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Saturday, November 14, 2015
Your data can help find a cure for Lyme
Malaria code cracked?
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34808267
[Scientists] say it is down to protein molecules called cyclins that cause cells to divide rapidly in the malaria parasite. Since Malaria and Babesiosis have common traits, I post this article. Both are treated with the same meds, typically: Mepron and Malarone.
http://mail.mentalhealthandillness.com/mailman/listinfo/mmi_mentalhealthandillness.com
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Is Alzheimer’s Disease Infectious?
AIMS Neuroscience, Volume 2 (4): 240–258. DOI: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2015.4.240 Received date 31 July 2015, Accepted date 4 November 2015, Published date 11 November 2015
Abstract: Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been recently considered as a possible brain infection related to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) transmissible dementia model. As with CJD, there is controversy whether the infectious agent is an amyloid protein (prion theory) or a bacterium. In this review, we show that the prion theory lacks credibility because spiroplasma, a tiny wall-less bacterium, is clearly involved in the pathogenesis of CJD and the prion amyloid can be separated from infectivity. In addition to prion amyloid deposits, the transmissible agent of CJD is associated with amyloids (A-β, Tau, and α-synuclein) characteristic of other neurodegenerative diseases including AD and Parkinsonism. Reports of spiroplasma inducing formation of α-synuclein in tissue culture and Borrelia spirochetes inducing formation of A-β and Tau in tissue culture suggests that bacteria may have a role in the pathogenesis of the neurodegenerative diseases.
Abstract: Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been recently considered as a possible brain infection related to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) transmissible dementia model. As with CJD, there is controversy whether the infectious agent is an amyloid protein (prion theory) or a bacterium. In this review, we show that the prion theory lacks credibility because spiroplasma, a tiny wall-less bacterium, is clearly involved in the pathogenesis of CJD and the prion amyloid can be separated from infectivity. In addition to prion amyloid deposits, the transmissible agent of CJD is associated with amyloids (A-β, Tau, and α-synuclein) characteristic of other neurodegenerative diseases including AD and Parkinsonism. Reports of spiroplasma inducing formation of α-synuclein in tissue culture and Borrelia spirochetes inducing formation of A-β and Tau in tissue culture suggests that bacteria may have a role in the pathogenesis of the neurodegenerative diseases.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
literature review on persistence
Here is a literature review on persistence of Lyme bacteria post antibiotic therapy.
PANS - A case for antibiotic therapy?
A PANS Case Study, Immune Treatment Reduced Psychiatric Symptoms
(Robert M. Post)
"Pediatric acute neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) is a little-known syndrome in which a child has an acute onset of psychiatric symptoms following a bacterial or viral infection, when the antibodies generated to fight the infection instead attack neurons in the brain. The behavioral alterations can be severe and resistant to the usual psychotropic drug treatments. PANS often requires antibiotics and immune-targeted therapies."
"Mycoplasma pneumonia, influenza, Epstein Barr virus, and Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease) are often involved."
Ultimate cause of Alzheimer's may be fungal, cadaver study suggests
Ultimate cause of Alzheimer's may be fungal, cadaver study suggests.
The Economist (10/23/15) reports that a study published online Oct. 15 in the journal Scientific Reports suggests that "the ultimate cause of Alzheimer's is fungal." Researchers arrived at this conclusion after examining "brain tissue from 25 cadavers, 14 of which belonged to people who had had Alzheimer's disease when alive." The study authors now "think a clinical trial of anti-fungal drugs is the next logical step."
Robert C Bransfield, MD, DLFAPA
Alzheimer's patients have high levels of ceramides, lipid rafts comprised of very long chain fatty acids.
Mattson published this initially in an NIH study in 2004 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC357053/ and
again in 2010 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907186/
Alzheimer's does not originate in the brain as once thought, it is a peroxisomal disorder induced by toxic insult turning on cytokines and
disabling / inhibiting the ability to beta oxidize (burn) very long chain fatty acids.
Spirochetes feed on very long chain fatty acids, in fact, lyme cannot survive without very long chain fatty acid food source
because they cannot form them. The base of the flagellum consists of these very long chain fatty acids. The flagellum
swings like a wrecking ball (Edward Kane, age 90, description of the phenomenon) and is nonfunctional without these
specialized very long chain fatty acids it feeds on from its host.
Toxic mold exposure results in DNA adducts (epigenetic) insult, cytokine expression, major inhibition of beta oxidation, and a sharp rise in
very long chain fatty acids.
Its not just in Alzheimers...also psychiatric disorders, metabolic abnormalities, Autism, Parkinson's, ALS, MS, Post Stroke, NeuroLyme, CFS....
Explains also why they do so well with phenylbutyrate. potent anti-fungal.
Dr. Patricia Kane, PhD, Director
NeuroLipid Research Foundation
Friday, November 6, 2015
BBC News: The woman who can smell Parkinson's disease
The woman who can smell Parkinson's disease
Meet the woman from Perth whose super sense of smell could change the way Parkinson's disease is diagnosed.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Some background on cardamom -- A very beneficial spice
Cardamom contains IC3 (indole-3-carbinol) and DIM(diindolylmethane). These phytochemicals are well-known cancer fighters, helping to specifically ward off hormone-responding cancers like breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and prostate cancer. Early research suggests that consuming cardamom regularly may help with preventing these forms of cancer.
In addition to these specific medicinal uses, cardamom contains an abundance of antioxidants, which protect the body against aging and stress, and fight common sicknesses and bodily strife. In rat studies, cardamom has been shown to increase glutathione, an antioxidant enzyme found naturally in our bodies.
Cardamom volatile oil has only recently come under the scrutiny of scientists curious about its therapeutic properties, but Asian and Indian cultures have reliably used it for ages as a remedy for discomfort and depression, and still rely upon it today. It is now being discovered to have amazing health benefits, and early science confirms its medicinal effectiveness.
Health benefits of cardamom
- This exotic spice contains many plants derived chemical compounds that are known to have been anti-oxidant, disease preventing and health promoting properties.
A proven link between Parkinson's Disease and gut bacteria
A proven link between Parkinson's Disease and gut bacteria
The gut and the brain are pretty far apart, but increasingly scientists are connecting the dots and finding that Parkinson's is truly related to gut bacteria.
Certainly Parkinson's disease is a brain condition, right? A neurological condition, yes? What's that got to do with the gut, you ask?
Sunday, November 1, 2015
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