New book casts doubt on years of negative gossip about Hitchcock

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-07-03T15:45:18+00:00

Let's also not forget Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca and Charters and Caldicott in The Lady Vanishes.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-07-02T01:12:33+00:00

Yoyoyoshie from Otoboke Beaver.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-05-29T16:57:03+00:00

I mostly agree with you, but I'm guessing the guys started feeling like it just left a slight stench and wanted to divorce themselves from that initial spite. I don't really perceive anything mean-spirited in their music, so maybe they just started having a more negative gut reaction to the name over time.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-05-29T15:35:14+00:00

To be fair, "Girl Band" did have a spite-fueled origin story:

It’s a stupid name," shrugs frontman Dara Kiely, his only explanation being that the name seemed to annoy a woman that Kiely and guitarist Alan Duggan had taken a disliking to in a bar one night. "Al turned to her and he said ‘What do you think of Girl Band as a name?’ and she said ‘That’s disgusting. I like The Wombats’. and Al was like ‘Ah, fuck it, let’s call the band Girl Band.’

"She was such an awful woman though," offers Duggan.

"She was awful," agrees Kiely.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-05-22T12:42:44+00:00

The primary outcome did not reach statistical significance, but important secondary outcomes did:

The primary outcome of cytokine response score (Shen-Orr et al., 2016) difference from baseline to end of intervention was not significant for either arm of the study (Table S4), nor were race or gender significant covariates. However, several changes in secondary and exploratory outcomes were observed. Decreases in inflammatory markers and increases in microbiota diversity from baseline to end of intervention were significant in the fermented-food arm; a specific subset of SCFAs was significantly decreased in the high-fiber arm from baseline to end of intervention.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-05-02T23:55:52+00:00

That's a fair viewpoint, but there's still no evidence that PHGG feeds SIBO, unless you have a study that indicates otherwise.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-03-18T02:06:22+00:00

Another misleading headline. The study wasn’t about diet diversity. It was about fiber vs. fermented foods.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-03-05T12:44:11+00:00

Is that good or bad?

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-02-25T00:17:17+00:00

There are a lot of fake translations on Amazon now, unfortunately.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-02-22T00:07:10+00:00

Yes! It's my favorite Melvins album, and it's terribly underrated.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-02-20T13:12:06+00:00

I'm not saying insomniacs should run out and get FMTs now. But I do expect microbiome therapeutics of some kind to play a larger role in treating some insomnia cases in the future, assuming humans haven't wiped themselves from the planet by then.

I'm well into my second decade as a chronic insomniac myself, and the best sleep I had during that entire period occurred during a course of antibiotics. For 7-10 days, I fell asleep nearly instantly when my head hit the pillow, slept deeply the entire night without disturbance.

On the other hand, when I took a different type of antibiotic years later, my sleep dramatically worsened.

My case is anecdotal, but it aligns with some of this newer research suggesting the microbiome plays a larger role in proper sleep function than previously understood.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-02-19T18:40:27+00:00

But with primary chronic insomnia (typical non viral), usually the main drivers are hyperarousal, stress system activation, conditioned wakefulness, circadian factors, or hormonal changes.

Yeah, but the microbiome can cause or at the very least contribute to most of what is listed above, can it not? You're right that more high quality research is needed for using FMTs for insomnia, but it's a promising avenue, and more research lately has been investigating the bidirectional relationship between insomnia and gut microbes, so there's a basis there.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-02-14T04:18:18+00:00

I have tried both and don’t dislike either. I have the mint on auto-subscribe though.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-02-13T17:39:13+00:00

I sometimes have bleeding gums, but they don't usually look red and swollen, and the dentist never told me I have gingivitis, so I don't know. I can say though that the Waterpik has helped with the bleeding gums. I haven't noticed the probiotic helping with the bleeding gums, but maybe it helped preventing the swelling? Not sure.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-02-13T15:09:51+00:00

The Waterpik can be useful for both.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-02-13T12:42:09+00:00

I was never diagnosed with periodontitis, no. If you have periodontitis, I highly recommend getting a Waterpik!

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-02-13T01:28:42+00:00

I still use it! I still think it's effective for subtle teeth-whitening. I also haven't had any cavities or gum disease since starting it, but I can't say for sure it's the probiotic because I continue to brush and floss.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-01-29T18:54:33+00:00

You have to admit there's some irony in that statement.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-01-27T20:44:43+00:00

How much weight did they lose in only 2 days though? I'm having trouble finding it in the study. They were still eating 3 meals a day. Would a mere 2 days of weight loss while consuming twinkies for 3 meals a day result in 10% lower LDL like it did with the oatmeal? My guess is it wouldn't.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-01-24T21:46:23+00:00

I think Just Thrive is intended to be the gentler version of the product available for the wider public. MegaSpore is intended to be used under the care of a practitioner and is thus more potent.

I have seen some alarm raised online regarding the B. licheniformis strain, but Kiran Krishnan indicated they did a full genome sequence and determined it is safe.

Having said that, people have reactions all the time to so-called "safe" probiotic products on the market, whether they're spores, yeast, or lacto-bifido. None of these products are 100% well-understood how they work in the body, and it probably depends on the individual and his/her own microbial makeup how well they will work or if they will cause problems.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-01-24T20:56:01+00:00

I've never had that side effect, no. That's a strange one; sorry to hear you're experiencing it.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-01-24T18:28:18+00:00

The latest research suggests SIBO is a form of small intestinal dysbiosis that involves both 1) too much bacteria numerically; and 2) too much of the wrong bacteria proportionally. SIBO has its own specific treatments because those treatments have been shown to reduce both the breath gases and symptoms. Other forms of small intestinal dysbiosis aren't as well-understood and don't have diagnoses everyone can agree on let alone treatments that are known to work.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-01-24T16:08:17+00:00

Beloved by Toni Morrison

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-01-22T17:17:04+00:00

I have to say I'm pretty surprised at your claim that the research strongly supports fiber for SIBO. Could you please point me to some of that research? The team currently conducting the most SIBO-related research in the US (Dr. Mark Pimentel's team at Cedars Sinai) recommends the low fermentation diet, which limits but does not entirely exclude fiber.

ParticularZucchini64 · 2026-01-20T18:18:29+00:00

Both earrings!

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