by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, ElectroMagnetic Field Sensitivity, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
What is Complex Chronic Illness? Many poor unfortunates suffer from what I like to call “Complex Chronic Illness (CCI)” including such “favorites” as “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, “Chronic Lyme” “Fibromyalgia” among others. The difficult part of this getting qualified by...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_Dhilf3fmE8k3KnNSTZUwyPLGGKsHYjh/view?usp=sharing Comment; Excellent review of PBM for treatment of depression, physiologic effects on the Cytochrome-C oxidase system in mitochondria and immunologic and other...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health, Uncategorized
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=om1#inbox/FMfcgxwGBmrdqnKtnnzZDvRnBTchhmXt?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 Comment; good review of the various nutritional neuropathies, how they present, how to resolve them and long-term prognosis Nancy Hammond, MD, Yunxia...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159119303010 Comment; Activated & inactivated spore types decreased neurogenesis and caused striking memory deficits in young mice, while decreasing pain thresholds and enhancing auditory-cued memory in older...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
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...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
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...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
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...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210150713.htm Comment; So, collagen V1, produced by the neurons themselves, not their supporting glial cells, actually protect against amyloid-beta (Aβ) proteins, which are widely thought to cause Alzheimer’s...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
Drugs that quell brain inflammation reverse dementia Comment; This information furthers the seminal work of Dale Bredesen MD & Ritchie Shoemaker MD with practical applications to the epidemic of dementia in the US. Many elderly folks are in Adult Congregate Living...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27346602 Comment; Host energy metabolism and immune functions critically depend on butyrate as a potent regulator, highlighting butyrate as a key mediator of host-microbe crosstalk, butyrate and other volatile SCFAs produced by...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bwg2iT0mzC_M3Tux8kRZ0d68IuJJiF26/view?usp=sharing Comment; Scary how much damage can occur by a mechanism that we hadn’t really considered and that it can be worse than direct blows to the head. We at least have tools to detect...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, ElectroMagnetic Field Sensitivity, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4428125/ Comment; 0.5-4 mg/kg Methylene blue with red to near-IR 620–1150 nm wavelength light from laser or LED can penetrate to the human brain with up to 2% energy absorption. They work independently & synergistically...