Bro, listen—your brain has a squatter and you didn't even know it

Nah because, oye, I'm drinking my cafecito right now at Versailles, looking at the ventanita, and I just read something that made me drop my croqueta, acere. You know how sometimes you feel a little off, a little slow? You blame the traffic on the Palmetto, the humidity making your brain melt, maybe that extra cafecito not hitting right. Turns out, it might be something else entirely, algo bien loco.

### El Bicho in Your Brain

So they're saying almost everybody, like 99% of us, we got this "brain-eating virus" already chilling in our heads. Like, *inside* us, right now. It's called Toxoplasma gondii, and for years, they thought it was only a problem if your immune system was shot. But nah, the new science is saying this thing might be way more common, and not just for folks with serious health issues. They're finding it everywhere! It's in the soil, in cat poop—que bola, I love my gato but now I'm looking at him sideways—and you can even get it from undercooked food.

* Almost everyone has it.

* It's called Toxoplasma gondii.

* New research shows it's not just an issue for the immunocompromised.

* You can get it from cats, soil, and undercooked food.

Can you imagine? We're out here in Miami, worried about hurricanes, rising sea levels, and who's gonna win the Heat game tonight, and we got un bicho living rent-free in our brains, possibly messing with us. It’s like when they tell you a new condo tower is going up in Wynwood and you didn't even see the groundbreaking. Just *poof*, it's there. This virus, it's just *there*.

Dale, that's how we do it in the 305, trying to survive everything, even the tiny invaders we didn't invite.

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My boy Keith and the crew get into all kinds of wild stuff like this every morning—catch them live at mornings.live.