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> Or auto-immune issues?

N=1, but I have an autoimmune disease that has reacted extremely well to lifestyle (stress & diet) changes after years of expensive drugs failing. Or regression to the mean happened. Or a recent solar flare fixed what was wrong with me. Nobody knows.

Doctors are great but they’re overworked and the amount of time required to truly help patients isn’t feasible. When science doesn’t have any easy solution to your problem self care (or tons of money) is the only option - which makes it awesome to see products like those in the OP! Hopefully it’ll be a step up from a lot of the snake oil self care out there.

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This! x100! Thank you for sharing your journey

> This! x100!

You can't turn N=1 into N=100 just like that ...

I do hope someone will keep an independent scientific record of how this approach actually helps people (if at all).

There's a lot of money being made in the space of nutritional supplements at the moment, and yet there is very little evidence that any of them work at all. We shouldn't let the same happen here.

>> This! x100! >You can't turn N=1 into N=100 just like that ...

You're right - I probably shouldn't have used the language I did. In retrospect I see how it was confusing. I just meant to express how happy I was that healthy lifestyle changes were helping someone. :)

> I do hope someone will keep an independent scientific record of how this approach actually helps people (if at all).

Yes! We want to contribute to the scientific literature (e.g., by identifying new lifestyle interventions that help reduce inflammation levels) and do so in a validated way!

In the meantime, we base our service on existing scientific literature regarding which lifestyle interventions are associated with decreased inflammation levels: https://www.begolden.online/post/lifestyle-interventions-ass...

Can I ask which autoimmune? I have one too and so far have been relying on drugs but want to try this inflammation / lifestyle approach.

Not GP, but try an elimination diet. I had chronic sinus headaches and cutting out a ton of foods fixed it. My brother is diagnosed celiac, I am not because you have to eat gluten for the blood test or do a stomach biopsy, both of which I'm not down to do.

Changed my life in such a significant way. Doesn't hurt to try it.

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