The Lotus Effect

214 - AnalID / Brown Eye Scan

2026-02-07

Your favorite petalheads discuss itchy rashes, microplastics in cups, the seven deadly sins of weight loss drugs, fear and the brain, nature as therapy, and the petalheads discuss their best snow stories.

“Sit down, strap in, shut up, and listen!” — Pheonix

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Links:

• A weird, itchy rash is linked to the keto diet—but no one knows why
• To-Go Coffee Cups Release Thousands of Microplastics: How to Stay Safe
• People from sexual minorities really do die younger, new data suggests
• Garlic-Rubbed Ribeye (Video)
• Pheonix's Pizza Short (Video)
• Change Your Focus, Change Your World (Video)
• Data Sovereignty (Video)
• Live Tarot Reading w/Cbd Tarot De Marseille Deck
• The Seven Deadly Sins Of Weight Loss Drugs
• Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients
• Why Your Brain Overreacts To Fear - And How To Fix It
• Nature as therapy: Research shows how the outdoors can help us to heal

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• RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!
• cottongin

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