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[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My wife had an overgrowth of candida bacteria in her stomach, and it caused irritability and exhaustion. When she starved it out, it was wild. If she had any sugars or yeast she would have almost stroke like symptoms. Like she had just drank a ton of alcohol that hit her all at once. She had 1 bite of ice cream (she had been good for months and wanted to try it), and she literally started slurring her words and getting dizzy. Our stomach colony has way more control over us than we think.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you sure she's not diabetic? My sister is Type 1, so she's had diabetes her whole life. Whenever her blood sugar was out of whack, she'd become drunk-like and also have seizures in really bad instances.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, they tested her for that. It took a long time to diagnose, but once this was found, everything else sorted itself out. Thus was also, like, 5 years ago? Now she's fine due to a mix of killing off the candida through diet, and then her whole gut biome completely changing when she got pregnant. The human body is bizarre and wonderful, and way more complex than we understand.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did your wife have antibiotics that started her overgrowth of candida?

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah, when she was a kid she had something called a Z-pack, I think. We theorize that was what lead to this. Plus poor food quality from her parents. Her mom used to pour the old milk into the new milk to stretch it...basically cultivating a super colony of bacteria, lol.