Quercetin: An Antiviral Silver Bullet
With an ever growing focus on pandemics, disease and our overall mortality I began an insomnia fueled quest to educate myself on remedies to improve overall health and wellbeing. This quest led me down many rabbit-holes into wonderland, many fueled with very anecdotal and limited evidence. In my wanderings, I eventually came upon several concepts that were so simple and yet powerful, revolutionary.
Quercetin was one of these very unique discoveries that has greatly improved the quality of my life and wellbeing, and I would like to share that wisdom with you.
You see, simply, viruses are like a castle with an awesome wall that sometimes our immune system just can't quite penetrate. This is where quercetin is invaluable - quercetin is a Zinc Ionophore. Simply put - it breaks a hole in the castle wall, allowing the soldiers, Zinc to come inside and prevent further cell replication.
"Quercetin is a zinc ionophore
Therefore, drugs that described as zinc ionophores could be used with zinc supplement to act as antiviral against many RNA viruses including SARS-CoV-2 **Quercetin is natural compound act as zinc ionophore to cause zinc influx intracellular**." - Clinicaltrials.gov
Quercetin, in most forms is derived from the Japanese Sophora Flower.
The first time I took Zinc and Quercetin together - within 30 minutes I received an immediate mental clarity. As if I had been half asleep, dreaming, sedated. In my shock and awe I DEMANDED my girlfriend try this remedy, this heaven-sent miracle. Soon after, she described the same clarity and euphoric effect I had described. As if the color had returned to a gray and dim world - when had I lost sight?
Since that day, every time I feel as though I am getting ill, I take Zinc and Quercetin (and a few other supplements) and have immediate relief - and often times alleviate anything more than a small cold.
To further prove this case - sometimes my job has me work in a COVID Testing Site - and I am directly exposed to sick people, for days at a time.
Despite this, I have never tested positive for COVID and all of my coworkers have (except one other, a crafty gentleman I suspect has his own wizard secrets)
You can find Zinc/Quercetin supplements on Amazon or Walmart - they have increased in popularity, especially with the passing of infamous Dr. Zelenko.
**Please note:** This is not medical advice - and as always you should conduct your own research and consult your physician/doctor regarding any concerns you might have with beginning a new supplement. My only intention in this article is to educate others and share my own personal story regarding something that has greatly benefited me.
Until next time, ride the waves y'all!
ETHW - Network and DAPP Overview
Fueled by continuing insomnia, I have searched to the ends of the $ETHW blockchain and back. I can honestly say I've been enjoying the heck out of it and it's giving me Fantom/Avalanche vibes as I use the projects.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum-pow/
If you have previously utilized the Ethereum Blockchain and had ETH funds, be sure to add the mainnet to get the airdrop! (should appear in your wallet)
https://medium.com/@ETHW/tutorial-set-up-ethw-wallet-and-claim-airdrop-f72a3e7e090b
There are several projects that are very promising - here is a summary of my explorations:
1. $UNIW
"Fork" of Uniswap - Volume of over $400k + today
https://farm.uniwswap.com/
With the fork being very young, the rates on pools are presently very high. (and the prices are actually stable/increasing lately)
Here's the chart from the other day:
2. $SEA
https://swap.powsea.finance/#/farm/0
Reminds me a bit of ViperSwap if you have previously used the Harmony Chain.
NFT Marketplace Competitor to "Open Sea"
3. $okdex
https://linktr.ee/okdex
"It’s very simple, on a weekly basis 50% of the total fees collected within the exchange will be distributed among all exchange’s native token holders. The user just needs to be holder of the exchange’s native token, they don’t need to stake or claim their rewards, just need to wait for it."
"And not only that, **OKDEX** provides a double earning for its holders because its *native token* also distributes rewards in the form of ETHW. In this case the distribution is done automatically by the contract function based on the trading volume. Again, it is not necessary to staking the token or claiming it on any platform, it is enough for the user to be holder of the **OKDEX Token**." https://www.oklink.com/en/ethw/address/0xA1e0A0Ccd40F58cB4324F9f69cf3BCf638fF8413
4. $Powge
https://www.powgecoin.com/
http://swap.powgecoin.com/#/pool
I haven't done as deep of a dive on this - but it's a meme coin with a working dex and you can place your holdings in a pool with $powge/Eth to earn yield.
5. Beatles - appears to be one of the top NFTS on the blockchain currently:
https://twitter.com/BeatlesPOW
https://sikalang.com/
(purchase here) https://nuwton.io/
6. https://nuwton.io/
NFT Marketplace - holds all top projects on the chain.
7. Crypto Butchers - NFT Crypto Game
$BUTCHERGAME
I minted one of their NFTS. Solid mediocre. I have not played the game yet.
https://cryptobutchers.com/#/mint
https://game.cryptobutchers.com/#/
8. POWSwap
https://app.powswap.io/#/farm?chain=ethereum_pow
I haven't utilized this one much - the volume is steady and price seems steady.
9.Panda Launchpad https://pandasale.finance/?chain=ETHW
DXY: One Graph to Rule them All
In the sea of chaos and turmoil that the market has become, we all need predictable tools and metrics that can give us an edge on the competition. After taking loss after loss, I began to dive deeper. Hoping to create a deeper understanding, after many hours of insomnia fueled searches I began understanding that the crypto market wasn't a living, unpredictable, sentient being that did whatever it pleased. Rather, it was very closely correlated to one simple graph (although, it can be a lot more complicated with currency swaps etc.)
The DXY or the U.S. Dollar Index often trades inversely to Bitcoin and the crypto market.
"The **U.S. Dollar Index** (**USDX**, **DXY**, **DX,** or, informally, the **"Dixie"**) is an index (or measure) of the value of the United States dollar relative to a basket of foreign currencies,[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_currency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index#cite_note-1
In efforts to combat Russia/the Price of Oil, the Federal reserve has been intentionally propping up the value of the DXY to suppress the price of oil. High DXY = Cheaper Bitcoin/Assets
I can't help but wonder if the purpose of Bitcoin for the Federal Reserve is to act as an additional token in a basket that can be utilized to influence these swaps.
At a deeper level than independently tracking DXY - one can also track the value of currencies in the basket
Euro (EUR), 57.6% weight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro
Japanese yen (JPY), 13.6% weight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen
Pound sterling (GBP), 11.9% weight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling
Canadian dollar (CAD), 9.1% weight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_dollar
Swedish krona (SEK), 4.2% weight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_krona
Swiss franc (CHF), 3.6% weight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_franc
Certainly, we are playing a game of chicken and when the "Wizard" behind the curtain decides the game is up, we will find ourselves with much more pain.
If there is interest, I can further elaborate how to overlap the strategy of utilizing the DXY with traditional trading metrics such as Volume, RSI, or even Bollinger.
These ideas might be very obvious to some, but for an average dummy like myself, were not known when beginning this humbling adventure.
Until next time, ride the waves.
@Waloop
