Adm. Zaxxon
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« Reply #30 on: March 17, 2010, 09:33:59 PM » |
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yes, though there are some things that you can overdose on(what can you not  ) they are usually good. I have herd of cases where people never eat peanut butter, and make themselves allergic to it, and other things like that but usually medicine is benefical. In many cases, all it does is accelerate your systems ability to learn how to fight the disease, makes your body produce more white blood cells, ect. And you can't say that we would better with out them. Heck, we have been using Penicillin(Bread mold  ) since Egyptian times  |
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Mal
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« Reply #31 on: March 17, 2010, 10:03:31 PM » |
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do not eat reformed chicken nougats! That is sig worthy right there.  |
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« Reply #32 on: March 17, 2010, 10:07:04 PM » |
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Aye, it's a double edged sword. On the one hand, medicine has done wonders for reducing previously deadly diseases into relative unimportance but on the same tone, without exposure, the human immune system suffers and excessive medication in itself can lead to the creation of superbugs I have a friend who has lived in an extremely clean world with very little exposure and as such, if said friend catches a cold, it trashes him completely for weeks on end. By contrast, I will not take meds for low priority infections and such and so the same cold will be gone within a day or two. It's all about a balance. Medices can help your body to adapt to a new strain of disease/infection but too much can make you reliant on that medication. Of course, there are some thing which even the most stalwart of immune systems is unequipped to deal with, so in those cases, I'd say it'd be best to follow the docs advice  |
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Dircome
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« Reply #33 on: March 17, 2010, 10:15:57 PM » |
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I agree with Phoenix here while meds and doctors are wonderful if your immune system never gets any exorcise it will be weak and unable to fight off infections.
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Atlantisbase
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« Reply #34 on: March 17, 2010, 10:48:48 PM » |
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Alright then, a heat resistant ZOMBIE, equipped with full viral loadout.
Wait, isn't that called The Flood?  |
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Pappy63
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« Reply #35 on: March 18, 2010, 12:16:56 AM » |
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I agree with Phoenix here while meds and doctors are wonderful if your immune system never gets any exorcise it will be weak and unable to fight off infections.
I agree that "modern day " people are Germaphobic. Hec in my day we played and swam in Bayou water . We played out in feilds the Dirt with the cows and with the chickens . We ate Organically fertalized veggies ( Cow poo) . I worked in the Dairy as a kid mucking the Milking palor floors. Yeah ,I got the normal stuff colds, and the flu. If you got sick, it was for a few days and you got over it . Nowdays some kid sneezes and the first thing they (parents) is run to the hand sanatized , and call the doctor. when they the parents are there they DEMAND antibiotics . afterward the parents wonder Why Johnny keeps getting sick. On the eating hamster topic First of Ive had it tastes like rabbit, Second In the higher elevations larger livestock do poorly because of the colder climes.But the has a fur coat is small and can be raised in dooors and feed the trimmings from the prepping of the vegitaibles. so the protien source does fit the local . Just as the diet of a rual Cajun, consisting of Alligator, Neutra , ( big swamp Rodent) mudbugs ( crawfish) makes perfect sense. |
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Dircome
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« Reply #36 on: March 18, 2010, 04:41:23 AM » |
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the flood wasnt that resistant to my flame thrower
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Boggz
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« Reply #38 on: March 18, 2010, 05:46:09 AM » |
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DUDE! Minsk and Boo! You just made my day! |
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Mal
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« Reply #39 on: March 18, 2010, 05:46:37 AM » |
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Ivanova: Request denied. Have a nice day.
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« Reply #40 on: March 18, 2010, 07:32:20 PM » |
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Your immune system can't be "exercised": you can retain "memory" (for T-cell production) for a limited time (anywhere from a few weeks to a few years), but unless you are constantly exposed to the pathogen (bacterial I mean), it's not going to help you. That's why you have to have TB shots renewed etc. You can't "exercise" if you are exposed to prions at all for instance. Or if you have cyclic neutropenia  . Note that this is very very different from living in too clean of an environment. Too clean implies you aren't being exposed to different strains of E. coli as well as dust particles etc - that's very different than choosing not to wash your hands, or eating flouridated water etc. |
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« Reply #41 on: March 18, 2010, 09:00:23 PM » |
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Leave it to Dom to ignore Misc and Boo .... Stop being boring, Dom . |
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« Reply #42 on: March 18, 2010, 09:04:21 PM » |
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Sorry, I thought it was amazing though ... just couldn't ... resist... the urge .... to....  |
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Mal
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« Reply #43 on: March 18, 2010, 09:32:26 PM » |
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that's very different than choosing not to wash your hands, or eating flouridated water etc. I take it you eat a lot of water then, Dom?  |
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Kemmer: Very well, then. I request that you open a channel to Earthdome.
Ivanova: Request denied. Have a nice day.
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« Reply #44 on: March 18, 2010, 09:55:47 PM » |
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Mmm I eat a lot of dihydrogen monoxide too *slurp*  |
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