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I was advised to avoid the PS around the riba doses - could hinder absorbtion the Doc said. Never had a prob with it creating flatulence myself.
Say - weren't you the Vagisil guy?
PS He's a mackerel tabby, and I decided to name him Silly. Has anyone else ever had a mackerel tabby?
<small>Mike, it all about packaging dude</small>
While the last sentence may be troublesome to most, it does give hope for those for whom eharmony.com didn't work out :)
Back to topic, drink LOTS of water if you take psyllium or you may end up a lot worse than when you started. Think CONCRETE :) And as Goof says, space your psyllium a couple of hours away from your riba dosing. Same thing for antacids and I believe even Flax.
Well gotta go eat a banana now.
-- Jim
The ONLY thing that will get rid of the virus is Interferon treatment at this time. Nothing else is currently on the market nor will anything help achieve zero.
The two choices are wait and pray new drugs come out someday or do the treatment. But nothing else will help you to clear.
<a href="http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/PIIS0016508506006925/fulltext">Editorial in May <em>Gastroenterology</em> suggests it's OK to have an occasional drink after all, provided you drink some coffee the next morning </a>.
People, that's why I keep saying that this Ultimate Fiber is the best psyllium powder, cause it's ultra fine, therefore less "concrete like"
though I think sometimes that maybe I could go get a yucky trader joes psyllium powder and just put it in my food processor, and get the same deal, and it would be a little cheaper for me, perhaps you've all helped stumble on to something? I just think that would be too much hassle and I've had that powder all over my counter...yes, I do drink a lot of water with it, I actually put it into some aloe vera juice and a little fruit juice and mix it all up...I never, never have a problem with constipation if I do this...I'm squeaky clean, inside and out! Notice I've kept this post above board and to the point!!!!
I'm trying to read Willing's article but my puter has a hard time accepting cookies nowadays since I switched to this super duper guard system...dang...
-- Jim
-- Jim
Anyway, don't know if they were referring to this one particular study...
But I read another study on the study re people who drink one glass of wine having better *heart health* then even non-drinkers???
So they assumed that a glass of wine a day was better then not drinking anything at all for heart health according to their findings...
Anyway, they looked deeper into this study and found out that many of the participants of this study were non-drinkers *because* of prior health problems that didn't relate to the heart (hence, they didn't always report them.) That's why they stopped drinking and became non-drinkers in the first place....
Then they found out that some of these ailments the non-drinkers complained of were precursors to heart disease...
So yeah, I wish they'd conduct some of these studies a little more carefully, even though it's extremely difficult to get all the variables right....
this is why you see so many studies contradict each other in my view...a lot depends on who was conducting the study, the control group in particular, etc...I know I maybe an idiot, but sometimes I rely on my own interior logic and intuition along with information I get from studies...
-- Jim