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Evidence for the Presence of Borrelia Burgdorferi in Invasive Breast Cancer Tissues

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378802154_Evidence_for_the_presence_of_Borrelia_burgdorferi_in_invasive_breast_cancer_tissues

Evidence for the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi in invasive breast cancer tissues

March 2024

DOI:10.1556/1886.2024.00021
Authors:  Niraj Jatin Patel, Sahaja Thippani, Jasmine Jathan, Gauri Gauri
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Abstract

Borrelia burgdorferi , the causative agent of Lyme disease, has recently been demonstrated to infect and enhance the invasive properties of breast cancer cells, while also influencing the expression of inflammatory chemokines (CXCL8 and CXCL10). This study investigates the presence of B. burgdorferi in invasive breast cancer tissues using commercially available, FDA-approved breast cancer tissue microarrays consisting of 350 ductal, 32 lobular, and 22 intraductal invasive breast carcinomas, alongside 29 normal breast tissues. Employing fluorescent immunohistochemical staining and high-resolution imaging, the findings revealed that
  • approximately 20% of invasive lobular and ductal carcinomas, followed by
  • 14% of intraductal carcinomas, tested positive for B. burgdorferi,
  • while all normal breast tissues tested negative.
  • PCR analysis further confirmed the presence of B. burgdorferi DNA in breast cancer tissues.
  • Moreover, 25% of B. burgdorferi – positive tissues exhibited expression of both chemokines, CXCL8 and CXCL10, which was not observed in B. burgdorferi – negative tissues.
  • Analysis of available patient data, including age, indicated a correlation between older patients and B. burgdorferi – positive tissues.

This study validates the presence of B. burgdorferi in invasive breast cancer tissues and highlights the involvement of key CXCL family members associated with inflammatory processes.

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**Comment**

It all of a sudden becomes quite clear why ‘the powers that be’ simply had to bury ivermectin and HCQ.  These drugs are turning out to be highly anti-viral and anti-cancer.  More and more is coming out on these safe, cheap drugs that have been effectively repurposed for cancer.  Due to a court order, the FDA had to remove its controversial verbiage on ivermectin from its website.  Predictably, the FDA claims no wrongdoing despite an estimated 500,000 deaths due to its suppression of ivermectin, as well as the fact doctors lost their jobs for simply endorsing the drug.

The FDA has a lot to answer for.

I also highly recommend reading and listening to this:  https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/302-how-to-save-your-life-if-you

On a personal side note relating to the above link: my holistic doctor (RIP) once told me that he successfully treated female cancers with testosterone and male cancers with estrogen.  At the time there weren’t any studies on this hormone approach for cancer and all he had to support it was his 35 years of clinical experience.  Now, it finally appears there are some studies:  https://hormonebalance.org/publications/

Another doctor we used has completely restored women who have severe endometriosis by using a cocktail of synthetic testosterones (nandrolone and stanozolol) that doesn’t break down into estrogen as well as the anti-androgen spironolactone to counter any facial hair or lowering of the voice.  My daughter still uses this treatment and it has worked amazingly for over ten years.  To say it has changed her life would be an understatement.

This too is a big reason hormone therapy is nearly banned in mainstream medicine.  It just does too many things for health which interferes with Big Pharma profits.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, the FDA could care less about true health.

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Cancer, Inflammation, Lyme, research

Bacterial Biofilm & Its Role in the Pathogenesis of Disease

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167820/

 2020 Feb; 9(2): 59.
Published online 2020 Feb 3. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9020059
PMCID: PMC7167820
PMID: 32028684

Bacterial Biofilm and its Role in the Pathogenesis of Disease

Lene K. Vestby,1 Torstein Grønseth,2 Roger Simm,3 and Live L. Nesse4,*
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Abstract

Recognition of the fact that bacterial biofilm may play a role in the pathogenesis of disease has led to an increased focus on identifying diseases that may be biofilm-related. Biofilm infections are typically chronic in nature, as biofilm-residing bacteria can be resilient to both the immune system, antibiotics, and other treatments. This is a comprehensive review describing biofilm diseases in the auditory, the cardiovascular, the digestive, the integumentary, the reproductive, the respiratory, and the urinary system. In most cases reviewed, the biofilms were identified through various imaging technics, in addition to other study approaches. The current knowledge on how biofilm may contribute to the pathogenesis of disease indicates a number of different mechanisms. This spans from biofilm being a mere reservoir of pathogenic bacteria, to playing a more active role, e.g., by contributing to inflammation. Observations also indicate that biofilm does not exclusively occur extracellularly, but may also be formed inside living cells. Furthermore, the presence of biofilm may contribute to development of cancer. In conclusion, this review shows that biofilm is part of many, probably most chronic infections. This is important knowledge for development of effective treatment strategies for such infections.

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Biofilm, Inflammation, Lyme, research, Uncategorized

Transforming Health & Sanitation: The Breakthrough of Chlorine Dioxide Solution

https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/chlorine-dioxide

Chlorine Dioxide & Electro-Molecular Medicine: A New & Hopeful Paradigm

Dr Tess Lawrie caught up with Dr Andreas Kalcker, a biophysicist who has spent the past 17 years researching chlorine dioxide, to set the record straight.

Innovative medicine

“Our cells are based on electricity, or electrons moving within the cell that are able to create 100,000 chemical reactions per second in each cell!”

Conventional medicine is fixated on treating symptoms with pharmaceuticals (i.e. chemicals). As a Biophysicist, Dr. Kalcker recognises the limitations of this biochemical view of physiology and medicine, which ignores the electrical nature of energy production in our cells. More fundamental than molecules are sub-atomic particles – protons and electrons – and it is this perspective that makes what Dr Kalcker calls ‘electro-molecular medicine’, not just an ‘alternative’ to allopathic medicine but a truly novel and innovative approach.

Chlorine confusion

Chlorine dioxide has been used to purify water for over 100 years, but it is now also used internally.  Many people are wary of chlorine dioxide, confusing it with bleach or chorine. Dissolved in water, it forms Chlorine Dioxide Solution (CDS), a yellow gas in liquid that breaks down to oxygen and harmless chloride ions (as in table salt).

On the other hand, bleach is a transparent solution of sodium hypochlorite, which should definitely not be taken internally. Chlorine dioxide is also not molecular chlorine, which consists of two chlorine atoms and exists as a corrosive gas.

.Chlorine dioxide is a completely different molecule from either bleach or chlorine.

Why it works

Chlorine dioxide is known as an oxidant, and oxidants have a bad reputation, as they can damage cells through the production of free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS). But Dr Kalcker points out that viewing oxidation as something negative is irrational; it is a natural and necessary process of life that needs to be better understood and optimised.

Oxidants can be toxic or helpful in the body – it depends on voltage differences. Fluorine, for example, is a toxic oxidant due to its very high voltage (2,870 mV) and hydroxyl groups (OH-) that harm the cells. Our cells work best at voltages between 1,000 and 1,500 mV, and oxygen – an oxidant essential to life – falls within this range. At the lower end of the range, chlorine dioxide, with a voltage of 940 mV, does not produce hydroxyl groups and is safe for human cells; however, it destroys bacteria, fungi, and heavy metals, which have lower voltages and are therefore oxidised.

What’s interesting is that chlorine dioxide can work both as both an oxidant (neutralising pathogens) and an antioxidant (reducing damaging hydroxyl groups). It therefore plays the role of a modulator, restoring electrical charges within a voltage range that is perfect for the human cell.

Illness as a lack of energy

Dr Kalcker has come to view illness as a lack of energy related to poor mitochondrial function and metabolic acidosis. He sees chlorine dioxide as helping to address this by providing the cells with oxygen. While oxygen is normally transported to the tissues in red blood cells, chlorine dioxide is so tiny (three atoms only) that it can diffuse anywhere in the body. In effect, the chloride ion is the carrier that takes oxygen to tissues with an acidic pH and releases millions of oxygen molecules, supporting the cells to produce energy, and therefore to heal.

CDS and Covid-19

Despite mainstream media denials, large clinical trials during the Covid-19 period showed that CDS was highly efficacious in treating and preventing Covid-19 disease. A study of over 1,000 patients showed 99.3% efficacy, with recovery within only four days compared with nearly a month with standard treatments. While six percent of patients experienced minor side effects (dry mouth, headaches), there were no adverse effects. Another clinical trial of 1,000 people living with patients infected with coronavirus was over 98% effective prophylactically. One of the most exciting findings was that a number of people treated with CDS found that other serious conditions resolved, including high blood pressure, diabetes, and even end-stage cancers. Dr Kalcker feels that CDS and its mechanisms of action represent the biggest discovery in medicine over the past hundred years.  

How do you make CDS?

CDS is a concentrated 0.3% aqueous solution of chlorine dioxide with a neutral pH, lacking sodium chlorite (NaClO2). For step-by-step instructions on how to produce it yourself, see the video of Dr Kalcker’s protocol.

Remain sceptical … and open to learning

When we’re stuck in a well-established paradigm, it’s really hard to embrace radical change. Being sceptical of unfamiliar ideas is normal! But just as a shipbuilder working on one of Columbus’s caravels would never have imagined flying from the Old World to the New World in a winged metal tube, so we need to be willing to unlearn much of what we know in order to create a Better Way for medicine. Electro-molecular medicine offers many insights to help us forge a path beyond Big Pharma-captured medicine, which has clearly lost its way.

While there are still many aspects that need to be explored further when it comes to Chlorine Dioxide, the results seen thus far have indeed been promising.

Watch the full interview in the following link:

https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/chlorine-dioxide-solution/  Video Here (Approx. 53 Min)

Scroll to about the 14:00 mark to hear the interview.

Transforming Health and Sanitation: The Breakthrough of Chlorine Dioxide Solution

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Join us as Dr Tess Lawrie sits down with Dr Andreas Kalcker, a pioneer in alternative health solutions. Together, they explore the potential and controversies surrounding Chlorine Dioxide. Dr Kalcker shares his insights on Chlorine Dioxide, a compound that’s been the center of heated debates in the realms of health and sanitation.

With Dr Lawrie’s critical eye and Dr Kalcker’s extensive research, this interview promises to shed light on the science, the myths, and the real-world applications of this controversial solution.

About Dr Andreas Kalcker

  • Andreas Kalcker is a biophysicist of German origin who has lived a large part of his life in Spain and has been residing in Switzerland for several years.
  • He has researched and registered several international patents related to the therapeutic use of chlorine dioxide for hypoxia, inflammation, infection, sepsis, and SARS-CoV-2.
  • Dr Kalcker’s thesis and experience were extensively discussed in his first book, CDS – Health is Possible. Years later, the publication of his second book, Forbidden Health, demonstrates how the recovery of diseases from A to Z, once considered incurable, achieves remarkable success but sparks a wide controversy in the world of conventional science and the “establishment”.
  • Currently, Dr Kalcker, through the International ALK Foundation, continues the comprehensive research of the ClO2 molecule in the form of CDS. He is also developing multidisciplinary projects in vital areas for human well-being, such as water treatment, agriculture, veterinary medicine, sanitary hygiene, and potential therapeutics from an electromolecular approach.
  • Learn more at andreaskalcker.com.

(See link for article and video)

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Activism, Inflammation, research, Treatment, Viruses

Brain on Fire: Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Children

https://www.lymedisease.org/alain-mass-brain-on-fire/

Brain on fire: neuropsychiatric disorders in children

By Alain Mass, MD

2/13/24

Nearly one in six children between the ages of 2 and 6 years old (17.4%) has a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder.

More than 17 million children in the United States have or have had a diagnosable mental illness.

Mental disorders are either primary or secondary. Primary mental illnesses are rather treatable than curable and the treatment is most of the time lifelong.  If you ignore that behind the well-made diagnosis, there may be a deeper reason for the symptoms, you accept the fate of what a primary mental health disorder is about.

The expression “brain on fire” means that the child has only a brain inflammation as opposed to having a true psychiatric disorder, where the psychiatric disorder is only a symptom and not the disease.

The causes of neuroinflammation are numerous and often combined with each other. Many extra-psychiatric conditions may cause psychiatric disorders. The most common ones are infections, auto-immune encephalitis, toxicity including but not limited to mold, heavy metals, or pesticides.  Metabolic or nutritional factors may also contribute to mental disorders.

Lyme disease and neuropsychiatric disorders in children

Children develop more central nervous system symptoms while adults develop more symptoms from the peripheral nervous system.

The most common manifestations of Lyme disease in children are emotional, cognitive and behavioral. The change of personality is definitely the number one symptom of Lyme disease in children.

Lyme disease may be responsible, according to Robert Bransfield, M.D, psychiatrist, for a wide spectrum of neuropsychiatric symptoms. These may include: developmental disorders, autism spectrum disorders, schizoaffective disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders (panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, OCD), intrusive thoughts, eating disorders, sleep disorders, addiction, cognitive impairment, brain fog, seizure disorders, suicide, violence, social withdrawal, depersonalization, dissociative episodes, and derealization. 20-25% of autistic children in the US have been shown to have Lyme disease.

Children may have difficulty with attention and concentration, speed and efficacy of processing information, learning and memory, auditory processing and language expression. Sleep disorder is common or return to bedwetting or loss of daytime bladder control.

Teenagers may have mood swings, depression, suicidal thoughts, personality changes, sleep problems, poor concentration, cognitive disorder, a loss of interest in school and school activities and interest in family values.

Most children who present with cognitive or psychiatric disorders do not remember a tick bite. They are already in the late phase of the disease. The initial phase may be missing.

The symptoms and severity of symptoms can vary from day to day. A child may feel well enough to go to school one day, but not the next. A psychiatric disorder may be the only symptom. Brian Fallon, M.D, Director of the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University, writes, “Psychiatrists who work in endemic areas need to include Lyme disease in the differential diagnosis of any atypical psychiatric disorder.”

Basal ganglia autoimmune encephalitis (PANDAS/PANS)

Auto-immune encephalitis is characterized by an abrupt onset, often from one day to the next and by the correlation in time between the evidence of an infection and a sudden and acute new onset of a neuropsychiatric disorder.

PANDAS refers to encephalitis due to streptococcal infections, whereas PANS to other infections. The diagnostic criteria of PANDAS/ PANS are to have an abrupt, dramatic onset or recurrence of OCD, acute onset of anorexia and/or severe restrictive eating disorders with at least two of the following symptoms.

  • Anxiety, including new onset of separation anxiety, or hyper-alertness.
  • Behavioral regression (baby talk, tantrums),
  • Emotional lability including suicidal depression, hallucination,
  • Irritability, aggression, raging, severe oppositional behaviors.
  • Hypersensitivity to light, noise, or touch. The child may not tolerate his/her clothing
  • Tics, involuntary movements.
  • Handwriting change
  • Deterioration in school performance and cognitive changes, (difficulty focusing)
  • Sleep disturbances (difficulty falling asleep, night terrors, refusal to sleep alone)
  • Urinary frequency or urgency, new onset of bedwetting

Toxicity

Heavy metals (such as mercury and lead), mycotoxins released by mold, and other environmental toxicants are neurotoxic and may also be responsible for neuropsychiatric disorders.

Post COVID 

Anxiety and depression may be common six months after COVID-19 recovery.

Nutritional and metabolic factors

Glutamate, GABA, histamine, oxalate, copper, zinc, selenium, vitamin Bs in excessive or insufficient amounts, the inability to process folic acid as seen in those who have MTHFR mutations,  have also been associated with mental disorders.

Gut inflammation

The gut-brain axis (GBA) consists of bidirectional communication between the central and the enteric nervous system, linking emotional and cognitive centers of the brain with peripheral intestinal functions. Gut inflammation can cause cognitive and mental health disorders, too.

Conclusion

Wondering whether a mental disorder is either primary or secondary, even when the disorder is well categorized as well known mental disease is the only way to give a chance to convert a lifelong, treatable but not curable, mental illness into a curable disease, to relieve from the social and medical burden of a psychiatric illness.

Dr. Alain Mass is board-certified in family medicine, with a practice in Suffern, New York. He is a member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), the International Society of Environmentally Acquired Illnesses (ISEAI), and the PANDAS Physician Network (PPN). His website is massfunctionalmd.com.

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Autism, Gut Health, Inflammation, Lyme, PANS, Psychological Aspects

Methylene Blue for Lyme: Dr. Jemsek

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Methylene Blue For Lyme

Pharmacist Jay Gill interviews Dr. Joseph Jemsek from the Jemsek Specialty Clinic in Washington DC. Dr. Jemsek treats patients affected by Lyme or other tic born illnesses. In this podcast he talks about his experiences using Methylene Blue for his patients suffering from Lyme Borreliosis Complex.

The podcast will educate you on the history of Methylene Blue and current scientific literature supporting its use for Lyme Disease. While Methylene Blue is not a sole cure for Lyme, Dr. Jemsek has seen great results when used in combination with other Lyme therapies. Dosing, side effects, and contraindications are also reviewed. Interesting to note, low dose Methylene Blue can help with nerve regeneration and may improve mental clarity.

Dr. Gill and Dr. Jemsek both emphasize the importance of using a quality Methylene Blue product. While it can be purchased online, you’d want to ensure you’re receiving the actual prescription-only product by working with an accredited compounding pharmacy.

Go to link for transcript and time markers for topics.

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Bartonella, Inflammation, Lyme, Malaria, Supplements, Treatment