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Exercise can help fix excessive body fat, which contributed to my apnea. It’s actually pretty fascinating how many common and sometimes serious medical problem

• banana_giraffe 6y ago
  And perhaps this is a thing everyone deals with to some extent for one thing or another: I have a very strictly controlled diet. It's the result of a lot of testing, and discussions with my doctors. Most people that are around me enough get a sense of this. Most don't know the depth of it. What gets old is when I deviate from the diet, by say having a glass of beer at a social function, it's a big deal. Everyone's concerned about me, which I appreciate, but I have to justify the beer by pointing out how it fits into my diet, and how I've planned for this beer. I have had to pull up my diet plan on more than one occasion to make someone happy. If I was known to have problems adhering to my diet, and asked for this sort of help, then fine. I don't have that, and I've tried to tell people that I know what my diet is. I try to be nice about it, and ask people to just let me be. Instead I get to defend every beer I have. So, now I'm the teetotaler in the office. It's just easier than the alternative. But it's damned annoying.
  • centimeter 6y ago
    If your diet plan allows beer it’s probably not very effective. Doctors aren’t going to be very helpful here - 95% are incompetent. You should probably try to come up with a good and efficiently computable a priori dietary strategy (e.g. evolutionary ancestral diet, with the goal of minimizing the chance of running into defective metabolic pathways). I can’t think of any such strategies I’m aware of that would allow beer.
    • smabie 6y ago
      What's wrong with beer?
      • shock 6y ago
        Contains gliadin and glutenin which promote the release of zonulin which regulates the tight junction in the intestinal epithelium. Disregulated tight junctions can lead to autoimmune disease. At least that's the theory. https://www.mygenefood.com/blog/zonulin-leaky-gut/ https://www.mygenefood.com/blog/zonulin-leaky-gut/
    • uprighten 6y ago
      I'm not sure about 95% of doctors being incompetent. If nothing else they are much better trained than the average person offering advice.
      • shock 6y ago
        Trained to do what? Cure chronic disease? Edit: instead of answering, a bunch of doctors downvoted this question.
      • nmfisher 6y ago
        I wouldn't say most doctors are incompetent, but I would say that most are automatons working to a checklist which probably hasn't been updated since they left school. Patient reports symptoms A, B, C? Order tests X, Y, Z, prescribe drugs 1, 2 and 3. Now that's probably appropriate for (say) 70% of patients. But what about the other 30% of patients whose symptoms or conditions don't fit squarely in the checklist? That's when some kind of analytical/critical diagnostic skills are needed, and in my experience, very few doctors possess these skills. Once you're in uncharted waters, they're not helpful. In fact, they're often actively unhelpful because they refuse to acknowledge that some things might be outside their expertise and they either need to actually hit the books, or do the work to find a specialist who can help you.
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  • darkerside 6y ago
    Just so you know, you're effectively complaining that people care about you too much. People can't put themselves in your shoes, but they try, and when they see you having a beer, knowing it could be bad for you, they try to support you in keeping away from it. I can see how it would get annoying. If you view it as love, instead of nagging, it might get a little less annoying.
    • kortilla 6y ago
      That’s not “caring about you too much”. It’s not knowing what’s appropriate. As someone who had to follow a strict diet for a while, I know for a fact that the people who stuck their nose into my allowed indulgences did not care about me nearly as much as the people who actually cared and knew I was capable of managing my own diet.
      • darkerside 6y ago
        How is it that you know that for a fact? Edit: Please don't downvote a clear question. The truth is, you can't know another's intentions in most cases. It's very possible parent does know them in these cases for other circumstantial reasons. In which case I'd ask, how do you know that extrapolated to everyone else who asks those same questions?
      • rlonn 6y ago
        If you meet an overweight person, do you begin conversation by telling them to eat less? If not, why don't you? They obviously get too much calories and may benefit from your advice. And they can always tell you to stop giving them advice if they don't like it. Seriously, some people have no common sense and/or are just arrogant. Jumping into a situation where you have minimal information and assuming to know best is the hallmark of a fool.
    • DoreenMichele 6y ago
      It's virtue signaling, not caring. It's pretending to care and expecting to get pats on the head for it while actually being a burden to someone whose life is already overburdened. It's the opposite of actually caring about a person. It's caring about them making you feel good about going through superficial "caring" motions while doing absolutely no good and lots of terrible harm when it is added up over time for the person with a chronic condition whom absolutely everyone wants pats on the head from for pretending to care while doing not a damn thing to actually make their life better in some meaningful way. If people care, they do what actually helps you rather than insisting you make them feel good for superficial bullshit that only adds to your suffering.
• Dahoon 6y ago
  In that case it is modern medicine that is woo-woo since we had dietary treatments for serval things before we had medications for it, like for epilepsy.
• gwbas1c 6y ago
  Yes, excessive body fat is known to cause sleep apnea. It's not the only cause. I had to go through jaw surgery. It was worth it.