I've never been able to do this one. Not eating for an extended period (12 hours if overnight, much shorter during the day) leads me to one sort of gastric distress or another. Some are only uncomfortable, and others are downright distressing. I thought this would go away as I aged (I assumed when I was younger it was simply because of my runaway metabolism). But I still can't skip lunch without consequences.
Gastric irritation-like symptoms? Does that bright pink liquid stuff you have in the US help at all?
Food helps more than anything, but an antacid will help sometimes. In the worse cases, it pretty much has to be food and antacid, plus a couple of hours.
Sounds like your sacral chakra has been possessed by a fox spirit 🐕 😑
And here I thought it was just my gut being a compete bastard.
I largely think I can't answer your question without violating TOS in regards to politics. I'll limit myself to saying that, while you and I disagree about the health impact of low to moderate alcohol consumption, we're definitely in agreement that binge drinking is detrimental to health, both directly and indirectly. I think a good question to ask (and I can't comment further for the aforementioned reason) is why so many people feel the need to binge drink with regularity.
Probably ‘self medication’. But why feel the need to dull ones senses?
Is the pathway for this effect (the reduced desire for alcohol) understood? I'm really curious what's going on there.
They don’t. There’s a lot said about the ‘Gut-Brain’ axis but the full mechanisms aren’t currently known. Clinical research tends to focus on therapeutics rather than mechanisms of operation but biomedical scientists will be working on this especially if it proves to have clinical value.
Wouldn't it be more desirable to just eat the same things the vegan ate rather than their feces? Or is it an issue of the alcoholic having improper absorption of nutrients?
Ha ha, yes, anything but eat eating another persons sh*t!
That must be annoying! Maybe your gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) is raised so he suspects something 😉 Fatty liver disease (non-alcohol liver disease) can do that too…🤷🏾 Suggest a lie detector test, to put your cardiologist in their place!
I'm also diabetic type 2 for 15 years, so I have a quarterly blood draw. Aside from my a1c (7.8) and my bmi (32), my numbers are all in normal range. I tend towards the low side of normal for magnesium and potassium. My GP says no sign of liver or kidney impairment.
One thing I'll be interesting in learning more about as this research progresses is which parts of the gut biome are most affected (both by the alcohol and by the treatment). Meat digestion is highly affected by gut biome (part of the reason, I suspect, the vegetarian gut has more of the microbes desired in this therapy), so it may be that a combination of vegetarian/omnivore repopulation will prove most beneficial in the long run, as it would facilitate full nutrient absorption by those who aren't eating vegetarian diets.
Those would contain just a few (at best) of the bacteria the gut biome needs. The idea (as I understand it) of a transfusion is to get a full complement of bacteria from a healthy gut to the recipient. That gut biome is responsible for enough of our function that it has been argued whether a human is a complete organism separate from the gut biome, or if that biome is part of our organism.
