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Baba Brinkman
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Why We Get Sick
Let's begin with medicine from back in the day When a priest and a medicine man were the same I'm in pain, I've got a fever and I'm restless! 'A classic case of demon possession I've got the cure though, here, take it easy Drink this broth, it's made from endangered species It works only when the weather's not stormy Now go sacrifice a goat and call me in the morning' We practice medicine in similar ways today, but now it's nominally evidence-based It used to be entirely mysterious but these Days it's just mysterious to various degrees Thanks to Louis Pasteurization, vaccines And discoveries like the germ theory of disease But what about natural alternative medicine Ayurvedic homeopathy and all the rest of it? Well, if we can isolate and test it for effectiveness Maybe some of it will be vindicated by evidence And then it won't be 'alternative', it'll be 'medicine' And whatever's left? Well, that we can jettison Yeah, modern medicine is mechanistic Treats the body like a machine, attempts to fix it But the picture's incomplete without this next bit Not just 'how it works' but 'why we get sick'
Why we get sick We evolved to crave salt, sugar and fat They were scarce in the past So we get sick Sit down, take some weight off Lower back pain results as a trade off We get sick The genes inside us are ancient, surrounded by modern products We get sick Microbial arms races Charles Darwin taught the basics Of why we get sick
'Why does disease exist?' Next time someone asks that, don't plead the fifth I know your neighbour's car has a Jesus fish You wanna keep the peace, and he believes a myth But so what? People die from untreated infections And asking 'why' implies natural selection And that can lead to new research questions So lives are lost to avoid bein' offensive? Well that's offensive to life's preservation Every disease requires two explanations The first one is proximate, Doctor Gregory House Tryin' to get the diagnosis and figure it out What's the broken mechanism? Like a puzzle to solve The second question is: How did this evolve? Relax, evolution is so simple The DNA in your cells encodes info For how to build a body to develop and thrive Ultimately to reproduce and survive So disease itself is not the adaptation But you need adaptations to explain...
Why we get sick Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com We evolved to crave salt, sugar and fat They were scarce in the past So we get sick Sit down, take some weight off Lower back pain results as a trade off We get sick The genes inside us are ancient, surrounded by modern products We get sick Microbial arms races Charles Darwin taught the basics Of why we get sick
How does DNA make design? With no intelligent mind? It takes time But any variation that increases reproduction or random mutation that enhances some function of feeding or developing or escaping from hitches Will tend to increase in number – that's fitness Take infection, you can feel it, something's wrong But that's an organism trying to get its reproduction on Up in your guts, no guts no glory That's just one of several evo-categories Another is defenses, you catch a fever To cook the invader, no bug, that's a feature Yeah, you have weapons to beat back infections So don't make rash decisions and mask symptoms Dosing with iron when your blood is busy bindin' it And watch out for mismatched environments We evolved in the days of the cave man Coca cola wasn't really part of the game plan And some diseases are all about genetics You gotta take the gene's eye view to really get it Sometimes they go rogue, it's like starting a war They send you to the oncology ward Life is full of design compromises Trade offs, you know, kinda like with high rises Strength for tensility, speed for longevity Live fast, die young, breed prolifically And yeah, humans are still evolving But we've got a body plan, so we can't evolve wings We had to wait to fly 'til someone thought of it Cultural evolution, medicine is part of it
Cultural evolution, medicine is part of Part of cultural evolution Medicine is part of
Why we get sick We evolved to crave salt, sugar and fat They were scarce in the past So we get sick Sit down, take some weight off Lower back pain results as a trade off We get sick The genes inside us are ancient, surrounded by modern products We get sick Microbial arms races Charles Darwin taught the basics Of why we get sick
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