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, 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...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191104112830.htm Comment; Opioids trigger receptors which open ion channels to cause nerve cell depolarization–transmission of nerve impulses. Cone snail produced conotoxins open ion channels by different mechanisms;...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
Natural Treatments for Mast Cell Activation Syndrome Comment; Excellent summary of options to help control MCAS both using non-prescription & prescription medications, lifestyle alterations, caveats on the way to get the best effect from therapy...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bwg2iT0mzC_M3Tux8kRZ0d68IuJJiF26/view?usp=sharing Comment; Scary how much damage can occur by a mechanism that we hadn’t really considered and that it can be worse than direct blows to the head. We at least have tools to detect...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jbio.201700282 Comment; So Photobiomodulation (PBM) can restore the thymus gland, a gland that shrivels, shrinks and becomes inactive with age. OK. I’d like to see long-term studies that it doesn’t also...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, ElectroMagnetic Field Sensitivity, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4428125/ Comment; 0.5-4 mg/kg Methylene blue with red to near-IR 620–1150 nm wavelength light from laser or LED can penetrate to the human brain with up to 2% energy absorption. They work independently & synergistically...
