Bump, as fall approaches and so does the common cold time.

Frighten awesome that you bumped this and raised it to my attention lol I rele dont have much interest in it being a psychoactive but there's was a good portion of knowledge about its function in the body. Ive taken 5,000 IU's of d3 daily with a cal mag supplement and whenever I felt as though I had a cold or some sickness coming on id take 1g of vitamin c twice a day with 15,000 IU's of d3 and haven't been sick in years. Although I was reading the vitamin k being important in the process of vitamin d and ecspecially calcium so I figured I'd chime in, thanks again and take care.

You're welcome. Vit D doesn't act as a psychoactive for me, but dealing with an approaching cold I thought I'd better raise awareness.

UL of VitD is 4000IU, so absolutely no need to take wimpy dosages below that. VitK is indeed a good addition, especially when taken with calcium. One could add zinc to the VitC to support the immune system even more. UL of zinc is 40mg for adults.



http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Nutrition/DRIs/DRI_Elements.pdf

Vitamin D is definitely not a 'psychoactive' per-say, but it most certainly potentiated my Mescaline experience by a pretty good bit. With that said, vitamin D gives me energy and improves my mood which suggests that it does have psychoactive potential, though most likely in a round about way..

In higher doses vitamin D at higher doses really start to act more like a steroid, but vitamin D has receptors all over the body and seems to be involved in a fair amount of DNA transcription...and I'd speculate this relates to transcription of enzymes necessary to synthesis neurotransmitters, receptors, etc...

I am out of mescaline, but have a fair amount of 2C-B...Perhaps one day soon I'll rerun this experiment with 2C-B instead of mescaline.

Peace

Do you mean to say you took 140,000-160,000 IU's and didn't feel any effect? At that dose you should surely feel quite stimulated I'd think. I typically feel fantastic when I take that much. And what were you trying to synergize...the kale?

Remember when I say it potentialities mescaline I mean it extends it greatly. The effects may have been slightly potentiated...but the real difference was in length of experience.

No, I tried to look if VitD has an effect on its own at those dosages. It doesn't (for me). I eat the kale for its high VitK content.

I didn't find the time to look for synergistic effects, no mescaline here, the 2C-E is out of stock and I'm reluctant with 25I-NBOH trials, as I have AL-LAD at my disposal. I don't feel good when I take RCs often, so not much excitement here to look for synergies.

I hear that. 2C-B is the only research chem that I have found favor with.... I rather like it actually. I was gifted some free 5mg DOM blotters that I am actually excited to try (mostly because the person actually took the time to label the blotters so they couldn't be resold as LSD)... But I probably won't touch the DOM's until next summer at a music festival... But I have a feeling DOM being a mescaline amphetamine has real potential to kick ass so long as you have the 18-24 hours to set aside for the experience.

But in general most of the RC's Ive tried have left me lacking to a degree. Of course LSD is also a research chem, but it is hands down my favorite social psychedelic even surpassing Mescaline.

Not that I really believe in ordering/ranking these things...but for me.

LSD > Shrooms > Mescaline > 2C-B > Aya > MDMA > MDA > DMT

But this isn't a fair ranking. As I'd never do Aya with a group of people or take it and go to a festival...where as I almost can't conceive of taking Mescaline without going to a festival or a long weekend camping... MDM* compounds largely just leave me lacking unless I do them very very rarely...even then the empathy will never compare to a 300ug dose of LSD...

BTW Most of my life I believed LSD was LSD was LSD... Right up until I had the honor of taking crystal of a known purity (98%) and creating an ethanol dilution with it myself. What I can say for certain is this. Not all LSD is equal and by and large the doses sold on blotters aren't accurate. I calibrated ours to 50ug per drop and 2 drops is fully psychedelic... 4 drops last 16 hours. Contrast with some blotters I have that are said to be 200ugs... these blotters are real LSD, but they have an edgy feel to them and I typically get a headache on the tail end of the experience... basically it's just not clean LSD.... the liquid we made our dilution came from high purity crystal, and it is just outstanding. I'd go so far as to say it's like a different drug... same signature, but different.

But I have fully digressed from our vitamin D conversation! lol

Peace

Totally okay with me.



As Nick Sand said: purity of intent and purity of substance makes a transcendent trip.



Are we allowed to say this on the Nexus? Lol. But I mostly agree. I really dislike illegal substances these days, as their legal status influences the trip and the paranoia. Home-brewed DMT and smoking it in a pipe? Certainly not for me as this violates the "purity of substance" principle. I don't have a HPLC machine at home, so I'm not able to manufacture lab-grade DMT.

And with RCs I have a slight chance that the Chinese chemists knew what they were doing. Also, most RCs are complete legal in my country. I went shopping at Aldi under the influence of 25I-NBOH. No weird feelings.

But then, are the Chinese chemists manufacturing the RCs according to GMP? Probably not, the 2C-E I had was 98,5% grade and slightly off-white - one or two more cleaning steps would probably be beneficial. But then, who pays for these two cleaning steps?

So my most preferred substances these days are either GMP, >99,5% purity RCs or Aya from a well recognized Shaman, both in a legal environment. B. caapi is said to be the teacher plant anyway, so the executive doesn't have a single chance screwing me.