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Richard Nikoley's avatar

Thanks for the Yacon write up, Mike. The serendipity... I'd actually sent that initial email to you the night before (Thursday evening my time, 15 hours ahead of west coast). You were probably drafting last week's edition at the time. Arrow arrives Friday AM for me, so I begin reading about Wegovy and when I saw the results I was like, that's remarkably similar results...so I dig deeper and sure enough, looks like GLP-1 could be the common denominator and so in a sense, perhaps we have two studies...

Like you and other smarty pants, I'm unvaxed. Pretty certain I had the 1st round C late Jan / early Feb 2020 right after arriving in Thailand (via China, on airplanes packed with Chinese). It was uncomfortable, but just weird as respiratory goes. Nasal stuff is my usual course of worst symptoms and there was almost none of that. Coughing and lots of phlegm.

3-day deal for me and I got symptom relief by having a nice Thai-lady pharmacist make "Mucinex" for me by using the active ingredient plus Tylenol.

I'm fond of telling people that for me, I've had worse hangovers.

There was no testing at the time and plus, C was just becoming reported on. A few months later testing became available and just out of curiosity, I tested neg (not detected) on PCR and positive on antibody.

I've had stuff pop up like fever and cough a few times since, always mild and lasts a day, maybe 2. So, I'm not even curious anymore.

But the expats and Thais in my circle (many many)? First, all but a few fellow expats are vaxxed. 100% of Thais I know are vaxxed. AZ was the most commonly available and some have Pfizer boosters.

I know of no serious adverse reactions amongst anyone, nor have I heard of any (Rawai, south Phuket is pretty small and nobody is more than 2-3 acquaintances removed from anyone else). Similar to your golf clubs I suppose.

However, everyone I know vaxxed has had covid since vax, including my GF and her pfizer-boosted sister. Both in bed at the same time. Not so bad for either of them and not even remotely close to my GFs case of dengue (quite common here...4 types of it and you can get all four, no cross immunity). She was high fever for 4 days. Amazed I haven't had it (so far as I know...though I did a 48-hour bedridden gig last March. Who knows?) since I get a half-dozen mosquito bites daily.

The more telling thing, at least to me, is a good number of people I know personally seem to be coming down with something very regularly. One fairly young girl (27) seems to text me a photo of her latest round of meds almost weekly.

My reply is "AGAIN!!!???"

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Rhonda Ullrich's avatar

Hi,Dr Eades! I'm interested in trying the Yacon syrup, but I didn't see if there were any drug interactions. I do take metformin for type2 diabetes. Do you know of any interactions with that?

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