Rare diseases may be the unique effect of infectious pathogens or combinations of infectious pathogens on particular patients. The patients consult specialists with a particular interest in the patient’s disease, which can direct the diagnosis to the specialist’s area of interest. Unknown and rarely described diseases should be investigated thoroughly for infectious causes before declaring the patient has a rare disease, particularly when the rare disease has a poor prognosis.
Opiate addiction is a problem in the United States, but why do so many patients have so much pain? In some counties, the number of prescriptions for opioids exceeds the number of people living in the county. Doctors prescribe pain medication, then their prescriptions are monitored by medical and pharmacy boards, who pressure doctors to restrict prescriptions for pain medications, leaving the patients in pain, addicted, desperate, self-medicating, and hoarding pain medications. Opiate withdrawal can cause agitation, aggression, and acts…..
We are happy to share information on an upcoming Alzheimer’s conference. Alzheimer’s has many pre-morbid conditions, as the infectious cause of Alzheimer’s evolves and interacts with the immune system and other pathogens over the course decades. Intracell Research Group YleetstSepgredotaSryg onhast d1oihn0:0gd7reealrdii ASM · It is an honor and a privilege to host this event on June 15th, 2021. Please share this excellent educational opportunity with your networks. The topics covered will address an incredibly important question: What are the pre-pathology events in Alzheimer’s…..
SSRI drugs for depression have been documented to cause suicidal and homicidal ideation, violent acts toward others, and suicide and homicide. SSRI drugs are more likely to trigger suicide, homicide and violent acts in males 16-25; however, the effect is not limited to that age range or gender. Starting, changing dose or type, or stopping SSRIs present the greatest risk of violence toward self or others. In “The Origin of Disease: The War Within”, Ch. 18, we cited reports…..
Mental illness is “associated” with worse covid19 outcomes, including death. Mortality was also higher in schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders compared to mood disorders. Bacterial, viral, and parasitic illnesses have been found in patients with schizophrenia and other mood disorders, including depression—but few (if any) studies have attempted treatment of mental illness by treating the underlying infections. The statement covid19 is more severe in patients with mental illness is consistent with the statement mental illness is a medical illness. Patients…..
In “The Autoimmune Brain”, David Younger, MD, discusses inflammatory brain disease caused by inflammation the body generates to fight pathogens. In “Chronic”, Phillips and Parish discuss autoimmune disease and state inflammation has always had its roots in infection. (p. 115). In “The Origin of Disease” we discuss a myriad of chronic diseases arising from infectious pathogens and the inflammatory processes the immune system generates to fight the pathogens. In “Drop the Disorder”, Jo Watson questions the scientific validity of psychiatric…..
Medical research is done within each medical specialty, limited by specialty knowledge, interest and funding. Medical research proposes narrow hypotheses as to what the study may find, then reports the observations, findings, and “associations”, in a scientific publication. Medical research is often directed to reporting small details, observations, findings, and associations, hoping an answer will reveal itself (to someone else). Even when a pathogen is identified, it is called an “association”, without follow-up studies to determine if the pathogen causes…..
The medical community believes many chronic diseases are caused by inflammation. But where is that inflammation coming from and why? Are the immune cells attacking the person’s own cells, or is the immune system mounting an attack against an intracellular pathogen that is difficult to eradicate and has not been diagnosed? The immune system has difficulty fighting intracellular pathogens; and in response to intracellular pathogens and the abnormal proteins generated by the pathogens, the immune system generates a cascade of…..
Scientific advancement can be held back by the scientific method, which requires all patients with the same disease have the same cause, or the finding is deemed an “association”. Chronic diseases can have more than one root cause and different diseases can have the same root cause, which confounds the scientific method. Chronic diseases evolve over years and decades, which also limits the ability of the scientific method to identify a cause during a limited research study. Scientific advancement can…..
IL-6 has been found to be a significant marker for severe disease and death from covid19. Chlamydia organisms have been shown to induce production of IL-6, and high IL-6 has been found in cardiovascular disease and many other chronic diseases. We discussed IL-6 as a marker for several chronic diseases in “The Origin of Disease: The War Within” (including heart disease, depression, aging, “inflammatory diseases”, mortality, etc.). We also discussed how co-infections with chronic chlamydia and viruses can cause more…..
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