Posted on 09/27/2023 7:53:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Skiles mummy was found in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of South Texas. Up to 150 mummified bodies have been found in the area, but one adult male from around 1,200 years ago attracted particular attention for study due to how well-preserved his naturally mummified remains were. As well as having a full head of hair – rarely found in the other mummified remains – he had "a very large desiccated fecal mass, which encompasses the majority of what would have been the gastrointestinal tract", according to the authors of one study.
Given the size of the backup, the fecal matter allowed researchers to examine the man's diet in the months prior to his death. Meanwhile, the hair allowed the team to analyze his nutritional uptake. Comparing this diet to typical diets of the time – inferred partly through the fecal matter of other individuals – several teams were able to discover a surprising amount about his final months.
This included that he died of parasite-borne Chagas disease, was unable to absorb proteins adequately in the months preceding his death, and that he was likely rendered immobile by his condition. This is significant because "someone would have had to bring him food resources, as well as attending to his daily needs". I.e. he received care from the community as he was dying.
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This clip from Season 1, Episode 1 of the TV program, "Kung Fu," explains the genesis of why the blind Master Po calls his young student, played by Radames Pera, "Grasshopper." TranscriptKung Fu's "Grasshopper" | 1:33 | Cavett Robert | 1.86K subscribers | 510,549 views | October 2, 2014
Eat your bugs!
We’ve been binge watching the survival series “ALONE”. several contestants drop out from constipation when they have to resort to eating bugs and wood fibers.
This is what they want for the population of the world - to die in agony, eating bugs that we were not intended to and suffering greatly.
Now there was a guy centuries ahead of his time! Greta and her ilk would love this guy. I guess in the end he wasn’t very sustainable, though.
(Note to self: grasshoppers stop you up)
“...he had “a very large desiccated fecal mass, which encompasses the majority of what would have been the gastrointestinal tract”,
Was he buried in the “fecal position”?
Grasshoppers are a little dry but wormburgers slide right through /s
There is a modern name for what this man died from- Toxic Megacolon.
It must’ve been quite painful for him.
And a good way to learn how lack of proper food will kill you very fast.
Those people who blithely babble about how "you can live three weeks without food so don't worry about it" have never been in a survival situation. When your muscles are shaky and cramping and your brain is foggy you are going to die. And that happens long before three weeks.
Deep State and Big Med are really pushing this crap...
Opening soon in leftist cities; Grasshopper and miralax smoothie bars
I would think they’d give you the runs. Or at least the hops
Lotsa crap here to make jokes about.
I imagine their chitin exoskeletons are pretty indigestible. Eat them in quantity and you might have a problem even Halley’s MO couldn’t solve.
Hopefully, the government will include laxatives with our insect rations.
Good name for a band.
:^) Whether he liked it or not.
Definitely in the metal genre
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