SERPENT BASKING BY THE SEA

A Roman lapis lazuli ring from the 3rd century AD.

The bees mean it’s real sugar and likely good quality

The 3 food groups you should have on your plate for better mind control are: Liver, leafy greens and lentils. These are high folate foods. Folate (via COMT and methyl groups production) is required for the break down/clearance of dopamine and other hormones.

Fun fact a gallon of milk and a liter of oj a day gets you almost all of the micro and macro nutrients you need

1872: US Army in Montana Territory keeps losing soldiers to weakness, illness, and malnutrition on frontier campaigns. The problem: Standard military rations. Hardtack biscuits, beans, coffee, salt pork. Heavy, nutritionally inadequate, requires constant resupply. Soldiers constantly sick, weak, unable to handle harsh mountain conditions. Local fur trappers and mountain men watch this disaster and laugh. "You're doing it wrong. Eat pemmican like the Indians taught us." What's pemmican? A 10,000-year-old technology perfected by Plains Indians: 50% dried lean buffalo meat, pounded into fine powder. 50% rendered buffalo fat, mixed thoroughly while hot. The result: 3,000 calories per pound. Never spoils. Lasts literally decades without refrigeration. Provides complete nutrition. Weighs almost nothing. Requires zero preparation. Army officers are skeptical. "Savage food." But desperation forces them to try. Within weeks: Soldiers suddenly thrive in conditions that were killing them before. Can march 30 miles daily in brutal terrain. Survive Rocky Mountain winters. Maintain strength for months without resupply. 1874: US Army officially adopts pemmican for all frontier operations, Arctic expeditions, and emergency situations. 1890s: Pemmican becomes standard issue for western campaigns. Multiple military reports document its superiority over all other rations. Robert Peary's North Pole expedition (1908-1909): Primary food source was pemmican. Peary later wrote: "We succeeded because of pemmican. Every other food we tried was useless by comparison." Antarctic explorers, Arctic trappers, frontier scouts: All relied on pemmican. It was considered the gold standard of wilderness survival food. Then the 20th century arrives. Synthetic food science. University nutritionists funded by grain companies. "Modern understanding" of nutrition. 1950s: Military nutritionists decide pemmican is "outdated," "unscientific," "not balanced enough." They replace it with: Carb-heavy MREs. Processed foods. "Scientifically balanced" rations that require refrigeration, preservatives, and complex supply chains. Modern result: US soldiers need constant resupply. Can't operate independently for more than 72 hours. Suffer nutritional deficiencies despite "advanced" food science. Require massive logistics infrastructure. Pemmican worked flawlessly for 10,000 years across every indigenous culture on two continents. Worked perfectly for US military for 80 years. Required zero technology, never failed, kept men alive in conditions that killed everyone else. Then we "improved" it with food science. Now soldiers carry 15 different items to get the nutrition one pound of pemmican provided. And we call this progress.