How Common Are Chronic Infections?
Very common. One way of assessing the rate of infections is by looking for antibodies. This underestimates the rate of infection, because infections do not always generate antibodies, and antibodies...
View ArticleIs Alzheimer’s Caused By a Bacterial Infection of the Brain?
As I noted earlier (http://perfecthealthdiet.com/?p=86), everyone gets chronic bacterial infections; infection rates are nearly 100% in the elderly. In most people, however, the infection doesn’t...
View ArticleEleven Steps for Overcoming Alzheimer’s and Other Chronic Infectious Diseases
If Alzheimer’s is due to bacterial infection, as I suggested yesterday (http://perfecthealthdiet.com/?p=126), then it can be treated by diet, supplements, and antibiotics. Here are eleven steps that...
View ArticleMultiple Sclerosis: A Curable Infectious Disease?
For more than a century many strands of evidence have pointed toward an infectious cause for MS. Pierre Marie, lecturing in 1892, said that “the causative agent in multiple sclerosis is manifestly of...
View ArticleThe FDA Is On The Side of the Microbes
This should be the golden era of antimicrobial medicine. Molecular biology has over the last two decades created new diagnostic tools like real-time PCR which can isolate and amplify minute quantities...
View ArticleVitamin D Dysregulation in Chronic Infectious Diseases
Commenter qualia recently got his serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels tested and found a surprising result: He had doubled his vitamin D intake from 5,000 IU to 10,000 IU per day, but his 25(OH)D levels...
View ArticleRetroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
One of the themes of this blog is that chronic infections, exacerbated by bad diets and malnutrition, are at the root of nearly all health problems. With the invention of new tools for microbiology...
View ArticleNZ Man Left for Dead by Doctors, Cured by Vitamin C
Modern doctors are often deeply over-invested in the use of drugs, and amazingly ignorant of the power of the human immune system, when supported by a healthy diet and optimal nutrition, to defeat...
View ArticleThe Amazing Curative Powers of High-Dose Vitamin D in Aging and Autism
In a comment to my post “Vitamin D Dysregulation in Chronic Infectious Diseases,” Charles Colenaty, who is in his 80s, reports that high doses of vitamin D, assisted by curcumin, have cured his high...
View ArticleObesity: Often An Infectious Disease
In the book we attribute obesity mainly to food toxins and malnutrition. Both are well attested as causes of obesity in animals: The easiest way to induce obesity in animals is to feed them a carb...
View ArticleVitamin C vs modern medicine
We’ve previously discussed the case of the New Zealand farmer who was left for dead by his doctors, but recovered from a viral infection thanks to 100 g/day vitamin C. (He also now holds the record for...
View ArticleFighting Viral Infections by Vitamin C at Bowel Tolerance
Alan Smith’s remarkable recovery from a seemingly fatal infection, discussed here and here, thanks to administration of 100 g/day vitamin C over vigorous opposition from his doctors, highlights both...
View ArticleThinking With Your Gut Bacteria
Is your personality really yours – or is it your bacteria’s? What prompts this thought is a new paper that studied mate preference in fruit flies. It turns out that the gut bacteria in fruit flies...
View ArticleTryptophan Poisoning and Chronic Infections
On Friday I discussed a recent paper showing that a high-tryptophan diet caused mice, after 4 to 12 weeks, to start harming themselves by tearing out fur from their bellies and forepaws. The mice also...
View ArticleThey’ve Got Us Surrounded
Note: Our best wishes and prayers for a quick recovery to erp, who has surgery tomorrow. Get well soon, e! We think that pathogens – viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa – are, along with toxic and...
View ArticleJaminet’s Corollary to the Ewald Hypothesis
In Tuesday’s comments, Kriss brought up Paul Ewald, father of the “Ewald hypothesis.” (Also brought up by Dennis Mangan here.) Ewald did some of his work in collaboration with Gregory Cochran, who may...
View ArticleEvidence for Jaminet’s Corollary
Note to Abby: I did get distracted. Lemon juice next week. In Friday’s post, I offered Jaminet’s Corollary to the Ewald Hypothesis. The Ewald hypothesis states that since the human body would have...
View ArticleWhat Telomeres Tell Us About Human Disease
We believe that almost all diseases are caused by food toxins, malnutrition, and infections. Toxic and malnourishing diets depress immunity and make infections worse. Once you have this point of view...
View ArticleHDL and Immunity
HDL – high-density lipoprotein – particles are good for you: High HDL levels are associated with lower mortality overall and lower mortality from many diseases – not only cardiovascular disease but...
View ArticleBlood Lipids and Infectious Disease, Part II
OK, after a diversion into hunter-gatherer lipid profiles I’m back on the original goal of this series: trying to understand why serum cholesterol is protective against infections — and considering...
View ArticleHow to Recognize and Fix a Brain Infection
I thought I’d pull up an interesting tale from the comments. It is a great illustration of what we’re trying to accomplish on this blog. Thomas first commented here on December 31: I just got your book...
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