antiviral – F.I.G.H.T for your health! http://lymebook.com/fight Linda Heming describes her Lyme disease healing journey Wed, 06 Nov 2013 05:54:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 Curcumin: the Indian solid gold http://lymebook.com/fight/curcumin-the-indian-solid-gold/ http://lymebook.com/fight/curcumin-the-indian-solid-gold/#respond Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:05:56 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=1587 Cancer therapies should include high quality absorbable curcumin, as it provides the same effects as standard chemo does!

Curcumin has been shown to exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer activities and thus has a potential against various malignant diseases, diabetes, allergies, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, and other chronic illnesses.

These effects are mediated through the regulation of various transcription factors, growth factors, inflammatory cytokines, protein kinesis, and other enzymes. Curcumin exhibits activities similar to recently discovered tumor necrosis factor blockers (e.g., HUMIRA, REMICADE, and ENBREL), a vascular endothelial cell growth factor blocker (e.g., AVASTIN), human epidermal growth factor receptor blockers (e.g., ERBITUX, ERLOTINIB, and GEFTINIB), and a HER2 blocker (e.g., HERCEPTIN).

Considering the recent scientific bandwagon that multi-targeted therapy is better than mono-targeted therapy for most diseases, curcumin can be considered an ideal “Spice for Life”.

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

Full article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17569205?dopt=Citation

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Turmeric, derived from the plant Curcuma longa, is a gold-colored spice commonly used in the Indian subcontinent, not only for health care but also for the preservation of food and as a yellow dye for textiles. Curcumin, which gives the yellow color to turmeric, was first isolated almost two centuries ago, and its structure as diferuloylmethane was determined in 1910. Since the time of Ayurveda (1900 Bc) numerous therapeutic activities have been assigned to turmeric for a wide variety of diseases and conditions, including those of the skin, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal systems, aches, pains, wounds, sprains, and liver disorders. Extensive research within the last half century has proven that most of these activities, once associated with turmeric, are due to curcumin. Curcumin has been shown to exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer activities and thus has a potential against various malignant diseases, diabetes, allergies, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, and other chronic illnesses. These effects are mediated through the regulation of various transcription factors, growth factors, inflammatory cytokines, protein kinases, and other enzymes. Curcumin exhibits activities similar to recently discovered tumor necrosis factor blockers (e.g., HUMIRA, REMICADE, and ENBREL), a vascular endothelial cell growth factor blocker (e.g., AVASTIN), human epidermal growth factor receptor blockers (e.g., ERBITUX, ERLOTINIB, and GEFTINIB), and a HER2 blocker (e.g., HERCEPTIN). Considering the recent scientific bandwagon that multitargeted therapy is better than monotargeted therapy for most diseases, curcumin can be considered an ideal “Spice for Life”.

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ACS 200 & ACZ Nano http://lymebook.com/fight/acs-200-acz-nano/ http://lymebook.com/fight/acs-200-acz-nano/#respond Fri, 21 May 2010 06:52:04 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=1103 Linda’s comment:  I personally can not live without my ACS200 and ACZnano Zeolite….I go so far as to carry a bottle of each in my purse….
CS basic technology goes to the head of the class of effective antimicrobials for topical applications. Many of you are still not convinced that ACS 200 is the breakthrough technology in colloidal silver chemistry that we have been telling you. Please understand the principals behind ACS 200 did not get EPA approval, as a sterilant easily. This is a multi-billion dollar market making what you do about treating patients who have infections of only passing interest to investors who have put up the money to get this sterilant product approved in a highly competitive environment.

That same knowledge base brought out the Total Body Detox with ACS 200 and ACZ. These are so easy to use that if you begin to believe that your patient’s toxins are part of their health problem, you owe it to them to let them try this convenient easy, gentle, lower dose form of ZEOLITE suitable for every age, including during pregnancy and for all pets.

Remember only when you lower the total body burden of toxins do you really deal with inflammation at the core. Only then can any chelator or Zeolite detox program begin to show its true potential. With the numbers on their website supporting the fact that mercury is really being removed with the easy affordable Total Body Detox Program.

When you have a surface that must remain sterile, whether on board a cruise ship kitchen or an operating room or a dentist office, this will be the sterilant that will set the standard for a long time.  It has additional molecules to enable it to deal with dangerous surfaces like our nation’s capitol after the anthrax exposure.

With this product no building will be needlessly closed for days, weeks or months like the post office where the anthrax was shipped from with a clean-up bill in the millions.

This is vital information for you if you believe there is something to my FIGHT program and you want to eliminate the needless deaths in over 100,000 people each year where no antibiotic would work. ACS alone would have made a huge difference and with my infection program by adding VIT A, D, C, Garlic immune support etc, as clearly described on my website under infection protocols.

We should be able to save over 90% who otherwise will die with the standard drugs being used today. It is never too late to add ACS and ACZ topically and orally, the drugs will not be damaged by adding Silver. And, now we have ANTIFUNGAL ANTIVIRAL and ANTIBIOTIC effects that are real without exception even HIV, Hepatitis and Lyme!!!

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

http://www.resultsrna.com/products/steriplex_health_care_now_epa_approved.php

STERIPLEX Health Care Now EPA Approved
By David Larson, President

Powered by the leading silver technology utilized by Advanced Cellular Silver (ACS) 200®, STERIPLEX® Health Care is now the most powerful Sporicide/ Sterilant ever approved by the EPA.

As germs like MRSA, C. diff. and anthrax become increasingly life-threatening, the war on superbugs continues as biotechnology companies from around the world race to produce products that kill germs effectively, without harming people or the environment. And while consumers become ever more aware of product safety, harsh chemical disinfectants are out; safe and effective is definitely in.

STERIPLEX® Health Care (HC) is a revolutionary new Sterilant/Sporicide, which has recently received Federal EPA Registration. A paradigm shift in infection control STERIPLEX® Health Care sets new standards, killing spores in a tiny fraction of the time of competing products while remaining safe to people and the environment. Independent GLP certified laboratories have verified that STERIPLEX® Health Care destroys the most virulent pathogens including C. sporogenes and B. subtilis spores 10 to 32 times faster than other sterilant brands. With never before seen kill times, these results are truly remarkable as virulent spores are truly some of the toughest germs to kill. A sporicide will typically destroy all other germ species as well.

And just how safe is safe? STERIPLEX® Health Care is completely non-toxic, non-corrosive, non-flammable and 100% biodegradable. STERIPLEX® Health Care can safely be used as a not critical care instrument soak and to disinfect all hard surfaces. Competing sterilants have performance problems and/or serious corrosion and toxic side effects. For example, Glutaraldehyde is a widely used sterilant in medical facilities, but it is highly toxic. Because of its many adverse side effects, Glutaraldehyde was banned in Great Britain several years ago. Chlorine-based products are extremely corrosive and harmful if inhaled or swallowed. Alcohol-based products, which offer only modest antimicrobial performance, disintegrate plastics and are harmful if inhaled or swallowed.

Now consider that the new spore testing benchmarks required by the EPA to achieve sterilant (sporicidal) registration are far more rigorous today than the testing required of previously approved chemical sporicides. The new EPA spore testing protocols required STERIPLEX® Health Care to be tested against spore concentrations of nominally 100 times previous testing levels. Even so, STERIPLEX® Health Care passed all testing in record times. EPA Registration #84545-5 was issued to sBioMed™ November 2, 2009.

STERIPLEX® HEALTH CARE is registered as a broad spectrum Sterilant/Sporicide, Tuberculocide, and Bactericide.

While the current EPA registration of STERIPLEX® HEALTH CARE designates use as a hard surface sterilant, future applications of the safe STERIPLEX® technologies could include uses in state-of-the-art disinfection products for hospitals, schools, food processing, and antimicrobial cleaning products and even topical surgical prep and burn center treatments.
Seven U.S. patents have already been issued to sBioMed® and seven more U.S. patents are being processed for issuance. All patents have been filed globally.

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Cell-Culture And Animal Tests Show Antiviral Could Provide Protection Against HIV http://lymebook.com/fight/cell-culture-and-animal-tests-show-antiviral-could-provide-protection-against-hiv/ http://lymebook.com/fight/cell-culture-and-animal-tests-show-antiviral-could-provide-protection-against-hiv/#respond Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:32:09 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=812 Full article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/177913.php

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Now, researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, UCLA, Harvard University, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and Cornell University have teamed up to develop and test a broad-spectrum antiviral compound capable of stopping a wide range of highly dangerous viruses, including Ebola, HIV, hepatitis C virus, West Nile virus, Rift Valley fever virus and yellow fever virus, among others.

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Antiviral Activities of Artemisinin, Artesunate http://lymebook.com/fight/antiviral-activities-of-artemisinin-artesunate/ http://lymebook.com/fight/antiviral-activities-of-artemisinin-artesunate/#respond Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:29:05 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=677 Traditional Chinese medicine commands a unique position among all traditional medicines because of its 5000 years of history. Our own interest in natural products from traditional Chinese medicine was triggered in the 1990s, by artemisinin‐type sesquiterpene lactones from Artemisia annua L. As demonstrated in recent years, this class of compounds has activity against malaria, cancer cells, and schistosomiasis. Interestingly, the bioactivity of artemisinin and its semisynthetic derivative artesunate is even broader and includes the inhibition of certain viruses, such as human cytomegalovirus and other members of the Herpesviridae family (e.g., herpes simplex virus type 1 and Epstein‐Barr virus), hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and bovine viral diarrhea virus. Analysis of the complete profile of the pharmacological activities and molecular modes of action of artemisinin and artesunate and their performance in clinical trials will further elucidate the full antimicrobial potential of these versatile pharmacological tools from nature.

 
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2008;47:804–811

1058-4838/2008/4706-0011$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/591195
REVIEW ARTICLE

The Antiviral Activities of Artemisinin and Artesunate

Thomas Efferth,1

Marta R. Romero,3,5

Dana G. Wolf,4

Thomas Stamminger,2

Jose J. G. Marin,5 and

Manfred Marschall2

1German Cancer Research Center, Pharmaceutical Biology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg, and 2Virological Institute of the University Hospital Erlangen, Clinical and Molecular Virology, University of Erlangen, Nuremberg, Germany; 3Medical Research Council Clinical Science Center, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; 4Hadassah University Hospital, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Jerusalem, Israel; and 5University of Salamanca, Laboratory of Experimental Hepatology and Drug Targeting, CIOBERehd, Salamanca, Spain

Received 4 February 2008; accepted 10 May 2008; electronically published 12 August 2008.

Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Thomas Efferth, German Cancer Research Center, Pharmaceutical Biology (C015), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany ().
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Almonds May Boost Immune Function, Reduce Inflammation http://lymebook.com/fight/almonds-may-boost-immune-function-reduce-inflammation/ http://lymebook.com/fight/almonds-may-boost-immune-function-reduce-inflammation/#respond Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:17:09 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=492 Linda’s comment:  FINALLY, they are acknowledging that Almonds may boost your immune function and reduce inflammation.  The alternative arena has known this for years.  Almond milk is delicious.  Buddy Butter, which is an Almond butter that tastes like Jiff peanut butter.

From Reuters Health Information http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/703037

By Megan Rauscher

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 19 – Almonds have the potential to boost immune health and reduce inflammation, according to research reported Tuesday at the 109th annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Philadelphia.

Almonds, study presenter Dr. Giuseppina Mandalari told Reuters Health, may have a “helpful impact on the treatment of infective and chronic diseases. Almond skins can modulate the complex cytokine network during an immunological response and positively act as novel antiviral agents.”

Dr. Mandalari, from the Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK, and colleagues evaluated the effects of natural and blanched almond skins on the release of cytokines in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) either infected or not infected with herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2).

The study was funded by the Almond Board of California.

The addition of natural almond skins to PBMC resulted in a “significant decrease in HSV-2 replication, whereas other extracts did not significantly influence the replication of the virus,” they report in a meeting abstract.

Almond skins also boosted production of several pro-inflammatory cytokines including interferon (IFN)-alpha, IFN-gamma, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, and interleukin-12 (IL-12). Moreover, IL-10 and IL-4, representative of Th2 responses, were also detected.

“It is well known that efficient elimination of a viral infection requires a pro-inflammatory host response and the development of type 1 immunity, characterized by activation of mononuclear cells and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, the scientists explain.

“Our data suggest that almond skins may improve the immune surveillance of PBMC towards viral infection, both by triggering the Th1 and stimulating Th2 subset. This could represent a new strategy towards the Th1/Th2 balance,” they conclude.

“If the study can be repeated in humans, it offers promise for preventing chronic inflammation and boosting immune function,” Dr. Mandalari said.

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