Boggz' Hamster

posted on March 17th, 2010, 8:33 pm

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 :wheelchair:

posted on March 17th, 2010, 9:03 pm

do not eat reformed chicken nougats!

That is sig worthy right there.

posted on March 17th, 2010, 9:07 pm

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

posted on March 17th, 2010, 9:15 pm

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.

posted on March 17th, 2010, 9:48 pm

Alright then, a heat resistant ZOMBIE, equipped with full viral loadout.

Wait, isn't that called The Flood? 

posted on March 17th, 2010, 11:16 pm

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.

posted on March 18th, 2010, 3:41 am

the flood wasnt that resistant to my flame thrower

posted on March 18th, 2010, 4:45 am

Boggz, I think I found your new avatar pic.

Of course, this guy needs no introduction.  Neither does his miniature giant space hamster!
http://images.elfwood.com/fanq/k/e/keehra2/minsc.jpg

Or the lego version.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/SaberScorpion/DungeonsAndDragons/BaldursGateII/char_minsc2.jpg

posted on March 18th, 2010, 4:46 am

Boggz, I think I found your new avatar pic.

Of course, this guy needs no introduction.  Neither does his miniature giant space hamster!
http://images.elfwood.com/fanq/k/e/keehra2/minsc.jpg

  DUDE!

  Minsk and Boo!


  You just made my day!

posted on March 18th, 2010, 4:46 am

posted on March 18th, 2010, 6:32 pm

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.

posted on March 18th, 2010, 8:00 pm

Leave it to Dom to ignore Misc and Boo ....

  Stop being boring, Dom .

posted on March 18th, 2010, 8:04 pm

Sorry, I thought it was amazing though  ... just couldn't ... resist... the urge .... to.... 

posted on March 18th, 2010, 8:32 pm

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?

posted on March 18th, 2010, 8:55 pm

Mmm I eat a lot of dihydrogen monoxide too *slurp*