Monthly Archives: September 2020

When Dr. Merchant was practicing medicine, one of his favorite sayings was, “If you listen to the patient long enough, they will always tell you the answer.”

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Some patients have few or mild symptoms from covid19 infection; and the explanation may include recent infections with similar viruses or recent vaccines, which provided partial protection and mitigated or prevented symptoms. We wonder, however, if some asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic covid19 patients assumed they had allergies, a seasonal cold, ate something to upset their stomach, had a flare-up of an underlying medical problem, etc. They may also have simply forgotten they had these symptoms, by the time they test…..

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The FDA has not tested make-up, for safety; nor has the FDA tested the products used to remove make-up, for safety. Make-up is sold under a grandfather clause, from the 1930’s; and continues to be sold as “similar” enough to not require safety testing. Eye make-up is of particular concern.   Eye make-up is applied to the soft tissue around the eye and at the eyelid margins, critical for eye health. Eye make-up with sparkles contains indigestible particles that are…..

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The article discusses whether severe covid19 cases arise from immunosuppression or a hyper-immune reaction, i.e. hyper-inflammation. Covid19 treatment may be different for patients with immunosuppression and patients with hyper-inflammation, because drugs that enhance the immune system may aggravate inflammation and drugs that suppress inflammation may suppress the immune system. The immune system is less effective at fighting intracellular pathogens; thus, immune cells trigger excess inflammation and an inflammatory cascade. Chronic chlamydia infects immune cells, and in a series of innate…..

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Chlamydia psittacosis can be transmitted from birds to people, through ventilation systems, by inhaling bird droppings, and by transmission from birds to intermediate host animals and then from the intermediate host animals to people. We reported psittacosis can cause chronic disease, including autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, polyarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, lymphoma, and other types of cancer. We suggested chlamydia psittacosis could be an important risk factor in covid19, in generating mutations in Italy, and in disease severity (5/6/20, 5/26/20, 7/16/20). We…..

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Years ago we saw a commercial for an arthritis drug that was shocking, because it showed an actress kissing a bird. A new commercial is shocking, because it shows an actress in a park, in the grass, with uncovered arms, exercising on the ground, to promote a drug for a skin disease. The irony is both commercials advertised expensive drugs to treat diseases “of unknown origin”, and both of the diseases can be caused by psittacosis. In both commercials the…..

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Chlamydia pneumonia attacks and thrives in vascular endothelial cells, particularly in the lungs, heart and brain. Chlamydia can thrive and replicate in monocytes and macrophages, and in perivascular endothelium and microglial (immune) cells in the brain. Monocytes attack chlamydia pneumonia, and become monocyte-driven macrophages. The monocyte-driven macrophages trigger TNF-alpha, a higher level of inflammation. Infected macrophages have been found adherent to vascular endothelium; and can breach the blood–brain barrier, spreading chlamydia pneumonia to the brain. Infected macrophages are a primary…..

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