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Afferents are busy multitaskers guiding and regulating digestive physiology and many facets of human
physiology as they listen to the quorum language of commensal cells.26-31 Until recently, studies of afferent
neurons examined only a few cells sitting in a petri dish. Now scientists are figuring out how to observe living
cells and learning more about their abilities as well as how to pay more attention to the quorum language of
cells. Wrangling the precise ratios of quorum-fermented probiotics that could actually colonize the gut and
reestablish a peaceful coexistence of friendly cellular quorum communication is the ultimate clinical goal.
Commensal cellucide inhibits afferents and activates efferents to generate huge amounts of cytokine
inflammation, causing the immune system to go haywire and attack the body’s own neurons and tissues.
Clearly, restoring efferent-afferent balance by restoring commensal microbiotica balances the Th-1/TH-2
immune response so we have a speedier and more efficient immune response.19-21
In summary, commensal-probiotic colonization has the potential to reboot a misfiring immune system and
restore the human ecosystem. The pharmaceutical war on microbes and early hope for unprecedented cures
gave way to tragic deaths, auto-immune disease like juvenile diabetes and multiple sclerosis, and disorders like
MCS and fibromyalgia. Our germicidal zeal has caused us to become deregulated, inflamed, malnourished and
toxic and has even confused and riled-up immune cells to zap our body’s own tissues. Obsessing on pathogenic
microbes has blinded us to ways we can enlist commensal cells to bolster health.
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