So, I shit fear?
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Is this why I feel less anxious post shit
It's really weird but I seem to more easily get panic attacks if I haven't eaten yet that day. I wonder if this has something to do with it as well.
Whose shit do I need to eat to feel like a normal person?
You can adjust your own gut bacteria in 3-9 months through diet alone. Eating shit is a unnecessary optimization.
yeah, you don’t eat it. water, fecal sample, enemia. EZ
or just eat some yogurt, kimchi, fruit and veggies.
I'm quite lactose intolerant and don't handle cabbage well either.
Remaining instructions unclear; banana stuck in rectum.
As long as you're having fun 😉
So that's what rimming is all about; they have anxiety. TIL.
I think a lot of people don't realise how much of what makes "them" them is gut biome and your brain retrospectively assigning yourself agency for actions your body decided on (flinching from hot surfaces is one).
We just keep finding more ways that gut bacteria influence our diet and behaviour. And if you obey your gut flora and eat sugar instead of protein, you'll allow them to increase which expands their influence over you. Or that part of you, since where's the line?
Or that part of you, since where's the line?
Brains exist in a chemical soup, but you are still you even if the soup changes. The good thing about this relationship is the brain can control the food and slowly change the gut and in turn the chemical soup the brain exists in.
“Shut up or I’ll give you my anxiety” has now become a threat that is possible to follow through on.
Yes technically, but… I was gonna say “how would you even act on that?” but decided I’d prefer not to know.
As someone who does know how transplanting gut biome works... yea, you absolutely don't want to know.
Just know that a "Stool Bank", which is a facility which holds samples of fecal matter tested to ensure no transferable disease, is a real thing that exists and is relevant to this discussion.
Shit put into a pill that you swallow.
Interesting stuff.
As a side note, I feel like a lot of people tend to erroneously conflate mostly normal social anxiety (e.g. feeling anxious when meeting new people) with SAD, which tends to be diagnosed when the anxiety is actually severe/crippling. Kind of like how PTSD or OCD are thrown around super casually these days.