Between the flies refusing yeast, mice lusting after cat urine and the mysteries of pregnancy cravings (yep, and they change!), this is quite an assault on human free will :) Makes me wonder, how much of what we confidently call “ my taste” or “ “my craving” do you think actually belongs to us?
I was a binge eater on and off for decades. A couple of years ago I went strict keto, which had worked years before, and then drifted into carnivore (95% now). It was with that last change that for the first time in my life I do not get cravings. No food noise. Truly feels like a miracle. (no idea what it means for my microbiome).
More and more, I think that "me" is plural. We are so entwined with our microbes, I'm not sure there is any sense in separating us. We have perhaps 100 times more bacterial genes than human genes, so we're clearly outnumbered. Whitman was right: we contain multitudes.
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Between the flies refusing yeast, mice lusting after cat urine and the mysteries of pregnancy cravings (yep, and they change!), this is quite an assault on human free will :) Makes me wonder, how much of what we confidently call “ my taste” or “ “my craving” do you think actually belongs to us?
I was a binge eater on and off for decades. A couple of years ago I went strict keto, which had worked years before, and then drifted into carnivore (95% now). It was with that last change that for the first time in my life I do not get cravings. No food noise. Truly feels like a miracle. (no idea what it means for my microbiome).
More and more, I think that "me" is plural. We are so entwined with our microbes, I'm not sure there is any sense in separating us. We have perhaps 100 times more bacterial genes than human genes, so we're clearly outnumbered. Whitman was right: we contain multitudes.