shit advice of the week
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Let Me Tell You About The Violent Diarrhoea I Got From ‘Raw’ River Water
Going into university, I thought I understood all of the different ways poop could look. My digestion is generally bad, and my eating habits don’t help. But after returning from a four-day-long river trip, I realised just how naive a pooper I was.
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That Viral Story Of An ‘Awakened’ Vegetative Patient Serves As A Cautionary Tale
Medicine is perfect for heartwarming stories. Some close relative is facing the most hopeless prognosis, such as being in a vegetative state. Someone tries a wild treatment, and boom, people are crying, the relative is awake, and the headlines go viral. But science doesn’t really work this way.
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Athlete Poop Won’t Improve Your Athletic Performance
The human body isn’t just your cells, but a home for trillions of bacteria. We know that many of those bacteria serve important purposes, and imbalances or a lack of diversity could lead to illness. But research into this field is pretty new. At least, new enough that you shouldn’t just transplant someone else’s gut…