Dr. Ray Bayley, DC, D.C.B.C.N. at Edgebrook

04/04/2021

FREE EXPERT HEALTH AND HEALING INFO AT HEALTHMEANS.COM

Again, I'll mention them, where you get free audiovideo and audio talks, sign up for free viewings of a series of webinars in a Summit of (maybe as many as 50) experts on a topic area, and get free e-books on health & healing. More and more, over the years, when you register for free for one of their summits, in addition (of course) to them wanting you to buy a permanent copy (online, memory stick, text hardcopy) of the summit, they give you a bunch of freebies in e-books, videos, etc. I think the price, if you want to buy, is quite reasonable, compared to what I have to pay for professional Medical Continuing Education seminars and conferences. But you can view the Summit videos for free, having to watch 1-5 each day (available only for 24 hours, though, sometimes, later they offer them again for a day or so) over the course of 3-8 days, and take your own notes, not buy permanent access, not buy the transcript.

https://healthmeans.com

HealthMeans is a digital library dedicated to offering you in-depth, high quality expert talks on a range of health conditions and approaches that will give you the insight and answers you need to begin making changes today.

04/04/2021

A GOOD ARTICLE ON MOVING YOUR HEALTH AND HEALING ONWARD, E.G. DO-ABLE COMMITMENT AND ACTION STEPS.

I'll add/emphasize that...

a) It's often easier to consciously add and do a positive than remove a negative. The adding of positives often push out the negatives. E.g. add another serving of good vegetables to your daily total and you might find you crave junk and processed foods less. E.g. do a bit more raw food and you might crave less cooked food. E.g. do a bit more good protein and you might crave less bad sweet.

b) Maybe it's about drama, grand gestures, pride for the "new you", or... I don't know. For some reason(s), too many of us think we can suddenly stop a big bad thing "forever and forever", or suddenly start a big good thing, but too often it doesn't work— it's only temporary or doesn't happen at all. Psychology findings say that most of us are gradual change folk, not sudden change. Oh, if you can keep the sudden change going for 28 days (the usual cited number I've seen), it's likely to become a new habit. And, oh, if you need to stop a big bad thing right now, for your health and safety's sake, may it be so/make it so.

Sometimes, there are withdrawal side effects when we stop something bad... and you might need help with that... it's OK to not "'soldier through bravely alone". One viewpoint in psychology is that we need to feel competent, autonomous, and related. You might need to use the relatedness, get help, until competency and autonomous can manifest more.

Often we need, instead, to take small steps... as this article talks about...

https://www.rewire.org/overcome-barriers-self-care-routine/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Follow these expert tips to improve your relationship with your mind, body and emotions

11/04/2020

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There are specific recommendations for some of that (e.g. in Africa's Ebola epidemic they often burned the cloth), and, by the way, other unwanted smaller living things (e.g. the difficult problem of getting rid of bed bugs), you can find by searching the internet.

Of course, if you are touching such, be sure to use gloves then dispose of disposable gloves, sanitize reusables. Or, if not gloves, you touch minimally (e.g. tongs that get sanitized in hot soapy water). And wash hands that contacted the cloth with soap (the "twice sing 'Happy Birthday to me' " that got popularized with CoVID-19).

Thus far, it's seeming reasonable to me that I let my reusable, good cloth high filtering, masks for CoVID-19 at least air in the open for 3 days before reusing once, before I wash them in hot soapy water for reusing more than once, thus saving me washing masks every day. That's based on how the CoVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) doesn't stay viable on a cloth surfaces as long as it does on a hard impermeable surface (steel, glass, plastic, etc), the microbe not surviving drying out.

When you can't launder in hot water soapy water (e.g. couch surface. e.g. launder isn't an option in some instance), there are sanitizing sprays (see the latest verified ones at CDC website). You'd have to make sure the spray penetrated in, so it would be wet for a while... and smell of the spray. Some of the sprays contain chemicals which are toxic so let the cloth dry completely. And repeated sprayings might leave a residue that makes me leery, a residue maybe I don't want to touch. So, here's a steaming option:

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-sanitize-fabric-with-a-steamer-36736318

Even if you have access to a washer, you might want to take this extra maintenance step just to be sure you’re not sleeping in a literal bed of germs.

10/12/2020

IMMUNE SUSCEPTIBILITY, IMMUNOSENESCENCE

I've addressed this in previous posts, e.g. the "Preventing Coronavirus Infection (also Influenza/Flu Infection)"/The Wala Way podcast post, even going back years in posts. Here some more:

Susceptibility + trigger -> reaction. So if we want to not be infected, we can avoid infectious agents (trigger; see previous posts about "CLEANING, SANITIZING, AND DISINFECTING", "NASAL IRRIGATION", etc). We can also have an immune system that is less susceptible to infection. See that Wala Way podcast post about some beginning specifics focused on CoV and flu.

Immunosenescence originally meant what we tend to see in the aging elderly immune system. However, more and more we are seeing it in younger age groups, even in some youth. A healthy eufunctional immune system attacks the true enemies and uses an appropriate amount of inflammation.

In immunosenescence, there is a tendency to attack not-true enemies. E.g. attack food and otherwise environment components that would otherwise mean us no hurt or harm, causing Types I (what is usually called allergy) through IV hyperimmunities (what might be called allergies by some literature), leading to excessive inflammation, attacks on various tissues and systems, and can cascade into autoimmunities. Another not-true enemy is the immune system attacking our own otherwise healthy tissues— autoimmunities.

In immunosenescence, there is a lack of attacking true enemies, so infections and infestations (e.g. parasites) are more likely and neoplasms (tumors and cancers) are not eliminated. As my Systems Pathology professor told us (back in the late 70s), we make tumors and even cancers in tiny amounts starting when we were a fetus but the immune system should get rid of them.

In immunosenescence, there is excessive inflammation, e.g. the above Types I-IV and autoimmunities. E.g. in CoVID-19 and some other infections, we can get a cytokine storm that does more damage than the infectious agent itself does.

What to do, how to prevent, slow, and even reverse immunosenescence?

a) Listen to the above-mentioned Wala Way podcast.

b) Quench ongoing excessive inflammations.

c) Remove triggers, e.g. infectious agents and allergens and carcinogens.

d) Slow and eventually reverse the Types I-IV immune hypersensitivities.

e) Slow and eventually reverse the autoimmunities.

f) What is healthy and healing for one kind of tissue is often so for others. That's why I love the work I do because there are so many positive side effects.

How to do b-f? Well, the internet has plenty of info, and it's one of my two specialities, immune and neuropsych. While I sometimes operate as a GP (General Practitioner/Physician), sometimes in a Portal/Entry way referring people on to relevant experts, I do focus my "half my professional hours updating and expanding my knowledge" on those two specialties.

Let's get it done! Go, team, go! Make sure Your Health & Healing Team is working on your immunosenescence and tendency towards immunosenescence... please.

10/12/2020

CLEANING, SANITIZING, AND DISINFECTING

I had already made a separate post about "ALCOHOL(S) TOXIC; DO-IT-YOURSELF SANITIZING WIPES" because SARS-CoV2/CoVID-19 is not the first (e.g. TB, HIV/AIDS) nor will it be the last infectious agent/infection disease we will have to deal with. CoVID-19, as devastating as it is to human and population, including economic, health, is not as bad as some scenarios that have been imagined. May we only have problems that are much much less in the future. However, still, here I'm continuing in that other post's arena.

Among the below article's things that I like are a link to the 2013 EPA's deep and thorough dive (more deep and thorough than most of us need) pamphlet called "Green Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting: A Curriculum for Early Care and Education". I'll put that link in a separate comment also. And I like that the below article quotes from that EPA pamphlet " 'Studies have found that the use of some disinfectant products is creating microbes that can mutate into forms that are resistant to particular disinfectants or that become superbugs,' according to an EPA fact sheet. 'These resistant germs are also harder to kill with antibiotics.' "

Mostly infectious agents that we commonly worry about (e.g. cold viruses, flu, HIV, Hepatitis A, B, C etc, SARS-CoV2, TB, herpes) don't get through the dry external skin (e.g. hands, forearms, legs, chest) as much as they infect us through our wet surface skins (lips, eyes, a**s, va**na) and the wet skin tracts entrances and exits (respiratory, gastrointestinal, genitourinary: mouth, nose, a**s, va**na, p***s urethra).

Of course we need to make sure what we consume (food, drink, pills, etc) don't have significant infectious agents (FDA, GMP certifications e.g. as I've talked about in an old post about supplements, other certifying agencies, safe food preparation and cooking practices which are readily talked about on the internet).

Oh it's prudent to wash hands lest things enter the mostly barricaded areas under nails (keep nails clean) or where the nails meet the cuticles (don't cut them too close), but it's much more about washing the hands because hands touch those wet surface skins and entrances and exits. There's some evidence that microbes creep across the dry skin to wet skin surfaces and entrances and exits, so, e.g., it's prudent to not touch our face unnecessarily.

It's difficult to only touch those wet skins and entrances and exits when necessary (e.g. the studies about how often people inadvertently touch their face with their hands) and we have to touch them sometimes. So, disinfecting and, further, sanitizing surfaces, containers, eating implements, CPAP masks and hoses, etc etc need to be done so we don't infect ourselves with whatever infectious agents might be around.

If we can more concentrate on not letting things get onto those wet skins and into those entrances and exits, we don't have to be so fussy about sanitizing and disinfecting and we can more avoid the above-mentioned mutations. It's akin to the overuse of antibiotics in feed animals and in casual healthcare. An example of "we can more concentrate. . ." is I'm glad we're gaining some knowledge, skill, and tolerance about wearing masks. Sneezing into our crooked elbow is an example learned years ago.

I'm worried about using UV light to sanitize/disinfect. It's been long known that UV light might cause mutations in our skin's DNA and microbe's DNA.

side note on skin cancer: If that happens too much we can get skin cancer. The "too much" might be excessive UV exposure (trigger)(some wavelengths of UV light more so; there is a lot on the web about protecting the skin, e.g. sunscreens). And/or it might be too much that the skin is susceptible (susceptibility + trigger -> reaction). This skin susceptibility might be from the individual's skin genetics, lack of antioxidants in our food especially carotenoids and/or flavonoids (so eat your colorful and deeply colored plant foods), lack of vitamin D3 made in our skin and/or consumed in our foods and supplements, lack of other antioxidants including GSH we make for ourselves (eat enough complete or complemented protein, eat sulfurous foods e.g. cruciferous, and get enough selenium and riboflavin, thiamin, etc B vitamins). And we can get skin cancer from some exposures, e.g. some cosmetics are suspicious (see ewg.org website).

I'm worried that UV light to sanitize/disinfect might lead to some microbes mutating to greater pathogenicity, even lethality. I have not seen studies yet on how much UV light to sanitize/disinfect is practical and probably safe vs how much is too likely to cause mutations. So I'm not hopping on the UV sanitizing/disinfecting light bandwagon, despite the cool technology look (ooo, blue, ooo, seductive advertising).

OK, finally, that article...
https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sanitizing-vs-disinfecting-36642114

Including why all-in-one products can't do it all.

09/28/2020

CHANGING/BREAKING HABITS:

I have seen and experienced myself some almost instantaneous changes, e.g. as a result of Constitutional Healings and as a result of optimizing amounts and balance of the serotonin and catecholamine neurotransmitters.

An example of the first one is, I was (still am) in the midst of such Healing (via a combination of modes), and realized, surprised, that I had fingernails that needed to be cleaned on all my fingers. For circa 60 years I bit my fingernails, despite embarrassments, knowledge about hygiene, psychotherapy/counseling (e.g. "why are you biting yourself?"), hypnosis and various behavior modification technique, and cayenne nail polish. Then voila I had stopped biting them and didn't notice I had stopped for what must have been at least a week. I didn't even have the urge, as I used to, of many times a day, rather unconsciously, inspecting them visually or feeling them, seeking something to bite. Now even during what would have been "nail biting" stress I don't have the urge or if a faint ghost of the urge arises I easily dismiss it. Astounding, awesome!

The second one has mostly happened from the NeuroResearch Protocols, since I first started using them in my practice 2005. Prior to that I had tried other techniques from the "Orthomolecular Psychiatry" (orthomolecular here means getting the biochemistry correct) field with statistically nowhere near the success rate. Though I did get some (which is why I still have them as options), e.g. repleting the (probably genetic) thiamin deficiency (along with the magnesium needed to bioactivate the thiamin) a supposed schizophrenic needed. Now that there were no definitive schizophrenic signs and symptoms, does that mean they actually had a correct diagnosis of schizophrenia or the actual, underlying, diagnosis is thiamin functional (conditional, relative) deficiency?

BTW, reuptake inhibitor drugs, MAOIs, etc may work well for someone, relieve them of symptoms, be a "god send" for them, but those drugs tend to decrease the available storage/supply, and thus release, of those neurotransmitters. Those drugs keep released neurotransmitters working a bit longer, which means less recycling of them back into storage/supply. Thus sometimes the results of those drugs is neurotransmitter deficiency, despite their intent. Plus they have a risk of other negative side effects. Whereas supporting the synthesis, by repleting conditional (relative, functional) deficiencies, via the NR Ps, helps to fill up the storage/supply, thus, when needed, increase released amounts. The NR Ps, once customized to the individual, have almost no long-term negative side effects and so often have positive side effects that I usually don't tell patients about them, delighting when they discover what positives they get themselves.

I've also seen almost instantaneous changes from trauma. That is too often sad and even tragic but could be positive in coping with it. It's like the misinterpretation of "stress", which Hans Selye originally talked about, when he formulated the "stress response", etc. In his life's endtimes he said that he almost regretted talking about stress because too many people thought stress is bad. Stress needs to be coped with. E.g. a toddler anxious, stressed, to be in their parent's arms may take their first steps, leading to be able to walk. That's akin to the sequence "susceptibility + trigger -> reaction". Many just want to remove the stress of the trigger but one might change the susceptibility, improve coping. I prefer the deepest healings, where susceptibilities are changed. E.g. you need a special pillow for your neck, have to carry it with you when you travel? How about making the neck so healthy it doesn't need a special pillow?

I've also seen almost instantaneous changes from revelation, whether it be towards the more mundane end of the spectrum of new knowledge or be towards what might be called spiritual/religious/soulful/etc.

Often changing habits is work. I'm glad the linked article acknowledges the circa 2 months of repeated behavior leading to likely continuance, vs what I heard in previous years of "28 days to program yourself". May it be that it only takes 28 days... that would be nice... but I've seen some do the 28 then get disappointed that the new habit didn't continue on auto-pilot, that they backslid. And, having grown up with both parents in the military, both tough (in their way) officers, I'm glad to read about making changes, the new habit, fun, versus the commanding "soldier up, grimace, and just do it" I heard way too much. We humans do seek fun and play and that's healthy. Yes, be professional, get the job done despite challenges, cope, weather the storms of emotions, AND have fun when you can, when you make it so.

safe travels and fun,
Doc Ray
https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/the-truth-about-making-breaking-habits

Changing your habits isn't about motivation or knowledge. It's about context.

09/03/2020

ALZHEIMER’S AND BRAIN DECLINE IN GENERAL; SLEEP; HEALTH AND HEALING SUMMITS (AGAIN)

"Every 65 seconds someone develops Alzheimer’s [just] in the US alone. By sharing this series, you just might help someone you love avoid this devastating disease."

Among the many tragedies of the world is a person’s loss of memories, ability to memorize, ability to think, and aspects of personality, even becoming someone mentally and emotionally barely recognizable. Alzheimer’s is an extreme example of this.

There are lesser examples of this loss in aging (e.g. Parkinson’s and senile dementia), in direct loss of brain matter (e.g. stroke, concussion, and other accidents), in sequelae from other diseases and syndromes (e.g. the loss of brain matter that can happen in irritable bowel diseases, even in some irritable bowel syndromes), and in association with other diseases and syndromes (e.g. decrease in sense of smell or lingering depression tend to signal such brain loss even many years ahead of time).

I so very wish I had known what I know now in the years, preferably decades, before my Dad developed Alzheimer’s... hoping I could have stopped the progression, or at least diminished or slowed its devastation. Some have even had reversals, healing back towards normal, at least for now. I so very wish I had known what I know now when my Dad did develop Alzheimer’s... I know I could have diminished or slowed its devastation. Ah, hindsight and the sometimes cruel arrow of time.

My Mother eventually had senile dementia. By then, I knew more of what I know now and she and I amazed her physicians and caretakers for awhile with her recovery. E.g. I was so pleased when she seemed like she had been 20 years previously— thinking logically, stable emotionally, laughing easily, remembering well, doing mental myth, like when she had recently retired from her assistant chief comptroller systems analyst job. That wasn’t entirely stable, we started that too late, but it was at times glorious (e.g. some of the best conversations we had ever had), giving her enjoyment and ability to have closures in the final 3 years of her life.

So far, so good, with me, using what I know. I actually feel, and some friends have echoed this, that in ways important to me my cognition and memory are better than in previous decades. Yay! Go, team, go!

As the Baby Boomers age and increasingly face the risk and, for too many, reality of brain decline, research and clinical findings are evermore helping.

I’ve posted before about the ever-increasing popularity of Summits on various health and healing topics, where an array of experts give webinars for free. The content is designed for lay people and for professionals.

From what I’ve seen, they are 1-5 webinars a day, only available for free 24 hours, mostly each lasting under an hour, for 3-14 days. One can also buy various ways to have them— online access to the webinars for a very long time, downloadable audiovideo files, downloadable transcripts, copies sent to you via CD, DVD, or memory stick, and/or hardcopy of the transcripts. The prices for such usually are cheaper before, sometimes also during, the days of broadcast online. Past Summits can be had for full price.

Usually registering for the series means you are given free access to downloadable associated pamphlets and books and to sampler or associated webinars, at that time. Most or all of such also come if you pay for the series after its run. And often emails come to you over time offering more free such.

NB often such free access takes you to a portal page where you have to give your first name and "best email address". That means you might get some email about health and healing that you don’t want, that you will set your email website or app to filter out as junk, or that you will unsubscribe to. As always, unsubscribing to email you didn’t ask for might mean they then know your email address is active, your email address is given to others to phish you. It’s safer to set your email app or website to filter/delete instead of unsubscribing at the source.

Once you register for one of these Summits, you tend to be emailed about other Summits in the future. Registering with Health Means and with Green Med Info will give you even more emailings about others.

Starting up September 9 is a Summit on Alzheimer’s. This link will give you free access to a book about getting better sleep, by Dr. Perlmutter, a very famous Functional Medicine board-certified neurologist. It has much of the (currently) 11 page handout list of options I use with people who have sleep difficulties. Among the things I strongly recommend and do for stroke, ASAP and later in recovery, are Perlmutter’s excellent "BrainRecovery" things. At that link you can register for the Summit.

Doing things to help prevent, hinder and diminish, and even seek to reverse Alzheimer’s mostly will also work for other brain decline things. There are more things one can do (e.g. come see me; I taught the Neuropsych weekend postdoc in two board-certifying sequences for 20 years) but start there if you want to educate yourself and do things on your own, is my advice. Those of you who watch PBS are aware of Dr. Amen and other experts giving on-air webinars/programs, with their websites, books, etc. Ahead of this Alzheimer’s Summit, based on what I’ve seen before in such and similar, I think the Summit will cover much of what you also see on PBS. I expect the Summit to be excellent, very informative.

https://scienceofprevention.com/perfect-sleep/

Discover how to reduce your risk for Alzheimer’s disease, improve overall health & brain function, and the keys to living a long, healthy, fulfilling life

08/26/2020

Summer heat (especially with humidity) exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, depression... sound familiar? From what I've read in Japanese descriptions of such, their word for heat exhaustion, "natsubate", more often has those added qualities than other descriptions I've thus far read. I'd add "oppression" and sometimes "vague nausea" to that. Not that everyone has that but some do and it's so common in Japan that they have that word and there are recommendations for what to do about it.

Japanese [traditional] cuisine (washoku) is very seasonally oriented. Older cuisines, by necessity and tradition, eat foods that are available in the season. I am further impressed when at least some of the foods seem to address health problems in the season. E.g. hotter parts of the world tend to have cuisines that have spicy-hot seasonings, e.g. chili peppers, which helps to preserve the food with their antimicrobial properties, and which encourages sweating, to cool off. They also tend to use very watery vegetables and fruits more because they grow there and to rehydrate (and remineralize) from sweating.

More than other traditional healing practices I've seen, Asian Medicines (from the "mother", Ayurvedic Medicine through the spread and evolution into Tibet, China, Japan, Korea, etc) use food as medicine and that includes what foods for what seasons in general, for protection, and for healing. The derivative style of eating, macrobiotic, takes into account the yin, yang, warming, cooling, drying, moisturizing, etc of those Asian Medicines.

Here, and in the comment below, are two links on natsubate eating.

https://savvytokyo.com/natsubate-how-to-deal-with-summer-fatigue-in-japan/

We had a cloudy and almost chilly Japanese summer up until now, but temperatures are expected to rise in the coming days: natsubate is just around the corner. Here's how to properly deal with it!

08/14/2020

ALCOHOL(S) TOXIC; DO-IT-YOURSELF SANITIZING WIPES

Do-it-yourself sanitizing wipes are cheaper but takes time. This article describes making them.

I object to using iso-propyl alcohol (= isopropanol = the common kind of rubbing alcohol). It's toxic. Considering the sequence of alcohols from one-carbon on up (for those of you who like organic chem):

Methanol (= wood alcohol) is notoriously toxic and is a contaminant in many brewed, even distilled, alcoholic drinks, thus is part of the toxicity in in-toxi-cation.

Ethanol (= grain alcohol) is what many folks imbibe for its initially stimulating then depressing effects.

I remember when the first huge meta-analysis of carcinogens in food was done late last centruy (there have been many studies since). I was teaching postdoc to physicians about nutrition and cancer back then and so excitedly watched them put the exports put their report together. The very impressive editorial staff agreed among themselves that ethanol, no matter whether red wine or whatever, was carcinogenic at every amount of intake people did. At the same time heart experts put out the recommendation of no more than one serving for adult women and two servings for adult men and were citing the findings that alcoholic drinks, especially red wine, could be beneficial in such moderation. The editorial staff decided to go along with that, not say that ethanol was carcinogenic even in such moderation. In very recent years, I've seen studies and opinion pieces again that ethanol is carcinogenic, even in moderation.

Decades ago, young physician/professor me would bring bowls of vitamin C, magnesium glycinate, and thiamin (B1) to parties where there would be ethanol imbibed. The C and B1 are old tricks Navy medical personnel would do to sober up sailors returning from shore leave quick, so they could stand in line for inspection. My Dad, a pharmacist's mate in WWII, would inject the sailors with C+B1, hit them in the stomach if need be to get them to throw up, toss them in the shower, hand them strong coffee. The C stimulates (actually induce, stimulate, and act as coenzyme, for you biochem enthusiasts) the Phase I liver detox liver enzymes some of which oxidize the ethanol, B1 is key for the ethanol-oxidizing enzymes. I add magnesium to offset the loss of magnesium ethanol causes via urine and to help the body bioactivate/use the B1 (turn thiamin, which has pretty much no use itself, into TPP, the active form, via phosphorylation enzymes that have magnesium as a necessary cofactor).

Trivia bit: The Asian gene pool (and thus Amerindians etc) have an enzyme form that faster oxidizes the alcohol into acetaldehyde, than other world peoples' gene pools. It is the acetaldehyde that gives the acute symptoms of drunkenness. Then the acetaldehyde gets oxidized into acetic acid (vinegar) and other metabolites but that takes longer. Thus it's said that the Asian gene pool folk "can't hold their liquor" but actually they are detoxifying faster. There is that enzyme variation also in Europe, said my old grad school biochem teacher, mostly in Switzerland where descendants of the invading Mongol Horde kept the gene going in isolated communities in the mountains.

Ethanol acts to get other chemicals imbibed with it into the blood from the gut in two ways. One is that it makes the gut leaky, breaking down the barrier that is naturally there. Thus toxins etc might get into the blood. Thus it's one way we get allergic to things— allergenic pieces of food get past the barrier into the blood, eventually the immune system labels it as enemy and we are then allergic. E.g. in studies of corn whiskey drinkers, many have allergies to corn. I find it counterproductive that at AA meetings, there are foods (if one can call donuts "food") that likely contain things people are allergic to. Admittedly, sometimes the initial reaction of the body to an allergen is alarm, which is stimulating, and the resulting inflammation is mind-altering, stimulating, and/or depressing. That may be why so often people are driven to consume what they are allergic to. The alcohol in the blood also breaks down the even stronger blood-brain barrier, allowing allergens and toxins to get in Command Central/the brain. There are studies that alcoholics in recovery have an easier time of it if they avoid what they are allergic to, control their blood sugar, and supplement, especially with B vitamins and magnesium.

Isopropanol (we're at 3 carbons now) is more toxic than ethanol, not as toxic as methanol. It (and propanol) too is a contaminant in alcoholic drinks but usually less than methanol. I do not like seeing isopropanol used. As a topical agent, it can soak through the skin, get into the body, dragging things with it, e.g. toxins and irritants on the skin and in the topical. Used in wiping surfaces, it evaporates, gets breathed in, gets into the body. Use ethanol (grain alcohol) instead... at least the body is designed to deal with it better.

Butanol, pentanol, hexanol, etc are not common and you can look them up if you encounter products that contain them. They too are contaminants in alcoholic drinks, but at even lower levels.

So, please ignore the rubbing alcohol option in this article...
https://qz.com/1890296/clorox-wipes-shortage-the-best-disinfecting-wipe-alternatives/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

The convenience of Clorox disinfecting wipes can be recreated at home.