How Did Vikings' Gut Worms Create Today's Lung Disease?
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Intestinal parasites that plagued our ancestors seem to have led to a genetic adaptation that's causing emphysema and COPD today. Learn more in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/respiratory/viking-toilet-investigation-emphysema.htm
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| 1:22.9 | Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of I-Hard Radio. |
| 1:43.8 | Hey, Brain Stuff, Lauren Volgobom here. A thorough inspection of an old Viking |
| 1:49.7 | train in Denmark has confirmed what we've all sort of suspected. The lives of early Scandinavians |
| 1:55.6 | were not especially sanitary. These otherwise hearty people were crawling within |
| 2:01.4 | testinal parasites, mostly due to the food they ate, and because they lived in close quarters with |
| 2:06.8 | their livestock. The out-housing question was active a thousand years ago, but recent studies, |
| 2:13.6 | including one published in 2016 in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, show that the genes of |
| 2:19.0 | some modern people are still haunted by the ghosts of those Viking parasites. They may even |
| 2:25.2 | contribute to the reason why lung diseases, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and |
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