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What presents with acute ascending paralysis bilaterally, starting in the feet?
GBS

What infectious agent do you suspect if your pt presents with bilateral facial neuropathy?
Borrelia burgdorferi

What's a common incorrect treatment for trigeminal neuralgia?
dentists pull teeth unnecessarily

Self-quiz from Miller's notes )
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The bad news is that this increase is only the beginning--the curve is headed for the ceiling. I find it remarkable that my current Harvard-educated nutrition teacher talks about the health value of eating fish without expressing concern about mercury content. The research hasn't penetrated his consciousness yet. But it will.

I've stopped eating sushi since I tested with high mercury, arsenic, and very high lead levels, about a year ago. I have no idea where all my heavy metals came from, but I did eat a lot of sushi for a while there. I did a round of oral DMSA chelation. I'm going to retest soon to see if how much that treatment decreased my body load.
notes )
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A new study, written up in the Chicago Tribune, shows that mercury contamination is present in corn syrup. Though we were already avoiding that particular noxious ingredient, weren't we?
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New data shows that vitamin D has more biochemical actions that anticipated:
--inhibits the synthesis of inducible nitric oxide synthase
--increases intracellular glutathione levels-->helps remove mercury & other toxins from your body
--could be used to Tx neurodegenerative and neuroimmune diseases
--induces glioma cell death-->good for management of brain tumors?

According to Dr. Cannel, founder of the Vitamin D Council, in an interview:
--vitamin D is not a vitamin, but rather the only known substrate for a powerful repair and maintenance steroid hormone that is involved in numerous functions of your body and organs
--like all steroid hormones vit D regulates your body by turning your genes on or off
--you have about 2,000 genes that are directly influenced by vitamin D

SOURCES
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T3K-45BCJ53-7&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=36fe7df09fbacd4b33fe816072a1793d
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/12/04/how-sunshine-and-vitamin-d-can-help-you-eliminate-mercury.aspx
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Recently I did a DMSA oral bolus and a 6 hour urine collection after that, to provoke the chelation and renal secretion of any heavy metals that I have stored in my tissues. The news is: my previous hair test was inaccurate, mercury and arsenic are not the highest pollutants in my system. I have lead toxicity. Not just a little bit of lead, no, I have over 3 times the limit.
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They don't like it that the blogosphere is talking about the dangers of vaccines....but too bad.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/group-with-big-pharma-ties-wants-to-shut-down-vaccine-conspiracy-theories.html
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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/09/20/autism-statistics-alarm-african-children.aspx?source=nl

The Somali population in Minnesota is have an outrageously high incidence of autism, and Mercola offers his theories as to WHY. According to him, if you combine a dose of mercury sufficient to cause death in 1/100 individuals, with a dose of aluminum also sufficient to cause death in 1/100 individuals, you get a 100% death rate. And the vaccines being administered to poor internationals these days contain both. These Somalis emigrated by way of refugee camps in Kenya and are given the same vaccination more than once due to poor record-keeping. The Somalis are providing 16% of the autistic children in special ed classes in Minnesota. Too bad for them.
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Treating the Immune System and Vaccines
Zwickey notes
Study Questions:
1. How do pathogens spread?
2. Name 3 ways in which pathogens cause disease.
3. Where are neutrophils located in a healthy person?
4. How do your natural killer (NK) cells avoid killing your own cells?
5. How do cytokines cause a systemic response?
6. What is a germinal center?
7. What two ways can you get class switching of an antibody?
8. Why is mercury put into vaccines?
9. What is the immunological basis for waiting until a child is 1+ year old to vaccinate?
10. What is a conjugate vaccine?
answers )
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--> Chronic Fatigue Syndrome!??

I hadn't put all this together but Mercola did. This is why I keep up with what this doc is thinking. So here I am sitting in front of my wireless system, knowing that I have high mercury levels. There are so many electromagnetic fields in the city! Mercola says that heavy metal deposits, which tend to localize in the brain (and a few other places) cause electromagnetic radiation to do more damage there. Maybe this is what is causing my foggy headedness and fatigue?? Anyway, this is news to me: "when you expose a bacterial culture to abnormal electromagnetic fields, the bacteria believe they are being attacked by your immune system and start producing much more virulent toxins as a protective mechanism."

To surf the links and read all about it, see Mercola's page at http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/06/21/are-you-allergic-to-wireless-internet.aspx?source=nl
text of Mercola's comment behind cut )
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The following vaccines still contain 25 mcg of mercury per 0.5 ml:
DTwP
DT (diphtheria and tetanus) multi-dose vial
Tetanus
Several brands of the 2006/2007 influenza formulas
Meningococcal multi-dose vial

From this excellent post by Joseph Mercola, in which he names names of a few pro-vaccine experts who have considerable financial investments riding on vaccine sales:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/04/26/vaccine-autism-question-divides-parents-scientists.aspx?source=nl
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The Flu of 1918 and the Politics of Flu in Current Times
Notes for oral presentation, 3/19/08, paper to follow
no way am I going to fit this into a 3 minute presentation )
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1. What metals are considered suflhydryl-reactive metals? Hg, Cd, Pb, Ar, that is, mercury, cadmium, lead and arsenic
more )
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According to Mercola, the recent headlines such as “Vaccine not linked to autism” and “Thimerosal Vaccine Proved Safe” have been misleading on the pro-vaccine side. He suggests that pharmaceutical interests and our government's complicity might have something to do with this bias.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/3/1/recent-autism-studies-do-not-actually-vindicate-vaccines.aspx
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I guess it's just as well that I stopped eating sushi. Recent laboratory tests in New York found so much mercury in tuna sushi that two or three pieces a week at some restaurants could be a health hazard. Eight out of the 44 pieces of sushi purchased by the New York Times for testing had mercury levels so high that the FDA could take legal action to remove the fish from the market.
from the International Herald Tribune January 22, 2008 )

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