Saturday, October 11, 2008

Hot Springs

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My wife and I took a quick break at Gold Fork Hot Springs, south of McCall, Idaho. The hot springs are laced with lithium salts, but I beg...
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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Toxins, BPA, Estrogens

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Toxins and estrogen mimics are potential threats to our health, but diet-induced inflammation is a major contributor to disease and makes us...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Rattlesnake Venom

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Plants attack pathogens, pests and herbivores with toxic chemicals, whereas snakes attack other animals with heparin-binding protein toxins....
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Simple Remedies

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Simple is usually best. Traditional herbal cures are tried and true. I learn a lot about biology by studying what works in herbal medicine...
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Monday, October 6, 2008

Chronic Disease and Bacteria

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There is increasing evidence that many, if not all, chronic degenerative and autoimmune diseases have a bacterial component and that antibio...
Saturday, October 4, 2008

Migraine, Heparin, Glucosamine

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Is it possible to repair the damage that leads to migraine headaches? If chronic inflammation is a risk factor, then depletion of brain hep...
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Friday, October 3, 2008

NO Migraine

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Migraine attacks are based on inflammation and nitric oxide production in the capillaries and nervous tissues of the brain. Drugs that impa...

Toulouse-Lautrec

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Cathepsin K and Heparin The power of simple sequence pattern analysis in predicting protein behavior is illustrated in the case of Cathepsin...
Thursday, October 2, 2008

Inflammation Protects

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Inflammation in response to infection mobilizes the immune system and serves a vital purpose in defense against disease and parasites. Too ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Steroid Hormones

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Numerous cholesterol-derived hormones (testosterone, estrogen, corticosterone, vitamin D, vitamin A, retinoic acid) influence gene expressio...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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Symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), joint pain (arthritis), back pain, etc. are symptoms of extreme chronic inflammation. Recent st...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

Vagus Nerve Controls Intestinal Inflammation

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Macrophages release inflammatory signals (TNF, IL-1, IL-6, IL-18) that result in tissue inflammation. Nicotine is anti-inflammatory by acti...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Obscene Science

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Typical science sometimes reveals the stupidity of some business practices. This is displayed in stark reality in the case of how animals a...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

IBD treatment 2008

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Inflammation of the bowel responds to the anti-inflammatory diet differently from other inflammatory diseases, such as arthritis or allergie...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Open Up Your Brain

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The brain is fed and oxygenated by capillaries that penetrate its grey matter, but the cells and proteins of the blood are kept separated fr...

Amyloids and Heparin

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Amyloid proteins form fibers as they systematically stack in the presence of heparin. Examples of amyloids are the beta-amyloid and tau of ...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Vitamin B12 and Disease

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Vitamin B12 and the associated amino acids methionine and cysteine are essential to avoid specific symptoms of anemia and the deleterious ef...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

Toxic Myco-stories

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Mycotoxins are among the most toxic natural products. They are fungal adaptations to enhance competition with bacteria and insects, but the...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity -- Severe Chronic Inflammation

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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is a cryptic disease that may be multiple individualized manifestations of severe chronic inflammation. Suffe...
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Pre- and Probiotics

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The bacteria in your bowels determine your health. Your gut flora can make you chronically inflamed, obese, cancerous or healthy, and your ...
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