However, I seem to get adequate happiness as is, in my unaltered mind & body, so would be unwilling to risk much in order to obtain this connection. Wait til the technology’s proven, & enjoy what life you have now!

X, i see your point… i definitely do; there are many, many possible negative (to say the least) developments that could occur, but how do you propose to stop scientific progress? How would you wipe out advanced technology worldwide? Seems like an impossible task. Surely in some respects it would be better for freedom-lovers to counter-technologise. I’m very much for the idea of personal disruptors; mobile phone disruptors have appealed for a while, to give me some peace on trains etc., and a CCTV camera disruptor would be top! (tho’ i have no idea how it could work) If ‘they’ develop gene sniffers, we could develop boxes that pump out gene signatures for 50 different people at once; get all your friends to donate a cell or 2, & they’re then cultured by the gene-spoofing box… etc. etc.

Obviously, none of the above protect us from potential degradation of the planet’s biosphere, or the grey goo possibility; can’t really think of much that’d stop that.

If we’re going to have allergy-free happiness for the remainder of the time humans are around in our present form, it doesn’t seem like too much of a sacrifice to leave it for a little while, just a few years, ’til we’ve had time to check more fully what the consequences are. We’re still messing with things we understand very little about. Previous messings with seemingly “inconsequential” aspects of life/chemistry have resulted in rather startling side effects.

I know there’s the whole “frankenstein foods” anti-technology “keep it as god made it” bullshit brigade too, & i’m not on their side; fuck them indeed. They’re quite happy to live in this highly altered world we’ve created… why get all picky now?

Worked better than expensive allergy medecine on my many and varied, but low level, allergies. Might not work if you are very susceptible to the allergen.

It’s very _very_ hard to hurt yourself with pure Vit. C but it can be done. If you eat more than 10,000 mg per day you might want to be concerned enough to look it up.

I am not a doctor, lawyer, YMMV, etc….

Fred

I have to take Allegra (owned by a French co.) daily in Spring, but I finally took my father’s advice this year (he’s a physician) and started my daily regimen one month early (March 1st instead of April 1st), and that did the trick this year.

When people think of “allergy attacks”, they’re not thinking of what I’ve gone through in the past. 1998 was the worst–I sneezed a thousand times a day, I had chest wall injuries from the sneezing which meant sneezing, coughing, even breathing were agony, my eyes itched and burned so much I felt like ripping them out of my skull, and I wore an “allergy mask” for weeks. Most people probably envision a sniffle and a dainty sneeze or three and a slightly red eye.

I’m all for carefully bioengineered crops as well, as opposed to the haphazard cross-breeding and topical chemicals that are the alternative. Screw the Luddite “organic” anti-biotech contingent.