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RE: Starting a Three-Day Fast: Some Insights From Stem Cell Research
Hi, thanks (I should look at my replies more often - sorry!)
What was the antibiotic? Those triggers are also a reason I refuse to call them auto-immune, with the strong suggestion it is somehow my fault. More often they are changes, such as epigenetic or the inclusion of foreign DNA, that then make parts of your own system appear to be foreign to your immune system - but they were not until the trigger input, whether "medicine" or other chemical.
I too was surprised as I delved into the literature. Maybe I should post some more - I just have so many other things to write and work to go to. But messages such as yours are a great reminder that I haven't quite finished the story! :-)
I don't remember now which antibiotic it was specifically. Maybe because the idea that the trigger might've been the antibiotic arose much later. At that time, I still had blind faith in doctors! Even when my own dad, himself a doctor, was telling me something like, "if you start taking pills you'll need to take other pills later to cure the things caused by the former pills"!
But I think it was to kill the helicobacter pylori. Itself a questioned, if not debunked, practice currently.