MaximilianKohler
@MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world
- Comment on There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone. 1 hour ago:
y’all need some campaign and ad managers
As the blog notes, there is no funding for that.
I don’t see anything wrong with Zelle, and multiple payment options are offered.
I’d be glad to help how I can
That would be great! There are various discussions on the microbiome forum:
- Comment on There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone. 1 hour ago:
I’d automatically assume it’s a scam, spam, or both.
Why?
The email linked to the blog. The question was asked at the end of the blog.
Even if a panacea type microbiome WAS discord, it won’t cure everything. Cancer is one immediate example.
You may be interested in humanmicrobiome.info/cancer/.
It already would be impossible for it to prevent many diseases. Viruses for example that enter through the sinuses, or again, cancers caused by viruses. Heck even then something like norovirus would still wreck you too.
This is not correct. Not everyone gets sick from x virus. The primary reason is differences in their immune system and gut microbiome. Some relevant links for you:
- humanmicrobiome.info/immune-system/
- humanmicrobiome.info/intestinal-permeability/
- humanmicrobiome.info/systemic/
- humanmicrobiome.info/translocation/
This sounds more like someone who knows some knowledge but isn’t an actual expert in it
No offense, but that describes your comment. The blog should absolutely not sound like that given that it provides citations for its claims.
Not to mention it’s a big ask to strangers who probably don’t even know what a microbiome is.
The 1.2 million people who were sent the email & blog are people who are already familiar with the humanmicrobes.org project. Many of them hold advanced medical & biology degrees.
I agree though that many people are still not familiar with the gut microbiome and FMT. Do you have any suggestion in this regard?
- Comment on There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone. 4 weeks ago:
Yes, FMT is super experiemental. The point of the blog/website is not to convince people to buy poop, it’s to find ideal stool donors who may be able to cure a variety of diseases.
Maybe FMT is a good idea, but it’s still too unknown for me to accept it.
It can’t become “more known” unless a highly effective donor can be found. And such a donor can’t be found unless people start helping…
I don’t think FMT is appropriate to regulate as a supplement. The ingredients of supplements are known and standardized. FMT is an extremely complex and dynamic ecosystem. Yogurt is a handful of known microbes in a highly controlled environment. FMT vs yogurt is like the universe vs a zoo.
- Comment on There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone. 4 weeks ago:
Dr. Alexander Khoruts (University of Minnesota GI, Director, UMN Microbiota Therapeutics Program) made a similar comment. …humanmicrobiome.info/…/designer-hit-panel-discus…
He asks an FDA adviser “Does the FDA care more about profits or people?”, and the response he gets is “one of the missions of the FDA is to protect the interests of commercial developers”. Another question to the advisor: “How much influence does the industry have over the FDA decisions?”, A: “A lot”.
- Comment on There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone. 4 weeks ago:
Here’s an example of virtually no one out of 1.2 million people caring whatsoever: forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/…/post-760
This is the kind of thing that for me invalidates all those pro-natalism “large population = more chances that one person’s going to do something great” arguments. 8 billion people and a single disabled person is left to do it on their own. Especially when it’s something like this where anyone/everyone can do something to help, and 99.99999% of people just simply can’t be bothered.
- Comment on There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone. 4 weeks ago:
Be sure to actually read the blog. I made a post about this in another community and one person completely ignored the blog and used deceptive tobacco and oil industry tactics to spread FUD and disinformation. But people who actually read the blog should be immune to that.
For example, here is the reaction of a normal and knowledgeable person who actually read the blogs: twitter.com/chydorina/status/1767995009771647375
- There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.www.humanmicrobes.org ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on Review platforms for video games, movies, etc. that are non-centralized or at least open source and community driven? 1 month ago:
Not open-source, but I was using Metacritic as an alternative to Steam. Unfortunately, they’ve severely degraded their UI in recent years so I started using GOG.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
What about Arch? I was told:
mint is garbage. The only thing easier about mint or any of those “noob friendly” distros is the initial install
any time you want to do anything outside of its strict little ecosystem it becomes a massive headache
arch’s wiki is unparalleled
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, or PopOS
What about Arch? I was told:
mint is garbage. The only thing easier about mint or any of those “noob friendly” distros is the initial install
any time you want to do anything outside of its strict little ecosystem it becomes a massive headache
arch’s wiki is unparalleled
- Comment on Is the bot/troll situation getting worse? 3 months ago:
Here. Strangely, on Reddit I get much more support. Lemmy is either filled with trolls or is being astroturfed by people who don’t want to see it thrive.
I have never ever ever seen proof that Lemmy is pro-Reddit at anything.
Here’s the latest time it happened: lemmy.world/post/11328086
The previous one was deleted, which unfortunately covered it up.
- Comment on Is the bot/troll situation getting worse? 3 months ago:
And to the contrary, I’ve seen people claiming blatant bad-faith behavior as “just disagreement”.
- Comment on Is the bot/troll situation getting worse? 3 months ago:
if I wanted to bring the Fediverse down or at least keep my customers from going there, I would sow this stuff as much as I can
Agree. And that’s been my experience here too. I made two posts critical of reddit and they each seemed to have been astroturfed by toxic reddit shills.
I think it would require a lot of active and dedicated mods and admins, which I’m doubtful is doable. I don’t know that there’s a fix for this. I wrote in a blog that it might require an advanced AI to moderate everything.
- Comment on Fuck Ubisoft. 3 months ago:
It’s inconvenient for sure, but monopolies are worse.
- Comment on Fuck Ubisoft. 3 months ago:
It’s definitely convenient to have everything in once place, and Steam has way more features, but it’s good to avoid Steam becoming too monopolistic. We saw recently how badly that can go with reddit.
Despite the widespread worshipping of Steam and GabeN, I’ve had lots of issues with Steam and Valve over the years.
- Comment on One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content 3 months ago:
Forms vary with those types of rules. I absolutely hate the ones that are autolocking after a few days/months.
- Comment on One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content 3 months ago:
It will definitely start to happen more as more forums start to join the fediverse (discourse for Eg).
- Comment on Bluesky posts are finally open to the public 4 months ago:
First time I’m seeing what it looks like. Looks exactly like Twitter.
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 4 months ago:
fluff
Low-quality, mindless content designed to keep mindless people infinitely scrolling.
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 4 months ago:
It is still very similar. Reddit and Lemmy are now primarily fluff content. I’ve had to block dozens of fluff subs on Lemmy. And misinformation and toxic/unintelligent users are a problem here too.
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 4 months ago:
Yep. This is the primary thing preventing me from contributing to, and recommending Lemmy. People confidently posting and upvoting harmful misinformation, and toxic/unintelligent people. I’ve already left Reddit and Facebook (a long time ago) for similar reasons.
- Comment on Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills 4 months ago:
It was said in the previous thread that the TPM and Microsoft account requirements can be overridden with Rufus, so anyone can update to Win 11.
- Comment on Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI 4 months ago:
It would be better if they gave their AI the task of finding alternatives to antibiotics.
- Comment on YSK: Do You Really Need That Antibiotic? It’s antibiotic season. Brush up on how you should use them — and when to avoid them. (NYT, Dec 2023) 4 months ago:
even a 5-10 year out-of-date medical professional has immensely more knowledge and safe ability to recommend therapy than a layperson
I know from a plethora of experience that this is wrong. It’s also way too broad of a claim. Laypeople knowledge varies a lot. I know first-hand of some laypeople who are actually top experts in scientific/medical fields and I know of people with medical degrees who promote themselves as experts in their field yet they spread harmful misinformation that severely harmed patients and nearly got them killed.
you’re not supporting your position by citing a forum instead of the actual primary literature that supports your position
I think this is poorly worded, but I think I still understand what you were trying to say. There is no reason for me to duplicate the forum post here. There are citations there. Copying them here doesn’t make them more legitimate.
- Comment on YSK: Do You Really Need That Antibiotic? It’s antibiotic season. Brush up on how you should use them — and when to avoid them. (NYT, Dec 2023) 4 months ago:
Wow, projecting hard with that comment. This is a fantastic and well-cited article, and your comment does nothing to debunk anything in it, and you end with a baseless “you’re scientifically illiterate” comment. Amazing.
- Comment on YSK: Do You Really Need That Antibiotic? It’s antibiotic season. Brush up on how you should use them — and when to avoid them. (NYT, Dec 2023) 4 months ago:
I’m not as confident as you are in the evidence-based nature/abilities of doctors. See …humanmicrobiome.info/…/doctors-are-not-systemati…
- Comment on YSK: Do You Really Need That Antibiotic? It’s antibiotic season. Brush up on how you should use them — and when to avoid them. (NYT, Dec 2023) 4 months ago:
as to effectively use phage therapy you must identify the organism and then select appropriate phages which will kill the bacteria, which takes time that a sick patient may not have without antibiotics
Phage cocktails, FMT, etc… Also, we should get better at speeding that process up if we fund research for it, but we’ve been instead continuing to rely on antibiotics.
We also haven’t quite figured out how to keep our immune system from eradicating the bacteriophages
Citation? I don’t recall that being a thing… phages are ubiquitous in the human body. As much or more so than bacteria. They are the natural way bacteria are kept in check.
- Comment on YSK: Do You Really Need That Antibiotic? It’s antibiotic season. Brush up on how you should use them — and when to avoid them. (NYT, Dec 2023) 4 months ago:
NYT undoing years of “finish your fucking course”
WITH CITATIONS.
“finish your fucking course” is wrong, and pigheaded people like you that refuse to review scientific evidence and reshape your opinions accordingly do a lot of harm and make it impossible for the scientific method to work and for the scientific community to update the public when the evidence changes.
- Comment on YSK: Do You Really Need That Antibiotic? It’s antibiotic season. Brush up on how you should use them — and when to avoid them. (NYT, Dec 2023) 4 months ago:
Everything in here refutes and proves all your claims wrong
Not even close. You seem to be the only one playing games.
- Comment on YSK: Do You Really Need That Antibiotic? It’s antibiotic season. Brush up on how you should use them — and when to avoid them. (NYT, Dec 2023) 4 months ago:
When you wipe out all of your microbiome, chances are it returns to normal in the following months after antibiotic treatment.
Harmful misinformation. A plethora of citations were already provided that debunk that claim.
You have to take the full course to prevent resistance from forming.
Harmful misinformation that is contradicted by the citation in the article and numerous other citations that I provided in the OP.
If you let resistance flourish, then every single time someone needs to take an antibiotic it will be even more likely they develop a C. Diff infection due to the microbiota being wiped even harder.
This makes no sense. I’ll rephrase it to make it sensical and accurate:
If you overuse antibiotics, every time someone needs to take an antibiotic it will be even more likely they develop a C. Diff infection due to their microbiota being wiped out previously.