@protomemetic I do really appreciate that there are people who do this work and save people's lives.

@compuficial There are published guides covering the circumstances and age milestones when an endoscopy is recommended. The pill camera was helpful information but not a replacement for a colonoscopy.

This pill camera traveled my intestinal tract for 10 hrs and 38 min, taking 33,537 images.

Looking for lymphoma, Crohn's ulcerations, small bowel cancer, diverticula, and polyps. Nothing found. This was Jan 2022.

Bidirectional endoscopy next week. Upper and lower.

@Babygravy9 And what's worse, almost every consumer product made from agricultural inputs in an industrial supply chain carries similar contamination patterns as tampons. Including cosmetics, food, water, dental floss, and baby formula.

True. The face is the most honest biomarker we have. Sleep, stress, food, exercise, and sun all show up within weeks. The good news is it runs in reverse just as fast. Better inputs, younger face.

@welcome4567 The highest value thing anyone can do, imho, is to lower your resting heart rate before bed. The lower the heart rate, the better the sleep. The better the sleep, the more will power and energy someone has. The most powerful things to lower HR:
+ eat final food 4hr before bed
+

Loved this morning.
Included a nap in today's routine.
May start napping more.

> asleep before 9 pm
> up at 5 am
> 8h sleep, no wake events
> work 2 hrs with fresh mind
> 50 min strength
> 12 min HIIT (30 sec sprints, 1 min recovery)
> 10 min flexibility
> 43 min, 200°F

Two notes here:

1) the idea that caffeine blocks Clostridia benefits by speeding transit was an interpretation, not a finding.

2) on inflammation: caffeinated lowered IL6 and IL10, decaf raised CRP and TNF-alpha. The net inflammation story is split, not uniformly down.

@toly Toly you cooking something up on that?

Surprising new findings about coffee: you are drinking coffee for the gut bugs that run your brain.

> coffee affects the gut which then affects your brain
> it's the coffee bean, not the caffeine, doing most of the work
> polyphenols feed gut microbes, microbes send chemical