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It is a hot trend to correlate things to gut biome. Even so, the fact so many researchers are able to do so is quite interesting.

• pvaldes 8y ago
  It has been hypotesized that autism increase in the last decades might be correlated with the increase in the use of pesticides. Early damage in nervous system that leads to a permanent particular architecture in the brain and all the stuff. Some gut bioma could theoretically be slightly better than other to deal with it. Some bacterias could be more efficient metabolizing some damaging products in our diet into other not so bad or even inocuous. Is teorethically possible. Both problems could be related and in this sense is a pretty interesting field. They could just give to an artificial gut bioma in a petri dish some diluted compounds, (or just give some autist children organic cultured fruits and keep it in a pesticide free environment) and see what happens
  • lordlimecat 8y ago
    Is there any evidence that the amount and types of pesticides used today are more damaging than those used 30 years ago? Or 60 years ago? Gut feeling: regulatory environment is a lot more strict these days, so we're probably a lot better off with today's pesticides than whatever straight-up toxic chemicals were used in the past. I bet if we started looking we'd see things like arsenic and similar used in the past.
    • pvaldes 8y ago
      Don't need to be more damaging. Can be harmful in a different sense.