The fungi in our guts can make cases of Covid worse

The immune system can get kicked into overdrive when the fungi run riot.

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[Tom the Melaniephile]

Good article. I was surprised to see the Wired tagline at the bottom.

 

[Tom the Melaniephile]

Do these effects happen when people get severe flu as well, or other viruses?

All sorts of things can change the balance of your gut microbiome. Any kind of general infection, antibiotics, changing your diet, stress, etc.

It's a wild and super important world in our guts, and we know very little about it with reasonable certainty other than some pretty basic things.

Diversity of species is important. How diverse? Which ones? - I'll go with the abovementioned "reply hazy, ask again later."

Eating enough fiber/plant material is important. How much? What kinds are better, or do you ideally want a mix of fibers within a certain range? How fixable is this? Is a supplement just as good as eating some cabbage?

Antibiotics fuck up the balance of species. What's the correct balance? How do you get back to it without resorting to a fecal transplant? How do we minimize the damage?

If you're interested, there's a whole fecal transplant rabbit hole of Ars articles to go through. Mostly Beth, of course - plus Dr. Gitlin writing about his cats.

https://meincmagazine.com/tag/fecal-transplant/

 

[Tom the Melaniephile]

FO

Are you having a stroke or something?

 

[Tom the Melaniephile]

Why is Wired bad? Are they too "woke" or something?

Historically the weekend Wired articles had a consistently lower quality than the inhouse articles. Nothing to do with politics, just accuracy and technical depth.