by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/10/7/190 Comment; Great approach to predictive geography/cartography & epidemiology using the factors the FL team used to predict tick density! William H. Kessler 1,* ,Claudia Ganser 1 andGregory E....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS
http://www.neurology-asia.org/articles/20082_131.pdf Comment; Fascinating article published in 2008 in Asia. I suspect there’s a strong dietary and gut microbiome link that the article doesn’t directly address–though it appears that latter birth date...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, ElectroMagnetic Field Sensitivity, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Anhz5IoDlFvcAploWAZgi7owXA7mdTZ/view?usp=sharing Comment; Good summary article, even though it’s 6 years old, this material is widely unknown in “traditional” medical circles. So many organ systems involved, so many...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/07/03/mold-infections-leave-one-dead-force-closure-operating-rooms-childrens-hospital/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e14b492b1013 Comment; Mold spores indicate growing mold. Growing mold produces volatile organic compounds,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214540019300489?via%3Dihub Comment; Complex; …”the gene of interest that influences both drug concentrations and toxin removal from tissues in the body is the ABCB1 gene that encodes for a set of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2019/07/02/new-york-times-story-on-lyme-misses-the-bulls-eye/#274792671564 Comment; I agree with this author regarding the complexities and seriousness of Lyme and tick-borne illness in general. Glad that somebody had an easy...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/trf.15425 Comment; Sad that there were complications from iatrogenic Babesiosis in sick transfusion recipients–reinforces the concept that something as relatively commonplace as a blood transfusion needs to be...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections, Uncategorized
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3989169/ Comment; This article reviews the search for various biomarkers associated with acute Lyme, unfortunately, it does not conclusively find anything. Immunologic markers of the reaction to Lyme disease have many false...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5106611/ Comment; Intra-vascular, acute phase Lyme has brief elevations of HS-CRP & Serum Amyloid. These resolve with migration of the spirochete from the intravascular space into the interstitia. Better markers are...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
http://www.ijcem.com/files/ijcem0053166.pdf Comment; It’s been pretty well proven that chronic fatigue is not linked with C-Reactive protein or hs-CRP. Clearly, other markers need to be paid attention to! Taiwu Wang, Cong Xu, Keli Pan, Hongyan Xiong Department...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30261303 Comment; Numerous “routinely done” parameters were evaluated–none really showed any significant deviation from normal range. Why not look at other markers of biotoxin illness such as C4a, TGF- β1, MSH,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=28586 Comment; This is an older article, but a good summary by Dr. Shoemaker of what is still true with CIRS. Ritchie C. Shoemaker, Dennis House, James C. Ryan Affiliation(s)Center for Research on...
