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Wellness Wednesday for May 24, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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This guy claims to have cured his acid reflux by kneeling over with his head below his stomach while eating to strengthen his esophageal sphincter. For people who understand anatomy, does that sound plausible?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106553/

Both me and my mother used Iqoro and it worked for us(and supposedly 97% of users), so why couldn't this work as well?

I have never heard of this before! It looks like you can't get it in the US, which is curious.

It's a very new product and it usually takes a while for these things to spread beyond the home market.