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There's some irony in that her best biological scientific work was developing theories that internally generated pain (menstruation, allergies, etc) is an adapt
by kolpa 8y ago
There's some irony in that her best biological scientific work was developing theories that internally generated pain (menstruation, allergies, etc) is an adaptive feature, and then some kind of internally generated pain drove her into hiding and suffering.
- delbel 8y agoare you saying her pain could have been psychosomatic?
- 02dun3u 8y agoI don't know if I'd call allergies internally generated pain. More like your body's response to an irritant (i.e allergen).
- jessriedel 8y agoIt's not just a response, it's an over response. When we say people have "an allergy" we do not mean that they are uniquely vulnerable to an irritant and their body must compensate for it, we mean their body unnecessarily responds to a benign marker.
- kenjackson 8y agoIt may not be an over-response at all. It may be the exact right response.
- dmix 8y agoThere are plenty of diseases which our body over-responds to. Colitis is one great example of the body basically attacking its own colon via it's immune system for no known scientific reason. And there are plenty of others. Typically the bodies default response to everything, real of not, is inflammation. Which is the primary symptom of allergies. Which also happens to be the symptom most responsible for the popular diseases for which there is no rational/clear response for such a potentially dangerous over-reaction - other than unlucky genetics.
- ItsMe000001 8y agoAnecdotal, but in support: I was diagnosed with chronic heavy metal poisoning [0][1]. I had developed almst asthma-like pollen allergy after an event that very likely contributed quite a bit all at once. Over the years I also got allergic to cats. Everything is completely gone now after years of chelation. The creation of additional "outflow" surely must have helped get the stuff out from the system overwhelmed by amounts it could not handle using its normal methods. A tiny bit of my story, pieces of it posted on several occasions: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17310648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17310648 (in this thread, all my responses) [1] http://onibasu.com/archives/fdc/137355.html http://onibasu.com/archives/fdc/137355.html and http://onibasu.com/archives/fdc/137356.html http://onibasu.com/archives/fdc/137356.html (list of things that improved/disappeared through chelation treatment) -- Psoriasis is missing from that list, that completely disappeared too, had it on both elbows since "forever"
- apersona 8y agoHow is dying from anaphylaxis the exact right response?