“A move trailer is not wrenching.”

Yeah. I mean, I have IBS, so it’s the issue of finding my triggering foods and avoiding them unless I’m prepared to sit on the toilet for an hour. But otherwise, I’m skeptical.

As a person with gastroparesis, I can tell you how much it’s fucked up. To reduce my pain, vomiting and flare-ups, my GI doctor has told me no fresh fruit, no fresh vegetables or fresh salads. I can’t have dairy or eat meat other than chicken. Day-to-day, it’s a battle to find any food that doesn’t make me sick.…

I hate to say this, because I’m going to sound like a total fucking psycho, but....chronic inflammation is for real. It’s considered to be the primary driver (or one of the primary drivers) of the pathogenesis of a host of chronic diseases. Atherosclerosis, chronic inflammation. Type 2 diabetes, chronic inflammation.…

Thank you. This is the kind of shit that Jez used to mock the hell out of.

Not to mention anti-inflammatories mostly increase your weight through water retention. I had to be on some serious steroids in the past year (decadron and prednisone and an injected one that the nurse pushed too fast into my IV and made me vomit) and the experience left me with excess weight, not less of it. Even…

Your inflammation levels are tested in a basic blood panel. C-reactive protein levels let you know. They go up if you’re sick, surprise surprise!

As an Old with actual, medically-measurable and imageable inflammatory processes (like elevated ESR and RF), I’m calling bullshit on all of this. Extreme cold makes my arthritic joints hurt like hell - one reason I moved away from a region that has extreme cold. Eating/not eating the current bugaboo of foods won't…

You a good daughter.

And generalized “inflammation” sounds like generalized “toxins” to me. I have some periodic inflammation, but it tends to hit specific areas of my body at specific times of year. I’m also allergic to many tree pollens, super-allergic to grasses, allergic to a lot of weeds, and allergic to molds, and I live in the…

cryotherapy....helps with sleep irregularities.

Well, then, if inflammation is the worst enemy, let’s start handing out prednisone. Moon face for everyone!

I was sort of wondering that as I was reading. Is the point to eat more foods with anti-inflammatory properties (an actual good thing to do), or is it to eliminate food that supposedly causes inflammation? Because there’s kind of a big difference in the end between the two.

My big red list no-no’s - flour, sugar, dairy, and red meat

Cheer up. X is still in the world, except the kids today call it Molly.

I can’t watch the video but the part about attractiveness seems a bit like a dad joke gone wrong. Like “of course she’d have to be pretty! After all, the only reason I’ve done so well is because of how hot I am!” *dad chuckle*

It’s almost like he’s just a person and not imbued with the spirit of a random god.

Once in a while he shows us that he’s got more spine than so many of his colleagues on the right.

Things our mothers and sisters had to hear.

I became somewhat close with a manicurist during a time when I was getting my nails done regularly. We weren’t friends, but I liked her and we did have real conversations about things. Among other things, she told me about how she and her husband got to America, beginning with paying someone to help them stow away on…