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Vitamin B12 and Disease

Vitamin B12 and the associated amino acids methionine and cysteine are essential to avoid specific symptoms of anemia and the deleterious effects of inflammation. Vitamin B12, cobalamin, cannot be made by the human body and requires a protein secreted by stomach cells, intrinsic protein, for uptake from the diet or from gut bacteria. In the absence of dietary B12, individuals can develop pernicious anemia. Since vitamin B12 is used by enzymes involved in nucleic acid synthesis, the rapidly dividing cell of the blood show the first symptoms. Another feature of pernicious anemia is the production of autoimmune antibodies against gastric intrinsic protein. This means that even if the diet is supplemented with vitamin B12, the anemic patient would show no improvement. Historically, the cure was beef liver juice containing B12 already bound to intrinsic factor. I enjoyed learning about the autoimmune aspect of pernicious anemia, because when I examined the sequence of the human i...

Antibiotics Gut Flora Food Intolerance and Disease

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Cattle Are Finished by Selective Killing of Gut Flora.  The Sickened Animals Store Fat that Grills Great.  People Get Metabolic Syndrome. The likening of modern humans to potatoes sacked out on a couch is misleading.  The obesity epidemic linked to diets of processed foods more closely resembles the stumbling progression of cattle to abattoir.  Antibiotics and diet systematically lead in both feedlot and food court to gut dysbiosis, immune system failure, hormone disruption, rampant fat accumulation, physical inactivity, depression and the modern suite of chronic diseases.  Healthcare costs escalate, but vet bills, in contrast, are forestalled by a captive bolt pistol. Background Observations Antibiotics kill bacteria and not humans, because the bacteria have different machinery for making proteins, nucleic acids and cell walls. Antibiotics kill bacterial pathogens and not viruses or fungi. Antibiotics kill helpful bacteria in the gut (gut flora) even more ...

Chronic Disease Cryptic Infections Hibernation

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Suppression of Inflammation and Surviving Cytokine Storms There are numerous unanswered questions in modern medicine. What is aging, for example? Why do people become more inflamed as they age? What’s with all of the chronic, degenerative diseases? Why is lipid metabolism (LDL, HDL, triglycerides) linked to degenerative diseases, along with immune system function and inflammation? I am only going to start the answers here. I might as well continue to be cryptic and give you the string of words/concepts I am trying to connect to answer the other questions: Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), endorphins, hibernation, nuclear receptors (PPARs), antibiotics, chronic inflammatory diseases (fibromyalgia, arthritis, chronic fatigue, Lyme, Morgellon’s, Alzheimer’s, prostatitis, pancreatitis, cancers, etc.), autoimmunity, leaky gut/kidney/brain barrier, autism and H1N1. First a word of advice: Beware of assuming that molecules are specific, i.e. with unique interactions, and that a small molecule wil...

Risk of obesity and related diseases Fatness and Disease

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It is now appropriate that we recognize the complications of the disease Heart disease and sudden death Did you know that rarely find Muammra the obese, this theory may be something of fallacy, but a general indication of the obese importance of obesity and weight reduction. Vwazzn overload is overload on the heart and lungs setting calls to each effort multiplier Despite the lack of knowledge of the relationship between obesity and heart disease and hardening of the arteries, but they do exist, although this relationship is also related to the nature and type of food which is covered Butterball where it tends to eat foods rich in fat or fried more than his penchant for eating proteins or carbohydrates and eating such varieties raises cholesterol in the blood and this is the first risk factor for heart disease The relationship of obesity, heart disease and sudden death is a relationship based on the duration of obesity or age when a person. Some studies have found that the continuation...