Fiber supplements are usually functionally useless (e.g. study https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5413815/ ) - and that includes inulin - or even harmful. Unless of course if by "supplements" you mean something like "I eat raw XXX as a fiber supplement".

[–] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a study on glycemic control on fiber. In no way does it claim that fiber supplements are useless because that is not glycemic control is not its only intended use.

I have IBS, and psyllium husk has helped relieve many of my symptoms that many high-FODMAP fruits and vegetables cannot.

Please don't point to a misunderstood study and use it to invalidate other people's symptoms and effective treatments.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And if you were to read the study beyond the title, you'd notice they list psyllium husk as working, making it fall into category I wrote as

“I eat raw XXX as a fiber supplement”.

There exist psyllium processed supplements. If you were to switch to them, they don't gel (which is likely what helps your for the IBS), and within 6 months or so you'd be back to being fucked.

Please don’t point to a misunderstood study and use it to invalidate other people’s symptoms and effective treatments.

I literally wrote "e g. study". So you can take that attitude and shove it.

[–] rowinxavier@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey, just as an outsider to your conversation above, I don't think the overall attitude here is super helpful or positive. That person read your post in a way you didn't mean it, you bounced back a couple of times, and it ended in telling someone to take their attitude and shove it. That is a fairly aggressive response and probably not great for them or for you. Living with that kind of outward aggression is painful and not actually helpful for defending yourself.

Something you may find helpful is restructuring with the assumption that they have misunderstood in good faith, without malice or accusation. For example,

"Ah, yes, they did list psyllium husk as working, it is one of the raw fibres, but the refined and processed ones don't work, they fail to gel. As for invalidating your symptoms, that wasn't my intention, I was trying to provide useful information of what not to do. If I were doing the wrong thing to manage a health condition I would want to know. Good to know psyllium husk is working for you."

It is much better for you and them, and honestly I have had a large number of interactions like this where the other person comes back and apologises for any confusion, seeing my tone and changing from defensive to conciliatory. It feels nicer than "winning". Anyway, good luck, have fun.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Suppressing all conflicts is not good for ya. Instead of preserving peace, habitual avoidance you're peddling makes people unable to recognize healthy disagreement and instead makes them think it's all fighting to be winning, stunting growth of all involved.

Something you may find helpful

You should've taken your own advice then, and asked if you can "mediate", because you think it might be helpful.

Pushing your "mediation", especially framed as an advice, is just feeding your ego, "winning" in a conflict your not a part of.

Anyway, good luck, have fun.

If you show that message with that ending to a random passerby, and ask them if you just wrote "fuck you", or was genuine, what do you think said random passerby would think?

[–] rowinxavier@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Just to start, it was definitely not meant as any sort of "fuck you". Genuinely. Please reread with the opposite emotional valence as that was definitely not what I wanted to achieve at all. I honestly did want to say good luck and have fun, but not like some sort of sassy sign off, I will work on that for the future.

In my opinion, which you are free to dismiss, your previous language was somewhat aggressive and dismissive. Your conversational partner seemed to find it to be so and reacted to that, so I don't think it is just my bad reading of your statements. It is entirely possible that you meant no harm, had no aggression at all, and your personal expressive language was just not a great fit for either myself or the other conversational partner.

When I said "Something you may find helpful" I meant those words, not something else. You may find a 10mm socket wrench useful, you may not, it depends on your current needs which I don't have access to, but hey, if you need a 10mm socket wrench I have one, along with my opinion above. It is offered in the spirit of kindness and also a lack of obligation, you don't have to take my opinion on or show why it is wrong, you are free to just ignore it and mark it as read.

I don't have an investment in you beyond hoping things go well for any other person. I do have an investment in the communities I participate in, so when I see something like your previous conversation and think I can make things a little better, a touch nicer, I feel motivated to do so. Feel free to look through my history, I really do try to consistently explain things, make things clearer, and resolve conflicts with discussion. I try not to dismiss the concerns of other people and in this case I have failed to note and respond to your concerns effectively.

I do not consider what I was doing as mediating, but I can see how you would read it that way and I perhaps should have used a direct message to prevent that interpretation. Do you think that would have been better? A less public forum? Please do answer this, I actually do care about your thoughts here.

I don't have any ego invested in this. I hope things go well for you, I have some tools it has taken a long time to acquire, they seemed possibly useful for you in this situation, so I tried to offer them.

Suppressing conflict is not the goal. The goal is resolving conflict, or at least for me. Agreeing to disagree is a perfectly good resolution. Finding a common ground and having someone expand or change their mind is a good resolution. Having someone change my mind is just as good as someone else changing their mind, and both are a little better than just agreeing to disagree. I am not trying to preserve peace at the cost of resolution, I believe that the level of conflict present was not conducive to a resolution and pulling back a tiny bit would make a resolution more achievable.

Anyway, I really truly hope things go well for you, no hard feelings if not, and feel free to ignore, reply, reply with a DM, or whatever else floats your boat, I genuinely hope you have a good day from here.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I add daily fiber gummies after every meal and also veggies that are low carb but high fiber for many meals.