“The longer you’re in a field, the harder it is to perceive new truths. Your mind is biased toward refining what you’re already doing instead of exploring fresh terrain.” James Clear The causes of chronic disease can seldom be found in one specialty alone: Discovery requires a new paradigm for understanding and diagnosing infectious causes of chronic disease. Chronic disease is a long and evolving process, which can create new symptoms and findings during that evolving process, leading a…..
Blood findings give clues to chronic infection; however, some providers may dismiss or ignore abnormal findings as unimportant or not interpretable. Some doctors assert a chlamydia IgM represents a current infection and a chlamydia IgA represents past infection; and ignore the chlamydia IgG. Chronic intracellular chlamydia is never completely “in the past”, and the fact an IgM is on the blood test, and is abnormally high, is an important clue to a chronic infection hiding silently within, and evolving into…..
In medical practice, Dr. Merchant followed the principle of diagnose what you can and treat what you can diagnose, for over forty years. Repeated diagnosis of chronic infection in a variety of chronic diseases and successful treatment outcomes revealed that chronic infections cause chronic disease. Diagnoses of chronic infections and successful treatment outcomes provided important insights into the causes of chronic diseases, the consequences of having a chronic infection, and the relationships and commonalities between chronic diseases, which is rarely…..
Pathogens can be transmitted from animal-to-animal and across animal species. Pathogens can be transmitted from a person-to-animal and animal-to-person, causing similar diseases in the person and animal. The evidence strongly suggests infectious pathogens are a cause of many chronic diseases. The high rate of parvovirus in cancer patients is concerning. Pet dogs owned by lupus patients are at a higher risk of developing.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3362544/#__sec11title