Thus, I wholly believe this study.
In my experience an apple = a bar of chocolate, has the exact same effect, no difference except maybe a bar of chocolate is slightly faster acting. Immediate brain fog, almost like being psuedo-drunk.
I too gave up on fruits after deluding myself for a long time that an apple a day is somehow healthy for me. In hindsight it's crystal clear addiction. I was looking forward the entire day to that moment where I'd 'allow' myself the fruit. I was frequently unable to stop eating after the determined portion.
If you scroll through my previous message history I cover this topic quite a bit, you can also email me. In general terms, I think hEDS is far more common than doctors do, and is likely caused by TNXB SNPs. TNXB SPNs are overlooked because these are too common to cause the 'rare' condition - but if you drop the prior assumption of rarity then a very different picture is painted. It appears to me that the only difference between hEDS and far more common Generalized Joint Hypermobility (GJH) is severity and the stochastic diagnosis that this difference causes. The prior assumption of rarity has informed the diagnostic test so the diagnostic tests reproduce this assumption and in my view have an extremely high false negative rate. If using other proxy stats like the rate of hypermobility in Long Covid from the work of Dr Jessica Eccles it's pretty clear that that prior assumption of rarity is wildly inaccurate. I was able to figure this out because I have experience as an applied researcher and machine learning, having spent half a lifetime reading papers I've developed a bit of a nose for the sorts of mistakes that academic researchers tend to make.
I mostly eat kale for vegetables, this also helps with subclinical insulin resistance and inflammation. I think roasting vegetables may end up being too sweet.
I did an extended 5 day water fast to kick start the microbiome changes I undertook it as an experiment and the effectiveness in lifting brain fog suggested that it likely had a microbiome component.
"" The water fast lasts for 24–72 hours. You should not water fast for longer than this without medical supervision because of health risks. "" https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/water-fasting
What could be different?
Do you mean that relative amount of lactose? I believe it's that's not different in the raw material.[0]
[0] https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/goat-milk-versus-cow-milk-a-co...
You could use a rule of thumb that hard/aged cheeses are low lactose. But there's outliers like brie/camembert that are very low lactose even when relatively fresh.
There is a meaningful amount of scientific literature connecting fructose and inflammation.
The AVERAGE human can only digest about 30g of fructose a day. Some substantially more, some substantially less.
A can of soda or three apples is about 30g of fructose.
Inflammation (high- and low grade)then being a second step linking to anxiety.
Sounds reasonable. But i have had a hard time finding evidence verifying that hypotesis.
Eating fiber with any carbohydrates reduces the absorption rate. It's partly why eating an Apple is better for you than eating a lolly despite both being high in sugar.
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...while actively competing in endurance events. They don't do this while sitting on the couch in the evening. And it's very specifically only endurance trained athletes who do this, sprinters would never need to consume that much sugar.
It's a valid point though, a sugary snack or sports drink directly before hitting the gym for a hard workout session is probably fine, as long as your blood wasn't already saturated with glucose from earlier sugary foods, and as long as you don't have insulin resistance.
I swear that a 4+ week coffee and caffeinated holiday improved emotional regulation and turns down OCD behaviours and anxiety.
Not sure if this is microbiota-related or related to down-regulation of neuroreceptors activated by coffee compounds.
I’ve heard arguments such as “well… caffeine is cleared within hours so a weeks-long effect is placebo”. Say what you want.
While I never pinned down the cause exactly, my talk therapist and I came to the realization that some meals would trigger it. Usually those meals were obviously bad for my health, so I started avoiding them.
> This might sound weird but I can "physically feel" in my head a certain anxiety
Why I commented. DPDR is in the same box as anxiety and, yeah, I could literally feel this weird pressure in my head. An actual physical sensation. Seems like we had different cause and side effects but it's so good to read there's someone else out there.
Glad you found something that worked for you. There's so much we don't know about our bodies.
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization-derealizatio...
There's a complicated relationship, according to this meta-analysis. Eating sugar in isolation from other sources of nutrition is a risk factor. Eating fruit, or eating sweetened foods with redeeming qualities like yoghurt and wholegrain cereal, is probably inversely correlated (with lower confidence). These seem to be true even when controlling for BMI.
Looking at the meta-analysis, it's hard to say there's no link. The authors suggest that fibre might mitigate the impact, and that adding sugar to otherwise healthy foods might encourage higher consumption of them.