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Personal note: Would prefer it if studies didn’t have to try so hard to make headlines and could name the paper more realistically: IgG *might mitigate* Adverse Effects of Gulf War Illness (GWI) Serum in Neural Cultures: *Possible lead for* Immunotherapy for GWI (Effie-Photini, 2018) ETA I...

Wouldn’t it be lovely if we really knew all this stuff?! (It’s like the grains of rice on a chess board how quickly each extra simple piece multiplies complexity). Argh, I had a second point (question?) but I can’t for the life of me remember.

Depends why you avoid dairy? If ethical/ideological then yes indeed, especially if you avoid all animal products. If lactose intolerant or else casein reactive then there are options (eg ghee). Some people even find that what the animal is eating makes a difference. Not wanting to push dairy...

Someone I know well is dyslexic (can read by guessing but can’t even choose the right word from a list or guess the first letter most of the time). We used to have to translate everything he wrote so it was even legible. He uses the built in dictation on his iPhone for everything now. It seems...

Not suggesting this is actually useful in cooling the brain, only that it seems to be helpful sometimes: In summer, when I find it difficult to communicate (crashing, brain fog coming in), I have tried going to bed with a hot water bottle or two and a cube of ice in my mouth (to roll around the...

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Has ‘research’ become just another box to tick? (Like when local govt does a ‘public consultation’ after they have already done all the work and made a plan set in stone?) Yes, we ‘did the study’. What? No, we didn’t ask for a good study, that would take time, effort and more resources. No...

Is it possible to have gastroparesis and diarrhoea? Within the same 24hr period? Apologies if this is a dumb question.

:bucktooth::nailbiting::(:hug::asleep: Take care, we’re thinking of you.

I do think that those who can get a flu shot without major negative consequences and who are exposed to either a large number of people or to those with compromised immune systems are doing a community-minded thing in getting the immunisation. That’s why the first responders get the flu...

This is just my personal 2018 anecdote: I got the flu vaccine this year (through a voluntary first responder organisation I am still a member of). Yes, as expected, I felt a bit knocked back for a couple of days after getting it. My father and in-laws got it routinely because of their age and...

I do a lot of pretending to sleep in these circumstances. Finding the closest thing to a corner and huddling up as if I were exhausted and actually sleeping. I might be exhausted but I’m nowhere near sleeping but it keeps most people at bay. As a young woman backpacking I used to find the most...

This is an article on the people who did the work to uncover the fraud (article by their own university). The actual study is published in Neurology 2016 There is a new article about the subject in the August 2018 issue of Science (link at the bottom of this article)...

I too have found from painful personal experience that fermented things cause me no end of trouble these days (never before illness). Not just yeast though, almost anything. Including wine, beer, brandy etc. (But there is a yogurt I get direct from a farm that makes it commercially which is...

My takeaway from this was that I wish I’d managed to collect and effectively store a sample of my own gut microbiology when I was adult and healthy. Imagine if I could restore that, wow. Might not have worked (my new gut might just have rejected the previous organisms) but would have been worth...

Thank you! :hug: This is just exactly the point. Worth embroidering on the wall, or something like that... maybe a billboard?

Want to read/hear more (can see just a paragraph more than the abstract without a sub).

LP: Isn’t it odd that paying a large amount of money for something makes people take it more seriously? For a therapy that only requires a group leader to run it (no qualifications, just trained to do it) the cost is one of the most offensive parts. I think people would find it easier to put it...

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