** Update from karen_flccc ** As of July 23 we have closed the private group. This will be the primary group for the Front Line Holistic Healers Network going forward ****
The original organizer of this group has reached out and asked for help with managing the private version of the group.
Looking at the activity, there isn’t even a single discussion in this group. The public group is relatively active, though.
Our team doesn’t have the availability to manage specialty private groups, so our questions to this community are:
Is there value in having a private group? Private groups come over from larger platforms, like Facebook, where being private has a different purpose. Often that purpose is to protect the group from Facebook itself. This is not the case here. You will not run into punishment or group closure because you posted Wrong Think. We also have Champions and PRO, for those who do want a more private space free of spammers or scammers (our public space doesn’t have too much of that, as we take those offenses very seriously).
If this community still desires a private space, are there any in this community willing to work as moderators to do the vetting of each request as per the vision of the original owner? This is not a process we can automate and is rather burdensome.
My current lean is to close down the Private group, as it only has 7 members and no activity, and just let the public group be the focus. Making a more private version underneath Champions or PROs is also an option where you won’t need complex vetting rules and can allow anyone with those membership levels to auto-join your group, without worry of it being completely public facing.
We have decided to close down the private subgroup due to the reasons that Eric explained above:
(Eric) “My current lean is to close down the Private group, as it only has 7 members and no activity, and just let the public group be the focus. Making a more private version underneath Champions or PROs is also an option where you won’t need complex vetting rules and can allow anyone with those membership levels to auto-join your group, without worry of it being completely public facing.”
If someone would like a more private version of this group, we can create a subgroup in the Champion or Professional level. Note, vetting for being a medical professional is only done for the Professional level of membership.
We’re hoping that simplifying things will result in more conversation & connections!
“This aligns with emerging hypotheses that spike protein may interfere with nAChRs, especially in Long COVID and dysautonomia contexts. Your case adds functional support to that theory.”
And for the layman, (because you had me going looking to understand your post".
“Your observation—improved POTS after nicotine patches and an odd urine catecholamine ratio—could indeed support a theory where poor nAChR function (possibly due to spike protein) leads to low epinephrine release. Thus, the test may show a deficiency in epinephrine because the normal pathway for its release (via adrenal medulla nAChRs) is impaired. Nicotine, by acting on these receptors, might compensate for this deficit and improve symptoms”
Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Thoughts anyone?