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Read more: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peptic-ulcer/symptoms-causes/syc-20354223
TIL Ulcers aren’t caused by stress, they’re most commonly caused by bacteria
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People think ulcers are caused by stress?
The guys who discovered this got the 2005 Nobel prize in medicine. They faced so much skepticism that one of them literally infected himself with the relevant bacteria to prove it causes ulcers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
> After failed attempts to infect piglets in 1984, Sam Wang reported that Marshall, after having a baseline endoscopy done, drank a broth containing cultured H. pylori
Yeah the guy who managed to prove the link downed a bottle of h.pylori to prove it