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5/29 - World Digestive Health Day [1]

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Date: 2023-05-29

World Digestive Health Day marks the anniversary of the creation of the World Gastroenterology Organisation. Digestive health is Serious business and also serious Business. When I went looking for art for this I became seriously aware just what big business the field of Digestive Health aka Gut Health is. Gastroenterologists are medical doctors who specialize in this general area. There is a lot of science involved, but science is a process, a process of discovery and learning, so things keep changing. In addition, there is very often an element of uncertainty, and, in many casses, downright ignorance. That ignorance can run from "we're not completely such which of these treatments is best" to "we have absolutely no idea how to treat what you've got".

There are also a ton of nostrums and have been since ancient times. (I was tempted to search some antiquarian sites for a picture of a bottle of putative snake oil for the lead photo.) There are companies that specialize in producing nostrums for digestive problems and even companies that specialize in marketing them for others. Many stores of several differing types devote great amounts of shelf space to over the counter remedies, and there are also a lot of prescription medicines. Some of the latter, such as some of the infusions for problems like Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis cost thousands per dose. Some treatments have side effects that are not at all pleasant but which, nonetheless, are preferable to the malady being treated.

When all of that i said and done, it is just another awareness day BUT, in this case there is the implicit need to be proactive with regard to achieving and maintaining good digestive health, because anybody's digestive health can go south at any time without any warning. That being the case, it is somewhat incumbent upon most of us to learn something about the matter, if only that the answer to any gut issue isn't necessarily simply reaching for the Pepto Bismol

In the US, for 2003, it is Memorial Day, one of those floating holidays with a highly variable date because, in this case, it is a Monday holiday.

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