What's trusted and verified X4? AG1, the most heavily marketed supplement, with no independent peer reviewed data to show any improvement in health outcomes

so excited about this new study:

Kelly Issokson MS RD LDN (she/her)@gidietitian.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share our @IBDJournals publication on food fears in #IBD: what are the drivers of fear/avoidance, how can we best help patients with #diet liberalization? Read on for specific strategies for your practice! @DrMadisonSimons #ARFID

Screening for food insecurity showed no improvement, but tailored meal deliveries and mobile food banks offered some benefits. by O'Connor EA, Webber EM (...) Lin JS et 3 al. in JAMA #MedSky 📖 read the article:

USPSTF Review: Preventive Services for Food Insecurity

This systematic review to support a 2025 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement summarizes published evidence on the benefits and harms of screening and interventions for food insecurity in health care settings.

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A new international survey has been released exploring the experiences of athletes with ME / Long Covid (with PEM) Please share widely - all info on our website here www.physiosforme.com/athletessurvey

stress may lead to mast cell reactions to food & pain. Big caveat--it's interesting, and we're not mice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Psychological stress-induced local immune response to food antigens increases pain signaling across the gut in mice

We recently showed that a bacterial infection can break oral tolerance to food and lead to IgE-dependent mast cell activation and food-induced abdomin…

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Excited share that our @romefoundation.bsky.social Working Team's manuscript 📄 on Overlap in Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction #DGBI is now published in @natrevgastrohep.bsky.social! Grateful for this amazing journey with global experts. Read here: nature.com/articles/s41... #DGBI #GISky #GutSky

If you are in Maryland, please write to State Assembly member & ask them to preserve funding for community disability assistance programs. Wes Moore (D) has proposed absolutely gutting access programs for people w disabilities & their families who support them. bethesdamagazine.com/2025/01/20/d...

Disabilities community ‘deeply distressed’ by proposed $200M cut to state services

Proposals plan to cut $200 million from a state agency that administers resources for people with developmental disabilities.

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Prevalance of hypermobile EDS at a gender affirming primary care clinic: 2.7%. So much interesting info here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

The prevalence of hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome at a gender-affirming primary care clinic

This study utilized a sample of trangender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse (TGD) patients to build on emerging literature that suggests that hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome may be overrepresented in...

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Hey, it’s one of those Mexican firefighters who came over here to take our jobs. And save our kittens.

can't count how many times this has happened. Are there any effective tricks for getting insurance to cover biologics that patients are *stable* on when they've gotten terribly ill when they've been off? already looked at CCF.

Q: Does gender play a role in GI symptoms? menopause? fascinating study. A: women have more symptoms of GI disorders than men, & there are different symptoms w/age, maybe b/c hormone changes #menopause onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Sex Differences, Menses‐Related Symptoms and Menopause in Disorders of Gut–Brain Interaction

Our global epidemiology study shows symptom differences within the five most common DGBI based on sex, menopause, age, and menses. Sex hormone-mediated effects may contribute to greater symptom burde....

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Cochrane, by dropping their planned review of exercise for #MECFS, disrespects the energy and time of those involved in that review AND leaves the existing review supporting exercise for ME/CFS and #LongCovid. Our petition calls for its withdrawal, www.change.org/p/cochrane-w...

Sign the Petition

Cochrane: Withdraw the harmful 2019 Exercise therapy for CFS review

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Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It.

Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.

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Brb throwing out all my fire alarms bc I’ve never had a fire

Bad Medical Takes@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 2y ago

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

generally, the reason why I'm late.

Holiday gluten-free newsletter: Wait, gluten is *where*? holiday edition. www.harriswholehealth.com/9983

I know people don’t want twitter screenshots over here, but not all the newsworthy items have made it here yet. These two brave women were sentenced to death for advocating for women’s rights in Iran.

Disabled people in the UK face £583 extra costs per month on average, even after benefits are taken into account. One in five disabled people face extra costs of over £1,000 per month. Disabled people are exceptionally likely to live in poverty. #Dispatches

Boop!

Gluten-free Thanksgiving tips: www.harriswholehealth.com/9992 #glutenfree #celiac

G-Free Thanksgiving – Harris Whole Health

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fascinating new research out: Neurodivergence, intersectionality, and eating disorders: a lived experience-led narrative review jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Neurodivergence, intersectionality, and eating disorders: a lived experience-led narrative review - Journal of Eating Disorders

Autistic people and those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are at a high risk of developing an eating disorder. While there is limited evidence on the relationship between other forms of ...

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Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

a) we have anthem. b) what the everloving? c) um...is open enrollment still open? because anesthesia is kinda important

A cutting board costs me $75 – it might cost you $10. What to know about the ‘disability tax’: Research shows disabled people need at least 28% more income than non-disabled people for a similar living standard www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

A cutting board costs me $75 – it might cost you $10. What to know about the ‘disability tax’

Research shows disabled people need at least 28% more income than non-disabled people for a similar living standard

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@putrinolab.bsky.social & CoRE are seeking participants in the NYC area for this PolyBio-supported lumbrokinase trial 👇🏻 They are accepting patients with the following diagnoses: Long COVID, Pre-2020 ME/CFS or Post-treatment Lyme Disease. Reach out to coreresearch@mountsinai.org to sign up.

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim. We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 2y ago

NEW: UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found.

I, for one, want David Bowie back so we can get off this alternate timeline. Clearly, he was the only thing holding the universe together.

a man wearing sunglasses and a jacket is standing in front of a green background .

Alt: Picture of David Bowie wearing sunglasses .

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