Posted on 01/07/2016 7:00:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
Otzi the legendary “Iceman†wasn't alone when he was mummified on a glacier 5,300 years ago. With him were gut microbes known to cause some serious tummy trouble.
These bacteria, Helicobacter pylori, are providing fresh evidence about Otzi's diet and poor health in the days leading up to his murder. Intriguingly, they could also help scientists better understand who his people were and how they came to live in the region.
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Discovered in the 1990s, Otzi lived in what are today the Eastern Italian Alps, where he was naturally mummified by ice after his violent death. The body is astonishingly well preserved and has provided scientists with a wealth of information about the Iceman's life and death during the Copper Age.
For instance, various examinations have revealed his age, how he died, what he wore and what he ate. We know he suffered from heart and gum disease, gallbladder stones and parasites. His genome has been studied, relatives have been found and his 61 tattoos have been mapped.
The latest discovery not only adds to the Iceman's health woes, it offers hints of human migration patterns into Europe. While not everyone has H. pylori in their guts, the bacteria are so frequently found in human stomachs that their evolution into different strains can be used to help reconstruct migrations going back about 100,000 years.
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There is nothing like that to look up. No one is really sure how, why, or even when the Neanderthal disappeared. The last known finds date to 28,000 ya.
The most modern theory is that they didn’t ‘disappear’, but were blended into the current human race - but that’s a theory not a fact. However, there are Neanderthal genes present in modern humans.
It's still something of a mystery how I became infected. I eat a very good diet. Take care of myself. I'm retired so no stress.
Heh. Nice try but the Iceman is obviously Willy Nelson.
Neanderthals boosted our immune system
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | January 07, 2016 | SJ/HR
Posted on 01/07/2016 10:51:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Stress does not cause ulcers, it only aggravates the damage that h. pylorii are doing.
If I get a cold and have to have amoxicillin or augmentin (which has amoxicillin in it) I always add bismuth tablets to my ingestion at that time. I have never had this infection.
No one seems to have the vector for transmission of h. pylori, at least not published so far. Maybe this is a touchy issue. But I would say at least by direct transmission from saliva (kissing) or from incompletely cleansed raw vegetables or lettuce (the filthy stuff).
But for dang sure, I NEVER let a dog lick my face, or "kiss" one, like some dog-loving boobs do. Their innards have got to be filthy. You don't have a dog, do you? or some other animal. Cats lick themselves all over, and I am allergic to their flaky proteins from dried saliva shed from their licked fur.
H. pylori seem to be more prevalent in the cultures that are not too clean, i. e. the Iceman.
I never eat raw meat or raw fish, like the Nipponese do.
Just thinking about this gags me.
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