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Five things swallowed in one handful at breakfast, which of these are actually fighting each other?

The interaction category that actually matters is not supplement with supplement, it is supplement with prescription, and it is worth being loud about that. Minerals like calcium, iron, magnesium and zinc bind various common medications in the gut, thyroid replacement and some antibiotic classes being the textbook examples, and the standard handling is a few hours of separation rather than stopping anything. If you take any prescription at all, take a photo of everything including the supplement labels and show it to a pharmacist. That is the whole task and it takes ten minutes.

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Autistic burnout doesn't respond to the standard advice - what actually helped you?

Formal accommodations exist in a lot of places and are worth asking about even when the process is grim. Written instructions instead of verbal, camera off by default, a fixed schedule rather than a shifting one, a quiet space. These are cheap for an employer and enormous for the person. Whether any of it is an entitlement depends entirely on where you are - but ask what's possible before assuming nothing is.

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Cat refused the 8kg bag after two meals, has anyone actually got a refund on opened pet food

Before you write the food off, consider that two mouthfuls and a walk away after a straight swap is normal cat behaviour rather than a verdict on the food. A change is usually done over about a week, starting at roughly a quarter new to three quarters old and moving across gradually. Cats in particular fixate on the texture and shape of what they know, and an abrupt swap gets refused on principle.

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How long should I give something before deciding it does nothing? Magnesium and fish oil, six weeks in

One caution on running your own trials: pick one variable at a time and do not start two things in the same month, which is what you have done. If either of them had worked you would not know which. Also worth checking that whatever you are taking has enough of the active thing in it to matter, because dose ranges on shelves vary wildly and plenty of fish oil capsules are mostly filler by weight. For anything joint related that is not improving, a GP is the right stop before another three month order.

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Is it normal to be starving all afternoon if I eat protein mostly at dinner

Very normal, and yes, distribution is probably doing a lot of it. Toast and a light lunch is a morning with almost no protein and not much fibre, and both are what make a meal hold you.

What I would change first, before touching totals: get 30 to 40g of protein into breakfast and the same at lunch, taking it from your dinner rather than adding to your day. Eggs, yoghurt, cottage cheese, leftover meat on the sandwich, a tin of fish in the salad. When I moved about 40g of my dinner protein earlier in the day, the three o'clock hunger largely stopped within a week.

Second, add volume. A salad with 300g of vegetables and some beans is a different physical experience from a sandwich, even at similar calories.

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Vitamix or a $120 blender, for one smoothie a day, where does the money actually go?

You've diagnosed it correctly, which most people never do. The failure is the coupling and the jar-to-base interface, not the motor. Metal drive couplings and a jar built to be rebuilt are what you're paying for. On warranty terms: the Ascent line carries ten years and the Explorian line five, with a paid extension available - which tells you roughly what the manufacturer expects to be servicing and when.

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