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    5 months ago

    I have been suffering with heartburn for decades. I heard probiotics can help, so I picked up a bottle from Trader Joe’s. Next day I took one, and no heartburn. I take one every day now for about 2 months and I haven’t had heartburn at all.

    There’s something to this gut bacteria stuff.

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      There’s a lot to it and I can’t wait for us to learn more.

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        Apparently scientists and nutritionists already have it figured out, now it’s on all us common folks to learn about it and incorporate it into our own lives.

        Probiotics and prebiotics. Learn it. Live it. Do it.

        Easiest way is to stop eating junk. Start eating food like people did in the old days when all we had were gardens and farms.

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          While that’s true I’m still waiting for more evidence in the implications of mental health and more advanced treatments.

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            4 months ago

            i don’t see how it would end up being bad, if it’s good for your stomach it kind of automatically is good for your mental health since the gut is rather important.

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      Any reporting about a study that conveniently forgets to mention the number of people that took part in the study is immediately suspicious

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        From the supplemental materials from the linked study found in the article, n=28

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        I just recalled there was a study about it, and linked to the first hit on Google, so I hadn’t read that particular link. But I do agree with your assessment

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    Operation: make friends with a healthy happy thin person.

    Objective: obtain thier poop

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        Yeah I know.

        I was actually trying to allude to this. Before my mother passed, she suffered for years from chronic diahreah. She had contracted CDIF during a hospital stay and it affected her for most of the rest of her life. I believe that her repeated use of strong antibiotics destroyed her gut biome and I long tried to convince her to be open to the idea.

        Unfortunately, she couldn’t get past the gross out factor.

        Very few doctors are willing to discuss it, and even fewer willing to try.

        I do find the field of study to be extremely interesting, especially when you factor in that there has been some clinical data to indicate that autistic children seem to have some improvement after a successful transplant. As a person on the spectrum myself, who is overweight, and deals with generalized anxiety disorder, I sometimes wonder if it’s something that I should look into for myself.

        Interesting stuff!

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    Incredible stuff I hope we continue to work on cracking this nut. It feels like we’ve made rapid progress ever since I heard about how half of our serotonin is made in our gut.

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      I somewhat recently found out that a huge portion of the chronic pain that I have experienced for years was due to food intolerances.

      I almost bankrupted myself trying to get out of pain because of the USA’s awful healthcare system. I even asked a Rheumatologist directly about trying a change of diet, and he just stared at me blankly as though suggesting such a thing was equivalent to asking about blood letting.

      Somehow gut health was just not taught in med school in the USA when that particular doctor was educated. We’re making rapid progress because there was previously a huge lack of knowledge.

      The good news is: we’re just getting started on finding causes and solutions to a lot of health problems that start in the gut.

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        equivalent to asking about blood letting

        Nothing to do with your case but just as a fun fact: bloodletting is the top tier therapy for hemochromatosis

        Also yeah, we pretty much don’t know anything about our own microbiome

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      I think a big reason most diets fail for people is because they make changes that are too big and too sudden.

      I think people need to try making smaller changes that they can actually commit to, rather than starve themselves until they give up because they hate life and go back to eating like shit, just to do it all over again in a year or two.

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        Not just diet, exercise and lifestyle too.

        “I’m going to get 2 hours less sleep, run 5k and cut out all sugars, carbs and fats, stop drinking and going out for dinner and…”

        Small changes in one area at a time.