I am 20 and I’ve been having some weird symptoms the past 4 years. I have only done a bloodwork like 1/2 years ago and it came back fine. I don’t have any medical conditions. The symptoms:

• My right ear has been constantly making a wooshing sound. I hear it all the time. Especially when it gets quiet. It’s a wooshing sound that sometimes gets louder than usual. When I press on the right side of my neck, the noise stops. It doesn’t stop completely but I can barely ear it when I press on the right side of my neck.
  
• Rapid heart rate. Sometimes I could be staying doing nothing and my heart beat fast and I feel breathless.
  
• When Is stand up from a sitting position, my heart beats FAST and I get a head rush.
  
• I get a head rush (I think?) when I look up. My head feels weird. Too much movement makes me get a head rush.
  
• The feeling of the head rush I also get when I feel anxious unexpectedly. For example: I once got an exciting news unexpectedly that really surprised me and I felt like I was ‘blocked’ . I don’t know how to explain it. My heart was beating fast, my head fet weird, I think it was a head rush.
  
• I get tired very very easily. There are some days where I feel completely fatigued.
  

Today I'm discussing Master of All, which is a perk from Generic Gamer. If you've never seen this perk or heard of this jump... this perk is probably the best singular perk in the jump (though ALL of them are really good), but it's not the INTENDED reason to come here. I personally think an early jump could stand to benefit from fusing GGJ with a more mundane jump (which is what my latest story-jumper is doing though not by choice) and grabbing this perk, it's appeal is kind of amazing. Now let's see the ACTUAL perk!

Master of All: Specialists focus on depth at the expense of breadth; generalists focus on breadth at the expense of depth. But what if you could focus on a single ability and have it benefit all of them? When you train one skill, ability, or power, that training and development applies not just to it, but to all of the skills, abilities, and powers you possess.

This is, understandably, a capstone perk. It is immensely powerful, and is the best TRAINING perk I've ever seen. There are BETTER perks out there for mastering stuff, heck I'll even include the other capstone in this jump just so you can see a better perk for MASTERING something.

Hyperspecialization: There’s focusing in a few specific areas, and then there’s this. Select a single skill, ability, power, Perk, whatever, so long as it’s possible to improve. At base, two things happen. A: the chosen ability progresses as if you’re training with it all the time, even when you’re doing nothing; if you were to actively train with it, the rate of growth would be effectively doubled. B: the rate of growth and development for the chosen ability is multiplied by a hundred.
Now, keep in mind that that’s just at base — both of these boosts increase gradually but exponentially the longer you focus on a single ability. Give it a few days, and the rate of growth will be multiplied by two hundred; a month, and by a thousand. You can change what ability you’re focusing on at any time at the cost of resetting the accrued exponential boosts.

Hyperspecialization IS a better perk if you want to master singular skills (or if you need a boost in power or skill in some SPECIFIC area but don't have the time to actually sit down and hone that area), but if you want to TRAIN something, if you value working for your goals, and if you want to be a jack of all trades Master of All is the better perk. And of course you could always grab BOTH perks, you could even do so without a SINGLE drawback AND you could still get other perks WITHOUT stacking drawbacks due to the discount mechanics of this jump. But I strongly prefer Master of All, personally.
Master of All is a very creative way to reward engagement in a setting which is something I'm always a fan of. A smart jumper who is not constrained by something like the notion of a fickle benefactor who ACTUALLY punishes boring jumpers might get something like Hyperspecialization and want to turtle up, but with Master of All you need to do SOMETHING for it to benefit you. Now WHAT you do doesn't matter, so long as you do SOMETHING that serves as training.
A very fun build could be for someone to snag both Skills, which is a function of the gamer system in Generic Gamer and then grab MoA and go to something like Generic School Years and diligently study. That studying will definitely count for MoA, since studying will definitely become or involve a skill as defined by Skills. This means that while you're studying you're becoming better at gymnastics, or cooking, or painting, or... using The Force, or mana management, or whatever other skills you've gained at this point in your journey.
One small facet of Master of All that is very interesting is how it stacks with uncappers and the very neat knowledge that there is a free uncapper in Generic Gamer (it's a facet of the gamer system!). This means that Master of All will eventually give you stuff like functionally limitless stamina and potentially unlimited strength, once you get the right upgradeable stuff at least. A fun thing I like about this perk is how it affects stuff like workouts. Workouts not only make you more physically fit with this, they also strengthen your perks, strengthen facets of your physique, and can even improve your luck (assuming there is a perk for your luck, which there IS in this jump in two senses: there's The Devil's Own Luck, AND there's a gamer function called Attributes, which CAN give you a luck stat if you want, I recommend it partially to mix with this perk). The idea that going for a joydrive can strengthen your telekinesis, or actively make you smarter is very funny but also very true with this perk and the right mix of gamer things.
This perk on it's own is somewhat limited, but a smart strategist who wants their jumper to be able to stand alone has a lot of options they can use. Two of my favorites here are Jack of All Trades and Experience Booster. JoAT is a fun perk that makes it much easier for you to hone new perksyou acquire along your chain, and Experience Booster is just a POWERHOUSE of a perk that boosts how much experience you get from anything that gives you experience, whether you only get it from defeating enemies or you get it from doing minor stuff, and if you mix it with Master of All you get a powerful combination since it makes it so that your workouts buff your brain by twenty times as much as they would otherwise. The best way to cheese it has got to be to go all in on game-ifying your life and taking the skills function of the gamer system, which allows you to make a ton of stuff into a skill, which thus plugs it into the Master of All functionality. Here, look at the description of Skills so you can see what I mean.

Skills (-100/-200/-300 GP)
For 100 GP, any ability or skill you possess becomes a ‘Skill’, with a skill level, increasing in power and efficiency as it levels up, done by gaining enough experience, which is gathered by using the skill; Level 1 is maximum inefficiency, while Level 99 is the maximum efficiency you could normally get — you can go even beyond that, though, with no hard cap to how high a skill’s level can be. The higher a skill’s level, the more experience required to get it to the next level. Generally, the more powerful and useful a skill, the slower it is to level up.
Any powers, skills, or abilities you already possess are automatically converted into System Skills. You may gain new skills by performing relevant actions; for example, throwing a knife might earn you the skill ‘Knife Throwing’. Skills will not deteriorate with time or disuse.
For an additional 100 GP, once a skill has reached Level 99, it may ‘prestige’, granting you an at least vaguely similar but much more powerful skill at Level 1 without taking away this one or, occasionally, traits if you’ve purchased the option. Prestige skills may themselves prestige. Prestige skills are especially difficult to level up.
For an additional 100 GP, you may ‘combine’ certain skills into a new one — without actually losing the ingredient skills.

This is hands down the best way to cheese this. This is also just a VERY good function in general, but guaranteeing that your skills can improve AND uncapping how good the stuff you do and the stuff you make can be is INCREDIBLE. This also allows you to become holistically better at everything just by cooking, or reading, and thus rewards you for having hobbies. This perk is very nice because it frees you from the constraints of training and having to incorporate stuff that makes you a stronger jumper but is more time-consuming and is not what a native would do.
I'm gonna take a beat to talk about Hyperspecialization again because one thing that's worth mentioning is that it's a passive trainer perk. It's MORE than that, sure, and in fact if you get it you're getting something worth every bit of CP you pay for it, but at it's core it's an enormously powerful passive trainer. There are other passive trainers. There didn't USE to be, at least not a LOT of them, but they exist now (these types of perks exist in several Edrogrimshell jumps, usually they are named "Dabbler" but not all of them have that name) so this perk has lost of some what made it unique. A perk doesn't have to be unique to be valuable, but it helps. Master of All, on the other hand is part of a, as far as I've seen, rarer type of perk: a training synergizer (something which blends types of training and studying together), and it's also a COMPLETE training synergizer which I've never seen before or anywhere else (normally the training synergizers I've seen link SPECIFIC skills, such as a perk from Generic Wizard which syncs how strong you are with your skill as a wizard, or a perk from Generic Culinary Warrior that links your cooking and combat skills). What this means is that if you miss out on Hyperspecialization you can go to other jumps and snag an equivalent perk there. In fact, you can actually grab something that is a MINOR improvement over Hyperspecilization, because all of the passive trainers I've seen let you passively train more than one thing at a time. It IS true that Hyperspecilization beats out these other, baby perks in how quickly it trains what you assign, but that minor aspect of its winning out is somewhat lessened in importance when you remember that placing something new in the lone slot hyperspecialization gives you resets how fast it trains the thing in question. Master of All is both less easy to compare to other existing perks and doesn't have any internal conditions that weaken active usage of it like Hyperspecialization does.
Now that's not to put you off of Hyperspecialization, if I were in a real chain I'd want to grab BOTH Hyperspecialization and Master of All (and not just because MoA completely removes the weakness of Hyperspecialization, but that's certainly a part of it haha), these are INCREDIBLY powerful perks, but one is... one is more universally useful than the other. Master of All is just an absolute S-tier perk. I cannot imagine any build where MoA is applicable where it wouldn't be an absolute GOD-TIER of a purchase. The only possible combination I could think of that might invalidate MoA would be the Sage x Spirit Touched combination from the ATLA Redux jump, and that'd be most of your base CP in a jump that has MULTIPLE sections worth of stuff to try and grab.
To put this in perspective, with a perk like this and the right combination of gamer things you can go into a setting like Chronicle and hone your telekinesis by working on your photography skills. You can become a better chef by doing your math homework and rereading whatever chapter of MacBeth you're on in English. Once you've gained the right skills you can become better at soccer and other sports while you design a website. Become a better wizard by practicing juggling. This is an incredible QoL perk that frees you from a lot of the time-crunchiness that comes with only having a decade in a setting as opposed to a lifetime. Honestly that's kind of the biggest strength of the particular nature of the Generic Gamer Jump, it does a LOT to free up your time and really let you optimize your time in a setting.

Generic Gamer As A Time Optimizer

So depending on the setting, a decade is either a LOT of time or it's BARELY any time. In Avatar the Last Airbender, a decade can be a HUGE amount of time (the entire plot of the first show is about one calendar year according to one of the show's execs), but in Harry Potter a decade is only a bit more time than the plot takes, and truthfully is barely a blink of an eye. So perks that allow you to have a special relationship with time are always good.
One of the critical facets of Generic Gamer is how it allows you to optimize time. There's definitely some underlying logic here, since game characters have INCREDIBLE growth rates, and I love that about this jump. Generic Gamer, for the cost of 50 GP lets you lose the need to sleep, the need to eat, and the need to drink. That is an INCREDIBLE boost to the amount of functional time you have in a jump, if you started your chain off as a base human and entered this jump as a non-boosted human or as an only minorly-boosted human. Getting rid of three of the most essential bodily needs for the cost of 50 points in a thing where you start off with 1350 points makes it a steal (You get different points for perks and for gamer system customization in this jump).
A big part of how essential this is, is how much time it saves you by eliminating sleep but in all honesty removing your need to drink or eat is also critical. I don't know how many jumps could safely be taken as first jumps that completely eliminate the need for sleep, food, AND water, but this one can and that's pretty OP given the costs. Also, bv eliminating the need for stuff like food and water you make entire other jumps wholly more viable. Minecraft, for example, becomes WILDLY safer if you don't have to work about starvation, since hunger is directly linked to your ability to recover from wounds but in Generic Gamer you can completely subvert this system by spending 100 GP: purchase Gamer Body (eliminating the need for food) and also purchase the HP System (which gives you fiat-backed regen, so long as you don't take a hit for a beat, giving you a passive heal much like some FPS games).
Gamer's Body & HP System guarantee you survive any setting that isn't actively trying to kill you, and also frees you up to more safely do what you want like explore or just have a good time. If you don't have to pay for food or housing for sleep, you either don't need money or you need a LOT less of it. Stuff like this is also DRAMATICALLY powerful for vampires and other creatures that are normally driven by, or at least associated with, constant hunger. Also this just makes zombie jumps hilariously easy for you to solo since the number of risks you have to take (while solo) are SO MUCH lower. Funnily enough the right set of perks here even lower the risks you have to take when you work WITH other people, as Inventory lets you both raid places by yourself (since you can store an infinite amount of stuff on you by yourself) AND lowers how much supplies you need for your friends (since time doesn't pass for stuff in your inventory, preventing it from going bad!).
This jump is also filled with training boosters, with Jack of All Trades, Experience Booster, Hyperspecialization, and Master of All all qualifying as training boosters broadly, they all just qualify as different TYPES of training boosters. This is very interesting, since one of the big things a lot of adventure jumpers will need sooner or later are training boosts of their own. The best training boost here is Experience Booster which buffs training by 100 times, a STUNNING boost to one's training, and this stacks hilariously with every other training booster here.
I have a lot of thoughts on this jump and I think I'll keep writing them down from time to time. It's just so good.

Dear fellow redditers, Hope you've been keeping up well. Me, not so much. I think I'm having insomnia. It's been over 3 weeks that I have a lot of difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep and unwinding my brain at night. This is after a period of heavy stress related to uni exams. Now, I just cannot switch my mind off, and it's causing this endless cycle of fatigue during the day, irritability and in general just having trouble enjoying my daily activities because I feel so panicked that I won't be able to rest at night. I wanted to tell you also that I'm on trintellix 10 mg at the moment, for depression. The treatment so far has improved my mood and given me hope for the future, I just feel a lot more energized but cumulating long days of work until late and revision, I feel like my mind switched all of a sudden, and I am now on the other side, unable to stop at night, just laying in bed watching the ceiling and not falling asleep, and it scares me. I have had insomnia in the past, and I remember that melatonin pills worked, however I just need support at this stage, and so if any of you have experienced an episode like this in the past, and mind sharing how they got out of it, I would be so grateful. I just want to be able to sleep again, feel like I've had rest during the night, because at this stage I feel very worn out and constantly worried, like my mind is "on alert". I have also tried herbal supplements, indulging in lavender oil but it just does not make me fall asleep. I'm still wide awake despite taking lavender pills. Have any of you dealt with insomnia? What treatment would you recommend if I need something to knock me off at first? Should I get prescribed melatonin from my doctor? I'm sorry in advance for the rambling, I just really need to feel like I'm not the only one going through this. All the best for your day, and thank you for reading this post,

26f, for the past 4 years I have been dealing with severe bloating, been to the doctors countless times, each time it's "eat fiber , drink water" like wow haven't thought of that at all. I already do those nonetheless, I also exercise. I went to get a colonscopy, I waited for 6 months for a specialist to again tell me "just eat prunes" and just blew me off, none of these doctors are willing to listen and do their job and want to go on with their day and my health is being toyed with.
so I'll start with my symptoms:

• severe bloating (it used to be bloating for a few days and then back to normal and repeat.but for the past 8 months it's been pure bloat . no relief)

-chronic constipation. sometimes it literally feels like the food stays in my stomach because I'm so backed up that I just don't feel hunger
-dyshidrotic eczema on my palm
-hair is super thin . used to be a lot thicker
-fatigue , I just want to sleep all day but I never feel like i get rest, I wake up tired all the time
-sometimes I'll wake up from naps actually shivering and shaking.

• overall stomach pain. I'm scared to eat just in case I get cramps
  
• I have retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction which is not helping
  
• from time to time my ribs will hurt. and I'll feel a sharp pain right below my belly button
  

-periods that are just overall confusing, nothing is consistent, not the pain, now the flow, not anything.
WHAT I DON'T HAVE :

• I don't have celiac disease -blood work is perfect allegedly
• lactose is irrelevant since I do not consume it at all
• colonscopy came back clean

what I eat in a day :
morning : coffee with soy protein yogurt with a spoon of peanut butter and sprinkle of cereal
lunch: sautéed veggies with either some rice or tofu, I also love lentil soup
evening: usually what I had for lunch
snacks: fruits - watermelon, bananas, grapes. I'll have some chocolate spread over a low calorie bread or have more coffee with a healthy sweet treat I made.

Dear fellow redditers,
Hope you've been keeping up well. Me, not so much. I think I'm having insomnia. It's been over 3 weeks that I have a lot of difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep and unwinding my brain at night. I just cannot switch it off, and it's causing this endless cycle of fatigue during the day, irritability and in general just having trouble enjoying my daily activities.
I wanted to tell you also that I'm on trintellix 10 mg at the moment, for depression. The treatment so far has really improved my mood and given me hope for the future, I just feel a lot more energized but cumulating long days of work until late and revision, I feel like my mind switched all of a sudden, and I am now on the other side, unable to stop at night, just laying in bed watching the ceiling and not falling asleep, and it scares me. I have had insomnia in the past, and I remember that melatonin pills worked, however I just need support at this stage, and so if any of you have experienced an episode like this in the past, and mind sharing how they got out of it, I would be so grateful. I just want to be able to sleep again, feel like I've had rest during the night, because at this stage I feel very worn out and constantly worried, like my mind is "on alert".
Have any of you dealt with insomnia? What treatment would you recommend if I need something to knock me off at first?
I'm sorry in advance for the rambling, I just really need to feel like I'm not the only one going through this.
All the best for your day,
Fellow redditer
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I just experienced again what I‘d call a kind of right leg fatigue: my right leg is suddenly incapable of constantly playing quick kick rhythms. Every third or forth bar fails being slightly to slow or missing a hit. It feels like my leg is too tired to keep up with the quick movements.
Has anybody experienced this effect, too, and is there a cure?

For the past 18 months my breathing has been really bad the best way I can describe it is constant air hunger and I mean 24/7 feeling the need to yawn to get a satisfying breathe
This has come out of no where my breathing has always been fine
I now cannot be around any cleaning products , aftershave , deodorant or petrol anything of that kind with a strong smell is just hell to be around for me
I’ve had 2 chest X-rays and have had my lungs looked at both come back as okay
I’ve been given asthma pumps but these do not seem to help my problem they just open my airways 1 time so I can get a deep breathe then 5 seconds later I’m back to constantly trying to get a deep breathe
I’ve tried multiple things to try and fix things as the doctors I go too really don’t seem to care I’ve tried taking time off from work to see if it’s the environment I work in that’s didnt help , I have lost a load of weight and changed my diet that didn’t help , I also exercise a lot and that Dosent help
Some days are better then others but something is triggering this as one day I will wake up and it will be living hell for 5 days really struggling to breathe but then it seems to calm down a little bit it will never leave me
I have 1 brother who has had asthma his whole life and we talk about symptoms and his sounds nothing like mine
At this point I have just settled that I have this for the rest of my life and I will never know what is it as the doctors I go to just won’t help me
Could someone please give me advice on what testing I need to have done to find my problem

Friday: the most horrible day in my life until that moment
Saturday: somehow even worse
Sunday: got up from bed. Eat a little. Went to church and took a shower
Monday: (today) it's a living hell.
For me:
-angry: at me, at him, and at everyone
-annoyed: with this situation and with myself
-Disgusted: everytime I look my self in the mirror. I can't stand being naked
-humilliated: I feel like everyone in the streets knows what happened and looks at me not with pity, but they think I'm stupid and laugh at me
-guilt: this is my fault. I allowed this. I didn't realize it sooner. I provoked this. I caused this. I'm not enough
-fear: I'm feeling lost, I lose track of time.
-headaches that turns into full migraine episodes. And they are constant. They last hours. More than 20 hours last time I checked.
-nausea: I want to vomit all the time
-lost of appetite: since then I have only eat 2 quesadilla (small one on Sunday) and a couple bites of bread (because my coworker made do it)
-nightmares: I cannot sleep for more than 2 continues hours, I wake up in the middle of the night and I cannot fall back asleep. Today I sleep 4 hours en two separate episodes.
-intrusive thoughts: flash backs of d day, fake scenarios, they together, our happy times
-my period is late by one day, I'm regular as a clock but I'm guessing it's too much stress for my body to handle
-such a deep sense of injustice: he is living his best life, while I'm spiraling into madness
-crying spells: randomly I start to cry and it's very difficult to put myself together
-Everything reminds me of him: stupid bike, a stupid bottle of water of certain brand, some music people is playing without knowing, a tattoo, everything
-missing him. But once again not the monster he turned out to be.
What can I do? Today I start therapy. Pain killers for headaches just won't help, I tried all and nop.
What are the baby begging steps? Routine? Ok I'm trying, journaling? I feel disgusted and angry at the idea of writing about him in such a graphic way as paper in my hands. Talk about it? Done and done What should I eat? I'm just not hungry. What should I do all day after work? I walk my dog but I get angry at him. My car is on repair so I cannot go freely anywhere, also I feel like I am not aware enough to drive. Watch TV? I cannot focus and I would like to link my favorite tv shows to this experience. Read, listen post cast etc? Done
My head is killing me. Hurts too much

In my 20s and early 30s I was a regular binge drinker. I didn’t drink every day, but heavily on most weekends and occasionally during the week (a margarita on Taco Tuesday, for example). In my early 30s, I think it had started to affect my health. I didn’t have anything severe going on, I just got sick too often and never felt great. I don’t think I was actually an alcoholic because I never had trouble abstaining, but I definitely abused alcohol.
I found out I was pregnant at age 32, so obviously I quit drinking altogether. For a while, I assumed I’d “pump and dump” so I could drink occasionally while breastfeeding, but I ended up staying completely sober until I weaned my daughter at nearly two years old. I didn’t have a single drink for two and a half years, and it was great.
For the past two years since then, I’ve been a “social drinker.” I don’t keep alcohol at home. I only drink on weekends (and not every day of the weekend). I never have more than 2-3 drinks. I think it’s been fine.
I’d probably have continued like this indefinitely, but last night I had three drinks to celebrate Mother’s Day, and it gave me a pretty scary symptom. I’m 37, so a mild hangover from three drinks isn’t all that unusual. A headache, fatigue, some nausea. But today I have HEART PALPITATIONS.
Now that I think back, this actually happened to me a couple times when I was drinking more heavily, but back then my hangovers were so bad that I couldn’t isolate single symptoms like this.
I looked it up, and apparently this is fairly common but also potentially quite dangerous. I nearly took myself to the hospital, but I decided to just take some aspirin, drink a vitamin water, and take it easy today. I’m feeling mostly better now, but I’m definitely done drinking every weekend or more than a single drink on special occasions.
I don’t think I’ll ever be 100% sober, but 99% feels good to me. I want to be able to have a drink with my partner on anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, or vacations, but I don’t want to risk my health. I want to be around to watch my daughter grow up.
ETA: back when this used to happen to me in my early thirties, I did notice it occasionally even when I wasn’t hungover, so it’s possible that it’s just related to that. I had a few heart scans that determined I have mild mitral valve prolapse and regurgitation, and I’m actually prescribed a beta blocker to help if the symptoms get bad. The crazy thing is that after I had my daughter, my symptoms went away and my heart appeared to have healed. Apparently fetal stem cells can help heal damage like that, so I always joked that my daughter helped heal my heart both emotionally and physically. But either I’ve developed new symptoms due to alcohol consumption, or they just came back organically (I have hEDS so valve problems are fairly common). I haven’t gotten a heart checkup in three years though, so maybe I should go ahead and do that in addition to making lifestyle changes. :)

I don't know if it's due to my chronic migraine or all of the medication that I'm on for it, but I can't remember a day where I haven't felt completely fatigued, nauseous, cognitively slow, constant brain fog, things like that. Does anyone else have this?! And how do people manage it? It's really starting to affect my work performance, as well as my ability to engage in hobbies and just enjoy everyday life! In a strange way, these cognitive symptoms are sometimes more of a hindrance than the actual throbbing head pain.

Iron is a crucial mineral that plays a fundamental role in our overall health and well-being. While it may seem like a small component, iron is essential for the production of hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. In this blog post, we'll explore the importance of iron as a "blood builder" and how it contributes to our overall vitality.

The Importance of Iron:

Iron is often referred to as a "blood builder" because of its pivotal role in the production of healthy red blood cells. These cells are responsible for delivering oxygen to all the tissues and organs in our body, ensuring they function optimally. Without enough iron, the body cannot produce an adequate amount of hemoglobin, leading to a condition known as iron deficiency anemia.

Signs and Symptoms of Iron Deficiency:

Iron deficiency can manifest in various ways, with symptoms ranging from mild to severe. Common signs of iron deficiency anemia include fatigue, weakness, pale skin, shortness of breath, dizziness, headaches, and cold hands and feet. In severe cases, iron deficiency can impair cognitive function, weaken the immune system, and affect overall quality of life.

Sources of Iron:

The body cannot produce iron on its own, so it must be obtained through dietary sources or supplements. Iron-rich foods include red meat, poultry, fish, beans, lentils, tofu, spinach, kale, fortified cereals, and grains. It's important to consume a balanced diet that includes a variety of iron-rich foods to ensure an adequate intake of this essential mineral.

Iron Absorption:

While iron is abundant in many foods, not all of it is easily absorbed by the body. The absorption of iron can be influenced by various factors, including the type of iron (heme vs. non-heme), other nutrients in the diet (such as vitamin C), and certain substances that inhibit absorption (such as caffeine and tannins). Consuming iron-rich foods with vitamin C-rich foods can enhance iron absorption, while avoiding substances that inhibit absorption can help maximize its effectiveness.

Supplementing with Iron:

In some cases, dietary sources alone may not provide enough iron to meet the body's needs, especially for individuals with increased iron requirements (such as pregnant women, menstruating individuals, and athletes). In such cases, iron supplements may be recommended by healthcare professionals to help prevent or treat iron deficiency anemia. It's important to follow dosage guidelines and consult with a healthcare provider before starting any new supplement regimen.

Conclusion:

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I've been attempting to lose weight for years, but the pain is unbearable. I'm already constantly hurting from hunger when I'm not losing weight, and I'm very rarely ever satiated, and even then only for a short time. So, trying to eat less, in fact trying to eat a normal amount of food at all, feels terribly difficult.
How do you handle the constant physical pain, and the fatigue and dizziness? I often wake up at night out of pain because I'm hungry, and that's when trying to eat a "normal" amount of food.
I know it's because I'm a fatass... but surely I'm not the only fat person trying to lose weight here.
I did, once, manage to start losing weight, by eating once a day and only a very small amount of food. I think I lost something like 7-8kg over 4 months? But I could do it because I was living a sedentary lifestyle, since it was during the pandemic. Now I spend most of the day walking left and right and having to take care of stuff.
For reference, I'm 169cm and my weight currently fluctuates between 87kg and 92kg. (It used to fluctuate around 85kg, and, a few years ago, around 75kg—my weight's just been going up.)
I also have hypothyroidism, but the medication I take sufficiently treats it so that should no longer be an excuse. Also, I was diagnosed with celiac disease about a year ago, but abstaining from gluten hasn't helped at all regarding my constant painful hunger and fatigue.
I have seen two Internet personalities go from a weight much higher than mine to a weight much lower than mine, in only about a year, and they remained full of energy throughout their weight loss (at least enough to get things done on camera and work on content)... So surely it's just me being too weak-minded, right? Any advice?

I was recently diagnosed with OCD and I’ve been in ERP therapy for about 6 weeks and started Luvox 2 weeks ago. I’m also 95% sure I have ADHD, but I haven’t gotten a formal ADHD assessment yet. Regardless, I feel like my time management is only getting worse, especially with the fatigue I’ve been experiencing from Luvox…
OCD already takes up so much of my time and the presumed ADHD makes it hard to focus, complete tasks, and I procrastinate. Both OCD & ADHD make my thoughts race and jump around constantly.
Does anyone else have both OCD and ADHD? And just in general, does anyone have any tips they use to manage their time and not feel like they’re wasting their day?

Does anyone else suffer from Religion based OCD?
I’m 25F and have suffered with this illness for 10 years. But only recently found out about the condition last year and was then diagnosed. I don’t think OCD is spoken about well enough considering it’s a seriously debilitating disorder.
Anyone that suffers with OCD will know it’s not just the compulsions but the exhaustion and mental fatigue that comes with it post fighting the intrusive thoughts / compulsions. it’s a constant war.
I’m not getting any younger but I’m not mentally well in all honesty to seek marriage which is disheartening. It makes me feel unworthy in some ways.
I’m not looking for pity honestly but more so to read about other peoples experiences/ stories.

Orange County- we had a lot of rain this past year which caused several ceiling leaks in our unit. I have A year of requests to have it fixed and they just half assed it just for it to continue leaking. Never fixing the walls or light fixture where water was coming from. Now we are constantly getting allergy like symptoms and bad headaches. Tested for mold and sure enough... Positive. We reported the issue but have not heard back from anyone! Anyone have recommendations for a good lawyer?

Keto beginner here. I am on week 3 of Keto and I am amazed at how I feel. I have tried several different diet programs but I have never been able to get past the fatigue/headaches that seems to come with the beginning of every diet. Keto is the first diet where I feel energized and motivated to consider this as a potential lifestyle, not just a quick way to lose weight.
I am 26M and started at 250lbs. I am very active through my job, lots of walking and lifting. Today marks the end of week 3 and I weighed in this morning at 229lbs!! While I am excited about the numbers, I am somewhat skeptical that such a drastic jump is actually healthy for me.
All that said, I would like to confirm with all the pros here that what I am doing is in fact keto and not a complicated way of starving myself.
My daily calorie count has been anywhere from 700-1100. Normally in a day I will eat 2 eggs for breakfast with 1/4cup shredded cheese. I will then have cut up summer sausage(1/4 cup) with a handful of almonds. Dinner most nights has consisted of 4oz chicken(raw weight) with green beans/broccoli. I have gotten to the point where my appetite is almost nonexistent and most things besides the listed above make me nauseous to think about. I have started needing to almost force myself to eat because I feel like my body needs something and not because I’m hungry. There have been several days where eggs, cheese and a can of green beans(and a multivitamin) were all that I would eat in a day.
I am complaining about none of the above, I am actually quite excited that Keto is becoming easier and easier for me to stick to. I just want to check with the Keto pros and make sure that the way I am dropping weight is normal and healthy.
I know this a long post, thanks to all who made it this far. Any advice on things I can do better is much appreciated!!

Hey everyone on Reddit and ADHD,
I'm not looking for a diagnosis, just some insight into what ADHD is like and if my symptoms might fit. I'm a 25-year-old guy and have been on a medical journey since 2018.
It all started back in school around age 16. I felt burnt out and had a hard time keeping up at school. I couldnt understand much or anything at all during lessons, so i spent most of my free time teaching myself. I struggled with sleep due to racing thoughts. One of my earliest symptoms was feeling lightheaded, especially in class, which still happens sometimes.
After finishing school, the lightheadedness got worse. I even quit a job because of it. I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety, but it didn't quite fit with me, because i dont have anxious thoughts, other than those concerning my symptoms. Medication helped, i can cope better nowadays but i still feel far from being healthy.
Here are some of my symptoms:

Vision fluctuates, sensitive to sunlight, and poor night vision. Difficulty expressing myself, feeling scattered. Quick mood changes, though I seem calm. Sensitivity to clothing textures, crowds, and conversations. Constant fatigue, low energy. Trouble making decisions. Tense feeling all the time. Struggle with simple tasks and household chores. Ear fullness, hearing issues, and occasional tinnitus. Impulsive behaviors like shopping and gambling. Physical shakiness, especially after overstimulation. 

I succeeded in school, even though it was tough. But when I achieved something, like a good grade, I felt no joy from it.
I've never been diagnosed with ADHD, but I relate to a lot of it. Any thoughts from those with ADHD would be appreciated. Thanks for your time! 😘

So basically i had a concussion in November last year, and sadly i had another, milder one around 4 weeks ago,
I went to check up with my doctor cause i had very bad symptoms the next day, she said I looked good, to drink paracentamol for my headaches when needed and go to a check-up in a few weeks
Well this may sound funny but it's serious, I actually healed? Idk why was that but my symptoms disappeared on day 9, but then i was touching the back ofmmy head, pinched the skin close to my ear, the symptoms immediately came back.And on the 14th day my little cousin who didn't know i had a head injury hit me in the back of my head, since then a lot of my symptoms have comeback.
I want someone, anyone, to explain to me are thesw symptoms bad signs,cause I've been to many doctor's just not a neurologist yet since my appointment is far away
So basically i have headaches (i feel like they happen mostly when i eat sugary stuff or whilst sitting), dizziness, balance issues (much better now then when my cousin hit me), fatigue, hotness around my neck area or back of the head, weakness in hands or legs,neck hurting after waking up, sudden sensations of movement when touching head and tingling in the face. Most of these go away when drinking paracentamol, but i don't want to drink it until my 70s, it'll hurt my liver also.
I never vomited, had a seizure,lost consciousness etc, but i am still scared of some things, i am 18 and i feel like these concussions will affect me more than i think
I am scared of subdural hematoma because I've read it can happen up to two months, so someone tell me will i be alright?
Should i do a CT scan knowing it's radiation? Or an MRI? Or should i wait for my neurologist in a few weeks (yes waiting lists are that bad here)? Or will i be okay? I generally feel good whilst walking around, standing (not for too long) or laying down, but sitting is my huge problem
Thank you for reading, I've posted before so i am hoping for some answers from good people and for y'all to tell me your experiences with it...

Devouring Cancer

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Meat. /mi:t/
Me it. /mi/ /:t/
It me. /:t/ /mi/
It’s me…
We are eating ones of ourselves…
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/Connected
/Mellator Matrix Mind: Inner Core.
/Unit: great [AVALON] the first
/G.R. Era.
/Memory File transmission: Generalized perspective
/Gender: N/A[Neutral]
/Age: {Human equivalent: 2001 years}
/Race: Grrrr’atrrr
/Species: N/A[Hive Mind]
/ Additional verification: Class>>> [Cancer Cells]
/Cradle planet: Ci-3301
/Home planet origin: Mupan
/First person POV not applicable. Generalized Spectator mode.
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Hunger…
It’s all that drives us. It’s all that unites, connects us… All that pulls us, all that defines and binds us…
Our story began long ago. It all started with a single parasite cell. Not the greatest primordial ancestor indeed, but every Apex Predator started somewhere. But back to our history… That very first cell was our first grandmother, as well as the beginning of our entire civilization. Hard to tell what was the trigger for it’s evolutionary change, as time wipes all. Perhaps it was desire to become something better? Awakening? Or maybe just spontaneous mutation in one of the genome chains, occurring by changes in environment? It really doesn’t matter. All what matters is that that cell evolved…
It didn’t happened quickly of course. Our first grandmother was no different than an average cancer cell that is present in nearly every life form, even us. It just growed into one small neoplasm, or simply, a cancer tumor. But that tumor slowly made it’s way to the brain. We know that because that’s how we, as well as our ancestors, assimilated everything for millennia…
It is impossible to determine which one of the prey species was honored to become the meal of our first ancestor, but it was clear that that feast was something that never happened before. That tumor did not just sucked the nutrients dry till the brain dies from the protein starvation, taking the tumor with it, no, that tumor assimilated it. And that tumor learned. Learned from it. And it saw the world for the first time.
Assimilation is not as easy as other inferior beings think. First, your cell needs to find the prey cell. Then it needs to envelop the cytoplasm of that cell to properly assimilate it. However, after assimilating the “Host”, your cells need to take properties of assimilated cells and even function for the prey organism for the time being so it won’t suspect anything. It is a long, tedious and fatiguing process. That’s why we just ambush other prey organisms and devour them for protein supplies, to avoid all that bustling.
And say what, the prey doesn’t make it easier for us either. As our first ancestors quickly learned, prey can be sentient too. It is inferior, weak, pathetic… And yet it creates great weapons to stop us, For [decades] these beings create astonishing amount of these pesky, venomous and disgusting antibiotics and chemicals to kill our minds. For thousands of [years] they set our flesh on fire, making us scream as we die in agony cell by cell.
And yet we prevail. When they make those chemistry compounds they call “Cure”, we gain immunity to it. When they set our bodies ablaze, we spray them with our blood and teeth, making their bodies to slowly blister as we eat them inside out. When they close their doors on us, we use ventilations, slithering right above their heads or below their {feet}. When they use special protection suits, we just tear them apart. And when they completely quarantine themselves, thinking that they are safe, we pretend to be one of them, striking from behind…
What is the most amazing thing about this prey? Well, aside that their flesh is delicious… They are clever. And they know how to build stuff. Weapons, tools, technology… Everything to increase the odds of survivability and comfort of their pathetic kind. And by devouring their minds, we gain all this knowledge as well! We learned how to grow cattle to saturate our hunger, we learned how to create faster means of transportation that even the fastest members of our swarm can’t out-crawl with their appendages. And most importantly; we learned how to reach the skies…
Among our prey species, there was a special class, or caste, of highly educated specimens, who called themselves “scientists”. These specimens learned how to use metal, fuel, radiation, and other inedible and in some cases straight up harmful components of nature, and turned them into what they called “Spacecraft”. A special vehicle, capable of leaving the atmosphere of our planet. Something that sounded like fantasy, even for the boldest ones of us, who sometimes managed to grow wings and flew high in the sky, until we consumed their heads and the knowledge they possessed along the way. From them we gained knowledge of the schematics of these space vessels, and most importantly; the schematics of FTL drives. Devices capable of traveling among the stars with “superluminal” speed. And so, after conquering and discovering each and every corner of our planet, we soared to the great unknown, right into the void…

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/Subject: Verrruur. Grrrr’atrrr. Lead hive mind of the Hunter Fleets.
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We flew among the stars in our glorious ships made out of strongest titanium fusions and covered in our eternal flesh. Yes, what wasn’t made out of the metal hulls of our ships, was made out of sheer muscles and flesh tissue. So many cells… So much nutrition… We could withstand decades without the food and still hunt like our greatest hunters back on Mupan(Apparently, that’s how prior sentient prey species happened to call our planet, and we didn’t really bother to rename it, as for us it was widely known as just “Ground, floor, or land”). Our strongest weapons, combined with our most dissolving acid spitters, made us the strongest and most feared hunters, “cementing” our history as the strongest Apex Predators in the galaxy! We defeated, devoured, and assimilated everything… It did not matter if our enemy was a leviathan, an enemy prey fleet, or even an entire planet. If it could be eaten, it was eaten…
Until it wasn’t…
On yet another great crusade in search of delicacy for our insatiable fleets, our sensors captured a strange, but nonetheless familiar signal. The impulse of FTL drive. After our intels captured the signal, our intercoms just exploded with thousands of jaws:
“Food?”
“Food…”
“ Food! FOOD!!! Food! Food! Delicious prey! Food! We shall… FEAST! Food! Yes!!! Food! FOOD!!! We haven’t ate for [Month]! At last… Some good food… Food! Juicy food… Flesh of prey…
Food! The succulent meat…”
Yes, we felt joy. And anticipation of hunting down these unknown but likely very delicious organisms. It was like opening the present. You don’t know what was inside these flying metal cans, but you sure know that it is likely to something edible.
Oh, we never were so wrong in our glorious history.
We did not saw them at first, that’s how black and cloaked they were. When we finally identified our “prey” we saw it was a small cluster of black ellipsoids, just hovering there.
“We will smash you like the eggs you are!” we thought.
When we fired our acid sacks and laser guns however, they were still there, not moving an [inch]. Then we opened all the airlocks(if we weren’t already outside) and enveloped their ships in our mighty grip, not stopping to pour their shields with our acids and plasma. Usually, after a few unpleasant zaps of enemy shields, the shields just popped and the ships just were crack open like the [nuts].
But not these…
They did not crumble and exposed their hulls with screaming prey just getting sucked out in the vacuum, no, instead they started to grow bright red. Redder than our flesh and blood…
And burned. Burned stronger and more painful than any flame. Our drones roared in pain but we couldn’t hear them in this silent space. Hundreds of megatons of our flesh clusters was just turned in ashes or tore off and were drifting and dead lumps of burnt meat. Our intercoms filled with screams of fear and agony, our minds losing their mass and density, turning into undeveloped children.
Father? It hurts…” could be heard in countless drones. And any that tried to escape, were sniped with red beams of such accuracy, that our best spitters could only dream of. It didn’t last long when we were the only operating guide ship of entire Armada that was so ingloriously butchered. And then we felt the warmth…
No… NO!
All weapons of this black eggs were pointed at us, our last mind. The last memories flashed as we slowly were burned to death. The last though of our last tumor was the realization that there was someone stronger than us. Someone who cannot be eaten. The Bigger Predator…
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/Memory transmission File disconnected.
/Reason: Biological death of the Subject.
/Cause of death: Sterilization
/Disconnected
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Today I am 7 days sober.
I am 29M and got drunk for the first time when I was about 13-14. Even though I was an athletic kid and did sports, I drank heavy at parties throughout my high school years like a lot of teens do. The alcohol consumption definitely got heavy when I graduated and lived on my own.
Drank pretty heavy and partied from 18-21. I moved away to Cali when I turned 21 and cut back at first but started back drinking heavy.
I have had a few sobriety stints since. The longest being a year (June 2021-2022). Mainly because I started to develop pain in my back, abdomen, and around my sides. I started to panic about liver failure, cancer, and all the horrible stuff that comes with alcoholism.
I had about a 2 year period where I went to the ER 7-8 times and was CERTAIN that I permanently damaged myself but every time they would tell me nothing is wrong, even though I felt something constantly gnawing at my back and right side of my body (neck down to back of right leg). It was so hard to tell what was actually wrong with me though… I’ve had 2 bulging discs for a while (since 2021). One in my neck that causes right arm pain / tingling, and one in my lower back that causes sciatica in my right leg. This was all confirmed and diagnosed by a doctor btw. The “worst” thing they told me that entire time going to the ER’s… was when I was 26-27. The doctor said all of my organs looked fine on CT scans and ultrasound. My bloodwork was good… BUT I did an endoscopy and did have mild gastritis along with GERD after binge drinking.
When I quit drinking for that year. It took some months for the fatigue and anxiety to go away… and another few months for the pain to be completely gone.
Sadly… My mother (48) was just diagnosed with stage 3/4 cancer of the pancreas, liver, and kidneys a few days ago. She used to be a very heavy drinker but stopped a few years ago when she started facing a bunch of mental issues. She has ALWAYS been a cigarette smoker though. This whole situation has me devastated and scared all over again.
7 days sober again… and I get so worried because I can never tell what this pain is and I’m trying to be strong for my mother right now. Maybe it’s just inflammation from drinking before? I know the body takes a minute to heal after drinking. Is it my bulging discs that are causing the pain in my right shoulder, side, hip, and leg? Is it my pancreas/liver too?
Soo much anxiety. I can’t wait to continue this journey, because I know last time was so much worth it after that year of sobriety. I pray that I have another chance to make this right and recover again. I plan on seeing a doctor to be safe, but won’t be able to for awhile because of everything happening with my Mom right now.
Any words of encouragement, advice, or wisdom would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.