by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/11/1939/htm Comment; Lyme is a very complex disease, difficult to diagnose & treat. Busy clinicians do not have time to spend hours poring over literature, we need accurate, unbiased information, non-controversial articles so we...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvec.12334 Comment; Not good; Lyme-carrying ticks are now in OK, formerly they were not really habitating that area–they are spreading across the country jeopardizing an ever-larger population of people. Small MM,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hUoFqNfGL6lxNZ7lOl8opKxEqJwvxxPD/view?usp=sharing Comment; Myers’ cocktails are amazing-I speak from personal experience. I can smell vitamins during the infusion the blood levels of them are so high. Within 12-24 hours I have...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982651/ Comment; Excellent review article of the non-respiratory, more serious effects of mold-related illness with recognition that mold is simply a surrogate marker for water-damaged buildings; bacteria, actinomyctes,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections, Uncategorized
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.01056/full Comment; What an interesting study! Galactose-α-1,3-galactose in tick saliva sensitizing human plasma cells to begin production of IgE antibodies resulting in allergy to red meat. Gary...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jnr.21639 Comment; So glad that inflammation is finally being recognized as a strong link to abnormal brain function–seizures being a prime example of that! NeuroInflammation needs to be studied & fought; get...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?tab=om#inbox/FMfcgxwCgzJwDvxRXmPsfwtJJQvjXBSF?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 Comment; Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy (TTC) seems tobe another manifestation of autonomic system imbalance; sympathetic (fight or flight) excess with...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5783826/ Comment; We know that the hippocampus is responsible for consolidation of memory, the sharp wave ripples to and from the auditory cortex seem to verify that this is what is happening during long-term memory...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6361831/ Comment; Ketogenic diets have great health benefits. Decreased seizure activity due to less rapidly released energy by glucose metabolism sounds rational. There’s a lot more involved than that however as the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?tab=om#inbox/FMfcgxwCggCPHnqDhGVzQVTtClNvhchV?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 Comment; Persistent muscular pain, arthritic pain & nerve pain/paresthesias are the biggest predictors of Lyme disease, the “constants”...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/diagnosistesting/labtest/twostep/index.html Comment; Highly sensitive, less-expensive testing doesn’t miss disease, but has a lot of false positives. It won’t miss the disease but over-diagnoses it. More expensive confirmatory...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.23713 Comment; Chronic Fatigue comes from a variety of complex chronic illnesses. Viruses and subviral particles can cause these infections and be very difficult to diagnose, empiric treatment with antiviral...
