Mike Dilger ☑️ on Nostr: I don't take the personal experience of another person to mean much for me, because ...

I don't take the personal experience of another person to mean much for me, because it is statistically underpowered. But you know yourself, and you can do tests on yourself and figure out what causes what.

I figured out that for me wheat bran causes diarrhea. White bread ok, whole wheat bread gives me diarrhea. So I can't have whole wheat, but I'm fine with gluten. But that is just for me. Can't be translated into advice for other people. Rye and barley and brown rice seem to be mostly ok though. It's just wheat bran.

I also figured out that I had sleep apnea. Using the CPAP machine improves things but doesn't entirely guarantee a restful night's sleep. I have a large distented belly and I have a habit since childhood of wanting to sleep on my belly, which causes problems now with the pressure it creates. So that is part of it.

I figured out I can tolerate 10mg of atorvastatin, but not 20mg. At 20mg I get terrible sleep, constantly waking up, a wierd kind of soreness in my neck that stretching does not alleviate, and something like a frustrating restless legs syndrome and bruxism. I don't know why statin does that to me, but it does. But without any statin my LDL and triglycerides shoot the moon. So I'm walking the middle path.

Diets are not the cure-all though. Most medical professionals even say "diet doesn't matter" because their patients all think they can cure X and Y and Z with diet but they never can and these doctors see it every day and learn to believe that diet doesn't matter. Of course it does actually matter, but only in the long term. You can't fix kidney problems or fatty liver or cancer in two weeks with a radical diet.