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, 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 | 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...
