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I totally agree. It will be beneficial for everyone.

May be you forgot the context I mentioned it in. We have to look for alternatives when there is no definitive one present for the time being.

He's been curing patients for past 20 years with diet changes alone. So, I am impressed with his results and shared his idea. Doing a study on it and not using it until you study is your problem. In other words, I sense your worry of how your medicine will react since it's posion (full of unnatural chemicals) compared to a natural food item in it's unaltered form which is being used in daily food consumption in many cultures. Are you suggesting people taking medicine to stop eating food on a daily basis? I never suggested to stop any medication.

I am more than willing to contact him, will you be able to fund the study?

> we should report on new ideas with a great deal of skepticism until the evidence becomes very strong

A nutritionist with Ph.d with good credibility claims that he got good results with using black sesame seeds. The way he used it is - roast 2 spoons of black sesame seeds and eat once a week for 6 months (no need/should not take every day). He claims to have cured them in 6 months. If I have someone I know I would try as there is no harm in having a regular food item taken once a week. Don't know how it works or if any studies already done to back it up.

Agree. Unfortunately, this is never going to happen. The few still practicing Ayurveda properly come from a background where they learned it from their ancestors within their family and practicing it for free and never allow commercialization of their knowledge. But they can gladly share the knowledge to people who want to learn. Food, Education and Medicine/health are the 3 things the practitioners in Indian culture believes to keep free. A few decades ago, you want to gain education, you seek a guru and become a disciple and he teaches for free. You got a health issue, you go to a doctor and he treats you for free. Same with food, every town/village used to have centers where food is served free to anyone. Although it's all gone decades ago, there are still practitioners who treat patients for free and only take donations and not fee. Sounds, funny but It's easy to understand the underlying wisdom, how many studies today are funded by people with commercial interests? Research on egg is funded by Meat industry, Research on milk is funded by Diary industry etc. How is that turning out for everyone?

I am not against validity through studies. But the approach/methodology taken in most studies on food/drugs are very limited in nature and often flawed giving skewed results (e.g. I hope everyone knows about the approach taken in dividing fat into 3 categories and how it is taken as reference to ruin health of so many humans over decades through refined oils). I totally agree with him in that regard.

Understood. May be the modern world needs another wim hof to become a subject to the existing science - validity though current limited existing medical tools to prove/validate that humans can get access to autonomous nervous system and heal themselves (which was thought to be impossible in modern days). The approach Dr. hedge took is not registering with the rest of the world according to the comments above. May be he should have proven his claims subjecting to the existing methods just to give that level of confidence who trusts it like wim hof did.

There is an alternate. To wake up from the ignorant direction the so called studies are taking the human kind to. And stop calling it science. Dr. B.M. Hedge suggested long ago that all the studies done on animals or humans are wrong and inefficient in so many fronts. His words - According to ayurveda, human body can be classified into around 200 types based on the K/P/H balance of a body. A medicine that works for one may be totally neutral for another. So, you read a paper that claims it got awesome results on a random blindfold study, the question Dr. Hedge asks is what type of the 200 human body types is it efficient? Apparently there is a body type that gives neutral or negative results (ignoring side effects). Talk about working it on animals first! (-ve downvotes welcome)

Tried them once. Their windows app by default only connects at 128 bit encryption! Had a chat with their CS and they tried to convince 128 bit is enough. Stopped after the trial.

I am a member of ACM and BCS for few years. BCS used to have access to EBESCO host with few CS related databases where I used to read papers often, but the service is now discontinued.So, I feel BCS is not worthy of subscribing. ACM has Skillsoft and Safari online access which I use almost every week that has LIVE and on-demand training on almost any tech subject. Although access to ACM digital library is provided as a separate subscription which is available for members at extra cost ($99), it's up to the member to see if it benefits them to pay extra.I considered IEEE too, but it seems almost same as ACM interms of member benefits, but it might be more inclined towards other engineering disciplines than CS.

Nice idea. Easy to plugin and use with IOT devices.