Assumptions in medicine may direct inquiry away from infectious causes of chronic disease, toward the study of alternate and unprovable explanations. For example, a recent FB-funded study examined tissue adjacent to cancer and found adjacent cells were not cancer, but were not normal. Researchers assumed genes were directing tumor growth, and pursued additional genetic research, even though an intracellular infection in adjacent tissue was consistent with the findings in the study. Based on reasoning, the thoughts of many scientists and…..
It is difficult to discover the cause of a chronic disease that evolves over decades, and over the evolution of the disease the symptom progression has been given many different names. Research is limited in discovery of the causes of chronic diseases, because it is limited to one guess, one hypothesis, one consistent finding, one point in time, and one publication. Research has been limited by the one cause per disease theory, which limited a broader understanding about infectious causes…..
Penicillin can potentiate chlamydia pneumonia (CP) and cause a false negative PCR test. Penicillin destroys the cell wall of the intracellular pathogen, but not the pathogen. It changes the shape and increases the size of reticulate bodies, extends the life-cycle from 20 to 72 hours, increases the number of elementary bodies, and can enhance the spread and chronicity of CP. In our book we discusses numerous examples across many chronic diseases of patients who likely had an intracellular infection, based…..
Doctors have become reluctant to prescribe antibiotics, out of fear of creating antibiotic resistance. As peer pressure increased to deny patients antibiotics, chronic diseases increased in younger and younger patients. Antibiotics do not all have same resistance profile or the same risk of antibiotic resistance. Not all infections are the same, and not all infections require the same or even any treatment with antibiotics. Acute infections with intracellular pathogens have the potential to cause chronic disease, and treatment with appropriate…..
Alois Alzheimer, and many others up to the present time, have suggested Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has an infectious cause. The risk of AD is higher in close contacts of AD patients, and non-genetic relatives living in the household of an animal handler. AD prone mice given antibiotics for as short as one week had reduced risk for AD and developed far fewer protein clumps typical of dementia and AD. Infectious pathogens have been identified inside, under and around plaque. A…..
Intracellular pathogens can spread to the nervous system and brain directly, through the blood stream, and inside immune cells. In the brain, intracellular pathogens generate an immune response; formation of lumps, bumps and clumps, inside, covering and around the pathogen; a cascade of internal responses and effects; and chronic disease. Some types of intracellular pathogens may form Lewy bodies (protein clumps inside neurons, characteristic of Parkinson’s disease); and other types may form sticky clumps of proteins outside neurons, characteristic of…..