My brother and I have both had more stability and lower blood sugars when we lower inflammation.
The latest products that I've tried that have helped are: cytokine suppress 5-lox inhibitor
Both life extension and over the counter.
Terry I'm not a doctor
Posted by LisaK (Member # 41384) on :
I used to be really into investigating the human form of mad cow. called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
I don't think they are much related, except for that both cause a dementia. Mad cow eats holes in your brain and I heard it is one of the most painful ways to die.... a thousand times yuck.
Do you mean can diabetes CAUSE Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? Variant (vCJD)- mad cow- is only caused by eating the meat of an animal infected.
This link compares the differences of different CJD
I tried finding insulin/mad cow search but couldnt find anything
Those poor people
Posted by cbb (Member # 788) on :
You said "Tests are conclusive." I'm curious, is there a test for mad cow disease? Or maybe an MRI could show the sponge-like appearance of the brain?
I've read about it and noticed a lot of symptoms are the same as neurological Lyme, especially when it imitates Alzheimer's, but I don't recall anything about how it is diagnosed.
I guess I was wondering if it was a clinical diagnosis that could possibly be misdiagnosed like so many neurological symptoms are (ex: Parkinson's, ALS, Alzheimer's, etc.).
I know of five positive cases of Lyme disease that were misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS. They didn't get treatment they needed for LD and all five died. So tragic!!
Posted by jlcd1 (Member # 18138) on :
Do prions cause mad cow? Ive been doing biofeedback and prions are being seen for both me and my daughter. Im wondering how many other people have these floating around in them without knowing.
So sorry about your friend. That's very sad
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
i am just starting to read about this so i really dont know but i was told there is a conclusive test...it takes awhile to get it-they had to wait then got bad news if pos 2-6mos to live
that i also read in some readings
i also saw prions in the readings...i got there with google and didnt save...
cbb...i think like you
and who knows...these docs say you are terminal or steroids will halp you feel better and end up killing ppl
but there was a lot written that mad cow is not negotiable...if you have it you die
but i remember them saying that about als
i have a friend who had surg for braintumor---became really disabled and they couldnt find tumor
so who knows
i dont know the type of test just that it was conclusive...and he is terminal
so sad
Posted by Mystictreeoflife (Member # 42943) on :
I'm curious about this too.
Yes, mad cow's disease is caused by prions.
I heard a researcher interviewed years ago who believed that many cases of early onset altzheimers is from mad cow disease. And MC disease is much more prevalent in the US than we think because our testing is utterly inadequate.
Ugh, hate to think about that.... One more incurable infection to think about.
Posted by Al (Member # 9420) on :
Blood test to screen for fatal variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Date:
March 4, 2014
Source:
The JAMA Network Journals
Summary:
A blood test accurately screened for infection with the agent responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a fatal neurological disease. vCJD is a fatal degenerative brain disorder thought to be caused by a misfolded protein (prion) in the brain and contracted most commonly through eating infected beef. Up to 3 million cattle in the United Kingdom may have been infected with BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), and establishing accurate prevalence estimates through screening for vCJD infection would guide public health initiatives.
vCJD is a fatal degenerative brain disorder thought to be caused by a misfolded protein (prion) in the brain and contracted most commonly through eating infected beef. Up to 3 million cattle in the United Kingdom may have been infected with BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), and establishing accurate prevalence estimates through screening for vCJD infection would guide public health initiatives.
The researchers previously developed a test to detect low levels of prion protein in the blood. In this study, they used the test on samples from national blood collection and prion disease centers in the U.S. and the U.K. to see if it was accurate enough to screen large numbers of people. Samples represented U.S. blood donors (n=5,000), healthy U.K. donors (n=200), patients with nonprion neurodegenerative disease (n=352), patients in whom a prion disease diagnosis was likely (n=105) and patients with confirmed vCJD (n=10).
The test was perfectly specific, meaning it was always negative in negative American donor samples and healthy U.K. patient samples. No samples tested positive from patients with nonprion neurodegenerative disorders. The test found 71.4 percent of patients with vCJD correctly tested positive.
The prion assay (test) in this study is accurate enough to screen populations at risk for vCJD. "Most importantly, the prototype vCJD assay [test] has sufficient performance to justify now screening a large U.K. population sample and at-risk groups to produce an initial estimate of the level of prionemia [prions in the blood] in the U.K. blood donor population. … A blood prevalence study would provide essential information for policy makers for deciding if routine vCJD screening is needed for blood, tissue, and organ donations and patients prior to high-risk surgical procedures."
Story Source:
The above story is based on materials provided by The JAMA Network Journals. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Journal Reference: 1.Graham S. Jackson, Ph.D. et al. Population Screening for Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Using a Novel Blood Test. JAMA Neurology, March 2014 DOI: 10.1001/.jamaneurol.2013.6001
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
Ty
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
He died. Its only been a couple weeks. They had given him 2-6 months. What a awful disease