I reversed a life-long case of Prosopagnosia after doing some n-of-1 experiments with replenishing my gut bacteria, so it seems plausible to me that losing intestines could impact this.

I also have a friend had her intestines removed due to Crohn's disease. She had an infection from the surgery that put her in a coma she woke up unable to picture things in her head. Hard to say what caused it.

The ritual use of these sites usually occurred afterwards once economic situation and custom solidified it as an area of rulership. Often cargo-cult'ing what would have been a genuine healing process.

Most of the older folks to who get cancer and age related neurodegenerative disease also seem to succumb to age related diabetes symptoms and poor insulin.

These things aren't separate-able as cleanly as you suggest.

I would agree with you in general, but there are situations where prescribed methamphetamines also lead to cortical thinning when not used as recreationally. This seems to suggest that stress may not be the entire player here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3870784/

It was likely decided because of the dose of meth found in the persons systems that correlates with various findings on dose-dependence https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

If you would like to read more about PTSD findings as it relates to stress and liver function, I would be happy to expound upon the way that corticosteroids impact gut bacteria that directly affect FXR metabolism and bile acids and further lead to cortical thinning. https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/30/2/575/5521088

Its really fascinating how a drug like methamphetamine impact neuroactive steroids that impact the same pathways tha stress does. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6862925/ We've been able to reverse it in rats https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131007093739.h...

The icing on the cake was that it was our app that was bad, and the 'fix' they implemented was a completely broken work-around.

It was SOP to instruct the clients to turn off browser caching. So the app was slow as well. Inevitably the Client's on-site IT would install a new desktop and forget to turn off browser caching. So you'd get these weird states were errors would occur randomly and depend entirely on if someone had changed or hadn't set that setting.

Years of cruft and chaotic deployment workflow meant there were easily 10,000 different places where the cache busting would need to be implemented. I figured out a way to fix this using nginx as a caching layer, and using features of a brand name Web Toolkit which we had already partly implemented without caching. Even had a test harness set up and way to catch bugs during a transitionary stage.

Shame there wasn't any specific tickets on this exact fix because otherwise I would still be working there. Sure, I was assigned a bunch of the random error ones and found out what was causing them, but apparently being assigned a ticket and fixing the problem isn't part of my job?!

The head of the web dev team (and my manager) quit shortly after I was hired. I now understand why.

Fixing bugs is impossible sometimes.

This gets close "Epigenetics in Families: Covariance between Mother and Child Methylation Patterns" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913850/

Trying to reverse engineer indirect infection.

This is useful for seeding propaganda and any other virally driven phenomena by modeling gathered exploratory behavior of a user.