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We can take it one step further: There are microbes everywhere in your body, they matter and they do things. When you take them away or fuck with them too much,
by krageon 2y ago
We can take it one step further: There are microbes everywhere in your body, they matter and they do things. When you take them away or fuck with them too much, weird things start happening.
It is I think not a particularly surprising take. But then often it can be valuable to have things that are kind of obvious codified into a paper of some sort so that we no longer have to rely on "but isn't that obvious?" and can instead point to some primary source that actually explains what is true. That way it can be true for everyone, even the people for whom it wasn't already obvious.
- dartos 2y agoThe most foundational science is pretty obvious after all. We all know that apples fall from trees and that banging 2 rocks together makes sparks.
- albumen 2y agoIt's obvious from apples falling from trees that gravity is actually the curvature of spacetime?
- dartos 2y agoI think maybe “foundation” was the wrong word. Maybe origins? My point was that the basic ideas that have been studied and refined over centuries were simple.
- passwordoops 2y agoNot all rocks (at least using human strength)
- hinoki 2y agoIs there any evidence (yet?) of an autoimmune disease caused by the immune system accidentally attacking part of the micro-biome?
- FollowingTheDao 2y agoThe immune systems does nothing by accident. The immune system is always trying to keep the microbiome in balance and the microbiome helps the immune system as well. There is no winning, only balance.
- foobarbecue 2y agoGreat question. Not that I have heard of.
- hanniabu 2y agoIdk if there's evidence of it but I know many people claim they developed celiac disease after a course of black label antibiotics
- krageon 2y agoYes, as far as I know. I thought this was a nice overview: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300652/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300652/