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SuperBetter

Feb 19, 2011 22:40

I don't know how many of you are familiar with Jane McGonigal or her SuperBetter game, but I was hospitalized last week with a pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis due to the PICC line in my arm, and when my friend sent me a video about Jane, it made me feel better ( Read more... )

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es February 20 2011, 08:42:03 UTC

Thank you. I'd never heard of SB, but as a gamer myself, it looks amazing.

- ES

lotuslion February 20 2011, 17:34:53 UTC

You're welcome! There are apparently people using it for all sorts of chronic ailments, from TBI to diabetes to social anxiety. The way she described her feelings in the blog just really resonated with me, and made me want to share it. :)

guinnevere_b February 20 2011, 19:12:09 UTC

I'm very sorry you're having weird symptoms, but glad the Crohn's is in remission.

Of course, I subscribe to the theory that auto-immune diseases...in fact, most modern diseases...are the result of some infection, not necessarily an obvious link, but still the cause.

When I was a child my father had a bleeding ulcer, and the doctor said it was due to stress and bad diet, and could only be cured by an operation. After the surgery Dad took an antibiotic series and bismuth (Pepto Bismol-like), and he was cured. But it turned out that ulcers are caused by an infection, and are cured by antibiotics and bismuth. I think heart disease, Crohn's, diabetes, etc., even cancer, will be proven to be infectious and easily curable. (In fact, I'm a cynic; I suspect it's already been proven, but ongoing treatment is far more lucrative than cures, so the cures are being withheld by Big Pharma. Rotten fascists.)

Anyway, thanks for the link to the game. It sounds fascinating.

All the best,
Guinn

lotuslion February 20 2011, 20:44:43 UTC

My psoriasis does flare in response to infection, but I don't think complex immune disorders can be explained by something as simple as an infection. I've read the literature on it, and I do think environmental factors of course play a part, but there's a genetic component too. I think it's the IL-23 cell that has been found to be malformed in all Crohn's patients studied; so that's not to say that if you have a malformed IL-23 you will automatically have Crohn's, but everyone who has Crohn's has a malformed IL-23. So there's clearing a biological predisposition for some of these things ( ... )