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Some of what medicine says is true, and some is not true—the problem is practitioners do not necessarily know which is true and which is not. Medicine is overwhelmed by knowledge, while starving for ideas on how to apply the knowledge to benefit patients. Medical practitioners are not routinely exposed to knowledge in other specialties. Research is done by each individual specialty, and researchers may not recognize the importance and significance of findings that relate to different specialties. Research bias…..
Medicine has amassed huge amounts of knowledge down to very small details; and knowledge of associations, connections, links, cluster differentiations, abnormal proteins, genes, etc. The knowledge is interesting and important; however, putting the knowledge together across medical fields, to understand patterns and seek understanding of causation by thinking about what is known, experience, and observations will provide the greatest benefit to the most patients. The bias in medicine against ever stating a cause is so strong, that when writing the…..
In 1988, Gertrude Elion (1918-1999), George Hitchings, and Sir James W. Black shared the Nobel Prize for physiology/medicine. They are credited with developing Daraprim, to treat blood borne parasitic infections (including malaria and toxoplasmosis). WHO reported Daraprim is one of the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system. In clinical trials, Daraprim was shown to be effective in HIV, retinochoroiditis, ALS, and variety of other chronic diseases; and may slow the progression of Tay-Sachs disease, a syndrome…..
The older one gets, the more immortal infections a person acquires, and the higher the overall infectious burden. The more chronic infections and the longer the chronic infections persist—the more likely a person will develop a chronic disease. Medicine ignores suggestions from scientists and thinkers, patterns suggesting infectious causes, and circumstantial evidence; and resists acknowledging infectious causes of chronic disease. Medical research seeks any possible alternative conclusion—diet, excise, environment, lifestyle, genes, abnormal proteins, inflammation, aging, etc.; and has had…..
Many philosophers set forth principles that can apply in medicine: Other things being equal, the simplest hypothesis possible is the good principle (Aristotle). Distinguish between two hypotheses, by shaving away unnecessary assumptions or cutting apart two similar conclusions; and the competing hypotheses with the fewest assumptions should be selected (Ockham). The obvious diagnosis is the most likely—when you hear hoof beats, think of horses not zebras (Woodward). Entities are not to be multiplied without necessity (Punch). We are to admit…..
Research has become esoteric, consumed by small details, and infected with bias, which prevents important discoveries or important discoveries are overlooked. Research is limited by the desire to find one infectious cause per disease, when more than one pathogen or combinations of pathogens can cause the same disease.
Medical research seeks to expand knowledge, and observe findings and characteristics in chronic disease; but, is seldom designed to identify a cause of chronic disease. Researchers may search for a single pathogen, and not consider the effect of multiple pathogens working together to cause chronic disease; or that different pathogens or combinations of pathogens can cause the same chronic disease in different patients. Reports on the outcomes of medical research are often limited to reports of “associations”, between pathogens and…..
Cancer can occur in clusters, and is more common in caretakers of cancer patients, suggesting infectious causes. It has been proposed treatment of chlamydia pneumonia, in smokers, could reduce the risk of lung cancer. H-pylori can cause stomach cancer, and treatment of H-pylori was shown to reduce the incidence of stomach cancer. Heart attack and stroke occur more frequently after an outbreak of respiratory infections; and patients who took tetracycline, azithromycin, or clarithromycin, for any reason, during the prior three…..
Dr. Brian Balin and his team at Johns Hopkins and the Hahnemann School of Medicine identified Chlamydia pneumonia in tissue adjacent to Alzheimer’s plaque. USCF studied cells adjacent to cancer; and found cells which were not cancer but were not normal, and had the same molecular properties as Chlamydia. The Mayo Clinic found polyps adjacent to colon cancer had different “genetic” properties, which were not cancer but were not normal. The study of adjacent tissue appears to be an important…..
In 1931, Dr. Otto Warburg discovered the main property of cancer cells was low oxygen. His primary hypothesis was cancer is a mitochondrial dysfunction; and the consequence of replacement of respiration in normal cells, with fermentation of sugar. He believed cancer had one prime cause, replacement of oxygen in normal cells with fermentation and sugar. We now know cancer cells consume and thrive on sugar, and abnormal sugar metabolism in the cells changes the micro-environment in the cell, and fosters…..