Or other rubbish like that. Of course you are what you eat because it transforms into you through the gut.
But there are some interesting new ideas being put forward that your brain function is in part determined by what you eat. The ideas have been proposed for about 15 years now, and they are starting to get some traction. An idea is that bacteria in the gut transferring to the brain through some odd pathways causes things like Parkinsons or Motor Neuron diseases. But not just that – there is even a suggestion that Autism is caused by an infection in a mothers gut.
Fascinating ideas, but is this really saying Autism is the result of an illness passed to the baby from the mother? That sounds like a bit of guilt loading. That is if you believe autism is something bad. I have several friends on “the spectrum” and I would generally trust them more than “normal” people.
I read this just after watching a TV programme that explored the concept of changing the nature of our genetics to make us live longer (or die later as they put it).
And then it came to me – if it wasn’t for doctors we would have had much lower numbers of deaths from COVID. You see doctors have helped people to live much longer – and it is the older people that have been dying most from COVID.
As an aside – this is probably one of the reasons why some poor countries seem to be doing better than us.
In the world of medicine, even with the “do no harm” oath, it must be hard to determine if your actions are right or wrong.
After the second world war there were experiments that had been carried out in concentration camps (torture like experiments) that produced data that would have been valuable to medicine. Many doctors decided they would not use the data because of the way it was obtained – even if it could save lives.
Almost all doctors act in order to save lives (one or two exceptions), they might not get it right all the time, mistakes happen. And anyway, what is good? Is getting rid of autism good? The pandemic has raised the issue of doctors having to take the least bad option, deciding who would die.
I don’t know if I would like to judge a doctor.