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He said a few times that he eats organic whenever possible (or something along those lines) so I'd assume this is still the case.

@Vision you can't change him and the more conscious you become the greater the conflict. Move out as soon as possible for the sake of your health and mental well-being. Ideally at least 200 km away. If he is as you say there is nothing you can do to change that. Find a condo or a shared flat and start there. It's your life mate, no time to waste. Move out and get your health fixed properly. Good luck!

If it was at least pure chicken but the stuff they put in nuggets can come from anywhere including the beak, the legs, cartilage, joints or organs. As long as it is made into a paste you can't tell a difference. Yum!

One only eats animals the other doesn't eat any. What exactly buffles you ?

@Raphael cool beans! Drop me a line if i can offer any more advice. Take it easy from the start. Quality before quantity

@Raphael do you recall when you raised the "how to boost brain" topic and i suggested you eat much more? I would stand behind that suggestion and reinforce the need to increase calories of your meals especially of protein. If you can do that and add some weight bearing training your weight will come up and you'll have much more energy and brain power. No need to force it but you can simply shuffle around the ingredients of your current meals

Hey Gregory, What's your diet like at the moment?

The triple therapy is by far the most effective treatment for HP. If you have chronic HP you don't have time time to play around, it increases your risk of gastric cancer. Take the pharmaceutical therapy. It is around 80% effective. If it doesn't work seek out a skilled herbalist and go after it naturally. But I'd personally start with medication simply because the longer you have it to more severe the long term complications can be

Seems like you need to start saving up to move out ?

you sure those two are correlated?

Hello to all new fellow mods! Thanks for volunteering to help the team ?

@Vision it is very much possible that anxiety is connected to the gut and the same is malaise. Maybe you are not eating as much due to the gut problems and as such that is impacting both your mood and your overall wellbeing? I wrote a 2 part series about the connection between mental health and gut, you can check it out on my blog but there is a whole other component with anxieties of psycho/spiritual wellbeing such as just being happy where you are at life, doing what you want to be doing etc.

@blueplasma once you have presented an argument of the animal suffering and the person is willing to accept those consequences by eating animal food nevertheless, your job is done. Nothing else you say makes any point or validity and just endlessly further attacking people shows only lack of compassion, understanding and personal development. 90% of vegans fail to understand this. It is your personal ethical choices but don't shove it down the mouth of other people. Show the same sort of empathy and kindness you have for animals to fellow human beings and maybe once they are ready they will be able to consider your arguments. Not everyone can be vegan, it does not work for some people and you need to be open minded enough to accept that and let go

@Flowerfaeiry there is a mechanism that should prevent that called migrating motor complex (MMC) which is kinda like thousands of tiny micro contractions going across the entire small intestine with the aim to clean of any leftovers. (at least that's the theory what it does so far). You can google this, it's quite an interesting effect. This happens once the digestions stop so theoretically if this god damaged, maybe...it would have to mean significant damage to the nervous system branch managing the digestive system but even then the damage would have to be so extensive and so massive, I don't know what would be able to cause that. Maybe one ina million after some sort of traumatic accident or extreme form of IBD where the inflammation just destroyed a large portion of neurons in the gut. What these guys (Loren, John Rose, the dude on Hawai i always forget his name) say is that everyone who is eating anything but a fruitarian diet has that which I'm finding hard to believe. If you had a layer that prevented you from digesting the food you would find out very very quickly. Massive hair loss, fatigue, bad skin, bad breath, acne all over, depression, massive weight loss, bone loss, muscle loss to the point the person would look like a prisoner of war. Funny enough a lot of fruitarians end up looking like that... not a generalisation but just some observation.

@Ora can you list a single of those MOST studies? I've reviewed the evidence on soy myself and none of the high quality trials actually say that.

I dunno, you should have mucous on the walls of your intestines, this is where most of your microbiome is attached to, it is there to protect the gut. If there was black mucoid plaque we would see that on biopsies when dead people are being opened up but nowhere in the medical literature have I seen it ever mentioned. I may be dogmatically blinded to something here but I don't believe this is a real thing. Also, we can usually go both ways, you can get endoscopy all the way in the duodenum and colonoscopy can actually cross ileocecal valve and enter distal ileum but the middle part we cannot reach that's true. If it was a thing, it would have been spread across and would have definitely been seen in the colon as well. It's just another of those things like believing that one needs to have sediment in urine otherwise kidneys are not filtering or that every single disease is caused by a virus (e.g. medical medium). It just ain't that simple

More like question your relationship and your sanity. From her viewpoint (blue-orange I assume?) it may seem as ridiculous as if you talked about flying carpets and voodoo. Gota be careful how and with whom you open up these topics. If you wanna bring her over, first help her climb into Tier 2 very slowly and gently.

Yes it can, depending on the severity of it and what else is going on I wouldn't be surprised if IBD came out of it or disruption to the gastrointestinal nervous system. Hard to say, you can probably google consequences of untreated SIBO. Malnutrition and reduced absorption of nutrients would be the most immediate thing basically what I mean is that a lot of what the OAT test is based on is research in petri-dish, basically you create a culture in a lab and then dip stuff into it and observe what happens (this is called in-vitro), so not real human data, often not even animal data. We don't know what a lot of those metabolites mean, we cannot interpret them correctly. A lot of practitioners do not care about this and they order expensive tests for their clients because they get commissions (not saying your naturopath does this but it is a common practice, highly unethical in my opinion) if it is SIBO and it is confirmed, you can work on that and it is possible to heal that if the protocol is structured right.

Your poo is not only made of the undigested food. There are many components such as recycled red blood cells, bilirubin, amino acids from cell breakdown, dead cells, dead bacteria your immune system killed, dead microbiome species, removed minerals, removed hormones, neurotransmitters etc. You will keep poo-ing as long as you live although the volume will reduce if you stop eating ofcouse. This is a common thing shared in fruitarian communities. If you speak to any gastroenterologist who has seen 100s of colons through a camera they will tell you this there is no dark sediment of dry shit stuck to the walls of colon. You would die if that happened. In fact there used to be a guy on the forum who would fill his journal with pictures of his shit and he was always talking about this. He did not believe when he was told that there is no black mouldy stuff inside your colon...it is a made of stuff. probably not a good idea, laxatives are toxic colonic irritants. Your body, being fasted, is probably already low on electrolytes and minerals , you want to preserve as much of those as you can.

@SageModeAustin I used to have a client with binge-eating disorder. The poor girl would eat over 5000 calories for dinner. Her obsession had nothing to do with food and everything to do with a traumatic past. I had to refer her on to a specialist. Don't try to heal someone's trauma if you don't know what you are doing. Keep loving her and help her find professional help. It needs to be a qualified professional in obesitology and eating disorder but alongside that she may benefit from speaking to someone to help if there is an emotional trauma or negative beliefs around food. Most likely there is a big shadow that fears something, perhaps a body-shaming past.

Having a mental health condition is no different from having IBS or having asthma. Brain can get ill as much as the body can. OCD does not mean you are crazy and I am not saying anything like that. But the behaviour that you described is often common in people with this condition. Being overly keen to get something done to a degree that it borderlines with obsession. It could be cleansing teeth, it could be washing hands, it could be needing to vacum clean your house 10 times a day. I apologise if my comment came as an offence to you, it was not meant as such but maybe speaking to a mental health specialist could help you with the next steps. Granted, this was not what you asked but otherwise you are stabbing in dark and there are many things that fasting cannot cure. And if that doesn't work it is just more guessing game where if you have something specific you can now look up experts on that condition to guide you.

Honestly, my personal opinion on OAT is that Organic Acids are pretty much based on in-vitro research nearly 100%. It is a nice way for functional medicine doctors to make extra money but there is no way to interpret the results accurately enough. Any of those metabolites could literally mean 10 different things. Don't get me wrong, the amount of information you get is impressive and it is accurate but all those acids can be elevated or reduced for a multitude of reasons and you need a highly experienced practitioner to help you translate those results into something meaningful. I used to think OAT was a great and valuable tests but then I took deeper dive into all those metabolites and I don't think so anymore. There is literally no useful evidence to the majority of those markers which means we are assuming that just because something does something in a petri dish it means the same thing happens in the human body. It's like saying "I like astronomy so I should have been called to help design the Hubble Telescope" But maybe along with your previous tests and symptomology it can give some indication of what's up. the one called complete microbiome mapping. yes this doesn't surprise me. Lack of attention to client's need is quite notorious in the holistic health industry

@NOTintoxicated have you spoken to a psychiatry doctor? Sounds like a textbook OCD which can be diagnosed and usually treatments are available (both medical & holistic). Probably best to get an appointment with psychiatrist so you have something on the paper you can work with. Don't just jump into antibiotics without knowing what you're up against. Seek a second opinion if you get dismissed.

Amazing! Love the self reflection and brutal honesty. Get your hierarchy fixed and see you back here in a year or two. Godspeed ?