Myth or Reality ?

Question

By eating Bull's testicles, you can increase your fertility.
By drinking snakes' blood, you increase your blood circulation.
By eating monkey brain, you increase your intelligence.

I will vote for best answer. Details are important to support your claim.

Answer 1

On the surface there may appear to be some logic in the above arguments. However...

..that doesn't make them true. Once those body parts have been through the mill, the animal has been killed, minced, preped and cooked - what do you do with it?
.... you bung it through your digestive system! So it all gets broken down and make into mush. The body will then extract some proteins, some carbs, whatever vitamins might have survived processing and cooking and a few minerals (iron/zinc etc) that it may need - if they are 'bio-available' in the food you've ingested.


Intelligence is a strange creature. We are not entirely sure what it is, and we have so many different ways of measuring it that you can be at different levels depending on what you measure.

However, one thing we are sure of. It is using the brain that builds intelligence. A healthy diet will obviously help, but it should be varied and pleasant. On top of that - brain training exercises are as important for the cerebral muscle as for any other. Don't let it get all plump and lazy. Push it. Challenge it.

If you wanted to be smarter you should steer away from alcohol, cigarettes, other kinds of intoxicating substances, saturated fats and television (TV makes you dumber coz you sit and gawp at it rather than doing stuff, keeping the brain pro-active and entertaining yourself)

If you replaced YOUR brain with a monkey brain through direct transfer/transplant - would that make you any smarter?
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NO!
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Your body uses the food that you provide it with to create and build itself. Your body is basically rebuild from the celuar level over the course of about 7 years. The blood is changed completely every few days. How you take care of body is what imporves your circluation. If you sit on your @rse every day stuffing your face with fatty foods, no amount of snakes could save you. Even on a plane!

If you want to increase your blood circulation - guess what... stay away from cigarettes, alcohol, other intoxicating substances, saturated fats and television! (TV makes you sluggish coz you sit and gawp at it, rather than move around)

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If you want to increase your fertility there are certain suppliments you can take if your diet is outta whack. Basically, if you eat stuff that has had chemical pest-control and fertilisers dumped all over them they are going to be 'de-nuded' of vital elements, vitamins and minerals. Even so-called GM crops have tons of poisonus substances poured over them and their fields. And as to the other chemicals we are pumping into our rivers, oceans and air through plastics manufacture, the infernal internal combustion engine, poor waste management and overcrowding...

So eat fresh, raw and organic whenever possible and avoid (you got it.....)
cigarettes, alcohol, other intoxicating substances, saturated fats and television.
And animals (animal products have had even more chemicals added than crops because 1) they are also eating the crops that have been poisioned; 2) even more growth agents, fertility agents and so forth are added to them - as well as the high levels of saturated fats...)
Now, seeing as the three products you mentioned are all animals products... best avoided.

UNLESS:
This kind of superstition is called 'sympathetic magic'. It works on the belief that something that is a little like what you want will get you what you want.

So - as an experiment, leave your computer. Get a glass jar. 1/4 fill it with lentils or rice (uncooked, obviously). Put a lid on it. Go outside.

If it isn't already raining, gently shake the jar to make a 'rain' sound. If it starts raining within 2 minutes maybe there is something to this whole thing.

If it is already raining, make the 'rain-sound' for a few moments and then empty the jar onto the ground. If the rain stops within 2 minutes of doing this maybe there is something to this whole thing.

Answer 2

If myths like Jesus strolling on the waters of the sea and the sea waters keeping apart to porvide a manner the Moses and his folowers some 2000 years in the past could desire to be bleieved why not the myths of Mahabharata some sixthousand years in the past should not be blieved- especailly whilst the Bhagavad -gita that varieties the 6th financial disaster of that large epeic is composed of concerns like the celebrities and planets falling into the flames of a much bigger famous individual very like the formation of the supernova which has been proved by making use of medical reasearh merely in the twentieth century , can not be believed ?

Answer 3

Clearly you live or have been to east Asia. (Where every food has a specific affect on yourbody/health etc)

Garlic is Viagra.
Eating dog keeps you cool ('cos dogs don't sweat)
Stomachache? Use the bial of an Asian bear's stomach.

It's futile to try to persuade them otherwise.
Although I heard eating fish helps your brain nutritiously. It might increase your I.Q by 0.000001% but hell - at least it's measurable.

Stupid Asian superstitions if you ask me.

Answer 4

Why increase fertility, when you know you're fertile. Why drink snake's blood, when you know your circulation is running at full go. Why eat monkey brain, when you're intelligent enough to know it doesn't work towards your IQ ;)

If the above works, i'm sure any doctor would have prescribed the above :).

cheers!

Answer 5

I've seen this claimed on tv but did not hear any conclusive proof that any of them did what was said

Answer 6

Just dont invite me to your Christmas lunch!

Answer 7

What a load of rubbish.

Answer 8

NO ITS JUST SOME1 WHOS DONE THEM HAS MADE IT UP