#The Rise of Yeast

[ivandurak]

Two of the published clinical reports of yeast infection say more about human desperation than the tendency of the fungus to cause disease. Both concern instances of self-inflicted Saccharomyces infection. The first, from Columbia, Missouri, in the 1970s, involved a sixty-eight-year-old man with an unusual diet. He was a health food enthusiast who medicated himself with vitamins and, in a vein unrelated to his belief in dietary supplements, drank a full pint of vodka every day. Then he began developing symptoms of influenza and was admitted to a hospital. Nothing in the case history alarmed his physicians until the patient admitted to swallowing massive quantities of brewer’s yeast. The clinical report says that he consumed up to three kilograms of dried yeast per day, which is equivalent to hundreds of the little sachets used in bread-making. There is likely a typo in the transcript. He would have needed much more than a pint of vodka to wash that down. In any case, this gentleman developed fungemia that was misdiagnosed initially as a bacterial infection. His condition improved when he “was instructed to discontinue use of brewer’s yeast.” The second case is more bizarre. It involved Vietnamese refugees in a Hong Kong detention center who injected themselves with yeast precisely in order to induce infections, and therefore to be admitted a hospital. One of the patients was a teenage boy admitted to hospital with convulsions. The other was a woman suffering from shock who presented with a serious abscess in her breast, presumably at the injection site. Once they were admitted to hospital they absconded. In the column of the table reserved for clinical outcome, the report says, “Seen running away.” One hopes that these victims survived. Concern about Saccharomyces infections has grown with reports that they are associated with the use of yeast as a probiotic, as was the case with the vodka drinker. Probiotics are microorganisms whose ingestion is thought to bestow health benefits. Probiotic yeast is sold in capsules as a treatment for a wide range of digestive disorders, and as a daily supplement to maintain a healthy bowel function. The capsules contain a freeze-dried preparation of Saccharomyces boulardii, which is probably a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, rather than a separate species. Nonetheless, it behaves quite differently from the strains of the sugar fungus used to brew beer and leaven bread. The association between the use of boulardii as a probiotic and development of yeast infections should not concern the majority of people who have benefited from the probiotic.

Nicholas P. Money. The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization.

[sin-against-god]

What's up everyone, small life update:

I made some really fucking good bread

Made me understand how alchemists felt when they drank mercury or whatever it is alchemists acc do

[cr1ms0nesp3ra-ac3]

Come Forth!

Empathy Rises all Together and One!

Introducing: Empathy Rises AU, an What-if Scenario AU that took place on Beast Yeast Episode 3 and 4.

The episode 4 tale instead starts on Dark Choco Cookie, who had just witnessed the Pale Ailment Incident somewhere around the Dark Cacao Kingdom. He doesn't know what to do, but he thought bringing something for the patients will do the trick.

And when he found out that his father and the crew have searched on an long-time adventure to stop someone who caused this... Dark Choco had no choice, but to adventure on.

Hoping to reunite to Dark Cacao Cookie, trying to help him stop Mystic Flour before it's too late.

When a voice calls him out.

Some sprites I made!:

Bonus:

Hope you enjoy! Probably I should make a fanfic but I'm tired rn.. oof.

[terra-tortoise]

my baker emmer!!!!!!

[coldbug]

i wish he had posted a video instead. i need more angles to properly understand that fucking bread

[snail-noodle]

Oh... oh he kinda cute.... 👉👈

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

Made some matcha focaccia via Archie Cartwright's recipe :) pretty sure I fucked up the focaccia part but damn if it doesn’t have a great matcha flavor (my favorite !!) <33

ignoring my possibly terrible baking when it comes to bread (tastes good tho) Go listen to Fawx & Stallion by @224bbaker and support their season 2 crowdfund! wonderful podcast and such a delight to listen to <3

[octoooo]

Rabito’s Winter Coat

Good time to mention that Makomo has a TikTok account dedicated to Rabito & Catyuu and their antics <3

She’s been getting comments about how Rabito looks in the Cold season

Started as silly doodle but it’s really funny to me:

Yes that means that shedding season is a NIGHTMARE for anyone near Rabito. Sakonji gets double-covered in fur because of Catyuu

[malmagmafr]

Okay but why tho

[iceeericeee]

Who tf even thought of bread? Just like… How??

[cozybearz]

pizza rolls being made 👍

[anonymouspuzzler]

TODAY. BABKA ROUND 2: THE BABKA-ING. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR UPDATES

[bunnywand]

marina if she was a baker: can't help that i knead it all..

[beeleoblue]

Yknow i was always scared of baking because unlike cooking its very precise and you cant just fuck around and find out. But actually that was wrong and you can fuck around and find out and a lot of the time it ends well

[readyforthegarden]

Everyone come get your apple butter cinnamon rolls!!! They’re still waaarrmm!!! 🥰

[thanekrios]