news.ycombinator.com• Oct 16, 2023• 1 min read
Ask HN: Are gut problems behind everything?I have autoimmune diseases, and I'm in a constant search for lifestyle changes which could potentially improve my condition. If you start to read up on health issues like this, you really quickly end up reading about food sensitivities, leaky gut, gut biome problems, and inflammation.However, if you go to a doctor, then there is 95% chance that you won't hear about any of these. Alternative medicine was always around, but this feels like an alternative but somehow scientific (or maybe just pseudoscientific) parallel universe. It sounds intriguing (because it makes me believe that my officially incurable diseases are actually curable), but I have this general uneasy feeling that I can not understand this phenomenon.Is this "gut problems are behind everything" theory is just simply quackery? Or is this just that we are more connected to new information, and these are just the ongoing changes in the scientific knowledge, which will be picked up later by the slow moving medical protocols?