results of parawellness parasite test

I also had:
Blastocystis hominis (protozoa)- rare amount
Endolimax nana (protozoa)- few

I have no gi symptoms so didn’t do anything.

I’d go after the yeast too.

Thanks k07!

So I know I have SIBO, some yeast, and this protozoa. Basically a dysbiotic gut all around. I think the blastocystis or some other pathogenic infection wreaked havoc on my gut in CR, opening the door to SIBO and dysbiosis, which is now the problem.

I’m remembering Mary’s words, if I stick to keto and a whole food diet the candida will heal itself. I think I’m just gonna keep doing what I’m doing already, no herbs or abx

Post Edited (dcd2103) : 1/21/2021 5:13:05 PM (GMT-7)

Good call k07. I’m seeing saccromyces boulardi mentioned as a possible treatment. This seems like the most holistic option.

Reading patients stories of blasto, their GI symtoms are exactly what I experienced. Finally found the pathogen that messed me up in Costa Rica, I’m sure of it.

My intuition to stick to diet and not treat was spot on too...read several peoples accounts of their battle w blasto and people seem to say treating w Flagyl makes them worse, between its affects on the microbiome and side effects. Often the active infection is self-limiting, and the problem becomes a SIBO/dysbiosis problem after that. Sounds similar to how I’ve argued chronic lyme plays out too

I think I will try some Saccromyces Boulardii, thanks k07. I need a probiotic to take back some space and Mutaflor didn’t work out. Dr K likes SB too.

Post Edited (dcd2103) : 1/21/2021 7:38:20 PM (GMT-7)

Good luck dcd. I find sometimes when i take s. Boulardi that my bladder calms down. However, not all brands worked - so I’m sure viability has something to do with it. Ortho molecular brand works, yet jarrow brand did nothing.

Very interesting garzie. This parawellness guy even says that a typical stool test run by a disinterested technician isnt very accurate. Unless there's a 6" tapeworm in there its gonna come back negative 😂 So you very well may have them.

I'm no expert, but based on my 24hrs of research, my take is that it is clearly pathogenic during the acute phase. My view on it is similar to my take with lyme...you get an active infection and it causes significant symptoms, but then it fades into the background. At which point the active infection is gone, and there are only residual amounts left in your body, amounts which you may never be able to rid yourself of, and which probably arent the sole cause of symptomology anymore. I think the problem is that the initial active infection destroys your biodiversity and immune system, as clearly happened to me, and what youre left w/ is dybiosis/SIBO/autoimmunity.

This is why a high percentage of people test positive, yet they cant prove its causing symptoms. Because most of these people only have residual amounts left in the body, amounts which are no longer high enough to be pathogenic. During the acute infection stage, however, I'd be dollars to donuts it's pathogenic and causes symptoms.

Post Edited (dcd2103) : 1/22/2021 8:57:24 AM (GMT-7)

Thank you garzie, that is very useful information my friend! Maybe I will reach out to Me Stensvold myself. I get my GI Maps results next week

And thank you 1000 daisies, you make a great point. I plan on going back on rifaximin soon, and maybe I will try the mutaflor again after that instead is the s boulardii

Post Edited (dcd2103) : 1/23/2021 9:22:59 AM (GMT-7)

Interesting k07. I'm curious to see if my GI Map confirms it!

Garzie said...

i spent quite some time digging into various gut pathogens - including algae, protozoans etc
i even had some correspondence with a leading blastocysts researcher Christen Rune Stensvold
overall came to the conclusion that if you did have it - and you had gut symptoms - it would probably be worth trying to irradicate it
but i did a GI MAP test which looks for it with PCR primers and found no parasites of any kind so - based on the fact that PCR should detect even fragments of dead blasto - this was about as far as i could reasonably take this line of inquiry and had to focus elsewhere for better chances of making health improvements.

i detailed some of that journey here if its of interest
https://forums.phoenixrising.me/threads/blastocystis-does-anyone-know-of-a-pcr-based-test-that-is-available.61265/

Hi Garzie, did Rune tell you that it would make sense to eradicate the blasto? He told me that he thinks that it may be a normal part of the microbiome and could be beneficial. To quote Rune's email:

"I believe that humans are more or less supposed to have Blastocystis. Colonisation by this parasite associated with high microbiome diversity, which is generally seen as a healthy feature. It’s also found in humans with low-normal BMI, where it is rare in people with high BMI. We are trying to get more data on this.

If you look at pigs, cattle, and other artiodactyls, - practically all individuals in any given herd are positive for Blasto.

We humans have lost a lot of the ‘old friends’, - these eukaryotic organisms that used to colonise mankind and that used to ‘educate our immune system’. You can read a lot about this if you Google it."

Post Edited (dcd2103) : 1/25/2021 5:40:53 AM (GMT-7)