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My Sunday Treasure Hunt: Enzymes and Digestion

If you go around the net, looking for information about enzymes and digestion, you often find detailed explanations. Explenations that generally say that enzymes come in a limited quantity, that if you eat raw food you are taking in new enzymes, thus not depleting your resources but if you eat cooked food you deactivate the enzymes, and eventually (over the years) you will have troubles digesting food. If you, instead, go to wikipedia nothing of this is present. Nor if you ask to a ‘normal’ doctor will they tell you any of this. What follows Continue reading My Sunday Treasure Hunt: Enzymes and Digestion

Gollum answers to his medical check up

How was it:

Yoda: “When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmm?”
Star Wars

Which we could rephrase as:
Gollum
: “When 587 years old you reach, look as healthy you will not, my treasure.”
which should be Gollum Answer to his check up.

Gollum displays pervasive maladaptive behaviour that has been present since childhood with a persistent disease course. His odd interests and spiteful behaviour have led to difficulty in forming friendships and have caused distress to others. He fulfils seven of the nine criteria for schizoid personality disorder (ICD F60.1), and, if we must label Gollum’s problems, we believe that this is the most likely diagnosis.
British Journal of Medicine