Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "Germ Theory and Living in the Past" video.

  1. "If you don't wear leeches, you're killing grandma!"
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  2.  @AlexiusRedwood  an infection isn't the same as "rotting", there are a whole host of things that can cause tooth infections.
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  3. I had an infected tooth a few weeks ago, went to the dentist, yanked the son of a bitch out, and I was good to go. I had to eat soft foods for a few days, and it's taken some getting used to, but it blows my mind that a short time ago, relatively speaking, there would have been a legitimate chance I could have died from that, if the infection had spread. At the very least, it would have been an extremely painful procedure and a difficult recovery process.
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  4.  @BlackRain_  not sure. The dentist said it just happens sometimes, it wasn't because of anything I did, or didn't do, my teeth are fine, I don't have any cavities or excessive plaque build up. I don't even go to the dentist regularly, I just brush my teeth and take care of myself. But shit happens, I'm 38, my body isn't as invincible as it used to be.
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  5. There are plenty of ways to get a tooth infection aside from eating grain or sugar, that's completely absurd to say. I get what you mean in principle, they didn't have the same treatments we have, but they also didn't suffer from the same chronic conditions we do at the same rate we do. But ancient humans died from complications with their teeth all the time, it was actually quite common, we've found ancient remains of people who have had teeth removed, so archaic dentistry did exist, they knew that sometimes a tooth had to be surgically removed, and we've also found the remains of people who likely died during these procedures, and remains of people who died either from starvation due to difficulty eating without teeth, or directly from tooth infections.
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  6. Monkeys probably die from infections and other food borne illness too.
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  7.  @AlexiusRedwood  I think you're dramatically misinformed about what life was like for our ancestors, again, some of what you're saying is true, there are a lot of medical problems today that are a direct result of modern luxuries, in some ways our ancient ancestors were more healthy than us, but you're vastly overstating this effect. Also not all ancient people ate meat based diets, some people, like Inuits did eat mostly meat, because there's such scarcity in flora in those regions, but most ancient people ate more fruits and vegetables than people realize, hunting meat is hard, especially depending on the time of year. It's not like they got a kill every day, and even when they did, it wasn't necessarily enough to feed the whole tribe. They had to get by with gathering to hold themselves over between successful hunts, and I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but there's a lot of sugar in fruit. It's not like man never ate sugar until the invention of granulated sugar. Sure, we didn't eat it in excess like we do today. But let's not act like every ancient man had perfect teeth, perfect vision, and was a model of human health. That's just not true.
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  8.  @BlackRain_  when did I say I had a perfect lifestyle? Calm down there little fella, if you're just looking to argue on the internet, watch a Vaush video or something. Those retards will argue with you about anything.
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  9. He wasn't that off the grid if there's a video of him....
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  10. I'm pretty sure it's only certain meats that can cause gout, and only if you eat obscene amounts of them. Typically organ meat.
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  11.  @AlexiusRedwood  well it's not usually one thing that causes it, it's usually just a poor diet in general, with an excess of specific things like alcohol and/or certain meats.
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