WE ALL HAVE SOME CHRONIC INFECTIONS; now there is another major breakthrough to prove this.

My Fight program clearly is meant to help us educate our patients that achieving optimal health is a lifetime challenge. With increasing sophistication of lab sciences, we will find many more challenges in every one of my FIGHT categories but with the epidemic of people with chronic fatigue, you now have even more reason to want to learn about Oxidative therapies like OZONE/UVB/SILVER.

However, a unifying approach to enhance our bodies ability to deal with the multifactorial nature of any chronic disease should increase our interest in learning more about Energy medicine. This broad topic includes Homeopathy, Accupunture, Prayer, Microelectric Current therapy, Magnetic Healing, Oxygen, Hyperthermia and much of what is now called Alternative Medicine.

The exerpt below is just one line from the great overview of viral infections and XMRV that is found in Autism and Prostate Cancer and Chronic Fatigue. This area of research is all new this year but we can expect that someone will soon find many more fungi issues or parasites issues. Of course tying impaired health to our toxin load is just beginning to be seriously considered. Do not fail to look for a moment at this article, as when you tell patients they need to deal with the chronic infection component of their current symptom complex, many feel you are off the wall.

Unless they have heard of Candida or Chlamydia, or CMV, or Herpes, or Lyme, they are not attuned to the need to lower their total body burden of pathogens. No one needs to spend the money to chase down which of these infections they have, as no one will test negative for one or more of these infections if adequately tested. So testing for most patients is impractical except to get their attention as to why they must do something about the infection component of my FIGHT program if they are to achieve optimal health.

“XMRV (xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus) is strongly associated with chronic fatigue syndrome/ME. The earlier study published in the journal Science was a joint study by the Cleveland Clinic, the National Cancer Institute, and the Whittemore-Peterson Institute of the University of Nevada with Drs. Vincent Lombardi and Judy Mikovits as lead authors. Here the lead author of the NIH/Harvard/FDA study, Dr. Harvey Alter, noted in a press conference that he considered his study a confirmation of the earlier WPI study, even though they had detected different MLV-related viruses (MRVs), rather than only XMRV. There does seem to be a greater variety of MRVs in chronic fatigue syndrome/ME patients than first understood. The WPI’s original study also showed some evidence of additional MRVs.”
Read more: http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/09/my-wife-my-daughter-and-xmrv.html

Sincerely,

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

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

A contributor to food allergies/sensitivities has emerged, tick bites. This is a great piece of detective work and seems to not affect B or AB blood groups, as much as Type A or O.

“Scott Commins, an assistant professor of medicine and lead author of the U-Va. Study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, said that in susceptible people such as Newell, a tick bite that causes a significant skin reaction seems to trigger the production of an antibody that binds to a sugar present on meat called alpha-galactosidase, also known as alpha-gal. When a person who has the antibody eats meat, it triggers the release of histamine, which causes the allergic symptoms: hives, itching and, in the worst case,alpha-galactosidase.”

Of course today with our epidemic of autoimmune disease and leaky gut and low level infections like Chlamydia and CMV in almost everyone, these elevated antibodies to something or even auto-antibodies are very common and may be more dangerous than widely appreciated.

I still encourage those of you who are sensitive to so many foods to understand that leaky gut is epidemic today. I am convinced GMO foods are a contributor, as they introduce Bacillus Theringensis into our bodies, which are now detectible in the blood stream of patients! Bt then causes Dysbiosis.

I hope many of you will try my concept of using my Detox Drink (BioEn’R-G’y C, H Minus, ZeoGold) with my Power Drink and acidophilus to have a healthy gut and be better able to handle the toxic mess our Standard American Diet has become. Remember high levels or the wrong fats from corn and soy etc. set the stage for chronic inflammation. I believe that if this patient wanted to one day eat beef or fish without his allergic reaction without any doubt my F.I.G.H.T.E.M with M.I.C.E. program would get him healthy again and he would not have to suffer these life threatening allergic reactions.

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

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902874.html

Excerpt:

MEDICAL MYSTERIES
Man’s Sudden Food Allergy Was a Medical Mystery for Months
By Sandra G. Boodman Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

This cannot be happening again, Hayden Newell thought as the angry, red, ferociously itchy welts encircled his waist and spread up his arms. The 57-year-old metallurgist from tiny Boones Mill, Va., who was attending a business lunch in Florida, knew what would probably happen next: His lips would grow numb, making it hard to speak, he would become short of breath and his blood pressure would plummet: all unmistakable signs of anaphylaxis, a potentially fatal allergic reaction. Newell knew from experience that he had to get to an emergency room — fast.

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

Full article: http://erj.ersjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/3/586

Excerpt:

Screening for active tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection (LTBI) is mandatory prior to the initiation of tumour necrosis factor-  inhibitor therapy. However, no agreement exists on the best strategy for detecting LTBI in this population. The aim of the present study was to analyse the performance of the tuberculin skin test (TST) and QuantiFERON®-TB Gold in-tube (QFT-GIT) on LTBI detection in subjects with immunomediated inflammatory diseases (IMID).

The TST and QFT-GIT were prospectively performed in 398 consecutive IMID subjects, 310 (78%) on immunosuppressive therapy and only 16 (4%) had been bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccinated.

Indeterminate results to QFT-GIT were found in five (1.2%) subjects. Overall, 74 (19%) out of 393 subjects were TST-positive and 52 (13%) were QFT-GIT-positive. Concordance between TST and QFT-GIT results was good (87.7%): 13 were QFT-GIT-positive/TST-negative and 35 QFT-GIT-negative/TST-positive. By multivariate analysis both tests were significantly associated with older age. Only the TST was associated with BCG vaccination and radiological lesions of past TB. Use of immunosuppressive drugs differently modulated QFT-GIT or TST scoring.

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

Full article: http://bolenreport.com/feature_articles/feature_article072.htm

Excerpt:

Most people battling chronic Lyme disease think of the illness as an infection caused by a bacterium known commonly as Borrelia Burgdorferi, generally transmitted via the bite of an infected tick.  What many don’t recognize, however, is that recovery from chronic Lyme disease requires a recognition that the disease is truly a much more complex illness.  Recovery often challenges one to consider more than just infection as the single causative agent involved in the disease process.  It is through looking beyond the infectious component of Lyme disease and understanding the equally important aspects of damaging heavy metals and other toxic insults that a more full and lasting recovery may be realized.

Garry F. Gordon MD, DO, MD (H) co-founded the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) and serves as the President of Gordon Research Institute.  Dr. Gordon graciously spent a couple of hours with me sharing his views on chronic Lyme disease and those factors that are important in recovering from chronic illness. 

Dr. Gordon acknowledges Lyme disease as a serious infection which can lead to a wide-variety of health challenges.  He does not, however, hyperfocus on the specific tick-borne pathogens which cause the disease.  He instead believes that a multitude of infections are prevalent in anyone with chronic ill health.  In addition to these numerous infections, our state of health is closely tied to our total body burden of endogenous and exogenous toxins.  When looking at why illness is present, it is important to look at a number of factors including genetics, chronic infections, and total body burden of heavy metals and other toxins.

Peering into one’s genetic makeup can be quite helpful when establishing the proper course of action and considering what factors may have contributed to one’s state of health.  The more precisely a practitioner can understand the genetic contributors, the more accurately a treatment protocol can be outlined to fit a person’s unique needs.  As an example, a specific gene mutation can suggest an inability of the body to remove toxic heavy metals.  Thus, even tests performed to determine whether or not one is heavy metal toxic can be incorrect if the metals are not being released due to this specific genetic profile.  Where many doctors may miss a heavy metal toxicity issue in these patients, a practitioner incorporating a genetic review into their diagnostic workup is much better equipped to evaluate the potential impact of toxic metals on the overall state of health.

I am quite sure that this book by Dr Schaller is one you will want access to if you are thinking of incorporating my F.I.G.H.T. Program in your practice.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
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FREE 2009 UPDATED BABESIA TEXTBOOK

http://ebooks.hopeacademic.com/BabesiaUpdate2009-Ebook.pdf

Dr. Schaller has decided limiting access to this new book due to cost, despite the immense cost and years of reading and research to write it, is the wrong approach.

Books on super specific issues do not sell and do not make money to even remotely break even.

The reasonable money being made in good sales is certainly not worth one life. It is not worth one person becoming disabled and non-functional for years or decades.

http://ebooks.hopeacademic.com/BabesiaUpdate2009-Ebook.pdf

BASED ON YEARS OF RESEARCH, STUDY OF VIRTUALLY ALL MAJOR PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC/MEDICAL LITERATURE

TREATMENTS BASED ON INHERITED TREATMENT FAILURES

NEW LAB TESTING OPTIONS WHICH MIGHT CATCH THE CAUSE OF LOST PROGRESS OR RELAPSE

THE COPYRIGHT STAYS IN PLACE BUT IS NOT VIOLATED IF YOU USE FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL USE. FEEL FREE TO PRINT THE BOOK.

IF YOU DO NOT SELL IT, YOU CAN GIVE IT TO ANYONE FOR FREE. IF YOU DO NOT SELL THE BOOK, IT CAN BE FORWARDED WITHOUT LIMIT.

YOU cannot alter the text in any manner.

Babesia can cause death, disability, obesity, serious fatigue, migraine torture and a hundred other things it needs to be free to everyone.

We also hope it will help some interested healers catch stealth Babesia more often because we feel it is common, and not an occasional finding in a Lyme positive patient. Many new Babesia species are being found in humans even in the last four years, so the list of human Babesia species and their variants is not finalized

Finally, the cost for top laboratories to keep up and have perfect diagnostic testing is an unrealistic expectation, so other new ideas and included to help show low levels of Babesia that have significant body effects based on solid research articles.

PLEASE DO NOT SELF TREAT BASED ON THIS BOOK.

NO INFORMATION IS MEANT TO BE AUTHORITATIVE AND ALL CARE IS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A LICENSED MEDICAL WORKER.

Be Better!! Be Well!

Rona. C
Office Manager

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

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Lyme seems suddenly to be everywhere and now we learn that most of us have Cytomegalic Virus too. This new research helps explain the sudden increase in Lyme world wide!

This information combined with the CMV research should be enough that, when considered altogether, leads me to believe that soon infections might overtake all other challenges including toxins, heavy metals, food sensitivities etcetera, as the key missing culprit that must be dealt with in all chronic disease patients if you are to see real lasting results!

INFECTION CONTROL- with ACS 200

ACS 200 becomes increasingly important since not too many will follow for any length of time the other suggestions for controlling chronic infections that I have made such as higher doses of BIOE’NR-G’Y C, which virtually anyone can handle in 8 gm a day or higher levels. Use C Stix to involve patients in the benefits of Vitamin C rich urine, as proof of ongoing detoxification effects. Also recommended are Immuni-T 2 or Vit D or Kyolic or short term use of high dose Vitamin A.

Most U.S. based patients have difficulty locating doctors offering IV UVB and Ozone. That is sad since it provides a great way to start any treatment to lower total body burden of all Pathogens. As an alternative, patients can use ACS very aggressively for a time. Start with 1 ounce and then use 1-2 ounces a day of ACS 200, as a part of their infection control program until results are being seen, usually 2-4 weeks minimum. Then lower the ACS dose to save money, BUT DO NOT STOP TAKING ACS 200, using at least doses of 30 sprays tid-qid for several months or even years along with my other suggestions.

Then follow my FIGHT program so that their own body over time can help control their total body burden of these newly recognized pathogens that clearly none of us can avoid. Read Plague Times by Ewald and get the full story on infections!

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

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Discovery Of Lyme Disease Bug Clone May Explain Disease Spread
ScienceDaily (June 29, 2008)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080626145806.htm

Benjamin Luft, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Stony Brook University Medical Center, and colleagues discovered that a certain clone of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, appears to be the most common strain causing Lyme disease in North America and Europe, and may account for the increase in cases for the past 20 years.
According to Dr. Luft, Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States with more than 20,000 cases reported annually. While B. burgdorferi is the primary pathogen in the United States, clones of the pathogen are known to cause major disease. The ospC-A clone was one of the first strains ever identified.
In a new article, Dr. Luft and colleagues detail various methods of genetic testing of 68 B. burgdorferi isolates from Europe and North America. Based on the findings of their tests, the researchers concluded that the ospC-A clone dispersed rapidly and widely in the recent past and in both regions of the world.
“I believe this discovery will make an important contribution since it identifies an identical and high virulence clone of Borrelia in both Europe and North America,” said Dr. Luft. “This may explain the recent spread of Lyme disease in North America.”
The researchers report that the isolates of the clone were prevalent on both continents and uniform in DNA sequences, which suggests a recent trans-oceanic migration. More specifically, they explained: “The European and North American Populations of B. burgdorferi sensu stricto have diverged significantly because of genetic drift. Plasmid genes evolved independently and showed various effects of adaptive divergence and diversifying selection…genetic variation within the two continents contributed to most of the total sequence diversity, which suggests recent common ancestry, migration, or both, between the European and North American populations.”
The research was funded partly by the Lyme Disease Association and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Luft’s colleagues include: Wei-Gang Qui, Ph.D., and William D. McCaig, Hunter College of the City University of New York; John F. Bruno and Yun Xu of Stony Brook University; Ian Livey, Baxter Vaccine AG, Orth/Donau, Austria, and Martin M. Schriefer, of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Journal reference:
1. . Wide Distribution of a High-Virulence Borrelia burgdorferi Clone in Europe and North America. Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2008
Adapted from materials provided by Stony Brook University Medical Center.

Cytomegalovirus

This is a crucial article in setting the stage for the need of treating the infections that everyone else is ignoring!!! This is a review of the CMV research from Harvard that I feel is short and to the point; however, I have attached the link to the full research report so that you can better appreciate the far reaching significance and new understanding of the role Infections in chronic degenerative disease.

Lyme, etc is not an adequate description; TOTAL BODY BURDEN OF PATHOGENS should become today’s focus. This report reveals that there is or has been CMV in 60-99% of everyone documented by this Harvard research so why fight over whether the pathogens we encounter are Lyme or Candida or some exotic Fungus. Let’s deal with pathogen burden and lower it!
For most chronically ill patients we need to incorporate something like ACS Silver, or Oxidative therapies like UVB/Ozone, or high dose Vitamin C to help patients deal more effectively with the infection component of their health problem, which can have over 100 different names. I am thinking about all patients with chronic autoimmune related conditions, which are over 27 million people in the United States alone.

These patients need a total approach to recover. I think my F.I.G.H.T. program will dramatically increase success in dealing with these complex conditions, where standard medicine is doing little and often harming patients with their excessively narrow single etiology approaches.

There are other infections whose incidence is close to that, such as those from our mouth that are now tied to many chronic health conditions. These chronic infections are the next frontier that has been largely ignored. If standard antibiotics do not eradicate these infections, no one really wants to spend the time and money to diagnose them.

Patients are aware of the need to detox and they understand that everyone has these chemicals (like PCB’s, Dioxins, Flame Retardant PBDE, etc.), but infection is not on their mind unless they have heard of Lyme. Lyme has become a dangerous diagnosis to make, and even the Mayo Clinic says no test is completely accurate.  The doctor who feels it could be Lyme should go ahead and treat based on clinical history and condition, and not fail to treat because of a negative Lyme test. Yet, we know that diagnosing Lyme makes the insurance companies worried about the potential costs, and they lean on Medical Boards to discipline anyone treating Lyme.

Since most infections can be treated effectively with alternative therapies, from high dose IV C to ACS Silver and aggressive nutritional support programs, then it seems wiser to not focus on the presence or absence of a particular infection, when experts agree we all have significant infections on board at all times. So why don’t we just admit that there is an epidemic of chronic, generally antibiotic-resistant, undiagnosed infections, and help the body lower the burden of all these pathogens which even the Institute Of Medicine agrees are present in chronic disease.

See my POWERPOINT on www.gordonresearch.com, for my upcoming lecture to be presented at the Lyme In Autism Conference, June 25-28, in Scottsdale, AZ. I feel that rather than wasting a lot of time and money attempting to prove Lyme is present or not, when it may not even be the main culprit, and if it is present, generally there are other Lyme associated infections present too. Let’s help the patient’s body handle these infections by finding the optimal diet, lowering the toxins and heavy metals, optimizing nutritional status, and considering genetic and epigenetic issues such as providing needed methylation acetylation and sulfation support.

I believe that we should advise our patients that determining which virus, fungus or bacteria is the main culprit is less important than lowering their total body burden of ALL pathogens, as a part of a comprehensive program I call F.I.G.H.T. Any such treatment-based program will be more cost effective for patients who need results now, than spending thousands of dollars and wasting time trying to identify Lyme or some other pathogens.

In this research on CMV, the condition happens to be hypertension, but it could just as well be researched in the context of almost any chronic disease including chronic neurological conditions from Autism to Parkinson’s. The name of the condition is less important than having a concept that can improve the health of most patients seeking your care.

This is WHY I developed my F.I.G.H.T. program.  Learning about this research on how infections from our mouth are proven to grow in virtually every aneurism, will help you and your patients avoid being excessively focused on too narrow a recovery plan. Without using some therapy to lower total body burden of Pathogens, I am convinced we are providing suboptimal care to our autoimmune patients.  This research now shows we can better tie infection into hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

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

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Cytomegalovirus Infection Causes an Increase of Arterial Blood Pressure

http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1000427

Cytomegalovirus may cause high blood pressure

http://www.news-medical.net/news/2009/05/15/Cytomegalovirus-may-cause-high-blood-pressure.aspx

15. May 2009 03:26 A new study suggests for the first time that cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common viral infection affecting between 60 and 99 percent of adults worldwide, is a cause of high blood pressure, a leading risk factor for heart disease, stroke and kidney disease.
Led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and published in the May 15, 2009 issue of PLoS Pathogens, the findings further demonstrate that, when coupled with other risk factors for heart disease, the virus can lead to the development of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.
“CMV infects humans all over the world,” explains co-senior author Clyde Crumpacker, MD, an investigator in the Division of Infectious Diseases at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “This new discovery may eventually provide doctors with a whole new approach to treating hypertension, with anti-viral therapies or vaccines becoming part of the prescription.”
A member of the herpes virus family, CMV affects all age groups and is the source of congenital infection, mononucleosis, and severe infection in transplant patients. By the age of 40, most adults will have contracted the virus, though many will never exhibit symptoms. Once it has entered the body, CMV is usually there to stay, remaining latent until the immune system is compromised, when it then reemerges.
Previous epidemiological studies had determined that the CMV virus was linked to restenosis in cardiac transplant patients, a situation in which the heart’s arteries “reblock.” The virus had also been linked to the development of atherosclerosis, the hardening of the heart’s arteries. But, in both cases, the mechanism behind these developments remained a mystery. This new study brought together a team of researchers from a variety of disciplines – infectious diseases, cardiology, allergy and pathology – to look more closely at the issue.
“By combining the insights of investigators from different medical disciplines, we were able to measure effects of a viral infection that may have been previously overlooked,” explains Crumpacker.
In the first portion of the study, the scientists examined four groups of laboratory mice. Two groups of animals were fed a standard diet and two groups were fed a high cholesterol diet. After a period of four weeks, one standard diet mouse group and one high-cholesterol diet mouse group were infected with the CMV virus.
Six weeks later, the animals’ blood pressures were measured by the cardiology team using a small catheter inserted in the mouse carotid artery. Among the mice fed a standard diet, the CMV-infected mice had increased blood pressure compared with the uninfected group. But even more dramatically, 30 percent of the CMV-infected mice that were fed a high-cholesterol diet not only exhibited increased blood pressure, but also showed signs of having developed atherosclerosis.
“This strongly suggests that the CMV infection and the high-cholesterol diet might be working together to cause atherosclerosis,” says Crumpacker. In order to find out how and why this was occurring, the investigators went on to conduct a series of cell culture experiments.
Their first analysis demonstrated that CMV stimulated production of three , and MCP1 – in the infected mice,µdifferent inflammatory cytokines – IL6, TNF an indication that the virus was causing inflammation to vascular cells and other tissues.
A second analysis found that infection of a mouse kidney cell line with murine CMV led to an increase in expression of the renin enzyme, which has been known to activate the renin-angiotensin system and lead to high blood pressure. Clinical isolates of human CMV in cultured blood vessel cells also produced increased renin expression.
“Viruses have the ability to turn on human genes and, in this case, the CMV virus is enhancing expression of renin, an enzyme directly involved in causing high blood pressure,” says Crumpacker. When the scientists inactivated the virus through the use of ultraviolet light, renin expression did not increase, suggesting that actively replicating virus was causing the increase in renin.
In their final experiments, the researchers demonstrated that the protein angiotensin 11 was also increased in response to infection with CMV. “Increased expression of both renin and angiotensin 11 are important factors in hypertension in humans,” says Crumpacker. “What our study seems to indicate is that a persistent viral infection in the vessels’ endothelial cells is leading to increased expression of inflammatory cytokines, renin and angiotensin 11, which are leading to increased blood pressure.”
According to recent figures from the American Heart Association, one in three U.S. adults has high blood pressure, and because there are no known symptoms, nearly one-third of these individuals are unaware of their condition. Often dubbed “the silent killer,” uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to stroke, heart attack, heart failure or kidney failure, notes Crumpacker.
“We found that CMV infection alone led to an increase in high blood pressure, and when combined with a high-cholesterol diet, the infection actually induced atherosclerosis in a mouse aorta,” says Crumpacker. “This suggests that further research needs to be directed at viral causes of vascular injury. Some cases of hypertension might be treated or prevented by antiviral therapy or a vaccine against CMV.”
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