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Yeah, I’ve definitely followed that same path as the field has progressed - but I’ve come to view gut health as something akin to soil health. Compost does gre
by wswope 2y ago
Yeah, I’ve definitely followed that same path as the field has progressed - but I’ve come to view gut health as something akin to soil health.
Compost does great things for plants, but you can’t sprinkle mycorrhizal fungi or banana peels on top of barren earth and call it a day. Similarly, you can’t throw probiotic bacteria or kimchi into a GI tract and call it a day.
Instead, in both cases, you have to holistically balance and change inputs over time to see results, taking into account the unique, pre-established state of the system. That makes for difficult research when so much of labwork is about controlling and isolating variables, and IMO, is the biggest factor in why we’re not seeing those pre-packaged applications yet.
- PaulHoule 2y agoSoil health is a great example! I've been working on a monologue about reductivism vs reductionism and it reminds me of Doug Hofstader setting up a dialectic between reductionism and holism with the problem that you can't say holism has the same presence that reductionism has. But soil health really is a place where holism reigns, thanks for reminding me!