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It's a set of conditions where most doctors' best answers are "beats me", where conditions are extremely variable from individual to individual, and where lifes

It's a set of conditions where most doctors' best answers are "beats me", where conditions are extremely variable from individual to individual, and where lifestyle changes can have drastic differences in outcome. It is the ideal playground for the lifestyle hacker.

colordrops 9y ago
Wow, great summary as to why people are interested. Seriously.
- ianai 9y ago
  I also think the autoimmune system contributes largely to the overall system. To understand the autoimmune system is to do things like “beat” cancer, aids, possibly some brain disorders, and so on. I personally suspect even life extension could be affected with a full understanding- ie maybe we’d be able to genetically engineer an organism that would repair our telomeres or clean our brains of damage as a symbiosis. It sounds crazy, but I got the idea after hearing about fungi providing nutrients to tree roots in a symbiotic relationship. But first we’d have to find a way for our immune systems to allow it.
  - EGreg 9y ago
    I would prefer taking a snapshot of our DNA and then making a retrovirus to go in and restore it, and then get flushed out.
trhway 9y ago
>most doctors' best answers are "beats me" i take your "beats me" doctors and raise you the gastroenterologist i saw recently - he said straight out, end of discussion, "our infectionist doesn't believe in candida in the gut" As we have that saying in Russia - "the duty to save the drowning person lies solely with the drowning person" ("spasenie utopayuschih delo ruk samih utopayuschih")
- CodeWriter23 9y ago
  My nephew gave a stool sample your gastrointerologist’s infectionist might want to have a look at.
lg 9y ago
because the symptoms of the disease come and go with frustrating unpredictability, it’s easy to imagine that lifestyle changes can have drastic differences in outcome, and easy to sell desperately sick people on that idea, just like praying to the gods for rain.
- pixl97 9y ago
  >sick peopLe praying to gods... You may be on to something. Many religions in times of prayer also have fasting and special diets. Such a large change in diet would influence gut bacteria and the person would attribute the change to their god.

colordrops 9y ago

Wow, great summary as to why people are interested. Seriously.

ianai 9y ago
I also think the autoimmune system contributes largely to the overall system. To understand the autoimmune system is to do things like “beat” cancer, aids, possibly some brain disorders, and so on. I personally suspect even life extension could be affected with a full understanding- ie maybe we’d be able to genetically engineer an organism that would repair our telomeres or clean our brains of damage as a symbiosis. It sounds crazy, but I got the idea after hearing about fungi providing nutrients to tree roots in a symbiotic relationship. But first we’d have to find a way for our immune systems to allow it.
- EGreg 9y ago
  I would prefer taking a snapshot of our DNA and then making a retrovirus to go in and restore it, and then get flushed out.

trhway 9y ago

>most doctors' best answers are "beats me" i take your "beats me" doctors and raise you the gastroenterologist i saw recently - he said straight out, end of discussion, "our infectionist doesn't believe in candida in the gut" As we have that saying in Russia - "the duty to save the drowning person lies solely with the drowning person" ("spasenie utopayuschih delo ruk samih utopayuschih")

CodeWriter23 9y ago
My nephew gave a stool sample your gastrointerologist’s infectionist might want to have a look at.

lg 9y ago

because the symptoms of the disease come and go with frustrating unpredictability, it’s easy to imagine that lifestyle changes can have drastic differences in outcome, and easy to sell desperately sick people on that idea, just like praying to the gods for rain.

pixl97 9y ago
>sick peopLe praying to gods... You may be on to something. Many religions in times of prayer also have fasting and special diets. Such a large change in diet would influence gut bacteria and the person would attribute the change to their god.