Remember this next time the Scouts want a field for camping

[Jackov Altraids]

There is thought to be a link between gut bacteria and mental health. They don't really understand why.

This is a good and simple synopsis from BUPA;

The communication between your gut and brain is thought to be a two-way street, involving your immune, hormone and nervous systems.

Have you ever heard of the saying ‘gut instinct’? Or began to feel sick when you’re anxious or upset? Your emotions and gut are often connected. Or perhaps you’ve felt pain in your stomach when you’re stressed? There is some evidence to show that chronic stress can disrupt the bacteria in your gut, cause inflammation and damage the wall of your intestine. Probiotics, however, may help to reverse this.

Just as your mind can influence your stomach, so can your stomach influence your mind. Gut problems such as bloating, indigestion, constipation and diarrhoea are naturally likely to make it harder for you to focus and may affect your concentration. You may feel worried or embarrassed or avoid certain situations where you might not be able to get to bathroom easily.

People with gut conditions like IBS or inflammatory bowel disease are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety or other mental health conditions. But some studies have suggested that regulating your gut bacteria could influence your mood and may help to prevent and treat mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.

There are many ways that our mind and gut can influence one another. But more evidence is needed before we can know for sure whether or not probiotics may be helpful in treating both gut and mental health conditions.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

One of the things that has wound me up about vegans lately is the way a young lady behaved at my sister's birthday meal before Christmas. Several family members turned up including a young couple. The girl is a militant vegan and she has converted her policeman partner to the cause. My sister provided them with their own vegan meal, but the girl made a point of spending the whole evening loudly justifying veganism to her partner, knowing that we were on our livestock farm where my sister and I grew up, and my sister's husband is a very respected retired gamekeeper. We in turn simply kept out of the conversation and talked among ourselves although Mrs Fred became a bit tetchy when they started criticising horse riders., since Mrs Fred runs an RDA stable.
When I mentioned the behaviour to my sister the next day, she explained that the girl had had a very unhappy childhood with psychiatric problems and had suffered from severe eating disorders which ended up with her in a Devon clinic before she became an obsessive vegan, so in this case it seems like a genuine illness. It seems the girl's relationship with her mother was the root of it all.

Of course who is to say that her diet choices aren't exacerbating her mental health problems

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Something to do with brain cells in the gut in dialogue with the brain via the vagus nerve? Can't remember where that notion came from, but it might have been from one of the Drs Van Tulleken.

I think we have more neural nerves in our bellies than a cat has in it's brain

 

[SteveHants]

It is true that humans have a relatively large brain when compared to the remainder of our animal cousins, and it is probable that the evolution of a larger than usual brain developed hand in hand with our willingness to eat meat as meat is particularly calorie dense. Of course, the larger our brains became, the more intelligent we became and so we could develop better ways of hunting or trapping prey animals so it became a self-fulfilling developmental process. Without access to meat and the nutrient density it provides, having such a large and high demand brain actually becomes a hindrance.

Humans are otherwise pretty poorly adapted as predators. We don't have very large bones or muscles (the veterinary building has a complete gorilla's skeleton in a glass box and it is built like a brick outhouse compared to any human specimen I have seen)- we can't swim or climb like many animals and we have no real teeth or claws and our sight isn't that hot compared to other predators. Our one advantage is being bi-pedal which is a lot more efficient way of moving in energy terms and it gives you an advantage in terms of vision distance as you have a higher vantage point.

Humans would have had a big advantage compared to many prey animals in how much endurance we have when running or walking. Very few other animals have this amount of stamina because they are on all fours. Whilst a zebra, lion or warthog might be a lot faster than any of us, very few 4 legged animals can sustain such pace for long periods. I believe that when humans hunted they did so in large groups and literally ran animals into exhaustion before spearing them or similar. Many tribes of people around the world still practice this to this day, though traps, bows and poison darts etc are also used as well.

It's amazing what opposable thumbs and an ability to throw can do (other great apes are terrible at throwing, apparently because of their shoulder alignment)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210405113606.htm

 

[DRC]

Think I've got nearly 50 "likes".

I’ve liked it and worked out who you are now

 

[DRC]

I've heard of people eating yoghurt and kimchi for much the same reasons.

My wife has to take VS3 which is a very strong form of probiotics

 

[Castle Farm]

Bacon Powell must be turning in his grave.

 

[teslacoils]

For anyone interested in the original post, it's been completely overrun by vegans spouting "facts" and slagging off anyone who suggests they're wrong in any way.

I'm surprised the Scouts haven't pulled or locked the post to be honest.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

For anyone interested in the original post, it's been completely overrun by vegans spouting "facts" and slagging off anyone who suggests they're wrong in any way.

I'm surprised the Scouts haven't pulled or locked the post to be honest.

just commented on the scouts post, will see if I get any replies!

 

[Forkdriver]

Bear Grylls is the chief scout. He'll eat anything,

 

[teslacoils]

Bear Grylls is the chief scout. He'll eat anything,

Id eat grilled bear. Although I hear the liver has poisonous concentrations of a vitAmin.

 

[Forkdriver]

You know the difference between a vitamin and a hormone?. You can't hear a vitamin.

 

[Bald Rick]

I had a similar incident, had to take some strong antibiotics, the side effects was that I noticeably passed less wind much less if any. It really was quite a revelation then 6 months later I ate the kids leftover marmite on toast by mistake. ( I had stopped eating marmite because it could give bad wind) then normally services resumed...

If I eat marmite I could do a rendition of Mick the Master farter!!!

May I introduce you to Roland the Farter?
In exchange for "one jump and one whistle and one fart" King Henry II gave him 30 acres

It's an ill wind ...

 

[7610 super q]

I’ve liked it and worked out who you are now

Is he Jenny Sofia Sundberg ?

 

[Red Fred]

Yum yum....

Bacon Powell must be turning in his gravy

 

[Netherfield]

Bacon Powell must be turning in his grave.

 

[melted welly]

I think we have more neural nerves in our bellies than a cat has in it's brain

Cats are pretty stupid though, to be fair.