Mastic

Do you know what mastica is? No.

Mastic?

Yeah, the mastic.

It's a liquor that is basically comes from the sap of this tree on an island in Greece.

Well, I've talked about maybe once on the show before.

Mastic gum.

Mastic gum is very interesting because it helps with something that so many people deal with, which is heartburn, GERD, and more in particular, H. pylori.

So Helicobacter pylori is a leading cause of ulcers and upper GI distress, but it also causes more than that.

Mastic gum is such a great remedy for this.

Now we talked earlier about propolis being resinous and tannic.

Resins of trees are amazing.

We often avoid these or ignore these.

for it.

Mastic is a resin from a tree, I think.

It's kind of a resin.

It looks like little crystals of white crystals.

Orange glossy.

Oh, I have authentic Krenos halloumi cheese directly from Cyprus, right? I can find Mastique, ground Mastique in some of these stores here, right? So we've come to a time now where everything is accessible.

So it made the book easier to have it as a collaborative book of the two countries I call home.

So your book, again, is...

Kings Winford.

February 2024. no picture should be varnished before it is at least six months old for i have already stated that the process of drying with linseed oil colours is progressive and keeps on for years and if a picture be varnished too soon cracks are bound to result Only those types of varnishes should be used which can be readily removed and the three types that can be readily removed are Sandorac, Mastic and Damar.

Sandorak is a varnish which dissolves in alcohol and dries perfectly within three hours.

Mastic is a pale gum which dissolves only in turpentine and dries hard and dust-free overnight.

Damar is similar in its characteristics to mastic, but not quite as hard.

Pictures with a heavy impasto, and particularly those in which the slow-drying pigments are used, should not be varnished inside of a year, or preferably in two or three years.

A clot of raw sienna in a picture by Joseph Israels, ten years old, was not yet needle-proof.

It would therefore appear that the best time to varnish a picture is after it has hardened up uniformly and completely, even though this takes a year or two.

So many of the dental problems we have today, like dental crowding and orthodontia, are necessary because our jaws are physically smaller because they're not worked out.

So today, people will try to make their jaws bigger by chewing Mastic or Xantham Gum, the Looks Maxers, Clavicular.

If you really wanna frame mog people, then you chew it.

See, kids, listen to how cool I am.