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Same, except we also have digestive issues. I'm really hoping a paleo diet and good probiotics will save me. It's already helped me a lot. I'll let you know in 40 years if it prevents me from getting Alzheimer's.



[x] Anxiety

[x] Sleep apnea

[x] Digestive issues

[x] Former psychonaut

[x] Highly stressed pretty much always due to work

I can only hope that whatever brand of dementia I end up with is something akin to Mr Toad's Wild Ride, or whatever. I'd be happy just to go out either laughing or well-rested.


> something akin to Mr Toad's Wild Ride

You know the plot of that ride, right?


Yep.


For those who don't know, you end up in jail for a DUI, get out, drive your car into a train, and arrive in hell.


If you remember to do so.


If you’re supplementing probiotics, there is some research about inulin to talk through with your doctor. There’s a chance that inulin is carcinogenic even at lower doses. A lower dosage might be 4g and a typical probiotic is 200g.

Reasons to be wary of this research, including:

-The rodent-to-human study element

-causation v correlation

-sample size

Reasons to take this research seriously:

-Probiotic supplements are relatively new and long term effects aren’t understood.

-The “health as a business” realities that are very much at work here.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277257232...

https://news.gsu.edu/2018/10/18/adding-refined-fiber-to-proc...


Probiotics usually refers to bacteria, inulin and other indigestible starches are usually referred to as prebiotics.


This is a strange comment, inulin is not a probiotic, it's a soluble dietary fiber. It's at best considered a prebiotic. Probiotics are microorganisms.


Strange or not, it's correct.

Culturelle contains inulin. That's the brand that takes up most of the space at my local CVS and Walgreens. Also the CVS-brand knockoff contains inulin.


...in miniscule amounts. Culturelle has 200mg inulin.

From the case study in the GP

>The only noted lifestyle change between colonoscopies was the initiation of 4 grams of agave inulin powder daily in his morning beverage for the last 2 years of that seven-year period.




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