Monthly Archives: December 2018
Getting a flu shot is particularly important this year. Bre Payton, a 26 year old Fox News commentator, died recently after a short illness with the H1N1 flu. One of the children who died at the border had H1N1 flu. The other child who died had the flu but the strain has not been disclosed. The H1N1 is an avian/swine flu strain that can kill at any age, including young and middle aged adults. Those with co-infections and who are…..
Animals can transmit immortal animal pathogens to people, and the animal pathogens can evolve to allow person-to-person and person-to-animal transmission. During the Spanish Flu pandemic from January 2018 to December of 1920, humans transmitted the H1N1 avian (bird) flu to swine and caused an epidemic of bird flu in swine. In 2009, swine in Mexico are believed to have started an epidemic of H1N1 avian influenza in humans, and it was then called Swine Flu.
Immortal pathogens can have abnormal proteins attached to the surface, which confuse the immune system and protect the pathogen from an immune system attack. When immortal pathogens become intracellular, the pathogens cause normal proteins inside the cell to become abnormal. Science has identified hundreds of abnormal proteins based on shape. Abnormal proteins are a sign of chronic infection, but science has not yet correlated the abnormal protein shapes with the chronic infections generating the abnormal proteins.
Redness, heat, swelling and pain are the hallmarks of infection. Inflammation is a sign of infection—not an independent disease. Treating inflammation without identifying the cause of the inflammation has the potential to make the condition worse.
Immortal pathogens can hide inside normal host cells (intracellular), and can hide inside or attached to the outside of other pathogens. Immortal pathogens live off the nutrients and energy provided by the host cell, and hijack the functions of the host cell. When immortal pathogens attach and combine with other pathogens, the immortal pathogens can reach and attack parts of the body reached by the host pathogens.
Thousands of bacteria, viruses and parasites exist in the world. Some of the bacteria are part of our body and aid in bodily functions. Some are pathogens that cause acute disease and resolve, leaving behind greater immunity. A few of these bacterial and viral pathogens are immortal, and once acquired continue to spread silently in the body. The immortal pathogens can cause a serious acute infection, and after the acute infection resolves the immortal pathogens can evolve and combine with…..
Immortal pathogens can cause more than one chronic disease in the same person, and can cause the same or different chronic diseases in different people. The patient often has to go to more than one doctor for comorbid conditions, which diseases may have the same root cause. The fragmentation of medical care based on specialties and diseases prevents recognition the comorbid conditions have the same root cause.
Research studies found different genetic variants and rare gene variants in the same diseases; and found different genetic mutations in the same diseases on different continents. Researchers found different rare gene variations in common diseases, in different people. Researchers were unable to find common gene variations in various chronic diseases. These findings raise questions about a diagnosis based solely on abnormal genes and/or gene expression, and show the need to diagnose the root causes of genetic changes.
Abnormal genes and abnormal gene expression do exist, and can be acquired or inherited. Bacteria and viruses can change genes or gene expression, and the abnormal genes or gene expression can then be inherited by offspring. Abnormal genes or gene expression may cause a chronic disease; or make a person susceptible to a chronic disease when a triggering event changes the genetic susceptibility into a chronic disease.
Hippocrates suggested the revolutionary idea that diseases had a cause, and were not sent from God. A diagnosis based on a genetic abnormality may be the modern version of the chronic disease was sent from God. Paul Ewald, PhD, an evolutionary biologist, argued if genes caused chronic disease then the chronic disease would be eliminated or reduced in every generation, because all chronic diseases have a genetic cost. Doctors today may attribute chronic disease to a genetic abnormality; however, genetic…..