by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI
Mycotoxins: How These Invisible Toxins are Wreaking Havoc on the Gut Comment; Another great article by Dr. Jill reviewing mycotoxins & their effects on the gut & the 4 major gut defensive systems. Mechanical: Maintains integrity of the mucosal barrier’s...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
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...
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, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
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...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
President Signs Tick Act into Law Comment; Vector-borne illnesses such as Lyme & the many other tick-borne illnesses are a big problem. Considering that Lyme was likely weaponized by the Dept. of Defense, hopefully this will give us better abilities to learn more...
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
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23755725 Comment; P entadecapeptide BPC 157 Sikiric P, Seiwerth S, Rucman R, Turkovic B, Rokotov DS, Brcic L, Sever M, Klicek R, Radic B, Drmic D, Ilic S, Kolenc D, Aralica...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5333585/#r22 Comment; Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 appears to be a reasonable replacement for Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP) in the treatment of chronic inflammatory disorders including central neurologic issues. Predrag...
