I listened to this podcast interview with David “Wolverine” Smith the other day:
It’s a remarkable, if completely infuriating, story about medical malpractice and human resilience. In short, through a series of gross medical mishaps after a minor procedure, he wound up having his large and small intestines removed, and then replaced with a transplanted large and small intestine.
I discovered Wolverine’s site about 18 months ago, posted a comment, and engaged in a email dialog with him which was most interesting.
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Fascinating -- had no idea about the connection to dumping water into the gut as a defense mechanism. I wonder how else the body reacts to beverages (diet sodas? it's an ongoing vice of mine I need to drop).
ReplyDeletetimely...I went low-carb (<50g/day) at the end of last year, and it's just recently dawned on me what a good indicator of carb intake my need to urinate is. If I'm not going to the loo after every cup of tea or coffee, I've had to many carbs. I'd theorised that eating carbs required more water to digest, this makes that fairly plain.
ReplyDelete(and I've had no problems running 6hrs without any carbs since going low-carb)