Chill Week

This has been much calmer and its nice to finally have things slowish for the moment. Class was great this week and we are now reading a book about Darwinian Medicine and that to have a correct treatment, one needs to know if the symptoms benefit the pathogen or patient. An interesting example of this is with fevers is how your body heats up to actually raise core temperature and decrease iron content in the blood(bacteria thrives off iron). Although a high enough fever can be serious and need medication, most people actually recover in twice the time when allowing the fever to take its course and don't use any fever reducers. Another important issue is that antibiotics dosage should not be increased if they do not work. Instead the users should try another. Its also good to avoid long term exposure to antibiotics fighting diseases. All this is because an pathogen can replicate, mutate, and expand into a diverse mix of strains with some being antibiotic resistant.
I have also been doing lots of research on the foot and its evolution and development. In a study done comparing four groups of people(Current Europeans, two African groups, and a hunter-gather group from 10,000B.C.E. What they found is shocking, feet over the span of 10,000 years have actually structurally changed for the worse. The metatarsal bones in our feet have shortened and are much more prone to fraction and abnormal bone growth. The group with the highest rate of foot pathologies was Europeans then Africans, while the hunter-gather group had almost none. Basically are feet have permanently changed and are more prone to ailment, however development still plays a key role and by breaking the foot free from the shoe you can restore atrophied muscles, correct certain foot deformities, and improve you balance/agility.
This week i donated blood for the second time(im finally eligible again). I also talked with the teacher from Tropical Rainforests and he said to fill an application out and there is a chance i could get in. My class has been much better recently and it will work out staying in this class if im not accepted. This morning i went for a 15mile ride along the coast of Olympia to downtown where i ran some errands. Im now at work and since its a slow day im getting lots of work done.
Hope every things great!