Why after thousands of years of consuming alcohol and bread there are still people who are allergic or intolerant to alcohol and gluten?
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ELI5? You know how sometimes you go to the store and buy something you like, but when you take it out of the box for some reason it just doesn’t work right? Somethings wrong and it just doesn’t work right even though you had plenty of them before that worked fine? Like that, but with people.
ELI5? You know how sometimes you go to the store and buy something you like, but when you take it out of the box for some reason it just doesn’t work right? Somethings wrong and it just doesn’t work right even though you had plenty of them before that worked fine? Like that, but with people.
Allergy (or any form of immunity) isn’t heritable for the most part, so consuming bread for millenia just doesn’t really matter. Our changing standards of hygiene are a vastly bigger deal.
ELI5? You know how sometimes you go to the store and buy something you like, but when you take it out of the box for some reason it just doesn’t work right? Somethings wrong and it just doesn’t work right even though you had plenty of them before that worked fine? Like that, but with people.
Allergy (or any form of immunity) isn’t heritable for the most part, so consuming bread for millenia just doesn’t really matter. Our changing standards of hygiene are a vastly bigger deal.
Allergy (or any form of immunity) isn’t heritable for the most part, so consuming bread for millenia just doesn’t really matter. Our changing standards of hygiene are a vastly bigger deal.
Nobody is allergic to alcohol… some people do have a genetic trend of not producing an enzyme or producing a less effective one, but that’s not an allergy.
Gluten is an autoimmune response just like allergies. Allergies are very common.
Nobody is allergic to alcohol… some people do have a genetic trend of not producing an enzyme or producing a less effective one, but that’s not an allergy.
Gluten is an autoimmune response just like allergies. Allergies are very common.
People live long enough to become grandparents even if they have untreated celiac disease so they pass their genes.
There are various forms of alcohol intolerance. If people had “instant alcoholism” gene, they had it easier to handle their liquor before invention of distillation. Also some kind of alcoholism was a norm in the history.
People live long enough to become grandparents even if they have untreated celiac disease so they pass their genes.
There are various forms of alcohol intolerance. If people had “instant alcoholism” gene, they had it easier to handle their liquor before invention of distillation. Also some kind of alcoholism was a norm in the history.
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