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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Honestly, I'm not a mycologist, so someone with more expertise feel free to correct me, but I'm pretty sure that's BS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

The concept of a mushroom being generally similar to humans is total horseshit. What they're probably referencing is a mushroom with some signaling protein (or saccride or steroid or something) that is coincidentally similar some human equivalent and your immune system (for some reason) freaks out about it when you eat it. Then, as is referenced, the response to the mushroom happens to also be able to target some of your own cells, and now you've got an autoimmune disorder.

That behavior is not normal for your immune system to do, by the way, otherwise cannibals would all die from allergic reactions to their unfortunate meals. But, the immune system is complicated, so shit happens sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are fungal infections that cannot be treated as there are no good targets for fungicides that don't also affect humans

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I mean, yeah, but that's on the level of "because they're eucaryote" like us and all plants and animals, as opposed to bacteria which are procaryote. It's not really some freakish similarities.

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