It's a perfectly meaningless automatic little blue thingy. I never clicked on it until you started mentioning it. Mine says I'm on a distinguished road. Now, that's laughable. It's just tied to post number and you can bet nobody's taking it as proof of my expertise .

I'm telling you things you no doubt already know. But you seem to be concerned about it. So...

Your credentials are impressive. Everybody (even me ;) ) is glad you are here to help.

For a while there we had the reputation points thing, too, when Sleazy updated the bulletin. That doesn't seem to be on anymore, I'm glad to say.

I'm very interested in what you are saying about optimizing gut performance. Especially since you mentioned immunity. I take it you are not advocating microbial supplements like soil based organisms?

I've considered those in the past but I knew it wouldn't do much good unless one were doing exactly the kinds of things you are talking about here.