Post #3710303

2026-07-10 03:17 UTC

"So last week on June 30th, Brian Johnson, uh the the blood guy, announced to the public that he has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. The name of the disease is autoimmune gastritis or atrophic gastritis. And basically it means that your stomach lining like eats itself or your body attacks the stomach lining and gradually replaces it with other tissue. Sounds pretty bad. "And people everywhere. Okay. Well, people some places thought it was it was quite funny. People in his Twitter replies all seem to have their own little personal health bug bears that they're blaming it on. So, one person says it's because he got vaccinated. Another says it's because of Long Covid, which like, okay, Long Covid is real. Completely unrelated. Michaela Peterson, like Jordan Peterson's daughter, is in his replies saying that it's because he doesn't follow a carnivore diet. This is, uh, this is the company he keeps." ~ Lily Alexandre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-JsI8Fb4Q&lc=Ugz2MHBqehv0ni5yfel4AaABAg Oh, sweet summer child. 1/6 🧵 #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid

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@beadsland@beige.party 2026-07-10 03:21

H. Jeong, S. Kim, et al, publishing in Volume 19, Issue 8 of Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology: "SARS-CoV-2 infection caused dramatic changes to the molecular profile and some _immune_ subsets in this organ. Notably, the gene sets related to metaplasia and gastric cancer were significantly enriched after viral infection.... Our results show that 2 prevalent pathogens of humans elicit a negative synergistic effect and provide evidence of the risk of severe chronic gastritis in the post-COVID-19 era." (Citation via Violet Blue) A study in mice, sure. A study that doesn't, explicitly, call out _auto_ -immunity, admittedly. Nonetheless "Completely unrelated" is a confident overstatement. This being germane to the text overlay correcting Alexandre's "This is a kind of thing that just happens", by admitting that there are links between long-standing endocrinological disorders and latter onset autoimmune disease. 2/6 #LongCovid #gastritis

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@kzodasnowman@spore.social 2026-07-10 05:42

@beadsland@beige.party if I could quote this, I'd call it a banger thread. I will anyways. BANGER!

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