Search
  • About
  • Today
  • Contact | Subscribe
Close
Menu
Search
Close
  • About
  • Today
  • Contact | Subscribe
Menu

Mundane Morsel

Sometimes life is just daily

May 12, 2014

Placebo effect

by Megan Stocker in Between Meals, Essentials, Mindful Morsel


All of the attention that I give grapefruit might lead one to believe that I'm paid handsomely by its people--or that I have no enamel left on my teeth.

Granted, most of my suggested applications for the citrus involve liquor or icing in some form, but I also ingest it healthfully unadorned and in this unbearably bitter extract made from its seeds.

Though quite possibly nothing more than pseudo-science, grapefruit seed extract's touted as nature's most powerful, broad-spectrum, non-toxic anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-parasitic, and anti-fungal.

They had me at the first anti-.

For years now, this $14 bottle (this exact bottle--it lasts forever) has been my woobie.

Ten drops in my water at the first sniffle or throat scratch or word of a tummy bug taking prisoners, and though an onlooker might suspect demons are overtaking my body from my reaction to its taste, I'm immediately back on health's good side.

In my gullible bubble, GSE disinfects produce and toothbrushes and doorknobs and humidifiers and breath and Brita water pitchers and sinuses and cutting boards and old Strawberry Shortcake dolls and dishwashers and Bear Grylls' (or anyone versus wild's) drinking water fetched from a questionable stream.

Apparently, it also works wonders on horse colic and Bali belly! And a litany of other ailments that'll never bring me down thanks to this panacea.

Don't take my word for it though--I'm not getting a kick back.

Comment

TAGS: nature's antibiotic, GSE, grapefruit seed extract, health foods, supplements, staying healthy, disinfectants, mundane morsel, megan stocker


  • Previous Post
    Farro and away
  • Next Post
    Coronation day

One-a-day dose

View fullsize “Holding space” has become an overused and over applied phrase in the help and healing realms, but it is a big part of my work and so much of what was lacking in the nearly two years that treating patients in-person couldn’t happen.
View fullsize A neighborhood appreciation post on a sunny and warm day that felt like a lifeline β˜€οΈ πŸ’™
View fullsize It felt like a long enough time coming—and with enough setbacks and hoops to jump through—that I almost didn’t celebrate receiving my Virginia license last month. The reddest of tape had really taken the wind out of my sails during
View fullsize Thankful. 🧑
View fullsize And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves. - Virginia Woolf
View fullsize Thank you, velvet-eared doggie, for reminding me that “practice makes imperfect,” especially as I struggle with feeling like I am not doing anything well enough this time of year. Rest assured, friends, you are doing a great job being hum
View fullsize The therapist’s therapist

Copyright Β© 2014 Megan Stocker Headley. All rights reserved.