By Garry Gordon, M.D. on Oct 8, 2009 in General News | comments(2)
[Originally posted to FACT forum on Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:03 pm]
This article in the NY TIMES changes everything for Lyme disease patients.
Finally our doctors may not have to fight to keep their medical licenses when they are brave enough to become LYME LITERATE DOCTORS.
This article will clearly change the terrain, as it states that the diagnosis is complex and that antibiotic treatment is warranted in spite of negative test results since there are so many false negative and false positive results. It quotes the May issue of the Mayo Clinic proceedings that says patients are best diagnosed by SYMPTOMS. Continued
By Linda on Sep 21, 2009 in F.I.G.H.T., Infections, Toxins | comments(0)
It would have been nice to test these patients for environmental toxins and also to see how high their heavy metals were?? Simple way to regulate and determine if metal toxicity has an effect on the cognitive decline?
Perhaps someday the conventional docs will get on the band wagon with the alternative world and begin searching for the “cause” and stop treating symptoms??!!
Angel Huggzz
Linda
Inflammation Linked to Increased Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease
Susan Jeffrey
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Dr. Daniel Mikol discusses the findings from the multicenter REGARD study.Click here.September 11, 2009 — A new study finds a link between systemic inflammation and increased cognitive decline in patients with established Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
In this study, both acute and chronic inflammation, which were in turn associated with increased serum levels of proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α), were associated with an increase in the rate of cognitive decline in patients with mild to severe AD.
“The role of TNF-α within the brain is controversial, with evidence supportive of both deleterious and protective effects,” the authors, led by Clive Holmes, MRCPsych, PhD, from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, conclude. “However, if systemic inflammation has different [central nervous system] consequences depending on the existing relative activation state of the central innate immune system, dampening down systemic TNF-α may prove to be beneficial in AD.”
Their report is published in the September 8 issue of Neurology.
By Linda on Sep 14, 2009 in F.I.G.H.T., Toxins | comments(0)
I have the highest respect for Dr Robert Bransfield, as a top psychiatriststs, and am priviledged to re-print this information. In my own opinion I feel many psychiatric symptoms with Lyme could be reduced if patient’s would focus more on toxins that we all are dealing with. Lead and Mercury are our biggest culprits. We all know that Lead and Mercury can and do affect our brains.
We must find ways to reduce these toxins and that is why I focus on the FIGHT program. It has worked for me. These toxins are in our foods, water and some medications. Learn to read labels.
