That didn’t help me but it’s good to cover all the angles. What are the resulting negative effects from not alternating them?

When my wisdom tooth were pulled the only thing that seemed to help was to double up on some otc painkillers and take them together - acetaminophen and ibuprofen together worked the best. Look into it, I’m not a doctor etc etc

It reads to me like they’re just avoiding repeating “former” over and over. It’s already established it’s the former president earlier in the text.