The limits are published alongside the reasoning.
- Evidence tiers
Every article carries an explicit evidence tier, so established biology is never presented as if it were clinical proof.
Read the claim ledger - What this does not prove
Mechanistic pieces are required to state their own limits and the competing explanations that would fit the same data.
See the counterarguments - Published corrections
Where the reasoning has been revised, the revision is recorded rather than quietly edited away.
Review the standards
Pick the sentence that sounds like your situation.
- Why does my SIBO keep coming back?
- Are SIBO breath tests actually reliable?
- Why don't antihistamines settle my symptoms?
- Can I have mast cell activation with normal tryptase?
- Why won't my Long COVID symptoms resolve?
- Why did COVID trigger this in me and not others?
- Why are my labs normal when I feel terrible?
- Why doesn't my stool test match my symptoms?
- Why does every protocol stop working after two weeks?
- Why did butyrate or probiotics make me worse?
- What do bile acids have to do with my gut symptoms?
- Can gut health affect my hormones and egg quality?
Educational mechanistic writing. It does not diagnose, and it does not replace the clinician treating you.
Seven mechanistic threads run through this library.
Recurrent SIBO & breath-test interpretation
16 articles · recurrent SIBO
Mast-cell activation, tryptase & histamine
23 articles · mast cell activation
Long COVID, post-viral gut–immune & POTS
18 articles · Long COVID gut symptoms
Colonocyte bioenergetics, butyrate & oxygen
20 articles · colonocyte bioenergetics
Bile acids, TUDCA & C. difficile ecology
7 articles · bile acid dysfunction
Gut–hormone axis, fertility & estrobolome
8 articles · gut microbiome and fertility
Lab-pattern interpretation
6 articles · lab pattern interpretation
2 articles
- Mitochondria· September 15, 2026· 15 min· Mechanistic inference
The Pathogen Is Only the Beginning: 10 Things My Research Into Lyme and Bartonella Is Changing About How I Understand Chronic Illness
The deeper I go into Lyme disease and Bartonella, the more convinced I become that identifying the organism is only the first layer of the problem.
#mast-cells#pots#mitochondria - MCAS & Mast Cells· August 31, 2026· 20 min· Mechanistic inference
The Post-COVID Ciprofloxacin Injury Neuroimmune Trap: Bladder Dysfunction, Small-Fiber Neuropathy, MRGPRX2 Mast Cells, HLA Genetics, Mitochondria and the Gut-Brain Axis
I recently had a discovery call with a complex post-COVID client whose case made me look much more deeply at how the bladder, peripheral nervous system, autonomic nervous system, mast cells, mitochondria, vascular system, immune tolerance
#mcas#ciprofloxacin#hla
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