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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 months ago (3 children)

BTW, human tissue might not be targeted by a bacteriophage virus, but our gut is filled with beneficial bacteria. This is why people get the runs from antibiotica and why there's shit transplants.

Most viruses are probably not surviving the acid bath that is our stomach, though.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just read an article that was basically saying we should consider all gut flora frenemies now. If you don’t eat enough fiber even the “good” kinds that help your body process it will go for your mucus lining, breach the cell barrier and enter the bloodstream. This causes inflammation and may also accelerate aging. Neat.

TLDR; eat fiber and don’t get old.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

TLDR; eat fiber and don’t get old.

Or don't eat fiber and don't get old as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A creator I enjoy is currently eating capsules of shit to fix his gut bacterium

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Better hope it never pops open in your mouth

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He mentioned the burps are terrible and I HATE that thought.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck that isn't even something I considered and I now need to clean myself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I can’t burp but I hate imagining that.

He also mentioned they capped up the initial poop at the doctor, but then they just gave him a couple vials of shit to put in his freezer at home and cap it all himself after that. He has to eat like eight pills at a time.

I’d just get the injections.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If we ever get acid resistant viruses, that is how humanity goes out

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Those exist.

There's even bacteria that can live in stomach acid and cause terrible issues. Like helicopter

Edit: I'm keeping that typo lmao

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but what is it supposed to be?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Helicobacter, like Helicobacter pylori which causes ulcers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Which was proven to cause ulcers by an abrasive scientist drinking a culture and getting them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah can't just leave it on that cliffhanger

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Honestly 'the helicopter virus' sounds like something from a terrifying sci-fi