http://www.bipolarodyssey.com/infections.htm Thorazine inhibits candida species. (Yeast infections are implicated in autism, leaky gut, psychosis.) Calmodulin activity has been identified in retroviruses. This is particularly important because as stated in the book, retroviruses are now implicated in schizophrenia. Like Lyme disease, Toxoplasma gondii is more prevalent in psychiatric patients than the general population. Further, drugs used in the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder inhibit the replication of Toxoplasma gondii. We tested 12 neuroleptic compounds and found that of these, the antipsychotic haloperidol and the mood stabilizer valproic acid most effectively inhibit Toxoplasma growth in vitro. Several medications used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have the ability to inhibit the in vitro replication of T. gondii."Intravenous calcium replacement can cause mania; calcium supplementation can increase mania; calcium channels blockers reduce mania. An errant enzyme linked to bipolar disorder, in the brain's prefrontal cortex, impairs cognition under stress, an animal study shows. The disturbed thinking, impaired judgment, impulsivity, and distractibility seen in mania, a destructive phase of bipolar disorder, may be traceable to over activity of protein kinase C (PKC) ... The above suggests that it may be necessary to conceptualize bipolar disorder not as a monolithic "psychiatric" disorder, but as a collection of heterogeneous biological disorders that can be individually identified and treated. Infection-mediated-excessive PKC may be one such disorder. ... The above description does not do justice to the complexity of processes involved. It describes only one process involving a biomarker of mania, excessive PKC. While PKC is a major player, there is no single explanation for the mechanisms of mania. In fact, there are many up and down regulated proteins in the brains of those who have bipolar disorder, suggesting that no single explanation is sufficient to account for manic symptoms.
http://www.mombu.com/medicine/heart/t-diseases-of-the-mind-bipolar-disorder-1466983.html For its part, the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which can be found in undercooked meat and cat feces, can lead to full-blown psychotic episodes. Some studies suggest that the parasite stimulates the production of a chemical similar to LSD, producing hallucinations and psychosis. Even when the parasite lies dormant in muscle and brain tissue, it can affect attention span and reaction time in otherwise healthy people. Few children avoid coming down with a streptococcus infection, also known as strep. Scientists now think that one in 1,000 strep sufferers also develops abrupt-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in a matter of weeks. Strep bacteria trigger OCD by igniting an overzealous response from the immune system, which attacks certain types of brain cells, causing inflammation. Symptoms generally die down after a few months but can flare up again, especially if theres another bout of strep, says Susan Swedo, a childhood-disease expert at the National Institutes of Health. The most effective treatment, still experimental, is to filter out the misbehaving antibodies from the blood. Best is to treat strep early on. The specter of a depression germ or contagious obsessive-compulsive disorder is unnerving, but it also opens up many more treatment options antibiotics, vaccines, checking for ticks. Geneticists believe that diseases may trigger the onset of inherited mental illnesses by activating key genes. Avoiding and treating infection may be just as important as the genes you inherit, and a whole lot easier to do something about. http://www.genhealth.com/Products/vitaklenz/parasite_the_silent_killer.htm Microscopic parasites can get into your joints and eat the calcium linings of the bone. This can lead to excruciating arthritis Parasites can eat the protein coating on the nerves (the myelin sheath). This causes a disruption in the nerve signal from the brain. Many times when a person has an inflamed appendix, it is removed and found to be loaded with parasites! Story for you, DB: Story #4: One woman was working in her garden. She had recently taken a special herbal soup to rid her body of parasites. She was weeding the plants when she noticed dozens of barely visible red parasites on her arm. She at first thought they came from the plants. They didn't. They were coming out of the pores of her arms. How can I repair damage to the nerve sheath> ... If you get reinfected with parasites they will usually attack the same place they attacked before. . . . Crossed eyes are almost always caused by parasites in the eye focus muscles. . . . Parasite damage to the heart most often afects either the aortic valve or the mitral valve. Damage to the heart valves causes skipped beats, irregular beats, rapid beats, angina, shortness of breath, chest pain, arm pain, upper back pain and neck pain. . . . Parasite activity often causes adhesions to form in veins. Vein valves are often destroyed or damaged by parasites causing an extra load on the heart. All vaccines developed with the use of bovine serum are suspect for being contaminated with Nanobacaterium. Dr Overman found them in vens, heart, muscles, sinuses, bones, joints, adrenals, kidneys, brain, nerves, lungs, ears, eyes and spleen. He believes they can attack any tissue. Strongyloides roundworms can be a nightmare. ... eggs can hatch in 30 minutes after coming in contact with warm moist skin. .. Constant reinfection is the rule. In the skin they tunnel through the tissues causing intense burning, pain and itching. One client had over eight thousand in his skin. People may also develop allergies to the worms, which increases inflammation, swelling and itching. Sometimes large worms such as ascaris adults living in sinus cavities must be removed manually by an ear, eye, nose and throat specialist. ... Parasitic worms often invade the brain of the fetus in utero causing retardation. ... Killing parasites once does not stop you from getting reinfected. .. the new parasites invariably go right back to the same organ that was infected previously. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Yk7KCPshHIIC&pg=PA245&lpg=PA245&dq=nerve+sheath+parasite&source=web&ots=gotKD4Ezia&sig=yjx-kj0oRDA7hcT_0QGS-fHxVS4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=resulthttp://www.drovermannd.com/index.cfm?CFID=436819&CFTOKEN=70960484In diabetes, worms are in the pancreas. With epilepsy, they are in thebrain. In multiple sclerosis, they are what is eating the myelin sheaths offthe exposed nerve endings. (It is a misconception that the immune system ofthe body is attacking itself in MS)http://healing.about.com/cs/uc_directory/a/uc_parasites_2.htmIn my practice, I always find parasites and worms associated with thefollowing diseases: Diabetes, hypoglycemia, juvenile diabetes, anorexia,asthma, depression, anemia, chronic fatigue syndrome, AIDS, cancer, tumors,anorexia, bulimia, colitis, epilepsy, hyper-activity syndromes, learningdisabilities, baldness, prostate trouble, appendicitis (the appendix is afavorite place for parasites), elevated white blood counts, Hodgkin'sdisease, Multiple Sclerosis, psoriasis, some excemas, leukemia, lymphoma,arthritis, leprosy, ulcerative colitis, low hemoglobin, poor blood quality,iron deficiencies and most bowel disorders.For example, cancer is simply a symptom indicating a body that isauto-intoxicated with parasites, worms, yeast, virus and other bacteria, andwhose colon lacks beneficial flora.http://eands.caltech.edu/articles/LXVI4/brainworms.htmlIn fact, millions of people worldwide are infected by these efficaciousbrain parasites. Many of these brain parasites cause debilitating conditionsand sometimes even death.Two parasites with disease-causing capabilities arethe pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, and the amoeba Naegleria fowleri. Inaddition to their medical importance, these two organisms illustrate themany ways that brain parasites are able to affect their hosts through theirmethods of invasion and survival. ... But in order to reach the brain fromthe bloodstream, the larvae must traverse the blood-brain barrier.Unfortunately, researchers s! till don't know exactly how this happens. Manyscientists think that the larvae can release enzymes that are able todissolve a small portion of the blood-brain barrier to allow the parasite toget through into the brain. ... If the larvae attach to the brain tissue,then the host often experiences seizures. This occurs partly because thepresence of the larvae causes the activity of the brain to become wild anduncontrolled, thereby causing a seizure. On the other hand, if the larvaeattach to the brain-fluid cavities, the host experiences headaches, nausea,dizziness, and altered mental states in addition to seizures. Theseadditional symptoms occur because the flow of the brain fluid is blocked bythe larvae. Often, the presence of the larvae also causes the lining of thebrain-fluid cavities to become inflamed, further constricting the flow ofthe brain fluid. Since the cavities are a closed system, blockage of thecavities exerts pressure on the brain. This increased cranial pressureforces the heart to pump harder in order to deliver blood to the brain area,increasing the pressure on the brain even more. If the condition is nottreated, the heart eventually cannot pump enough blood to the brain, neuronsbegin to die off, and major brain damage occurs. ... For instance, theparasites are able to prevent the complement proteins from attaching totheir surfaces. The tapeworms can even release molecules that act as decoys,tricking the killer proteins into leaving them alone. The cysts also releaseother proteins that are able to protect them from being eaten, although howexactly this is accomplished is still unknown. There is some evidence thatthese proteins are able to prevent phagocytes from accurately targeting thecysts. One of the ways that phagocytes are able to go to the right place inthe body during an infection is by following a chemical trail. This trail isproduced by other immune cells at the site of infection. Some of theproteins released by the cysts are able to obscure this chemical trail sothat the phagocytes be e lost on their way to the infection. Cysts arealso thought to release a second set of proteins that decreases the activityof new phagocytes. These proteins affect another group of immune cells thatcontrol the activity of new phagocytes; these regulatory immune cells thendecrease the number of active phagocytes. Finally, a third set of proteinsreleased by the cysts is thought to be able to prevent phagocytes fromproducing the proteins necessary to kill the cysts. Tapeworms, however, diewhen the host does, and so they try very hard to keep from being detected bythe immune system. And in fact, they do a fairly good job at that, sincemost tapeworm infections aren't noticeable until many years after thetapeworms get into the brain. The immune system is only able to have a bigeffect on the infection when the tapeworms start to die, often from oldage.... For instance, there is evidence that both parasites use enzymes topenetrate the blood-brain barrier, and both use a decoy strategy to deflectthe attention of the immune system.http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=399 A small minority of people havestrong psychological effects from toxoplasmosis, including delusions,hallucinations, and paranoia. Infected men appeared more jealous andsuspicious. Infected women appeared more warm-hearted and outgoingToxoplasma is associated with damage to the brain's astrocytes - glial cellsthat function as an interface between neuronal and non-neuronal tissues.Astrocyte damage has also been associated with schizophrenia. Now add inthat pregnant women with high levels of Toxoplasma antibodies are morelikely to have children who later develop schizophrenia, and you havesomething to give most people pause. Torrey's study also found that some ofthe drugs used to treat schizophrenia have an inhibiting effect onToxoplasma growth.What exactly the connection is between Toxoplasma and schizophrenia has notbeen determined, though it seems clear there is one. What alterationsToxoplasma makes to human psychology in general is even more unclea Whatis abundantly clear is that whatever those alterations are, they affect ahuge number of people. Can we afford to be as ignorant of them as wecurrently are?On www.flickr.com/photos/jimfischer/182605629/ is what looks like a brainoverflowing with worms, but a poster said she found it was a dolphinstomach. don't know.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455067,00.html story of a womanoperated on for a tumour, but Drs found a worm in her brain instead. Has avideo, supposedlyNeurocysticercosis is acquired through consumption of food contaminated withfeces of a T. solium tapeworm carrier (i.e., through fecal-oral contract)(4,5,12). The life cycle of T. solium is shown in Fig. 1. Eggs of thetapeworm are shed in stool and contaminate food through poor hygiene. Whenthese eggs are ingested and exposed to gastric acid in the human stomach,they lose their protective capsule and turn into larval cysts, calledoncospheres. Oncospheres cross the gastrointestinal tract and migrate viathe vascular system to the brain, muscle, eyes, and other structures. Oncein the brain, the larval cysts (cysticerci) initially generate a minimalimmune response and may remain in the brain as viable cysts for years.http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?art....Are there any links to the "egg sack" data?For really astonishing data about the pathogens and heavy metals thatmake it through the blood/brain barrier, check out the work of Y.Omura, M.D., a bona fide genius whose work is far, far too little known.> This is all very good, but the link between mental illness and brain> damage is too real to pass up. And that egg sacks have been found in> the brains of bipolar people is also instructive.> -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... 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