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From the Circle
A Newsletter from Chronic Illness Recovery

In This Issue
Therapy Tip
Survey Volunteers Needed
Inflammation Therapy
Scientific Articles
About CIR
Quotable Quotes

Save the Date! 

 

Next Patient Workshop

 

Sunday

 February 19, 2012

 

Hilton Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Lakes Executive Conference Center.

Therapy Tip

  

There is insufficient scientific evidence to make the claim that 25-D suppresses the immune system. Therefore, there is no advantage to waiting to start Inflammation Therapy (IT) until the level of 25-D has been reduced by vitamin D elimination (which can take many months). Many patients whose 25-D was still above an optimum level have experienced significant bacterial killing (and herxing) with IT.

   

Our Library
Access to our extensive, easy-to-read
Library of Information
(see this sample page)
and Physicians' Reference Library is available to anyone, without enrollment in our counseling program. 

 

A list of the articles in our library is available
at this link. Physicians may use CIR libraries even if they don't have a patient enrolled in our counseling program. Interested medical professionals should contact CIR and ask to register.
books 
If you're interested in using this resource, please send your request  to our email, along with your doctor's name and fax number (in the US and Canada) and his/her email address so we can notify your doctor that you have access to this information.
CIR Organization

CIR is an IRS-recognized
 501(c)3 non-profit,
charitable organization.

Donations allow us to fulfill our mission and every gift is appreciated.

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Survey

 

Volunteers who have a diagnosis of autoimmune or inflammatory disease or are chronically ill but who are not being treated with Inflammation Therapy, the Marshall Protocol or the Stillpoint Protocol are needed to be in the control group of our clinical study.

   

If you meet these criteria and would like to take part in this project (which will only take a few minutes once a month), please contact us

via email.

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Greetings!  

 

Inflammation Therapy (IT) is tailored to individual patient response to increase treatment effectiveness and safety. At CIR, we're always looking for ways to make the recovery process easier for both patients and medical practitioners. 

 

In May, we revised our Physician's Guide to Inflammation Therapy to update a few key elements, based on our new scientific research and clinical experience. The guide is available in an attractive pamphlet format for your medical practitioner to download free of charge, upon request.


As many of you know, patients on IT must learn how to adjust therapy medications to manage their own day-to-day care.  Because "'brain fog'" can make comprehending new information more difficult, we've abridged the Physician's Guide to make it easier for patients to understand. For information on obtaining a copy of the Patient's Introduction to Inflammation Therapy, please see "'CIR Library Access'" in the sidebar. 

 

Being responsive to the needs of both medical practitioners and patients is important to us. If you'd like to provide us with feedback or suggestions about IT and/or CIR, please send us an email ...we'd love to hear from you. 

 

 With warm regards, 

                   signature             Belinda            

 

About Inflammation Therapy

Evidence of Treatment Efficacy

 

Many practitioners know that Inflammation Therapy (IT) is effective because they've seen the improvements in their patients (and sometimes themselves too). Efficacy is defined by each patient's treatment goals and their satisfaction with treatment results.

 

Information about this type of treatment appeared online in 2001 and expanded through Internet communities. Patients, with the help of their personal physicians, trialed the new intervention and reported their results to website communities. From time to time, we're asked about IT, clinical studies, or statistics regarding treatment efficacy.  While there are many stories of successful recovery from a variety of chronic illnesses xrays

there are, as yet, no valid statistics to support those reports. For details, see

Clinical Studies and Inflammation Therapy.

 

Some practitioners cite the need to use only evidence-based medicine or want to see published clinical studies. Based on anecdotal reports of IT efficacy, a clinical trial would be appropriate but there are many obstacles. We expect the hypothesis of IT to be tested in time by academic scientists with clinical trials, in the meantime, a study isn't necessary to use the already FDA-approved IT medications.


CIR has responded to requests for a system to monitor IT efficacy by designing and launching a prospective, on-going, clinical study survey. See

Recovery with Inflammation Therapy Survey Study (RITSS). 

 

Treatment efficacy is also explained in more detail in the article

Efficacy and Expectations of Inflammation Therapy.

 

 

New Scientific Articles

What Makes Lyme Bacteria Tick 

Wall Street Journal July 12, 2011
Mice infected with the Lyme bacteria by tick bites or injections had an unusual immune response that may explain why Lyme disease recurs.

Lymphoadenopathy During Lyme Borreliosis is Caused by Spirochete Migration-Induced Specific B Cell Activation 

 

A Novel Mechanism of Action of Tetracyclines: Effects on Nitric Oxide Synthases

Department of Rheumatology, Hospital for Joint Diseases, NY, NY

"These studies indicate that a novel mechanism of action of tetracyclines is to inhibit the expression of NOS. Since the overproduction of NO has been implicated in the pathogenesis of arthritis, as well as other inflammatory diseases, these observations suggest that tetracyclines should be evaluated as potential therapeutic modulators of NO for various pathological conditions." 

 

About Chronic Illness Recovery   

New CIR Staff


We're happy to announce the addition of Rebecca Sinha to our staff.  Rebecca has an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and a Bachelor of Science from Viterbo College in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. She worked for a few years in Australia for the Rebecca head shotQueensland Small Business Corporation as a researcher. She also taught marketing at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland. Rebecca currently resides in Mexico City, Mexico, with her husband and two cats. She likes to travel, loves movies, books, and cooking, likes to do arts and crafts, and has a passion for cats. As our Research Consultant, Rebecca is responsible for coordinating our survey study and we're grateful for the expertise she brings to this task.

 

Also joining our staff is Kelly Fincher. Kelly graduated from University of North Texas in Denton with a degree in Speech Communications. Kelly, her husband, and twin sons live in Denton, Texas, where they have home schooled the boys while diligently working at recovery with InflamKelly head shotmation Therapy. Kelly enjoys decorating, art and home design.  We have seen evidence of her unique problem-solving skills, which she once used to negotiate with a green builder to create a safe, and healthy home by offering design consultation to clients in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Her past volunteer jobs duties have included PTA, Denton Christian Preschool, and League of Women Voters. Kelly has cheerfully and competently assumed a variety of tasks for CIR, including making this newsletter look so nice.


These two ladies are valued volunteers who are all-business when there is work to do, yet they are delightfully creative and fun.  

 

Quotable Quotes  

"I feel better than I have in 8 years, and my lab work reflects that in terms of liver function, CRP, and other markers for inflammation. I have also lost 30 of the 40 pounds I gained during the illness. This is due to a lower carb diet

and the ability to be active again."

- Anne, patient on Inflammation Therapy  

 


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