Oh John I wish I had the time to really get into all this microbiology . Like not just reading about a protein or pathway , but understanding it in context of a system better
Not sure I’ll be biting onto AI. Nothing seems to rob humanity of skills and capacity more then convenience . Convenience was touted to set everyone free instead it’s a crutch and shackle. I know all I read in my Guyten micro bio texts is just things I to take as the general idea snd have no real way of verifying it. But at least having some deeper microbiology cosmology offers some framework to appreciate those who utter words like Galectin-3
I could use AI tools to aid in my Substack, but it feels like a grift, I am aware it is not but it is a choice I am making. With AI tools, people won't need much of what they consume from "influencer", and "writers". I tweeted recently that I saw little use for political influencer, now I see no use whatsoever, you can use the current version of ChatGPT to have a "conversation" and get political insights ages ahead of anything else, and the AI isn't trying to actively grift you out of money or for political influence.
It is the inevitable future. Appreciate your words though.
Cordyceps needs to jump a lot of species to effectively infect us, and even at that, I think we are too complex for the fungi to simply jump and zombify us.
I said that with tongue firmly in cheek, sorry that didn't come across.
I consider myself an amateur (in the French meaning of the word) mycologist. I've got several field guides and some pretty hefty textbooks.
Fungi are terrifying, they are probably some weird animal/plant hybrid and we know almost nothing about them. Fair play to Naughty Dog, Cordyceps was a brilliant idea.
Battling with insurance while treating patients has always been a tennis game. They deny; you figure out a terminology change to get around the denial. If I were still in the game, I'd just start calling it IgG4-related disease, and it would get past their computerized filters for denial. For a while, anyway...
I suspect given how algos from Pharma works, how much data they drag/crawl and analyze, or the services they use do so, plus the Alt-Covid folk always pushing certain narratives, they are preemptively doing that to avoid exactly the strategy you described.
Because demand will skyrocket, and I don't see other ways to circumvent, since the current treatments for these diseases are, for the most part, all patented (since supplements and natural anything is overlooked by most of practicing clinicians).
You’re right - effective natural remedies such as oil of oregano can have side effects. But they tend to go away if you just stop. Antibiotics such as Cipro can cause severe side effects even after you stopped, like tendon problems 6 mons later or sensory issues that can last years (in my case).
And natural remedies also less likely to damage beneficial gut flora.
I few published substacks ago I stated my vehement opposition for the overprescribing and over use of antibiotics, so I get where you are coming from, and completely agree.
I used antibiotics only one time in my life (to save my life) and it costed me a lot, from a super strong microbiome to a very f'ed up one =(, took a long while to recover.
Could it possibly be that covid patients were given antibiotics, which can mess up the guts by killing both the good and bad guys, and subsequently more vulnerable to candida? Antibiotics can cause more serious forms of fungal infections even though antibiotics help treat fungal infections initially.
Only natural remedies seem to have no such consequential side effects.
The usage of antibiotics in the West was somewhat restricted, but the trends are rather similar, just the types of infections change, but yes, it may be the culprit, partially, in a subset of patients. As with everything SARS-CoV-2, there are many subset of patients, different groups.
Also natural remedies do have side-effects, they are often milder though.
We have had sporadic cases of Cryptococcus gattii infections from a tree source in a nearby park over the past three decades. The one patient I saw died after a miserable ten years from her initial pulmonary infection. Diagnosis is difficult and treatment challenging and not restorative of previous health.
As you suggest we will probably see much more of this in multi-vaxxed patients with immune compromise, IgG4-induced VAIDS.
Long overdue. Beginning with AZT, HIV drugs - ALL OF THEM - are "black box drugs", which means that they all cripple and kill. The PCR tests are used to convince healthy people they're sick and then the drugs "fight" the syndrome until you die. And when the drug finally compromises kidney and/or liver function and you die, your murderer signs your death certificate, claiming that you died from "complications related to AIDS". In this way, your death is used to convince more victims that HIV/AIDS ravages the country.
HIV is real - I bought it.
AIDS is real - people die daily from "acquired immune deficiency syndromes".
HIV does not cause AIDS - the treatments cause AIDS.
Only if you have immunocompromised individuals, otherwise taking care of the family health is enough. If that will make you less anxious, you could, no harm in having a stash of certain drugs for emergencies =).
Oh John I wish I had the time to really get into all this microbiology . Like not just reading about a protein or pathway , but understanding it in context of a system better
Soon you will, with AI-aided tools. I will soon be "out of a job", sooner than expect actually.
Not sure I’ll be biting onto AI. Nothing seems to rob humanity of skills and capacity more then convenience . Convenience was touted to set everyone free instead it’s a crutch and shackle. I know all I read in my Guyten micro bio texts is just things I to take as the general idea snd have no real way of verifying it. But at least having some deeper microbiology cosmology offers some framework to appreciate those who utter words like Galectin-3
Cool, site is all bugged and deleted my comment.
I could use AI tools to aid in my Substack, but it feels like a grift, I am aware it is not but it is a choice I am making. With AI tools, people won't need much of what they consume from "influencer", and "writers". I tweeted recently that I saw little use for political influencer, now I see no use whatsoever, you can use the current version of ChatGPT to have a "conversation" and get political insights ages ahead of anything else, and the AI isn't trying to actively grift you out of money or for political influence.
It is the inevitable future. Appreciate your words though.
Great article, thank you.
Let's hope no-one gets infected with Cordyceps and starts a global "The Last of Us" pandemic.
Cordyceps needs to jump a lot of species to effectively infect us, and even at that, I think we are too complex for the fungi to simply jump and zombify us.
Candida auris is a bigger threat.
Hey JP, thanks for the reply.
I said that with tongue firmly in cheek, sorry that didn't come across.
I consider myself an amateur (in the French meaning of the word) mycologist. I've got several field guides and some pretty hefty textbooks.
Fungi are terrifying, they are probably some weird animal/plant hybrid and we know almost nothing about them. Fair play to Naughty Dog, Cordyceps was a brilliant idea.
Battling with insurance while treating patients has always been a tennis game. They deny; you figure out a terminology change to get around the denial. If I were still in the game, I'd just start calling it IgG4-related disease, and it would get past their computerized filters for denial. For a while, anyway...
I suspect given how algos from Pharma works, how much data they drag/crawl and analyze, or the services they use do so, plus the Alt-Covid folk always pushing certain narratives, they are preemptively doing that to avoid exactly the strategy you described.
Because demand will skyrocket, and I don't see other ways to circumvent, since the current treatments for these diseases are, for the most part, all patented (since supplements and natural anything is overlooked by most of practicing clinicians).
You’re right - effective natural remedies such as oil of oregano can have side effects. But they tend to go away if you just stop. Antibiotics such as Cipro can cause severe side effects even after you stopped, like tendon problems 6 mons later or sensory issues that can last years (in my case).
And natural remedies also less likely to damage beneficial gut flora.
I few published substacks ago I stated my vehement opposition for the overprescribing and over use of antibiotics, so I get where you are coming from, and completely agree.
I used antibiotics only one time in my life (to save my life) and it costed me a lot, from a super strong microbiome to a very f'ed up one =(, took a long while to recover.
Could it possibly be that covid patients were given antibiotics, which can mess up the guts by killing both the good and bad guys, and subsequently more vulnerable to candida? Antibiotics can cause more serious forms of fungal infections even though antibiotics help treat fungal infections initially.
Only natural remedies seem to have no such consequential side effects.
The usage of antibiotics in the West was somewhat restricted, but the trends are rather similar, just the types of infections change, but yes, it may be the culprit, partially, in a subset of patients. As with everything SARS-CoV-2, there are many subset of patients, different groups.
Also natural remedies do have side-effects, they are often milder though.
We have had sporadic cases of Cryptococcus gattii infections from a tree source in a nearby park over the past three decades. The one patient I saw died after a miserable ten years from her initial pulmonary infection. Diagnosis is difficult and treatment challenging and not restorative of previous health.
As you suggest we will probably see much more of this in multi-vaxxed patients with immune compromise, IgG4-induced VAIDS.
Long overdue. Beginning with AZT, HIV drugs - ALL OF THEM - are "black box drugs", which means that they all cripple and kill. The PCR tests are used to convince healthy people they're sick and then the drugs "fight" the syndrome until you die. And when the drug finally compromises kidney and/or liver function and you die, your murderer signs your death certificate, claiming that you died from "complications related to AIDS". In this way, your death is used to convince more victims that HIV/AIDS ravages the country.
HIV is real - I bought it.
AIDS is real - people die daily from "acquired immune deficiency syndromes".
HIV does not cause AIDS - the treatments cause AIDS.
Is it a good idea to have anti fungals on hand for the family?
Only if you have immunocompromised individuals, otherwise taking care of the family health is enough. If that will make you less anxious, you could, no harm in having a stash of certain drugs for emergencies =).