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FREE Webinar: Impact of Gut Microbiome on Immunity & Inflammation

May 11, 2022

https://info.allergyresearchgroup.com/impact-of-the-gut-microbiome-on-immunity-and-inflammation-webinar

Impact of the Gut Microbiome on Immunity and Inflammation

Description

The gut microbiome consists of a complex set of microbial communities that shape human physiology in multiple ways, both subtle and profound. Two-thirds of the body’s lymphocytes reside in gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) or traverse GALT and return home to other organs. Interaction between gut microbes and GALT creates a basal state of immune activation that starts at the mucosal surface and impacts the entire body. The composition and metabolic activity of intestinal microbes yields effects that promote inflammation and that help resolve inflammation. These effects result from the impact of structural components of microbial cells (e.g., lipopolysaccharides) and metabolites of microbial enzyme activity (e.g., butyrate, hydrogen sulfide).

Recent studies have shown that T-lymphocyte function is especially sensitive to the bacterial composition of the microbiome. The structure and function of the gut microbiome is molded by personal genetics, diet, co-habitation, environmental toxins, hygiene, personal care products, psychosocial stress, intercurrent infections, vitamin D, tryptophan metabolites, nutritional status, medications, herbs, probiotics, and prebiotics. Disturbances in the ecology of the microbiome/host relationship create a condition called dysbiosis, which influences the development and the outcome of many different diseases. The ability to recognize and correct dysbiosis is a skill that can help clinicians improve the outcomes of infectious, allergic, and autoimmune disorders and may aid the immunotherapy of malignancy.

We hope you can join us live on May 18th at 4 PM MT. If not, don’t worry, signing up will still grant you access to the webinar recording.

Time

2022-05-18 16:00:00 MT

Speaker:

Leo Galland, M.D., is recognized as a world leader in functional and integrative medicine and a pioneer in the study of intestinal permeability and the gut microbiome as they impact immune function and systemic health. Educated at Harvard University and the NYU School of Medicine, he completed a residency in internal medicine at the N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center and held faculty positions at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Stony Brook University and the University of Connecticut, where he also completed a fellowship in Behavioral Medicine. He subsequently served as Director of Clinical Research at the Gesell Institute of Human Development in New Haven, Connecticut. Since 1985, he has maintained a private consulting practice in New York City where he evaluates and treats patients with complex medical disorders, who visit him from all over the world. Board certified in internal medicine, he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Nutrition. Dr. Galland has received the Albert Norris Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who for his contributions to medical innovation and the Linus Pauling Award from the Institute of Functional Medicine for developing basic principles of functional medicine. He is recognized in The Leading Physicians of the Worldand America’s Top Doctors. Dr. Galland has contributed to world medical literature with several dozen articles in scientific journals and chapters in medical textbooks. He created the section on Functional Foods for the Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition. An international best-selling author, Dr. Galland has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, on the Dr. Oz Show, The Today Show, and Good Morning America, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. His PBS Special, The Allergy Solution, aired over a thousand times. Since January 2020, he has studied the COVID-19 pandemic in depth, compiling his findings in an online, extensively referenced and free Coronavirus Guidebook, and has created educational videos on the long COVID syndrome.

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The Bartonella Discovery Program

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The Bartonella Discovery Program

Global Lyme Alliance (GLA) Chief Scientific Officer, Timothy Sellati, PhD

Learn about an exciting research project that Global Lyme Alliance is fundraising for. It will uncover the “stealth” pathogen known as Bartonella that many Americans may carry. This study can help children, parents, and grandparents who suffer from psychiatric & neurological problems, among other physical illnesses. Learn more and donate at GLA.org/bartonella

https://www.globallymealliance.org/videos/dr.-sellati-explains-the-bartonella-discovery-program

Global Lyme Alliance (GLA) has launched a crowdfunding campaign in honor of Lyme Disease Awareness Month in May. GLA will use this campaign to bring attention to another debilitating illness that also affects many people with Lyme disease. The study will look at hidden bacteria known as Bartonella, a vector-borne pathogen that many Americans may carry. Bartonella can cause Bartonellosis, an infectious disease that can affect the brain, eyes, heart, and other organs. Bartonellosis can cause depression, anxiety, OCD, and encephalitis (which can result in seizures and coma).

Like Lyme disease, Bartonellosis is increasing in prevalence and can also go undiagnosed due to lack of awareness. Current antibiotic therapy for complicated Bartonellosis does not always eradicate the disease, and patients continue to suffer. The Bartonella Discovery Program is a project designed to help achieve the following:

To identify how Bartonella species interact with a patient’s immune cells, and how the intracellular, extracellular and biofilm lifestyles of Bartonella influence antibiotic susceptibility
To lay the foundation for drug discovery efforts to find antibiotic options that are more effective in killing and clearing these bacteria from patients
To use cutting edge tools to look for the bacteria in kids and young adults who suffer from an acute neuropsychological condition called PANS, and in older adults with dementia.

“The importance of this study cannot be overstated because of the severe neuroinflammation and neuropsychiatric disorders some patients can suffer when infected with Bartonella bacteria,” says GLA’s Chief Scientific Officer Tim Sellati, PhD.

The U.S.-focused study is multinational and multi-site at premier academic institutions using top Bartonella and biofilm experts. Associate Professor Monica Embers, PhD, a microbiologist and immunologist at the Tulane National Primate Research Center who has studied the persistence of tick-borne infectious diseases despite antibiotic therapy, is The Bartonella Discovery Program Director. When asked about the impact this program could have on patients,

Dr. Embers said, “With this project, we aim to use sensitive detection methods to directly find the bacteria in patients who are suffering from clinical disease consistent with Bartonellosis.   This could tremendously impact patients who suffer from chronic disease that has been difficult to diagnose because if we can reliably detect the bacteria, it would offer direct evidence to support the diagnosis.”

Learn more and donate by clicking the link button below.

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Global Lyme Alliance

Email: info@globallymealliance.org

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The Global Pandemic Treaty: What You Need to Know

May 10, 2022

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World Economic Forum: Davos, Switzerland

Blatant Hypocrisy Displayed in Real-Time

The peons are warned that there will be some pain involved in following the plan set forward by the elites for our own good.

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Dutch Politician & MEP Marcel de Graff

How the COVID ‘Pandemic’ is Being Used by the WEF to Obtain Power

Please read “Dozens of Governments Commit to Signing WHO Pandemic Treaty.” The Biden Administration is amending the WHO’s International Health Regulation (IHR), with the explicit purpose of increasing the surveillance capacity of the WHO and expanding its power to enforce their regulations. This would give the WHO power to:

dictate how doctors can respond, and which drugs & vaccines to use, making medicine a “one size fits all” approach – similarly to how they handled COVID.
make governments impose domestic lockdowns

Important excerpt:

As for the stated amendments being proposed, the Biden administration is recommending the following: intensifying health surveillance; creating a global communication network that is in a constant state of assessing risks and reporting to the WHO; giving the WHO the authority to tell other member states when one member state isn’t reporting in and recommending they take action; giving Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus the authority to declare when a pandemic or emergency is occurring; giving the WHO the authority to determine what steps a country should take in its pandemic response; and giving the WHO the ability to mobilize capital in the event of a pandemic.

A recent WHO White Paper states the organization intends to create a “Global Health Emergency Council” that will include a “Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations” that will hasten the process of making more amendments in the future.

The WHO has contracted German-based Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems to develop a global vaccine passport system, with plans to link every person on the planet to a QR code digital ID.

And playing right along with the dystopian dream, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla called for microchipped medicine designed to enforce ‘compliance’ at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Go here to sign the petition against this WHO overreach: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2022/03/09/sign-petition-us-sovereignty-on-the-line-as-nations-negotiate-pandemic-treaty/

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https://www.corbettreport.com/globaltreaty/ Video Here (Approx. 1 hour 20 Min)

April 27th, 2022

The World Health Organization has already begun drafting a global pandemic treaty on pandemic preparedness. What form will it take? What teeth will it have? How will it further the globalists in cementing the biosecurity grid into place? James breaks it down in today’s episode of The Corbett Report podcast.

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For those interested in audio quality, CLICK HERE for the highest-quality version of this episode (WARNING: very large download).

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Allopathic “Medicine” is NOT Above the Law

**UPDATE May 2022**

Tennessee nurse, RaDonda Vaught, was sentenced to 3 years of supervised probation, evading a possible prison sentence of up to 8 years. The lighter than expected sentence sparked criticism from the nursing community that feels they are above the law and offered all kinds of excuses including insufficient staffing and a negative workplace culture.

If you are unfamiliar with the details of the sentencing of nurse RaDonda Vaught for felony reckless medical homicide and abuse of an impaired adult see this article. To be clear Vaught was found guilty of two (negligent homicide and gross neglect) of the three counts on March 25, 2022. She awaits sentencing where she faces up to eight years in prison. Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in the United States.

Former Nurse Radonda Vaught’s Conviction Proves Allopathic “Medicine” is NOT Above the Law

Incredibly, allopathic physicians decry that a nurse’s conviction for “gross neglect of an impaired adult and negligent homicide” is somehow going to make their profession “worse”.

James Lyons-Weiler

May, 9 2022

In an incredible display of prototypical allopathic hubris, the American Nurses Association issued a statement in response to the conviction of a nurse for “gross neglect of an impaired adult and negligent homicide” of a 75-year old patient.

Their statement read, in part, that they believe that the conviction sets a “dangerous precedent” of “criminalizing the honest reporting of mistakes.” They go on the claim that some medical errors are “inevitable,” citing nebulous and undefined more “effective and (more) just mechanisms” than criminal prosecution to address medical negligence.

I’ve written before about the dangers of having two sets of laws, and have compared medical boards to the Taliban who act to enforce devout compliance to whatever version of “medicine” they happen to have the most faith in this month. They persecute ethical physicians who tell the truth. They reward physicians who lie to their patients about vaccine injury & death risk.

The American Nurses Association complained that “(t)he nursing profession is already extremely short-staffed, strained and facing immense pressure — an unfortunate multi-year trend that was further exacerbated by the effects of the pandemic” and that “(t)his ruling will have a long-lasting negative impact on the profession.”

The “profession” of allopathic medicine has acted as if they are above the law for decades, treating criminal acts of their members as if they were internal matters. In my book, Cures vs. Profits I outlined the case of Dr. Farid Fata of Michigan, a cancer physician who, at age 50, pleaded guilty in 2015 to subjecting patients to cancer treatments who he had intentionally misdiagnosed with a terminal blood cancer called multiple myeloma. Some of the patients died (e.g., Kenneth Paul Loewen, RIP, d62) as a side effect of the chemotherapies he ordered for them. Fata was never charged with murder, or even manslaughter. In 2015, he pleaded guilty to 13 counts of Medicare fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay or receive kickbacks, and two counts of money laundering.

Over 550 families have filed information on Fata’s malpractice. In all, Fatah administered over 9,000 doses of unnecessary medicine. In May 2020, the convicted killer had the gall to apply for early “compassionate release” – get this – to avoid contracting COVID-19 in prison. His request was, justly, denied.

Other physicians get by via slick language manipulation, right under the noses of the citizens, their representatives, and the legal system. Take, for example, the current case. Directly from the nurse’s association statement: “We are deeply distressed by this verdict and the harmful ramifications of criminalizing the honest reporting of mistakes.”

The convicted felon, RaDonda Vaught, was never charged with “honest reporting of mistakes”. She was charged with “gross neglect of an impaired adult and negligent homicide”. Let that sink in. The American Nurses Association is trying to use DoubleSpeak to convey a completely different meaning of the former nurse’s conviction. Their language shows contempt for the US legal system.

The nurses who want no accountability to society for illegal actions include Janie Harvey Garner, founder of “Show Me Your Stethoscope”, a nursing group on Facebook with more than 600,000 members. She is cited in this story as stating that she is worried “the conviction will have a chilling effect on nurses disclosing their own errors or near errors, which could have a detrimental effect on the quality of patient care”.

The problem is not just hubris. It’s not just ignorance. It’s IRRATIONALITY. The value of feedback from society on what is working, and what is not working, which practices and medicine are safe, and which are not, is invaluable information that allopathic medicine should have been using all along to improve their industry. They have abandoned (literally) their oath to first, do no harm; they turned for profit in the mid-1980’s, and instead of heeding the warnings and feedback from patients and their families, they spend millions on denialist programs to hide the darkest parts of their industry and narcissistically gas-light and blame their victims.

Allopathy has proven that it cannot learn from its own internal system of “justice”. In their topsy-turvy world, there’s a thin white line: Medical boards penalize doctors and nurses for honest reporting of vaccine injury and death, but only prosecute medical negligence in the most egregious cases. The rest is swept out of sight by settlements paid out via medical malpractice insurance.

Some people cannot stand by silently while humanity is pushed through the allopathic sieve and ground to dust by fixed protocols and intentional misdiagnoses done for profit.

THIS is why over 100,000 nurses have left the “profession”. It’s not “unfortunate”. It’s a long overdue course correction in medical ethics.

It’s also about time society lay down the letter of the law. Kill us, and we’ll hold you accountable.

It’s time that those who still practice allopathic “medicine” take this message – and lesson – to heart and start using their brains.

It’s time you learn from your mistakes instead of burying them. It’s time that allopathic medical professionals with warped views of reality stop acting like spoiled brats and start acting like professionals.

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Self-Image & Memory Loss

https://www.globallymealliance.org/blog/dear-lyme-warrior…help-self-image-and-memory-loss

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As a Lyme warrior, how do I love and forgive this new version of myself, even though it’s not who I am at my core?

Lyme and other tick-borne diseases can change our lives drastically, especially with cases that go undiagnosed for a long time, or that hang on through months or years of treatment. Highly ambitious, highly active people might find themselves bedridden and unable to support themselves. I went from teaching full-time and skiing steep and deep terrain to living with my parents, barely able to climb a flight of stairs or read a paragraph. Unable to work or do the activities I loved, I began to question my purpose—even my very identity.

Here’s what I ultimately learned: my job and my capabilities only defined me if I let them. Of course, you feel sad, angry, and frustrated by the ways illness is holding you back. But ask yourself, besides skill, what did you bring to your job or activities? Was it a gregarious personality? An optimistic outlook? A sense of humor? Those qualities make up who you are at your core. I realized I could still lend a compassionate ear to a friend, find the humor in a ridiculous situation, or hold on to faith that things would get better, even when I was at my sickest.

It took many years of treatment, a shattering relapse, and many lifestyle changes for me to reach the state of remission I’ve now enjoyed for over a decade. Despite minor flare-ups, I have gotten better and better each year, able to do more and more. Am I back to my old life? No. But I’ve brought my old self into my new life—which includes working part-time, skiing, and living independently. I still lend a compassionate ear to a friend, find the humor in a ridiculous situation, and hold on to faith that things will get better. I’d argue that I love my core self even more for all that she’s survived, and for the vibrant new normal that she’s created.

You ask how to forgive yourself—and to that I must reply, for what? Now, this is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black, because I spent years blaming myself for my illness, beating myself up for not taking better care of myself, going over and over and over what I could or should or would have done. But I didn’t cause my illnesses; a tick did. I didn’t cause my symptoms; pathogens did. Are there ways I could have better cared for myself, or times when I took my frustration out on others that I feel badly about? Sure. But I’m human. We are all works in progress. I believe that extending compassion and grace to myself has allowed me to accept illness and its effects as just parts of my life—not the definition of who I am.

It may help to write about who you are at your core: what makes you who you are? How can you bring those qualities into your new, evolving life? You might also try writing a love letter to yourself, or even to your illness. Finally, it may be helpful do some cognitive behavioral therapy with a therapist who understands tick-borne illness.

Did you start to have a temper with your memory problems?

Before Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, and possible bartonella ravaged my brain, my memory was incredibly sharp. Thankfully, I still have a very strong long-term memory, which certainly helped as I was writing my memoir. But my short-term memory was affected by tick-borne illness, and that has been incredibly frustrating. If you find yourself getting upset when you can’t remember someone’s name, or yelling at yourself when you pour orange juice on your cereal, know that you are not alone. It’s normal to get mad when an illness is robbing you of what you know to be your normal capacity.

It’s also important to know that tick-borne diseases can cause psychiatric manifestations, including angry outbursts. If you’re feeling short-tempered, it may be a reaction to symptoms, but it also may be a symptom in and of itself. Finally, you must remember that fighting tick-borne illness takes a lot of energy, meaning you have none left over when something small but frustrating happens. This can cause what some people refer to as “Lyme rage,” that is, having an immediate temper flare over something that otherwise wouldn’t rattle you.

There’s no shame in talking to your LLMD about temper flares; your doctor may be able to alter your medications to help you. It also may help to see a Lyme Literate psychiatrist, and/or to talk to a therapist to figure out good coping skills when your temper does flare. Each of these steps helped me. My memory issues have improved as my tick-borne illnesses have abated. I still have moments of extreme frustration, but they’re fewer and farther between. With the right support, things can get better!

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Jennifer Crystal

Opinions expressed by contributors are their own. Jennifer Crystal is a writer and educator in Boston. Her work has appeared in local and national publications including Harvard Health Publishing and The Boston Globe. As a GLA columnist for over six years, her work on GLA.org has received mention in publications such as The New Yorker, weatherchannel.com, CQ Researcher, and ProHealth.com. Jennifer is a patient advocate who has dealt with chronic illness, including Lyme and other tick-borne infections. Her memoir about her medical journey is forthcoming. Contact her via email below.

Email: lymewarriorjennifercrystal@gmail.com

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It’s a frightening thing to suddenly forget words or why you are standing in a room. Lyme/MSIDS does a number on you in virtually every way possible. Finding support during this time helps keep sanity. Just knowing others struggle with similar things is cathartic and gives you hope for recovery. I’m happy to report that after 5 years of treatment and a few relapses I have my cognitive capabilities back and no longer struggle with them.

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FREE Webinar: Impact of Gut Microbiome on Immunity & Inflammation