by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1541-4337.2009.00094.x Comment; Overview of the risks of mycotoxins in the food chain with summary of the major mycotoxins involved and their toxic effects as well as strategies to remove them from the food supply....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5063913/ Comment; Overview of the methods used to remove mycotoxins from the food chain and necessity to do so while acknowledging the safety of our food supply currently due to use of best practices. Petr Karlovsky,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
TOUCHED BY LYME: Senators ask NIAID’s Fauci pointed questions about Lyme Comment; Am unsure if this is grandstanding or a true quest to find out what needs to be done so that funding can be provided. A bi-partisan group of United States senators has sent a letter to...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://jcm.asm.org/content/early/2019/12/16/JCM.01655-19 Comment; Polymerase Chain Reaction assay looks at the DNA directly instead of host antibodies to a pathogen. A test that can look at various tick-borne pathogens simultaneously–via DNA instead of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10493-019-00452-7 Comment; The odds of collecting a parasitizing I. scapularis infected with any pathogen from a white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) was reduced by 90% in the combined deer removal, Met52, and fipronil...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0214402 Comment; The apparent false positive rate is <4% due to differences in lab technique/testing used to explain differences between results in Australian labs (Lyme is unknown in Australia)...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
Lyme Disease Prevalence: Does Sex Matter? Comment; Two big areas unaddressed by this study: 1) women are more prone to seek medical attention than men, 2) while women certainly participate in outdoor activities, I suspect men spend more hours/year in general in the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Uncategorized
1. VIP is only drug known that corrects the final stage of molecular hypometabolism: suppression of ribosomal gene and nuclear encoded mitochondrial gene activation (1). 2. VIP is only drug known that that corrects grey matter nuclear atrophy (looking at hippocampus,...
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
Traveling Across the Country? Here are 6 Ways to Hack Jet Lag Comment; It takes about an hour per day to adjust to a new time schedule–but that can be biohacked! Once reversed, the symptoms of jet lag; including fatigue, irritability, loss of appetite,...
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
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...
