dandelion(image is a still image from an animated short film by Sari Grove made using Blender 3d animation software…The still was grabbed using SimpleMovie software for Mac, export as picture, then you get a PCT file, which then I used “image Converter for jpg” a free online service to convert pct to jpg…)

So I sent this tweet out…

@GroveCanada: “When smoke gets in your eye…I see a correlation between people who cook & glaucoma…Especially in Africa where you cook over a fire…”

& then I thought about it, & tweeted this response to myself…

@GroveCanada: “which means that Fluorine, antagonist to Bismuth(smoke) should reduce glaucoma risk…Could we send our toothpaste to Africa?”

Ok, so it occurs to me I should I explain my Tweets…140 words or less is maybe a little brief when it comes to talking about glaucoma…On the other hand, maybe if medicine was forced to limit itself to a Twitter sensibility, it might not bore people so much…

‘Dude, it’s going to kill you!” might be more helpful than the paragraphs of obfuscatory language warning people about possible side effects of a drug…It’s like watching the credits after a film…Most people leave…A few diligent good people sit dutifully & read the names of strangers who have helped to make the film possible…Yawn…

Anyways…

Ok, about glaucoma…

It really strikes people in poorer areas…Especially in Africa…

I was thinking that maybe that is because people in poorer areas might be more likely to cook their food over a real wood fire…

The smoke from that can be amazing…

Smoke is airborne charcoal…Bismuth on the Periodic Table of Elements…

On our Grove Body Part Chart, we have Bismuth in the Colon section…

Here…grove body part chartSee the letters “BI”?

Bi stands for BISMUTH…

You will notice that the Bi Bismuth is in the PLUS element column of the Chart…

The letter F, is beside the Bi, & stands for FLUORINE…(Yes, like Fluoride, but Fluorine is the actual element-Fluoride is what they call it when it is in water, usually)…

F Fluorine is in the MINUS element column of our Chart…

Which means that Fluorine & Bismuth are opposites…

Now Glaucoma is an eye problem that happens very slowly over a very very long time…

It is a buildup of eye pressure, then fluids build up, & the cloggyness(is that a word?) around the eye & the cloggyness around the retinal nerve & the stem there & I am not going to be too technical here, well all that cloggyness builds up…

Eventually the cloggyness(yes I am sticking with cloggyness)causes the fluid pressure to like degradate(another iffy word) the giant nerve that feeds the eye, & stuff starts to like, well, degradate…Like rust…Mold…Too much water…Fall apart…Weaken…

Anyways, you start to go blind…

Now my idea about how glaucoma happens is that, well, smoke gets in your eye…For years & years you are cooking over an open fire…

You’re inhaling alot of fire wood smoke too…Bismuth…Charcoal…Bi…

That Bismuth starts to clog things up…Over years & years…

Now that I think about it, or is it just the Bismuth, the clog, that is BLOCKING your vision PHYSICALLY…

Like you literally have Bismuth in your optical nerve?

That makes sense too…Bit of both then…(MY first was more from what I have read about glaucoma, but now that I think on it, the smoke in your optical nerve thing makes even more common sense…)

Anyways…

Fluorine is opposite to Bismuth…

I know that because I invented the Grove Body Part Chart…It’s mine…

The whole idea, long story short, is that there are 2 elements that live in each body part that must be in balance as opposites for health…

Illness is imbalance…

So Glaucoma would be an imbalance of too much Bismuth not enough Fluorine…

hence the toothpaste Tweet…

North American toothpaste usually contains Fluoride…(Though I use non-fluoridated toothpaste, because our water supply here in Ontario is WAY too much Fluoride added & my teeth were getting thin in the front from it…)

So I was thinking if we introduce toothpaste from North America to poorer people who cook over fire in Africa, that the extra Fluoride from the toothpaste would help to mitigate some of the excess Bismuth in their system, possibly unclogging internally some of that charcoal clog in their optical nerve?

Ok, I am not being entirely serious, but still, the concept is right…

Plus, in North America, we have way too much toothpaste…

Smile…

 

 

00123My cup runneth over image by Sari Grove made using Blender 3d animation software(yes, this is a still shot from an animated sequence of water being poured into a glass & running over the brim…You’ll notice the glass is cracked or flawed in its centre…Also there is no actual water IN the glass, it is actually just hitting the brim & running over…This is NOT photography…The whole thing was “drawn” in Blender…The program uses Physics to calculate how water or any liquid should flow, though you temper that by adjusting things like for viscosity in real water…

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/food-beverages/tea Tea is an excellent source of Fluorine- if you have Glaucoma & want to add something easy to your daily routine…The older tea leaves contain more fluoride, so seek them out…Green, Oolong, Black, are all good…Consider morning eye baths of tea on your sink…(Fill sink with hot pot of steeped tea, let cool a bit, put face in water with eyes open…Roll eyes around whole underwater…Repeat…)