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Do you have a source for that Judson Brewer statement? I highly doubt that he would say the whole class of psychiatric drugs has a 20% success rate on average. That would be a ridicolous cliam. Different medications with different indications have all different outcomes. There are many potential modalities in psychiatry beside drugs (psychotherapy, EMDR, light therapy, movement-therapy, ECT...) Psychodelics knocking on the door of the mainstream as well. It "zombifies" SOME people - yes. On the other hand, I think the internet often distorts how well some patients do on psychiatric drugs. It's a sampling bias. Those with terrible side effects are getting most of the attention while a large majority is doing fine.

Well, I mean the reason psychiatrists are giving out pharmaceuticals left and right is because they work. Not for everyone and defintiely not all the time - but in general, this is obviously the case. That said, psychiatric drugs are propably one of the most side effect prone substances known in modern medicine. Most of the drugs I perscribe as an internal medicine doctor, like statins or antihypertensives, are magnitudes below the side effect profile of your average antipsychotic. This is why good patient education is important and even ethically indicated.

The psychiatrist should have educated you about this extremely common side effect. Bad experiences like this shape peoples distrust in the modern medical system, and that's a problem.

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature. Atheim is the absence of belief in the existence of deities. It's possible to be a materialist theist. In that case, "god" would be made out of matter, just like you and me.

I have been here since the beginning. Hence, I agree with the premise. It's a classic blind leading the blind scenario. You have got it all - the good, the bad and the ugly. Or how you called it..

That's nonsense. Tap water in high income EU-countries (Finland, Switzerland, Austria..) is usually way cleaner than any bottled or filtered variant you can purchase on the market. I live in a region where the tap water get's bottled and sold as "healing remedy" throughout the world (also called "Granderwasser")

Ohh, my bad! I didn't read that properly. In that case, that should't be a cause a major problem!

Pharmakokinetics (the way your body metabolizes/eliminates a pharmaceutical drug) can drastically change under prolonged periods of dehydration.

No, wait until you are complete off any medication before you do water fasting.

Yes, you can take Ibuprofen or Paracetamol for symptomatic control. However, this is more about making the infection less annoying and not beucase you "should take it". Feel free to take those antinflammatory drugs if there is no history of allergic reactions to them of course. No, I would not reccommend you to get another shot at the moment. In fact, if the story is true and you really cought Covid19 multiple times in a row (even if it wasn't just Covid), you should have gathered quite an antibody-base from those infections. Your risk of dying from the disease in it's current form is miniscule anyway. Also, your heart issues - I have seen this exact pattern in other young patients - it's not unconnom. Some short amount of time after the vaccination, they complain about unusual pains in the chest area. However, I can comfort you that in most of those cases I have seen, no damage to the heart was detectable. You went to the ER - my guess is that they did a ECG and maybe a blood test? So here would be my advice for you: 1) Visit your family doctor and tell him him about this. When somebody becomes ill that often, you should definitely make some screening efforts to see if there is any underlying condition playing a role in this. If you feel exhausted, weak, knocked off or sweat a lot during the night - tell him as well. The minimum he should do is a mid-range blood lab including some of the crucial immunogenic vitamins/minerals like VitaminD3 and zinc. 2) Tell him about your vaccine-reaction as well. In the near future I would recommend you to visit an internal medicine doctor who can do an ultrasound on your heart. This is a very inexpensive and fast way to evaluate if there something wrong with the organ. If they did this in the ER, forget about it. I am almost sure there isn't something wrong, but this is just to be on the safe side. 3) The vaccine is great and saved millions of lifes. However, I would categorize your experience as a potential adverse vaccine reaction. Yes, we don't know exactly what caused your chest-aches (it could have been caused by the chest muscle), but you should really think about getting further vaccination doses. You are young, propably healthy and therefore not really in great danger of dying from the infection. If the virus does not mutate into a super deadly one, it's propably safer for you to not get another mRNA-shot. Bare in mind that this is an internet opinion. I dont know you, so I have to work with limited infromation. This is why it's important for you to visit a doctor in your city that can evaluate you properly.

Thank god we are dealing with pharmaceuticals and not street drugs

Yes, you can take those drugs together. However, if you are experiencing side effects (like the one mentioned in your other thread), please consult your local healthcare provider asap. You might need a dose adjustment or reevaluation.

You have had Covid 15-20 times? That means, in a 3 year timespan (since the emergence of the virus) you have caught an infection approx. every 2 months? Did you verify each time with an antigen test? Are you sure? Did you get sick often before Covid? Did you tell this story to your primary healthcare provider? Did they do any testing on you like a lab? How is your lifestyle? General health? Overweight? Basically answer @Michael569's questions as well please.

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Mercury accumulated in plants are in the forms of Hg(0), Hg(II), and organic Hg. Aquatic plants contain more methyl mercury (organic Hg) than terrestrial plant. On the other hand, the mercury that accumulates in fish is predominantly organic methyl-Hg So let's take the Bulk Powder Vegan Protein Strawberry: 0.0047 mg/kg mercury 0.0047 mg/kg = 0.0047 μg/g As you see in the diagram above, normal vegetables sometimes contain 100 times more mercury than your protein powder. In some cases, like near power plants, this concentration can go over 10 μg/g. (one of the highest ever measured) In most cases, it's wayyy lower than that of course! The Provisional Tolerable Weekly Intake (PTWI) of mercury suggested by The World Health Organization (WHO) is 1 μg/kg body weight. Meaning if you weigh 70kg - that's 70μg per week. So you need to eat about 15kg of that protein powder per week to exceed that limit. I am not saying this is okay by the way. We are getting polluted left and right - and that sucks! Tolerable intake measurements also do not take into account accumulating effects and complex interactions. That said, I hope this puts your numbers into perspective!

Some people experience a pretty strong glycaemic response from eating oats. Processing plays a big part as well, with rolled oats having the lowest index. I agree, it's pretty unusual but his symptoms would be in line with it. Glucose metabolism can be weird and highly individual. I have seen diabetics who could induldge on certain forms of sugar almost ad infinitum while others would put them into a diabetic coma. That's why he should test it.

No. Kefir is fucking awesome! Propably one of the healthiest animal products out there if consumed in moderation! I am talking about specific supplementation with probiotics - like the one from neurohacker or the ones sold in pharmacies (Omnibiotic for example). Those are pretty unnecessary or might even cause havoc in the long run. They have their use cases, like I mentioned above - but I would't take them preemptively. Sorry, should have made that clear! Probiotics in food like Kefir or Sauerkraut are fine and usually regarded as very healthy. Just don't overinduldge. A decent fiber intake is also important for a healthy microbiome. When you do your cycle, it's propably better to stop drinking so much Kefir for that month! Just in case

There are many, many foods with high insoluable fiber content. In fact it's basically unbiquitous. If this was the case, he would have reported similar issues with other food - dont you think?

Well, Daniel and I are friends - so I am kinda biased towards praising neurohacker-products. I think they are doing a decent job with any of their stacks. The quality control is over to the top! (which is good!). The price is a major downside! I would not recommend taking a probiotic product preemptively, no. The benefit is not clear and there could be some major downsides in the long run (there are data points linking long term probiotic use to all kinds of terrible outcomes). I am also not convinced by the quality control of most products. That said, there is something to be said about cycling. This is complete bro-science but it might be worth a try to get on a probiotic product for a month four times a year (so basically 1 month every quarterly period) and see if you feel any noticeable changes. Besides that, I would just focus on a healthy diet to keep your microbiome happy - which is proven to work and has many additional benefits.

Yeah, definitely get your glucose-metabolism checked by a doctor. I dont think there will be anything wrong, because that would be an odd way to show - but it's a really quick test and then you know. There is a thing called "reactive hypoglycaemia" which is a symptomatic decrease in blood sugar occurring after a high carbohydrate meal. This can happen to people with or without diabetes. A lesser known form is the so called "adrenergic postprandial syndrome", which would perfectly fit your symptoms - it's an autonomic stress response from your body after etaing certain foods and doesn't have anything to do with blood sugar. Maybe try to add stuff like Michael mentioned. That could resolve the problem altogether.

Interesting! Your symptoms imply a sympathomimetic ("stress") response. Do you have any underlying health-condition? Ever experienced problems with blood sugar regulation? Do you have the same symptoms after drinking oatmilk? Any other food that cause similar symptoms? Ever tried changing the oat-brand? Which brand do you use? For how long do you cook your oats?

That would be OP to tell him about the virtues of using lower case letters and the wonders that might happen by letting go of the shift-modifier.

Pretty good summary. Some caveats: - The study mentioned (published in the Cell Journal) is a tiny and poorly controlled study. We need more reserach (as he said). - As I mentioned before, most people's microbiome recovers pretty well in 4-8 weeks. It tends to be more problematic in individuals with an underlying gut-condition or antiobitic induced diarrhea. That's why I asked OP if he is experiencing diarrhea as well. Probiotics might be more useful in those cases and there is some decent evidence to suppot that. - What's completely left out (but waspropably discussed in the full podcast) are the potential side effects of probiotic use. There are case reports and some higher tier evidence that show probiotics can actually fuck up your microbiome if you are not careful. - At the end of the clip, he talks about C.difficile infections after antibiotic use. This happens because some antibiotics specifically kill strains that keep C.diff under control. The antibiotic OP takes (doxycycline) is actually associated with a lower risk for C-diff infection than other antibiotics.

You got diarrhea as well or just the pain? Here is the thing: a specific traetment with some probiotic drug is not really necessary in most cases. Your microbiome will regain balance in 4-8 weeks and you will be fine after that. Eat some healthy food, focus on decent fiber intake and add some fermented products (like Kefir or Sauerkraut) to support your gut. However, if you really want to take some supplement here is my advice: Before ordering anything online, go to your local pharmacy and ask for their probiotic products. Most probiotics sold in pharmacies are pretty decent quality, the only thing you should research is the amout of "colony-forming units" (CFU) per dosage. You can ask the pharmacist or simply google it. For an effective dose, it should be more than 5 billion units/day. If you want to order online, do your reserach first. There is so much garbage out there which will do more harm than good.