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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:

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.

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:

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

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…

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

yes, he is--I sent you a DM

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

TY! I know you all do battle--I know you shouldn't have to! this poor kid is considering spending his life savings to buy extra time. I wish I could do more. The system is utterly morally bankrupt.

oh! i didn't realize that was an option. that is *such* useful info.

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.

thank you. So many people with long COVID are shocked & believe this is new & they new to reinvent the wheel. if only someone listened to us decades ago, we'd be at least closer to answers.

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....

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...

awesome!

Sign the Petition Cochrane: Withdraw the harmful 2019 Exercise therapy for CFS review

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...

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.

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...

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

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

he knows!😍

ginger and white kitty with a pink nose and pink toe beans

generally, the reason why I'm late.

yep. it's a loss any way you look at it--for disabled patients, for disabled providers, for COVID rates, the environment, traffic...but Medicare & common sense are mutually exclusive.

thank you for this reminder to take my iron supplement! 😘

Tricky sources of gluten: ferro rocher, tea, flavored nuts, booze, candy, potato chips or crisps

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

@realMaalouf Two Iranian women have been sentenced to death by the Islamic regime for advocating for women's rights. Bakhshan and Sharifa were found guilty of 'spreading corruption' and are now going to be hanged by the Islamic regime. There are two photos, one of a woman with light brown hair wearing a green scarf and an orange top. The other is a woman with dark brown hair wearing a gauzy blue blouse.

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.

Fascinating topic!

that calls for an extra donation!

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