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Intravenous vitamin C in the supportive care of cancer patients: a review and rational approach
https://current-oncology.com/index.php/oncology/article/view/3790/2712 Comment; Linus Pauling received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on structure and function of DNA. He spent the rest of his life studying Vitamin C, ascorbic acid. Primates cannot make their own...
Exosomes and Stem Cells in Degenerative Disease Diagnosis and Therapy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6038041/ Comment; Exosomes are the newest arrival to our therapeutic armamentarium. We need to learn more about them, what they can do and how to best use them for degenerative, and possibly other diseases. Stroke can cause...
Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes as Nanotherapeutics for Autoimmune and Neurodegenerative Disorders
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.9b01004 Comment; Exosomes are small; 30 to several hundred nm, carry cellular information from their parent cell and serve to regulate the micro-environment. That they can be used to SUCCESSFULY treat neurodegenerative...
This Little-Known Bacterium Could Be The Infectious Cause of Crohn’s Disease – And It Can Be Treated
https://www.jillcarnahan.com/2019/05/01/this-little-known-bacterium-could-be-the-infectious-cause-of-crohns-disease-and-it-can-be-treated/?utm_source=Flatiron+Functional+Medicine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1a7e6475e2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_t...
Are AirPods and Other Bluetooth Headphones Safe?
https://elemental.medium.com/are-airpods-and-other-bluetooth-headphones-safe-214a0449e13a Comment; I wonder what we'll think some day when we look back at these devices that were put on the market without any good way of identifying safety. Rodent studies cannot...
New FDA warnings on Cipro may tie into Gulf War illness (GWI)
https://www.militarytimes.com/2013/11/01/new-fda-warnings-on-cipro-may-tie-into-gulf-war-illness/?fbclid=IwAR2Q93n2zrYWa-dsXFJxGcXTZHnNgLoowKV7ynIiijzh2S57wiDfxeKKARw Comment; It would be interesting to know when big pharma knew of the mitochondrial damage from Cipro....
Metamorphoses of Lyme disease spirochetes: phenomenon of Borrelia persisters
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-019-3495-7 Common; Borrelia is a complex organism with numerous changes in it's life cycle as it moves between different hosts. This leaves it well versed to adapt to a wide-ranging spectrum of...
Adjunctive treatment of clinically severe babesiosis with red blood cell exchange: a case series of nineteen patients
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/trf.15346 Comment; Babesia is an intracellular parasite; after tick bite, the parasite gets inside red blood cells. Red blood cell exchange perfusion achieved a 75% reduction in parasite load but didn't help survival or...
Babesiosis Surveillance — United States, 2011–2015
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/ss/ss6806a1.htm?s_cid=ss6806a1_w Comment; This is a new registry, showing that incidence may be expanding, is worse during the Summer and in the Northeast & northern midwest of the US. So it's most likely to be contracted when...
Dodging antibiotic side effects
https://wyss.harvard.edu/dodging-antibiotic-side-effects/ Comment; I've long been a huge fan of antioxidants, and opponent of indiscriminant antibiotic use. This was published 6 years ago, sad that it didn't get wider recognition among clinicians who need to see it....
Case report Sjögren’s syndrome and lymphadenopathy unraveling the diagnosis of Lyme disease
https://www.termedia.pl/Sjogren-s-syndrome-and-lymphadenopathy-unraveling-the-diagnosis-of-Lyme-disease,18,35945,0,1.html Comment; Typically, Lyme doesn't present with swollen lymph nodes & Sjogren's syndrome. This is a case that had a very happy outcome for the...
The prevalence of Lyme disease and associated coinfections in people with persistent post concussive syndrome
https://doi.org/10.3389/conf.fneur.2018.60.00047 Comment; Fascinating and sobering that post-concussion syndrome patients have such a high rate of Borrelia serology presence, great insight into testing these two syndromes with such similar presentation and different...
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