Chapter 2:: What Is Balancing Life? - A Review (3d)

And now Jillian's discussion of fungus - hold tight to your brain cells!!

I have really struggled with how exactly to approach this section as there is so much wrong with what Jillian presents. I have decided to attack each passage separately for brevity and sanity.  Hope it won't be confusing!

First passage that caught my eye,,, 

(Her source:: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-biology/chapter/characteristics-of-fungi/)

So to begin, I am going to be overly pedantic; but it is necessary.

1] It's Candidiasis, not Candida. Candidiasis is a fungal infection caused by a yeast called Candida. The most common is Candida albicans – ie what we women know as the yeasty beasty.

Candida is specie specific. So for one to say “candida cased x” you must specify which specie. To make a blanket statement as Jillian does is deceptive. There are approximately 200 species in the genus Candida, C Albicans accounts for up to 75% of all candidal infections.

Systemic infections – ie what Jillian calls “cancer disease and chronic illness,,,” - while rare do happen. Currently, Candida auris has made the news. The fungus doesn’t behave like a fungus. It causes outbreaks like a bacterium and is generally highly resistant to available antifungal drugs. It’s a growing problem and concerning.

2] What chemical imbalances? The human body is highly regulated to maintain homeostasis. What will consuming Jilly Juice do to address the maintenance of homeostasis? By what bio-mechanical means, or how, will Jilly Juice address homeostasis?

Answer:: Nothing!! Well nothing good!!

As a bio-med friend notes, “the body will do everything it can to keep in a well and tightly regulated pH! Pumping salt in excess really puts a strain on the same systems that regulate the bodies pH system.”

The human body, for example, regulates its internal concentrations of hydrogen, calcium, potassium and sodium, charged particles that cells rely on for normal function. Homeostatic processes also maintain water, oxygen, pH and blood sugar levels, as well as core body temperature.

In healthy organisms, homeostatic processes unfold constantly and automatically,,,

Homeostasis is the ability to maintain a relatively stable internal state that persists despite changes in the world. A point Jillian ignores when she states that the internal (and external) environment(s) are always fluctuating.

You better hope your internal world isn't fluctuating too much, or as the chart shows, you'd be dead!!

 

Also noted by my friend in 2018,

IOWs, the consumption of JJ may cause that which you battle to prevent – ie cancer disease and chronic illness. A fact that one of Jillian's previous source confirms.

  

3] The citation Jillian references above is clearly speaking to external “ecosystems” such as tidal pools, woodlands, grasslands, ponds, lakes, rivers, etc.. Not the human body.

An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscapes, work together to form a bubble of life.

Ecosystems contain biotic or living, parts, as well as abiotic factors, or nonliving parts. Biotic factors include plants, animals, and other organisms. Abiotic factors include rocks, temperature, and humidity.

You can not remove this context.

4] An ecosystem is not the same as the human body. Yes, there are similarities. But Jillian takes this comparison too far. You can not argue your position from an analogy.

5] A fungus in the human body does not play the same role as a fungusin an earth based ecosystem.

,,, probiotic research — especially the area involving fungi — is in its adolescence. "All the probiotic hype can get patients thinking 'Oh, my problem is caused by a bug. All I have to do is be on a certain diet and take certain probiotics or antibiotics and I my disease will be cured.' Unfortunately it's not as simple as that."

Still, Scher is hopeful. "This is just the beginning of this field," he says. "But I think understanding how bacteria, viruses and fungi can play a role in health maintenance and disease will help us develop more effective therapies."

One key point to remember when speaking to the topic of microbiome. Every microbiome is unique and that includes the mycobiome, it's like a fingerprint. Making broad generalizations, as Jillian does, is flawed - what works for my microbiome and mycobiome, may not work for yours. This is one reason research is so precarious. The is no standard microbiome or mycobiome.

For example, in 2012, David Underhill et al found,

,,,alterations in the gut fungal population could be a significant contributor to at least some forms of inflammatory bowel disease cases and could represent a potential treatment avenue. However he acknowledges that a host of other factors seem to contribute to the condition as well.

None of these factors are working in isolation," he says. "I think it's probably a confluence of them all interacting with each other and with us – what we eat, what kind of nutrients they have, genetic influences and how our immune system reacts to both fungi and bacteria in the gut."

(Actual paper:: Interactions between commensal fungi and the C-type lectin receptor Dectin-1 influence colitis) 

But, enough of being pedantic,,, This woman just loves to rehash old junky science - IOWs systemic candidiasis and auto-intoxication. Although Jillian has added a new twist – anti-bodies.