Posted by Hip on November 18, 2009, at 20:52:20
In reply to Re: Chronic Infection May Spawn Depression (Articl » southernsky, posted by floatingbridge on November 10, 2009, at 19:23:06
It's a pleasure, floatingbridge, I hope that link helps.
The message of it is this:
From the latest medical research, it is turning out that not only are mild (or otherwise) mental disorders caused by infection of some sort, but probably the majority of diseases, physical or mental, are caused in this way. There is not 100% proof of this at this stage, just strong associations; but slowly, we are finding more and more indications that microbes are the prime causal culprits in most diseases.
This is very good news, as in a way, it means that our bodies are, in fact, far better than we first thought.
We are now realising that a body does not lapse into disease on its own (as many people still believe), but rather, our bodies only tend develop disease when attacked by a (usually hidden) microbial infection.
This is good news because if, in future, we manage to purge all these disease-causing microbes from our bodies, we stand to eliminate vast majority of human disease.
No more clinical depression, anxiety disorder, autism, Parkinson's schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc.
At some point in the future, we will look back at all of these diseases, and they will seen like ancient history, like grim tales from those bad old days when we were unable to rid our bodies of disease-causing microbes.
Of course, right now, we are living in these grim times; but at least we are beginning to see the light.
http://chronicsorethroat.wordpress.com/
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