davzie

Interesting how so much negative sentiment creeps out when there's a true European competitor to the big US tech companies.

It's crazy watching so many Americans not see the parallels here.

You should do more writing! I really enjoyed this and the way you write!

Try Migadu. It’s great.

You can really tell the parents vs non-parents in these comments.

Neither of those examples result in social ostracism from peers.

This seems to run counter to the anecdotal evidence that some say grounding has on healing. I assume grounding is discharging the body (if to be believed) whilst this article would have us believe we should add charge. I don’t have a dog in the race, it’s just interesting.

I have had many jobs and scenarios where I need to provide proof of residency and I have never once had a share code like you mention @mytailorisrich like this. The reality is that it doesn't happen like this. Usually about 6 months into your job someone forgets you haven't done the necessary checks and reaches out for you to send a couple of sketchy photos of your IDs so they can upload it to their HR system and forget about it.

This is really easy to fake though and employers kind of have to take your word for it that the documentation you provide is real. I'm assuming a digital ID scheme will just bring all the data together and make it instantly verifiable for employers. I would normally be suspicious about this sort of thing but I do think a lack of a single entity bringing all the data together is limiting us technologically in the UK. What Estonia have done is awesome, it'd be cool for us to work toward something like that!

I’m gonna do it I’m afraid and plug my own UK based one (it is paid though): https://davzie.com/products/contracts

You're right, I think a better UX would have been to let me select which photos I want to use like a normal camera roll picker and to just automatically make that photo available to the app requesting it rather than me having to first go and approve which photos to make selectable and then going to select it after.

I need to similarly vouch here that I am a real human! I am just a software engineer in the UK with no financial ties to any of this stuff. I just found it the most effective thing after having countless diagnostics, treatments, psychotherapy visits and more. It’s real (at least for me) and I’m so fascinated by it because I’m annoyed it took me so long to discover. 8 years I suffered.

Yes they prevent acid but that's masking the root symptom (not enough and not low enough PH to stimulate closure of the LES). Not having enough might seem like it fixes it in the short term, but it causes knock-on effects that mean your food isn't being digested properly and you're more prone to bad bacteria making it's way to the small intestine. Once it gets there, it's very hard to get rid of so be careful on PPIs!

Exactly the same as me except more general health anxiety symptoms that turned into real painful symptoms. I learnt about Dr Sarno from Dan's channel on YouTube Pain Free You. So glad you found similar!

They have long term health consequences and reduce your stomach acid quantity enough that the acid doesn't make it's way back up the throat. So it's masking the root cause. The knock-on effect of taking PPIs or H2-blockers is that you end up with lower acidity which means worse food digestion which means being more prone to bugs and bacteria in food not being wiped out before it gets to the small intestine where it can cause bigger issues like SIBO.

Having the right amount of stomach acid and low PH is crucial to keep the whole digestive system, gut motility and more running properly.

When I said lower stomach acid I meant in quantity, not acidity, you're right!

Reflux is solved by MORE acidity or promotion of stomach acid. Lower stomach acid PH means the LES doesn’t close properly. Seems counter intuitive but took me 8 years of symptoms to discover.

I absolutely can't stand this sort of drivel from people who have never had the pleasure of partaking in a truly creative activity and experiencing how that feels. To them it's just something to be optimised away and automated for the 'benefit' of bringing it to the masses.

I was absolute fuming when I got my letter from them demanding I pay them money. I knew I was closing my company down in the coming years and ignored them in the end. It's crazy this is allowed to be honest.

Tell that to Steve Jobs!

I can't comment on all the shortcomings and this may be reflective on my lack of experience with different implementations, but doesn't using GraphQL basically just enable a tonne of unoptimised database queries to occur that, at scale, could cause some serious load issues?

Rifaximin / Neomycin has big impacts on it however I do believe if you have stress still, not got good stomach acid and / or not dealing with poor gut motility, it will slowly re-surface.

Can confirm I found help in Solgar Quercetin. I’m convinced it’s all stress related though and the stress is causing imbalances in the body.

I started out with Solgar brand. I found digestive enzymes with Ox Bile to be best and the Betaine I look for minimum 350mg Betaine HCL and minimum 50mg of Pepsin as that appears important to managing symptoms. Probiotics I found just make me feel worse.

Congratulations on finding stuff that's worked for you! I recognise a lot of similar things that I've tried to cut out or introduce. The body can heal, it's great at that, I think doing all this stuff can help give it the space to do so. I used to think alcohol helped (Gin) and was "killing" the bad bacteria off. But I actually think it just chilled me the fuck out for an evening. Good luck on your journey, we're going to make it! :D

I tried probiotics, tonnes of different types, none of them worked, most made it worse.

I tried fasting, a few days eating nothing and drinking only water with a bit of salt. It doesn't really work. The bacteria go into hibernation mode until you start eating again.

I don't drink milk anymore and I tried a low FODMAP diet. The latter helped, but I found it so hard to keep up and it was stressful.

I had every diagnostic under the sun. Chest xrays, stool samples, hydrogen methane breath tests (hydrogen positive). I am 99% convinced it was all caused by stress and the antibiotics I took was the straw that broke the camels back.

Stress triggers flight or fight mode. Chronic stress means you're always in this state which means your body isn't producing the digestive enzymes and stomach acid it needs to maintain correct bacteria levels since you don't need to digest food when you're being chased by a metaphorical tiger, better use that energy to run away instead.

The only probiotic I haven't tried that I would like to try is Symprove which is a refrigerated one that was recommended to me by quite a few pharmacists.

Once I am fully confident my stress levels are very low and I've learnt to manage them I will start to wean off the supplements and see if I get a recurrence of symptoms. I'm not yet fully cured but most importantly I'm on the right track.

I also went through this for 6 years.

A guy on YouTube will help called Pain Free You. Recent studies suggest bad bacteria can continue to flourish if we are chronically stressed (which symptoms like this easily cause). Huge correlation between stress and flare ups for me.

In the short term whilst you work on the mind-body aspect, I recommend taking Digestive Enzymes with each meal along with a Betain HCL + Pepsin supplement. These are the only supplements that removed my symptoms (and trust me I’ve tried them all). They work by ensuring you have the right level of stomach acid to properly digest food, proteins, carbs and fats so that by the time it hits your digestive tract, there’s less undigested FODMAPs for the bacteria to feed off of.

There IS a light at the end of the tunnel.

Happy to chat about this and what I use since I know this can be hard to go through davzie at davzie dot com.

This is so common.

You can contact me here https://davidt.co.uk for more information but I went through similar issues for 8 years. Taking Betaine HCL and digestive enzymes before each meal has not only completely eradicated all digestive problems but also massively helped my mindset as a result. Essentially some people have chronically low stomach acid and stimulating more with Betaine HCL helps increase the amount of acid, the acidity of the acid and as a result actually closes the LES. When there's enough acid and acidity, the LES closes. If there's not enough it stays loose. This is why PPIs are awful in the long run. It seems like it solves it in the short term but wears off after a while. It also causes all sorts of issues further down the line like IBS and malabsorption of vitamins etc.

I think they benefited from slower runs across the course of days rather than sprints to chase game. Lots of animals are faster than humans, but in order to cool down they have to stop. From what I've read, humans' ability to run and stay cool through sweating allowed them to, over the course of days track and just simply wear out animals to the point the animal would just collapse from exhaustion.