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Greetings!
The month of March makes me think of green in the welcome signs of Spring and the exuberant celebration of St. Patrick's Day. This reminds me of new life and the joy our patients feel as they see symptoms resolve with inflammation therapy.
Green is also the color of money, and like all non-profit organizations, we are always working hard to raise funds. If financial circumstances will allow, your generous contribution would help us reduce the considerable debt we have accrued in the process of setting up Chronic Illness Recovery and developing our website, and we would greatly appreciate it.
Top of the morning to you,
Meg Mangin, RN
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Getting to Know You
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Behind the Scenes
Several members of the CIR team work quietly behind the scenes, providing services that are vital to our efficient functioning. They have all expressed a feeling of indebtedness to the CIR Nurses and a desire to help us promote inflammation therapy. Some of the tasks they perform include proof-reading, legal opinions, business advice, public relations, patient outreach and scientific research.
Each week at the CIR staff meeting, hard-working team members report on the projects they've accomplished and discuss issues that need attention.
 Due to a rapid increase in patient population, CIR is currently recruiting nurses to counsel patients on inflammation therapy. If you are a Registered Nurse, or know of one who might be interested in helping with CIR, please contact
us at info@chronicillnessrecovery.org.
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About Inflammation Therapy
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Patients who want to tell their doctor about inflammation therapy have asked which information would be most helpful.
We suggest copying the following articles (see the list below) available from our index About Inflammation Therapy available at our website:
Simple Introduction to Inflammation Therapy
Overview of Inflammation Therapy
Efficacy and Expectations of Inflammation Therapy
Intracellular Bacteria
Vitamin D
Benicar (Olmetec)
CIR brochure (for letter size printing)
CIR brochure (for A4 size printing)
About Our Services
Patients who are looking for a supportive doctor may email CIR at info@chronicillnessrecovery.org and request names of doctors in their area they may want to consider.
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The Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Amyloid-β Protein is an Antimicrobial Peptide
Amyloid beta (Aβ) are sticky proteins that form the hallmark brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's Disease. Now a Harvard research team led by Rudolph E. Tanzi, a neurology professor and director of the aging and genetics unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, has published new findings indicating that amyloid beta protein functions as an anti-microbial peptide in vivo and may be a normal part of the innate immune system.
Gina Kolata's recent article "Infection Defense May Spur Alzheimer's" in the New
York Times explains
how the Harvard researchers discovered that amyloid beta protein has anti- bacterial properties. (You may be asked to
register to read the story, but there is no fee.)
Excess amyloid beta protein deposits are found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's Disease patients, but these protein deposits may also be found in people who are symptom-free. It may be that a normal range of amyloid beta protein is necessary for normal neuron functioning.
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About Chronic Illness Recovery
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General Discussion at the CIR Forum
CIR's interactive online forum has a flourishing General Discussion area, which has (at the last count) 86 topics covering a wide range of subjects, including science, symptoms, coping tips, vitamin D-free recipes, family life and work-related issues. CIR's General Discussion area is a secure and comfortable place where registered patients support and encourage each other through all the ups and downs of treatment with inflammation therapy.
Some of our patients have become such good friends through the forum that they recently arranged to meet up with each other, and had a great little holiday together.
One of our patients recently said, "The people on this site have become so important to me. I was alone with my pain for what felt like a very long time. It is such a relief to have the knowledge, support and friendship."
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