<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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?<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 29, 2021, at 10:07 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">There is plenty of evidence that personality differences make prescribing the same dose of a pill to everyone completely wrong.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Tests before treating a patient will include DNA, gut flora, personality and who knows what else? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div>
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