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More likely vaccines, antibiotics, and public health initiatives/nutrition. Diseases (and especially virii) are showing to leave behind WAY more damage than ev
by bsder 1y ago
More likely vaccines, antibiotics, and public health initiatives/nutrition.
Diseases (and especially virii) are showing to leave behind WAY more damage than everybody thought. Nutritional stress leaves behind lasting damage as well.
The early cohort being compared went through the Spanish Flu and the Great Depression. Who knows how much damage those left?
- Gibbon1 1y agoMy personal experience is your immune system is sharp on both sides. You hope whatever antibodies and immune response gets triggered doesn't cross react with self. I have some friends that had Hashimoto's disease. Type 1 diabetes. Friends with lupus. 4-5 friends that had Guillain-Barre syndrome. My mom died of ITP. I have sarcoidosis. I have friends who for unexplained reasons are 'unwell' ITP is an interesting one. The antibodies target an enzyme that's needed to keep your blood platelets from binding together in your blood. Thus the idea that you can have autoimmune syndromes that can mess with thousands of different enzymes and proteins. Or stimulate inappropriately. Seriously why not. I can totally believe that infection with childhood diseases of yore could lead to dementia later in life.