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    Atlantic article about ALS

    ...French man who ate false morels, and was diagnosed with ALS, then 6 years later he was healthy again. I guess the fact he was in severe obesity (BMI: 35) at the time he went ill, played some role. Article in French...
  2. lgelb

    Longevity?

    ...draw on throughout the day are all critical. But none of those calls for corn syrup formula, snarfing a bag of cookies, or tailoring a diet to a BMI set point (range, yes, but only you know what your body feels like at a certain weight). And many less processed foods, including selected...
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    General question regarding ALS symptoms

    ...EMG was clean but on S1 root +1 fasciculations. June 2023: - NFL serum via Mayo Clinic, Simoa used, value was 4.5 pg/ml, adjusted for age and BMI ( 35 ), sNFL Z-score was 0.05, again another analysis that would provide a clue against neurodegenerative disease. July/August 2023: - Cramping in...
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    Very Worried...

    Hello, I am a 39 year old male in okay health (I am 50 lbs over my BMI and have been trying to lose weight through diet). About 6 months ago I started noticing a twitch in my right finger. I thought nothing of it at the time, really. Then around that time, I noticed that my hand felt weaker...
  5. lgelb

    Why are my muscles twitching like this with negative EMG? (History and Videos)

    ...It would help if you can monitor BP at home several times daily with notes of the context, and bring in the data. It is worth noting that your BMI is high and can contribute to HTN/SOB. Whoever wrote you the Mestinon should be following you to figure out what/why it's helping. Without...
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    Really concerned about symptoms and the current process of medical exclusion I’m going through.

    ...I have lost a lot of weight over past couple years (-20%), but I was overweight for several years and do eat much better and less calories and my BMI is now 22, but I’m still not exercising. I also started biting my cheek a lot when chewing (not always but a few times a month it’s happened...
  7. lgelb

    Progression

    ...you know you're using gas, but the indicator doesn't hit the notches until a certain point. That said, Blake, there is evidence that maintaining BMI (sweet spot range may be ~30-35% depending on how you feel and your body type) helps slow progression, so a regimen of high-fat, high-protein...
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    13 months of symptoms with cramping, fasciculations

    Hello, I am a male 35 years old with military background lookin for answers or the very least similar situations like mine. I am 1,82, 120kg, so BMI over 30. I have read the sticked post. Symptoms My problems begun in June 2022 when I started with fasciculations in my biceps...
  9. J

    Am I at the beginning of the diagnosis journey?

    ...that I felt what is real muscle weakness in the past, when I lost too much weight drastically due to a separate issue and I was under my normal BMI and couldn’t stand or walk too much, my muscles and joints were killing me at some point due to the lack of strength, they would get tired...
  10. lgelb

    Small, early ropinirole trial

    Yes, H/L BMI as a proxy for baseline resilience is important in any disease, but one that is at least in part a disease of hypermetabolism...in a larger study, that could be eliminated as a confound.
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