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KetosisMD t1_iyakit0 wrote

Your retina tries to deal with high blood sugars (diabetes) when its mitochondria activate an internal recycling process called autophagy (which means “to eat oneself”). Essentially the mitochondria must sense the damage of primarily proteins and breaking these damaged proteins down and rebuilding is undertaken.

This is unlike my son’s room … when clothes and various other junk build up .. no internal cleaning mechanisms are activated (no junk-ophagy) until my wife yells a lot.

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KetosisMD t1_iu6ewg6 wrote

We found that one previously unknown species of bacteria was present in the intestines of around 20% of people who were either diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis or produce the antibodies that cause the disease. As a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, I suggested we name this species Subdoligranulum didolesgii (“didolesgii” means arthritis or rheumatism in Cherokee) as a nod to the contributions that other Indigenous scholars have made to science as well as the fact that rheumatoid arthritis affects Indigenous people at a higher rate than other populations.

Subdoligranulum didolesgii has not been detected in the feces of healthy people before, and it is currently unknown how prevalent this bacteria is in the general population.

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