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I think there's been very little evolutionary pressure to increase lifespan in creatures like fruit flies since despite their short lifespan few of them die from age related causes. I would assume it's pretty easy to increase the lifetime of short-lived creatures in a protected environment, and pretty unlikely that the methods which accomplish this would also extend the lives of long-lived creatures.
What do fruit flies usually die from?
I think there's been very little evolutionary pressure to increase lifespan in creatures like fruit flies since despite their short lifespan few of them die from age related causes. I would assume it's pretty easy to increase the lifetime of short-lived creatures in a protected environment, and pretty unlikely that the methods which accomplish this would also extend the lives of long-lived creatures.
What do fruit flies usually die from?
I think there's been very little evolutionary pressure to increase lifespan in creatures like fruit flies since despite their short lifespan few of them die from age related causes. I would assume it's pretty easy to increase the lifetime of short-lived creatures in a protected environment, and pretty unlikely that the methods which accomplish this would also extend the lives of long-lived creatures.
What do fruit flies usually die from?
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The gut bacteria findings go against the previously held view that antibiotics were the solution to every health problem known to mankind.
It turns out antibiotics are actually pretty awful - they wreak havoc on your microbiome, they modulate your immune system in weird ways, they cause some weird allergies. But they are still way better than the diseases they cure, and definitely better than death!
Toxins move up the food chain, and with humans being pretty much the top of that chain we shouldn't be dumping medicine into livestock just to keep them from getting sick.
In a few years we might look back at this period and think: oh, it was at the time when we thought gut bacteria was the solution to every health problem known to mankind. Remember when it was vitamin D?
Maybe one day we'll realize that there is no single factor for good health. Maybe it's Vitamin D AND gut bacteria AND lot of other factors that are even individually different?
In a few years we might look back at this period and think: oh, it was at the time when we thought gut bacteria was the solution to every health problem known to mankind. Remember when it was vitamin D?
I’m working in proximate space. Every research paper about nutrition in general and gut bacteria specifically should be assumed shit science.
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It turns out antibiotics are actually pretty awful - they wreak havoc on your microbiome, they modulate your immune system in weird ways, they cause some weird allergies. But they are still way better than the diseases they cure, and definitely better than death!
Except that they get prescribed a lot, almost as an insurance.
Got the common cold? Here's some Amoxicillin!
In a few years we might look back at this period and think: oh, it was at the time when we thought gut bacteria was the solution to every health problem known to mankind. Remember when it was vitamin D?
I feel as though there is some degree of ostrich-syndrome when it comes to the deterioration of American physical and mental health. Something is causing this change, and most convenient explanations (lethargic lifestyles, internet, etc) do not really work since that would imply a comparable decline in other areas that have also seen such changes, yet the correlations there are spotty at best.