Tyrosine_Lannister
Tyrosine_Lannister t1_j6omq8m wrote
Reply to comment by prison_buttcheeks in They don't make medicine like they used to. by NutzPup
Fun facts:
Snake oil actually works.
It's long been used in traditional Chinese medicine and gained popularity among miners and railroad workers back in the old West, where there were very few common dietary sources of essential fatty acids like EPA/DHA and vitamin E.
You need these nutrients for things like healing wounds, fighting infections, and making the body's natural anti-inflammatory and anticoagulant compounds.
The trouble—and the modern meaning of "snake oil"—arose when shysters came along selling mineral oil, which does nothing, as snake oil.
tl;dr: LADIES & GENTLEMEN, DON'T BE DECEIVED AND ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES, DOCTOR T.F. LANNISTER'S PATENTED NUTRI-OIL IS THE OOONLY INTERNAL LINIMENT guaranTEED TO CONTAIN 100% PURE COLD-PRESSED OIL OF THE CHINESE WATER SNAKE ENHYDRIS CHINENSIS.
Tyrosine_Lannister OP t1_j6mwfra wrote
Reply to comment by Skavis in A microbiologist's argument for new probiotics as the most promising frontier in biohacking, medicine, and enhancement-- an "app store" for genes. by Tyrosine_Lannister
FWIW the title of the actual article is "Forget gene therapy, microbes are the future of medicine"
Tyrosine_Lannister OP t1_j6ljaoj wrote
Reply to A microbiologist's argument for new probiotics as the most promising frontier in biohacking, medicine, and enhancement-- an "app store" for genes. by Tyrosine_Lannister
The author basically makes the case that gut bacteria are "gene modules" or "programs" that can be installed on the OS that is a mammalian body—and that a number of useful traits can be acquired without messing around with CRISPR or anything, just by developing the right species as a probiotic. Too good to be true? There's a lot of depth to the biology of the microbiome...
Tyrosine_Lannister t1_j0qbegt wrote
Reply to comment by Allegedly_Smart in Cambridge scientists have shown that a widely-used drug to treat liver disease can prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection or reduce COVID-19 severity by hot
True! Fortunately, it's something you can buy as a dietary supplement from pretty legit vendors
Tyrosine_Lannister t1_isugn07 wrote
Tyrosine_Lannister t1_isugadt wrote
Reply to comment by ShinjiteFlorana in How is the human gut microbiome established in infancy or earlier on? by molllymaybe
It's a fact, yeah.
But it's not the passage through the vaginal canal that's important, it's the antibiotics that the mother gets.
Tyrosine_Lannister t1_isuar2a wrote
Reply to comment by bakersmt in How is the human gut microbiome established in infancy or earlier on? by molllymaybe
Yeah it's...not well-supported by the literature. This suggests it's apparently more complicated than just the actual passage through the birth canal, too
Tyrosine_Lannister t1_jbjcvyo wrote
Reply to comment by mothmvn in Is there a fertile creature with an odd number of chromosomes? by TheBloxyBloxGuy
I feel like this ignores the common ancestry of all life, though.
Like, sapiens-neanderthalensis "interbreeding" is a great example.
We diverged for a while, likely just due to geographic isolation, then re-crossed, and now a significant fraction of people are "hybrids", even if neanderthal proper aren't around anymore.