MSM

My Cousin lives in LA and will only eat food that has been blessed by monks from at least three different Asian religions and then tested, by both mass spectrum analyzer and professional taster, that it is not just Organic but Kosher. He never eats sugar, except in tea and coffee and all other food and drinks.

Even though he is like, really, into healthy living (The last time I stayed with him we spent over eighteen hours in West Hollywood's biggest health food stores, subsisting just on wheatgrass and zen noodles. These are not a brand name, but a fad that only exists in this particular part of West Holywood and only for one summer in the late nineties. The idea was simple. Gluten was bad. Noodles tasted nice. Instead of being made with carbohydrate, they were made with Zen. They also had a bread made with sourdough) he had never ever ever once recommended me anything. Not once...

Until two months ago. On the phone he said that he had been taking this supplement and it had changed his life. I didn't need more of a recommendation, I was all over that stuff within moments of getting off the Skype. I didn't look into it like I normally do, I just went ahead and took a trip down the Amazon. A family pack for a month was a tenner.

Only then, once the order dispatched email was in, like a really bad scientist and skeptic, did I start to investigate it.

Now over the last decades online I have investigated many things using the power of the internet and books. In the crazy woowoo world of snake oil and superfoods, you have to really get skilled at operating the former from the latter. To think that all claims of benefit are snake oil is just ignorant and unreasonable. Equally to think that just because it had a webpage it has legitimacy is very poor think skills.

This is how I generally do it.

Firstly, the big question is cui bono, who benefits?

If its something that you cannot make at home or but freely then thats a redflag to me. This doesnt kean that that crazy hybrid aminoacit transmogifer isnt going to be amazing, it does mean that while it is proprietory, you should assume there is proffit in promotion, even without benefit.

Secondly, is it safe?

This is a real tricky one to get through and still today there are a bunch of thing I just am not sure what to think of when it comes to their objective safety. MSG, Vitmin E...

Thirdly, is it worth it?

To me this is the great question that only you can ask, but there are some guidelines.

Forthly, is it open?

There are chemicals in, say, apples. which just seem to do us good. Anyone can access these chamiec

There is also a very proven strategy which is to repeaedly and occasionally stop taking X to see if you iss it. If you do it long enough I think you will get attunes to what is good for you and what is not.

I have been taking it for two monthsish now and, so far, really rate it as a wellbeing optimiser, as something I can imagine I will continue to take; like D3 and Boocha.

MSM is very very low risk.

It is quite low cost.

It is very high anedote.

It has significant scientific evidence.

It has a plausible and demonstrable explanitory mechanism.

Have I found it works?

I do feel more energy. I have started running, at about the same time that I started taking it. So its a bit of a mishmash when it comes to isolating cause. Did I get into running because of MSM or JMR?

I have suddenly started writing poems again like I havent for many years, is that MSM? (The point here is the action not the quality).

Anything else?

Today, for the first time in my life I ran 5k. MSM? It felt like I was going to collapse in a cardio vascular blamache. MSM?

Tonight, it was a consensus that I played the best poker of my life. MSM? I still lost badly, MSM? I dunno!:)

I know with

I would be very keen to hear of anyone else who rates it highly.

http://www.foodmatters.com/article/5-important-ways-msm-could-benefit-your-health