Archive for June, 2011

“Be”

Be understanding to your enemies,

Be loyal to your friends.

Be strong enough to face the world

each day.

Be weak enough to know you cannot

do everything alone.

Be generous to those who need your help.

Be frugal with what you need yourself.

Be wise enough to know that you do

not know everything.

Be foolish enough to believe in

miracles

Be willing to share your joys

Be willing to share the sorrows of

others

Be a leader when you see a path

others have missed.

Be a follower when you are shrouded

by the mists of uncertainty.

Be the first to congratulate an

opponent who succeeds

Be the last to criticize a colleague

who fails.

Be sure where your next step will fall,

so that you will not stumble.

Be sure of your final destination, in

case you are going the wrong way.

Be loving to those who love you.

Be loving to those who do not love

you, and they may change.

Above all, be yourself.

Author Unknown to me

Linda’s comments:  Probiotics and digestive enzymes are a MUST in life today as we know it, but more importantly probiotics and digestive enzymes are vital to recovery of autoimmune disease, lyme disease, Cancer, etc., etc. etc.    What most don’t understand is the best time to begin probiotics and digestive enzymes is BEFOR you get sick….

Dr. Gordon’s comments:

Probiotics are beginning to get the attention they deserve. 

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://www.nutraingredients.com/Health-condition-categories/Cognitive-and-mental-function/Could-probiotics-affect-behaviour/?utm_source=Newsletter_Product&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2BProduct

Excerpt:

Could probiotics affect behaviour?

By Stephen Daniells, 23-Jun-2009

Increasing knowledge of how the gut and brain is opening up the possibilities for probiotics. At the 5th International Yakult Symposium in Amsterdam, Stephen Daniells met Professor John Bienenstock from McMaster University to find out where the current thinking is with probiotics and brain health. 

Linda’s comments:  What amazes me is they have said for years that those who suffered from MONO ended up having Lyme disease.  So now they feel they have made a discovery that many doctors and patients have known about in the alternative arena….Bottom-line, at least they are now publishing about these issues…

Link: http://www.healthtalkandyou.com/uc-davis-finds-lyme-disease-bacteria-in-lymph-nodes/

Excerpt:

UC Davis Finds Lyme Disease Bacteria in Lymph Nodes
by Maejoy Tutor in Diseases on Jun 15, 2011 

One of the most significant and considered as threatening and rising diseases in US is the Lyme disease. The bacteria which causes this seems to be hiding particularly in lymph nodes. University of California Davis researchers have reported that this can trigger a considerable immune response, except that it is not too strong to defeat the infection.

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Linda comment:  To investigate whether Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) infection is associated with mortality in mountain hares, tissues and ticks collected from hares were investigated for infection with the spirochete. mountain  hare to some degree functions as a transmission host for B. burgdorferi s.s. and Borrelia sp. SV1.

Excerpt:

Our results indicate that disseminated Borrelia infection in 
hares rarely occurs and, presumably, does not play a central role in the 
suspected population decline. The results also suggest that the mountain 
hare to some degree functions as a transmission host for B. burgdorferi 
s.s. and Borrelia sp. SV1.

Very inspiring Lyme poem:

Link: http://www.lyme-aware.org/news/lyme-poems/653-im-still-here.html

Excerpt:

I have Lyme or so they say
And I had an ordianry life
Till this silent lurking monster
Crawled out of the bushes and took it away

Linda’s comment:  Where will it all end…..Lyme has become a world-wide epidemic, yet the ISDA boys/girls say there is not such thing as chronic Lyme!!  I don’t know where they went to medical school but they need to ask for a refund from their medical school.  Many of the IDSA members have written published studies on Lyme and the co-infections, yet they deny treatment to suffering people….

Link: http://www.scielo.br/pdf/bjmbr/v40n4/6497.pdf 

Excerpt:

An emerging clinical entity that reproduces clinical manifestations
similar to those observed in Lyme disease (LD) has been recently
under discussion in Brazil. Due to etiological and laboratory particularities
it is named LD-like syndrome or LD imitator syndrome. The
condition is considered to be a zoonosis transmitted by ticks of the
genus Amblyomma, possibly caused by interaction of multiple fastidious
microorganisms originating a protean clinical picture, including
neurological, osteoarticular and erythema migrans-like lesions. 

Linda’s comment:  expansion of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis is driving Lyme disease emergence in Canada.  With all the rain and moisture this year there will be hundreds of thousands more ticks every place in the US and Canada.  BE prepared…

Link:

Excerpt:

Conclusions: These data are consistent with I. scapularis ticks dispersed from the USA, by migratory birds, founding populations where the climate is warmest, then establishment of B. burgdorferi from the USA several years after I. scapularis have established. These observations provide vital information for public health to minimize the impact of LD in Canada.

Linda’s comments:  This makes me wonder how many of our military personnel have become infected with Bartonella?

Link: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=20548954&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

Excerpt:

 In conclusion, we
show that the laterally acquired Trw T4SS diversified in the
Bartonella lineage to facilitate host-restricted adhesion to
erythrocytes in a wide range of mammals.