I rather suspect that the for a while at least the #CCP (Chinese Communist Party), are phewing and wiping the sweat from their brows while silently thanking whatever deity you pray to from a foxhole, that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and took any residual attention in the west away from the very high likelihood that the #WIV in #Wuhan had a minor Captain Trips moment with some #SARSCoV2 specimens ... possibly cleaning rags, probably just simple carelessness.
There is a saying "that if it quacks like a duck it's probably a
smoking gun" ... or something.
To paraphrase Monty Python `You Lucky ... Lucky Bastards"
Everyone should read this book or chunks of it, even if it's just the
timelines and then the list of citations and links (very useful for the Kindle
user).
This article popped up in my feed courtesy of Neal Asher's Facebook page.
Slowing the effects of ageing by eating well and feeding the good gut bacteria.
fightaging.org calorie-restriction-slows-immune-aging-in-part-via-gut-microbiome-alterations
In response to the post, I commented as below. My last paragraph is conspiracy theorist crap, based on the premise: that one should never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be attributed to stupidity (or in this case the likelihood that there are great removes between the various parties involved in potential solutions, so the attribute is ignorance by dint of separation).
My comment.
I have been banging this particular drum for a while. From the evidence that the gut has a sympathetic nervous system akin to a brain with all the associated neurons and synapses. The relationship, this activity has regarding gut chemistry and enzyme activity, and the potential as described in a fair bit of scientific literature that; there is indeed the case to be argued that an abundance of one particular form of bacteria dominating the gut could indeed lead to parasitism of the gut microbiome, leading to the host unconsciously feeding the parasite, to the detriment of the host in time.
Scholarly articles linked below.
Is eating behaviour manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? Evolutionary pressures and potential mechanisms. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The gut microbiome in neurological disorders. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Regulation of Neurotransmitters by the Gut Microbiota and Effects on Cognition in Neurological Disorders. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A simplified blog post from John Hopkins Medicine. Hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-brain-gut-connection
At a tangent. An interesting thing caught my ear this morning on Radio 4’s
Today programme. They were talking about the lack of activity in adults and
children in the wake of the post Olympics get Britain moving campaign. And of
course, the bloke from the NGO blamed the government and said it was the
government's job to put more money into the process and the government should
be pushing people toward healthier lifestyles. I was amused (unpleasantly) at
the simplicity of the solution, and the lack of depth of understanding of
`lurking variables’.
We have a population that lives off processed food with one of the highest
consumption rates of sugar on the planet.
www.worldatlas.com top sugar consuming nations in the world
I am not suggesting that we as a species aren’t to blame for our own health and
consumption. But it would be remiss to discount the possibility that there is a
feedback loop that hampers efforts to get people off sugar, off processed foods
and more active.
And then all of a sudden we are into geopolitics, big food, big pharma and
according to the NGO, the need for more big government. Clearly, the
co-morbidities of the pandemic which accounted for most of the non-age related
deaths have an almost one to one relationship with the health of the nation and
the diet of the nation.
If a no-one, with no scientific background from the arse-end of the world, can see something approaching a correlation, it begs the question. Is anyone actually interested in resolving the underlying issue? Or is the study of the field just a useful tool for developing novel pharmacological treatments to treat for a food industry that is quite happy to feed the pharmacological industry new clients?
Ok, so this isn’t my usual fare (and hello … I have been absent, it happens, I’m a very busy man all of a sudden). Below is an economist Edi...
