[ExI] diets

[SR Ballard]

Well, fat people tend to eat different things in different amounts than healthy weight people, so is it surprising they’d have different gut biomes?

SR Ballard

> On Sep 29, 2021, at 10:07 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Spike, there is current knowledge that fat people have different flora from average weight people, and yet they don't know what to do about - how to feed them differently.  Male/female ditto.  racial differences, national differences, and so on.
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> There is plenty of evidence that personality differences make prescribing the same dose of a pill to everyone completely wrong.
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> The medical profession is extremely conservative.  Look at the history of their finally accepting that microbes are important.  How many people died before they started washing their hands?
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> Tests before treating a patient will include DNA, gut flora, personality and who knows what else?  
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> bill w
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