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Posted 1/22/2016 4:42 AM (GMT 0)
What's the latest on the lifecycle of these bugs as it relates to a worsening of symptoms?
Posted 1/22/2016 9:48 AM (GMT 0)
Life cycle for Babesia: /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Babesia_life_cycle_human_en.svg/750px-Babesia_life_cycle_human_en.svg.png - every 4-6days - when your air hunger is at its worst it's when they hatch out

Life cycle of Borrelia: wiki.ggc.edu/images/c/ce/Transmission.jpg - usually 26-28 days - divides very very slowly compared to any other known bacteria

Life cycle of Bartonella: laurinemoreau.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1-s2.0-S1471492210000139-gr1.jpg - one generation lasts usually 5 days

All these parasites, when chronic, they take advantage of the monthly hormonal changes in all mammals, which are in sync with the moon cycles for reasons of reproduction. Hormones change how the immune system behaves and sometimes it makes the immune system less powerful (for example in females this drop in immunity helps them not identify sperm as an invader and kill it before it has a chance to fertilize, but there are many other reasons for the hormonal cycles). When the immune system is low then these critters somehow detect it and decide it's the best moment to make kids and spread.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16407788

Hope this was useful.
Posted 1/22/2016 10:01 AM (GMT 0)
I really wish more was understood about how and why the moon has such an effect not only on the evil, little critters taking up residence in our, but also us. It's very interesting.

My grandma's always said things like "it's a full moon, all the freaks will be out," and then you hear things like there are statistics indicating that more crimes occur, more accidents happen - emergency rooms have more patients on full moons, etc.

That's just something she picked up. I doubt she's ever heard of anything like these hormonal changes.

Very strange.

My body doesn't like the new moons either. I had this weird cyst thing that would swell up with fluid for a period of a few days around the full moon. I got it removed like four months ago. I still have activity there though.

I worry (no jinx pls) it'll come back, but I'm hoping I can get my treatment in a little better shape before then.

Anyway, kind of taking away from the question posed here, sorry.
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