Woo is woo.

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68. And no one would suspect that rheumatoid arthritis would be linked to microbes in the gut...

...that is, chronic pains and stiffness in the fingers, wrists, and other joints...but that looks to be precisely the case, and it was something discovered only within the past few years:

Gut Microbes Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis

Intestinal bacteria linked to rheumatoid arthritis

Kind of ridiculous to assume/claim that things may not be connected just because we can't clearly, or have yet to discover, a causal link between them. In the case of arthritic joints, someone who takes that kind of surface level approach would try to treat those targeted areas specifically (to little or no relief), and now evidence shows that treatment could very likely be a matter of things like probiotics and dietary change (which creates massive changes to your gut ecology/flora in a relatively short amount of time - A New Diet Quickly Alters Gut Bacteria). Here, the joint pains are a symptom of a more fundamental disease (involving invisible critters in the gut...which I'm sure would've been considered "woo" not twenty years ago, since we've only started examining, unraveling, appreciating, and honing in on the microbiome within the past decade...that is, save for a few "alternative" outlets who were largely ignored and admonished).