But I have tried everything that does

Nobody is saving us, except ourselves…

That's not what they're yelling about. There's a goddam bat loose in the house.

While scrambling to put my stuff down, and put the cats into a bathroom so I could open doors/windows to chase the bat out, I lost sight of the bat. I truly cannot locate this flappy idiot. In an effort to triangulate the bat, I release the cats. They promptly start attacking the broom I was using to try to poke tall areas.

No help from these idiots

Tens of thousands of years ago people foraged and hunted for their food and ate whatever they could. Among their forage were wild cereals, which included the ancestors of modern cultivated wheat, barley and others.

People like sweet things. Grains are starchy, but if sprouted they start converting those starches to sugars, so people would've left grains in water to sprout. These sprouts are also easier to digest, thus more nutritious, which bestowed an invisible advantage on those sprouting their grains.

If grains are left in water too long, however, they begin to ferment. Alcohol is produced. People like alcohol.

In ancient Mesopotamia the fermented grains were experimented with, resulting in an early form of beer. The process of making that beer was quite complicated and involved a combination of sprouted and mashed grains.

People wanted beer all year round, but early beers did not have long shelf lives and the grain could only be harvested at certain times. So the ancient Mesopotamians invented a way of storing the ingredients for beer.

It was made of the grain mash, honey, dates and spices that were fermented to make beer. For storage, prior to fermentation, the mixture was baked dry, cut into smaller pieces and baked again to remove all water. This produced bapir, a product very much like biscotti, which could be stored for later rehydration and fermentation. Sometimes it was eaten instead.

I've made bapir, and I've eaten it. It is brittle but delicious. It's also a form of unleavened bread.

Bread was invented as a way to store the ingredients for beer, which was most likely a development from a chance discovery. Leavened bread (that is, with bubbles) may well have been discovered when a mixture like that for bapir was accidentally allowed to ferment before baking. Yeast is responsible for both alcohol production and leavening.

#cerebral palsy and #bread. bread is good

Huh. I have C.P., too. But I never made the connection between how avoiding carbs might effect my symptoms (probably because I never made a point of avoiding carbs). Makes sense, though. The brain can only use carbs -- can't convert fat or protein into the sugars it needs. And C.P. means the brain is using more energy to do ordinary things.

Here, have an old English folk song all about the work people are willing to do to get their beer and porridge (mostly beer)-- told from the point of view from the grain itself (no eye contact, open captions/lyrics on screen):

1. Imagine you’re a powerful wizard

this assesses ur ability in the long term, so a mildly affected person might seem severe on crash days but in the long term still be able to walk and work, and a severe person might seem very severe on crash days but long term still be able to have a weekly trip out of the house, etc.

while im talking about severity i just wanna add that ‘mild’ ME is a misnomer; mild ME is often a severe illness as it involves a huge loss of functioning, typically over 50%. the severity scale is only in the context of other people with ME.