When we see commercials to help men prevent hair loss and the images often seem ironic. The commercials show men in baseball caps. Hair loss can be genetic but in our observation wearing sweaty dirty baseball caps contributes to and accelerates hair loss. Invariable when we see a man wearing a sweaty dirty baseball cap—they are bald or balding. Sweaty dirty baseball caps can facilitate pathogens and fungus getting into the base of the hair follicles, promoting and accelerating hair…..
Unfortunately infectious causes of chronic disease have been ignored and dismissed. Treatment may be denied in the acute phase of immortal infections in the name of protecting against antibiotic resistance, and by the time a chronic disease occurs the acute disease has long been forgotten. To prevent antibiotic resistance the best way is to reduce antibiotics in animals (80% of usage). It is not too many antibiotics, it is too many of the wrong antibiotics, and lack of adequate diagnosis…..
“CHRONIC: The Hidden Cost of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again” is a new book which follows the same themes as our book–chronic disease arises from chronic infection, and the medical system should seek to diagnose the root infectious causes of chronic disease. The authors express many ideas and make many observations similar to those made in our book, about the root causes of chronic disease and the how the medical system works today. “CHRONIC” discusses chronic…..
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 immune defenses, i.e. the war within, which include a high level of inflammation and generation of adhesion molecules. The immune system attack may be diagnosed as a chronic disease; an autoimmune disease; or in acute disease, as the immune system generating a higher level of damaging inflammation, for unknown reasons. …..
Viruses can only survive and multiply inside a cell or pathogen. Viruses can invade human cells previously infected with intracellular bacteria, and can also invade and become a bacteriophage of other bacterial pathogens. Chronic intracellular infections cause chronic disease. When patients with chronic disease develop covid19 the risk for severe disease and virus variants increases. Intracellular co-infections can confuse the immune system; hide the virus; and trigger an increased inflammatory response, to fight a virus inside a bacteria inside a…..
Viruses are a string of proteins encapsulated by a membrane, which become intracellular to duplicate and spread. Inside the cell the virus loses its outer membrane, and duplicates the string of viral proteins with a new outer membrane. When viruses enter cells previously infected with intracellular bacteria, the virus can evolve into new variants due to the mixing of co-infections or due to diminished cell function caused by a chronic intracellular infection. The variation in underlying chronic intracellular infections in…..
Others are now advocating the repurposing of drugs we already have for covid19, while we wait for new antiviral drugs and covid19 vaccines. We previously reported azithromax has both antiviral and anti-inflammatory activity, and can prevent blood clots and heart attacks from a viral infection; and that imervectin may be beneficial in covid19, based on laboratory studies. The NIH has now withdrawn its objection to imervectin for covid19, and takes no position on its use for covid19. We already have…..
A beautiful picture of the Rio Grande gorge, by Elijah S Rael, which seems an appropriate image in a time of great divides across society. We need bridges across the many divides in society and the many great divides in medicine. We hope our book will provide a bridge to new ways of thinking in medicine.
After his residency, Dr. Merchant worked 5 years in an area where parasitic disease was common, due to contaminated drinking water and contact with animals. He observed that chronic parasitic disease led to other chronic diseases, and that chronic diseases developed in younger patients. Mebendazole is an anti-parasitic drug, for parasites and worms, which is one of the most under-utilized drugs in medicine. Mebendazole was not used frequently enough, in the U.S.; thus, manufacturers raised the price beyond reason……
Antibodies detected in blood, bodily fluids, and tissue include IgA, IgG, and IgM. IgA and IgM are a response to acute infection. IgG antibodies take at least ten days to form and thereafter provide immunity against bacterial and viral infection. Saliva PCR testing for covid19 detects the presence of the covid19 spike protein, and not the type of antibodies present. Saliva testing for the type of antibodies can be done, and would reveal if the patient has an active covid19…..
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