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Stephen Skolnick
Personal blog · stephenskolnick.substack.comhealthscience
Stephen Skolnick writes Eat Shit and Prosper, a personal blog at stephenskolnick.substack.com about health and science. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Substack for its posts on medical and psychiatric topics, including a piece on a schizophrenia remission case. The comments only mention the writing in passing, without judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The greatest unexplored frontier in human health and disease: the gut microbiome.
What Hacker News says?
I'd never heard a single strain could affect constipation, so these results unsurprising. Where attention to the gut biome has really saved lives is when a person has massive Clostridium difficile overgrowth – which is more associated with uncontrollable diarrhea than constipation. This state of extreme illness is typically only possible because prior antibiotic use cleared out the natural variety of commensal bacte…
Comment linking /p/a-monopoly-on-poop
on “Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial”Submitted The Origins of Peanut Allergy as a story · 17 points
HN discussionRelatedly, I’m really curious to see if this will get more traction in the coming years. Seems like it’s worth some analysis: https://stephenskolnick.substack.com/p/schizophrenia
Comment linking /p/schizophrenia
on “Mary had schizophrenia, then suddenly didn't”Submitted A Monopoly on Poop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Statue in the Cave as a story · 1 points
HN discussion