by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1zX2ieWLaUXsQOElqJn5aIqh06OJrCB7j Comment; Characteristic changes in CIRS-WDB include bilateral increased forebrain parenchymal, cortical gray matter and pallidum volumes and decreased caudate nucleus volumes. The volumes...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://current-oncology.com/index.php/oncology/article/view/3790/2712 Comment; Linus Pauling received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on structure and function of DNA. He spent the rest of his life studying Vitamin C, ascorbic acid. Primates cannot make their own...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6038041/ Comment; Exosomes are the newest arrival to our therapeutic armamentarium. We need to learn more about them, what they can do and how to best use them for degenerative, and possibly other diseases. Stroke can cause...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.9b01004 Comment; Exosomes are small; 30 to several hundred nm, carry cellular information from their parent cell and serve to regulate the micro-environment. That they can be used to SUCCESSFULY treat neurodegenerative...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
This Little-Known Bacterium Could Be The Infectious Cause of Crohn’s Disease – And It Can Be Treated Comment; Mycobacterium paratuberculosis as a causative agent for Crohn’s at least and possibly irritable bowel disease (includes ulcerative colitis) in general,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | ElectroMagnetic Field Sensitivity, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://elemental.medium.com/are-airpods-and-other-bluetooth-headphones-safe-214a0449e13a Comment; I wonder what we’ll think some day when we look back at these devices that were put on the market without any good way of identifying safety. Rodent studies cannot...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.militarytimes.com/2013/11/01/new-fda-warnings-on-cipro-may-tie-into-gulf-war-illness/?fbclid=IwAR2Q93n2zrYWa-dsXFJxGcXTZHnNgLoowKV7ynIiijzh2S57wiDfxeKKARw Comment; It would be interesting to know when big pharma knew of the mitochondrial damage from Cipro....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-019-3495-7 Common; Borrelia is a complex organism with numerous changes in it’s life cycle as it moves between different hosts. This leaves it well versed to adapt to a wide-ranging spectrum...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/trf.15346 Comment; Babesia is an intracellular parasite; after tick bite, the parasite gets inside red blood cells. Red blood cell exchange perfusion achieved a 75% reduction in parasite load but didn’t help...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/ss/ss6806a1.htm?s_cid=ss6806a1_w Comment; This is a new registry, showing that incidence may be expanding, is worse during the Summer and in the Northeast & northern midwest of the US. So it’s most likely to be contracted...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
Dodging antibiotic side effects Comment; I’ve long been a huge fan of antioxidants, and opponent of indiscriminant antibiotic use. This was published 6 years ago, sad that it didn’t get wider recognition among clinicians who need to see it. Good news for...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://doi.org/10.3389/conf.fneur.2018.60.00047 Comment; Fascinating and sobering that post-concussion syndrome patients have such a high rate of Borrelia serology presence, great insight into testing these two syndromes with such similar presentation and different...
