by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
Two-Tier Testing for Lyme Disease: How it Evolved Comment; Historically, a less expensive very sensitive screening test is done for certain illnesses. Sensitive means low risk of false negative (you have the illness but test says you don’t) but high risk of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/8/2/72 Comment; Disulfiram, otherwise known as Antabuse, is used to treat alcoholics, it inhibits the oxidation of the aldehydes produced by metabolism of ethanol causing severe side effects and misery for anybody consuming alcohol. I...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgVWtxNXZTSkJzKzBfJNJJzsw?projector=1&messagePartId=0.2 Comment; Theory has it that the mitochondria–power plants of the cell may have been symbiotically acquired during the development of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgVWtxNXZTSkJzKzBfJNJJzsw?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 Comment; So many practitioners turn to these drugs without a second thought of the potential harm they can cause. Additionally, they’re class of drug that...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections, Spirituality & Catholicism
Brian Dashore Guest Blog Comment; Poignant story of an elementary/middle school student going thru the trials of an “unknown” illness that was ultimately Lyme with multiple co-infections and medical complications and how he dealt with that in school....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://appwell.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CIRSChildhood.pdf Comment; CIRS causes as many or” more problems in kids as adults. Not as many criteria are needed to make the diagnosis, the most common presentation? Headache, bellyache, fatigue. Also look for...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
Comment; VIP “cleans out the dust & cobwebs and puts on a fresh coat of paint”. It truly is a miracle drug that can actually cure pulmonary hypertension–which typically has a life expectancy of about 5 years (I was diagnosed in 2014, cured in...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
Comment; This is NOT an exhaustive & complete list, rather it’s a “quick reference” to help get sufferers of CIRS/mitochondrial dysfunction back on track. Mitochondrial Support; If you’re having problems with fatigue, failed your Visual Contrast...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167011500001749 Comment; Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome causes lethal pulmonary hypertension–which can fully resolve with VIP treatment–yet severe shortness of breath & exercise tolerance...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(19)30038-1/fulltext Comment; Fascinating to know that early childhood trauma can affect the epigenetics of DNA methylation–controlling how future gene expression will...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nyas.13950 Comment; This article relies heavily on conjecture, fear & opinion with little pertinent data of increasing disease rates that can be directly attributed to any climate change. Unimpressive....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/outdoors/2019/03/17/lyme-disease-mississippi-keith-bradshaw-bolton-tick-bites/3150496002/ Comment; Lyme can be so hard to pick up in some folks. So many unusual presentations, and for those genetically predisposed to CIRS,...
