Chickenboy
Posts: 24520
Joined: 6/29/2002 From: San Antonio, TX Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: geofflambert I have some joyous news to impart. Some of you may remember me complaining about this sort of thing. Today there was a commercial on TV that had been altered. I will change the name involved to protect the guilty. The ad used to go "Are you talking to your doctor about a "biologic"? Well, this is Humerous helping me leap tall buildings in a single bound; run faster than a locomotive etc.. Music "dah dah dah da di dah" Now, if "biologic" were a noun, which it is not, I, even though a gorn, would be one as well as all the rest of you. The same ad ran today with "biologic" replaced with "medication". I suspect that the ad company and perhaps some lawyers had come up with that usage for "biologic"; it appears they have been defeated and no longer spew such ridiculous gobbledy-gook. I wonder who pressured them into ceasing and desisting from that nonsense? Maybe all the doctors in this galaxy, none of whom ever discussed a "biologic" with their clients? There used to be some ads from some hair care company describing how their product had "botanicals" in it. Botanical also is not a noun and you no longer hear it used in that way. Later, another hair care company said their product had "active naturals" in it. What in the heck would that be? If they exist there must necessarily be such a thing as "inactive naturals". What would those be? That absurd expression has disappeared as well. Yet, we are not safe. There's something called "Pro-Biotics" being peddled out there. I don't know what they are. "Pro" sounds positive, so I guess it's good stuff. Let's think about that. If you were exposed to Bubonic Plague, an anti-biotic might save your life. What exactly would a "pro-biotic" do in that instance? Probiotics are mostly used to replace 'normal gut flora' (NGF) damaged or compromised by illness or oral antibiotic therapy. A broad-spectrum oral antibiotic (e.g., penicillin) carpet bombs the normal bugs that help with digestion as well as killing the bad ones. Putting helpful bacteria back into one's gut ASAP helps with unfortunate side-effects of disruption of NGF, which we needn't discuss in this family forum further. I think you guys would just have to eat more skin or your (or someone else's) feces to repopulate your gut flora.
_____________________________
|