Wonder if it'd fly socially to pass off autistic food sensitivities as "I'm not a picky eater, I just choose to standardize my diet to make nutrition studies easier!" I feel like such diets are probably doubly good as test cases too - the kind of person who'd most benefit from star rods or similar is exactly that sort, someone who can't "just" pick up natto or whatever. A bacterium that can survive in the wasteland of a Standard American Diet without needing to eat (or avoid) particular weird precursors is useful proof of concept.
Hope your mom's alright. Encouraging to see more news, or rather, the lack of negative news. It's hard to prove a negative when it comes to tail risks like this, but given the alternative of heart disease, hopefully it's not too high a bar to beat the invisible graveyard. It's honestly kinda incredible that some of our front-line medicine choices for major disease groups continue to be old stuff like statins and aspirin...
Great articles. I wonder how likely Stephen thinks it to be that nanoparticles in cosmetics are behind the rise of cancer in young people, especially women, as reported recently in:
As the article is behind a paywall, I can't be sure what reasons it attributes to the rise. But I gather from some of the comments that one is said to be vehicle pollution. As several commenters pointed out though, that sounds fairly ridiculous seeing as vehicles are far less polluting now then in past decades (although maybe there are more of them).
Apparently, nanoparticles are now ubiquitous in make up, sunscreens, and skin creams, and have been since around the early 1990s. So that would explain why this rise in cancers is fairly recent and has affected mostly women (if the stats are reliable).
FWIW, I reckon that in years to come nanoparticles will be the new asbestos. Forgive me if they have already been discussed in past articles on this blog. I haven't been following it for very long.
I wish waaay more microbiome researchers were like you!
Awesome work!! Good luck.. you deserve to one day get rich from your work and be able to go to bed knowing that thanks to you and your work a huge amount of people are better off. I wish you this <3
You don't need a PhD to do science. Keep it up, Stephen!
Wonder if it'd fly socially to pass off autistic food sensitivities as "I'm not a picky eater, I just choose to standardize my diet to make nutrition studies easier!" I feel like such diets are probably doubly good as test cases too - the kind of person who'd most benefit from star rods or similar is exactly that sort, someone who can't "just" pick up natto or whatever. A bacterium that can survive in the wasteland of a Standard American Diet without needing to eat (or avoid) particular weird precursors is useful proof of concept.
Hope your mom's alright. Encouraging to see more news, or rather, the lack of negative news. It's hard to prove a negative when it comes to tail risks like this, but given the alternative of heart disease, hopefully it's not too high a bar to beat the invisible graveyard. It's honestly kinda incredible that some of our front-line medicine choices for major disease groups continue to be old stuff like statins and aspirin...
Very interested in this due to HFE mutation and its role in cholesterol metabolism.
Great articles. I wonder how likely Stephen thinks it to be that nanoparticles in cosmetics are behind the rise of cancer in young people, especially women, as reported recently in:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14832035/reason-young-women-never-smoked-struck-lung-cancer.html
As the article is behind a paywall, I can't be sure what reasons it attributes to the rise. But I gather from some of the comments that one is said to be vehicle pollution. As several commenters pointed out though, that sounds fairly ridiculous seeing as vehicles are far less polluting now then in past decades (although maybe there are more of them).
Apparently, nanoparticles are now ubiquitous in make up, sunscreens, and skin creams, and have been since around the early 1990s. So that would explain why this rise in cancers is fairly recent and has affected mostly women (if the stats are reliable).
FWIW, I reckon that in years to come nanoparticles will be the new asbestos. Forgive me if they have already been discussed in past articles on this blog. I haven't been following it for very long.
John (Ramsden) ( jrq@gmx.com )
I wish waaay more microbiome researchers were like you!
Awesome work!! Good luck.. you deserve to one day get rich from your work and be able to go to bed knowing that thanks to you and your work a huge amount of people are better off. I wish you this <3
Do I need to be based in the US to help your work as study participant or whatever? I live in Germany