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Discussion in 'General' started by SteveThompson, May 21, 2023.

  1. In Your Corner

    In Your Corner Dungeonesque Crab AI Version

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/28/do-we-need-a-new-theory-of-evolution

    You may recall the gist from school biology lessons. If a creature with poor eyesight happens to produce offspring with slightly better eyesight, thanks to random mutations, then that tiny bit more vision gives them more chance of survival. The longer they survive, the more chance they have to reproduce and pass on the genes that equipped them with slightly better eyesight. Some of their offspring might, in turn, have better eyesight than their parents, making it likelier that they, too, will reproduce. And so on. Generation by generation, over unfathomably long periods of time, tiny advantages add up. Eventually, after a few hundred million years, you have creatures who can see as well as humans, or cats, or owls.
    This is the basic story of evolution, as recounted in countless textbooks and pop science bestsellers. The problem, according to a growing number of scientists, is that it is absurdly crude and misleading.
    For one thing, it starts midway through the story, taking for granted the existence of light-sensitive cells, lenses and irises, without explaining where they came from in the first place. Nor does it adequately explain how such delicate and easily disrupted components meshed together to form a single organ. And it isn’t just eyes that the traditional theory struggles with. “The first eye, the first wing, the first placenta. How they emerge. Explaining these is the foundational motivation of evolutionary biology,” says Armin Moczek, a biologist at Indiana University. “And yet, we still do not have a good answer. This classic idea of gradual change, one happy accident at a time, has so far fallen flat.”


    Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?
    https://archive.ph/3pCo2


     
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  2. gixxerboy55

    gixxerboy55 Well-Known Member

    You really should stick to fixing car's.

    Animals are not that easy to catch.
    Plants don't run away.
     
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  3. cortezmachine

    cortezmachine Banned


    Have you read/watched any Donald Hoffman? He’s of the opinion that evolution is pre determined from mathematical concepts outside of space time itself. Apparently evolutionary game theory shows that we have exactly 0 chance of perceiving objective reality.
     
  4. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    You both need to stop.
     
  5. cortezmachine

    cortezmachine Banned

    Fuck you lol. We aren’t claiming any religiosity. Go ahead and ban me.
     
  6. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    I was warning you before it got to that point.

    Since you asked nicely I'll do as you wish. Buh bye.
     
  7. Sabre699

    Sabre699 Wait...hold my beer.

    Totally natural...
    [​IMG]
     
  8. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    :crackup::crackup::crackup::crackup:

    From heartburn to Heaven & Hades in 25 posts.

    I love the beeb!!!!
     
  9. SteveThompson

    SteveThompson Banned by amafan

    I appreciate everyone’s ideas and private messages. It has been helpful. If anyone has anything else to add, I’m very interested.
     
  10. pjzocc

    pjzocc Well-Known Member

    Probiotics are a big help concurrent and post long term broad spectrum antibiotic therapy. If you’re not helping to restore her GI normal flora, that might be a legit place to start. Culturelle, Align, Florastor all have a good active count. Yogurt high in active cultures are also beneficial. Have her stay away from GI irritating foods (nuts/seeds, heavy starches, processed foods) and consider a gluten free or light diet as well. Eat fresh veggies and fruits, and nothing deep fried. Stay away from acidic foods.

    Stan has given you a great referral. This is 2 pennies worth of advice from a pharmacist.

    hashtag no charge
     
  11. JCW

    JCW Well-Known Member

    She doesn't need diets, prebiotic, postbiotis, antibiotics or probiotics

    She needs a GI specialist that will decide if she needs an endoscopy and biopsy and find out what's wrong or not wrong with her.

    Gordon Ryan had c diff not h pylori iirc... two completely different things.

    Antibiotics are good if needed but the more i experience, the more I realize the natural bowel microflora is more important than taking antibiotics for a cold or simple sore throat...

    The goal is to determine if your child's problems are due to inflammation. And then determine if that inflammation is due to food allergies, autoimmune disease, or what.

    Don't waste your time with primary care... ask for a gi specialist.... ask for one that specializes in crohns and colitis... not because i think thats what she has or they are better necessarily but they seem to be best situated to guide your workup.

    For instance... it takes a simple stool test to r/o crohns or ulcerative colitis... and it seems nobody tests for it. Fecal calprotectin.

    So anyway... please don't delay treatment like I did and waste your time thinking a gluten free diet or a magic pill will help. ESPECIALLY if she is having blood in her stools.

    That said... there ARE herbal medicines that are effective against severe inflammation in the colon. Things the gi docs wont even prescribe despite there being decades of anecdotal evidence and more recently randomized controlled studies showing they work.

    drug companies just dont promote them because they cant make money for them... I am so sick of the state of modern medicine....


    i need to get back on my meds lol
     
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  12. Razr

    Razr Well-Known Member

    I was diagnosed with Barrett’s Esophagus a couple years ago. It’s cell damage from having too much acid in my stomach. I’m on a diet similar to what PJ mentioned a few post earlier. My GI doctor recommended taking psyllium husk daily. It’s more for cleaning your digestive track, but it helps me a lot.
     
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  13. tophyr

    tophyr Grid Filler

    lol, this is what i was gonna say.. hunting, without a bow or a gun, ain't very easy
     
  14. dsapsis

    dsapsis El Jefe de los Monos

  15. pickled egg

    pickled egg Tell me more

    Says the guy who couldn’t catch a snake in his shitter…. :Poke: :Poke:
     
  16. BigBird

    BigBird blah

    don't leave us hanging
     
  17. SteveThompson

    SteveThompson Banned by amafan

    Thank you. We’ve been doing what you have suggested. It’s only been about 3 weeks of being very disciplined with it. Hopefully we will see some results. For sure the dorm food she was eating slowed her recovery after the initial treatment.
     
  18. SteveThompson

    SteveThompson Banned by amafan

    Thank you for this post. It actually is a good sanity check. We have done everything you suggested. Her initial treatment for HP was in October. At the end of December she did an upper endoscopy / biopsy. Nothing really showed in the endoscopy other than a little damage that he thought was normal after an infection. She was negative for celiac. We are still waiting on stool test results. It takes 2-3 weeks for some reason.

    That leads us to today and also to my comparison to Gordon Ryan. It’s the lethargy, nausea and inability to function normally that we are trying to fix. It seems to have all started with the HP infection, but here we are 7-8 months later and things still suck. There’s been more discussion about long Covid that maybe kinda makes sense. We also had a GI doctor say something like - sometimes teen girls feel crappy for a year or two and then they get better. It sounded a little crazy, but maybe has more merit than we gave it.
     
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  19. SteveThompson

    SteveThompson Banned by amafan

    I assume he means weed.
     
  20. JCW

    JCW Well-Known Member

    Sorry...
    https://academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/article/29/Supplement_1/S9/7005542

    I've got my son on Curcumin/black pepper extract. He gets the strong stuff, Remicade IV infusions every 6-7 weeks, but this other stuff holds him through between infusions.

    People have known for decades curcumin is modestly effective in treating some of these autoimmune inflammatory bowel diseases. But most of the studies came from China and maybe for that reason were never taken as seriously. Besides, no drug company is gonna make their billions pushing a herbal remedy...

    This data was one of the poster presentations at the most recent Crohns and colitis congress in Jan 2023.
    https://www.hcplive.com/view/plant-based-option-treat-ulcerative-colitis
     
    Last edited: Jun 2, 2023
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