Oh fuck I mean I would love this to be real but this is going to be abused so much in the next couple years. Supermarket shelves and social media posts will fucking be filled with drinks and pills containing (probably nonviable forms) these bacteria by the loads. Good luck everyone.

Also most of us already have enough microplastic embedded in our brains to last a lifetime.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

And a few years later the bacteria is found to cause even worse diseases...

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know it's a joke, but that's almost certainly not going to be the case. Pathogenic bacteria have fundamentally different metabolism and genes.

What is more likely is either: ecological imbalance or the bacteria only metabolises the harmful chemicals under extreme deprivation of other carbon sources, which is never realistic, so they never do

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well I mean if people throw off their gut microbiome by overloading on this bacteria, it might still be harmful in that way. It does not need to be pathogenic in that sense.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Its actually hard to survive the human gut

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

But it is neutralized by microplastics...

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

But before that they will discover some nutrients which are very beneficial for this bacteria so people will also consume that by the loads.