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Impact of food processing and detoxification treatments on mycotoxin contamination
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=om1#inbox/FMfcgxwGCZwpRKMDnzvJxTfdLwDHRKlg?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 Comment; A subject with which I was unfamiliar is reviewed. Even the lowly pressure cooker can heat foods >220'F to denature toxins. Overall, a great review...
Mycotoxins: How These Invisible Toxins are Wreaking Havoc on the Gut
https://www.jillcarnahan.com/2019/12/09/mycotoxins-how-these-invisible-toxins-are-wreaking-havoc-on-the-gut/?utm_source=Healthcare+Professionals&utm_campaign=3ec94ea0e6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b45717258f-3ec94ea0e6-137873037&mc_cid=...
Paper-based test could diagnose Lyme disease at early stages
https://www.newswise.com/articles/paper-based-test-could-diagnose-lyme-disease-at-early-stages?sc=dwhn Comment; This test has a specificity of 96.3% and a sensitivity of 85.7%. In addition to being much more sensitive than existing tests, the assay requires 15 minutes...
Butyrate suppresses demyelination and enhances remyelination
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=om1#inbox/FMfcgxwGCbBHLpnvWsFnDBjkwQdRnFlV?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 Comment; Such a simple molecule, so much we don't know about how it functions in vivo. It seems to work well with phosphatidyl choline on myelin sheaths and...
How Dan Shen Could Become an Important Treatment for PANDAS/PANS
How Dan Shen Could Become an Important Treatment for PANDAS/PANS Comment; Excellent review and "summary" translated from medical/scientific jargon to help make it more easily understood by everybody. It's amazing how many of these agents may be available that most of...
Treatment with tanshinone IIA suppresses disruption of the blood-brain barrier and reduces expression of adhesion molecules and chemokines in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014299915304088 Comment; Disruption of the BBB is a major problem with the toxic encephalopathy common in biotoxin illnesses, Lyme and other vector-borne illnesses. Tanshinone IIA appears to be a good resource to...
Detection of Rickettsiae, Borreliae, and Ehrlichiae in Ticks Collected from Walker County, Texas, 2017–2018
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/10/10/315 Comment; Tick-borne illnesses have more than doubled between 2004 & 2016! Is this due to improved surveillance or is it legitimately growing? Probably both; regardless, we need to get serious. President Trump recently...
President Signs Tick Act into Law
https://lymediseaseassociation.org/government/the-tick-act-is-being-passed-in-house-attached-to-appropriations-bill/ Comment; Vector-borne illnesses such as Lyme & the many other tick-borne illnesses are a big problem. Considering that Lyme was likely weaponized...
Judge: Drug court leading to success stories
https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/local-news/2019/12/judge-drug-court-leading-to-success-stories/ Comment; Success in a rational drug-court program in which participants must earn advancement--the way it should be done. It’s been almost a year since the Compass...
The short‐term dynamics of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms during the acute posttrauma period
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/da.22976 Comment; This demonstrates specific phases of the recovery from trauma in terms of PTSD development after trauma. Defining the stages is the first step, coming up with stage-based interventions should follow....
Light to moderate amount of lifetime alcohol consumption and risk of cancer in Japan
https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.32590 Comment; A linear relationship between amount of alcohol consumed and prevalence of cancer. 2018, the American Society of Clinical Oncology stated that more than 5% of new cancer cases were...
Manipulations of central amygdala neurotensin neurons alter the consumption of ethanol and sweet fluids in mice
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2019/11/19/JNEUROSCI.1466-19.2019 Comment; More basic bench research information coming in pointing toward possible ways to interrupt alcohol consumption reward stimulation pathways. Deep brain stimulation to help chronic...
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