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Its fun to explore all of these under the lens of their impacts on gut bacteria.Most of the food dyes are listed in a book I read when I was 7th grade, called Toxins A to Z published 1991. https://t.co/bIOKvWzFQT https://t.co/Xl6uMrJonD

For most, a health gut will mean many of those toxins aren't going to cause a lot of damage. But many gut disorders are diseases of the poor.These ideas are complexly interlinked. https://t.co/33M24yzcM0

I worked at a company who's for-profit wing was trying to help concierge doctors get access to quantified self data.Barriers toward getting healthcare to people in poverty are oft grounded in systems under control of federal mandates. The game is rigged.https://t.co/JFVnkBUeYJ

The game is rigged.https://t.co/A6GJvIoY0a

The food fads and health fads in the American diet. things like carnivory, anti-seed oil, raw food, extreme veganism, No processed foods and all the rest? They're largely anxiety induced attempts at improving our health because it sucks so bad to go thru our medical system.

My own obsessions with food is one stemming from years of problems associated with gut pain from Crohn's Disease and sensory processing issues tied to autism.Stuff that psychologists always frame as trauma and treat very poorly.https://t.co/bcSYN47eXv

I have some kind of trauma. A kind of retardation. But I am not sure if it actually what people think it is.https://t.co/AcsoUzw4dF

Many of these fads *work*. But we run with them like they are panacea. Then over time they get distorted into strange status games as people try to emulate without thinking.Certainly they can be practiced rationally & probably work well, but most are just trend following.

Why people are eating tent stakes? I have no fucking idea. I bet it's just some kind of fundamental miscommunication that occurs thru mimesis and Girard's theory of envy but applied to games of telephone tag as ideas evolve thru internetwork cultural sharing.

I eat facts for breakfast. Why some days I consume so many faxes that we run out of paper.https://t.co/HJJySl0LzK

I hate food. Learning to hibernate so I can avoid eating for months a time, lol.https://t.co/MWZ54dmOPu

The fact checkers are wrong. Eat shit.https://t.co/liCMUwIJs6