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Study Shows Lyme, Helicobacter Pylori, and Cytomegalovirus Are Risk Factors for All-Cause Mortality in the Elderly

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32648237/

. 2020 Jul 9.

doi: 10.1007/s11357-020-00216-x. Online ahead of print.

Seropositivity for pathogens associated with chronic infections is a risk factor for all-cause mortality in the elderly: findings from the Memory and Morbidity in Augsburg Elderly (MEMO) Study

Marius Zeeb123, Tobias Kerrinnes3, Luka Cicin-Sain4567, Carlos A Guzman4, Wolfram Puppe578, Thomas F Schulz578, Annette Peters19, Klaus Berger10, Stefanie Castell3, André Karch11

Abstract

Immunostimulation by chronic infection has been linked to an increased risk for different non-communicable diseases, which in turn are leading causes of death in high- and middle-income countries. Thus, we investigated if a positive serostatus for pathogens responsible for common chronic infections is individually or synergistically related to reduced overall survival in community dwelling elderly. We used data of 365 individuals from the German MEMO (Memory and Morbidity in Augsburg Elderly) cohort study with a median age of 73 years at baseline and a median follow-up of 14 years. We examined the effect of a positive serostatus at baseline for the following selected pathogens associated with chronic infections on all-cause mortality with multivariable parametric survival models:

  • Helicobacter pylori
  • Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato
  • Toxoplasma gondii
  • cytomegalovirus
  • Epstein-Barr virus
  • herpes simplex virus 1/2, and human herpesvirus 6

We found a reduced survival time in individuals with a positive serostatus for the following pathogens after adjusting for potential confounders:

  • Helicobacter pylori (accelerated failure time (AFT) – 15.92, 95% CI – 29.96; – 1.88)
  • cytomegalovirus (AFT – 22.81, 95% CI – 36.41; – 9.22)
  • Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (AFT – 25.25, 95% CI – 43.40; – 7.10)
The number of infectious agents an individual was seropositive for had a linear effect on all-cause mortality (AFT per additional infection – 12.42 95% CI – 18.55; – 6.30).

Our results suggest an effect of seropositivity for Helicobacter pylori, cytomegalovirus, and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato on all-cause mortality in older community dwelling individuals. Further research with larger cohorts and additional biomarkers is required, to assess mediators and molecular pathways of this effect.

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**Comment**

Recently I posted this article and that Cytomegalovirus, EBV, and Herpes Virus 6 has been found in those with ME/CFS:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/23/cytomegalovirus-ebv-and-human-herpesvirus-6-infections-in-patients-with-me-cfs/

Some have been misdiagnosed with EBV but had Lyme:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/04/11/diagnosed-with-ebv-had-lyme/

Dr. Waisbren, an IDSA founder and Wisconsin Doctor found that his Lyme patients often had high EBV titers:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/09/idsa-founder-used-potent-iv-antibiotics-for-chronic-lyme/

Another important finding: The more pathogens a patient tested positive for, the higher the mortality, demonstrating that coinfected patients are sicker.

 

 

 

 

Category:

Lyme, research, Viruses

Possible Role for Ascorbic Acid in COVID-19

A Possible Role for Ascorbic Acid in COVID-19

Jorge R Miranda-Massari
Michael J Gonzalez
Víctor A. Marcial-Vega
Jorge Duconge Soler

pdf here: A_Possible_Role_for_Ascorbic_Acid_in_COVID-19

Excerpt:

IV ascorbic acid has a long track record of safety. It has been used historically in the management of viral infections and more recently for sepsis. Ongoing clinical trials in the United States, Canada, China, Italy, and other countries will hopefully support its widespread use for patients with COVID-19 infection in the larger medical community. (See pdf link for entire paper)

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/15/the-functional-medicine-approach-to-covid-19-virus-specific-nutraceutical-botanical-agents/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/08/natural-supplements-vs-coronaviruses/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/20/herbal-treatment-for-covid-19-addendum-buhner/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/13/nutritional-supplements-for-covid-19-prophylaxis-and-symptom-de-escalation/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/11/85-covid-patients-zero-hospitalizations-no-deaths/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/02/successful-covid-19-critical-care-stonewalled-by-cdc/?

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/26/math-protocol-shows-profound-impact-on-survival-from-covid-19/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/22/new-study-hcq-zinc-greatly-reduces-covid-19-health-risk/

In short, COVID is a virus, which means the stronger your body is the more powerfully it can fight to keep you healthy.  Lyme/MSIDS patients have to learn this simple truth in their journey.  If there’s a silver lining in the COVID debacle, it’s that the general population has an opportunity to become educated on health – IF and only IF they do not accept the COVID narrative that is being spun by ‘authorities,’  which essentially is – cower in fear, wear a mask, and wait for our lucrative vaccine.

These ‘authorities’ are the same ones behind the Lyme/MSIDS debacle, following the same narrative: malign everyone else’s tests and treatments and bully doctors into only using things ‘authorities’ approve of.  

I recently posted a paper by none other than Dr. Fauci himself who insists that “Big Science” is the only way to go – sending a clear message to doctors.

Chris Newton explains it here:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/god-precious-randomized-control-trials-rcts-chris-newton/?

My husband and I and thousands of Lyme/MSIDS patients would be dead if it weren’t for doctors willing to treat us without those precious randomized controlled trials.  Right now there are thousands of Lyme/MSIDS patients being treated with Disulfiram/Antabuse based mainly upon 3 case studies and clinical experience.  Many of which are finally getting their health back after decades of suffering.

 

 

Category:

Herbs, research, Supplements, Treatment, Viruses

Researchers Investigating Possible Link Between Vitamin D Deficiency and COVID-19

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-science/2020/07/22/coronavirus-research-study-link-between-vitamin-d-deficiency-covid-19/

Researchers investigating possible link between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19

Amanda Morris

Arizona Republic
Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine lab technician Beverly McCall takes a sample of blood from a COVID-19 clinical study participant.

For months, many of us have stayed home on the advice of health experts, quarantining indoors to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Now some researchers are investigating the possibility that spending a little more time in the sun could actually help prevent COVID-19.

That’s because sunshine is a key ingredient for our bodies to make vitamin D. 

After seeing a correlation between severe COVID-19 patients and vitamin D deficiency, the researchers hypothesized that the vitamin, absorbed through sunlight by the skin, could play a role in helping the body’s immune system fight the novel coronavirus. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

I posted on this back in April and considered it common sense, but I’m discovering common sense isn’t so common.  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/09/you-are-safer-outside-than-inside-disease-expert-criticizes-restrictions/

The article discusses a study of nearly 500 patients and found those with vitamin D deficiencies were nearly twice as likely to test positive for COVID.  I’m not impressed with these findings because the tests are abysmal and not to be trusted..  Plus, testing positive means nothing as you may never even develop symptoms.

What’s important is the  correlation between COVID severity and vitamin D deficiency.

This review https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apt.15777 found:

“When mortality per million is plotted against latitude, it can be seen that all countries that lie below 35 degrees North have relatively low mortality. Thirty‐five degrees North also happens to be the latitude above which people do not receive sufficient sunlight to retain adequate vitamin D levels during winter. This suggests a possible role for vitamin D in determining outcomes from COVID‐19 …

What is helpful in the article is that it reminds the reader that we make less vitamin D as we age and those with darker skin tones (higher melanin content) block UV rays which are required to make vitamin D.  This may explain COVID severity in the black population and why it’s imperative to know your vitamin D levels and to either get sun or supplement.  For those of us in the North, we can’t achieve the amount of sunlight necessary for most of the year and supplementation is required for us to have appropriate vitamin D levels.  Make sure you test before you supplement.

The article goes on to mention a study that showed the following percentages are at risk of low vitamin D

  • 21% of whites
  • 42% of hispanics
  • 73% of blacks

Interestingly, they state the higher rate of vitamin D deficiency in overweight people is due to the fact D is dissolved in fat and isn’t getting into the blood stream.  Another reason to keep your ideal weight.

I will add that not only is sunlight invaluable and the only way to increase vitamin D levels naturally, fresh air (oxygen) unimpeded by masks is also healthy..

Similarly to the attack on HCQ, ‘authorities’ are also coming down on vitamin D:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/02/experts-criticize-government-review-of-vitamin-d-for-covid-19/

Here’s another example of misinformation:  https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/08/cnn-coronavirus-vitamin-d  Within this link Dr. Mercola highly advises you get your vitamin D levels optimal before fall and the seasonal flu.

That’s not to say there aren’t things to know.  Since Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, it’s important to check your levels at least yearly.  For a great read on D and everything you need to know:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/12/the-importance-of-vitamin-d-k-and-magnesium-for-lyme-msids-patients/

Category:

research, Supplements, Viruses

Dane County Catches Up on COVID-19 Testing Backlog, Counts 17,000 More Negative Results – OOPS!

https://wkow.com/2020/07/24/dane-county-catches-up-on-covid-19-testing-backlog-counts-17000-more-negative-results/?

Dane County catches up on COVID-19 testing backlog, counts 17,000 more negative results

JT Cestkowski

MADISON (WKOW) — Public Health Madison and Dane County addressed Friday its struggle to process a backlog of negative COVID-19 test results, skewing its reported infection rates.

According to DHS secratary Andrea Palm, this was a problem plaguing many municipalities across the state.

“As they prioritized those positive cases, negative cases are dragging behind a day or two or even three as they are making sure they’re focusing on stopping the spread,”she said.

In a massive update, the online data dashboard public health maintains added around 17,000 negative test results adjusting the positive rate from the past week down to 2.1 percent. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Important quote:

Public health uses the percent positive rate as one of its metrics in the Forward Dane reopening plan governing how and when certain social distancing measures, including many imposed on businesses, can be relaxed or eliminated.
Our rights have been taken away due to inflated, inaccurate case numbers.
Again, testing positive for COVID means nothing.  The tests are abysmally inaccurate.  Even if you test positive and truly have COVID, you may not have any symptoms at all or very mild ones.
Time for the hype and fear-mongering to end.

Category:

Activism, Viruses

Frontline Doctors On Censorship: We’re Coming After You Big Tech – We Will Not Be Silenced!

https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/frontline-doctors-on-censorship-were-coming-after-you-big-tech-we-will-not-be-silenced/

July 29, 2020

Frontline Doctors on Censorship: We’re Coming After You Big Tech – We will Not be Silenced!

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Less than 24 hours after the Frontline Doctors first press conference in Washington D.C. was censored and removed from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, and after having their own website knocked offline in an attempt to silence them, the doctors were back in front of the steps of the Supreme Court building today (Tuesday, July 28, 2020) for their second press conference, at great risk to their lives, their families, and their jobs, as they remained determined to bring the truth directly to the American people that a cure for COVID exists, and that the public does not need to cower in fear anymore.

While the corporate media continues to blacklist the group of doctors and refuses to cover their press conferences, some hecklers showed up to try and drown out the speakers.

The fact that these doctors are seeing a 100% cure rate for COVID patients is a message Big Pharma, Big Tech, and their political leaders do not want the public to hear. Because it would mean that their drugs and their coming vaccines are worthless and unnecessary.

They do not want healthy Americans. They want sick Americans cowering in fear so they can control us for their own purposes.

Dr. Simone Gold was the first doctor to speak today, and she said:

We are finally coming forward, at great personal and professional costs to ourselves.

We’re tired of seeing patients die in front of us, and we’re even more upset to see the spider web of fear that is enveloping the American public.

When there’s a treatment, there’s a cure. People have been afraid to say that.

But what else do you call it if you give somebody the medication early, and it aborts the disease process?

We’re coming after you Big Tech. We’re coming after you.

We won’t be silenced. The First Amendment is first for a reason. There’s thousands of us.

Dr. Richard Erso was another doctor who spoke today:

We cannot let our patients die without treatment. And that’s the major thing that’s happened.

We’ve been told to hide in our houses, wear a mask, and wait for a vaccine.

That’s not a strategy. We have a strategy.

Hydroxychloroquine works. Withholding it from patients is shameful.

Watch the full press conference as filmed by Breitbart News (let us know if it disappears).

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Dr. Stella Immanuel from Houston, Texas, has been at both press conferences, and put out a video asking all patients who have been helped by Hydroxychloroquine to come forward and share their stories.

From her Twitter account:

Dr. Simone Gold’s Tweet about their website being shut down:

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**Comment**
I woke up to this today:  https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/87797?xid=nl_popmed_2020-  It’s essentially a hit-piece to discredit these doctors who are speaking out against the accepted narrative.
Yet, for anyone who reads from this website knows: HCQ, especially with zinc and azithromycin have saved thousands of COVID patients’ lives.
Dr. Zelenko, a New York doctor, has successfully treated 1,450 COVID-19 patients with a 99% success rate using a cocktail of hydroxychloroquine, Zinc Sulfate and Azithromycin:  https://techstartups.com/2020/04/21/dr-vladimir-zelenko-now-treated-1450-coronavirus-patients-2-deaths-using-hydroxychloroquine-99-99-success-rate-latest-video-interview/  Video with Zelenko in link.
There are other treatments that are working just as effectively, but ‘authorities’ are censoring them just as badly as HCQ:

It certainly appears from where I sit that ‘authorities’ really don’t want people to get better (much like with Lyme/MSIDS) but to cower in fear and wait for their lucrative treatments and vaccines.  Don’t be fooled by these tyrants that follow a predictable script:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/26/cdc-playbook-learning-from-lyme/

Category:

Activism, Treatment, Viruses