#flora intestinal

[venacavanyc]

Vou te ensinar uma receita para recuperar sua flora intestinal e mudar sua vida, que além de deliciosa, é super fácil de fazer! Você só vai precisar de 2 ingredientes para fazer essa receita poderosa, o chucrute.

[undead-potatoes]

Do you think Durge has any chronic health issues as a result of Kressa Bonedaughter messing around inside of them so many times? Not to speak of constantly thrashing around in that pod and causing further damage to their head (and everything else)

[newtness532]

a new braincell dies every time i have to change "μικροχλωριδα" to "μικροβιωμα"

[the-acid-pear]

I really can't tell if like. I need to bathe or if I'm sick or if it's aReally that cold bc i have two pants and a shirt a sweater and a jacket and i still can't get from under the covers or I'll turn to stone. I know i had a bit of fever today, my diet will not do me any favors, but it's hard to tell.

[bijoubetrayal]

too many ppl who know nothing about Filipino folklore n culture r talking shit about my ate. she’s based off of the manananggal, which you can compare to the European vampire, if that helps you understand it better. although, i’m reluctant to mention that becuz some ppl, who choose to be ignorant, currently hold the view that she’s just an Asian-colored vampire mishmash monster. she is not. other than the fact that she manages to exist at all, here are some details i appreciate about her.

first, she has a face that looks like my family’s. that’s my lola’s nose. that’s my mom’s birthmark. shit, those are my uncle’s cheekbones. the headpiece features jasmine, our national flower. the translucent petals are cool.

second, you can display her in two pieces, split by the torso. its not just a “cheap gimmick” you ignorant pos. at nightfall, the manananggal severs itself in two, leaving behind a vulnerable lower half while its upper half hunts for nourishment - blood, raw hearts, livers, fetuses. the red fringe represents her dangling intestines, hanging loose as she flies after ripping her body apart. the string detail is on the skirt for consistency, but also, intestines are long as fuck? why wouldn’t they also hang from the bottom, assuming they also get split in half.

while we’re on the outfit, the top is an extremely traditional (Spanish colonial, ugh) style in both fabric and shape. i have attire that looks exactly like it, minus the monster high red foil pattern. the tiny, “woven” sleeve cuffs are a nice touch. the earrings and bracelets look to be woven palm too, but aren’t as effective in plastic. the bottom half skirt is quite a bit shorter than is traditional, and the heels higher. it’s a monster high doll.

most accurate would be barefoot, tbh. but you guys would riot, and again, its a doll. actually, the shoes reference a lot from Filipino culture. the heel is a coconut tree overlooking a kubo, a one-room stilt hut built with natural materials such as bamboo and palm, and specifically made to be remade as necessary. the sole is “wooden”, also an accessible material of which some shoes were made with. it is attached by braid to what looks to be a straw strap. also not unusual for a shoe.

her fan and wings feature embroidery, and if you look closely at the latter, you will see a thin and delicate flora design in between the spider web pattern. this is extremely reminiscent of calado, a type of traditional hand embroidery akin to lace that is difficult as fuck. a dying art, btw.

i didn’t wake up looking to ride this hard for a plastic woman lmao. but if you’re gonna come for her, it better be because of the fluorescent green in her colorway and not because you don’t know what you’re talking about. honestly, a lot of Filipinos are just happy to be considered and celebrated. “wins” like this mean everything. maybe it’s not good enough for your collection, but now you know more about my culture than you would’ve gone out of your way to. and that’s good enough for me.

[theloverstomb]

‘Fragile Microbiomes’ by bio-artist Anna Dumitriu

1. SYPHILIS DRESS- This dress is embroidered with images of the corkscrew-shaped bacterium which causes the sexually transmitted disease syphilis. These embroideries are impregnated with the sterilised DNA of the Nichols strain of the bacterium - Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum - which Dumitriu extracted with her collaborators.

2. MICROBE MOUTH- The tooth at the centre of this necklace was grown in the lab using an extremophile bacterium which is part of the species called Serratia (Serratia N14) that can produce hydroxyapatite, the same substance that tooth enamel is made from.

The handmade porcelain teeth that make up this necklace have been coated with glazes derived from various bacterial species that live in our mouths and cause tooth decay and gum disease, including Porphyromonas gingivalis, which can introduce an iron-containing light brown stain to the glaze.

3. TEETH MARKS: THE MOST PROFOUND MYSTERY- In his 1845 essay “On Artificial Teeth”, W.H. Mortimer described false teeth as “the most profound mystery” because they were never discussed. Instead, people would hide the stigma of bad teeth and foul breath using fans.

This altered antique fan is made from animal bone and has been mended with gold wire, both materials historically used to construct false teeth (which would also sometimes incorporate human teeth). The silk of the fan and ribbon has been grown and patterned with two species of oral pathogens: Prevotella intermedia and Porphyromonas gingivalis. These bacteria cause gum disease and bad breath, and the latter has also recently been linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

4. PLAGUE DRESS- This 1665-style 'Plague Dress' is made from raw silk, hand-dyed with walnut husks in reference to the famous herbalist of the era Nicholas Culpeper, who recommended walnuts as a treatment for plague. It has been appliquéd with original 17th-century embroideries, impregnated with the DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria (plague). The artist extracted this from killed bacteria in the laboratory of the National Collection of Type Cultures at the UK Health Security Agency.

The dress is stuffed and surrounded by lavender, which people carried during the Great Plague of London to cover the stench of infection and to prevent the disease, which was believed to be caused by 'bad air' or 'miasmas'. The silk of the dress references the Silk Road, a key vector for the spread of plague.

5. BACTERIAL BAPTISM- based on a vintage christening gown which has been altered by the artist to tell the story of research into how the microbiomes of babies develop, with a focus on the bacterium Clostridioides difficile, originally discovered by Hall and O’Toole in 1935 and presented in their paper “Intestinal flora in new-born infants”. It was named Bacillus difficilis because it was difficult to grow, and in the 1970s it was recognised as causing conditions from mild antibiotic-associated diarrhoea to life-threatening intestinal inflammation. The embroidery silk is dyed using stains used in the study of the gut microbiome and the gown is decorated with hand-crocheted linen lace grown in lab with (sterilised) C. difficile biofilms. The piece also considers how new-borns become colonised by bacteria during birth in what has been described as ‘bacterial baptism’.

6. ZENEXTON- Around 1570, Swiss physician and alchemist Theophrastus Paracelsus coined the term ‘Zenexton’, meaning an amulet worn around the neck to protect from the plague. Until then, amulets had a more general purpose of warding off (unspecified) disease, rather like the difference today between ‘broad spectrum’ antibiotics and antibiotics informed by genomics approaches which target a specific organism.

Over the next century, several ideas were put forward as to what this amulet might contain: a paste made of powdered toads, sapphires that would turn black when they leeched the pestilence from the body, or menstrual blood. Bizarre improvements were later made: “of course, the toad should be finely powdered”; “the menstrual blood from a virgin”; “collected on a full moon”.

This very modern Zenexton has been 3D printed and offers the wearer something that genuinely protects: the recently developed vaccine against Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague.

[the-most-humble-blog]

🧬👻 “You Think You’re You? That’s Adorable.”

You’re not even fully human. You’re a haunted meat golem with Wi-Fi and anxiety.

ACT I — The Lie You’re Living

Ah, yes. You wake up. Brush your teeth. Sip your coffee. Scroll your phone. You feel like a real person with thoughts, memories, preferences.

Cute.

Because here’s the punchline, sweet summer child:

You’re not even 100% human.

ACT II — What You Really Are

You’re a walking, talking orgy of multiple species. Part human. Part bacteria. Part fungus. Part virus. Part ancient ape. And 100% confused spaghetti code pretending to have a soul.

The human body? A biological group project between evolution, gut microbes, parasitic DNA hitchhikers, and ancient mitochondria that used to be their own species.

Your body contains:

More non-human cells than human ones.

Bacteria that outnumber your own cells 10 to 1.

DNA from viruses, ancient fungi, and unclassifiable “dark genome” segments that we literally do not understand.

You are not a person. You’re a biofilm with opinions.

ACT III — You’re a Colony. Not an Individual.

Think about this:

Your thoughts can be influenced by the bacteria in your gut.

Your moods are affected by your microbiome.

Your decisions can shift depending on what fungus you inhaled that day.

Your attraction to people? Might be chemical signals from your skin flora.

You ever get a “gut feeling”?

That might literally be your intestinal bacteria whispering strategy into your brain.

And you thought you were “making a choice.”

ACT IV — Are You Even There?

Let’s go deeper:

You don’t control your heartbeat. You don’t control your dreams. You don’t control what you forget, or when you cry, or what triggers your trauma. You don’t control the timing of your thoughts.

So the question is:

Who the f*ck is actually driving this meat suit?

Because neuroscience doesn’t know. Religion argues. Philosophy hyperventilates. And physics just stares blankly into the void.

ACT V — You Might Be a Ghost. Or Just a Glitch.

You’re either:

A consciousness that’s somehow haunting a nervous system

A chemical puppet with enough complexity to simulate free will

A hallucination of self generated by accidental electro-meat fireworks

Or, worst of all:

A network of sub-selves constantly arguing while pretending they’re one “I.”

Shocking Truth?

Science has no consensus on what consciousness actually is.

Nobody knows if it’s:

An emergent property

A soul

A quantum algorithm

A shared delusion

Or a horrifying accident we’ve decided to romanticize

ACT VI — Logic Tests That Will Wreck You

Ready to lose sleep? Try these reality-breaking diagnostics:

🧠 Logic Trap 1: “When Are You?”

Your brain processes input with a delay. What you’re experiencing right now actually happened a few milliseconds ago. So… if you’re always behind the present… Where is “now”? And who’s watching it?

🧠 Logic Trap 2: “The Ship of Self”

Every 7 years, your cells have completely regenerated. You are literally not made of the same matter you were as a child. If your body changed… and your thoughts changed… What stayed the same? Who’s left?

🧠 Logic Trap 3: “The False First Person”

What if every time you go to sleep, the “you” that wakes up is a copy? You remember yesterday… but so does the copy. Are you just a rebooted save file that thinks it’s original?

🧠 Logic Trap 4: “The Brain In The Room”

The only proof you have that anyone else exists is sensory input. You could be a brain in a jar, hallucinating all this. Can you prove you’re not?

FINAL VERDICT — You’re Not “You.” You’re Just a Temporary Pattern.

A mind is not a soul. It’s a self-updating hallucination stabilized by hormones, trauma, diet, genetics, and luck.

And when you die?

That pattern ends. And everything you called “you” dissolves into meat, memory, and microbial decay.

The ghost leaves. The flesh rots. The world keeps spinning. No refunds. No backups. No explanations.

🔁 Reblog if you’ve ever felt like something else is steering. 👁 Comment if you’ve questioned your reality since age 9. 🧬 Follow if you’re ready to peel back your face and find the universe staring back.

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER:

This post is intended as philosophical commentary, not psychiatric advice. If you’re spiraling, eat something, touch grass, and don’t take your thoughts too literally. If you feel like nothing is real… congrats. You’re officially more qualified than most philosophers.

[dopepoisonivyoncrack]

"The hangman" or "what does this button do?"

Another protest/rage art. This time specifically about the so called “lurkers” of the fandoms, that don’t create and, more importantly, don’t interact with anything and anyone.  I’ve come across a poll the other day about what role do people play in their fandoms and there was a significant number of people (among the top 4 places or so at the time) voting they are lurkers - they don’t contribute with anything to the fandom, not even interacting with others posts.  Now, I noticed some forget words have meanings, but they can’t be considered PART of a fandom if they don’t PARTICIPATE in it in any way. And I am not gatekeeping anyone. They exclude themselves from fandom every time they read or see what other fans shared and make the decision to not interact with it, to not leave a comment, to not reblog, to not even like. The minimal requirement of pressing a button.  They are not part of the fandom like I am not part of a F1 team or Symphonic orchestra. Just liking a media and going online to read and look at what other fans do and share does not make one part of the fandom. Just like me watching a F1 race doesn’t make me part of any F1 team, so I can’t say I’m part of a F1 team. Just following artists without ever interacting with them, just expecting to be fed pretty things to look at or read doesn’t make them part of the fandom any more than a taenia is a part of the normal intestinal flora. There are so many creators' voices lately that bring up the increasing lack of interaction and how it affects them and fandom spaces, and they are sometimes blamed and told to shut it. It grows to be quite dehumanizing. 

[brainjvice]

Shidou hates vegetables (he'd gladly live off raw meat and carbs if he could) so Sae, in the attempt to save Shidou's intestinal flora from a fate worse than death, makes him some """special burgers""" which are actually moslty made out of vegetables.

Sae portions them, grills them and, when they are cold, puts them in the freezer, ready for Shidou to defrost and eat. (less time Ryusei spends in the kitchen = lower risk of something exploding)

Shidou has yet failed to notice it.

Also I like to imagine Sae actually sucks at cooking. He is used to let his personal chef do everything, yet Shidou stubbornly refuses to eat anything that has not been made by Sae-chan sweet hands, so Sae had to come up with something easy to make and also not too time consuming.

So yeah this means that Sae's "burgers" look absolutely atrocious and he forgets to put salt in it, like, half of the time, yet Ryusei always devours them as if he was a starving dog.

((Sae is convinced Shidou got his taste buds burnt after years of questionable eating habits, but in reality Ryusei feeds off more on the idea of Sae taking care of him than on the food itself.))

[rottenpumpkin13]

What is Sephiroth’s gut biome like? Has Hojo discovered any unique bacteria in his gut culture?

Like everything else about him, Sephiroth's gut biome is genetically enhanced to peak efficiency; fermentation, nutrient absorption, microbial balance, all flawless… until Angeal started feeding him. What was once a supplement-fueled gut suddenly looked alarmingly normal. Diverse flora. Improved digestion. Human-like bacterial colonies. Hojo lost it.

Hojo: Sephiroth, I've reviewed your lab results. There's been an anomalous spike in your gut microbiota. Why is your intestinal tract starting to resemble that of an average child?

Sephiroth: Angeal has been providing me with probiotic milk. It's those tiny plastic bottles that come with a smiling chocobo on it. They taste pleasant.

Hojo: Those are for children.

Sephiroth: So are the yogurt tubes with "Berry Blizzard" and "Moogle Mango" flavors. Angeal insists they aid my digestion.

Hojo: Your digestion was optimal. We've given you meticulously measured nutrient pastes and supplementation since infancy. Why would you pollute that system with bacteria-laden drinks?

Sephiroth: Angeal does not trust your "nutrient pastes." He's been preparing homemade foods. Kimchi. Kefir. Sourdough. Occasionally pickled radish. Last night he made bone broth with barley.

Hojo: None of those are in your nutritional plan. Your body belongs to Shinra. You cannot just consume foreign substances! I forbid this nonsense—

*Sephiroth calmly reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a bag of colorful gummies shaped like materia*

Hojo: What is that??

Sephiroth: Stress snacks. Angeal said "if you're gonna listen to Hojo all day, you deserve a treat." They're fruit-flavored. Rich in collagen.

[gallusrostromegalus]

AEIWAM: Why DOES the God Machine decay, anyways? It's operating outside of time and space. For that matter, I have Other questions about it. Why does it generate existence in the first place? Does it change its composition over time? Does it communicate with others like it? Did someone make it?

Strictly speaking, there is no reason for life to exist, here or in the fic. This is all just a very fun accident. Life exists in the 4 dimensions we're familiar with not because there is a reason FOR life to exist, but because there is no particular reason for life to NOT exist. I think it's the same in twelve or two hundred forty-seven dimensions. There's no reason for life to NOT exist outside of our understanding of time and space, so there's not particular reason to think it does not exist.

So the life machine exists, not because it was made, but because there is no reason it should not exist.

One thing that does seem to be true across different dimensions (and by "dimensions" I mean "measurable spectrums in which reality can exist", not "Alternate universes") is that death, or at least, entropy *does* exist. The universe we live in will eventually experience heat death. Time unravels under specific conditions and indications are that those conditions will eventually become dominant. All things, even the laws of physics, eventually die.

So the Life Machine dies, because for some reason, all things do.

...But also Things are born for no particular reason.

The big bang happened for no particular reason other than nothing was stopping it (kind of literally). Some people think that the universe will not experience heat death at all, but a dimensional collapse that crushes it all back together, before it explodes again, like a cosmic inhale and exhale.

Perhaps the Life Machine is not dying at all, so much as this version of it is reaching the next phase of it's life cycle, and it departs it's mortal coil not for oblivion but it turns to goop to reform into a body measured in entirely different dimensions.

Which is a bit of an upheaval for its microflora.

The Life Machine generates life in the same way you and I 'generate' the conditions of our intestines that support bacteria. If you ask most people, they do not think their primary purpose in life is to play host to billions of microorganisms, but that is very much something we do, and depend on.

Likewise, the Life Machine is misnamed, because it's got purpose beyond human understanding, like how humans have purpose beyond the understanding of eyelash mites. It's doing it's own thing, we just live here. but if all our microflora and fauna were to leave, it'd be a major problem for us, and if all life were to stop, it'd be a problem for the Life Machine.

In the Tarot, "Death" symbolizes change, and the Life Machine is Dying in the sense that it's definitely changing. Whether that change is the change from caterpillar to butterfly or from whale to whalefall is beyond the comprehension of Mortals, or even things like The Soul King.

Soul King's job is to keep the souls alive through this, and they achieve this by exploiting the fact that this change is also when the Life Machine reproduces. Regardless if the current Life Machine becomes a butterfly or a corpse, it's offspring will have suitable conditions for life to continue. Maybe this is a gift form parent to child- the life machine passes her internal flora to her offspring like a mother transfers her own colonies and antibodies to her child via colostrum. Maybe the Life Machine isn't thinking of it's offspring at all and this is all just the machinations of the parasites to propagate themselves into a new host for the sake of future generations.

Either way, neither action is planned or designed, but are still acts of love from a parent to child. Woman and Nematode alike loves her daughter.

TL;DR: As Above, So below, in the gooeiest and most incomprehensible but deeply loving way possible.

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

Future thinking

One of the hurdles faced with human/mechanical hybridization is the long term viability of any port installed on the human body. There are multiple medical applications currently where permanent to semi permanent ports are implanted, acting as a fixed gateway between the systems. The problem is keeping this hole happy— stop the body from pushing it out while not getting infected.

It’s the seawater donut issue. Humans are essentially donut shaped bags of seawater, carrying around our private oceans of nutrients and hormones (the donut hole is your digestive system passing through the middle). All complex life on earth is an expansion on this basic concept—keep good stuff in, keep bad stuff out, and a tube where you control stuff coming in and out.

How this plays out in humans is that skin acts as the main barrier (outside the donut), the digestive tract is outside the body, and your intestines pull all the nutrients they need and everything else passes through. This is why punctures to the intestines are so dangerous— it crosses the internal/external body barrier and allows your gut bacteria into your body cavity. Gut flora is incredibly important for our body to function, but it is technically outside the body, and is dangerous once inside.

So this is a long preamble to say that grafting monitors to your arm and passing wires through the skin are not without potential complications, because it goes against our body’s safety protocols.

I think it would be safer to dock our tech to the body’s established trade port. The stomach

[theambitiouswoman]

hello :) i’m trying to improve my gut health so i was wondering if you know what i should eat / take to have a healthy gut? thank you ♡

Hi angel <3

Eat foods like whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, and nuts are high in fiber, which can promote the growth of beneficial gut bacteria.

Fermented foods like yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, olives, pickles, kimchi, and kombucha contain probiotics that can help balance your gut flora.

Prebiotic foods feed the good bacteria in your gut. Examples include garlic, onions, leeks, asparagus, bananas, berries, tomatoes.

Drinking enough water helps keep your digestive system working well. Add some lemon in your water too.

High-sugar and low-fiber processed foods can negatively impact gut health. Limit the amount of processed foods you eat.

Stress can affect your gut health, so try meditation or yoga.

Try to get 7-9 hours of quality sleep per night.

Exercising regularly also helps support a healthy gut.

Eat less sugar and artificial sweeteners.

Drink bone broth daily. It helps with intestinal healing and prevents diseases.

Make sure you are taking enough magnesium.

I will write a gut healthy grocery list on a separate post :)

[mindblowingscience]

In a unique study carried out in drinking water pipes in Sweden, researchers from Lund University and the local water company tested what would happen if chlorine was omitted from drinking water. The result? An increase in bacteria, of course, but after a while something surprising happened: a harmless predatory bacteria grew in numbers and ate most of the other bacteria. The study suggests that chlorine is not always needed if the filtration is efficient—and that predatory bacteria could perhaps be used to purify water in the future. Just as human intestines contain a rich bacterial flora, many types of bacteria thrive in our drinking water and the pipes that transport them. On the inside of pipe walls is a thin, slippery coating, called a biofilm, which protects and supports bacteria. These bacteria have adapted to life in the presence of chlorine, which otherwise has the primary task to kill bacteria, particularity bacteria that can make humans sick.

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[madamlaydebug]

Do not drink this product.

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KOMBUCHA is a cocktail of fermented patented farmed bacteria.

It increases alcohol thus raising acidity in the body.

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It's primary ingredients are gram positive bacteria that increase lactic acid.

Lactic acid buildup can cause cramping pains.

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It is anaerobic:without oxygen.

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We get digestive help from fruit skin oxidation in our intestines.

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The bloom of fruit found on the skin is an immunity booster as it is secreted by the epidermal skin cells in the fruit and assists us at fighting bad bacteria like E. coli, candida , Helicobacter pylori etc.

All of which are increased by these fake probiotics like KOMBUCHA and ACV.

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If you suffer from celiacs disease, crohn's disease or other IBS types of diseases you have a high E. coli and candida infection and need a pure and natural probiotic to restore intestinal flora.

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Antibiotics, baby formulas and poor nutrition during pregnancy wipe out all natural bacteria in the gut and is the lead cause in development of these diseases.

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Contact Dr Ali for specialized nutritional regiments.

[macaroni-and-pebbles]

I'm chewing on your intestinal flora

what does it taste like sir