• Bags@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    John Harvey Kellogg is that you?

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    ___The result, Kellogg claimed, was nothing short of medical revolution. By pumping yogurt cultures into the rectums of America’s well to do, Kellogg claimed that he had managed to cure “cancer of the stomach, ulcers, diabetes, schizophrenia, manic depressives, acne, anemia … asthenia, migraine and premature old age.” There was nothing a clean bowel couldn’t handle.

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    2 days ago

    Is this an unpopular opinion or just a very niche opinion most people haven’t really even considered?

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        2 days ago

        For a transliteration of ‘unpopular,’ maybe? If you read it as ‘not broadly liked,’ sure, but that’d be an unusual use of the word as it’s not usually discriminated from something else with something like ‘dispopular.’ Unpopular in general use, and particularly in this space, means something like ‘commonly disliked,’ so I don’t know if that can apply to an opinion that is more likely to be met with confusion than disdain.

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    3 days ago

    Ackshually you should be using them as mouth wash. IIRC (from my microbiology courses) there is evidence that shows the gaps in between your gums is a direct route to your small intestine.

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      Many supplements are sub-lingual. If stomach acid is an issue, just take an antacid calcium tablet.

      But the biggest problems are simply lack of absorption by any route, and the fact that no one actually confirms that a supplement bottle actually contains that supplement. Supplements are a great way to make expensive pee, and basically thrive on a placebo effect. That’s why supplement companies make them look like real drugs.

      The gums are not a direct route to the intestine, there is just a correlation between gum disease and bowel disease.

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7933581/