Institute for Molecular Medicine - Garth Nicolson, PhD
He is the premier researcher in the area of chronic stealth mycoplasma infections -
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Lymedin2010
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This is BIG news for Dr. MacDonald, as his discovery for borrelia in Alzheimer's correlation has been corroborated.
This is directly from Under Our Skin:
"This is big! UNDER OUR SKIN "basement scientist" Alan Macdonald, MD is vindicated by a new study in the prestigious Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, proving a definitive link between dementia and Lyme infection in a subset of Alzheimer's patients.
"Conclusion: Pure Lyme dementia exists and has a good outcome after antibiotics. It is advisable to do Lyme serology in demented patients, and if serology is positive, to do central spinal fluid analysis with AI (intrathecal anti-Borrelia antibody index).
Neurodegenerative dementia associated with positive AI also exists, which may have been revealed by the involvement of Borrelia in the central nervous system.""
Thanks for posting the link to the Florida doc. I had not seen that previously.
I have always been of the opinion that nutritional supplementation was almost equally as important as antibiotics or killing herbs as part of a comprehensive tickborne treatment strategy.
That particular video goes a long way toward explaining why hubby never had major pain issues. We supplemented with taurine (500 mg 3 times daily) for many years plus fish oil and phosphatidylcholine (good fats).
However, I am somewhat skeptical of supplementing to increase serotonin. Buhner has written about the alternative pathway by which serotonin precursors are converted to the neurotoxin quinolinic acid. Hubby did actually have that tested once and it was elevated. He also had low serotonin.
Resveratrol (Japanese knotweed source) allowed him to take l-tryptophan and 5HTP (activated form of b 6) for sleep and over the course of several months greatly decreased anxiety and improved sleep.
It does seem like very slowly the brain effects of lyme and tickborne illnesses are making their way into the medical journals despite the IDSA. But the majority of the research is not from the U.S. Almost anything of significance comes from foreign sources. The doc mentioned Japan and I forget which other countries.
And the lyme toxins the doc discussed have not been definitively proven by medical research as far as I know. Personally I am not sure if there are specific lyme toxins or if lyme just increases production of other normally occurring toxins such as the quinolinic acid mentioned above. And then there are the various cytokines and chemokines produced by the immune system - such as IL-2 and TNF (tumor necrosis factor).
I would love to have that doc interpret hubby's 2 brain SPECT scans.
Bea Seibert
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Rumigirl
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Bea and SacredHeart,
While the info from the Florida doctor may be good (I didn't look), beware:
he is NOT what he makes himself out to be. And many, if not most, of the good testimonials very much appear to be created by himself or his people.
And he seems to scrub many sites of the negative reviews.
He has duped many, many people out of a tremendous amount of money, not to mention time and energy and hope, and in many cases left them in far worse shape than when they came to him.
In those cases, they were people who were addicted to pain meds and went to him for a "rapid detox" that left them addicted to far worse opiods from his "treatment."
There is no excuse for this except greed pure and simple.
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Could you please post some evidence to support your claim? It isn't good to ruin someone's name, or reputation without something to back it up. I understand that you are warning us, but there must be some kind of evidence you could post. Thanks. God Bless.
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lpkayak
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Ive never heard of this dr s
There is another dr s in fla that i have heard similar things about
Rumis been here a long time...so have i...i suspect she knows what shes talking about
That sort of thing is happening more and more
I think the most important thing i have learned over time is not to jump on new band wagons
When someone figures out how to deal with lyme it wont be a secret for long. We wont need a ten yr double blind study
When we see something that is really working they wont be able to keep it a secret even if they want to
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I thought I would hit this thread again just so some of the new folks to listen to the first links on Dr. Alan Mcdonald. You can learn a lot from those three videos he has up on youtube.
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Regarding the link to the French paper, Blanc et al, I agree that it vindicates Dr M in the sense that the authors admit that Lyme can cause a dementia. There were obviously a lot of honest researchers involved in that work. Sadly, Dr Jaulhac, the French "Allen Steere", was also involved and there was an assumption by the authors that serology is reliable and that all those patients who tested negative for Lyme were truly negative.
They therefore came to the wrong conclusion that "Lyme dementia" is a very rare phenomenon, and totally distinct from Alzheimer's, which is extremely common. They also considered the fact that some patients did not improve quickly with abx as further proof that it was not (or no longer) Lyme infection. Obviously they believed the current falsehoods about Lyme being easily cured.
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