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Wow this is really interesting. The author proposes that alot of the diseases that efcect modern mna today can be traced to disruptions is what he calls the "human microbiome"
First teaser: younge age antibiotics tend to favor obesity and it may relate to the abscence of H. Pylori.
16 The author stresses that the majority of biomass, and hence, life on the planet is micrbial and they live anywhere and off anything. Get this they found microbes that live off the plastic floating in the ocean. They just appeared. The author calls it "natural (plastic) selection in action." Microbes to the rescue!. Maybe thats how we will survive. Maybe as we destroy things new microbes will step in and fix the damage.
18 And of course we have also harnessed them like work horses while we, virus like, force their factories to produce various substances for humans for fun and profit. It's nature's ultimate nanotechnology.
25 We literally house a "microbial zoo" on and in our bodies.
37 Diversity is key. The more microbes that inhabit tbe human microbiome the better, even the 30-40% whose purpose we have yet to indentify. The author calls these "contingency microbes" they are the what ifs of the micro world. And what if one of them protects us from some future plague? Better to keep them around.
46 In the early years, when were separated into small bands of hunter gatherers, epidemics were rare. The didnt exist the population to propagate them. Pathogens used techniques like latency to live long and prosper. Diseases like Tuberculosis and Herpes Zoster were big among early man. Only later would we start to see the "so-called crowd diseases" like the measles which flourishes in large populations.
60 Penicillin the wonder drug that ushers in the golden age of medicine.
(But that what makes ya can also beak ya thats what Mr Rythm say)
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A germ so infectious it kicked Koch right in his postulates. :-)
Best thing for infectious disease since Dr Snow took the handle of the braodstreet pump.
Its better for you than Mr Flemings left over sandwiches. Or maybe just his leftovers.
69 The antibodies created in some strep infections cause Rheumatic fever. Even alot of Dr's don't realize you give the antibiotics to prevent the latter not too treat the former.
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