tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post5249676299575619834..comments2024-03-29T01:45:45.002+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: You Got Your Gut Bacteria From Mother's MouthRosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-52588975482718427702014-05-23T06:13:54.249+01:002014-05-23T06:13:54.249+01:00Here are four more quotes from the same essay (and...Here are four more quotes from the same essay (and with my remarks).<br /><br />3) [W]hen the contents of a lean donor’s microbiota were transferred to the guts of male patients with metabolic syndrome, the researchers found striking improvements in the recipients’ sensitivity to insulin, an important marker for metabolic health. Somehow, the gut microbes were influencing the patients’ metabolisms. (MY REMARK: Maybe the trick for God and His angels is to work with fecal transplants. A dirty and filthy task, I'm the first one to admit that, but we all also know that God loves His creation - so what?)<br /><br />4) Our resident microbes also appear to play a critical role in training and modulating our immune system, helping it to accurately distinguish between friend and foe and not go nuts on, well, nuts and all sorts of other potential allergens. Some researchers believe that the alarming increase in autoimmune diseases in the West may owe to a disruption in the ancient relationship between our bodies and their “old friends” — the microbial symbionts with whom we coevolved. (MY REMARK: In short: This work of recreating the microbiome and microbiota is nothing for careless fellows. I therefore expect that God and His angels are, and act, more like very responsible brain surgeons.)<br /><br />5) [It's a] remarkable process by which a baby’s gut community, which in utero is sterile and more or less a blank slate, is colonized. This process begins shortly after birth, when a distinctive infant community of microbes assembles in the gut. Then, with the introduction of solid food and then weaning, the types of microbes gradually shift until, by age 3, the baby’s gut comes to resemble an adult community much like that of its parents.(MY REMARK: A very smart solution, indeed, but on Resurrection Day this process must of course be much quicker, so I think that God must try something else then. Oh, how i look forward to Resurrection Day to see God in action.)<br /><br />6) Babies born by Caesarean, however, a comparatively sterile procedure, do not acquire their mother’s vaginal and intestinal microbes at birth. Their initial gut communities more closely resemble that of their mother’s (and father’s) skin, which is less than ideal and may account for higher rates of allergy, asthma and autoimmune problems in C-section babies: not having been seeded with the optimal assortment of microbes at birth, their immune systems may fail to develop properly. (MY REMARK: Does this mean that God is against Caesarean births? What's your idea about that, Rosa?)<br /><br />Helmer von Helvetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02136543309048013677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-20873931752695380002014-05-23T06:11:25.578+01:002014-05-23T06:11:25.578+01:00Yes, Rosa, there are - and will always be - lots o...Yes, Rosa, there are - and will always be - lots of details that creationists or ID-iots can't explain. But they believe they know all the correct answers since religious faith is about believing, not about knowing. <br /><br />BTW: Here is another good article about this topic: http://holysmoke.org/cretins/cre.htm . <br /><br />And now an interesting article about, at least partly, much of the same topic you brought up, Rosa, with yesterday's brand new blog article: Check out: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y&_r=1& .<br /><br />That essay is about our microbiota and microbiomes, i.e. the several hundred microbial species with whom we share our bodies).<br /><br />Here are some thrilling quotes from that essay, to enjoy and be ravished by.<br /><br />1) It turns out that we are only 10 percent human: for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10 resident microbes — including commensals (generally harmless freeloaders) and mutualists (favor traders) and, in only a tiny number of cases, pathogens. (MY REMARK: It won't be easy for God and His angels to resurrect our bodies and at the same time give those bodies back their "normal" microbiota and microbiomes. But as we all know: For Almighty God nothing is impossible. But it will surely take some time to get all these bacteria, which number around 100 trillion, in place again so that we can feel that this is really our old body, now resurrected.)<br /><br />2) To the extent that we are bearers of genetic information, more than 99 percent of it is microbial. And it appears increasingly likely that this “second genome,” as it is sometimes called, exerts an influence on our health as great and possibly even greater than the genes we inherit from our parents. But while your inherited genes are more or less fixed, it may be possible to reshape, even cultivate, your second genome. (MY REMARK: You see, our omniscient God has already made it possible to reshape and re-create our microbiota and microbiomes. It will go like clockwork on Resurrection Day.)<br /><br />To be continued.<br /><br />Helmer von Helvetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02136543309048013677noreply@blogger.com