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This document suggests that there are bacteria, fungi, etc, that can cause mental illness.

However, in the context of schizophrenia, if you search one of the schizophrenia research sites, you will find absolutely no research into anything like this. Finding a hypothetical link between a few chromosomes or neurotransmitters is what its all about. Very little of any value seems to have ever emerged from these lines of research, yet it constitutes the vast majority of current research projects. As an example, BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes were implicated in breast cancer, to much fanfare, in the 1990’s. The death rate from breast cancer does not seem to have changed much since then.

I do not personally agree with the method of treatment implied by the article. If you use antibiotics to clear some underlying bad bacteria, fungus, yeast, etc, you do often get very impressive quick results. But you kill off all the beneficial bacteria at the same time, and unless you replace them you are lining yourself up for future health problems.

Using a therapeutic probiotic should achieve the same results, although at a slower rate, as beneficial bacteria have mechanisms to control or destroy invading organisms, and prime your own immune system to handle invaders the way it was designed to.