Re: The Notion of Reinfection

Hello, Glaxony.

Thanks for the optimism! However, you may have misunderstood my comment regarding the possible extinction of humans. I wasn't being pessimistic or 'defeatist'. Someone once said that we're likely to fall as a species due to an 'excess' of civilization, or something similar. I have to agree.

My battle with 'parasites' is pretty much the story of anyone here: an unresolved and 'mysterious' illness, "unlikely" symptoms -if there's such a thing-, despair, failure of established medicine, hell in a single word. I think that sometime back I posted some details.





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parasites don't even have brains, or if they do, they are tiny little computor brains that are programmed to do nothing more than eat, poop and reproduce.
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That simplicity may well be their strength just as our [attempts towards] complexity may be our weakness.






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They just mutate more quickly than we do because their life span is so much shorter.
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That's a hypothesis.













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I wish there was some way to stop them from laying eggs, delay, lengthen, or interrupt their reproductive cycle, without messing with my hormones too.

The vet gave me some flea medicine for my dogs that was essentially a birth control hormone or something. It stopped the fleas. If it works on dogs, why not parasites in/on humans?
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Because as similar as dogs and humans are, there are obvious and sometimes not obvious differences as well. Those simple and 'tiny' differences often are huge in terms of results.









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Perhaps the reason they seem so daunting and undefeatable is because we are complex and multi-faceted and they only have one function.
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There's a thought.






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If we were as focused on getting rid of them, as they are on taking over our bodies, we could probably be free of them in no time. But we have to eat, mingle with society, earn a living, etc etc, which makes it hard to follow a regimen and purify the body, or avoid reinfection.

You are a whole lot smarter than parasites. Your brain is capable of infinitely more creative survival strategies. I have faith in you. Do not let the diveristy of the parasite kingdom overwhelm you. Choose one little critter at a time, study it, and figure out what makes it tick, then you will be able to eradicate it and move on to another one. You can do it. I know you can.
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Thanks for the trust. My ultimate goal.







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Anything bio-degradable will rot when it dies. There are probably self destruct mechanisms in cells that become activated upon death, which start the decaying process. That does not mean eradicating parasitic infection of the living is futile.
It probably means that parasites have some way of activating the self=destruct mechanism while we are still alive, so they can devour the decay.
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Probably. In a way, I may have observed this.






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This ain't no hospice. Pessimism is forbidden and forgiven.
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We must fight.