If improving personality requires work such as long hours of therapy to overcome childhood trauma and such, then is the information about proper dieting a dangerous weapon when shared with individuals whose character deviations are unresponsive to general health improvements?
Dangerous as in making a person healthy/energy driven to much, so that bad character traits flourish and cause damage to the sorroundings? Enabling so to speak?
There was a user in the forum who referenced a theory where hypothyroid people are attracted to other hypothyroid people. I often wondered myself how many factors are playing into this other than psychological once.
I know we are talking about personality here but unless the person in question has the brain of a sociopath, the mechanisms that determine personality and behaviour seem to be very complex.
But i guess you could be right. Giving a evil person so to speak the tools to dominate and make everyone else misserable does not sound like a good idea.
Im wondering tho if we are ... from a moral standpoint ... allowed to deny problematic people to be healthy? Maybe its not about them being healthy or not, but the other factors that led to this behaviour/personality that need to be taken care of?
In a attempt to understand my surroundings, especially social behaviour and personalities (which baffle me since childchood), im pondering over the idea that other variables come into play that we are overlooking, something we are missing?
Especially in thoose cases were neither psychological theraphies nor lifestyle/diet changes lead to the desired lifequality and personality/behaviour changes.
Im thinking about the virome and microbiome for instance.
I mean we see it in the wild how fungi or other types of organisms influence behaviour in plants and animals. Why woudn't it influence us aswell? I mean its a long shot but perhaps it plays a more significant role than we think and is intrinsically involved in our development and gene/cell expression.
Fungi That Infect Insects: Altering Host Behavior and Beyond
The parasitic fungi such as the host-specific pathogen Ophiocordyceps unilateralis sensu lato can control insect brains and manipulate their behavior to reach death locations that are optimal for spore dispersal, the so-called fungal extended phenotype [9]
Pathogen-derived extracellular vesicles coordinate social behaviour and host manipulation
Pathogens excel in developing different means to facilitate cell-cell communication via secreted vesicles, among others. The released vesicles are involved in the transfer of biologically active molecules that induce phenotypic changes in the recipient cells. The messages within the vesicles are delivered to coordinate diverse processes, including virulence factor expression, differentiation state and control of their population density. Importantly, production of such vesicles promotes pathogen survival, as it provides a secure means of pathogen-pathogen communication and an ability to manipulate host responses for their own benefits. This review highlights intriguing findings, which show the important role of EVs in the social activity of pathogens, within and in between their communities. We further present examples of how pathogens use EVs to alter host immune and non-immune responses.
The missing link in parasite manipulation of host behaviour
A vast majority of the published literature investigating the mechanistic basis underlying behavioural manipulation fails to connect the establishment of the parasite with the reported physiological changes in its host. This has left researchers unable to empirically distinguish/identify adaptive physiological changes enforced by the parasites from pathological side effects of infection, resulting in scientists relying on narratives to explain results, rather than empirical evidence. By contrasting correlative mechanistic evidence for host manipulation against rare cases of causative evidence and drawing from the advanced understanding of physiological systems from other disciplines it is clear we are often skipping over a crucial step in host-manipulation: the production, potential storage, and release of molecules (manipulation factors) that must create the observed physiological changes in hosts if they are adaptive. Identifying these manipulation factors, via associating gene expression shifts in the parasite with behavioural changes in the host and following their effects will provide researchers with a bottom-up approach to unraveling the mechanisms of behavioural manipulation and by extension behaviour itself.
Host behaviour alteration by its parasite: from brain gene expression to functional test
We studied brain gene expression profiles of sticklebacks infected with S. solidus to determine the proximal causes of these behavioural alterations. We show that infected fish have altered expression levels in genes involved in the inositol pathway.
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