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I have Hashimoto's which is an autoimmune disease. My TPO antibodies were very high. Took 3 years to get them in check. Another doctor tried giving me anxiety drugs because he had no idea what was wrong with me and that was his answer. Thankfully I found a great doctor that specializes in autoimmune diseases who put me on the right path.

Okay??

Interesting. I agree, different diets work for different situations & people. I think sometimes its a lot of trial and error. I am happy your diet is working for you. I plan to do some reading up on it.

See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9843715

See my comment above. I would love to hear about what you have done too.

I was on the autoimmune protocol for about a year and slowly introduced things after that. The first month on the diet sucked. I felt worse. After that though, things really started to turn around. I was also on vit supplements due to a lot of my levels being extremely low (Vit D & Iron) and am still supplementing because my body has a hard time holding onto these things.

I also take a 20 min fast walk each morning when I wake up and do my best to eliminate stress (I know easier said than done).

I had very high antibodies and now have none. I wasn't able to make it past 1pm without crashing and now have no problems making it through the day.

3 years later I am still on a strict diet but not nearly as strict as it once was. There are certain foods that still make me crash (sugar, beer, etc) but overall I got my life back :)

I am not saying this will work for everyone but it has worked for me and others like me.

Sorry you feel that way. That was not my intention.

I was sick for a long-time and was getting progressively worse. I understand that what works for me may not work for others. I am simply suggesting we look for the root cause and possibly look for alternatives other than drugs. For some people there may be no alternatives and I understand that.

I was by no means intending to be rude. Simply suggesting an alternative solution. I apologize that you took it as me being rude.

I hope you find some answers. I understand the struggle.

I have personally reversed CFS & an auto-immune disease with crazy high anti-bodies by sticking with a very strict diet and changing my life-style. Only after being directed into many black-holes by multiple doctors telling me nothing was wrong or trying to prescribe me anti-anxiety drugs.

So yeah I guess I am a jackass!

I have personally reversed CFS & an auto-immune disease with crazy high anti-bodies by sticking with a very strict diet and changing life-style.

Rather than defaulting to drugs for CFS, I would much rather find the core cause of it? Oftentimes it is an infection, stress or even the food we put into our bodies. You would be amazed at how better you can feel and how much more energy you have by simply changing your diet and lifestyle.

I can't but help think the high turnover is caused by more than just the low wage. If the workplace is miserable, doesn't challenge you and doesn't offer much opportunity for growth, the turnover is going to be high regardless if you increase rates by a couple of bucks.

We have turned into a service force where it is easy enough to jump from one service job to the next. There isn't a lot of loyalty from employees in these jobs because they are not rewarding.

What can we do to change that? Honest question. I am not concerned about finding ways to lower the turnover and keep people in dead end jobs. I would much rather see more jobs being offered that give people opportunities.

Just my 2 cents.

Nice! We already heavily use Twilio and I will be adding this functionality to two of our apps.

"What if people are paid a base wage but also got a percentage of the fee"

That would be great!

There are plenty of decent paying service jobs. Plumbers, Roofers, etc. There are also tons and tons of low paying, low skilled service jobs. I suppose this is an entire different topic of discussion but something that needs to be looked at for the future of our kids. We need more higher paying skilled jobs regardless if they are service jobs or not.

I see both sides. Seems like there are way more low wage jobs out there though. Plenty to choose from.

I understand what you are saying and agree with a lot of it. Not saying I completely agree with all of the comments, instead simply pointing out what your average non techie/HN people think.

The "general user encountering the site" will most likely be the users using this service so imo they are just as important as the HN crowd.

I discovered this through a Facebook thread that has a ton of comments on it from non HN or techie peeps. Thought you might want to know what normal non-techies think.

"I think it is a great idea that has potential but I personally wouldn't use them because I can't find anything about them on the website. Looks like a scam."

"They need to re-design their website so it doesn't look like it was slapped together in 10 minutes and add an about page so we know who they are."

"Not even a business at this point."

"This stuff kind of annoys me actually. I get the minimal product concept to test the market but when stuff like this is pushed out there it makes consumers very wary."

"These guys will take this to some bay area VC's and probably get funded because it blew up on Reddit and HN with a bunch of other techies. Meh!"

"It is going to take some serious $$ to get a service like this going. The support alone for handling inbound texts and having reps look for and book deals is a very big undertaking."

"Yay! Another useless service that creates more low wage service jobs that cater to the wealthy."