Posted by bleauberry on February 22, 2010, at 20:08:40 [reposted on February 26, 2010, at 8:16:32 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Am I being eaten by fungi? bleauberry? » bleauberry, posted by ralphrost2 on February 21, 2010, at 7:18:16
> Hehehehehe...
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> Thanks for your nice post. I think the aggressive approach you mention is quite right, even from the psychological stand point.
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> On the other side I wonder whether a systemic infection wouldn't quickly kill us, or at least make us obviously sick... Once these little animals take over I guess the harm is big. I actually thought of a septic shock (systemic bacterial infection), but maybe with fungi it's different.
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> RalphI don't think they have enough power to take over until we're dead. But until then, they can overwhelm the immune system when given an opportune environment. There is always waste debris from normal bacteria and fungi in us that our immune system and lymph glands clean up. But when the populations are too large, the cleaning service gets overwhelmed and backed up. It is then that we feel symptoms. Lethargy, brain fog, depression, anxiety. Basically, too much sewage circulating in the brain. The same things happens when we start to kill them off, because then the sewage becomes intense in a very short timeframe. That is called a Herxheimer reaction.
Even a weak immune system is strong enough to keep them from killing us outright. But not strong enough to keep their levels low enough for good health.
I wish there were better ways to test for these kinds of things. Because as it is now, the only real way is to try some anti-this or anti-that meds and see what happens. Only after the fact are we able to know.
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