Great to hear that you are getting back to basics, science and searching for the root causes of disease, a search that medicine has abandoned with the advent of powerful expensive immunosuppressants. Historically in medicine infection was usually found to be the root cause of inflammation. There are too few pathologists with medical microbiology training and medical sleuthing abilities. In medicine the dead shall speak to the living, but autopsies are expensive and no longer done unless a crime has been committed. Infectious disease doctors like it the old way - one microbe 1 disease and one set of symptoms. They are very uncomfortable with microbes that can cause neurological disease. Unfortunately shareholder preferences are driving things and shareholders are interested in treatments not cures. Treatments offer pharmaceutical companies life time annuities.
Alzheimer's disease, an excellent nerve cell infection model is needed. Monkeys have provided a very reasonable model. Recently, a primate neuroborreliosis brain infection model demonstrated that Borrelia injected into the skin of monkeys resulted in the appearance of Borrelia transcriptomes in brain neurons. If Borrelia can travel from skin to brain in the monkey, then why not look at human Alzheimer's tissues to see if the DNA of Borrelia is present in the human brain? The molecular detection tools perfected in animal neuroborreliosis studies have been applied to human Alzheimer's disease brain tissues. Seven of ten cases of Alzheimer's disease from McLean Hospital Brain Bank of Harvard University yielded positive signals for infectious DNA in a small pilot study.
Shareholder preferences control medicine and shareholders are not interested in cures, new antibiotics or vaccines. They take too long, cost too much and there are no continuing profits. The paradigm of modern medicine is to palliate with expensive treatments that give the pharmaceutical industry life-time annuities. The concept of bacterial infections of the CNS are very unpopular with infectious disease doctors and cures wouldn't be profitable. The main reason is the long-term disability insurance industry doesn't want to underwrite the cost of tick-borne illnesses. The profits from the pharmaceutical industry pay for research, medical schools and political parties. Medicine is self-regulating and self-regulation only works if everyone is being altruistic. 1/3 of the CDC's funding comes from industry. The CDC is due for an overhaul but in the end there will have to be some degree of civilian oversight. Lyme is controlled by an old-boys network of self-appointed Lyme experts who are well paid by the insurance industry to give expert court testimony to decline long-term disability payments. The courts can't settle this and claim this is science and w have to settle this ourselves. Out of any given group in society, perhaps 2% are psychopaths and 4% are sociopaths. Many of the people responsible seem to fall into the later classification. They refuse to talk with anyone that won't accept dogma. On October 24, 2017, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur (SR) on the right to health, Dainius Pūras, presented his report on corruption to the UN General Assembly. He told his audience, “In many countries, health is among the most corrupt sectors; this has significant implications for equality and non-discrimination “... He noted some are related to the global pharmaceutical industry and others from “institutional corruption” and emphasized the “normalization” of corruption in healthcare which includes practices undermining medical ethics, social justice, transparency and effective healthcare provision, as well as illegal acts. Many researchers and scholars support the SR’s findings and note how the corporatization of medical practice has contributed to this situation and the loss of medical professional autonomy. Lyme borreliosis isn't amenable to treatments that mask the symptoms. This was accidental but well worth a read. SPECIAL REPORT The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades, Begley S, Stat 2019-06-29: sp-foundation.org/news-resources/news-article-archive.html/article/2019/06/29/special-report-the-maddening-saga-of-how-an-alzheimer-s-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-a-cure-for-decades
Its funny you said overhaul reminded me of this. 19 AUG 2022 CDC announces major agency overhaul; what about Lyme? Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has announced a major overhaul of the agency she leads. Admitting that the CDC had failed to respond effectively to the coronavirus epidemic, she said it’s time to “pivot.” “For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,” Walensky said in a statement. “My goal is a new, public health action-oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication, and timeliness.” Her announcement came after a comprehensive review of the agency’s coronavirus response that she ordered in April. That document has not been publicly released yet, but she spoke about it in a video sent to CDC employees. She stated, “To be frank, we are responsible for some pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes, from testing to data to communications.” I’d like to point out that for decades, the CDC has made pretty dramatic mistakes about Lyme disease, too. With all this reorganization, the agency should also revamp its approach to Lyme disease, “from testing to data to communications.” A good place to start: correcting faulty information about Lyme disease on the CDC website. But much more is required. An overhaul is overdue. For details about Walensky’s announcement, see this report from CBS News.
I wonder if the researchers technology and tools they are using and the way of looking at it is so different and proprietary for financial reasons that this is know a big mixed up nightmare over money. There just not communicating with each other properly it seems to me there is a much simpler way but that way you don’t make something proprietary for profit I thought pathologist have already found infection in Alzheimer’s with simple biopsy + microscope. Is it just me or am I missing something.
Demonstrating the presence of a microorganism(s) doesn't necessarily prove it caused the disease and therefore infectious disease doctors reject this idea in most neurological diseases. It is accepted the in neurosyphilis that Treponema palidum ( a close cousin of Borellia burrgdorferi is the causative organism but experts in the infectious disease reject this for Alzheimer's and other. neurological disease. MS is Lyme disease. Rheumatologists and neurologists use minocycline for its anti inflammatory effects. They can't bring themselves to the point of admitting that they might be killing bugs. They speak with one voice on the subject but that does not make them scientifically correct. SPECIAL REPORT The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades, Begley S, Stat 19-06-29: sp-foundation.org/news-resources/news-article-archive.html/article/2019/06/29/special-report-the-maddening-saga-of-how-an-alzheimer-s-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-a-cure-for-decades
Great to hear that you are getting back to basics, science and searching for the root causes of disease, a search that medicine has abandoned with the advent of powerful expensive immunosuppressants. Historically in medicine infection was usually found to be the root cause of inflammation. There are too few pathologists with medical microbiology training and medical sleuthing abilities. In medicine the dead shall speak to the living, but autopsies are expensive and no longer done unless a crime has been committed. Infectious disease doctors like it the old way - one microbe 1 disease and one set of symptoms. They are very uncomfortable with microbes that can cause neurological disease. Unfortunately shareholder preferences are driving things and shareholders are interested in treatments not cures. Treatments offer pharmaceutical companies life time annuities.
There are multiple compounding problems as well some social and financial it’s a mess
Alzheimer's disease, an excellent nerve cell infection model is needed. Monkeys have provided a very reasonable model. Recently, a primate neuroborreliosis brain infection model demonstrated that Borrelia injected into the skin of monkeys resulted in the appearance of Borrelia transcriptomes in brain neurons. If Borrelia can travel from skin to brain in the monkey, then why not look at human Alzheimer's tissues to see if the DNA of Borrelia is present in the human brain? The molecular detection tools perfected in animal neuroborreliosis studies have been applied to human Alzheimer's disease brain tissues. Seven of ten cases of Alzheimer's disease from McLean Hospital Brain Bank of Harvard University yielded positive signals for infectious DNA in a small pilot study.
Shareholder preferences control medicine and shareholders are not interested in cures, new antibiotics or vaccines. They take too long, cost too much and there are no continuing profits. The paradigm of modern medicine is to palliate with expensive treatments that give the pharmaceutical industry life-time annuities. The concept of bacterial infections of the CNS are very unpopular with infectious disease doctors and cures wouldn't be profitable. The main reason is the long-term disability insurance industry doesn't want to underwrite the cost of tick-borne illnesses. The profits from the pharmaceutical industry pay for research, medical schools and political parties. Medicine is self-regulating and self-regulation only works if everyone is being altruistic. 1/3 of the CDC's funding comes from industry. The CDC is due for an overhaul but in the end there will have to be some degree of civilian oversight. Lyme is controlled by an old-boys network of self-appointed Lyme experts who are well paid by the insurance industry to give expert court testimony to decline long-term disability payments. The courts can't settle this and claim this is science and w have to settle this ourselves.
Out of any given group in society, perhaps 2% are psychopaths and 4% are sociopaths. Many of the people responsible seem to fall into the later classification. They refuse to talk with anyone that won't accept dogma.
On October 24, 2017, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur (SR) on the right to health, Dainius Pūras, presented his report on corruption to the UN General Assembly. He told his audience, “In many countries, health is among the most corrupt sectors; this has significant implications for equality and non-discrimination “... He noted some are related to the global pharmaceutical industry and others from “institutional corruption” and emphasized the “normalization” of corruption in healthcare which includes practices undermining medical ethics, social justice, transparency and effective healthcare provision, as well as illegal acts. Many researchers and scholars support the SR’s findings and note how the corporatization of medical practice has contributed to this situation and the loss of medical professional autonomy.
Lyme borreliosis isn't amenable to treatments that mask the symptoms.
This was accidental but well worth a read. SPECIAL REPORT The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades, Begley S, Stat 2019-06-29: sp-foundation.org/news-resources/news-article-archive.html/article/2019/06/29/special-report-the-maddening-saga-of-how-an-alzheimer-s-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-a-cure-for-decades
Its funny you said overhaul reminded me of this.
19
AUG
2022
CDC announces major agency overhaul; what about Lyme?
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has announced a major overhaul of the agency she leads.
Admitting that the CDC had failed to respond effectively to the coronavirus epidemic, she said it’s time to “pivot.”
“For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,” Walensky said in a statement.
“My goal is a new, public health action-oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication, and timeliness.”
Her announcement came after a comprehensive review of the agency’s coronavirus response that she ordered in April.
That document has not been publicly released yet, but she spoke about it in a video sent to CDC employees. She stated, “To be frank, we are responsible for some pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes, from testing to data to communications.”
I’d like to point out that for decades, the CDC has made pretty dramatic mistakes about Lyme disease, too.
With all this reorganization, the agency should also revamp its approach to Lyme disease, “from testing to data to communications.” A good place to start: correcting faulty information about Lyme disease on the CDC website. But much more is required.
An overhaul is overdue.
For details about Walensky’s announcement, see this report from CBS News.
I wonder if the researchers technology and tools they are using and the way of looking at it is so different and proprietary for financial reasons that this is know a big mixed up nightmare over money. There just not communicating with each other properly it seems to me there is a much simpler way but that way you don’t make something proprietary for profit I thought pathologist have already found infection in Alzheimer’s with simple biopsy + microscope. Is it just me or am I missing something.
Demonstrating the presence of a microorganism(s) doesn't necessarily prove it caused the disease and therefore infectious disease doctors reject this idea in most neurological diseases. It is accepted the in neurosyphilis that Treponema palidum ( a close cousin of Borellia burrgdorferi is the causative organism but experts in the infectious
disease reject this for Alzheimer's and other. neurological disease. MS is Lyme disease. Rheumatologists and neurologists use minocycline for its anti inflammatory effects. They can't bring themselves to the point of admitting that they might be killing bugs. They speak with one voice on the subject but that does not make them scientifically correct. SPECIAL REPORT The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades, Begley S, Stat 19-06-29: sp-foundation.org/news-resources/news-article-archive.html/article/2019/06/29/special-report-the-maddening-saga-of-how-an-alzheimer-s-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-a-cure-for-decades
"The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogma" -Osler
When you are dealing with non-replicating biofilm organisms that can't be studied anybody can say anything which they do.