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I found it interesting...

http://holisticnurse.com/ic/audio/MarkClark.html

Thanks for making this available. I've found the first two segments (as far as I've gotten so far) interesting as well.

Sharon

In some of my prior posts I've mentioned books by Dr. Nicholas Perricone who has linked diet to inflammation. He has a new book out and is promoting it with talks on PBS. The following is an excerpt from the linked page...

Many of the PBS air dates are listed for last December. However... for anyone in the greater Seattle area Dr. Perricone's talk is scheduled to air on Friday February the 24th at noon on KCTS Channel 9. Now KCTS's schedule can be flaky at times. For example, sometimes shows are scheduled but are not shown and sometimes they are listed as being only 90 minutes when they are 120 minutes (this latter example happened with one of Dr. Perricone's other talks on the Perricone Prescription). So, if you want to record it via VCR or DVR then set it for two hours and keep checking the schedule. The air time info was from http://www.kcts.org (search for Perricone). By the way, for anyone outside of the greater Seattle area, you may wish to search your local PBS station's schedule to see if they are going to replay this show.

NHE

This also is interesting in this context:

Russell Farris and Per Marin MD PhD book review by David Wheldon MB FRCPath

http://www.CPn Help.org/?q=book_review

This book explains how common, non-resolving intracellular infections can, over long periods of time, subvert the body's defences by causing chronic elevation of cortisol while provoking chronic activation of pro-inflammatory cytokines; this has serious repercussions, including type II diabetes, atheroma and heart disease. Much of what we put down to ageing is caused by chronic infection.


When I started as a clinical medical student in Bristol, England, I joined my colleagues and went to the appointed ward. We were still known as 'clerks' then. The ward was in a huge and antiquated eighteenth century building. We democratically elected a 'Head Clerk' who allocated patients to us. We then 'clerked' our patients, in our naïve way, stumbling though primers of examination technique. So much had to be learned in so short a time. One of the consultants was known to be pleasant and a good teacher; the other was feared for his mordant sarcasm. My first patient was a small man of 42; he smiled at me with amazingly friendly eyes. 'They've given me you, have they?' He lay propped on pillows; he couldn't find the breath to sit up. The slightest exertion exhausted him. Finding the energy for bodily functions, even with the help of several nurses, was an agony of breathlessness. Over the years he had become a cardiac cripple; a series of myocardial infarctions had removed most of the muscle of his heart; the lost muscle had been replaced by a fibrous sac which blew in and out with each beat, effectively reducing his cardiac function even further. He had the stigmata of hyperlipidaemia, including yellowish streaks on both upper eyelids. He had uncontrollable diabetes. He was unfailingly friendly even when I made a botch of drawing blood from his veins. His intravenous lines never lasted very long before they clotted. We got on together very well. I never heard him complain once about his predicament........................................................................
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An Itinerary in Light and Shadow Completed Dr Charles Stratton / Dr David Wheldon abx regime for aggressive secondary progressive MS in June 2007, after four years. Still improving with no relapses since starting. Can't run but can paint all day.