Posted: Oct 22, 2018 6:57 pm
zulumoose wrote:Wortfish wrote:Wait! What? That's even worse! The poor hapless moggy in your care had an impaired auto-immune system and you didn't bother cleaning up black mould and mushrooms in your kitchen?! Jesus H. Fucking Christ in a gimp mask.
Autoimmune diseases are genetic in origin. Shrooms don't cause it. A breakdown in homeostasis does.
Unbelievable
Actually, the excess inflammation is caused by the lack of expression of a small peptide used to control the immune response. This happens more as the animal gets older.