Studies have linked higher levels of TNF-alpha and Interleukin-6 in the elderly to faster aging and higher mortality, independent of other lifestyle risk factors (smoking, diet and exercise). Plasma levels of TNF-alpha correlated with levels of IL-6 and C-reactive protein. The study indirectly supports chronic chlamydia infection accelerates aging, because chlamydia generates TNF-alpha, IL-6, and C-reactive protein. Community acquired chlamydia pneumonia, sexually acquired chlamydia, and chlamydia acquired from birds, are difficult for the immune system to eradicate, which causes the…..
Cardiac disease, macular degeneration and Alzheimer’s are common co-morbid conditions. The reason these co-morbidities occur is because each arises from a common root cause—chronic chlamydia pneumonia (CP). CP damages the endothelium inside blood vessels and at the blood brain barrier, and causes the build-up of plaque and narrowing of vessels. CP also causes angiogenesis (the formation of new blood vessels) and many other adverse effects. CP can impair cardiac function by damaging endothelium inside blood vessels, and depositing plaque…..
Today we offer the following quotes, which highlight some of the impediments to change in the medical system. The quotes may apply to doctor or patient. We hope our book and our efforts on social media assist in finding new scientific truths, even though we recognize change can take a long time. 1. “Most people don’t want accurate information, they want validating information. Growth requires you to be open to unlearning ideas that previously served you.” (James Clear) 2. “A…..
Dogs and cats can be infected with covid19. Covid can pass from person-to-animal, and animal-to-animal; in the animals the virus can change; and then the animals can pass the same or modified forms of the pathogen back to people. During the Spanish flu pandemic, humans infected pigs with H1N1; and many decades later pigs infected humans with a similar but modified form of the H1N1 influenza virus. Pets and animals in the household and/or in close contact with people can…..
The study reports Parkinson’s Disease occurring 10-15 years after an influenza infection. The study supports getting flu shots annually, which may also be cross-protective to some extent against Covid-19. The second important finding confirms chronic disease can develop decades after acute infection. Finally, the study raised the issue of the overall infectious burden caused by multiple chronic infections. We must start identifying the most dangerous acute infections early, including influenza, intracellular pathogens, and parasites; and offer treatments that are available…..
The Rio Grande Gorge and Rio Grande Gorge Bridge are on the cover of our book, as symbolic of the great divides in medicine. The first picture attached shows a storm over the gorge—the great divide—and the second picture is the highest point in NM (Wheeler Peak) looking toward the Sandia Mountains, in Albuquerque, 150 miles away. NM is truly the home of the long view and the big sky, which have inspired many artists and thinkers over thousands of…..
Very few named diseases have a known root cause: Most are identified by a description of the symptom(s) or effect(s). Scientific research makes observations, Big Pharma develops drugs to treat the symptoms (observations), and doctors treat symptoms; which leads to confusion in diagnoses, a failure to identify the root cause(s), failure to treat the root cause(s), extended symptomatic treatment, and treatment failures. Extended symptomatic treatment is far more expensive than prompt diagnosis and treatment of acute infectious pathogens, and…..
The lack of common and consistent terminology in medicine limits cross specialty collaboration and understanding. Each specialty and sub-specialty may give a chronic disease a different name. Some named diseases and syndromes evolve over time into newly named diseases; and others have been splintered into separate named diseases. The naming of diseases based on specialty and symptoms has led to a vast expansion in the number of named diseases, splintering of the same disease into one or more diseases, and…..
Dr. Marshall discovered a bacteria (h-pylori) caused stomach ulcers in the early 1980’s. The public learned of his discovery in the early 1990’s, when it was reported in the National Enquirer. It took more than 10 years for his discovery ulcers were a treatable infection for treatment of ulcers as an infection to become part of routine medical practice—when the public learned of the discovery and demanded treatment. Dr. Balin first published finding infectious bacteria in the brains of Alzheimer’s…..
The medical system identifies symptoms and findings, names diseases, and offers symptomatic treatment. John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in a German pharmaceutical company, by implementing a campaign against the use of natural (herbal) remedies, so that he could put plant compounds into a pill and obtain patents for the pills. He once said “A pill for every ill”. The medical system often continues with the goal in research and treatment of “a pill for every ill”, rather than a…..
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