23 May 2008

A number of chronic diseasesi are in fact caused by one or more infectious agents. For example, stomach ulcers are caused by Helicobacter pylori, chronic lung disease in newborns and chronic asthmai in adults are both caused by Mycoplasmas and Chlamydia pneumonia, while some other pathogens have been associated with atherosclerosis. The realization that pathogens can produce slowly progressive chronic diseases has opened new lines of research into Alzheimer's disease.

Hi,

Please see this link:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7291315.stm

Went to the Alzheimers charity Terry has given funds to and there was no mention of cpni, or any other bacteria.

I have contacted Terry Pratchett's agent via email pointing this site out to him and :-

http://www.tangledneuron.info/the_tangled_neuron/2007/06/chlamydia-pneum.html

mentioned here.

His agent promises to pass my info onto Terry.

You never know!

has anyone had a diagnosis of chronic strep? If so what treatments/protocolsi were you treated with.

"This new study highlights the importance of certain soluble proteins, called cytokinesi, in Alzheimer’s disease. The study focuses on one of these cytokines, tumor necrosisi factor-alpha(TNF), a critical component of the brain’s immunei system."

"The new study documents a dramatic and unprecedented therapeutic effect in an Alzheimer’s patient: improvement within minutes following delivery of perispinal etanercept, which is etanercept given by injection in the spine. Etanercept (trade name Enbrel) binds and inactivates excess TNF." 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080109091102.htm

As Alzheimer's is a Cpni associated disease, an many here are treating various neurological manifestations of Cpn infection, I thought these findings would be of interest. A brief quote here, and then the links for the article:

This may have been noted before, but a nice summary of Balin's work on Chlamydia pneumoniae and Alzheimer's. Note his discussion of the need for using multple measures (up to 15) and different methodologies in trying to detect a very difficult to detect organism:

http://www.tangledneuron.info/the_tangled_neuron/2007/06/chlamydia-pneum.html

Hey's folks -ain't it funny how God works. I started on this path for my wife's CFSi beginning with possible Viral agents(Shell start supplementsi/naci nov 1.) then i linked up here after labs where negative for all but CPNi and i found this place. Now my dad's(ALZ dx 8mos) neuroi is sending him to Nashville (home of Vanderbilt U) to see a specialist in the treatment of CPn. My mom just told me -don't have a name or backgrouund yet. I'll probably be driving him up from Pensacola FL for his appt Dec 1- I hope to take my wife also if I can get her an appt. More to come-thanks lwbell

Hey's folks -ain't it funny how God works. I started on this path for my wife's CFSi beginning with possible Viral agents(Shell start supplementsi/naci nov 1.) then i linked up here after labs where negative for all but CPNi and i found this place. Now my dad's(ALZ dx 8mos) neuroi is sending him to Nashville (home of Vanderbilt U) to see a specialist in the treatment of CPn. My mom just told me -don't have a name or backgrouund yet. I'll probably be driving him up from Pensacola FL for his appt Dec 1- I hope to take my wife also if I can get her an appt. More to come-thanks lwbell

Is any body out there doing CAPi for Alzhiemer's? I am having my dad do the Chlamydial Species Differentation test and hoping for a positive titer. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's about a year ago. He was and remains a gifted physician and thinker. He is willing to give the protocolsi a 6month run but we are curious as to the expectation of the "Herx" and what we can anticipate as symptoms. Which Abxi crosses the BBBi and still is effective on the recticular body form. I know that flagyli crosses for the cryptic formi and doxyi gets the EBi.

My wife will be starting the protocol soon. CFSi 15yrs.

LWBELL

My aunt has been diagnosed with Alzheimers. She is around 80 years old. Would CAPi work for my aunt? Or is it too late? I had a bad flare up of Cpni about 20 years ago that left me with brain fog, memory problems, and inability to more than one thing at a time. I felt like the cogs in my brain had sand in them. What is happening to my aunt could have happened to me.

Nice summary at this link

I recently recovered some information from the former web site of Dr. Sririam pertaining to the usefullness of antibioticsi against Cpni and which ones will cross the blood brain barrier.  What I don't know is how accurate this information is or why some antibiotics that appear to be less effective at crossing the blood  brain barrier were chosen.  Why the latter question?  Because at least one of the doctors who have devised protocolsi did so with the specific objective of treating Multiple Sclerosisi, a neurological disease.  Crossing the blood brain barrier is critical in the success of such a treatment.

Am J Med Sci. 2006 Oct;332(4):168-74. Chlamydophila (Chlamydia) pneumoniae infection of human astrocytes and microglia in culture displays an active, rather than a persistent, phenotype.Dreses-Werringloer U, Gérard HC, Whittum-Hudson JA, Hudson AP. Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA.

The following is a condensation of a slightly longer post which can be found at this link.

Jim K