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There is a fine line between medicine and eating what you need to survive. Reality is that all animals, even single cell animals, know what to eat. Treating scu
by teknopaul 5y ago
There is a fine line between medicine and eating what you need to survive. Reality is that all animals, even single cell animals, know what to eat. Treating scurvy, is as simple as eating fruit and there is naturally evidence that we have been doing that since as long as we were unable to synthesise it.
- teknopaul 5y agoWhat's more interesting is that humans have forgotten how. Not that animals haven't.
- teknopaul 5y agoGiven the covid context its interesting that we have lost the ability to self medicate based on learning. I find it difficult to grok that in parts of Africa and the United States of America a huge number of humans have lost the ability to eat healthily.
- _0w8t 5y agoThere is a difference between eating random plants and relying on evolution to spread the trait of eating something beneficial and recognizing that a particular herb was useful for a particular symptom, then recognizing that symptom in others and passing the herb to them.