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[Jo]

I've been checking out this supplement, trying to determine if it's a good thing to use because of it's known ability to kill off systemic yeast.

I found one thing that confuses me as to whether or not it's good for Mr Perfect because of the mycoplasma, and one that that suprized me.

1. M. pneumoniae is oxygen dependent in some way – would oxydizing the body to kill the yeast make the mycoplasma stronger?

2. Acidic pH stops the mycoplasma from building biofilms and replicating… so would using the lemon drink that reduces the acid environment actually end up being good for the mycoplasma?

Mr Perfect drinks lots of lemon juice, would it be a good idea to get him to limit that?

Jo

http://jb.asm.org/cgi/reprint/89/3/725.pdf
 
Smith (1964) classified the Mycoplasma into two broad metabolic groups, fermentative types and oxadative types. The first puzzle is that M. pneumoniae, on one hand, is clearly a fermentative strain, but, on the other, seems to be oxygen-dependent.
 
A pH drop from the initial pH of 7.8 to 7.4, accompanied by a slight turbidity, usually indicated a colony-forming titer ….. A pH of 7.0, or slightly below, with increasing turbidity, reflected maximal growth, but once the pH had dropped below 6.5 (sometimes as low as 5.5 to 5.0 overnight), there was a rapid loss of viability without concomitant loss of turbidity. 
 
 
http://www.uptodate.com/patients/content/topic.do?topicKey=~Bjnyv3M9M3O7h
http://www.um.edu.mt/umms/mmj/12_1_10.pdf
 
Unlike other species which are facultatively anerobic, M. pneumoniae grows aerobically.
 
 
M. pneumoniae grows under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions

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