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> It's why taking an antibiotic at breakfast everyday is not a good idea. Eh, the main downside in the short run is that you are killing your gut fauna. > One

by eru 8mo ago

> It's why taking an antibiotic at breakfast everyday is not a good idea. Eh, the main downside in the short run is that you are killing your gut fauna. > One of the risks of an always on response, is if something evolves to evade it - you have nowhere to go. Evolution can't look into the future. (And eg bats are pretty much always on with their immune system.)

DrScientist 8mo ago
> Evolution can't look into the future. Sure. But yesterdays mistakes can be punished today. ie all evolution happens in retrospect - a mutation haopens - the world tells you after the fact whether that was good or bad. Evolution is hindsight in action. In hindsight - taking antibiotics everyday might have been a bad idea. > Eh, the main downside in the short run is that you are killing your gut fauna. Sure - thus increasing your chances for being colonised by an unfriendly and antibiotic resistent bug - which may result in your death - which in hindsight was obviously a bad idea....