I’m very glad to read that you recovered, but I’m not sure that I agree with how you have connected the dots.

It sounds like early in life your body may have had a highly effective innate immune response, stopping viruses before they could stimulate a more pronounced inflammatory response. But then something shifted, and now your body seems to over-react to a viral or bacterial stimulus. I saw that shift in one of my sons, whereas my disabled daughter survived a catastrophic stomach rupture because her inflammatory response was rather subdued.

It’s all very complex, and what creates the flip-flop in how ones body responds to potential microbial threats is still a mystery. My money is on our microbiome being at the center of it all, because our gut has the largest microbial population, is the largest immune organ, and communicates with our brain via these elements. The challenge is how to recalibrate that system. My son struggles with that, although he’s made some progress with diet and meditation. It’s an underserved area in medicine, but it deserves the same attention as cancer research, maybe even more.