[ExI] diets

[William Flynn Wallace]

Fat mice:  if you put some of their gut flora into a normal mouse, you get
a mouse that gets fat.  If you reverse that you get a fat mouse that loses
weight.  This has to come to people eventually and weight problems will be
a thing of the past.   bill w

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:47 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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:
>
> 
> 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.
>
> There is plenty of evidence that personality differences make prescribing
> the same dose of a pill to everyone completely wrong.
>
> 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?
>
> Tests before treating a patient will include DNA, gut flora, personality
> and who knows what else?
>
> bill w
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