Th3LastRebel t1_ja3mcbd wrote on February 26, 2023 at 4:30 PM

Reply to Unpredictable childhood environments linked to food addiction in adulthood by chrisdh79

This study seems to have been done by someone who doesn't understand what food insecurity is.

Food insecurity is causation; unpredictability is just a bonus trauma for those who already have food insecurity.

Edited to add: food insecurity to also include not having meals that can be eaten comfortably, or lack consistency of the quality, texture or autonomy of having choices in the food being eaten.

Being forced or coerced to eat food that is repulsive or being forced to eat when not hungry/being denied food when hungry is all part of food insecurity.

It's one thing to have access to food, it's another to have access to food that one can actually not be miserable eating.

Th3LastRebel t1_j8edu84 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 6:20 PM

Reply to comment by Generallyawkward1 in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga

I don't think it's the immune system itself that is the big problem, The information that we have so far suggests that mitochondrial impact is more significant when it comes to us long haulers. (The immune system is important but doesn't always recognize threats until it is too late and/or can also overreact.) Mitochondrial impact might not be as immediately evident as the symptoms created by the body's immune response.

Covid-19 (which is the name of the initial SARS variant) absolutely wrecked and/or destroyed a notable account of lives and significantly affected a good number of others. (I'm one of them.)

The majority of us who have the worse long haul symptoms appear to have been exposed prior to a vaccination being available. This stands to reason that one of the reasons many of us long haulers catch it even after vaccinated is because our Mitochondria is already impacted and I theorize that it is sort of like having the door kicked in...

For some viruses, the door isn't destroyed and is bolstered in time...so it takes a few hits but is made stronger. Or you have ones like the Measles that essentially removes the entire door AND makes the new doors out of cheaper material...

For Covid 19, its more like that for some of us, the door is still there but was pretty battered and had cracks in it...we can ADD defenses and repair the door after the fact but it won't be as good as that original door was before it got kicked in.

And when it comes to immune response, that repaired door is good at keeping most crap out, but crap that makes its way through anyways heads right for the Mitochondria and continues to screw with us.