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Posts like this one are exactly why I keep coming back day after day to this forum. Thank you for this amazing informational share. I've long wondered if infe
by ubertoop 7y ago
Posts like this one are exactly why I keep coming back day after day to this forum. Thank you for this amazing informational share.
I've long wondered if infections are behind many of the unexplained mid and late life disorders. It's exciting to see that it's finally being recognized as a credible explanation in the literature. As someone with a family member suffering from autoimmune, I'm hopeful that this trend will continue and result in antigen mediation therapies that can help.
Worth mentioning that the family member I am thinking of developed these symptoms within a year after getting a bad stomach/GI infection.
- nextos 7y agoThanks for your kind reply. Just to clarify, it's both infections OR dysbiosis (your own commensal bacteria, fungi and virus going out of control). The infection + molecular mimicry theory of autoimmunity was already quite well established in the 80s, but commensal dysbiosis + molecular mimicry is only starting to emerge now, and it's likely to be even more important. See section 1 (introduction) of this paper for a whole overview: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.18.881433v1.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.18.881433v1....