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For those who are following the activism aspect of the Molecules site, I thought that you might be interested in a little pre-history as it were. Prior to the founding of the Molecules site, the activism first hatched under the GNU-Darwin umbrella, and the fundamental idea of molecules activism was invented. Initially, it was concerned primarily with resveratrol and other caloric restriction memetics, but it was clearly bound to expand from there. You can read some of the early material in the GNU-Darwin Posts regarding resveratrol and calorie restriction. As was previously mentioned, the ideas were formally developed in the FOSS, Science, and Public activism essay, and it was even put forth as a war protest in the so-called bootstrapping essay. As the Molecules site developed, it became clear that additional adjunct activities were required in order to push the activism harder. One of these adjuncts was created on the Vitacost website, where it is easy to provide directed links to crucial molecules for those who want to obtain them for themselves. Moreover, the activism ideas continue to evolve there in blog format. Check it out: Michael L. Love proclus Blog on Vitacost.

Tonight I found some very satisfying news related to all of this. One of the last few GNU-Darwin posts regarding resveratrol and caloric restriction referred to the very high anthocyanin content of the forbidden Thai black rice. You can read about that in the link above. At the time that I wrote the post there was virtually no product development around the black rice, but now I am happy to learn that there are many such products. Several can be found on the Vitacost website. Obviously, I cannot take any credit for this marvellous development, but the success is consistent with the activism ideas that I have been developing. There are many examples of such successes, some of them are documented in a free software activism article that I wrote several years ago. The implications are pretty far reaching. For more examples, check out this page on GNU-Darwin, or the links page and personal page of this blog. We also should consider the possibility that thinking in similar veins together makes great minds out of us. Of course the internet itself seems pre-designed for that sort of activism. Cheers!

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

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Posted Monday, Dec 28, 2009 9:28 PM by proclus

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Michael L. Love: more on the polyphenol story

May 20, 2010 – 2:28 pm

Michael L. Love: more on the polyphenol story

I am expecting that the following polyphenols will be both highly effective and good free radical scanvengers as well. This is not based on any scientific evaluation, but rather on their widespread use and interest. People are not dummies. Work continues. Here is the list in order of priortity.

resveratrol, lutein, curcumin, quercetin, pycnogenol, rutin, egcg, silymarin, fucoidan, chrysin, diosmin, hesperidin, apigenin, luteolin, naringenin, kaempferol, fisetin, neohesperidin.

There is a wide range represented in the list, and right away I notice that lutein probably does not deserve such high placement in comparison to the others. There are some other possible misplacements, and biochemical insights will provide some refinements of the list. I cut the list very deep in order to include the citrus bioflavanoids, and it probably includes some less important molecules as a result. For example, I mentioned chrysin in a previous post as a possible problem, and rutin probably does not belong above egcg. More to come.

You can probably get a good approximation of this list by checking the Vitacost best sellers. Try searching on antioxidant. It is such a wonderful website, which helped me to compile this list and develop my program. Cheers!

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

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Michael L. Love: Molecules Activism on Vitacost: Thai Black Rice update

Michael L. Love: Antifungal nasal spray

Michael L. Love: Merry Christmas Vitacost Community!

Michael L. Love: more on the polyphenol story

Michael L. Love: Seafood notes

Michael L. Love: Polyphenols, etc

Michael L. Love: Linus Pauling

Michael L. Love: First entry

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Posted Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 12:50 PM by proclus

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May 20, 2010 – 2:22 pm

Michael L. Love: Molecules Activism on Vitacost: Thai Black Rice update

I thought that the Vitacost community might be interested in the latest snippet from the Molecules site news, featuring Vitacost and this blog.

For those who are following the activism aspect of the Molecules site, I thought that you might be interested in a little pre-history as it were. Prior to the founding of the Molecules site, the activism first hatched under the GNU-Darwin umbrella, and the fundamental idea of molecules activism was invented. Initially, it was concerned primarily with resveratrol and other caloric restriction memetics, but it was clearly bound to expand from there. You can read some of the early material in the GNU-Darwin Posts regarding resveratrol and calorie restriction. As was previously mentioned, the ideas were formally developed in the FOSS, Science, and Public activism essay, and it was even put forth as a war protest in the so-called bootstrapping essay. As the Molecules site developed, it became clear that additional adjunct activities were required in order to push the activism harder. One of these adjuncts was created on the Vitacost website, where it is easy to provide directed links to crucial molecules for those who want to obtain them for themselves. Moreover, the activism ideas continue to evolve there in blog format. Check it out: Michael L. Love proclus Blog on Vitacost.