heritage. Spain has gone off the deep end. They've totally sold out to the Muslims and the globalists. And unfortunately Ireland, but you know, Ireland hasn't had any say in its own government in almost five hundred years. Ireland and Scotland have been ruled by the English for a good five hundred years and have had no representative representative government. Let's just put it that way. You know, you can say, oh gosh, I'm going down that road again. I'm not that big on democracy. You know, what's the old saying democracy is when three wolves vote to eat two sheep. I mean, the majority rule does not make it right. Our founders formed a constitutional republic purposefully, purposefully rejecting the concept of democracy. Anybody that says, you know, democracy is in peril, we have to protect democracy. Democracy is not a good thing. Okay. Democracy is specifically specifically condemned in the Bible. You know, in the Bible, the Hebrew people, Jews, whatever you want to call them, We're supposed to have God as their only leader. And when they said we need a king, he said, okay, you can have a king, but you know this is what's going to happen, and they went for it anyway. But actually, the monarchy is better than democracy. If I had to pick one over the other, I'd take a monarchy any day over democracy because I don't want mob rule. I mean, you want mob rule, Go to the worst side of town and see if you know five or six people want to mug you, that's mob rule. Constitutional republic is a fairly decent system of government, but it's always going to tend toward democracy. I mean, it's like Detactil said, he said, democracy can only last until the people realize they can vote themselves money on the treasury. You know, there's really no good solution other than, you know, let God be in charge. But then in order for that to happen, there has to be one established church. And right now we have fifty thousand Christian denominations in the United States, each of which disagrees with each other. So anyway, if we wanted to go back to Christendom, a lot of y'allould have to start going to my church. I gotta tell you, that's just all. I mean, I'm Catholic. A lot of y'all would have to start going to my church if we're going to go back to Christendom. And ten I don't see that happen anytime soon. You have to have a leader that speaks for God, and it's only one. There can only be one otherwise one's right and one's wrong, and they can't be both speaking for God right anyway. But I mean, what's happened in Ireland Scotland. I mean they, the English have literally destroyed those two great Celtic nations and made them into lapdogs. And now they're not even answering to England so much as they're answering to Brussels. It's just horrible. I mean horrible. It literally, since about fifteen hundred or so, England has been a pox and a plague on the world. And I don't know why. I mean, you turn on what PBS Ooh, so you know, fancy English people? Why are we worshiping the freaking English. We literally fought two wars to get rid of them. Great, they talk nice, they drink tea, they have beautiful suits. You have to admit that I actually refuse. I will not put on a suit because I refuse to wear English clothes. I used to have to for my job. I said, that's it. You know what, if I absolutely have to get dressed up, I'm gonna do like my heritage and put on a kilt. And it would be an Irish kilt. It wouldn't be a Scottish kilt, even though I got a little Scottish heritage too, but it'd be one of those just like plain brown ones. You know. I mean, I'm not gonna do that because I have skinny legs. So anyway, I wear blue jeans. I'm an American, damn it. So anyway it seems well, Am I going for Afield today? All right, Let's get back to Rodeola and I'll try not to mention the English anymore, because I literally can't discuss england modern ruling class of England, not even modern. I mean, do you have any idea about the genocide England committed on its own people who refused to become Anglican. I mean, they slaughtered thousands of their own people and confiscated their property. That's what happened to my family. That's why they left England. I mean every college, every hospital that was all confiscated from the Catholic church. Oxford, yes, was once a Catholic university, and they slaughtered everybody. They hunted down priests like dogs, people common people who wouldn't convert were beheaded in the public square. Look up. You know Thomas Moore, if you want to read, the most prestigious lawyer in England, a council to the king put in prison, beheaded because he wouldn't renounce the Catholic Church. There's nothing good about England, nothing, nothing good at all at all, not in the last five hundred years, all right. So Rodiola rose route seems to have been mostly used in Russia, especially in Siberia, and in Scandinavia. It is a cold weather plant, but it's not actually included in the Russian herbal books that I have, and I haven't. I've yet to find a good Scandinavian herbal book written in English. So if I ever do, maybe I can get you some more information on Most of what I have comes from the older English herbalists, yes, pre so called Reformation and Germans. Germans were very aware of what herbs are being used in Russia and Ukraine and Poland and such as that. But there is one ancient reference, and it's from Diascordi's the Greek Erbliss from what twenty five hundred years ago, who wrote about seedums. These plants are seedums. Sedums are a large family, and this one was specifically called stone crop stone crop because it usually grows out of very rocky soil at very high elevations. But I have seen it actually growing wild in the sand hills of North Carolina. I mean, so it does have a fairly wide range. Actually, DISCORDI said Rodeo radix grew in Macedonia during his era, and it was called rose what is it rose something root, rose root, because when bruised it smelled of roses. So that's actually how it gets its name, and that's how we can identify this seedum as opposed to several other seedoms which include you know, edible plants and weeds and you know, different things. Right, So he said it was useful for those aggrieved with headaches, bruised and applied with a little rose oil and applied to the forehead and temples. It is called rodda rodda. I guess he said this herb was known to the ancient Greeks as being of Macedonian origin, which would seem to indicate that it was more a medicine to the Balkans. That he didn't actually write that, that's actually a commentary. So even going back to ancient Greece, stonecrop or rose root or rodiola was being imported into Greece from the Balkans, which of course are central in northern Europe. Well, really, you say, the ball can start like really at the Italian border. But I mean, you know, it was an important so it kind of tells you it was seen to be pretty good medicine, even I mean two thousand years ago they were importing it. Wikipedia. Actually it had a pretty interesting entry on this It said in Russia and Scandinavia or rosia or stone crop has been used for centuries to cope with cold Siberian climate and stressful life and a stressful life. It is also used to increase physical endurance and resistance to high altitude sickness. There you have it, that is an adaptogen. That plant helps you cope with a harsh climate, altitude sickness, and a stressful life, as they put it. And I would imagine if you lived in Siberia a few hundred years ago, you had a quite stressful life, a quite stressful life. Indeed, and Chinese medicine it is called honging don. That's probably not the way it's pronounced, but that's the way it looks to me. In let's see twenty twelve, the European Medicines Agency on literature concerning the dried extract of R. Rosea stated the published clinical trials exhibit considerable deficiencies in their quality, Thus well established use cannot be accepted. It said. Traditional use is an adaptagen for temporary relief of symptoms such as stress and fatigue and sensations of weakness is appropriate for traditional herbal diginal products. The long standing use, as well as the outcome of clinical trials, supports the plausibility of the use of the mentioned herbal preparation in the proposed indication, which is a very complicated way of saying, hey, it looks like it works, but we're not sure. We don't have enough evidence. Well, pretty common with adaptagens. When you know, going back to gensing, Let's say you have three men about the same age. Okay, yeah, we'll say to the same age. One of them is recovering from sickness or injury, it's in really bad shape. One of them's high performance athlete, and the other's an average guy just you know, you know, sitting around a little too much, fairly healthy, nothing, no big deal, right. The six week person recovering from injury taking gensyng is likely going to show great results. They're gonna get healthy real quick. The high performance athlete probably gonna have a little bit better muscle recovery. A little bit better oxygen absorption may increase his performance athletic performance by what five He'll know the difference. He can see it in the time, but it's not gonna be anywhere near as dramatic as the guy who was sick we injured. The average guy may not show any difference whatsoever. And that's that's true just about all adaptations. It really depends on the conditions. Now, if that average guy maybe has a little issue with impotence, he may see a big benefit from it. But if he doesn't, how the heck is ever going to know? Right when things just work as they should, adaptations don't seem to show a lot of difference, and that's why it's so hard to show clinical trials on adaptations. So so the development of in use of Rodeola's medicinal herb is really something about which we can only speculate because mainly used by preliterate cultures and came in from the Russian and Balkan traditions, but it's also been used by indigenous peoples in well Europe, but a variety as well as I believe the Andes and a very similar traits there. More than likely it was spread throughout Europe by urban spice traders or gypsies. Gypsies, of course, would have had very much access to the regions where rodeola was growing, and they would have been traveling around trading it. So just not a lot written down about it, but plants for future says. Medicinal use of rose root. Though little known as a medicinal plant, rose root has been used in traditional European medicine for over three thousand years, mainly as a tonic. Modern research has shown that it increases the body's resistance to any type of stress by regulating the body's hormonal response. Its use has been shown to have protective effects upon the neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine in the brain. It improves neurotransmitter activity by inhibiting their enzymatic destruction and preventing their decline caused by excessive stress hormone release. That's yeah, that's pre definitive right there. That's how it's helping the body deal with stress. Essentially, we're talking cortisol and such. Roseroot also enhances the transport of serotonin's precursors into the brain, and studies have shown that the use of this herb can increase brain serotonin by up to thirty percent. That's super important. That means it's actually as effective, maybe more effective than most medications or depression and anxiety for that matter. The root is adaptagen. It has enhancing effects upon physical endurance and sexual potency. A decocua of the flowers has been used to treat stomach aches and intestinal discomfort. The raw flowers have been eaten in the treatment of tuberculosis. So I do want to stress this is a very interesting, very potent, not as strong as some adaptagence, but very useful herb. If I was looking at someone that had depression, this would along with maybe Saint John Swart would be Yeah, those would be two of my top five go to herbs. If I was looking at someone with anxiety, I would also look at this one, and maybe I would combine it with ashraganda because ashwaganda is so very good for anxiety. But again we're talking both physical and mental stress and increase athletic and sexual performance. So just for men mostly so the late herblist Michael Moore, and one of these days maybe I'll give you some of those herbs for women that are good for that as well. Got to give a big caveat on there, because some of them can be very dangerous. Any herb that increases uterine contractions, will say could also cause a miscarriage. So we'll have to be very careful in discussing such herbs because they can be quite dangerous. So at a couture of flowers used to treat stomach aches and intestinal discomfort, the raw flowers have been eaten in the treatment of tuberculosis. I think I just said that. So anyway, the late herbalist Michael Moore included under adaptations. He was really one of the first people to really write about it a lot in the United States. By the way, I heard from one of Michael Moore's students yesterday a Seventh Song herbalist up in New York, really good herbalist. He was giving me a hard time over something. I thought that was awesome. I referred to him as a hippie type of guy, and he's like, oh, so I'm a hippie. I'm like, yeah, yeah, do You're definitely You're definitely a hippie. Anyway, my class notes from Michael Morris Southwestern School of Botanical Medicine, State seedoms. He included rodeo seedums, and he had several seedoms in that category. Just like I said, there's several members of smilax that can be similar to sasaparilla or aurelia. Several seedoms can actually be fairly common. Ones really can be similar to rodeolo. They just really haven't been tested a whole lot. So he said, it lessens stress of adrenal exhaustion. This exhaustion due to adrenals, not okay, this is exhaustion due to adrenals, not exhausted adrenals. It's a little hard to say, and it may be even harder to comprehend. So let's say you're in a high stress situation for a very long period of time. You were in a war zone, or you grew up in Chicago, you're used to gunfiring, crime, and the world's about to fall apart in any second. Your adrenals can actually become exhausted. That's what we call adrenal exhaustion. You begin to kind of run out of adrenaline, essentially, you become and it makes you feel very tired, and you don't react to things as you would normally. You kind of go from like one to one hundred in the blink of an eye, and in the interim you're just like worn out. Okay, it's a lot more than that, but I'm just kind of giving you a brief overview. There's also exhaustion due to adrenaline stress. That's more a short term environment. You're in a hurricane. There's a good example. I've been in one recently, So for you know, twenty four hours, you're in this horror, horrific storm with you know, seventy five mile per hour winds and the rains flooding and trees coming down, and the next day you're just like a zombie. Right You're exhausted actually from adrenaline. That's where the seedums. That's where the rodeola seems to help. Lessons Adrinergic stress and lessons. Exhaustion physically good for muscle. Ton stimulates thyroids, so it's good for hypothyroidism. Also astraganda it's good for hYP thyroidism. I kind of combine these in my mind. Sometimes improves lipid metabolism and a liver, improves efficiency of the central nervous system, and muscle reaction causes actually fewer waste products in the bloodstream, so you can get the same amount of energy from I mean, you can get more energy from the same amount of calories when you take it, as opposed to if you didn't. Helps with blood sugar. It's a mood elevator. We said. It has serotonin enhancing properties, boosting properties, helps with the depression, may help bladder cancer, slightly hypertensive, It can raise blood pressure. Several of the adaptations do cordyceps, especially mild stimulant and kind of like coffee. And sometimes you'll see rodeola included in stimulant pills. You know that you might truck drivers might use, you know more, but sort of the natural version of them. I don't know if any of y'all have ever had experience with those, but having once been a musician and then a journalist and being on the road, oh yeah, ye, I was putting more than twenty thousand miles a year on my vehicle on the road constantly, and I mean that was that wasn't even a busy year. I just happen to remember writing that down on my taxes when I was taking my deductions. Yes, there were BC powders and little pills that were taken to get through the night, and gallons of coffee, so I didn't fall asleep at the wheel. Yes, sometimes you did have those in there, and oh boy, did I go through some tobacco, coffee, coffee and tobacco, lived on it for a while there. Yeah, I can't do that anymore. My heart did not appreciate that lifestyle. Let's just put it that way. So rose root, the root is used, of course crushed plant material, though the top of the plant is strongly anti inflammatory, and perhaps all setums, not just rose root, have that property because they all contain chrysillic acid. Radiola is an adaptation. Rodiola is an adaption type orb. It supports the immune system. And let's see he included in his list of stimulants to non specific resistance. These herbs tend to lessen the degree of metabolic stress from whatever the cause. A rail eramosa, that spikenard a stragglus, Siberian gen sing panics gen sing Sussandra rodeo or seedum and oh what I haven't mentioned for s integrafolio that's called King's crown. That's very very little known adaptagen. He had a specific interest in this field. Michael Moore really did a lot of interesting work on adaptagens. It was anyway, so physicians desk reference for herbal medicine amidst rodeo let from the thousands or I don't even know, three thousand pages or whatever. But then the website, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health does list it. It says grows in cold regions, high altitudes in Europe and Asia. Long history of medicinal use in Russian Scandinavia. Traditionally used to increase endurance, work performance, tolerance of how to treat fatigue, weakness, and other symptoms. Today rodiola is increased, is used to promote, is promoted to increase Let's see if I say that right. Today rodiola is promoted to increase energy, stamina, strength, and mental capacity to improve athletic performance, resist the effects of stress, and help manage depression, anxiety, and other symptoms. And they said some preliminary research has been done on rodeoli and its components, but few rigorous studies have been done in people, and it says there isn't enough evidence from studies to allow conclusions to be reached. Okay, but they did look at safety. They said rodeola has been used safely in studies lasting from six to twelve weeks. Possible side effects do include dizziness and dry mouth, and that's anything that creature blood pressure and heart rate can do that. They said. They didn't know if it was saved during pregnancy or anything like that. It was included in that book you may have seen. It was all over the internet a few years ago, the so called Lost Book of Herbal Remedies. I hate the title, but it was a really darn good herb book. Actually, yeah, okay, I'm not going to speculate. Yeah, darn good book. Overpriced. I think AI had a little bit to do with it's put together, so let's take that with a grain of salt. I don't know for sure, but boy, it was everywhere a few years ago, and so I had to get a copy of it and to see what it was all about, because everybody was raving about it. And you know, it was pretty darn good, I have to admit, not as good as my books, but pretty darn good, so they said. Rodeola roseiah also called golden root, rose root or arctic root, can sometimes be difficult to find. It like sea cliffs and high elevations, sandy areas in the northeastern America, Europe, and Asia. It's also in South America at least one variety of its solid after a It's in the Crassallatier family or stone crop likes cold weather, often found in sunny river and stream banks, snow beds, and rocky shelves. So medically powerful adaptation good for lifting mood and increasing mental concentration. It regulates the body's reaction of stress and normalizes hormones. Rodeos effects are often best at lower doses, so it's important to start with a lower dose. To increase it only if need at very important point actually, because it can increase blood pressure, so you don't want to go with a high dose of it. They said it's good for physical endurance and sexual potency, as they call it. Promotes sexual health, libido and stamina, may increase fertility maybe I don't know. Increases energy levels, decreases strenuous exercise, the effects of strenuous exercise in the body. Good for physical strength and endurance, good for adrenal fatigue. We've already discussed that helps with healthy thyroid function. We discussed that releasing anxiety depression. We discuss that do not take with prescription any depressants. Very important, Yes that could Yeah, they can interact. I mean it's increasing serotonin. Why would we say thirty percent? You can have an issue. It has been used to help with stress from PTSD, and I thought that was very interesting, said Rodeo. Rhodiola regulates the brain hormones that cause anxiety, flashbacks and other symptoms of PTSD. Start with a low dose. The main reason I included that because so many people have an issue with it. Now has been used the treatment of tuberculosis. Okay, And they do have a warning don't use if you have an autoimmune disorder because it can stimulate the immune system. It can actually stimulate a flare up of your autoimmune condition. Also, don't use with ACE inhibitors. Antiquagulants could interfere with sleep. So best take in the morning. I think, yeah, that's a darn good book. Actually too much hype, horrible title, but yeah, the darn good book. Okay, I give it my grudging endorsement. So anyway, good useful adaptation, mildly bitter herb anti inflammatory, immune supporting properties and unfortunately most of what you're gonna see online is absolute crap, all kinds of fanciful marketing claims about immortal vikings and such. Eh, it's just a good adaptation. Jeprogenic herb definitely should be studied more, and so anyway, look into it. Just one of the one of the most useful herbs for some conditions that can be fairly hard to treat otherwise. So let's just look at it that way. If you have an issue that it would help with, and maybe give it a try, see how it works for you. And and if I stress you out and and piss you off talking about the English, go take some rodeola. You'll feel better. Okay, that's not that's not official medical advice. 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