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emeeez t1_j9tr8c0 wrote

Reply to comment by grrrrrlar in Study Finds Topical Hemp May Treat Anal Fissures and "Significantly Improves" Symptoms by BoundariesAreFun

Another undiagnosed Crohnie here! I wasn’t diagnosed until after I almost went into sepsis from a perianal abscess and fistula. I was alone in London waiting to meet up with my sister for a planner London/Paris trip. I felt a lump and my dad told me to fly home, but I was stubborn. He gave my sister a bunch of antibiotics to give me (he’s a doctor). I was in pain which turned into excruciating pain and had fever the whole trip. Flew back home to New York and had emergency surgery 36 hours later.

It took 3 surgeries, a seton, and almost 2 years until everything was ok. I’m on remicade now.

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Lexical3 t1_j9tk9lu wrote

Reply to Companion robots to mitigate loneliness among older adults: "Most participants (68.7%) did not think an Artificial Companion robot would make them feel less lonely and felt somewhat-to-very uncomfortable (69.3%) with the idea of being allowed to believe that an artificial companion is human." by Gueulemer

The better way to address this problem would be doing away with the godawful nursing home culture of North America. For most of human history, families have lived together multigenerationally and they still do in the majority of the world. Extracting and isolating old people is just cruel.

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pace_gen t1_j9tk378 wrote

Reply to comment by Please_Log_In in Researchers have found that a Parkinson’s-linked mutation in a gene called Endophilin A1 blocks the process by which the body and the brain recycle cell waste. Without the process, autophagy, toxic debris builds up and neurons die. This discovery could change the focus of Parkinson's treatments. by QldBrainInst

My dad and grandfather both had Parkinson's. The medicine came a long way between them. We were happy pharmaceutical companies took the medicines to the next level.

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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_j9tgxts wrote

Reply to comment by West_Flounder2840 in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

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>There was a negative association between IQ and obesity in the UK population.
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>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lim2.11

The main causal link between intelligence and bmi, is that less intelligent people are more likely to do things that make them overweight/obese.

edit: Here also showing a negative correlation between BMI and years of education.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797329/

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