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Originally posted by canefan17:
So is it the parasites gettin rowdy or Lyme and co?

Who's the culprit?
(story of my life is trying to find the infectious culprit)

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Originally posted by canefan17:
So is it the parasites gettin rowdy or Lyme and co?

Who's the culprit?
(story of my life is trying to find the infectious culprit)

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It's not necessarily intestinal parasites that get rowdy during the full moon. Remember that Lyme and related pathogens can change into "parasite-like" forms (cell wall divergent, intracellular forms). These CWD forms can be very sensitive to subtle changes in oxygen concentration, as demonstrated by Dr. Andy Wright, MD in the UK.

He would take a drop of a patient's blood and make an ultra thin smear of it on a slide and then put a cover plate on top which he sealed off around the edges with a tiny bit of vasoline. As the oxygen tension inside the sealed chamber on the slide dropped down into the anaerobic zone, the spirochetes began to hatch out from their previously invisible intracellular CWD forms and they could be seen under a special microscope emerging as spirochetes from the ruptured blood cells.

In essence, these intracellular CWD organisms react to changes in atmospheric conditions also, giving them characteristics that we generally associate with "parasites". When the increased gravitational pull of the full moon affects the tides of the earth, it is pulling on the earth's atmosphere which is fluid in nature also. This creates subtle barometric pressure changes in the earth's atmosphere.

We tend to hyperventilate ever so slightly in an attempt to get more oxygen into the body, just as we do whenever we ascend into a higher altitude on a steep mountain road above about 5000 feet elevation. Likewise, sensitive travellers may notice a similar flare up of symptoms during and immediately after a long cross country flight in an airplane because the cabin in the aircraft is pressurized to 10,000 feet.

Whenever we hyperventilate, this causes a subtle shift in the body's acid-alkaline balance because hyperventilation leads to a very subtle loss of carbon dioxide. You see, CO2 from the lungs dissolves into carbonic acid in the blood, thereby helping to maintain the pH of the blood. Even a very slight decrease in the CO2 level of the blood can affect the body in many subtle ways, especially in the magnesium level because we tend to lose intracellular magnesium whenever we hyperventilate, thanks to the resulting decrease in the pH of the blood.

Therefore, I wouldn't go jumping to the concusion that it is necessarily "intestinal parasites" per se which are causing one to have a flare-up of symptoms during a full moon. The CWD critters living as "intracellular parasites" (inside our blood cells) are being affected too. We feel symptoms whenever these CWD critters become active and change forms.

The increase of symptoms usually builds to a crescendo, starting several days before the full moon, and then these symptoms abate fairly rapidly just as soon as the full moon has passed. So if you start feeling a noticeable relief in symptoms today, then you can conclude that your symptom flare was indeed related to the full moon.

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