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'Glee' Star Cory Monteith Passes Away at 31
It's with much sadness that we bring you this news so late on a Saturday night. 'Glee' star Cory Monteith has passed away at the age of 31 in Vancouver, Canada, due to unspecified causes.
We're sure to hear more about this tragic and untimely death in the coming days, but what we do know for now is that, according to Variety and various other news outlets (and confirmed by Vancouver police), Cory Monteith was found unresponsive in a Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel room in Vancouver this evening.
Monteith, 31, played Finn Hudson on the hit Fox television series 'Glee.' Though his character graduated from the fictional high school on the show, he continued to make appearances like several of his co-stars, including Lea Michele. Like his onscreen counterpart, Monteith had been romantically linked to Michele.
The actor had been written off the show temporarily after admitting to substance abuse issues and checking into rehab. It's unclear at this time whether those issues played a role in his death, but the Vancouver police have announced that an autopsy is scheduled for Monday and "all indications are that there was no foul play."
Monteith's publicist released a statement to USA Today, saying, "We are so saddened to confirm that the reports on the death of Cory Monteith are accurate. We are in shock and mourning this tragic loss."
Monteith had a great gift for music and performance, and had also appeared in 'Final Destination 3′ and 'Monte Carlo.' His final film, titled 'All the Wrong Reasons' and co-starring fellow Canadian Kevin Zegers, is currently in post-production.


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Fire department trains for semi crashes ahead of construction
JANESVILLE—It hadn't been a great morning for the white Mercury wedged beneath the back of a semitrailer at a local gravel pit Wednesday.
A metal bar crushed the car's roof onto its cushy red interior, and two of its detached doors lay a few feet away.
Nor was the day shaping up well for the black Monte Carlo also flattened under the trailer. "FIRE DEPT GOMER" was scrawled in yellow spray paint on its hood.
These decades-old American machines were dying a noble death, though, being intentionally crushed and ripped apart to train Janesville firefighters for the grisly type of crashes authorities fear could become more common during a massive widening project on Interstate 90/39.
Gary Wedel of Dewey's Towing and Recovery described the crashes as, "Truck stops, car goes underneath—or car stops, truck goes over the top."
With Interstate construction expected to cause backups and sudden changes in traffic speeds, the potential rises for so-called "under ride" accidents, Wedel said.
"It's going to be a tight lane, and all it takes is one person drifting off and you'll have a major accident," Wedel said.
Janesville fire officials want to make sure their first responders are ready for the crashes, so they joined with Dewey's to put on the training.
Dewey's supplied the doomed cars.
The training is important because in under ride crashes, cars often wind up pinned beneath trucks like the Mercury was, making it hard for firefighters or paramedics to help anyone inside.
Those trucks can weigh 80,000 pounds fully loaded, Wedel said.
To get to victims in those crashes, first responders rely on companies such as Beloit-based Dewey's to lift the semitrailer up using a crane-like device called a rotator.
From there, firefighters can pull the car out so they can get to passengers with hydraulic jaws they used to tear up cars on Wednesday.
It's a labor-intensive process, and on a road such as Interstate 90/39, every minute means more cars getting backed up and the potential for more accidents, Lt. Ron Bomkamp said.
Crews need to be trained on what to do in these crashes and be able to do it quickly, Bomkamp said.
"The sooner we can get off the Interstate, the less chance of another accident happening upstream from that," he said.
Janesville firefighters have done plenty of training for how to extricate people from cars, but hadn't done one for these accidents in particular, Bomkamp said.
Dewey's works on both sides of the state line, helping authorities with wrecks from Rockford, Ill., to Madison.
Training such as the one this week gives firefighters more confidence in the crews they work with, Bomkamp said, and helps make sure they know what to do in a real under ride crash.
"It's going to make it so much easier when we do have an accident," he said.
Last updated: 3:09 pm Wednesday, October 16, 2013

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Theories - Origin of Life
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
Moderator: BioTeam
No. They don't. That's the point: if you are heterozygous, you have no symptoms of sickle cell anemia and you have malaria resistance.
The majority of mutations are neutral, with a few being harmful or beneficial. What this means is that there is a high degree of variation in sexually reproducing populations. This random element provides the fuel for the nonrandom action of natural selection. I guess I'm just confused as to how you can say that mutations are "invariably" harmful when there are copious examples of beneficial mutations, like antibiotic resistance in bacteria and HIV immunity in humans.
The point of bringing up sickle cell anemia is to underscore how relative adaptations are. Whether a mutation is beneficial or neutral is almost entirely dependent on the environment. This means that a mutation which is neutral now may very well turn out to be useful in the future. There's no predicting what might become advantageous later on. That's why the key to species' survival is random genetic variation. No matter what weirdness is going on with your environment, you have at least a chance of capitalizing on some beneficial tweaking of your DNA.
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Actually they do have the symptoms of sickle cell, they just rarely develop the severe life threatening anemia typical of homozygous sicklers.
It would help greatly if you appreciate what the sickle-cell trait actually is.
It is often referred to simply as sickle-cell anemia.
However, the fact is, its a condition that creates many more medical problems than just anemia.
Victims of this trait are also likely to experience chronic complications involving their spleen, kidneys, heart, lungs, and immune systems.
Probably one of the most common symptoms is the persistent and agonizing pain caused by the deflated irregular shaped red blood cells blocking small blood vessels.
So when the whole picture is appreciated it does not portray the rather simple situation you are suggesting.
Additionally we do not know how this sickle trait appeared.
You are just assuming it was a random happening.
If it was it then could not be considered neutral could it?
Now do you really want me to respond to all the other examples you have enumerated, because I can if you really wish to extend this periphery point.
However you probably have not appreciated it, but you have just endorsed my entire point when you state
This is what I said on page 41 Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:23 pm
So if you are going to debate NS how about addressing the question of arrival, because that is what NS is supposed to have accomplished and what this thread is all about.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Sickle cell anemia is a recessive disorder caused by a point mutation on chromosome 11. The most common disease-causing mutation causes glutamic acid to take the place of valine in hemoglobin's beta chains, which in turn causes a hydrophobic chunk to stick out of the protein, which in turn causes the proteins to clump together. Individuals who are homozygous recessive for the disease-causing variant are quite ill; individuals who are heterozygous, however, rarely experience symptoms. They still make sickle-shaped cells, but those cells generally do not cause them problems.You're right to say that I'm simplifying things a bit. However, I don't think I left out anything which would contradict the main point. The fact remains that most mutations are neutral, and that a mutation's "value" is relative to environmental conditions.
It seems you believe either that most heterozygotes have significant symptoms or that a small number of symptomatic individuals makes the heterozygote advantage irrelevant. As far as I can tell, the former is simply not the case. As for the latter, I don't know what to say other than this: natural selection acts at the population level and only cares about reproduction, so a few individuals experiencing non-lethal symptoms will not outweigh the benefit of being malaria-resistant. If you survive to reproduce, you get to pass on your genes, even if your genes are suboptimal. Evolution doesn't push organisms to be the best that they can be; it pushes them to be good enough. This is why so many people go around talking about "survival of the fitter" instead of "survival of the fittest."
We do know how it appeared: a mutation on chromosome 11. There are a couple hundred different ways this gene can get modified. These inadvertent modifications happen during DNA replication at a steady rate. It's a chemical fact of the molecular machinery that runs organisms: mistakes get made. How harmful or beneficial those mistakes are depends largely on the environment.
As for your claim that a random event can't be neutral...I'm utterly perplexed. A random event is one that is not deterministic. A neutral mutation is one that is neither harmful nor beneficial (i.e. does not increase or decrease the organism's chances of survival). There is no causal relationship between these two concepts. I have no clue what you are trying to say.
One of the premises of your argument is that there are no "functional phenotypes that random mutation is supposed to have produced." I take "functional" to mean either beneficial or neutral. It sounds like you are arguing that a random process could not provide the variety and novelty necessary for macroevolution. Therefore, examples of beneficial point mutations are extremely relevant. But perhaps you meant to say something else.
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Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Since you have not disputed my last statement that NS does not explain how species arrive I take it we are both agree in agreement. Is that a correct assumption?
You are right in that sickle cell trait is an abnormality in Chromosome 11.
However it is also brought about by diminished production of one of the two sub units in the hemoglobin molecule. Genic changes that produce this condition are termed thalassemias.
There is a third condition that is brought about by abnormal association of sub units.
The science of how these abnormalities came about is not known, despite your claim that it is.
You will find that there are significant variations in hemoglobins.
Here are some, Hemoglobin S, C, E, H,Constant Spring, and Barts.
All these have different causes.
Your hetrozygous condition that you claimed has no symptoms has in fact several, some of them resulting in conditions as serious as sickle cell disease.
All these changes in the alpha or beta units have a deleterious effect, it is just that in one area the sickle trait provides a survival advantage over people with normal hemoglobin in regions where malaria is endemic, however sickle cell trait does not provide total protection nor invulnerability to the disease.
Now just this brief summary shows the complicated nature of the sickle cell trait. To suggest that a simple mutation produces a beneficial trait for Nature to select from is simply incorrect.
Regarding the term mutations.
Many biologists regard all changes in genetic make up as mutations. Some are random errors/damage but the majority are not.
Molecular Evolution makes this point
http://www.tempoandmode.com/wp-content/ ... oels08.pdf
James Shapiro (evolutionary biologist) states
http://shapiro.bsd.uchicago.edu/Shapiro ... 0Dogma.pdf
Now in case you are tempted to discard this biologist's work as product of some sort of a lone wolf or other, just check out all the supporting citations in the paper, some 154 on total.
Plus check out the various cell function responses to various stimuli in his table 1 page 16 -21,
some 50 in all, as a start.
Go to any source in epigenetics and you will read a similar appraisal. The genome is a fluid structure.
There is no such thing as a static genome that is just subject to random changes. The vast majority of genome changes are as a result of cellular processes. These changes, you seem (if I understand you correctly) to think are what you call neutral mutations.
The problem with that view is to show an example of a "neutral mutation" that is not part of a cell process. How many of these "neutral mutations" can you name?
Your very example of the sickle cell trait reveals a structure alteration as part of the cellular process.
All people have fetal hemoglobin in their circulation before birth. Fetal hemoglobin protects the unborn child and newborns from the effects of sickle cell hemoglobin. However this hemoglobin disappears within the first year after birth. Why?
Is Natural selection at work in the unborn and new born selecting for survival, and then after about a year removes this survival package? How does that work?
Luxorien - I like your signature.
Scottie - are you going to reply to the second half of my post? If you're conceding points, I'd like you to specify that.
Thanks. I'm thinking of trying to convince my principal that this counts as "professional development."
That is an incorrect assumption. I disagreed with one of the premises of your argument. It so happens I also diagree with your conclusion, though I suppose one does not necessarily follow from the other (though they often go hand in hand).
Hemoglobin is tetramer. There are four subunits: two betas and two alphas. The point mutation I referred to earlier causes the beta chains to be wonky. As I said, there are a couple hundred variants of this gene. Another mutation in that same location on chromosome 11 causes the beta thalassemias you seem to be talking about. The alpha chains can also get fooked by mutations in two genes on chromosome 16.
I'm confused as to what all this has to do with the fact that heterozygotes have malaria resistance. What is your point here? That there are even more mutations that can confer malaria resistance?
The genes that control the construction of the subunits have been located. Variants of these genes have been described. We know the exact substitution that occurs. People with certain variants have sickle-shaped cells. People with "normal" versions do not. What is mysterious about this? The DNA sequence changes, the protein changes, causing the observed phenotype. What exactly are you arguing? That the change in the single nucleotide was not the result of the sort of DNA copying errors that happen all the time in cells?
I said that they rarely experience symptoms, and that their sickle-shaped cells generally do not cause them significant harm. The fact that a small percentage have symptoms is irrelevant. The majority of heterozygotes suffer no ill effects. And none of this has any bearing on the fact that these mutations confer malaria resistance, which is of clear benefit to the organism. It seems we have a dispute over a matter of fact.
The most curious thing about your response is the way you zeroed in on the sickle cell allele and ignored other, more obviously beneficial, mutations. I mentioned sickle cell anemia as an aside, because I think it's a cool example of heterozygote advantage. It's incidental to the larger fact that some mutations increase an organism's chance for survival. The sickle cell allele is just the best example of the crucial point that the environment often determines whether a mutation is harmful or neutral.
There is no semantic analysis of the words in that article which could lead to the conclusion that the authors regard mutation as anything other than a random copying error. Far from supporting your conclusions, this source directly contradicts everything you've been saying.
The "Molecular Evolution" article discusses mutation rates, and how they may differ from one organism to another, or even between parts of the same genome. Changing the rate of mutation does not change the fact that a mutation is a random copy error. The article even mentions that "mutations occur spontaneously in every generation, but not all mutations become permanent features of the genome" (1). A spontaneous mutation is one that results from the random chance of a copying error when DNA is replicated.
The authors go on to discuss the impact of selective pressures and genetic drift on the persistence of mutations: "For any given mutation, the chance of going to fixation (replacing the wild-type in the population) is dependent on the properties of both the mutation itself (its selection coefficient) and the population in which it arises (effective population size). These two things determine the balance between the two forces that shape substitution rates: selection and drift" (2). In other words, random copy errors get made, and the relative usefulness of those copy errors will determine whether they are quickly eliminated from the population, though genetic drift will play a part, especially in small populations. This article explicitly describes the very sequence you say is impossible: random mutation - positive selection for mutation - propagation of mutation throughout species - change in gene pool.
Another section of this article deals with "the debate between neutralist and selectionist schools of thought" (3). This is right before the sentence you quoted. The existence of advantageous mutations is assumed, while, as you quoted above, "it is the relative proportions of mutations that are advantageous, neutral, or nearly neutral that is debated" (3). I'm confused as to why you think this article supports your claim that beneficial mutations do not exist, when the text clearly treats their existence as a fact. I suppose you think that their mention of the high rate of harmful mutations somehow validates your view. Maybe you're arguing that the rates of mutation the authors mention are too low to produce advantageous mutations?
I don't see that this follows, either logically or experimentally. We can observe mutations happening in the lab. We can even make them happen more frequently in the hopes of snagging some mutations that are useful to us. It is a fact that random changes to DNA occur. It is also a fact that some of these changes will be deleterious, some will be neutral, and some will be beneficial. Even if we suppose that most mutations are harmful, the advantageous mutations whose existence you deny are still real. They still affect evolution.
There's another reason your article on molecular evolution contradicts your argument. It's about molecular evolution. They are including in their calculations mutations that never make it to the organism level. From a molecular standpoint, most changes in DNA will be harmful. Hence the repair mechanisms. But if you sample populations, you'll find mostly neutral variants, because harmful ones have already been eliminated by selective pressures. A few organisms will survive despite deleterious alleles, but most of the genetic variation we see at the population level does not affect an organism's survival.
Once again, this is highly relative. The terms neutral, deleterious and beneficial all depend on the environment. Additionally, rates of mutation are not constant and neither are selective pressures. As your article mentions, there are some portions of the genome that tolerate mutations more readily than others. So all of this is, to echo your own phrase, more complicated than the simple picture you're trying to paint. That was my purpose is bringing up sickle cell anemia: the value of a mutation is relative to the environment. It is the presence of these three types of mutations and not their relative frequencies that makes evolution by natural selection possible. Even if only a tiny portion of mutations are beneficial, that's enough genetic novelty to fuel speciation.
Futuyma puts it this way: "The neutral theory acknowledges that many mutations are deleterious, and are eliminated by natural selection so that they contribute little to the variation we observe" (320, Evolutionary Biology). He's discussing the same debate as the article you linked. This argument is about whether selection or drift affects molecular (not phenotypic, which is what you were talking about in your original post) variation. This (admittedly fascinating) scientific discussion has no direct bearing on phenotypic variations. It has more to do with improving the accuracy of our molecular clocks.
I think maybe you're trying to make a point similar to one I found in Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. It has to do with limitations on the possible forms that random mutation can produce. Brian Goodwin argues against the view that there is an "infinite diversity of possible forms for evolution to work with" (299). Instead, he contends that "there are constraints on the possible forms of organisms and their behavior, so that some forms can be generated, while others cannot" (299). This is not an argument against the ability of natural selection to produce new species. It simply points out that genetic variation is not unlimited. This fits with the common conception of natural selection as a force that works within certain ranges of possible change, modifying structures to perform new functions rather than creating new systems de novo.
I suppose this might lead one to think that natural selection can change species but cannot produce new ones. The problem with that logic is this: it fails to recognize the incremental nature of evolution and speciation. Yes, there are limits on what natural selection can do, and it's true that there are four other "forces" of evolution: genetic drift, migration, non-random mating and mutation. But given enough time, natural selection can produce enormous changes simply by moving in tiny steps. The "constraints" on variation do not prohibit the development of complex systems; they prohibit the rapid development of complex systems.
I have already blathered on for way too long, so I'll just address this briefly. For one thing, the number of citations in the paper is irrelevant to its scientific rigor and/or significance. The paper describing the discovery of the double helix, for instance, cites only four sources. So I'm not sure why you think that these 154 citations somehow make this paper irrefutable. I could write a paper hypothesizing the existence of pink unicorns and cite a hundred solid scientific sources; it wouldn't make my conclusions true.
The other thing I would mention is this: my concern with the "evidence" that you present is generally not that you are citing unscientific sources. Rather, I think you misunderstand and thus misrepresent the meaning and import of the sources you do cite. Your links often seem to have little bearing on the point you are trying to make. And, as we saw with the piece on molecular evolution, you often pick out contextless tidbits from texts that directly contradict you.
None of the information in this paragraph or the next has anything to do with the existence of beneficial mutations.
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You're relatively new to this thread. I've been around a bit longer but am tiring of banging my head against the wall. In case you haven't delved too far back in the thread, I'll fill you in on what you're getting yourself into. Scottie is a creationist. I and others have tried explaining to him how science works, but he's just not getting it. He's not getting it because he's a creationist. There's something about early indoctrination that seems to close down certain brain functions. Scottie will cite reference after reference, completely ignore the intent of the authors of those references, and then provide his own interpretation that he thinks somehow supports the existence of his god. So, all the best to you.
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I have been going back through the earlier posts and trying to catch myself up. It's quite a read. Thanks for the heads-up.
I learned a lot about hemoglobin, mutation, molecular clocks, and genetic drift. I also have had the opportunity and impetus to read some interesting papers and books. So far this thread has been a success for me.
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Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Well my full statement reads
May I remind you that it was you who introduced the sickle cell as a beneficial mutation, that NS has (non randomly)selected to protect against against malaria.
So to ensure clarity of the point I raised.
It is a fact that fetal hemoglobin protects the unborn child and newborns from the effects of sickle cell hemoglobin. Unfortunately, this hemoglobin disappears within the first year after birth.
One approach to treating sickle cell disease is to rekindle production of fetal hemoglobin. The drug, hydroxyurea induces fetal hemoglobin production in some patients with sickle cell disease and improves the clinical condition of some people. (A non random process I am sure you will agree)
So again my question is quite a simple one.
If Natural Selection acting on random mutations is responsible for the fetal hemogoblin (which it has to be for the theory to be intact) and this hemogoblin protects against sickle cell, what is the process that removes this protection?
According to your theory it can only be a random mutation(s). Is it not?
So to get this straight.
Random mutation first removes overall protection from sickle cell and all the problems that brings, then random mutation partially restores partial protection to offset a particular disease, and you regard this as a beneficial mutation?
It is an interesting take on things, I'll grant you that.
Now I appreciate that this is an inconvenient fact that you may wish to ignore by claiming it's irrelevance, but the question still remains.
I asked the question not to seek an answer, because I knew that you couldn't provide one, and you sadly have responded in the time honoured fashion, i.e. ignore that which contradicts a position.
Now as regards Shapiro's essay that you have so casually dismissed, a simple question.
Point to any part of the science he refers to as being incorrect?
His works is based on the work of Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock.
Are you equally dismissive of her work?
As regards your lengthy response to the molecular evolution, I think that deserves a separate post.
Actually, I mentioned HIV immunity and antibiotic resistance as examples of beneficial mutations. I brought up sickle cell anemia as an interesting example of how the term beneficial can be relative. I said all this before, and you still keep talking about sickle cell anemia as though the existence of beneficial mutations stands or falls on this example.
The simple fact remains that beneficial mutations exist. That is the only point that I am making. Your argument against the efficacy of natural selection relies on the premise that a random mutation cannot be beneficial. This premise is demonstrably false.
This argument fails on two levels. The first is that it assumes that fetal hemoglobin was originally produced throughout the life of the organism. This does not necessarily have to be true, and indeed is not true. So there was no protection that was subsequently removed. The second level at which this argument fails has to do with its relevance to the topic at hand. The fact that a single point mutation confers malaria resistance does not somehow go away because there is another mutation that can mitigate the effects of sickle cell anemia.
To put it another way: instead of addressing the examples of beneficial mutations that were mentioned earlier, you keep piling on additional examples of what you think are features that natural selection could not have produced. I can explain why your example of fetal hemoglobin is not evidence against natural selection:
In the course of the (random) gene duplications that led to the present series of hemoglobin genes, certain sequences were positively selected for, or achieved fixation through genetic drift. A mutation in the fetal hemoglobin's regulatory sequences can cause this hemoglobin to be produced throughout one's life, but this mutation has not occurred often enough, or has not been selected for strongly enough, to become very common.
There is no "protection" that originally existed that was selected against; fetal hemoglobin has always been produced during the fetal stage. It is possible that a mutation which causes this fetal hemoglobin to be produced throughout life could become quite common, but it doesn't necessarily follow that this must happen. It depends on whether this (random) mutation happens often enough and in the right individuals. It depends on how many people with sickle cell anemia are successfully treated, and a bunch of other factors that would affect the strength of the selection pressure on this mutation.
The theory of natural selection says that favorable variants will tend to increase in populations, but it does not say that every possible favorable variant must come into existence - that's the random part of mutation.
But there is no point in doing so (responding to your additional examples of what you think are problems for natural selection) because you still have not demonstrated that the point mutations mentioned earlier (HIV resistance, antibiotic resistance, malaria resistance, nylon manufacturing waste metabolism) are anything other than random mutations that happened to be useful and were therefore selected for. As long as beneficial mutations exist (and they obviously do because we can literally watch this happen), your conclusions are invalid.
You may want to argue that beneficial mutations are possible, but that they could not form complex systems because they don't make big enough changes to the genome, or because a bunch of them would have to happen at once for a complex system to evolve. But arguing that beneficial mutations do not exist is like arguing that HIV does not cause AIDS.
I will answer as many irrelevant questions as I have time to address, but they remain irrelevant. Whether the beneficial phenotype of being resistant to antibiotics is the result of a random mutation is a matter of fact which can be verified in the lab. Instead of addressing this, or even of addressing the fact that a single point mutation can confer malaria resistance, you are hunting around for other examples of mutation's supposed failure to produce beneficial traits.
Those examples can be discussed also, but discussing them will not negate your earlier failures to disprove the existence of beneficial mutations.
As I said before, I do not necessarily question the scientific conclusions of the papers you cite. I question your ability to understand their meaning. As we saw earlier, you quoted from a paper that directly contradicts your argument. You went so far as to include in your quote a sentence that clearly stated that beneficial mutations exist. You ignored that sentence and bolded the part about most mutations being deleterious.
I'm not sure why you keep asking me to point to flaws in their research. My argument has never been that they are bad scientists. My argument is that these papers don't mean what you think they mean. You act as though the existence of transposable elements and epigenetics means that beneficial mutations don't exist. Is that really your argument?
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Scottie - in case you didn't see my question above...
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
My apologies,
Luxorien's interjection somewhat hijacked me, quite challenge to deal with matters on different fronts.
Anyhow I will return to you now, and ask Luxorien to be a little patient. I am sure he would appreciate the rest from parading his developmental potential to his principle.
I believe you refer to your final point of your post of Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:08 am. Page 39
My question was
Has this situation changed since Darwin's day?
Can someone help with some evidence.
Your reply
Thank you for the wiki reference, and I have studied it.
It does provide good descriptions of the different kinds of speciation evolutionary theory posits.
It goes on to exemplify this:-
It provides a single reference in support of this, a 2000 paper.
Historical contingency and ecological determinism interact to prime speciation in sticklebacks,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... 133026.pdf
The first point I noted in the wiki discussion was, this example appears to be about variation within a species. Nobody as far as I am aware disputes that variation within a species does occur.
However that said, the referenced paper does clearly state:-
So although they claim species divergence, they are still referred to three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). I find that somewhat interesting.
Be that as it may that is not all.
In a more recent study found in the Journal of Fish biology we have this paper
Along the speciation continuum in sticklebacks
http://labs.fhcrc.org/peichel/media/pdf ... 09_JFB.pdf
The authors clearly depict their understanding of speciation, which again is quite clear.
The introduction states that speciation is a continuum of 4 different stages, with the final one being
the complete reproductive isolation, and this reproductive isolation is always associated with chromosomal rearrangements and environment independent genetic incompatibilities.
The paper then goes on to examine these 4 stages in connection with the stickleback.
1) continuous variation without reproductive isolation
2) discontinuous variation with minor reproductive isolation
3) strong, but reversible, reproductive isolation
4) strong and irreversible reproductive isolation
Only stage 4 can be classified as a speciation event and the paper points to only one example
It asks the question
The conclusion of this study has this to say
So the observed examples that wiki points to (stickleback) is not so observed after all, is it.
The apparent necessity of Chromosomal rearrangements within the nucleus pose a significant problem, if speciation is the product of random mutations to the genome.
We know the nucleus of each differentiated cell appears to possess an epigenetic mechanism.
This mechanism regulates the position of each chromosome in the nucleus and thereby determines the way and timing of how expression takes place.
We also know chromatin structure, the variation in histone 3D structure and so on are indeed regulated by this mechanism.
So the control of chromosome activity in the nucleus clearly cannot be the product of a mutation in the genome.
We are observing levels of information and control above and beyond genome information.
All of these are not instigated or varied or regulated by mutations to the genome, and yet this study
(which is very detailed and is really worth studying in full) is concluding that chromosome rearrangement is a requirement for speciation, whereas neo darwinian evolutionary theory is fixated on random mutations of the genome.
Ones like Donald Forsdyke have long recognised this link between chromosomal arrangement and species specific traits, only to be castigated by the likes of Coyne and Orr with their gene centred views.
So I conclude that despite the wiki appraisal of speciation as being a darwinian process, the evidence suggests no such thing.
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Currently, most Americans are concerned with "success," but no one can clearly define it. Every individual has his or her own perspective.
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MILWAUKEE—The young Brewers got a taste of what a pennant race is like.
The 6-4 win Sunday night over the NL Central-leading Cardinals might be even more valuable next season for Milwaukee than in a 2013 campaign weighed down by injuries and the doping suspension of slugger Ryan Braun.
Norichika Aoki scored three times and doubled home a run, and Jim Henderson got Matt Adams, representing the potential go-ahead run, to strike out to end the game and close out the season at Miller Park on a high note.
"I think it's great for them. You play the Cardinals right now, it's a playoff atmosphere," manager Ron Roenicke said. "But all this is growth for them, and (when) the pressure spots come up, because they will, they can handle them better."
The Brewers are in fourth in the NL Central, long out of the pennant race at 17 games under .500. More pressure is on the division-leading Cardinals, who learned earlier Sunday they were assured of at least an NL wild card after Washington lost its doubleheader opener against Miami.
The Cardinals chased Peralta after loading the bases in the sixth with nobody out. Reliever Donovan Hand allowed two runs to score on consecutive sacrifice flies to cut the Brewers' lead to 4-3, but he got out of the jam by getting Matt Carpenter to strike out on a curve with the tying run at third.
Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina misplayed a throw to the plate for another error in a two-run seventh that restored Milwaukee's three-run cushion. St. Louis also committed two errors in the Brewers' two-run second.
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"We made many mistakes and were lucky to have been that close," manager Mike Matheny said. "From here on out we have to play clean baseball and they know that. But when you don't do it, you have to make up for it somehow."
Working through a nagging blister on his right index finger, Wily Peralta (11-15) struggled through five-plus innings by giving up five hits and walking five. Henderson earned his 26th save after allowing Carlos Beltran's RBI single in the ninth before striking out Adams.
The Brewers lost Braun in late July to suspension. Rickie Weeks was lost for the season in August to strained left hamstring. Corey Hart never even made it out of spring training and hurt both knees this year.
So Milwaukee has turned to young players to solidify the team. For instance, Peralta, 24, will be counted on to continue to mature and solidify the rotation next year.
The blister that has plagued him of late felt the worst it's been all season on Sunday.
"You know, I walked a lot of people, but I think I made big pitches when I needed to," Peralta said.
St. Louis remains two games up in the division, but now has two teams to fend off in second after the Reds defeated Pittsburgh 11-3 to pull into a tie with the Pirates.
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Aoki had led off the first with a single and came home on an RBI single by Aramis Ramirez with one out. Aoki then reached on an RBI double in the second before scoring after Kelly threw away a sacrifice bunt attempt by Scooter Gennett.
"My stuff felt good," Kelly said. "Obviously, me throwing away a ball didn't help. Just one of those games and that kind of stuff happens."
Kelly went seven innings, allowing seven hits and six runs—three of them unearned.
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Hey everyone just thought i would tell everyone how i am feeling now ! Its been a year and Two mounths since i first got sick!! As i stated before all of my symptoms and honestly now i cant rember all the ones i had but there was alot!! I was tested for everything you can think of and yes i was tested for lymes 3 times it was false!! i have no idea what happened to me. and have seen every dr in my home town for ansers !! All they could tell me is that i had a sickness or disease of some kind and that my body fought it off over time! heres side effects that you could physically see i lost a small amout of my eye pigment in one eye that happened when i first got sick!! And now my toe nails have started to look very bad. well two of them, and are falling off! the dr said it was from being sick and that im healthly now and all blood work has been good ! also still have had lose of hair not bad but more then i did befor i got sick!! i still get weak and tired and have pain in joints in fingers I have been tring to fight through these symptoms cause i know i have anxiety and know it could be from that! I do know that i cant take alot of meds since then i get sick i dont know if thats anxiety are if i just cant!! I Can tell you that this has been the worse thing ive ever been through in my life and my husband works out of town and i have 2 kids and i had to go through this alone!! At times i felt like i was going crazy i thought maybe i was deppressed but didnt know I had cring spells often that i couldnt control and one time i thought if i had to live that way life wasnt worth living!! Do you know how bad it is to know how it feels to think and be normal and to know that your not!! I can rember being scared to go to the Doctor i was scared he would think I was crazy but i went any way searching for ansers fighting for my life!!!!! I dont know if im cured of this death are if it will return But what i do know is that im felling much better and i can deal with it maybe if i knew the unknown of what happened i would feel better and then get on with my life!!!BY the way my doctor told me he new i was sick the whole time but he couldnt put his finger on it!!! And life is worth lliving thats why i fought so hard to find a anser!! Was it antibiotics (sulfa)??? A few drs said it was at first but said it wouldnt effect me that long!!! I wonder sulfa reaction and lots of anxiety??Maybe!! But drs said i was sick again with something!!! Well thanks to everyone that has tried to help me!!!!GOD BLESS YOU ALL and Leslie you will be still be in my prayers.....................
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Hi there...
I just wanted to chime in here. I'm surprised by many of the uneducated and downright mean comments on this board. It is so sad to see people respond to a cry for help like that. I would like to share my story.
I don't have a history of anxiety disorder or depression. Last fall, I took penicillin for a sinus infection. I was feeling SO rotten - just stuffed up, major headaches, you know - misery! Day one on the drug was fine, day two, I felt a little odd and anxious and by day three I was hallucinating, my heart was racing, I felt like I was dying (severe anxiety attacks can make you think you are dying - isn't that fun?), I felt confused, and when I turned my head, I was so dizzy it felt like the room was spinning. I looked at the side effects and the only one listed was dizziness, so I called my doctor. I was informed that these psychological effects can indeed happen (straight from the Dr.'s mouth, folks) and to immediately stop taking the penicillin and NEVER take "cillin" drugs again because they will all have the same effect on me. That's right, I lucked out and got an INFORMED doctor. If I had taken it one more day, I would have likely suffered some of the more severe effects of the drug - numbness, tingling, etc. He had seen this happen before and advised me that it would be better to ride out the sinus stuff or I could try a different antibiotic. I opted to "ride it out" and only suffered two more days of sinus "stuff" without the antibiotic. In essence, I survived quite well without it and was glad to have my sanity back, which returned not the next day (the effects are long lasting, my friends), but the one after that. I can easily see how being on a high dose of amoxicillin for a long duration could really mess a person up if they have a sensitivity to the drug.
The bottom line is that I have a neurological sensitivity to "cillin" drugs. Some people react differently to different meds. Google "anxiety and penicillin" or any other "cillin" and you will find countless posts by people experiencing the SAME exact symptoms!
So, yesterday, I was at the dr. for what I thought might be strep throat. I was given a Z-pack because of my penicilln reaction (Z pack is azithromycin). I was told to take TWO pills at first and then one for each subsequent day for a total of 5 days. Well, the last experience was traumatic enough for me to proceed with caution. Better safe than sorry, and better to have a little bit of antibiotic in me than none at all. I decided to take one half the first day (yesterday) and see how I felt. I felt fine! Today, I still felt fine! So, I took another half at the same time of day and decided that if all went well today, I would take a full dose tomorrow. Well, around 4pm, I started feeling dizzy. No big deal, that's a common side effect. Then I started feeling really agitated and just cranky and edgy. About an hour after that, totally anxious. I was just cooking dinner, totally relaxed and feeling pure panic over nothing. Of course this time I knew what it was, so I just kept on cooking. When my daughter asked me to help her with a giant puzzle she was doing on the floor (she is 3), I got down and helped her and stood up and almost passed out completely. Then my heart started beating irregularly for about a minute. This is all on half a dose and hours after I took it. I decided not to lean over again! LOL!
So, after eating dinner, I'm feeling much better, but this is a clear reaction to a medication, people. It's real, it happens. Just because it doesn't happen to you or 90% of the rest of the population doesn't mean it can't happen at all. And yes, I called the Dr. and he once again said this is in fact a side effect which can become quite serious, long lasting and detrimental to your overall health as our initial "poster" that started this thread experienced. Verification for all of us, just tonight from an MD himself! I was instructed again to stop taking this medication immediately.
So, I'm taking the list from the above post (thank you VERY much for that) to the doctor next time and hoping there is something on this planet that I can take in case I get a really serious/scary infection someday.
Good luck to the rest of you suffering from this type of reaction. It is miserable to feel anxiety, etc. from a drug. I've never had any kind of problems like that outside of these two drugs and hope to never feel that way again! I now know what people with anxiety feel and I can not even imagine having to cope with that on a daily basis.
Re: Poisoned by antibiotics...can anyone help?
Same thing happened to me, took high doses of flagyl and keflex a few years back, suffered a six month reaction from it. Scared to death. Anxiety and panic attacks from hell. Among lots af other symptoms. Spent a couple of years all well and good then fast forward till now and I have a dental infection. Take amoxicillian and presto with 5 doses over a couple of days everything kicks off again. Insomnia panic attacks, headaches, spaciness, the works. Just wondered to the previous person that posted how long did your reaction last?? I finished my last dose 4 hours ago and feeling far from right. Worst thing is I may have to take another antibiotic for the infection. Any words of wisdom on this matter would be appreciated. Is there anything I can take??
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Re: Poisoned by antibiotics...can anyone help?
I will be quick all the symptoms line up with emphasis on the teeth. I took 1000mg of Amoxicillin for a 7 days and it removed the pain in the heart and almost removed all tingling. The ringing in my ears has been for a long time and it was reduced. I have teeth problems. To just pull them without sticking something in there place is an awful thought, just waiting for a plane ticket to get somewhere reasonable. If there is any psychology to the issue it is the lessening of depression (must fix a chemical imbalance also). Certainly if it wasn't for the outrageous costs in medical I would have a blood test and a cat scan. If there is anything that should be provided it is diagnostics so you can make your own corrections (without drugs). Yes if you are stupid you should pay the price. One free scan and one free blood work up per year would save tons in Medicare and Medicaid. Technology seems to be a rich thing only these days. What the hell happened to America!
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Although many a year late, I'd like to add a small logical analysis:
'Quite unlikely', does not equate to 'not possible'. There is still room for the probability of it occurring and one has to factor that in. Being struck by a meteor is 'quite unlikely' but it has happened to people before.
This is fallacious reasoning. You dismiss the diagnosis as 'wrong' but do not offer any counter proof (the rebuttal it is 'unlikely' does not stand, improbable events do occur to people), and this would be a highly dangerous thing to do.
The best course of action, instead, would be to attempt to determine whether or not the antibiotics are causing the reaction so you can properly determine (rather than guessing) if it is the cause. Antibiotics do indeed cause adverse reactions in certain individuals (in the same way other drugs, foods, pollen etc do to specific people). You'd have to speak with your doctor, perhaps testing it by utilising a different class of antibiotics and seeing if the symptoms go away (stopping the antibiotics may leave you vulnerable so it's down to the doctor's assessment if it's valid).
One should never assume; they should always test.
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My sister recently went to the hospital for spinal surgery and was given many drugs, and now she is back in the hospital but now shes in the psyche ward, she is suffering from a severe psychotic episode and the doctors think she may have overdosed on her meds due to the fact she was being dosed for her previous weight of 437 but now she is down to 377, she has dropped this weight within two weeks. since she is currently not on her meds will she get better once they fade from her system? i want my sister back.
In surgery you can receive more than just antibiotics. And a 50 lbs error is quite large (20 kg is a huge difference). I am quite surprise though that she was not weighed before the surgery. But hopefully the excess of those drugs will be metabolized. But the docs are probably the one to ask for details. The one in the psych ward, are more likely to know what they are talking about. And they know her history and the medications that she was given. Ask them, not random strangers on the internet.
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antibiotics induced psychosis, is this the topic now? Interesting how the op didnt have liver and kidney damage, or seizures.
Is there more to the story?
Re: Poisoned by antibiotics...can anyone help?
I agree with Kat wholeheartedly. Too many rare conditions are dismissed as being "impossible" or "highly improbable." I just read a story about a post-surgery patient presenting with shooting pain at the surgery site and it took his doctor 6 MONTHS to realize that he had sewn a 12" long stainless steel spreader into him!
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Dear lesley,
Your post is quite old now but I thought it would be useful for others to read that I also am suffering similar side effects to Metronidizol.
I stopped taking them last week when I had a really weird reaction - yes waking up suddenly in the night to strange sound in the head exactly as you wrote. I felt like I was going to have a stroke - numbness in limbs, disorinetation. I drank lots of water and quickly took myself off them. On Sunday evening this week I awoke with a feeling that my system was totally disorientated, numbness in limbs, right hand difficulty co-ordinating. Partner took me to casualty and doctors took me through all tests. Thankfully all were normal BUT my symptoms are still strange. Head pressure, weakness in limbs, numbness, metal taste in mouth and today reduced appetite and nausea. It seems that I took less of the Flagyl than you did and I am hoping that it will clear out of my system soon with a detox. If you are still on this website somewhere it would be good to know how long it took you to clear all symptoms. Its been a real rollercoaster and reading your post was a shock.
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TOWN OF LA GRANGE--Multiple fire departments from Rock and Walworth counties are fighting a large fire at an egg farm east of Whitewater, Walworth County Dispatch confirmed.
Fire departments including Janesville, Edgerton, Clinton, Milton and Whitewater were being called out with tank trucks to deal with the fire, which broke out around 7:30 p.m. Friday at S&R Egg Farm, 9416 N. Tamarack Road in La Grange, officials said.
The farm is a large complex about 10 miles east of Whitewater.
Deputy Chief Pete Mory From the Milton Fire Department, who was helping to cover the fire station Lauderdale-La Grange Fire Department during the blaze Friday, said fire fighters had called in more than a dozen water tank trucks and more were in route in a "defensive measure" to fight the fire.
Mory said the fire apparently started and spread in an agricultural building. He said he was not sure whether the building or buildings on fire house livestock. It was not immediately clear if anyone was inside.
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Stomach bloating and weight gain
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I had to take antibiotics to get rid of some bad bacteria. So after reading all the comments on this blog (yes, I read all 32 pages before this page), it seems that I must need to repopulate the good critters. At least that seems like a place to start, and see if it works.
I do not understand the comments that probiotics do not "stick". It seems to me that any critters will reside the same as any other critters.
I appreciate all of the comments. I hope that everyone finds a solution for what is causing their basketball tummy. It is horrible. I'll let you know if probiotics helps after the antibiotics.
I'll summarize here my observations after having read all 32 pages of comments. Maybe this will help someone who does not have time to read all of the comments:
1) Doctors seem to be clueless in their diagnosis of bloated stomachs.
2) The people on this blog who say they have been cured, did so in the following ways:
a) 1 HCL tablet/Pepsin tablet before eating (needed more stomach acid)
b) consuming acidic food, especially grape juice, possibly apple cider vinegar, vitimin C, or cranberry juice
c) probiotics, especially if you have been taking antibiotics
d) digestive enzymes from a vitimin store
Good luck. Let us know what works for you.
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It seems that You & Jack Bean seem to have something in common, or you both are one and and the same person. You just post for the sake of posting without educating yourself.
You seem to think that eating yogurt or taking a probiotic that may have a handful of live bacteria in it by the time you buy it and put it in your mouth is going to miraculously cure you, IF that handful can even survive the stomach acid!!!??? Or what IF that handful is the wrong strain & is rendered useless against the strain you are trying to kill or what IF you are over populated with that strain in the 1st place & it is the reason for the bloating as there is an eco-balance war going on.
You also seem to be under the same delusion of Jack Bean that all the critters, as you call them are the same species so that just taking yogurt or probiotics is going to kill them!!!???
If it were that easy, then people would not have died from stomach ulcers, or the millions of ppl that suffer from intestinal problems. And what about Candida, which is the hardest to eradicate.
ALL CRITTERS AS YOU PUT IT ARE NOT THE SAME......PERIOD! Sheeesh, talk about misinformation!
If you did read all the posts on this site, then you would have done your own research as to the links, doctors or nutritional info that was left for others to research to educate themselves as to what does and does not work.
Probiotics are a band aide plain and simple and anyone with SIBO's WILL ATTEST TO THE FACT THAT WHEN THEY STOP USING PROBIOTICS THEIR PROBLEM COMES BACK WITH A VENGEANCE.
And pretty much everyone who does their homework, also learns that these parasites ARE ADHERED to the problematic area of the body......they just don't float around. And that is why they win!
If a person suspects that they have SIBO's, then they would be wise to get a medical check up to confirm this and to find out what species of SIBO they have and take it from there. All critters are NOT the same and different measures must be taken to eradicate them.
Not all antibiotics are the same, they target specific bacteria's, therefore it would stand to reason that all critters are NOT the same.........period!
Yes I did. In one of my posts below, I said that if you studied Dr. Borody in Australia, you would see what I am saying about intestinal flora, how they live & fight with each other for territory and the use of Probiotics to be true.
I also said that since probiotics don't adhere to the intestinal linings, WHICH IS A MUST, and are pooped out the next day, that I figured out to feed the existing good guys with the foods they need to win the battle against the bad guys, will increase their numbers, increase their space on the intestinal wall, the bad guys (which are also necessary for our good health) will be kept in check and all will be well.
I also said to google search: foods that feed the good bacteria.
Then google search: foods that feed the bad bacteria.
The only way for someone to really understand this is to do their own homework.
For me to type all this info would require a book on my part. Now there's an idea!
Once you start to feel better, healthier, then you can resume a normal healthy diet. The reason for this is that you don't want to over-populate the good guys either. Why, bcos to much of them creates problems as well. You want to maintain a balanced ecosystem of both good and bad guys. They each have an important function for our health.
Viruses are a whole other bunch of critters that even antibiotics can't get rid of.
ONLY ORGANIC garlic and onions will do that for you. The conventional ones have been GMO'd.
Monsanto approached the Supreme Court about 12-15 yrs ago to ban the sale of these foods, claiming that they were medicines. The supreme court turned them down. Since then, garlic is not the same as it use to be. GMO'd.
Even my Veterinarian had a 1 yr long nasty cough she could not get rid of. She claimed that in her culture they eat lots of garlic and onions, but nothing was helping. After she finished checking out my cat, I rushed to get her ORGANIC GARLIC & ONIONS and left them with her.
Next mth I had to return with my cat & her cough was completely gone.
Her mom, who does all the cooking for the family said that this was like the real garlic and onions back home. (Meaning not North America).
So you see, whenever you google search for natural foods to heal you, you have to make sure they are not dead foods, or they will not work.
By dead foods I mean GMO'd or packed in Vinegar, ie: pickles & sauerkraut that are sold on store shelves (are packed with water and vinegar) rather than in the refrigerator sections and the label stating: water & salt.
Salt brine foods feed the good guys.
The internet is full of healing foods, but the authors neglect to state these important facts.
Within 1 week a person eating Organic garlic, pressed thru the garlic press, spread onto a piece of buttered toast (butter not to be melted), & sprinkled with sea salt, eaten 3 times a day, well the person will see remarkable results in their health.
Also, eating salt brine foods will also speed up the healing process. Google search: list of salt brine foods.
Once healed, just make sure to have some helpings of these foods through out the week, to make sure the good guys still get the nourishment they need.
Also, KNOW ONE KNOWS WHICH SPECIAL BACTERIA YOU NEED. That's the point. If you do somehow manage to get a probiotic that will survive your stomach acids, who knows if it is the one that you need. ie: I bloat like crazy if I eat organic or conventional yogurt. Yet, if I drink Organic Buttermilk, my bloating goes down within days and my IBS attacks diminish. Conventional buttermilk does nothing for me.
I also wrote to (I should not post the company name) about their Activia yogurt, cheese & told them that they are misleading the public. That they could not guarantee that by the time the product got to the consumer, that there would be anything alive. They agreed.....but marketing is marketing.
If you checked out the IBS forums, you would see how many sufferers found it very constipating. Not Good.
So you see, it is better just to feed the existing bacteria (which is many different varieties) the foods they need and let them work it out for themselves.
Intestinal flora (bacteria) is one thing, but the viruses and parasites are a whole different kettle of, as you put it critters, that need drastic measures to be rid of them. Antibiotics cannot kill them.
That is why, when a person is ill, they should see a doctor that can diagnose just what kind of critter it is, that is doing all the harm. Then one will know what to look for to do the healing. Yet there is no way for doctors to see what intestinal flora (bacteria) is the one you are low in. So that is why it is better to feed them what they need and let them work it out for themselves. They propagate so fast, that within 3-4 days you should see results.
btw: Intestinal bacteria, good and bad, are needed in the large bowel, in a proper balance. Intestinal bacteria DO NOT live in the stomach. The acid would kill them.
SIBO means Small Intestinal Bacteria Overgrowth. Which means that the intestinal bacteria, whether good or bad, travelled up from the large intestine (bowel) to the small intestine, where they are not suppose to be, and this is causing problems. And that is another whole different process to get them out of there.
And then there is something called Leaky Gut Syndrome.....and that too is a whole different matter. Celiacs suffer from this.
So please do not confuse intestinal flora, parasites and viruses. Oh, and worms!
After an antibiotic treatment, one should focus on the right foods to rebuild the existing flora that are already adhered to the intestinal track. There is NO test to determine which ones you need. Ask your doctor.
Just remember not to buy into all the marketing hype. Study how ppl use to eat before the early 70's. They ALL ate the way I am talking about. They ate live foods not dead foods like we have today.
All those old movies you see on TV, well, if you study some movie history, you would learn that those movie stars, especially in the love scenes, reeked of garlic, onions and salt brine herring! Try a tender love scene with that smell. lolololol
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HI All,
Obviously, we're all individuals with individual reactions to things (both physical and emotional it seems, considering some of the recent discussions).
I'm extremely grateful to read your stories and info - thanks so much for sharing.
Since my last post a couple of months ago, I've changed my diet by minimising Sylicylates. It's been incredibly easy and haven't looked back...
For any of you who have sought medical advise and are still at wit's end with a painful, bloated stomach etc...maybe eliminating foods with Sylicylates could be a very simple solution. It's really worth it and it's been my saviour.
(Sylicylate is the chemical that occurs naturally in alot of plants - basically, it helps plants from 'breaking down' too quickly. It's prevelant in many fruits and veges - pineapple, oranges, pumpkin, avacado, dried fruits, tomato or any tomato products are the worst for me. Watch out for beer and wine too. Rice, meat (unprocessed), and potato are 'god-sends'.)
Now I've been free of pain and the revolting other affects that go along with this food allergy/intolerance, I've found myself again and I'm enjoying life as it should be enjoyed.
I hope this info is useful for you. I wish I'd found my solution earlier - I have some time to catch up on now - too many hours of my life wasted on trying to placate an angry, attention-seeking stomach.
Best of luck to you all and I hope you find what you need
Reply to CheeMiss - It appears that you did not actually read my comment, rather it appears that you responded on the basis that my comments did not agree with your existing thinking.
CheeMiss wrote: "Or what IF that handful is the wrong strain & is rendered useless against the strain you are trying to kill"
If you had read my comment, I was given antibiotics that killed any and everything in sight. So bacteria needs to be repopulated. Your first response did not discuss repopulating bacteria, once antibiotics have eliminated bacteria. I am not trying to kill any bacteria, lol. Read, read, read, before complaining.
Now I see that you wrote a second comment, with some better explanation, including "research it for yourself". lol Yes, I will research it for myself, however this is a forum where you can provide your highlights from your research, to assist people. Research it for yourself, is not really the help most people here seem to be seeking.
By the way, Jack Bean and I are not the same person. It seems there are 2 people who do not find your posts compelling. Maybe you can do better?
Go ahead, CheeMiss, and inform us how to get the special bateria needed to digest food, including any such super proprietary personally researched info that you feel personally too arrogant to share. lol
Are you kidding me????? Are you serious? Ask any medic if antibiotics kills everything in site. The answer is NO. It kills most, but NOT all.
Antibiotics have been around since I was a KID in the late 50's and we were given antibiotics for many, many, many reasons.......most kids and people were.....and NO ONE DIED!
Back then, all people around the world, ate the way I posted. Everyone knew to eat live foods.
I really am not going to debate this subject any longer. WHY? Bcos the reasoning here is pure and simple ignorance and support of advertising and not the TRUTH!
This is just a waste of my time. Educate yourself before you look to argue an ignorant point.
And by ignorant, I do not mean stupid, I mean not knowledgeable of real facts.
Keep buying into the marketing ploy if it suits you.......!
You are partly right, and partly wrong, and maybe you should chill out and stop with the superior tone.
First, Dr Borodny might be (on small sample studies) advocating the use of fecal transplant. Great. It seems to be beneficial in some limited case, namely Clostridium difficile infections. Those are nasty bugger able to form spores and really hard to cure with antibiotics, so alternatives are good. I doubt however that fecal transplant is the common way to get bacteria in your intestine. They usually come through the other end, surviving the stomach acid and other perils. Food and large numbers help with that. And fecal transplant is probably best left to cases where the problems are recurring and need treatments that ou should probably not do at home.
It is also true that both pro- and pre-biotics (probiotics: live good bacteria; prebiotics: food supposed to improve the growth of the naturally present good bacteria) as sold by the big food company have little or no long term effect on the bacterial flora in the intestine. But some serious work on the subject have demonstrated clinical benefits of some strains (rather than species).
And in general the complexity of the bacterial flora makes it hard (but not completely impossible) to have a good idea of what is happening in there. Right now tools like 16S-DGGE or TGGE allow to have an idea of the species composition of complex samples, the development of what is known as next generation sequencing is likely to improve that even more, but this is just starting and there quite a few biases and kinks to solve. But we are still very far from getting at the strain level (different subgroup belonging to the same species). Although we know that this is probably relevant.
Your point about live and dead pickled food is quite fun and wrong. The addition of vinegar, and salt, during pickling is done to select for the acid tolerant bacteria (very few of them, if any at all, are pathogenic) and prevent the development of the spoilage bacteria that would otherwise happen. The addition of vinegar is not essential as many of those are able to produce the necessary acids, but it can help by giving them an edge over the competition (so no risk of spoiled batch of sauerkraut), this does not mean that there are no bacteria in the pickles. However if they have been canned, then you can assume that there is nothing left. But those bacteria are the same that you would find in the probiotics, and are as likely to establish their permanent residence in your gut than any other probiotic. Meaning possible, not likely.
In addition, at least wrt sauerkraut, if you know what is good for you, you wash the brine off, sodium is not healthy and drinking brine is not going to feed the good bacteria, and reheat it in wine or beer. It tastes much better. Of course there will be no bacteria left, but that is not important
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Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain
I am currently experimenting with probiotics. I have found 2 kinds, 1 in a normal capsule (that may or may not survive stomach acid), and another in a capsule that says "enteric Guard", which is supposed to be a capsule designed to not break apart until it is out of the stomach.
I am trying first to dilute my stomach acid by drinking 12 ounces of water, then eating something supposed to be good like bananas, and put these probiotic capsules in the mix of food. About 4 capsules per day, 2 non-enteric, 2 enteric, with different bacteria in each. Maybe the critters will survive?
I am only 3 days on this plan so far. However, for the first time in about 9 months, I can actually poke my tummy in. Before it was so hard, it would not go in at all. As it lets itself be poked in, I am wrapping big back straps around it, not letting my tummy come back out. So far so good. Each day I have been able to tighten the straps, forcing the fluid out.
I am going to keep this going for a couple of weeks, and then see if the excess fluid in my tummy is gone for good. I'll let you know.
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I just thought that I was getting fat (60+ lbs. in the past year or so) but this weekend, my sister-in-law went clothes shopping with me and expressed the opinion that something was not normal with my abdomen. Unlike many who have posted, my distension doesn't come and go with food consumption - I always look about 7 months pregnant. It doesn't wax and wane. I have a physical coming up and I think this abdominal weirdness is gonna be first on my list of concerns to be addressed. Thanks for listening & best of luck to everyone!
Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain
I am so thankful to find this site... I have been going through this for only a couple months... In Aug. I realized I had gained a lot of weight because I couldn't button my jeans anymore (which had always been big on me), but always being a small girl, I was happy! I went to the Dr. in Sept. for Birth control, and found out I had gained 15 pounds in 6 months. With the bloating I first assumed I was pregnant, but being on birth control I wasn't sure, so I have taken 4 test and they r all neg. I look like I'm 5 months pregnant all the time and when I eat my belly gets really hard! I'm always tired now, but I have no constipation with mine nor pain... I'm very worried about this, and hate trying to dress differently so I don't look pregnant. I am a mother to 3, and find it very embarrassing when my 3 yr old rubs my belly and thinks I have a baby in there! If anyone finds out anymore info plz post! Thanks
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I was thin 135 than started getting heavy in the stomach area felt hard this went on for months went to the doctor
said wasn't feeling great weight still adding on just under breast developed high blood pressure started feeling hot face getting fat feet would swell up this wen on for several years finally had cardiac arrest it was a condition called cushings syndrome
have your cortisol check lots of people have it and don't know it.
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Sound Off for Sunday, Feb. 23: Readers debate blame for job losses
On jobs: American TV closing, a mattress factory closes in Whitewater, and Penney's is closing stores. I wonder if Gov. Walker is deducting all those job losses against his claim of job gains. Looks like 250,000 jobs are just a mirage.
-- The Obama administration would have us believe the economy is getting better. In addition to Penney's closing, now American TV is closing. In Wisconsin and all over the country, there are more job losses, more people working part time and more who have given up looking for jobs. Are we to believe what they tell us or what we see with our own eyes?
On gas station: Another gas station on Janesville's south side. That's all we ever get is gas stations and bars. Can't we ever get anything nice on Janesville's south side?
On tax refund: Remember when former Gov. Thompson sent you a so-called "it's your money" tax refund in October 1997, then two years later he joined George W. Bush in Washington and left the state with red ink? It's not Gov. Doyle's fault we remain in debt. I hope Scott Walker doesn't pull the same shenanigans as Thompson.
On sports coverage: You had two pictures of Frank Kaminsky of the Badgers in the same paper. A couple of weeks ago, three pictures of the Brodhead girls, one on the front page and two in sports. I would think there are other sports going on that you could derive pictures from instead of giving too much publicity to the Brodhead girls and Kaminsky.
-- On Wednesday morning, I picked up The Gazette to take a look at the sports page to see what some of the college basketball teams did. Guess what, not one single sentence on what any college basketball team did. Why do I even take this Gazette?
On helping homeless students: I'm really touched, and I give a lot of kudos to the people who are doing Project 16:49. There are a lot of kids out there who need help.
On clearing sewer drains: When we have impending rain in February after a rough winter like this, why isn't the city all over the newspaper, radio and television asking residents to dig open all storm drains? Unfortunately, people aren't smart enough to do it on their own, but they will do it if asked.
On Chinese education: I hardly think it makes sense to have these Chinese students coming over here when China is ranked so much higher than we are in education.
�On Watson plan: Regarding Wednesday's headline "Watson: Pit isn't priority," he's doing his tap dance again. I've been through that. I'm a Judge Judy fan, and I don't think this passes the smell test. He comments it's going to be used as leverage if it doesn't work out. We're talking again about "if."
-- Bill Watson says mining is not profitable and he needs zoning to allow mining for its value to investment bankers to get bailed out if the project doesn't work. So is it profitable or not? Get him to say it will never be mined. With rail access, selling aggregate to the Interstate expansion is minuscule compared to what could be sold to Chicago and Minneapolis.
On minimum wage: The Congressional Budget Office releases a report that's devastating to Democrats, saying we'd lose workers, and we get a story (Page 1A, Wednesday) saying it's good and bad. How is it good? Well, because people on the bottom will make more money. But the cost of everything will go up so their money will not buy more. It will go up for the rest of us, too.
On good Samaritans: I had a flat tire out on Highway 14, and this car stopped behind me. Two men got out and said they would fix my tire. I couldn't believe it when they did and didn't want to take any money. It was just so wonderful of them to help me.
On John Doe investigation: Jim Doyle was governor for two terms, and I don't remember his office being raided. I don't remember every one of his aides getting an exam. Could anyone explain to me how this is not 100 percent a political witch hunt?
-- Regarding Thursday's front-page story, once again we have a misleading headline. After spending years and taxpayer money on a political witch hunt, they have nothing. If they did the same investigation into Tom Barrett or Jim Doyle or any other administration in this country, they could charge the exact same indictment. This is political business as usual.
On car chase: In response to comments in Sound Off, the owner of the car that was left running in the driveway is not to blame. Anytime someone takes something from your property, it's their fault not yours. With the kind of cold we've had, everybody warms their car up and no one thinks about locking their door because its on their own property.
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More than 4,000 adults and children are expected at the 10th anniversary of the Spring Egg-Stravaganza, the largest free candy grab in Chicago, at Soldier Field Stadium, 1410 S. Museum Campus Dr., Saturday, March 23. A ticketed breakfast will be held at the United Club from 8:30-10 a.m. The admission-free festival begins at 9 a.m. featuring the candy grab on the field at 10 a.m.
Children ages 10 years and younger are welcome to participate in this event presented by Dominick's. The fun will be broadcast on the stadium's two super-sized 23' x 82' video screens for parents to cheer from the sidelines.
"This popular event is a wonderful opportunity for Chicagoans to celebrate spring and to experience the historic stadium," said Michael Kelly, General Superintendent and CEO of the Chicago Park District.
There is currently an art contest open to all youths through 8th grade to submit a color drawing of Soldier Field that depicts Chicago in the spring. The winning drawing will be printed on the 2,000 commemorative wooden eggs given to all kids that come to the event. Cash and prizes are given to first through third-place entries. Kids are encouraged to enter their drawing by Monday, Feb. 18 to Soldier Field, Egg-Stravaganza Art Contest, 1410 S. Museum Campus Dr., Chicago, IL 60605.
Before the candy grab, children will have the opportunity to have breakfast with the bunny and take photos at Soldier Field's United Club from 8:30 - 10 a.m. Admission to the breakfast is $17.50 for adults, $12 for children under age 10, and free for children under age 3 with a paying adult. Reservations are required for breakfast and must be made by Friday, March 22 by calling 312-235-7162 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
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