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Category: Immune System & Infections

testing the brain for infections is not something most doctors will do unless you really make them.
this is about how some (many) bipolar disorder can be caused or made worse by infections within the brain, this is something almost no doctor will test for without being prompted to do so, but involved a metagenetic analysis taken from a spinal tap and does not sound fun
The takeaway: it’s imperative to test for these pathogens in any psychiatric disorder especially schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.
https://collmed.org/from-bipolar-to-schizophrenia-parasites-and-psychiatric-disorder/
in the past doctores didn’t think the blood-brain barier could allow this but lots of new research says that when you get viral infactions or sick it can lower the effectiveness of the BBB and aloow infections which can then be harbored in the brain and have long term and huge effects. You have to go well out of your way to get a doctor to test you for this, but if it is the cause you can then get treatment and begin the healing process. Note that that healing process also heavily involved taking D3, B complex, and the DHA/ EPA oils.

Well I don’t know about you but I don’t often enjoy feeling or being sick. Washing your hands and not touching your face with dirty hands, and taking those D3 vitamins will go a long want towards not being sick at all but with life you’re gonna get sick. Here’s what I do and I recommend you do this as well if you ever think you might being to start to have an inkling that you might be sick in any way.
gargle with winco brand listerne, it has a few antimicrobial agents in it in addition to the alcohol so doing this delivers a lasting hit to bad germs in your throat. Mixing hot water with a lot of salt can help sooth an already hurt throat but it’s not as helpful or practical as the listerine.

Part of your immune system works with your tonsils to sample what things you might have eaten to prepare the immune system for it. So if you can kill some of these bad germs in your throat right away it gives your immune system longer to process the data to mount a defense. Sometimes you’ll barely notice you were sick at all.

So that’s the very first thing to do if you feel anything in your throat, and you’ll want to repeat that every 2-3 hours for 20-30 seconds each time while you’re feeling sick, even if the sickness no longer seems to be in your throat

there is a fun enough book with pictures called Immune: The new book from Kurzgesagt

which can help explain why some of these things happen and how sickness can move around the body and how your immune system works to stop it. Knowledge is power so I’d recommend reading it.

get better much faster are taking zinc and echinacea. The zinc can hurt your stomach if you take a pill of just zinc and don’t eat it with a meal, but they sell gummies and pills with 30%DV of zinc mixed with elderberry and you can eat those usually fine if you only have a few. When I’m sick