For the last 20 years I have noticed that my urine has been getting darker brownish , redish, orange and denser as it immediatly falls through the water to the bottom of the toilet. It contains a very high level of dissolved solids. I get more opportunity to observe than most as it happens every 20 minutes.
It then mixes with some water when I flush and sneaks down to the city sewage treatment plant via underground pipes. Once it enters the plant it is mixed with everything else that snuck down and also live bacteria that is pumped back from the end of treatment and it is airated ( air bubblers) and the bacteria starts to grow and eat the solids. ( signs seen at a plant : "You eat it , We treat it" and " Your sewage is our bread and butter" ) the next to last part of the process (many stages missed ) is the effluantclarifer . The suspended solids that are left sink to the bottom of this big high tank where rake arms rotate and push the solids to the center where they are pumped to the beginning of the digestion process to go through again.
The clarified water (ok liquid) pours over the top of the clarifier with most of the suspended solids removed and it is chlorinated and sent to the disposal place , a lake or river or ocean near you. Dissolved solids are more difficult to remove and the amount of my Levodopa in your drinking water and fish you ate for dinner is difficult to determine ,without expensive testing.
I recently realized that some medication taken orally can be of necessity 400 times the amount necessary if the medication had been taken sub-lingualy instead ( Vitamine B1 -100 mg sublingual dose vs 4000 mg dose that has to fight it's way past the digestive system and the urinary system to get a little of it to the right place.
I am trying to find out just what determines which meds are suitable for sublingual and which are not. There are several million of us with PD , imagine the consequences , we may shake up the world alright. How much of the increase in PD in the world and the disappearance of the Right Whale is caused by you and me . yep the whales are missing again no recorded baby Right Whales survived last year, the water is warmer and the plankton is moving north but no one told the whales so it is not all our fault.
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