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…..
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…..
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…..
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…..
Attached is an interview of Dr. Brian Balin, Director of the Center for Chronic Disorders of Aging – Basic Science at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is the Chair of the Department of Bio-Medical Sciences and Professor of Neuroscience and Neuropathology; and an internationally recognized leader in Alzheimer’s disease. He is interviewed by Nikki Schultek, Principal and Founder of the Intracellular Research Group. The intracellresearchgroup.com has links to scientific articles supporting infectious causes of Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis, arthritis,…..
Imervectin is an anti-parasitic, used to treat a variety of intestinal and skin parasites, in humans and animals. WHO considers Imervectin one of the safest and most important drugs in combating the global burden of disease. In The Origin of Disease: The War Within, we said Imervectin was one of the most underutilized drugs in medicine (Chapter 3, Page 67); and on 4/5/20 and 5/7/20, we posted about Imervectin and Covid-19, after laboratory testing suggested Imervectin was effective in killing…..
The skin is our largest organ, and can reveal secrets regarding our health. Moles and/or brown spots may indicate current or past infection that has erupted onto the skin, been transferred to the skin by self-inoculation, been transferred to the skin by devices, or be evidence of a past scabies infection that evolved into a mole. Pimples indicate an infection on the skin, often transferred by fingertips and devices; and acne may indicate an underlying chronic infection. When blood vessels…..
Our hope is science will develop new methods to diagnose pathogens quickly, and the diagnosis of infectious pathogens will be implemented in routine medical practice. We hope for a method to quickly and easily diagnose covid19, that can be used in the home as quickly and easily as pregnancy tests; discovery of new anti-viral medications to treat covid19 and other serious viruses (which are in development); and a new understanding of how to develop vaccines quickly and efficiently to address…..
Past infection with viral pathogens that are closely related to covid-19 may provide limited protection against covid-19. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/health/coronavirus-immune-cells.html?referringSource=articleShare
The immune system attacks pathogens in a series of programmed activities. Mast cells (a/k/a mastocyte or labrocyte) are the first immune cells to reach pathogens. Leukocytes (white blood cells, i.e. neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, eosinophils, basophils); and lymphocytes (T-cells, B-cells, natural killer cells), attack the pathogen, and transport the pathogen to the plasma cells. The plasma cells (a/k/a plasma B-cells, plasmocytes, or effector B-cells), are transported by the lymphatic system, and make and secrete large quantities of antibodies to specific pathogens……