DailyDirt: Weird Remedies That Just Might Work
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Sometimes it's smart to fight fire with fire. When it comes to various diseases, though, is it really a good idea to fight them off with other diseases? Vaccines are nice to have, but there are also more "symbiotic" remedies. Given that some people aren't quite comfortable eating genetically modified organisms (that are dead), it may be quite some time before most people are okay with infecting themselves with specific worms or bacteria.Relieve your allergies/asthma/diabetes/any-autoimmune-disease with hookworms? This remedy has been around for a few years, but some folks don't have the patience to wait for FDA approval. [url] Lose your appetite by eating roundworm eggs -- and keep your new year's weight-loss resolution. Trying this is not recommended -- exercise is way better for your long term health. [url] Genetically modified bacteria can help fight cavities. Just replace your natural mouth flora with bacteria that don't cause cavities... but the experiment might be like Jurassic Park in your mouth. [url] Yogurt-like drinks could prevent common bugs passed around at daycare. This yogurt-related study sponsored by Dannon should probably be taken with a grain of salt.... [url] Sickle cell anemia seems to have been naturally selected for fighting malaria. Trading one disease for another isn't really a new thing. [url]
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Malaria
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Re: Malaria
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(Actually... that's not a bad idea.)
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If 3 meals a day is making you gain weight maybe people should just eat once a day.
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To lose weight, it is far more effective to eat 5 very light meals per day. This speeds up the metabolism and makes the weight easier to burn off.
Smaller portions are the key to this.
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I know that's a sample size of one, but starvation mode isn't "miracle mode" whereby you cease to burn energy.... it it?
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This is incredibly unhealthy, unfortunately.
Your uncle was not simply slimming down, his body was also attacking, eating basically, his own organs, muscles, internal fat (the stuff you need) and everything else in its struggle to keep the energy hungry brain alive.
Whereas eating small meals, spread out through the day and keeping your overall calories to below what you are burning encourages the body to Slowly, over time, pull out that stored energy from fat And increases you metabolism to keep it in its prime
in other words telling the deep primal body regulating systems that you are being active because you are hunting down small bits of food all over, so you must operate at peak.
Instead of eating a single large meal or one or two large meals, which could be telling your body that you are stuffing food away, trying to retain as much energy as possible, so bury this stuff in the fat cells and get ready for more!
*all data sourced from partially remembered health sciences courses.
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Yay!
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The other case, the body being in "starvation mode", it starves more slowly. It still is starving, because it is actually not being fed enough food. This is by no means a healthy way to lose weight.
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Hygiene Hypothesis
For most of the history of our species, we�ve been afflicted with parasites. But now that we�re civilized and live in clean, parasite-free conditions, that part of our immune systems no longer has much to do.
But remember, our immune systems, like everything else in biology, are the product of blind evolution, not any kind of intelligent design. That means they don�t act like a police force upholding any kind of law and order; instead, they�re more like a bunch of hired thugs for beating up the opposition. And that�s all they know how to do. Which means that, if they have nothing to do, they�re going to start making up imaginary enemies and attacking those.
And nowadays, those imaginary �enemies� turn out to be harmless things like pollen, or even our own body cells. And so we get the endemic increase in allergies and autoimmune diseases right through the civilized world. And it�s no surprise that deliberately infecting ourselves with some of those old parasites can make these problems go away.
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I have no idea what the long term effects are though, they're probably bad for you I'm sure.
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I love that one. Sort of like eliminating the crab grass in your lawn by living next to a nuclear reactor.
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Isn't that why most men marry - a somewhat expensive but continuous exposure to a high-pitched sound...........?
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weddings
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