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Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

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Re: Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

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Post by TeMPOraL »

renegade-otter wrote: post #95
tomlue wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

weird, I've lived in the US most of my life and I think pretty much everyone washes their hands?

When people walk into a restaurant - fast food, slow food - especially before COVID, do you see people go to the bathroom to wash their hands before the meal? That never happens.

I've never seen it happen either - and I live in Poland, though I haven't seen it in my various visits to China, Germany and the UK either. Who actually does go into the restaurant bathroom specifically to wash their hands before the meal?

Re: Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

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Post by metadat »

graeme wrote: post #98
SkyPuncher wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried taking an anti-acid or acids reducer? I was getting a rough depression after eating certain foods. My/my doctors current hypothesis is my liver was producing too much bile acid and triggering a condition known as bile acid malabsorption. This would basically wipe my gut out. I couldn’t absorb nutrients correctly so my mood and energy levels would drop. I now know it lasts a few days if I goof up my die…

What did you do to resolve the problem?

As OP alluded to, I think they take antacids.

Re: Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

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Post by stephen_g »

darby_nine wrote: post #34
kens wrote: post #22

My "unpopular opinion" is that in 100 years, people will consider it very strange that most of the population was permanently infected with a bunch of viruses like EBV/HSV/CMV/HPV and nobody cared or did anything about it.

No governments cared or did anything about it, you mean.

With HPV, the Government here (Australia) partially funded the research that led to an HPV vaccine (Gardisil) that helps prevent a bunch of cancers and now all school children here get it for free... So it does happen, just slowly...

Re: Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

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Post by stephen_g »

kens wrote: post #22

My "unpopular opinion" is that in 100 years, people will consider it very strange that most of the population was permanently infected with a bunch of viruses like EBV/HSV/CMV/HPV and nobody cared or did anything about it.

There have been attempts to make vaccines for some of those, and a lot haven't worked yet (apart from HPV for which it has been done very successfully).

I hope with mRNA vaccines perhaps we will eventually get effective EBV and HSV vaccines, which will be big given (for example) EBV's links to multiple sclerosis.

Re: Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

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Post by anitil »

DebtDeflation wrote: post #65
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #8

>We can see that not all obstacles make you stronger. Destroy the cartilage in your knee, and it may never fully recover, since cartilage doesn’t grow back. // I'm not a medic but I recall this being disproven or shown to be at least partially a myth a few years ago - https://physicians.dukehealth.org/articles/humans-have-salam... from 2020, for example. Researchers showed that ankle cartilage is younger than knee- a…

It's long been believed that an ACL rupture requires surgery as the ligament does not have sufficient blood flow to repair on its own. But then a recent study showed that in a significant percentage of people who suffer ACL ruptures and elect not to have surgery the ligament eventually repairs itself on its own.

I know that people can function and even be high-level athletes without an ACL, but I haven't heard of non-surgical repairs outside of specific inteventions (holding the leg at a fixed angle for a few weeks following an injury). I'd be keen to read about this if you have links?

Re: Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

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Post by therein »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #12
Xcelerate wrote: post #4

I don’t know enough to comment on the Hygiene / Old Friends hypothesis, but anecdotally it seems like almost everyone I know now has an allergy or autoimmune disorder of some sort. After giving birth, my sister suddenly developed something similar to celiac disease (but not quite the same; I don’t think doctors ever figured out exactly what it is) to where she can’t eat grains and a few other types of food as well. I…

Most people aren't actually interested in knowing what's going on. But one can find out. Even if one isn't conspiracy minded, it's quite obvious that oligarchs, their multinational companies and governments couldn't give a single fuck about normal people. PFAS and microplastics everywhere, rises in autoimmune diseases as well as allergies and Alzheimer's. Addictive amounts of sugar in a lot of food. GMOs everywhere u…

> Most people aren't actually interested in knowing what's going on. But one can find out. Even if one isn't conspiracy minded, it's quite obvious that oligarchs, their multinational companies and governments couldn't give a single fuck about normal people.

Yup, there are people who subscribed to the system and there are people that opted out.

I don't even try to explain to people anymore. If I did I am pretty sure there would be a downvote frenzy and then Dan might even get pinged.

Re: Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

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Post by [deleted] »

kens wrote: post #22

My "unpopular opinion" is that in 100 years, people will consider it very strange that most of the population was permanently infected with a bunch of viruses like EBV/HSV/CMV/HPV and nobody cared or did anything about it.

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Re: Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

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Post by giraffe_lady »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #80

So, drop food on kitchen floor - pick it up and eat it (without washing) good or bad?

Other than norovirus and salmonella most foodborne illness isn't infection, it's intoxication from metabolic byproducts that need time to accumulate to sufficient levels.

The biggest risk here is either a chemical contaminant from a non-foodsafe cleaning product on your floor, or a physical one like a small shard of broken glass sticking to it.

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