may need to become obsessed with micronutrient deficiencies and food sensitivities for awhile next
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i've accidentally been eating a bunch of gluten (from stuff like soy sauce and teriyaki sauce) and it's been fucking my shit up, my god, i forgot how bad it is. i get knocked out for half a day
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heavily processed food is one thing but someone told me once that for various reasons even fresh raw ingredients are less nutritious than they used to be - i forget the details but that's a haunting prospect π¬ is everyone malnourished all the time or what
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part of the story i remember hearing is that this might be a contributor to the obesity epidemic too - if all food is less nutritious you have to eat too many calories to get enough micronutrients π¬π¬π¬
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i ate 4 pieces of salmon sashimi as part of dinner tonight and i legitimately feel a little body high right now which is fucking crazy. google says salmon is high in "vitamins B3, B5, B6, B12, vitamin D, vitamin E and selenium." hmm
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HMM
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I wrote an essay about an extremely interesting theory of the obesity epidemic that I came across. Read a history of fad diets, how croissants can help you lose weight, and details about squirrel hibernation and mania you never knew you needed to know:
arcove.substack.com/p/bear-nation
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I have never actually met someone with a gluten sensitivity before in real life.
It's fascinating how portions of a species can readily adapt to a relatively recent dietary addition, while others suffer for it.
Parallel development is funny like that.
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In all likelihood, unless you live in an area that's extremely ethnically homogenous, you *have* met people with gluten sensitivities, likely in a local culture that treats their persistent health problems as mysterious and unfixable.
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that sounds like barely any gluten. i don't have a good understanding of why sticky proteins bad do u?
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Its a lot of gluten, there's a lot of gluten in thickened sauces such as soy and teriyaki. For people with celiac, anything above 20ppm is distinctly noticable, not sure about gluten sensitivities.
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gluten autoimmune/ inflammatory issues fucking up your villi will knock out your enteric nervous system. The deficiencies of folic acid in your ens lead to you to be unable to create neurotransmitters, causing psychological issues. 90% of serotonin is produced in the gut.