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Sep 15Liked by Jennifer Depew, R.D.

Terrific post! I started eating eggs daily and drinking coffee. Not sure why the equator changes my bodily desires, but it makes me feel good. I eat/drink neither of these in the States. I think its 5G/EMF that is even more associated with sudden hair loss. I have enough hair, but its growing more lately too. I also increased salt intake, began meditation practice again, and doing deep grounded stretching, so who knows what exactly it is, but the good life is good.

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I have been using more salt. I had cut it out with leg swelling, but too low salt can also cause leg swelling..... so confusing to be not well

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Sep 14Liked by Jennifer Depew, R.D.

Interesting. This is a new perspective. So far, most theories about coffee and hair loss revolved around caffeine allegedly being dihydrotestosterone blocker.

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Sep 22Liked by Jennifer Depew, R.D.

Great post. I thought that caffeine and nicotine were bad for hair because of the vasoconstriction but actually topical caffeine is apparently good to deal with hair loss, they even make caffeine shampoo ...

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I saw that too but haven't tried it. And thanks 😊

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Sep 23Liked by Jennifer Depew, R.D.

I think that brewing a big pot of coffee and pouring it on your head would work too but it's not as elegant as the shampoo.

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Sep 16Liked by Jennifer Depew, R.D.

Jennifer I just saw this posted and thought you might like it, they delete the links of some articles after a while so I archived it..

DISCOVER MED NEWS DOT COM

Modulation of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor by the “neurotoxin-like region” of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is selective, allosteric, and concentration-specific (a role in aggression and anxiety?)

https://discovermednews.com/sars-cov-2-and-nicotinic-acetylcholine-receptors/

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https://archive.is/MAcLR

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https://discovermednews.com/sars-cov-2-and-nicotinic-acetylcholine-receptors/?generate_pdf=18614

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Sep 15Liked by Jennifer Depew, R.D.

Gastroparesis seems to be a very common diagnosis as of late. I had never heard of it pre 2021. The cases I know personally were told it is a "post viral" condition. One was subsequently diagnosed with glioblastoma and died at 25 (I know he had 3 shots). One is currently in hospital getting an ostotomy. I don't know the status of the others. Keep your digestive tract moving!!!

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That is sad and would be a direct side effect of cholinergic dysfunction.

I had to add nicotine lozenges in 2021 because passive exposure colitis was not stopping. Daily diarrhea for 4 weeks before someone told me about Dr Tau Braun talking about nicotine for spike.

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*within just a day or two of starting the nicotine, the colitis started getting better.

Instead of restoring function for patients, they are chopping out bowel and destroying function.

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Sep 15Liked by Jennifer Depew, R.D.

This post made my head spin, but it looks like you are on to something! Please continue to report on your quest to have a nice day. It is more suspenseful than a Stephen King story!

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It made my head spin a little too. I need to try to summarize my summary.

~ Pardon the length, “If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter.” - French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal's work "Lettres Provinciales" in 1657

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Very interesting article that adds further understanding to my detective work on my own health, particularly related to choline.

(As an aside, I have found that the vagus nerve exercises do improve the symptoms around the head - smell, taste, hair loss, and flaking skin, but I do need to keep coming back to them. I am attempting to make them a daily practice.)

But I have stumbled over something recently that I think is even more significant. And you keep coming back to it and flirting with it in your articles. I have only just admitted genes into my awareness, and instantly I understand why nothing is EVER CURED by current medical practices of all kinds - and I understand why no form of medicine can adapt positively to the latest advances in the understanding of genes.

Our system of diagnostics is all wrong, utterly and entirely wrong. Everything we detect with our various diagnostic systems are nothing more than symptoms. Genes are behind every aspect of our ability to cope with our environment, but if you and I have a similar problem with, for example, the MTHFR gene, we will NOT necessarily manifest the same "symptoms" based on our other genes. You might manifest the symptoms of heart failure while I may manifest the symptoms of cancer, each resulting from the same base genetic issue, that our systems cannot efficiently methylate vitamin B9 and everything that arises downstream of that! You would initiate cure of your "disease" with the same treatment that I would initiate cure of my disease with, methylated B9 supplementation, despite their enormous differences.

This is of course, an oversimplification, because if this one MTHFR gene has such significance, so do others, and I have barely started to wrap my head around what other significant genes there are. Its a massive and very complex area of study, but for the medical professionals who do wrap their heads around it, all they have to do to "diagnose" their customers is run a genetic report through a computer program and have it spit out genetic anomalies that have known health effects. From there, they can work out how to accommodate those anomalies so they do less harm. Medicine becomes significantly about accommodating and supporting genes rather than diagnosing and treating diseases - a very radical shift.

It also makes a nonsense of the focus on "lifestyle changes". Sure, lifestyle changes will help our bodies recover, but no amount of kale is going to save you if your body cannot convert it into something usable. Lifestyle changes may support recovery, but they will not trigger the necessary recovery in the first place. Something else triggers the healing, and that is when we luck into accommodating our genetic limitations - because so far it has been luck rather than good design. Now we have the knowledge and the tools to do it properly and much more effectively.

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