Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe.

Martines, Lauro; Camporesi, Piero; Gentilcore, David; Porter, Roy

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“…Other pain killing and hallucinatory herbs, including hemp, or spoiled rye with ergotism and St Vitus's dance were as a response to this "disease of wretchedness" benumbing an already stunned undernourished population who could only dream of a land of Cockaigne and a world to be turned upside down "mundus inversus" as often too weak to rebel. Opium has been used since the ancient world but not on this scale that subsequently got magnified with major effects in China, note 19th C "opium wars", and recently as is well documented causing incarcerations (though not of the Sackler's or other manufacturers of fentanyl and analogues) and life expectancy falls particularly in the USA [120][121][122][123][124]. This ultimate in unconscionable abuse of bio-power perhaps started with pellagra-related "deaths of despair" three centuries ago but is only recently recognised as having a link with NAD deficiency helped by NAD infusion [125].…”

Section: Addiction: Early Opioid and Other Drug Endemics And Warsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pellagra: Down Not Out If Down and Out – Part 1

Williams¹,

Wood²,

Hill³

2024

Vitamin B and Vitamin E - Pleiotropic and Nutritional Benefits

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Pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency of milk and meat leading to insufficient nicotinamide (vitamin B3), the precursor to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). “Pellagra sine pellagra” was well recognised and may be common as supplementation was never globally implemented and a screening test never developed. Meat and milk intake varies 30-fold globally so there are perhaps 2 billion at risk of deficiency. Such patients will have physical and cognitive stunting, poor conduct and be prone to acute and chronic infections, including TB, and premature ageing, including dementia. Resilience may be poor to NAD-consuming insults whether chemical, microbial or traumatic that conspires to cause brain injury but comes with the opportunity for pre-conception dietary corrections breaking cycles of deprivation and poor educational outcomes. Such individuals may otherwise be subject to discrimination as was the pellagra ridden “Butterfly” caste causing racial and ethic tensions. Poor countries with many having to spend 50-80% of income on food and very little on animal produce cannot develop properly unlike wealthier meat rich empires, past and present. The many benefits of experiments with food programmes and basic income support are because, as Engels curves predict, more is spent on milk and meat enabling demographic, epidemiological, and economic transitions and modernity.

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Section: Addiction: Early Opioid and Other Drug Endemics And Warsmentioning

confidence: 99%