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A Newsletter from Chronic Illness Recovery

 

Patient

Workshop

 

Sunday

 February 19, 2012

 

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

Please visit this

CIR webpage

 for details

and to register.

 

Therapy Tip

   

Specific diagnostic labels aren't needed to begin inflammation therapy (IT). For example, it isn't necessary to undergo invasive and risky tests (e.g., lung biopsy, spinal tap, bone marrow biopsy) or expensive tests to locate inflamed tissues. To verify inflammatory illness and dysregulated vitamin D metabolism, we recommend measuring two D-metabolites:


* 1,25D

(dihydroxyvitamin D)
and

* 25D or D2/D3 (hydroxyvitamin D)


For details see

D-Metabolites Tests

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Issue: 26  November 2011  
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Greetings!   

 

We are happy to announce that our second annual CIR patient workshop

will be held, once again, at the beautiful Hilton Executive Conference Center

in Grapevine, Texas (a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth)

on Sunday, February 19, 2012.

 

           DFW Lakes Hilton   Meg at seminar

 

By popular request, this event will be a full day of informative presentations with a focus on basic information about Inflammation Therapy (IT) and recovery stories. There will be many opportunities to talk with CIR staff, patients on IT and their families.
 

You're also invited to a get-acquainted reception/dinner from 6-8pm Saturday evening - medical practitioners who attended the Physicians' Seminar on Saturday will be in attendance.
 

We know many of you are on a budget and/or live some distance from Dallas-Fort Worth so we've kept the costs as low as possible. Last year's workshop got rave reviews so we hope you'll return or attend for the first time. We'd love to meet you.   

 

 

Warm regards,

                      signature             Belinda            

 

Patient Workshop Program 

 

 7:30 -  8:30  Breakfast Buffet
 8:30 -  8:45  Welcome - Belinda Fenter
 8:45 -  9:15  Bacterial Etiology of Chronic Inflammation - Kelly Fincher
 9:15 -  9:45  Patient's Introduction to Inflammation Therapy - Meg Mangin R.N.
 9:45 -10:15  Break
10:15-11:15  Recovery from Sarcoidosis - Belinda Fenter
11:15-12:00  Q & A panel - Dr. Barry Rodgers, Dr. Myrna Vargas,

                       Dr. Charles Malis, Dr. Neil Hirschenbein

12:00 - 1:30  Lunch
  1:30 - 2:00  Recovery Story (sarcoidosis, diabetes, celiac sprue,

                       hypothyroidism) - Debbie Yeager R.N.
  2:00 - 2:15  Statistical Report on Four CIR patients - Rebecca Sinha
  2:15 - 2:45  Cardiac Recovery - James Graves
  2:45 - 3:15  Break
  3:15 - 4:15  Recovery from Fibromyalgia - Rebecca Sinha
  4:15 - 5:00  Round Table discussions:
   1. Family Support during the Recovery Process - Tom Mangin, Terry Fenter
   2. Methods of Coping with the Recovery Process - Meg Mangin R.N.,

       Debbie Yeager R.N.

 

About Inflammation Therapy

 

Identifying Pathogens


Identification of specific pathogens isn't necessary to begin Inflammation Therapy. Trying to pinpoint a specific organism and testing for antibodies is futile and unnecessary because L-form bacteria living within the monocytes and macrophages can't be detected by routine lab tests. 

 

These cell wall deficient bacteria only move out of the infected cells when the cells die. They use biochemical mechanisms to delay apoptosis (cell death) and make the cell stay intact as long as possible. When the cells die (apoptosis or phagocytosis) it might be possible to see them at that point with PCR (polymerase chain reaction) testing if the PCR probe sequence is general enough. But PCR testing is expensive and only done in specialty labs. 

 

Antibodies found in the blood are due to the pathogens which were unsuccessful, the ones that were killed by the immune system. These are not the pathogens that cause Th1/Th17 inflammation. The intracellular bacteria which cause Th1/Th17 inflammation do not appear in antibody assays. 

 

Biopsy testing doesn't usually identify intracellular bacteria because the bacteria are destroyed when taken out of the body; their protective homeostasis is lost and the lysosomes in the immune system kill them.

 

New Scientific Article

 

Purdue Biologists Identify New Strategy Used by Bacteria During Infection 

 

"Pathogens are successful because they know how information in our cells is relayed and they amplify some signals and block others in order to evade the immune system and keep the cell from defending itself,"... 

 

 

Quotable Quotes  

 

"Thank you so much to everyone who makes this site possible. I am back on track with Inflammation Therapy, and your advice and support has been really helpful. I finally feel like I can do this and see it through to better days."
-Elizabeth H.

 

"I am truly grateful for the support this Forum provides me when I don't know where else to turn.... I can log on here and ask for advice, knowing someone ~ or several people ~ will help me sort things out. The members of this Forum and its dedicated staff are high on my list of reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving!"
-Cindra

 

 "Sometimes I feel like I'm on a Fantastic Voyage!  Well...voyage anyway..."

-Kelly

 

 

 fantastic voyage