Comments on: His Prayers were Answered

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:22:40 +0000

Hehehe; similar things do happen in reality, but you find god gives then god snatches all back with a vengeance and shits all over you just for fun.

By: Azkyroth

Azkyroth — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:18:51 +0000

I think the mechanism is via NO

Don’t you think everything is related to NO?

By: daedalus2u

daedalus2u — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:12:56 +0000

Jared, I don’t know where you heard that report, but antibiotics in animal feed do make farm animals grow faster, grow larger, mature sooner and have higher efficiency in converting feed into biomass. The mechanism remains unknown, but antibiotics in animal feed is big business.

I think the mechanism is via NO, that the antibiotics inhibit the bacteria I am working with, that lowers the NO level, which increases androgens (the rate limiting step in androgen synthesis is inhibited by NO, low NO means more androgens).

I think this is the same mechanism that is increasing androgens in women, causing hyperandrogenic symptoms. High androgens increase growth of some types of hair, which expands the niche that my bacteria live in, which (in the wild) would increase NO/NOx levels and decrease androgen synthesis via feedback inhibition.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:38:10 +0000

I love the Onion.
Here’s a biology: FAIL
Katie Couric: “…where antibiotics help animals absorb and process food so they grow bigger, faster–a selling point pushed by the pharmaceutical industry.”

If I listened to mainstream news media, I’d seriously doubt I learned anything in biology….