@coolboymew sugar alcohols can result in a leaky gut, which is source to a lot of physic and metal health issues, it is to be consumed moderately.
I only use them for baking cakes and even then I still add liquid stevia extract.

@mangeurdenuage @coolboymew IIRC "leaky gut" is 100% bullshit, homeopathy-tier altmed.

@mangeurdenuage @coolboymew it's about as much micro-biology as the living blood droplet analysis under microscope people that point out random things and claim they're hostile bacteria or fungi. Both try to resemble actual micro-biology but would be massively worse problems than the typical for altmed superposition of quite bad and fixable by diet and supplements, were they true.

@Amikke @coolboymew
> the living blood droplet analysis under microscope people that point out random things and claim they’re hostile bacteria or fungi
tf are you talking about ? There are people doing that ?

@mangeurdenuage @coolboymew yeah, and they're as convinced that it's legitimate micro-biology as you are about the leaky gut thing. Altmeds are sneaky.

@Amikke @coolboymew
>as you are about the leaky gut thing
Leaky gut is mainly about digestion, regenerating or optimizing your stomach to break down food, and when I say the stomach I mean also the micro biology that lives in there that will either help/accelerating breaking down elements or break down elements you couldn't do on your own.
My curiosity about this started when I got a Biology professor from Lyon who made Comté do a lecture to me.
And more recently via the book gaps. All of it correlates heavily with my own knowledge of plant/soil microbiology/symbiosis and my testings on myself.

>Altmeds are sneaky
It's not an altmed, please don't put such words in my mouth.

@mangeurdenuage @coolboymew I don't see where any of this is putting words in your mouth. I have a general idea what "leaky gut" is about, it's about the same things as most other popular altmeds – claiming a nonsensical process (leaky gut lol, if it was actually leaky you'd be dying of sepsis) as guilty for a whole bunch of vague food-related issues in a way where you can blame any random thing on it and feel reassured when either pure placebo or coincidentally switching to a diet that's healthier for other reasons helps.

Homeopathy is similar, the core is obviously nonsense but if you do believe it and experience the placebo effects you can talk all about how it matches your knowledge about how medicine works and your experiences. It's more obvious (water memory lol), but that's about it, the modus operandi is the same.

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@mangeurdenuage @coolboymew and I assure you, you can find a lot of quack doctors that seem professional but push homeopathy. You have to dig very deep in the altmed cesspool to find something so ridiculous that this won't apply. It's basically a constant of society, wherever there's sickness there's altmed and wherever there's altmed there's quack doctors pushing it.

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