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Living in Southeast Asia, and countries like Nepal, that has taught me to honor my gut, and put inside of it only the things that it feels happy with, but needl
by skilled 10y ago
Living in Southeast Asia, and countries like Nepal, that has taught me to honor my gut, and put inside of it only the things that it feels happy with, but needless to say, I still had to experience some of the worst shit-storms (literally) in my life, all because of mixing together bacteria from one food to the other -- I'm sure they could learn a lot from the Asian people.
Experimenting with probiotics right now, and would love to hear about their effectiveness in a healthy diet.
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- kbutler 10y agoAnecdote != data, but I spent two years in Thailand a couple of decades ago, and took acidophilus supplements regularly. I seemed to have less frequent intestinal illness than many friends, but I did have the occasional, umm, "issues".
- tokenadult 10y agoYou've heard about the most shocking defecation story related to Nepal, haven't you? United Nations peacekeeping troops from Nepal are thought to have been so lax in digging latrines in their camps that they introduced cholera to Haiti when stationed there after the earthquake there. Until then, the island of Haiti had never had a reported case of cholera, but now cholera is endemic in Haiti. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X14641343 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X14... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=211434286 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2114342... http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2016/04/what_caused_haiti_s_cholera_epidemic_the_cdc_s_museum_knows_but_won_t_say.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...