Doughnut though we may be, our digestive tract is infinately more sensitive to the outer world than our skin is. Many of the things that we eat and/or breathe do find their way into our bodies, if for no other reason than there was nothing particular about them that made the digestive system reject them. If the antigen itself is as small as a common monomer, I doubt it would find much resistence.
I am not saying we should deliberate introduce potentially harmful things into our bloodstreams, but a good does of everyday bacteria and other anigens and pathogens is healthy. You can build up a full library of memory cells that will fight off sicknesses before you even have a chance to notice them.
Btw - it's not all trash science, and being a microbiologist as you so claim, I would expect you to know all about the effects of anit-bacterials/anti-biotics on our delicate internal fauna as well as how they toughen up enviornmental bacteria. 0.o
Acctually, going beyond non-pathogenical antigens, I think one of the largest over-cleaning problems we face now is the craze for anti-bacterials. For those of you who don't know, bacteria who survive a hit from antibiotics will A)spawn more resistant bacteria, and B) acctually pass on the genetic information that coded for whatever caused the immunity to other bacteria. If a particular area is treated with anti-bacterial cleaning supplies regularly, colonies of resistant bacteria will thrive, while the weaker (and easier to defeat) bacteria will be killed off. Already many of our anti-biotic that we use medically have stopped working for increasing amounts of patients because both the doctor and the patient are mis-using the anti-biotics. Some doctors are too loose with the anti-biotics, increasing our exposer to them, and thus not only reeeking havoc on our internal fauna, but helping to fill our bodies with stronger disease-causeing bacteria. Inversely, some patients do not take the anti-biotics for the full term - they stop when they feel better. This is just as harmful, because even after you 'feel better' there still may be some of the harmful bacteria in your systems, and patients MUST take the anti-biotics for the full term or risk allowing a small colony to get used to trace amounts, and spawn a new colony that is immune to the anti-biotic that is being used. This is not only harmful for the patient, but everyone the patient comes into contact with as well, since bacteria can easily be shared.
Secondly, if we don't allow ourselves to be exposed to pathogens regularly, then our immune system cannot learn to recognize antigens properly, and it will be easier to make us sick. People really do need to start exercising their immune systems!
Some tips to help strength your immune system: Garlic is a natural anit-bacterial. If you fall ill, mix an oxymel with chopped garlic cloves in it to help safely wipe out the harmful bacteria while still allowing your immune system to do it's thing. Another thing ti try is meditation - your immune system is the first to react to stress, so if you are feeling very stressed out, take some time out of your day to just lay back and concentration on deep, even breathing. There are yoga postures that help, like lying on your back, and pulling your shoulder blads towards each other, opening the chest. Softly tapping on your chest just under the neck region is also suppose to help activate the area where t-cells are made and 'educated'.
Is hybrid speciation related to symbiogenesis? It sounds like they are compatable, anyway. The only difference being that I think symbiogenesis is macro-evolution, while hybrid speciation would be considered micro. According to Lynn Margulis, an examply of symbiogenesis includes things like mitochondria and cloroplasts, which apparently were absorbed into another species by a predatory action, and then the new result was considered a seprate species. (Admitting, there's is also a popular theory that the relationship was not predator-prey, but mutualism.) The implications of hybrid speciation seem promising, though.
Interesting enough I just wrapped up a year-long project on the effects of ultra-violent radiation on evolution, and I did a crap-ton of research on global warming/global climate change. What all these doom-sayers fail to acknowledge is the relative resilience of life on earth. Compare the theorectical enviornment of the cambian period to that of modern day earth - none of us would survive in that world, and most likely, out ansestors would not survive in modern conditions. Conditions are constantly fulxuating - and life adjusts to it. Global climate change is not the end of life . . . it is simply the end of life as we know it. I have full confidence that whatever changes the human race inflicts upon the earth will be absorbed and over-run by the sheer momentum of Evolution. I admitt, humans seem to be a particularly delicate species, and we might not do too well in the comming changes . . . but that's no reflection on all the other species, lmao.
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Doughnut though we may be, our digestive tract is infinately more sensitive to the outer world than our skin is. Many of the things that we eat and/or breathe do find their way into our bodies, if for no other reason than there was nothing particular about them that made the digestive system reject them. If the antigen itself is as small as a common monomer, I doubt it would find much resistence. I am not saying we should deliberate introduce potentially harmful things into our bloodstreams, but a good does of everyday bacteria and other anigens and pathogens is healthy. You can build up a full library of memory cells that will fight off sicknesses before you even have a chance to notice them. Btw - it's not all trash science, and being a microbiologist as you so claim, I would expect you to know all about the effects of anit-bacterials/anti-biotics on our delicate internal fauna as well as how they toughen up enviornmental bacteria. 0.o
Acctually, going beyond non-pathogenical antigens, I think one of the largest over-cleaning problems we face now is the craze for anti-bacterials. For those of you who don't know, bacteria who survive a hit from antibiotics will A)spawn more resistant bacteria, and B) acctually pass on the genetic information that coded for whatever caused the immunity to other bacteria. If a particular area is treated with anti-bacterial cleaning supplies regularly, colonies of resistant bacteria will thrive, while the weaker (and easier to defeat) bacteria will be killed off. Already many of our anti-biotic that we use medically have stopped working for increasing amounts of patients because both the doctor and the patient are mis-using the anti-biotics. Some doctors are too loose with the anti-biotics, increasing our exposer to them, and thus not only reeeking havoc on our internal fauna, but helping to fill our bodies with stronger disease-causeing bacteria. Inversely, some patients do not take the anti-biotics for the full term - they stop when they feel better. This is just as harmful, because even after you 'feel better' there still may be some of the harmful bacteria in your systems, and patients MUST take the anti-biotics for the full term or risk allowing a small colony to get used to trace amounts, and spawn a new colony that is immune to the anti-biotic that is being used. This is not only harmful for the patient, but everyone the patient comes into contact with as well, since bacteria can easily be shared. Secondly, if we don't allow ourselves to be exposed to pathogens regularly, then our immune system cannot learn to recognize antigens properly, and it will be easier to make us sick. People really do need to start exercising their immune systems! Some tips to help strength your immune system: Garlic is a natural anit-bacterial. If you fall ill, mix an oxymel with chopped garlic cloves in it to help safely wipe out the harmful bacteria while still allowing your immune system to do it's thing. Another thing ti try is meditation - your immune system is the first to react to stress, so if you are feeling very stressed out, take some time out of your day to just lay back and concentration on deep, even breathing. There are yoga postures that help, like lying on your back, and pulling your shoulder blads towards each other, opening the chest. Softly tapping on your chest just under the neck region is also suppose to help activate the area where t-cells are made and 'educated'.
Is hybrid speciation related to symbiogenesis? It sounds like they are compatable, anyway. The only difference being that I think symbiogenesis is macro-evolution, while hybrid speciation would be considered micro. According to Lynn Margulis, an examply of symbiogenesis includes things like mitochondria and cloroplasts, which apparently were absorbed into another species by a predatory action, and then the new result was considered a seprate species. (Admitting, there's is also a popular theory that the relationship was not predator-prey, but mutualism.) The implications of hybrid speciation seem promising, though.
Interesting enough I just wrapped up a year-long project on the effects of ultra-violent radiation on evolution, and I did a crap-ton of research on global warming/global climate change. What all these doom-sayers fail to acknowledge is the relative resilience of life on earth. Compare the theorectical enviornment of the cambian period to that of modern day earth - none of us would survive in that world, and most likely, out ansestors would not survive in modern conditions. Conditions are constantly fulxuating - and life adjusts to it. Global climate change is not the end of life . . . it is simply the end of life as we know it. I have full confidence that whatever changes the human race inflicts upon the earth will be absorbed and over-run by the sheer momentum of Evolution. I admitt, humans seem to be a particularly delicate species, and we might not do too well in the comming changes . . . but that's no reflection on all the other species, lmao.