The Gut-Brain Axis and Narrative Complex Dreaming with Resistant Starch (even X-Rated)
I’d say 90%+ of N=1ers have reported the same thing—vivid dreaming when taking potato starch at night before bedtime. Longtime commenter, Dr. Gabriella Kadar, has newly discovered X-Rated Dreams, just in case anyone might be interested in that sort of thing.
The dreams: Totally X rated. I don’t know if that says something about me or what, but it’s every night. Not problematic, just not the usual. I was really wondering if I should add this but what the hell, for the sake of slightly embarrassing accuracy it’s not just ‘vivid dreams’. Or maybe other people were using the term ‘vivid’ to mean the same thing. I was wondering if besides effects on neurotransmitters there’s an effect on hormones.
Here’s another commenter, just in this morning.
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Richard,
I decided to try potato starch based on the reports of sleep and vivid dreams. I Jumped right in, getting a bag and some Lifeway “greek style” plain (full fat) kefir from whole foods last night.
I figured start off full speed ahead, to see what a full 4 tablespoons would do right before bed, after never consuming raw potato starch before. So 4 tablespoons PS, 1 cup kefir (quite thick!). First, I noticed absolutely no increase in flatulence. I was actually quite shocked, given the reports. I hope this isn’t a bad sign that my gut is dead, haha. Moving on…
I drank this at 2:30 am. I had fallen asleep at my girfriend’s around 11, woke up, drove home, mixed and drank, then went to bed. I had difficulty falling asleep (always happens when I wake up and drive at 2am). What was different, though, was that I quickly started feeling a sense of well being, and energy. Perhaps the calorie load, or the assorted milk mood properties, caused this, but as I was lying there, I felt an increasing sense of well-being, an increasing sense of energy, and an increasing sense of relaxation (I’ll call it mild euphoria). Finally fell asleep.
Dreams were exactly as you described. Long vivid narratives with complex themes based on current life happenings. Unfortunately, I had just finished showing the first season of 24 to my girlfriend. My dream(s) involved being sent on a mission to kill someone by terrorists that held my family hostage, and trying avoid being killed myself. Regardless, despite the stressful nature of the dream, I didn’t wake up feeling stressed and tired like I normally would have after driving at 2 am, lying in bed awake, and dreaming some crazy stressful stuff.
The dream did finally cause me to wake earlier than I usually would have, I fell back asleep, then woke up at a normal time (7:30). Interestingly, I didn’t remember the dream, rather, realized I had intense dreams, the memory of which came after I had been awake for a while (effectively the opposite of the typical “crazy dream” which is forgotten 30 minutes later).
Today, after getting out of bed normally (always a laborious stressful process), I felt awake sooner than usual. Before leaving the house in the morning, I felt very invigorated and alert. My typical first cup of coffee hit me harder than usual. I actually felt a little jittery, and somewhat “overly” alert. Typically, 2 cups of coffee do not have a noticeable impact on my energy and mood, so this was surprising.
I feel both more alert and energetic today, and more “care-free” (nagging issues of the day and upcoming deadlines not causing me as much stress as usual).
I don’t have any blood sugar issues and never test, and any digestive issues I had in the past were largely solved after going low carb primal (PaNu) around 2010 and then reintroducing carbs about 2 years ago.
I look forward to trying PS before bed at a more “normal” bedtime, and am curious to see how my mood is after a couple of weeks (I don’t mind an increased sense of well-being! but in my experience mood is mood and always maintains an average equilibrium despite dietary changes).
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I’ve blogged plenty on the dreaming myself, and in comments as well, so to make this two topics in one post, I was interested as well in his statement, “My typical first cup of coffee hit me harder than usual.” I replied:
Glad you brought this up. I have seriously considered dropping coffee altogether. I’ll wake up, feel great, pour a cup of coffee and within minutes feel comparatively shitty. It passes, but why crash a bone right off the bat in the morning?
OK, there you go. Dreams—XXX or otherwise—and morning coffee, in the context of resistant starch.
…Oh, and Dave Asprey, call your office. :)
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Sorry if this was posted already, but a new paper on RS was recently published last month by Iowa State University:
Looks like you guys have turned some heads.
Anyone have any idea on the mechanism connecting the RS and the “vivid” dreams?
mrheisenbug.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/why-resistant-starch-prebiotic-fiber-improve-sleep-and-dreaming…
^ Here’s a great post that explains exactly what you’re looking for, regarding RS and dreams, as well as anti-inflammatory mechanism.
Walter.
Read the title, do a google search.
How many times do I have to repeat this?
Wow man, you actually made me comment. What in the fuck is wrong with asking a question? Obviously you like to stifle learning by being a dick to people. I like how you said ” how many times do i have to repeat this? ” Who the hell do you think you are? The police of the internet? Let me guess you get paid to do stupid shit like that? Stop being an asshole and let people ask questions.
Walter the one thing you might look into if you
are looking for a connection between the two is the Vagus nerve and possibly the pineal gland.
Do you see how easy that was Richard?
“Who the hell do you think you are? The police of the internet?”
No more than you think you are, I suppose.
At least I did my police work exactly 7 minutes after commission of the crime in question. You took 9 months and a day. ;)
UK sources of potato starch.
I’ve been using Encona farina, which I think tatertot confirmed was prepared in the right way. I don’t measure BG, but Encona definitely caused a stir in the lower regions when I started the supplement in the summer.
My local asian shop switched supplier a couple of weeks ago, to Tropical Sun Farina – I suspect it’s actually potato flour because it doesn’t stay in suspension in kefir. The packet gives no info beyond “farina”.
I then found Island Sun Farina in the Caribbean section of a supermarket, which seems to be another brand for Encona. It does stay in suspension. US consumers read (and weep over) the price drop in the past 8 months – ridiculously cheap:
mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/flour/island_sun_farina_potato_starch_500g.html
Would appreciate UK input on the most reliable commercial source of resistant PS.
Thankyou for the info. I’m in the UK too, am brand new to this resistant starch experimentation so don’t have any advice to share unfortunately. Ordered some potato starch from Amazon UK last night (Seller was Tongmaster), but don’t know for sure if it ticks all the right boxes. It was a lot more expensive than the Island Sun Farina you linked. I will look out for it next time in the supermarket. Thank-you.
Slightly off-topic. Been looking at Tiger Nuts this morning, most on ebay uk seem to be for carp fishing, but not sure if these are ok for us to eat. Anyone?
I phoned Surya Foods, the parent company of the Island Sun brand. They confirmed from their specification that “Island Sun Farina Potato Starch” is, indeed, raw and unmodified. So good news for UK folks: very cheap indeed! You can buy 500g of it from ASDA (about 1lb for US readers) for 38p (about 60c for US readers)!
I’m sorry if off-topic. But why wouldn’t he stay and spoon his girlfriend all night? It doesn’t make sense.
My story is similar to all of the others. Both the insulin sensitivity and dreams. I had a plate full of mashed potatoes last night for the first time in a long time. My BS never made it above 156. Unbelievable considering a cup of rice would normally send me well above 200. I too have very deep sleep and very vivid dreams. As a bonus I have now had 2 very lucid dreams. If you don’t know about lucid dreams they are a trip. Very fun (for me). I really wonder if this insulin sensitivity effect is well known but suppressed so the pharmaceutical companies can sell 10 scripts to every diabetic. I also wish there was more research on long term use. Many thanks to Richard and Tatertot!
I tried to find something linking RS, neurotransmitters and hormones etc but did not hence my question. I am not here to try to annoy you although it seems like I have so I apologize.
“I’m sorry if off-topic. But why wouldn’t he stay and spoon his girlfriend all night? It doesn’t make sense.”
No idea. I recall driving home often at 2am because I had class next morning and so did she. Spoons was weekends.
Does that penetrate your inability to make sense?
@Walter
No worries, man.
I only get a little perturbed when I’ve taken time to blog on it recently. :)
freetheanimal.com/2013/11/thinking-reacting-dreaming.html
I’ve reading been all your stuff now-I should be at work… I was really curious about the vivid dreams because I wondering if the RS can change depression as depression is linked with lack of sleep. DuckDodgers’s link below is awesome and wish they would have chased it further to understand possible links to reducing depression.
@Walter
I would have to off-hand say that it’s no panacea. Hell, my life has changed radically over a few years. First, I had chronic pain from a herniated cervical disk. I’d never in my life been bothered by pain much, always acute—made fun of people in my ignorance. I found out 1st hand how quickly you can consider eating a lead lunch.
Thanks to Dr Kurt Harris and Doug McGuff who so quickly saw in my writing what was going on and the cure was easy. Dr John Sarno. Google it. It was magical. Pain literally melted away as I read the intro to his book. Then, as it returned in the evenings, I’d just get up and read his book, and it would melt away again.
Second, I finally had to shut down a business I nurtured over 20 years.
Not sure if your comment is in expressing your own life and its “serendipity.”
But if it is, hold on.
youtu.be/IPZzWYkdS6Y
My gut-brain axis must be really efed up. I’m not getting the dreams. Or I’m so tired, I’m just not recalling them.
I shared a smoothie with my 3.5 year old son the other afternoon; it was spiked with a few tbs of potato starch. The next morning the first thing he said to me, “Mommy, I had LOTS of dreams last night.”
Megan, out of the mouths of babes…….!
For the record, over the past 3 days there has been no nocturnal excitement. Don’t know if I’m missing it or relieved.
Also, today was interesting in an ‘urggg’ kind of way.
Physician patient in the chair. Me: “I recently found out that the Irish didn’t cook their potatoes right through. They preferred them to be hard inside because this way they were filling for longer.”
Reply: “Of course YOU KNOW (YOU being me) that potatoes and noodles are not supposed to be cooked until they are soft. Noodles are supposed to be al dente. That way glycemic load is reduced and blood sugars do not spike. YOU KNOW that if starchy foods are cooked through the carbs instantly hit the blood and raise blood glucose. Then there is an insulin spike and YOU KNOW it results in what the patient perceives as being a hypoglycemia.”
He mentioned the Somogyi effect but my understanding of this is only in regards to insulin titration. I know that if the insulin dose is a bit over what it should be, low blood glucose levels result in a sympathetic nervous system response and the liver dumps glucose into the bloodstream thereby, if the insulin injected is fast acting, the blood sugar will bounce high. He called the blood sugar roller coaster in ‘normals’ resulting from carb intake as the Somogyi effect. Grace can clarify further. I’m only an expert with diabetic cats.
But he’s a Hungarian trained physician and Somogyi was a Hungarian as well. I think probably because of this, Hungarian trained physicians are more aware of starch, sugar, and blood sugar effects than North American physicians. In Hungary (and I’ve bought this here in Toronto long ago) they make potato sugar candies for diabetics. It’s both sweet and starchy. So I guess when their blood sugar gets too low the sugar in the potato candy raises the blood sugar and the starchy part keeps it steady.
I didn’t ask him how he cooks his rice.
Even though it was his first night with RS, I’m assuming the coffee made him feel crappy because of the balancing of ph in your gut that a prebiotic like RS imposes because coffee is acidic and throws off an optimal gut ph, so you may want to lay off on coffee for a bit or lower the dosage.
@ Richard – which Dr John Sarno book/books did you read for your back pain specifically? I’ve been researching psychosomatic healing lately, and would love to add to my library-
@Ann
I believe it was the original “healing back pain” or something like that. In my case, it was pain in my deltoid from a cervical dic herniation. But the cure is all the same (which is covered in the book).
My wife and I are both experimenting with PS and plain Lifeway Kefir.
I’m not sure if I’ll be able to convince my wife to continue though. This morning she said she smells like cow farts. She’s had thyroid issues in the past and hasn’t had a solid stool in sometime — so I’m just hopeful things are working out in that things will regulate and she’ll stick to it. The single dose of 4T plus kefir before bed is enough for her.
I’m 6’3″ and approximately 225# and 15% BF, and wasn’t noticing anything until I worked up to a 4T dose in the morning and evening. For some reason coffee tastes like crap lately, maybe its a bad roast, so weaning myself off of it as it was a pot a morning habit — I went cold turkey on Monday with the coffee and had a headache all day. Otherwise, moods for the both of us seem better, more relaxed, less stressful.
Richard,
Thanks for the repost, I’m glad I could contribute in some way.
Reporting my first x-rated dream. I had several vivid dreams last night and one of them was x-rated but unfortunately no happy ending:-)
It was quite a broad spectrum of dreams last night for me- from war planes and aircraft carriers(no, I don’t play video games) to aborted x-rated action. Nine hours of sleep and did not wake up even once. I remember getting very vivid dreams when I first started Vit-D – they lasted a few weeks into my Vit-D supplementation and then they subsided. Let’s see how long these RS induced dreams will last.
A co-worker who takes probiotics reports that he has to take his probiotics during the day because if he takes them at night the intense dreams leave him exhausted when he wakes up. So, there certainly seems to be a connection between gut bugs and vivid dreams.
Late to the party, but I’ve been following the RS series from the start (excellent information!), and the blog for a long time.
Can definitely attest to the vivid dreams, and better sleep. Really making life more interesting to know that sleep is no longer just sleep, but an experience…
Been writing about gut bugs for some time on my blog, and just put up a new article on what seems to be one of the biggest nutritional fallacies (only designing diets for the human self): organicfitness.com/?p=3135
Really looking forward to more research into the connection between the brain and the gut. It’s not many years ago that doctors like Natasha Campbell-McBride was “ridiculed” by the general medical community for treationg mental disorders by changing the gut microbiome, but more and more studies indicate that bacteria might be the key to understanding mental health.
Keep up the good work Richard and Tim!
Good blog Eirik!
Thanks The Natural!
The biggest problem lately is to have the time to keep up with all the research on the microbiome and nutrition etc.
Oh dear. There’s a clinical trial of a probiotic/prebiotic supplement that is going up against a “placebo” of “Tapioca-resistant starch powder similar in colour, texture and taste to the [product] mixture, assumed three times a day far from meals as 5 g powder packets dissolved in water”.
clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02008331
Now on first glance, you might think that they are setting themselves up for potential failure by going up against RS. And they might. But, the desired outcome of the trial is to reduce GI upset “symptoms” including the frequency of flatulence versus a placebo. Hard to tell if they are trying to game the system or if they are walking into a trap. Not that I care one way or the other, but it’s interesting to see RS being used in clinical trials — even if it is as a “placebo.”
Me, too Karen! Although I’m starting w/arrowroot; all local stores seem to be perpetually sold out of potato starch. Took me a while to come across coconut flour too!
New study from last month:
High-Fat Diet Reduces the Formation of Butyrate, but Increases Succinate, Inflammation, Liver Fat and Cholesterol in Rats, while Dietary Fibre Counteracts These Effects
They used admittedly obscure dietary fibers — including some RS — to supercharge SCFA production and exaggerate the effect of SCFA profiles.
Ricardo, another great post.
I haven’t had vivid dreams from 4 TB of Raw Potato Starch, but I’m 6’4″. How much is the dose dependent on your height and weight? Also, does gender matter? I’m thinking I should bump it up to 6 TB.
Anyway, no dreams. But I’ve been getting EXTREMELY randy lately. I saw a picture of Scarlet Johansson and just about lost my mind.
Here’s the one:
My sex drive has been in the crapper for a while now (over a year) and it looks like it’s coming back with a vengeance. Thanks!
Would also appreciate it. I have had a number of cancelled / no show orders even from Amazon. Wish I had a decent “ingredients” cash and carry near by and I would by 25kg of Avebe native potato starch :(
My reply was @ shtove with regards UK sources of RS, sorry about that.
Mike
UK sources of potato starch.
“Rakusen’s” Farina Potato Flour in Waitrose. £1.30
Sinks like a stone in water, very silky fine, white as white.
Tastes a bit like ReadyBrek … maybe ReadyBrek has RS?
Maybe hormones are in play re RS and erotic dreaming. It is well known in the fertility world that the extra estrogen and especially progesterone given around the time of embryo transfer, before and after, will definitely give women wild dreams. Many women wake up in fear that the embryo(s) may have been dislodged!
As one of the very few here who can’t – yet – handle straight potato starch, I will say that even I had deeper sleep and vivid dreams each time I did have it. (Trying other sources of RS bit by bit to build up to where I can handle the good stuff one day.)
Chiming in with my N=1. I started slowly w/ PS about 2 weeks ago. From just 1 tsp. morning and night, I found that my sleep was better. Now I’m up to 1 Tbsp. + 1 tsp. morning and night. I’ve started having the vivid dreams, sometimes I remember them and sometimes not. When I first increased to 1 Tbsp. twice daily, I slept fitfully. That improved in a day or 2. What has only been getting worse since increasing the PS is my teeth clenching!! I’ve been a nighttime teeth clencher for years, but it has gotten so much worse since supplementing with PS. Even with my bite guard, I manage to tear up the insides of my cheeks during the night. I’m sleeping deeply enough now that it doesn’t wake me up, but during the night of fitful sleep after increasing to 1 Tbsp., I kept waking myself up from the pain of such hard clenching.
I posted this in the RS thread on MDA and it turns out that someone else has been experiencing the same thing. I know I read somewhere months ago about bruxism being somehow connected to gut bacteria, but I don’t remember what it said and can’t find it again. Has anyone else been experiencing this or have any idea what could be causing it? I’m really hoping that it’s a side effect like the gas or the fitful sleep that will improve as time goes on. But so far, it’s only gotten worse as I continue to increase the dose of PS. I’m going to continue w/PS, but damn, I’m in pain. :(
@BethM-
Please keep us posted on what happens with your teeth clenching. Like a lot of other gut related issues, it is probably getting worse before getting better.
Dr BG posted a link to the connection between bruxism and gut bugs on a different thread here at FTA. Have you read it?
My 10 yr old is grinding his teeth and I am researching more before I get him started on the PS routine.
T-Nat
@Nancy,
I believe there is a definite connection between gut bugs and harmonal changes. We have discussed here how gut bugs increase GABA production which suppresses the neurotransmitter responsible for anxiety. Therefore you end up with deep, relaxing and longer REM sleep. Makes sense?
Alternatively, just supplementing with GABA also gives vivid dreams. In my case, Vit D3 also used to give me excellent dreams in the first few weeks.
T-Nat
Nancy, try using some hypertonic saline to clean out your nose before you go to bed and squirt some in there to leave some salt on the mucous membranes. If you are getting stuffy during the night or even if your soft palate, pharynx and tongue get dry at night, that will increase activity.
Is this an upper nightguard or a lower nightguard…? It’s controversial as to what nightguards do to breathing. Dr. Lavigne at the University of Montreal lectured that upper ones make sleep apnea worse because they reduce intraoral volume for the tongue and the tongue goes backwards. Lower ones activate muscles of the tongue so, don’t. The tongue tends to go up and forward. But one of my colleagues claims to have worked with Dr Lavigne and she claimed in an article she wrote that both make sleep apnea worse………I phoned her up because she had attended the same lecture and I made a Snoopy Happy Dance when Dr. Lavigne said that mandibular nightguards are good since those are the only ones I’ve ever make. She said she’d send me the literature about it and never did. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence but it makes me suspicious that she got something wrong. Anyway, anatomy is also important to consider with these things.
Sometimes it’s the material that makes people chew them. There are a whole host of reasons for why some work for some patients better than others. If you are chewing the nightguard, possibly your dentist can help by designing a different type and from a different material.
Whatever you do, do not wear the ones from the drugstore. They don’t cover all the teeth and can alter the bite.
T-Nat, same goes for your child. If there are tonsils or adenoids or chronic allergic inflammation in the nose, that will cause constricted airway and kids grind their teeth.
Tooth grinding increases sympathetic nervous system tone, activates the muscles in the throat to open the throat up more to facilitate better airway. The brain needs oxygen and it doesn’t care what it makes the body do to get it.
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Beth:
That appliance opens the bite by 4mm. But it is not appropriate for certain facial types.
@Cody
No idea how body mass might effect dose.
What I do know is that I think you probably need to set your sights a bit lower. Just guessing. :)
You don’t think I got a shot with Scarlet? Ouch. Well, I guess I hope I get those vivid dreams then!
No I don’t, because when I look at that pic, those bedroom eyes are definitely looking at me. :)
@ulfric
“Rakusen’s” Farina Potato Flour in Waitrose. £1.30
The clue is in the name!
Encona potato starch seems like the best bet, but now I can only source it online.
@T-Nat-
I did a search for bruxism on this site and all I came up with by Dr. BG was this, “Totally I think bruxism has to do with all of it — sinuses, oral cavities all the way down to the rectum”. (From the comments in this post – freetheanimal.com/2013/12/comments-resistant-fodmaps.html. I didn’t see any study linked to it, I would be all over that! If I’m just missing it and you could point me in the direction of it, I’d be most grateful.
I’ve been taking klonopin to sleep for awhile, and was able to go w/out my bite guard for the majority of that time because I was so relaxed I didn’t need it. That changed when I started taking the PS! I’d like to get off of klonopin, and with the increased quality of sleep from the PS, I’ve been able to easily take half the dose and still sleep great. After the pain I was in yesterday, I took no chances last night and doubled the dose up again. It helped with the clenching, even though I’d increased the amount of PS yesterday.
It’s amazing how many things are connected to the gut!! I have a weekly acupuncture appointment, I’ll ask my practitioner to add in treatment for bruxism and hope that it will help, along with time!
Beth, clean out the nasal passages with hypertonic saline (Nasa Mist, Hydrasense, etc) before bedtime. Get all the pollution and mucous and whatnot out of there. Squirt a bit more in after you’re done and leave a small amount of saline. Tip your head back to get it into the posterior pharynx (i.e. area above the soft palate). That way you won’t get dryness and it should improve breathing at night.
That’s the easiest first step. A lot of my patients who love to brux also have postnasal drip. When I look into their throats, they’ve got these long slimy snotlike things in the backs of their throats.
@shtove
Received tropical sun farina today. Doesn’t stay in suspension in water and produces a cornflour like paste in the bottom. Which I am pretty sure indicates it is starch rather than flour?
Got some bobs red mill coming in from the states, which seems insane nut iHerb do a competitve price and shipping.
Do you ever supplement magnesium? I tend to find that changing things digestively, in myself or my kids, means that for a while we need extra. Clenching/grinding my teeth has always been a sign I need more mag–and I noticed myself doing it some as I’ve tapered up with the PS.
Gut critters and autism:
This shit is important .
@gabriella
Very interesting treatment for bruxism! I would never have made that connection, though I do sometimes find that I’m a little stuffy in the morning, and sometimes have a little post nasal drip. It’s worth a shot. Strane that increasing PS would increase bruxing though!
*Strange, darn it.
@BethM, it probably wouldn’t hurt to get allergy encasings for your pillows. The average pillow has about 1 billion dust mites and they can cause some stuffiness/breathing issues as they get inhaled throughout the night. If you see a breathing improvement from the pillow encasings, then splurge for the mattress encasings. Really helps to reduce allergen load while you sleep.
Beth, one of the several reasons I sleep in a hammock is because there’s no dust mites. There’s air circulation around the entire body. It’s like 3-D sleeping. I put a duvet in it and wrap up. Richard hates hammocks BTW, I asked him.
I did a lot of reading about the subject before I tried it. The stuff about being like a banana in a hammock is not true. Mostly a person is quite flat but the head is a bit elevated from the bum which is good for congestion prevention.
Also like Tanya says check on your daily intake of magnesium and I would add potassium as well. If sodium to potassium ratio is adverse, the body holds more water and therefore lying down and equalization of fluids and blood pressure mean that there is an increase in fluid in tissues in the head and neck. If there is any chronic inflammation of the mucous membranes which are not intrusive while a person is up and about, it will become so when they lie down.
Hey BethM
I posted this — link between fingerprints and bruxism (and cavities and celiac). It’s all linked to the gut and SIBO/SIFO and WAPF — lack of animal sourced nutrients, Vitamin ADEK2, etc.
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Fingerprint changes in coeliac disease.
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Is Encona Farina potato starch legit for RS purpses?
Beth, any updates? I’ve had good results using potato starch at bed for sleep but my bruxism has kicked into over drive. Not sure if I want to continue. I’ve had all day headaches needin multiple doses if Motrin to make it through. Curious If you continued on and what your experience had been.
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