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[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

To be clear: the historical treatment for too much black bile (melancholic) is to shit it out with laxatives.

[–] inconel 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

gut microbiome's link to gut-brain axis and depreasion so partial points earned? laxatives usually have adverse effect on gut microbiome tho

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

yeah you are going to want to combine this with probiotics, or eating ass

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gotta make sure you're eating undepressed ass though, else you're just back at stage 1

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

But where am I going to find a happy bottom 🥺

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Weird take, but blood-letting is a treatment against microplastics. As is menstruation and donating blood, but the first one is more medieval.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

The solution to pollution is dilution!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That's a treadmill. You have to eat and drink more micro plastics to replace the lost blood. Bloodletting was the opposite you wanted to do with melancholic illness btw. You wanted to increase sanguine humor(blood, the opposite of black bile) so you ate and drank sanguine foods(meat and gravy, red wine) while taking laxatives and enemas.

Hilariously there is one aspect of this that is actually accurate to modern suggestions. To increase sanguine humor you should exercise and get hot and sweaty (sanguine humor is considered hot and wet). Vigorous exercise is considered by modern medicine to be good for depression.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Can confirm. Worked my ass off today. Felt good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

However the microplastics that had previously accumulated would leave your body, thereby reducing the concentration temporarily.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

You ever go a long time without a good shit? Those alchemists may have been on to something.