{"id":937,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"fungi-as-shape-shifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Fungi as Shape Shifters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Fungi the world&#8217;s most creative shape shifters<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Because of the limited understanding of the fungi&#8217;s potential shapes, physiology, fermentative capacity, and ways of reproduction, fungi are still the most powerful and best organized micro-organisms known to humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Fungi are able to change their metabolism as often as necessary, so as to overcome all defense mechanisms of the host&#8217;s immune system. They can be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plasma_(physics)\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">plasmatic<\/span><\/a>, biochemical, volumetric, or increased cell production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">The indiscriminate use of nature-based pharmaceuticals has led to mutations in the nuclei of many parasite fungi which have led to very aggressive pathogens in the host organism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Fungi can develop from a few micron-sized mono-cells to a threadlike filament body, to a beak-shaped form that can penetrate the host organism easier. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Their shape is defined by the environment in which they propagate.&nbsp;They can switch back and forth between these 2 forms and may produce different types of colonies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This shift from a mono-cellular to a multi-cellular filament depends upon the type of actions caused by the immune system of the host organism. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Different fungi can all have the same shape if their environments are the same. Spores develop in clusters along the filament, which may be active or lie dormant until later.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">They prefer oxygen rich, but can also survive in oxygen depleted environments. They use biofilms to protect themselves from our immune system and antifungals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"377\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/fungi%20filament.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The outer cell wall of a fungus consists of vegetable, polysaccharide, and protein matter and may contain several layers that varies within strains. It ensures survival of the cell, and provides a surface to interact with the environment. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The vegetable portion is referred to as chitin. Inside the cell wall there is a membrane consisting of fat and protein and just beyond that are mitochondria and then a nucleus.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Changes in food supply also cause mutations in the fungi. This could lead to filament fusion of different fungi to explore a limited supply in a more social setting, a feature totally distinct from all other micro-organisms.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Many fungi have openings in their intercellular tissue walls that allow the replacement of unhealthy nuclei and cytoplasm in dying or damaged cells by healthy specimen, thus completely conserving its future biological potential.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Candida possesses an aggressive and diversified toolkit that can make itself easily adapt to the object targeted. Thus, Candida may find a hospitable environment for growth in the tissue connecting various objects. The main function of connective tissue is to convey and supply nourishing substances to the cells of the whole organism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In order to obtain Nitrogen, fungi are capable of strangling <a href=\"http:\/\/nematode.unl.edu\/wormgen.htm\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">nematodes<\/span><\/a>, using ring traps to immobilize these worms who vary from 1 mm till 8 meters long.<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">So, here are the organism&rsquo;s cellular elements trying to defeat all forms of invasion, but we also have fungal cells trying to absorb ever-growing quantities of nourishing substances, for they have to obey the species&rsquo; biological imperative to form ever-larger and diffused masses and colonies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Therefore, fungi appear to be an extremely logical candidate for being the cause of an abnormal and extremely rapid reproductive growth of cells (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoplasm\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">neoplasm<\/span><\/a>) in certain tissue of the human organism, often called tumors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"260\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/Dozens_tentacles.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>What to do?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Candida  is an insidious and extremely complex health condition. We first need  to understand if and how the spore transcends; what mechanisms it uses  to hide itself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Suppose,  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Candida_albicans\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Candida Albicans<\/span><\/a> is the agent responsible for tumors, a targeted  therapy should include both its static and macroscopic manifestations,  and the ultra-microscopic ones especially in their dynamic, reproductive  state.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The  most probable targets to attack are the fungi&rsquo;s dimensional transition  points, thereby including the whole spectrum of its biological  expression: parasitic, vegetative, sporal, multi-dimensional, and even  viral.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A  clumsy approach would be to attack the enigmatic tumoral masses with  surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy. The sole result would be their  further propagation. Most of the research so far has been focused on the  outer tissue of an object, gland, or organ to be attacked.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Only  by attacking the fungi across the spectrum of all its forms, at points  where it is most vulnerable from the nutritional point of view, would it  be possible to hope to eradicate them from the human organism.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">It  requires many steps to be taken in conjunction with each other. This  will take a lot of time, patience and persistence. Candida is extremely  resilient and difficult to treat. It requires a comprehensive and  long-term approach.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=929\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fungi the world&#8217;s most creative shape shifters Because of the limited understanding of the fungi&#8217;s potential shapes, physiology, fermentative capacity, and ways of reproduction, fungi are still the most powerful and best organized micro-organisms known to humanity. 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