They do terrible, terrible things to the guest bathroom

Was the first thing I thought of. “Standard diets,” vs non-standard pretty quickly calls into question how much we need to account for the divergence from typical. If I go to India (I’m from the USA), there will be meals that aren’t standard for me that might cause distress that are nonetheless fine for the local population.

In the animal study, mice were fed three types of red meat – pork, beef and mutton – every day for two weeks. Then, the researchers triggered colitis (a model for IBD) using a chemical called dextran sulfate sodium (DSS).

They definitely aren't evolved to eat dextran sulfate sodium.

Yes, mice eat red meat.

Mice are omnivores and are opportunistic eaters. They’ll eat whatever they can find.

Humans also don't generally eat poison. But the mice in this study were poisoned with DSS after eating meat. Maybe meat is not the real culprit here...

I used to have mediocre IBS symptoms. Never to the point of being debilitating, but such that I was always aware where the closest toilet was and got anxious if it was too far away.

There was an article about studies being done on using common antihistamin to treat IBS that helped in many cases. Tried it and never looked back. That pretty much solved my bowel ussues.

I've read lots of compelling data about IBD and a plant-free diet, do you have any experience trying it?

Yeah that cure works for humans too. Far more cost effective. Just ask any insurance company, fascist, etc.

Need a new study for that.

Going by the article, it was more that it made it worse when it happened, rather than starting it.

You should see what a pure veggie diet does to humans! Crop dusting left and right.

Sure, but they had meat maybe once or twice per week. Nowadays we have meat five times per day.

"i'm not a mouse"

Checkmate nerds

When inconvenient truths arrive about people's preferred habits, they often become instant field experts.

As an aside, mice are opportunistic omnivores - this information can be found with ease. They will eat whatever the fuck they can find and will gladly feed on a cow's carcass. This added context makes the instant field expert comments claiming they're herbivores and that 'this study is obviously bad' even more embarrassing.

Does the Lemmy post title not have "in mice" in it for you? I added it to the title of the post to clarify this. It should show as

Red meat wreaks havoc on gut and drives inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in study on mice

Whereas the original title of the article was:

Red meat wreaks havoc on gut and drives inflammatory bowel disease

Weremice?

Mice are omnivores like us. That said, just because something is bad for a mouse doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad for humans.