
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) describes a sense of exhaustion and post-exertion malaise, even when you have gotten enough rest and sleep. The disease is characterized by six months of incapacitating fatigue experienced as profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina, and problems with concentration and short-term memory. The cause is unknown, but it is a...
I have to say that the MMS will kill anything anaerobic in your system. I'm going on my forth day and still feeling okay. Did I say that I believe in the science? It makes sense to me and I'm a pretty cynical person.
So then you come to what fungus does. Mainly, it eats. EVERYTHING. Anything that decays, rots, or decomposes is fungus lunch. It's a vital part of the life cycle. And it competes. For space and food, like any other life form. It has natural weapons - mycotoxins. And fungus pooh - volatile organic compounds (VOC's.)
So what does that mean to you? I dunno. Fungus has a lot of ways to dine, and mainly that question is answered by your own body.
If you are immune-compromised (as with HIV/AIDS or transplant patients), it can colonize and kill you. If you are not immune-compromised (I mean in that way) it'll still have lunch on dead skin cells. So you get nail fungus, or dandruff, or tinea versicolor - which are annoying, but won't kill you. If you have breast implants, it can grow in or around them, and you get..ta-dah...fibromylagia.
If your immune system is in higher gear, you end up with allergies. Some people go MCS, but nobody knows the mechanics of that just yet.
If you are of the genotype that cannot excrete mycotoxins, you end up with CFS or its lovely neuro-immune brethern - but only IF you've been exposed sufficiently. (And fungi are not considered to be the only cause - just one that is known now.)
If you have none of these problems, but are swimming in the stuff, it can still cause problems. Mycotoxins such as aflatoxin are controlled by the FDA and rated as potential bioweapons by the Dept. of Defense. Enough of the right mycotoxins delivered the right way would cripple or kill most any human. Others are classed as antibiotics (That is what 'antibiotic' means, btw - the class of fungi that kill stuff.) One guy's miracle drug is my ticket to perdition. And maybe your ticket to candida overgrowth.
My best advice on this is, educate yourself! I always suggest "Mold Warriors' as the starting place. The doctor who wrote it is leading the clinician pack on this topic. There's also a new book out on biotoxin disease in women with implants, but I haven't got the title yet.
You will also find, if you search the standard literature, a whole lot of naysaying going on. However, the most readily available stuff was commissioned by industry for the purpose of financial risk management - sometimes using government funding or retired government officials to make it sound more impressive. This is now the subject of an ongoing GAO investigation, so don't get too impressed with the fancy names.
(And for heaven's sakes, DON'T expect anything good from the CDC on this! There are definite reasons why this whole investigation is taking place, and you probably won't like them any better than the industry-paid defensors like this investigation.)
DISCLAIMERS: I am not a physician. I am not a mycologist. I am not a toxicologist. Nobody pays the freight for my activism but me. As a dedicated activist, I am always open to discussing this issue further and trying to make sure more people understand it.
Serena if you think of the title of that book will you pass along the title to me. Thanks.
This skin fungus thing - just ask the naturopath to identify it for you. Tea tree oil is an antifungal - but one I've found I can't tolerate full strength even though it's in the shampoo I (ahem) occasionally get to use. Sometimes, oil of oregano is used instead. If that doesn't work, sometimes you get stuck with a systemic. They can be tough on the liver, which is why some doctors try to avoid them unless there's no other way. Used to be, there was a stinky topical made of sulphur. It worked great, but I haven't seen that around in years now. Still you probably ought to get it identified first, so you know what you're dealing with.