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Our Cancers Are Filled With Fungi
Gizmodo ^ | Ed Cara

Posted on 10/01/2022 8:10:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Dating back to the 19th century, scientists have known that bacteria and other microscopic organisms routinely live on or inside our bodies, usually without making us acutely sick. But it’s only in the past few decades that we’ve started to appreciate the importance of these microbial communities, or microbiomes, to our well-being and health. And it’s only more recently that we’ve begun to closely study the microbiomes found within cancers.

Much of the early research into these cancer microbiomes has focused on bacteria. But while fungi are less abundant in the human body, they’re still thought to play a vital role in how microbiomes influence our health. These new papers, both published Thursday in the journal Cell, are some of the first to try creating a rough map of the fungal microbiome found within our cancers.

One of these studies involved researchers from the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine as well as the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Looking at more than 17,000 blood and tissue samples that were taken from cancer patients, they were able to find low amounts of fungi across 35 different types of cancer.

Across the different cancer types, the microbiomes had different mixes of fungal species, but there were some common trends noticed by Knight and his team. These fungi usually appeared to be intracellular, meaning that they live inside cancer cells. They also found evidence that the fungi and bacteria within these cancers commonly interact with each other, and often not in a competitive way. Perhaps more importantly, the team found associations between these fungal microbiomes and aspects of the cancer itself, such as its response to immunotherapy treatments.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cancer; fungi; fungusamongus; hh2
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1 posted on 10/01/2022 8:10:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin; Fungi
Wow, that is astonishing.
These fungi usually appeared to be intracellular, meaning that they live inside cancer cells. They also found evidence that the fungi and bacteria within these cancers commonly interact with each other, and often not in a competitive way. Perhaps more importantly, the team found associations between these fungal microbiomes and aspects of the cancer itself, such as its response to immunotherapy treatments.
I had no idea that fungi could live INSIDE cells.

Have to ping Fungi, of course.

2 posted on 10/01/2022 8:15:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m not a medical guy or scientist....but isn’t fungal relatively easy to control or ‘kill’?


3 posted on 10/01/2022 8:17:18 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice
I’m not a medical guy or scientist....

I am.

Fungi are extracellular pathogens.

4 posted on 10/01/2022 8:19:02 AM PDT by Jim Noble (And manly hearts to guard the fair)
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To: BenLurkin

“The existence of fungi in most human cancers is both a surprise and to be expected,” said study author Rob Knight, a researcher and professor at UC San Diego, in a statement from the university.

Bullsh*t! Some of us have been saying this for a decade and longer. I personally theorized this ages ago and searched for like-minded individuals which lead me to Doug Kaufmann's Know the Cause. There is a mountain of information out there that western medicine and the mainstream media have turned their backs to. You have to look for it, and then maybe you too can say My Cancer Story Rocks. They are acting surprised at this revelation only because they've been complicit at the behest of the drug companies for years from making it known but the word has gotten out regardless and is spreading like wildfire.


5 posted on 10/01/2022 8:23:07 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

>>I had no idea that fungi could live INSIDE cells. <<

The mitochondria inside your cells, which turn glucose+oxygen into energy, are independent organisms with their own DNA lines, which were incorporated into your cells as symbiots long ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion#Origin_and_evolution


6 posted on 10/01/2022 8:31:16 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: pepsionice
I’m not a medical guy or scientist....but isn’t fungal relatively easy to control or ‘kill’?

There are a few things that kill fungi easily, including iodine.

Iodine is a treatment after exposure to radiation and it may be that radiation killed off beneficial bacteria, allowing fungi could take over. Taking iodine would then kill the fungi.

7 posted on 10/01/2022 8:31:25 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: so_real

Dr Royal Rife discovered this long ago, but was silenced and murdered for it. Much like Tesla.


8 posted on 10/01/2022 8:32:33 AM PDT by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Thanks. I either forgot that or never knew it. High School bio was a LONG time ago!


9 posted on 10/01/2022 8:33:18 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: Jim Noble

Then they cannot be intracellular?


10 posted on 10/01/2022 8:33:48 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: Jim Noble

The Gizmodo reporter apparently got confused by the paper

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01127-8

It’s looking like fungal DNA is being found inside tumor cells. Possibly, non-human DNA contaminating the nucleus may mess things up and cause uncontrolled reproduction.

I’d be interested in your take on this paper.


11 posted on 10/01/2022 8:41:59 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Not everything we were taught were protozoa were actually protozoa :

Microsporidia
"Microsporidia are obligate, intracellular, spore-forming parasites that have been reclassified from protozoa to fungi ...".


12 posted on 10/01/2022 8:43:55 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: BenLurkin

Dr. Hulda Clark was ostracized and persecuted for implementing this in her medical practice and forced to practice across the border in Mexico…


13 posted on 10/01/2022 9:04:41 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: PapaBear3625

I downloaded the pdf and will read the whole thing.

Looks interesting, the methodology is outside of my expertise but the concepts are not. Cell is a respected journal with good reviewers, if the association is real it might be that the method of the cell attacking the fungus “flips a switch” to dysregulate cell growth.

Certainly fungal INFECTIONS are common in cancer patients, but treating and eradicating the fungi in that case does not seem to downregulate the cancer, unfortunately.


14 posted on 10/01/2022 9:14:49 AM PDT by Jim Noble (And manly hearts to guard the fair)
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To: pepsionice

Yes...as in sodium bicarbonate. You oxidize the fungi with Base/ alkaline ingredients. The fungus thrives off of a high acidic pH in the body.


15 posted on 10/01/2022 9:29:01 AM PDT by Theophilus 7
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To: BenLurkin

Could this also explain why dogs can sniff out certain cancers?


16 posted on 10/01/2022 9:42:00 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; BenLurkin

90% of all tree have an association with fungi called mycorrhiza. The fungus forms a mantle around the roots of the plant allowing it to extract more water and minerals from the soil. Some mycorrhiza are extracellular, some are intracellular. Then there are endophytes, fungi that live inside a plant but cause it no harm. In forest soils, 90% of the biomass is fungus, 50% in agricultural soils. Fungi rule the world.


17 posted on 10/01/2022 12:52:14 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: so_real

https://starpowerlifesciences.org/pages/fenbendazole-and-cancer

FENBENDAZOLE AND CANCER and Vitamin D


18 posted on 10/01/2022 1:38:28 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: pepsionice
.but isn’t fungal relatively easy to control or ‘kill’?

Not really. Athlete's foot, for example, is a fungal infection and can be remarkably difficult to treat. The interesting issue here is to know which fungi are good for us, and which are not.

19 posted on 10/01/2022 1:51:58 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: dennisw

Preach! I'm a huge fan of fenbendazole, artemisinin, and ivermectin. It's a one, two, three punch that doesn't kill the patient. We are supposed to "first do no harm" but western doctors can lose their licenses for not going straight to chemo. Pathetic. Sometimes you really are your own best doctor.


20 posted on 10/01/2022 2:55:35 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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