According to the (4 year old) article there are no clinical studies showing that the gut microbiome analysis might be useful for either explaining or treating a chronic inflammation.
That is pretty far from it being considered "alternative medicine"
They actively discourage its use: "Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS) rät davon ab, Stuhltests zur Untersuchung des Mikrobioms zu nutzen."
In my opinion there being no evidence in either direction does not mean that you should not try it, especially if there is no downside and you have a chronic condition.
I assumed lack of evidence + non mainstream opinion = alternative medicine. Maybe there is a better word for cases like this where there is some evidence but no clear indication of causality.
I had my gut microbiota sequenced twice. The results were not actionable at all, because there is very little knowledge about what constitutes a healthy microbiome. Those tests are great entertainment if you're curious about the subject. But that's about it.
We know that a diverse microbiome might be healthier than a non-diverse one.
Exercise, eat your fibers, legumes, fruit and whole grains. Avoid processed food. Enjoy some fermented condiments. Avoid alcohol.
By working a healthy 8 hours a day, and integrating walking into their everyday activities: walk to the store instead of taking the car or getting things delivered, for example. Although I do agree that it depends on the environment you live in - whenever I found myself in dense built-up inner-city neighborhoods with a lack of green, my step average was just half of what it was in more walkable, leafier neighborhoods. While not having lived there myself, I imaging US suburbs would be equally detrimental to my walking habits.
But going from grocery delivery to walking to the store is not integrating it into your everyday activity. That's restructuring your life. Sure, I could walk to work and back every day I go to the office, but it'd be 45 minutes a day. That's a highly non-trivial time investment. And it wouldn't get me the equivalent of what I get from my under-the-desk treadmill, which requires a time investment of approximately zero.
You're really not. I created Bitfuture two years ago, which did exactly what this site purports to do. Derivabit did the same thing. Writing a platform that does this isn't that hard, getting legal approval is the main hurdle followed by having sufficient money in your market to make it liquid. Derivabit and I both decided to hang it up two years ago when Tera Exchange seemingly made it over the fence and got provisional CFTC approval, but that didn't stop them from being sued and settling [0].
Good luck staying off the radar. I think it's an insurmountable chicken-and-egg problem. If you are going to have enough money to fight your way through the inevitable jurisdictional battles you would have had to start this pre-Mt. Gox to get big enough to survive.
On another note - no one actually wants to hedge their Bitcoin. They are buying it as a highly speculative instrument already, even the players with supposedly large transactional demand for it.
Yeah if I fall under a US orgs' jurisdiction as a EU citizen not conducting business with US citizens as far as I can ascertain, please explain where I'm naive?
This isn't sarcasm, I can't think of a way the SEC would have any say over the exchange instead of it's potential US clients but would like to hear it
> not conducting business with US citizens as far as I can ascertain
If you make a reasonable [and effective] effort to not conduct business with US citizens then they will leave you alone. The mere fact that I can access Deribit undermines their exemption.
But I've seen the SEC charge people with thinner rationale. For example, a eastern european guy in an alleged insider trading ring only traded CFDs on a European CFD exchange. The SEC claimed that he would know that the exchange would have to make corresponding trades and hedging trades in US equities and therefore he is culpable.
If it makes you feel any better, that particular case hasn't reached a verdict yet and was insider trading, so if you feel comfortable dealing with extradition hearings to establish case law in a foreign country or simply not insider trading on US equities, then you'll be fine.
Also, the SEC doesn't charge people that merely gain access to unregistered and noncompliant exchanges. So the "US clients" would never create liability for themselves.
The majority of the SEC's compliance statutes are levied on businesses that offer any product labelled a security. This is a well distinction defined and quite broad and very difficult to play wordgames with. Its just unfortunate that registration is so expensive.
My point is that it's completely idiotic to characterise highly-prestigious globalist think-tanks as anti-immigration or lacking intellectual capacity. They hold globalist perspectives which are worth reading and understanding; in fact the more divorced they are from establishment positions, the more worthwhile it is to understand them.
You are right that there are lots of people without University educations which backed Brexit. Rather than hating them perhaps you could try to understand their struggles and feelings on how they have been betrayed by the establishment [0]?
Many of the Leave campaigners do actually subscribe to these libertarian views, including the only UKIP MP.
But they clearly believed so strongly, that they didn't think it was wrong to stoke immigration fears to win, and then turn round and explain that actually, free market economics suggests that low wage immigration is actually a good thing. This is playing with fire, and may end tragically.
I'm actually expecting a future government to turn round and refuse to replace the funding that used to come via the EU - as the economy will be in a bad state and we don't have the money anymore and, the main reason, which is pure ideology.
