https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=95720

Pathogenic Mycoplasma Infections in Chronic Illnesses: General Considerations in Selecting Conventional and Integrative Treatments

Author(s)  Garth L. Nicolson
Department of Molecular Pathology, The Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, California, USA.

ABSTRACT

The presence of pathogenic mycoplasmas in various chronic illnesses and their successful suppression using conventional and integrative medicine approaches are reviewed. Evidence gathered over the last three decades has demonstrated the presence of pathogenic mycoplasma species in the blood, body fluids and tissues from patients with a variety of chronic clinical conditions: atypical pneumonia, asthma and other respiratory conditions; oral cavity infections; urogenital conditions; neurodegenerative and neurobehavioral diseases; autoimmune diseases; immunosuppressive diseases; inflammatory diseases; and illnesses and syndromes of unknown origin, such as fatiguing illnesses.
Only recently have these small intracellular bacteria received attention as possible causative agents, cofactors or opportunistic infections or co-infections in these and other conditions. Their clinical management is often inadequate, primarily because of missed diagnosis, under- and inadequate treatment and the presence of persister or dormant microorganisms due to biofilm, resistence and other mechanisms.
Pathogenic Mycoplasma species infections have been suppressed slowly by anti-microbial and integrative treatments, resulting in gradual reductions in morbidity, but not in every patient. Even if mycoplasmas are not a cause or an initial trigger for many chronic illnesses, they appear to play important roles in the inception, progression, morbidity and relapse of chronic illnesses in rather large patient subsets. Ignoring such infections can result in failure to achieve eventual patient recovery, even with application of potentially curative treatments.
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**Comment**
As Dr. Breitshwerdt is the Bart Guru, Dr. Nicolson is the Mycoplasma King.  Both are involved intimately with pathogens that have changed their lives.  We owe these men a great debt as without their expertise and fortitude, we would be completely in the dark.  To read about Dr. Nicolson’s experience with bioweaponized Mycoplasma read the provocative book, “Project Daylily.”  I notice that he dedicated this article to his deceased wife who survived a lethal mycoplasma infection.
Please refer to the full-length article in the link at the top of the story but I’ve highlighted a few things below on how Mycoplasma evades the immune system as well as effective treatment.  There’s much, much more in the full-length article you should understand.
According to Dr. Nicolson, 80% of Lyme/MSIDS patients also have Mycoplasma.
CFS/ME patients according to PCR have various mycoplasmas.
Excerpt from section 2 on Host Response Systems:
Pathogenic mycoplasmas can evade immune recognition and destruction by undergoing rapid surface antigenic variations [7] [27]. Even with their slow intracellular growth rates, by rapidly altering their cell surface antigenic structures as well as modulating host immune responses, pathogenic mycoplasmas can evade host surveillance mechanisms [7] [27]. This helps explain the chronic nature of mycoplasmal infections and the inability of hosts to completely suppress pathogenic mycoplasmal infections via host responses that are effective against other more rapidly growing bacteria [27].
Excerpt from 4.12 Fatiguing Illnesses:
The most common fatiguing illness is chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or myalgic encephalomyelitis. This is an unexplained, long-term, persistent illness characterized by disabling fatigue plus additional signs and symptoms [98] [99]. Most if not all patients with CFS show evidence of chronic viral and bacterial infections (reviewed in [45] [47] ). In fact, the odds ratio for the presence of chronic infections was calculated to be 18.0 (p < 0.001), suggesting that CFS patients have a very high probability of multiple chronic infections [100]. The most commonly found infections (by PCR of blood monocytes) were various pathogenic species of mycoplasmas [100] [101].  M. pneumoniae was the most common mycoplasma species found, followed by M. fermentans, M. hominis, and M. penetrans [101].
Excerpt from Section 5 Treatment of Pathogenic Mycoplasmal Infections:
In many cases mycoplasmal infections are not the definitive infection that defines the condition. An example of this is chronic Lyme disease, a complex clinical condition with Borrelia species as the prominent infectious agent but with other bacterial, parasite, and viral components as co-infections [47] [119] [120] [121]. Pathogenic mycoplasmal co-infections are important in such multiple infection diseases, being present in up to 80% of chronic Lyme diseases cases [120] [122].
Excerpt from Section 5.1 Antimicrobial Treatments:

The conventional antimicrobial treatments of pathogenic mycoplasmal infections usually involve systemic therapy with oral antibiotics, but the choice of antibiotic(s) depends to a certain degree on the mycoplasma species being treated. Since mycoplasmas do not have a cell wall, antibiotics that act on cell wall synthesis are ineffective [2] [3] [7] [40] [50] [59] [124] [125]. Instead, mycoplasmas are treated with anti-microbials that attack their metabolism, replication, synthetic machinery or other specific bacterial targets. Since most mycoplasmas and ureaplasmas are generally sensitive to tetracyclines (doxycycline, minocycline, among others), with some notable exceptions, these should be considered for frontline treatment, and quinolones (ciprofloxacin, sparfloxacin, levofloxacin, ofloxacin, among others) [125] [126] [127] [128] , as alternative treatment. However, M. pneumoniae and M. genitalium strains are especially sensitive to macrolides (azithromycin, clarithromycin, erythromycin, among others), whereas M. hominis strains are usually resistant [126] [127] [128]. Ureaplasmas are moderately susceptible to macrolides [127] [128]. M. hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum are generally more resistant to tetracyclines than other species [129] [130] , and M. hominis strains have been observed to be resistant to quinolones [131]. Some discussion of these antimicrobials and their uses in treating pathogenic mycoplasmal infections in chronic illnesses can be found in [132] [133] [134].

Treatment of pathogenic mycoplasma infections with oral antibiotics generally involves daily or pulsed treatment, such as every-other-day administration, at the maximum dose recommended for a particular antibiotic [132] [133] [134] [135]. Due to the cyclic nature of mycoplasmal proliferation some organizations recommend every-other-day antibiotic regimens [135].

Another important consideration is antibiotic resistance, which can occur during treatment [132] [138]. A major problem has been the shifting minimum inhibitory dose concentrations required to treat mycoplasmal infections with antibiotics, such as treatment of M. genitalium infections with oral tetracyclines [139]. This requires increasing dose levels or shifting to a different antibiotic regimen [132].

In most chronic illness patients pathogenic mycoplasma infections do not respond quickly to anti-microbial therapy, so long-term therapy must be considered [123] [132] [133] [135].

When antibiotics are used to treat pathogenic mycoplasmal infections, Jarisch-Herxheimer reactions (J-H reactions) usually occur [132] [141]. These are observed as temporary increases in the severity of signs and symptoms, and J-H reactions generally involve fevers, chills, muscle aches, fatigue, skin rashes, pain and other signs and symptoms related to cytokine release [141].

In most patients this has required prolonged treatments that have resulted in very slow recoveries, often requiring a year or more of treatment [48] [121] [123] [132] [133].

There are some alternative procedures that can increase the in vivo effectiveness of antimicrobial therapies. One method that has been used to increase the effectiveness of antibiotics has been the use of agents that increase the penetrability or the intracellular activities or effectiveness of antibiotics or other drugs. For example, the anti-malarial drug Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) has been used to alkalize intracellular compartments and improve antimicrobial entry and cytotoxic effects [121] [132] [145].

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2015/08/12/connecting-dots-mycoplasma/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/02/07/mycoplasma-treatment/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/14/clinical-association-lyme-disease-and-guillain-barre/Epstein-Barr, also known as Mono, is an infection that triggers Guillain-Barre as well as mycoplasma and cytomegalovirus.  http://www.webmd.com/brain/tc/guillain-barre-syndrome-topic-overview#1

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/16/mycoplasma-and-other-intracellular-bacterial-infections-in-rheumatic-diseases-comorbid-condition-or-cause/

LYME PODCAST: 5-WEEK-OLD GIRL WITH LYME DISEASE

Lyme Disease Podcast: 5-week-old girl with Lyme disease

Welcome to an Inside Lyme case study. I find that the best way to get to know Lyme disease is through reviewing actual cases. In this case study, I will be discussing a 5-week old baby girl with Lyme disease. This case series will be discussed on my Facebook and made available on podcast and YouTube.

In this episode, I will be discussing a 5-week old baby girl with Lyme disease.

This case was described in the journal Pediatrics, written by Handel and colleagues in 2019.

This paper reminds parents of the need to look for a tick bite and Lyme disease even in babies. The authors described a healthy 5-week-old girl who was diagnosed with Lyme disease. The baby girl lived in Long Island, New York, an area endemic for Lyme disease.  The baby was rarely outdoors, but the family dog was allowed outdoors. The dog could have brought the baby in contact with the tick.  Other researchers have reported a higher risk of Lyme disease in pet owners.

The parents did not report seeing a tick. Instead, the parents removed “an engorged, black “bug” from behind her left ear six days before symptoms started.” writes Handel. This highlights the difficulties parents can face in recognizing a tick.

The fact that the presumed tick was engorged was also important. The risk of Lyme disease from an engorged tick is much higher.  The number of spirochetes rises as the tick takes a blood meal. The spirochetes in a tick have more time to multiply and migrate from the midgut of the tick to the salivary glands.  The higher numbers of spirochetes in the salivary gland, the more likely the bite will lead to a tick-borne disease.

The baby girl was diagnosed with early disseminated Lyme disease.  The rashes were typical with “multiple flat rings with peripheral blanching erythema, a central clearing, and outward expansion without tenderness or peripheral scaling” writes Handel.  He added, there was also a rash near the bite.  Early disseminated Lyme disease often occurs without the initial erythema migrans rash when the bacteria have already spread throughout the body.

The doctors hospitalized the baby.  The baby had a fever 101.1 and was irritable.  The tick-borne tests were negative, which is common in early Lyme disease. The western blot Lyme disease test was not performed, as the ELISA screen was negative.

The doctors were concerned that the baby might suffer from Lyme meningitis.  This is an uncommon but important concern for the doctor treating Lyme disease.  The spinal tap was not successful. The doctors treated for Lyme meningitis with intravenous antibiotics since they were still concerned the baby might have Lyme meningitis. The baby girl was discharged from the hospital after two weeks of intravenous ceftriaxone.

There were no complications on follow-up, according to the doctor.

The authors noted that there are few cases of babies being treated for tick-borne illnesses in the published literature. That does not mean that young children aren’t contracting tick-borne diseases in practice.  Children under the age of 5 years-of-age are the most likely to be infected with Lyme disease according to the CDC.

What can we learn from this case?

  1. Babies can be infected with a tick-borne infection even with little outdoor exposure.
  2. The family pet can bring a baby into contact with ticks.
  3. It can be difficult to determine if a baby has Lyme meningitis. The spinal tap in this 5-week-old baby girl was unsuccessful.  Even if the spinal tap had been successful, the spinal tap may be negative in neurologic Lyme disease.

What questions does this case raise?

  1. Would it have been helpful if the parents had recognized the “bug” as a tick?
  2. Would the parents or the doctor have recognized Lyme disease if the rash were single or atypicial?  The most common rash is a flat red rash in one study.
  3. Would the baby have been successfully treated with oral antibiotics rather than intravenous antibiotics?
  4. What if the baby did not have a rash? Would the doctor have been willing to use clinical judgment to diagnose Lyme disease in a baby?
  5. Would the IgM western blot test for Lyme disease have been positive if the doctor had ordered a western blot test?  The IgM western blot test is often positive in early Lyme disease.
  6. Would antibiotic treatment at the time of the engorged tick bite have prevented the need for a 24 days hospitalization, a spinal tap, and intravenous antibiotics in the baby girl?
  7. When is it important to perform a spinal tap?
  8. Will the baby girl develop a co-infection like Ehrlichia, Anaplasmosis, and Babesia? This is particularly important as the intravenous ceftriaxone prescribed for the baby would not be effective for these tick-borne infections.
  9. Will two weeks of intravenous antibiotics prevent chronic manifestations of Lyme disease?

TREATING TICK-BORNE DISEASE IN MY PRACTICE

In my practice, each individual requires a careful assessment. That is why I order tests a broad range of tests, including blood counts, liver and kidney function, thyroid disease, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis in addition to tests for tick-borne infections. I also arrange consultations such as neurologists, rheumatologists, and ophthalmologists.

Many patients are complex, as highlighted in this Inside Lyme Podcast series.

We need more doctors with skills diagnosing and treating Lyme disease in children. We could use a reliable test to determine who has Lyme disease and a test to be sure Lyme disease has resolved. We need to determine the best course of treatment for babies.  In this case, were there oral antibiotics that would have been effective? We hope that if a professional sees a baby that they can use this case to remind them to look for Lyme disease and treat accordingly.

We also need to give doctors the freedom to treat these difficult cases without undue interference by colleagues, insurance companies, medical societies, and medical boards.

Inside Lyme Podcast Series

This Inside Lyme case series will be discussed on my Facebook and made available on podcast and YouTube.  As always, it is your likes, comments, and shares that help spread the word about this series and our work. If you can, please leave a review on iTunes or wherever else you get your podcasts.

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References:
  1.  Two Neonates With Postnatally Acquired Tickborne Infections Andrew S. Handel, Harriet Hellman and Saul R. Hymes Pediatrics 2019;144;

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/02/16/emf-home-remediation.aspx?

Your EMF Questions Answered, Part 1

Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checked

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • Brian Hoyer and I answer your questions about electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation. Hoyer is a leading EMF expert and a primary consultant for my new book, “EMF*D,” which is being released today
  • Your bedroom is the most important part of your home in terms of needing EMF shielding. Sleeping in an EMF-free environment is crucial, as this is when your body needs to be in a parasympathetic state, detoxing, repairing and rejuvenating itself
  • The area in which you eat is the second priority, as your body needs to be in a parasympathetic (relaxed) state in order for your digestion to function properly
  • The third priority would be if you’re using a sauna for detoxification. Making sure your sauna has low or no EMF, both magnetic fields and electric fields, is an important consideration, as it will impact your ability to detox
  • The 600-megahertz band that’s been opened up for T-Mobile’s 5G network penetrates deeper and goes farther than any of the 5G networks

In this video, which is Part 1 of a two-part series, Brian Hoyer and I answer your questions about electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation. Brian is a leading EMF expert1 and a primary consultant for my new book, “EMF*D,” which is being released today.

In the video, Brian shares his personal journey and training, which includes nutritional therapy and continued education at the Klinghardt Academy.2 As a nutritional therapist, Brian would see patients that just didn’t seem to fully recuperate.

Once he began implementing EMF shielding techniques taught by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, they’d suddenly experience significant improvements. In some cases, they didn’t even need supplements or certain medications anymore. For example, many patients struggling with leaky gut significantly improved simply by sleeping in a shielded room every single night. Brian says:

“We talk so much … [about] the ancestral way of movement and all those sorts of things. But … what’s the ancestral energetic environment? Now we have all of these modern exposures to these pulsating currents and voltages of electricity in a vastly different frequency range than we’ve ever been exposed to in the history of mankind.

Approaching that whole gamut of energy from this more ancestral perspective, I realized it’s not only what we put into our body. It’s also what we put our body into — this environment — that needs to change. If we can mimic the ancestral environment, then all these dormant healing responses wake up and the body starts to heal itself …

We’ve come up with a priority system on where you need to shield the most to get the most bang for your buck. And then also, what to worry about and what not to worry about when it comes to your EMF exposures, and what you can do when you are exposed.”

Your EMF Questions Answered

We cover a wide variety of really good questions in this interview. Due to the length of the interview, we broke the video into two parts. Part 1 (above) focuses on the first of dozens of questions.

It ended up being a rather extended discussion, as it covers several basics, such as the areas of your home that should be given the greatest priority, the six types of radiation that need to be addressed, and some of the basic remediation strategies for wireless frequencies, electric fields and artificial lighting.

Below, I’ve summarized some of the key points. If you prefer, you can download the free 80-page transcript to get all the details. This and much more is also detailed in my new book, “EMF*D.”

Three Areas of Priority When Shielding

Regardless of where your bedrooms are located, they’re clearly the most important part of your home in terms of needing EMF shielding. If you can create a shielded environment there, then you’re essentially replicating the ancestral environment where there’s no electricity for eight hours or so every night.

This is a crucial time, as this is when your body needs to be in a parasympathetic state, detoxing, repairing and rejuvenating itself.

“In a typical scenario, in a person’s bedroom, their [body] voltage could be anywhere from 500 millivolts at the lowest … up to 10,000, 15,000 millivolts on their body all night long, [so] you’ve got this contraction of your muscles happening,” Brian says.

“Think about the way that electricity impacts the body. How do we restart a heart? We pump voltage into it. It makes your heart muscle contract … I think one of the reasons we’re so magnesium deficient in our modern culture is because we’ve got this constant exposure to this alternating current [causing] micro-contractions all night long and all day long in our muscles.

That depletes us of magnesium, which is trying to relax our muscles. So, we’ve got this constant tension going on all the time. If you have that at night while you’re sleeping, your body can never really get into that full parasympathetic state so that you can actually do the healing and restoration that you need …

Your cortisol is going up, your melatonin is going down, you’re not getting that restorative detoxification of the brain and your lymphatics are not detoxing optimally.”

The area in which you eat is the second priority, as your body needs to be in a parasympathetic (relaxed) state in order for your digestion to function properly. An alternative strategy is to eat at your dinner table, and about an hour afterward, which is when your main digestion is taking place, go into your shielded space and relax for a while. “People who have digestive issues who do that have seen amazing results,” Brian says.

The third priority would be if you’re using a sauna for detoxification. Making sure your sauna has low or no EMF is an important consideration, as it will impact your ability to detox. Working with Sauna Space, Brian has helped develop a shielded near-infrared sauna.

“It’s a drastic reduction in the wireless frequencies that you’re exposed to. It’s basically like having a portable shielded room,” Brian says. “That allows your body to get into a deeper parasympathetic response, deeper detox, and we’ve seen some amazing results in people who are electro-sensitive using these saunas …

For my standards, I want the body to be in a parasympathetic state when you’re in your sauna, so we’re looking at [an EMF reading of] 0.3 milligauss or less in the sauna. That’s the goal.”


Remedial Strategies for 6 Types of EMF Stress

Brian tests homes for six primary stressors:

Wireless frequencies — “Anything from the FM radio station up through about 900 megahertz resonates with the human body and the skin, and the conductivity that’s on the skin,” Brian says, pointing out that while many are worried about the millimeter wave part of 5G, he’s far more concerned about the 600-megahertz band that’s been opened up for T-Mobile’s 5G network.

It penetrates deeper and goes farther than any of the 5G networks. Most cellphone companies have been using 900 to 2000 megahertz, so T-Mobile’s network is a much lower frequency, which allows it to cover a greater area.

“A lot of the assessment is hunting down Wi-Fi sources and telling people how to minimize them. Like don’t leave your printer plugged in and turned on, because it’s always emitting Wi-Fi and you only use your printer, what, once a week? And then Apple TVs, smart TVs — even remotes for the Roku. Sometimes they’ll have Wi-Fi built into them that are constantly emitting,” Brian says.

Electric fields from voltage, wiring in the walls, and appliances and devices plugged into your light sockets.

Most commercial buildings, condos and hotels are not an issue, as building codes require the electrical wiring to be in a metal conduit, which essentially eliminates the electric fields behind the walls. Few residential homes have that, however, as it’s not part of code in most areas.

If you’re building your home, you can install shielded wiring from the start, although it does cost more. If your wiring is not shielded, the solution would be to turn off the electricity, although that still might not solve the problem. In my own home, there was an electric current running through the floor as well, which remained when I turned off the electricity to my bedroom.

“Ultimately, in my experience, everybody needs the RF shielding and wireless protection,” Brian says, “Our solution for that is to have a canopy over the bed that’s a conductive fabric that you can ground, so that the electric fields can’t get in, and something on the floor as well.

The ultimate solution is to paint the bedroom with shielding paint [that’s] grounded as well, so even if the power is on — provided you have nothing plugged into the wall — you are not getting electric fields coming in. And then we have to do the floor as well.”

Magnetic fields occurring from wiring errors, motors, power lines and transformers outside the home, as well as metal pipes with current, usually when you are on a municipal water supply
Dirty electricity
Geopathic stress that comes up from the earth
Artificial lighting (color spectrum and flicker rates). The best types of light bulbs are incandescent bulbs with higher wattage, as they have the most natural color spectrum and lowest flicker rates.

Brian recommends using 100 watt or 150 watt incandescent bulbs whenever possible. But one needs to be careful as they create loads of heat, and many fixtures will not accommodate them. Brian also recommends the 250-watt near-infrared light bulb from Sauna Space, called Photon.3It’s $350 and can be used in your sauna, as a heat lamp and to improve the quality of your indoor lighting.

The testing and assessment Brian’s company, Shielded Healing, offers takes about four hours, and starts at around $1,000 for a studio apartment. For larger homes, tack on $100 per bedroom and per 1,000 square feet. The fee includes a free retest, to make sure all of your remediation strategies are in fact working.

The cost for remediation can vary widely, depending on what you need and whom you hire to do the job. For a typical 12 by 12-foot room, you can expect to pay about $1,000 to $1,500 for shielding materials, depending on how many windows you have, as shielding windows tends to be costly.

While it’s certainly a worthwhile investment that will pay dividends in terms of health, the cost may be too high for many. They still need a solution though. With Brian’s help, my team has created an EMF-shielded sleeping tent, which will be among the most effective yet least expensive approaches available. We hope to have it available before the summer. After three years of development, the final prototype was recently finished.

There’s No Getting Around the Need to Measure Your Exposures

When looking to buy or rent a home, key areas to avoid would be near a cellphone tower or powerline. Higher elevations like hilltops are also typically higher EMF areas, while rural areas tend to have lower saturation (provided you’re not near a cellphone tower).

That said, you cannot identify low-EMF areas simply by looking at the location anymore. Regardless of where you live, you’re likely to have one or more of the EMF stressors reviewed above, and will need to remediate them. In the end, the only way to tell if EMF is a problem in any given location is to measure it.

“We don’t know until we turn on the meters and can measure it,” Brian says. “What I tell people is, yeah, generally speaking, the higher [elevation] you get, the more exposed you will be, but usually you’re going to have to shield anyway.

If you can take an FM radio and get a radio station, you’re being exposed to radio frequency radiation. And even people out in the middle of nowhere, like a national forest, a lot of times they’ll still have radio-frequency exposure.

It’s not natural. It’s not something our ancestors were exposed to and it’s something that you need out of your life at least while you’re sleeping. Go through that priority system we’ve talked about … Mitigate where you can and do some biological inputs using the solutions that we talk about …

You also have to test the ground current that’s going into the ground and the dirty electricity, and if there are wiring errors. You need a really good screening tool in order to pick the right property. Also, rule out a massive exposure that’s going to be more difficult to shield. We have come across that in some of the inner-city areas where it’s really high …”

In an article on his blog, he adds:4

“It’s important to understand that the PULSATION isn’t natural. We don’t receive modulated digital radio frequencies in nature. We get analog signals and they are MUCH weaker. The strongest radio signals we receive from natural sources from the cosmos are about a ONE HUNDRED BILLIONTH OF A WATT.

That means 1 microwatt of RF energy is about 1 million times stronger than the strongest RF pulse we would have received ancestrally.”

Everyone Needs EMF Shielding

A key take-home message here is that virtually everyone needs to consider doing EMF remediation these days. Everyone needs an EMF-free space, at least during sleep, in order to prevent accelerated aging and everything that goes with it.

Remember, your body rejuvenates and detoxes during sleep, but if your body is bombarded with EMFs all night long, it won’t be able to effectively perform those crucial cleanout and regenerative functions. To learn more, be sure to download the transcript of this discussion. We cover questions like:

What meter do you need to measure the six EMF stressors and what are the ideal, healthy levels? How can you protect yourself from your neighbor’s Wi-Fi?
What’s the greatest, most harmful source of EMF exposure? Why is it that partial shielding can make the situation worse rather than better?
What produces most of the dirty electricity in your home and what’s the most effective way to filter it? Are AirPods, wireless battery-operated headsets and hearing aids safe to wear all day?
How can you protect yourself from the EMF in your car? Do EMF-shielding clothing actually work?
Which supplements can help ward off the negative effects of EMF, and how do they work? Can you watch TV without Wi-Fi?
Will a satellite Wi-Fi dish expose you to harmful EMF? Could 5G worsen autoimmune diseases or chronic infections such as Lyme disease?
What are the two most common EMF exposures in most homes, and how do you remediate them?

For the answers to these and many other questions, be sure to watch Part 1 and Part 2 of this interview, or download the 55-page transcript.

Great news! On February 20, 2020, Wisconsin passed AB546 on the Floor of the Assembly.  Now the companion bill, SB492, will need to pass the Senate before the end of session in March.  The Senate has already had a public hearing on the bill and is awaiting an Executive Committee vote.

A big heartfelt thankyou to Representative Felzkowski and her staff for her strong advocacy and for her expertise and personal story in supporting complementary and alternative health care services protected under the bill.

Send a Thank You to your Representative here.  Wisconsin is close to becoming the 12th Safe Harbor state!  Thank you to everyone who has joined NHFA and Wisconsin Health Freedom Coalition in getting the bill this far and who remains optimistic and active in getting it past the finish line!  This proactive, solution-oriented legislation is needed to protect consumer access to unlicensed practitioners who provide complementary health care services in Wisconsin, including herbalists, traditional naturopaths, homeopaths, nutrition consultants, and many others.

Together we can protect complementary and alternative health care practitioners who are vulnerable to being charged criminally for practicing medicine – or another licensed health care profession – without a license.  And, in turn, your right to access and utilize their wonderful healing services.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04264533

Brief Summary:

2019 new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infected pneumonia, namely severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) has caused global concern and emergency. There is a lack of effective targeted antiviral drugs, and symptomatic supportive treatment is still the current main treatment for SARI.

Vitamin C is significant to human body and plays a role in reducing inflammatory response and preventing common cold. In addtion, a few studies have shown that vitamin C deficiency is related to the increased risk and severity of influenza infections.

We hypothize that Vitamin C infusion can help improve the prognosis of patients with SARI. Therefore, it is necessary to study the clinical efficacy and safety of vitamin C for the clinical management of SARI through randomized controlled trials during the current epidemic of SARI.

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
Vitamin CPneumonia, ViralPneumonia, Ventilator-Associated Drug: Vit CDrug: Water for infusion Phase 2

Detailed Description:

At the end of 2019, patients with unexplained pneumonia appeared in Wuhan, China. At 21:00 on January 7, 2020, a new coronavirus was detected in the laboratory, and the detection of pathogenic nucleic acids was completed at 20:00 on January 10. Subsequently, the World Health Organization officially named the new coronavirus that caused the pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan as 2019 new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), and the pneumonia was named severe acute respiratory infection (SARI). Up to February 4, 2020, over 20000 cases have been diagnosed in China, 406 of which have died, and 154 cases have been discovered in other countries around the world. Most of the deaths were elderly patients or patients with severe underlying diseases. SARI has caused global concern and emergency.

Statistics of the 41 patients with SARI published in JAMA initially showed that 13 patients were transferred into the ICU, of which 11 (85%) had ARDS and 3 (23%) had shock. Of these, 10 (77%) required mechanical ventilation support, and 2 (15%) required ECMO support. Of the above 13 patients, 5 (38%) eventually died and 7 (38%) were transferred out of the ICU. Viral pneumonia is a dangerous condition with a poor clinical prognosis. For most viral infections, there is a lack of effective targeted antiviral drugs, and symptomatic supportive treatment is still the current main treatment.

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, has antioxidant properties. When sepsis happens, the cytokine surge caused by sepsis is activated, and neutrophils in the lungs accumulate in the lungs, destroying alveolar capillaries. Early clinical studies have shown that vitamin C can effectively prevent this process. In addition, vitamin C can help to eliminate alveolar fluid by preventing the activation and accumulation of neutrophils, and reducing alveolar epithelial water channel damage. At the same time, vitamin C can prevent the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps, which is a biological event of vascular injury caused by neutrophil activation. Vitamins can effectively shorten the duration of the common cold. In extreme conditions (athletes, skiers, art workers, military exercises), it can effectively prevent the common cold. And whether vitamin C also has a certain protective effect on influenza patients, only few studies have shown that vitamin C deficiency is related to the increased risk and severity of influenza infections. In a controlled but non-randomized trial, 85% of the 252 students treated experienced a reduction in symptoms in the high-dose vitamin C group (1g / h at the beginning of symptoms for 6h, followed by 3 * 1g / day). Among patients with sepsis and ARDS, patients in the high-dose vitamin group did not show a better prognosis and other clinical outcomes. There are still some confounding factors in the existing research, and the conclusions are different.

Therefore, during the current epidemic of SARI, it is necessary to study the clinical efficacy and safety of vitamin C for viral pneumonia through randomized controlled trials.

Study Design
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Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Estimated Enrollment : 140 participants
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Vitamin C Infusion for the Treatment of Severe 2019-nCoV Infected Pneumonia: a Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial
Estimated Study Start Date : February 10, 2020
Estimated Primary Completion Date : September 30, 2020
Estimated Study Completion Date : September 30, 2020
Arms and Interventions
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Arm Intervention/treatment
Experimental: Vit C

24g Vitamin C+water for injection, total volume 50ml. 7ml/h; infusion pump.
Drug: Vit C

24g Vitamin C will be infused in the experimental group per day for 7 days by the infusion pump with a speed of 7ml/h.
Other Name: Vitamin C
Placebo Comparator: Water for injection

50ml water for injection. 7ml/h; infusion pump.
Drug: Water for infusion

50ml water for infusion will be infused in the placebo comparator group per day for 7 days by the infusion pump with a speed of 7ml/h.
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures :

  1. Ventilation-free days [ Time Frame: on the day 28 after enrollment ]
    days without ventilation support during 28 days after patients’ enrollment
Secondary Outcome Measures :

  1. 28-days mortality [ Time Frame: on the day 28 after enrollment ]
    wether the patient survives
  2. ICU length of stay [ Time Frame: on the day 28 after enrollment ]
    days of the patients staying in the ICU
  3. Demand for first aid measuments [ Time Frame: on the day 28 after enrollment ]
    t t the rate of CPR
  4. Vasopressor days [ Time Frame: on the day 28 after enrollment ]
    days of using vasopressors
  5. Respiratory indexes [ Time Frame: on the day 10 and 28 after enrollment ]
    P O2/Fi O2 which reflects patients’ respiratory function
  6. Ventilator parameters [ Time Frame: on the day 10 and 28 after enrollment ]
    Ecmo or ventilator
  7. APACHE II scores [ Time Frame: on the day 10 after enrollment ]
    Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation
  8. SOFA scores [ Time Frame: on the day 10 after enrollment ]
    Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment