«Although we first became aware of prions because they cause several bizarre neurological diseases, the discovery that something so awesomely similar happens in
organisms as different as humans and
yeast makes us suspect that there is a fundamental,
common biochemical process at work here,» said study director Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago.
Yeasts are microscopic
organisms categorized as fungi, and the most
common culprit for gut issues is candida albicans, which is normally in your body, but can cause some serious problems if it is allowed to thrive and multiply (5).