Some what off topic except sharing this is an example of the Knowledge Age in action and because some of you are suffering similar health issues and lastly because some readers want to know about my health progress.
I had a flare-up or relapse the past 48 hours or so wherein inflammation increased all over my body which manifests in the various neuropathy symptoms such as swollen feet, itchiness, numbness or pain from knee down, and in the back of the skull the effects were more acute with itchiness and nodules at and under the skin which are tender or painful to the touch (someone looked at one and didn't see anything but could feel it under the scalp and another one she said she could see blood red colored pimple or scab).
The flare-up was controlled well with high dose vitamin D3 and the B Healthy coenzymated B complex with pre&probiotics with enzymes. Much milder than in the past and the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (aka CFS) was mostly avoided and I was able to work through it.
I also note that recently an individual was cured of Multiple Sclerosis by receiving a fecal transplant.
Eighty percent of the human immune system resides in the gastrointestinal tract...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-multiple-sclerosis-begin-in-the-gut/Here's the 43 year old patient cured with MS via fecal transplants,
http://thepowerofpoop.com/carloss-story/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR33CSPNcqkIn the youtube clip his neurologist Perlmutter provides this summary in the
description section -
Published on Feb 16, 2015Carlos, forty-three, came to see me in June 2014. He needed
a cane to stand and had episodes of feeling as if his legs wouldn’t work and that he
could lose his balance easily. When I asked him about his medical history, he told
me about one morning back in 1998 when he woke up feeling “drunk and dizzy.” When we
went to see a neurologist, an MRI scan of his brain was performed, but the results
came back as normal. Carlos remained unsteady for the next two weeks and then began
to feel better. Two weeks after that, while exercising he felt as if ants were
crawling down his back. His vision blurred and, hoping to find another opinion about
his symptoms, he went to see a naturopath. That’s when he began taking various
nutritional supplements and indeed he felt a little better thereafter.
Three years later he had the sudden onset of “numbness in both legs from the waist
down.” Again he was given a new round of nutritional supplements and after three
more months, he felt somewhat improved. Two years later he had another episode and
this similarly resolved itself with more supplements. In 2010, however, he began
noticing a progressive decline in his balance and, despite various nutritional
supplements, his deterioration continued—rapidly. By 2014, Carlos went through more
tests with a neurologist, including another MRI scan of his brain. And this time,
his results revealed aggressive abnormalities, especially in the deep white matter
of his brain seen in both hemispheres and even in the brainstem. These findings, in
addition to abnormalities noted in an MRI of his cervical spine, a lumbar puncture,
and electrical testing results, all pointed to a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
I explained to Carlos that we now understand the role of gut bacteria in modulating
the immune system, and that recent animal research clearly had identified changes in
gut bacteria as possibly playing an important role in this disease. I then offered a
plan of action, telling him that I wanted to start a program of probiotic enemas. He
agreed without hesitation, administering probiotic-filled enemas two to three times
each week. Two weeks later, I received a phone call from him. He indicated that he
was walking more comfortably and had now gone for days without the use of a cane!
One month later we spoke on the phone again. He was continuing his probiotic enemas
three times weekly and felt that he had “stabilized.”
At that point I discussed with him the idea of rebuilding a healthy gut population
through a revolutionary new procedure called fecal microbial transplantation, or
FMT, and he agreed to do so (it’s currently not available in the U.S. for treating
MS). He chose a clinic in England where the procedure is routinely performed on an
array of immune and inflammatory problems. Before he left, I asked Carlos to
carefully chronicle his experience in a journal and report back to me.
One month after Carlos returned from England we again spoke on the phone. He
reported that after his second treatment with fecal transplantation (he received a
total of 10) he noted that his walking was dramatically improved and that it
remained that way. He told me, “I am walking so well that other people don’t know
there is anything wrong.”
In the Mercola link below there's an interesting anecdotal story of curing MS with
fecal transplants to restore the gut biome.
BTW, I may have already told you I make my own fermented veggies, primarily for the
menaquinone (MK7), although, the improved gut flora aspect is also compelling.
Also note, a few months ago I read a study that conclusively demonstrated ingestion
of frozen fecal-based pellets is as efficient as the much more cumbersome fecal
transplantation procedure (typically performed in an O.R. setting with anesthesia).
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/05/17/gut-bacteria-brain-health.aspx"I have a case history in Brain Maker of a young man with MS who couldn't walk
without two canes and who underwent a series of fecal transplantations in Europe,
and came back and walks without any assistance whatsoever. His videotape is linked
to the book and is on our site. I use the video of this man walking when I do
lectures to physicians. They look at this with their jaws hanging, because again,
for you and me, this was never even a consideration in medical school..."
As climbed down the rabbit hole in the links below and related conversations I've had in private with a researcher, the cortisol and inflammation connection stands out. Also the methylation cycle:
http://phoenixrising.me/research-2/glutathione-depletionmethylation-blockades-in-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/glutathione-depletion-methylation-cycle-block-a-hypothesis-for-the-pathogenesis-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-by-richard-a-van-konynenbury-ph-dhttp://phoenixrising.me/treating-cfs-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me/treating-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-mecfs-glutathione-and-the-methylation-cyclehttp://www.dramyyasko.com/our-unique-approach/methylation-cycle/Food Sources That Boost Glutathione Naturallyhttp://www.immunehealthscience.com/how-to-raise-glutathione.htmlhttp://blog.paleohacks.com/the-best-way-to-restore-your-gut-flora/http://www.pcrm.org/media/online/sept2014/seven-foods-to-supercharge-your-gut-bacteriahttp://drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/FLORA.htmhttp://drhyman.com/blog/2010/09/27/5-steps-to-kill-hidden-bad-bugs-in-your-gut-that-make-you-sick/#openModalhttps://www.gutsense.org/gutsense/flora.htmlhttp://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/03/18/mcbride-and-barringer-interview.aspxhttp://breakingmuscle.com/nutrition/the-four-rs-how-to-restore-optimal-gut-healthI believe my recent flare-up may have been more pronounced than most of May because I recently bought pretzels imported from the USA! And I had been working night and day adding extreme stress with no exercise and had lapsed on the raw veggies.
What I will be doing from now:
* 20,000+ IU per day of vitamin D3 (with meals!)
* B Healthy capsule without meal (to minimize conflict of the stomach supplements) 3 - 4 times per day
* L-Glutamine (but only when I exercise as
glutamine/ate is counter-indicated in Multiple Sclerosis when the excess can't be consumed)
* Curcumin
* Milk Thistle
* Iodine from Kelp (competes with and displaces/detoxifies the bromide toxins for the same receptors)
* Raw brocolli as well as other raw greens
* more raw or whole foods and hopefully some fermented ones
I normally experience worse flare-ups of inflammation about 24 - 48 hours after exercise. So this indicates to me maybe my glutamine/ate levels get depleted.
In short the good versus bad bacteria war in the stomach and the complex dysfunctional feedback loop in the methylation cycle probably because of it. It appears that once the bad bacteria has taken over it becomes very difficult to starve it and get the good bacteria back into dominance because of dysfunctional feedback loops. And I know from my own case, we crave the crap the bad bacteria wants to feed off of such as the gluten and bromides in processed foods (that cause the toxicity).
The good bacteria in digestive system is part of our holistic endocrine, metabolic, and immune system. The system can't produce the correct chemical reactions and goes into a dysfunctional spiral. This is the Western, modern world. Compare:
https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=native+tribe+good+bacteria+florahttp://www.techtimes.com/articles/47066/20150419/gut-bacteria-amazonian-tribe-reveals-new-information-human-microbiome.htmhttp://www.wired.com/2014/04/hadza-hunter-gatherer-gut-microbiome/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3044080/The-uncontacted-tribe-help-beat-disease-study-bacteria-living-Amazon-villagers-reveal-modern-world-changed-us.html
Edit:
http://multiple-sclerosis-research.blogspot.com/2014/10/now-cats-are-risk-factor-for-ms.htmlBackground Several environmental exposures, including infection with Epstein-Barr virus, low levels of vitamin D and smoking are established risk factors for multiple sclerosis (MS). Also, high hygienic standard and infection with parasites have been proposed to influence MS risk.
Kill off those good bacteria and you get MS?
Also I was infected with a particularly virulent and nasty high strain # of HPV in 2006, numerous bouts with parasites (Giardia, amoebas, STDs, etc) over the years I was in the Philippines (1994 forward on and off), numerous years of high dosing with antibiotics, etc..
Couple that with lack of exposure to the sun and overexposure to the indoors and computer monitor.
Also I was living in a horrible, non-airy abode from 2006 - 2012. And I remember right before my M.S. kicked into very noticeable symptoms circa 2010 or 2011, there was a rat that died inside my closet and then it turned to dust. This turns out to be extremely toxic and can cause an
anthrax or
hantavirus infection. I got very ill from the fumes of that decaying mouse.
I had noted many signs of interaction of my M.S. with my gut including a correlation between flare-ups and gut pain; a purplish, yellowish, off-tint my skin at the abdomen; bouts of diarrhea, leaky gut; the acute peptic ulcer and H.Pylori that sent my M.S. into hyperdrive and caused to gain 20 lbs in 3 weeks after May 2012, the use of probiotics and high dose Vitamin D3 in September 2012 that seemed to put me a cured-like remission (until I stopped it).
Edit#2: Someone passed this research along to me:
http://multiple-sclerosis-research.blogspot.com/2015/06/flowers-to-rescue.html
You need to get the "B Healthy" brand vitamins. They contain a "whole food" mix of prebiotics, probiotics, and enzymes in addition to the special forms of co-enzymated B complex vitamins required for the Methylation cycle. Folic acid is toxic for 47% of people. You need the coenzymated form of folate. And you need those gut bacteria.
The high dose vitamin D3 appears to stabilize what the good bacteria would normally provide.
