I have a genetic partial immunodeficiency (PNP Deficiency) and I constantly get fungal infections. Living in warm, humid climates is a challenge for me. Reading just the beginning of that article "she experienced chronic pain, digestive problems and a cardiac arrhythmia", well, that is my life. I constantly have minor aspergillosis, and I have some lung nodules from some past fungal infections as well. Keeping the mi…
So, something is weird here, just want to invade this thread and ask HN if there should be a change. I literally have no idea why someone would downvote this comment. But someone did. This does not bother my ego, it bothers my sensibilities. So, maybe we should not allow downvotes unless someone comments on why they thing the comment is negative. No need to do this for upvotes because there is no need to comment on t…
I put that in quotes because we barely study the microbiome as the root cause for many issues (incredibly difficult to isolate variables) and there's constantly reports of academic malfeasance. As time goes on we also see the microbiome is responsible in things like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. But after every new discovery if you try to insinuate there's others, people will say "no no, it's just there's nothing else has to do with that"... intil the next discovery that was only found because they decided to actually invest money into researching it.