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[darkoshi]

This is an interesting video from last August, about the development of the vaccines & antibody treatments. It's 54 minutes long, which is why I didn't get around to watching it until now.
The Latest on COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatment

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New to me:
Read Your Food Labels: Watch out for Maltodextrin (It has been linked to inflammatory bowel disease; it also has a very high glycemic index.)

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[marahmarie]

Oooh thanks for this as I still struggle with IBS-like stuff sometimes *makes mental note to read labels for maltodextrin*

Fwiw I've been focusing hard on what I eat again over the last few weeks and it seems white flour products might be the real culprit, which throws this out of IBS territory straight up into a possible gluten intolerance.

Which is a relief in a way - if so it would allow me to eat everything on Earth again save high-gluten products (I say "high-gluten" because I can eat, say, corn tortillas without much if any problem, but now that I think of it, I'm not sure if a corn tortilla is gluten (glutinous?) or not).

[darkoshi]

Corn is gluten-free, though I just learned it has something called "corn gluten" which is a different substance:

https://www.verywellfit.com/is-corn-gluten-free-562845
Corn contains a substance known as "corn gluten," but this is not the same gluten that people with celiac or gluten sensitivity need to avoid.

But I'm not sure if corn tortillas are only made with corn, or if they are sometimes made with a mix of corn and wheat. You'd need to check the labels.

"Glutinous" doesn't mean gluten-containing. In particular, the "sticky" variety of rice is sometimes called "glutinous rice", and it doesn't contain gluten.

[marahmarie]

I misspelled. There's a glutenous, too. From search results:

What does Glutenous mean?
adjective. like gluten. containing gluten, especially in large amounts.
dictionary.com

Whoopsies.

[marahmarie]

And thank you for looking that up for me! *dreams of having a moment to breathe* I was between "someday" and "never" getting around to that. That's good to know. I'll check my labels too (*sigh* "eventually"), as I'm a big tortilla and tortilla chip fan. Potato chips tend to stir things up for me badly which is a shame as I love them (and still eat them, but find I have to severely limit quantities or things (literally) go south fast) so tortilla chips it is.