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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:06 pm
by Nick
notasperfectasyou wrote:
Nick wrote:Hi Ken

I'm certainly open to diet having an impact. I'm open to vascular abnormality being a key pathology.
Ken

You hit the nail right on the proverbial head. Today there was a press conference which unveiled a huge discovery by Prof Paolo Zamboni regarding one of the driving mechanisms of MS. It involves vascular constrictions in people in MS and also demonstrates how ubiquitous they are in PwMS and how easily they are remedied with dramatic improvements in symptoms.

I will post a separate thread highlighting the press conference and in the near future I will post Ashton's summary of the research that he has written for MS Pathways Magazine.

Cheers
Nick

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:19 pm
by cheerleader
Nick wrote:
notasperfectasyou wrote:
Nick wrote:Hi Ken

I'm certainly open to diet having an impact. I'm open to vascular abnormality being a key pathology.
Ken

You hit the nail right on the proverbial head. Today there was a press conference which unveiled a huge discovery by Prof Paolo Zamboni regarding one of the driving mechanisms of MS. It involves vascular constrictions in people in MS and also demonstrates how ubiquitous they are in PwMS and how easily they are remedied with dramatic improvements in symptoms.

I will post a separate thread highlighting the press conference and in the near future I will post Ashton's summary of the research that he has written for MS Pathways Magazine.

Cheers
Nick

Hey...Nick! We've been talking about this for awhile. C'mon down to the CCSVI forum. I read Ashton's summary today...a colleague in Bologna had it. We've been discussing vitamin D as a mediator of hypoxia, and a whole bunch of other stuff he'd be interested in. No need to post on the press conference I got it covered. Just check us out-
I'm getting on a plane for LA soon, but Bologna's been terrific.
all the best, and really glad Ashton is interested-
Here's the press release-
http://www.thisisms.com/ftopict-8089.html
cheer

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:24 pm
by Nick
Thanks for the wakeup call Cheer. I'll be sure to head to the CCSVI thread.

Nick

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:43 pm
by cheerleader
Nick wrote:Thanks for the wakeup call Cheer. I'll be sure to head to the CCSVI thread.

Nick
No worries, mate. Have Ashton e-mail me- thru PM here. My husband Jeff was the first person treated w/jugular stenting for CCSVI at Stanford. He's doing remarkably well 4 months out...Dr. D showed off his new jugulars in Bologna today.

And now, back to Faroe Islands....
ciao!
cheer

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 2:12 pm
by notasperfectasyou
Lyon wrote:Just consider that human evolution dictates that you evolved not to be able to digest your food and survive without the aid of the bacteria in your gut.

Just as simply, but maybe not so obviously we evolved with parasites controlling aspects of our immune system. The beginning of our becoming "developed" in the late 1800's created the first instance in human history in which those parasites weren't able to adapt to the degree necessary to survive in our "developed" lifestyle. That time coincidentally?? matched the same populations and point in time with the beginning of the rise of inflammatory immune dysfunctions.
Bob
Bob,
So, I ran into this. Seems to me this is what you're talking about?

Short and Sweet
Scientific American: Genetics in the Gut

The Real Deal
Qin, Junjie et al. 2010 A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

Download your own copy while you still can.

So, the idea is that all this bacteria they are talking about is likely way much less than we had centuries ago, yes? And then, from that, I might want to extrapolate that someone taking a lot of antibiotics, might have even less bacteria than others would in our current society, yes?

This might be relevant to me right now. thinking..........
Ken

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:01 pm
by Lyon
Wow, blast from the past! Thanks for keeping me in mind Ken.

I hope and assume that not hearing from you in so long is a good thing and that you and your wife are doing well?
NAPAY wrote:So, I ran into this. Seems to me this is what you're talking about?
I think the right answer is "yes...in part".

The digestive tract, from all I've read, is really like our outside turned in (that's the term most often used :oops: ) in that when considering interaction with the immune system, the digestive tract is "external" and the effects of those gut bacteria, while essential to our continued well being, for the purposes of our immune system are "external" and don't directly interact with our immune system.

That said, you're absolutely right to take the idea that you have and it's not entirely wrong. Hygiene hypothesis researchers and admittedly I use intestinal flora to prove that "ME" isn't REALLY just that single, completely independant organism that we are most comfortable believing that we are.

Although misleading, the value of the comparison is that it's considered that humans originally were self sustaining and able to convert/create the necessary vitamins and minerals on our own. In time, due to the ongoing and unavoidable presence of gut bacteria doing the same job for us, we partially lost the ability. Not to humanize Mother Nature but redundancy has an unfavorable cost/benefit ratio and is evolved out. In the above situation maybe a better way of putting it is that even though intestinal bacteria isn't "US", it seems they won the job of processing our stomach contents and in the time since we've lost the ability to do it ourselves.

With the above in mind, "internal" parasites which do live within the jurisdiction of the human immune system have (like intestinal bacteria) been an ongoing and unavoidable factor throughout human evolution. Considering that a large part of the "duty" of the immune system is to eliminate or isolate foreign invaders, it's obviously contrary to the purpose of the human immune system that foreign organisms almost the size of a finger are able to comfortably survive in us. It seems to defy logic that the immune system is easily capable of eliminating them, yet doesn't.

To shorten things.....from the beginning it's been noticed that the alarming rise in autoimmune/inflammatory diseases align with people moving from the farms to the city for the "Industrial Revolution" and those economies changing from self sustenance and bartering to currency based and the result was that those same populations are now considered "developed" in that they have electricity and the modern conveniences that brings.

Interestingly, helminth parasites and parasites in general are, like cockroaches and rats, are masters of adapting to survive. Despite that, for the first time in the history of humanity the living conditions we now define as "developed" were such that the specific helminths which had shared our bodies through evolution were no longer able to complete their life cycle and died off. Yes, their eggs remain infective in the soil for many years but that time is long past and contrary to articles about the benefits of eating dirt, the soil in developed countries is sterile in that regard.

When it comes to the hygiene hypothesis or loss of evolutionary normal conditions why does it seem that everyone is "hug up" on helminth parasites when there are lots of other types of parasites (partial list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pa ... _of_humans ) seems almost exlusively owed to the fact that it takes a much bigger garage to "protect" the Goodyear blimp than to "protect" a Smart car.

Helminths are far and away the biggest of the human parasites and in order to continue surviving had to employ completely different methods than bacteria, viruses, etc... which are small enough to hide from the immune system in our cells and replicating faster than the immune system can eliminate them, whereas the helminths can't hide and have had to take our immune system head on. Not a lot is known about it but there is no other way to explain the comfortable survival of helminths in humans other than their controlling aspects of our immune system.

Cutting it short, it's unquestioned that our well being hinges on the balance of our intestinal flora, which doesn't even interact with our immune system.

Expanding on that thought, what repercussions might we expect from the loss of the helminths which logically were controlling aspects of our immune system in which the human system lost the ability to control eons ago....A host of immune problems,,,in the places times and populations that the alarming rise in autoimmune diseases were first noticed?

Combine the documented effect of adding helminths in people with immune problems and the first thing to come to my mind is why would the existence of parasites have ANY effect on inflammation and autoimmunity otherwise?

No doubt, LOTS needs to be determined-proven but I find it pretty interesting.

Hopefully that seems to make some sense?

Re: Embry's take on an infectious agent as THE cause

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:23 pm
by ttt1
"The former detected epidemics of MS in Faroe Islands seems apparently to have leveled out and could not be recognized in the recent period covered by the present survey."
http://www.biomedsearch.com/nih/Multipl ... 15109.html

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:02 am
by shye
Lyon
Lilnk that started this thread can no longer be accessed.

But wasn't there also a theory that soldiers brought processed food to the Faroe's, thus significantly altering the diet habits there, and this was advanced as one possibility for the MS? I'd go with that :lol:

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:40 am
by Lyon
shye wrote:Lyon
Lilnk that started this thread can no longer be accessed.
Sorry, quite often I post copyrighted articles, but a while back someone threatened me about that practice so I removed all the links for my copyrighted articles.

I'll try to figure out which article it was and I'll put it back online long enough for you to read it.
shye wrote:But wasn't there also a theory that soldiers brought processed food to the Faroe's, thus significantly altering the diet habits there, and this was advanced as one possibility for the MS? I'd go with that :lol:
:lol: Gosh, there are innumerable theories because the Faroe Island situation because it's kind of turned into an MS theory test bed.

I sure don't have the info at hand to discount it but it seems that processed foods being the culprit would be awful easy to disprove in that lots of low MS incidence populations have had processed food brought to them in famine yet no one seems to have noticed higher MS incidence afterwards.