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Annual Patient Workshop
Save the date:
Sunday
February 17, 2013
Where:
Hilton Dallas-Fort Worth Lakes Executive Conference Center | |
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Therapy Tip
High dose Benicar suppresses the immune system by partially blocking the Nuclear Factor kappa-B
cytokine pathway.
Patients who experience little herxing may benefit by reducing the
dose of Benicar.
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Recovery Reports
We are contacted daily by people with chronic illnesses who are looking for an effective treatment. Many ask us to provide evidence of efficacy in the form of statistics or stories. If you have recovered your health or had significant symptom improvement with Inflammation Therapy (or a similar treatment), please help us 'pay it forward' by telling your story. We will post it in the public section of our website to encourage others. Any report, short or long, with or without objective data (e.g., lab results, imaging reports) would be helpful. Please
send your story to
our email .
Thank you!
To see the latest recovery reports,
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CIR Library Access
Access to our free, 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. If you're interested in using this resource, please send a request to our email
address along with your doctor's name and fax number (in the US or Canada) or his/her email address, so we can notify your doctor that you have access to this information.
A list of the articles in our libraries 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 practitioners should contact CIR and ask to register. | |
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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
each month), please
contact us at our
email address.
"Thanks for the effort to track (data via survey),
it will be the underpinnings of this treatment at some time." ~James Graves | |
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in support of our educational and research efforts.
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We are happy to report that our website has been extended with HONcode another year. The HONcode certification is an ethical standard aimed at offering quality health information. | |
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Greetings!
Our 2012 seminar/workshop weekend is over and it was even more satisfying than expected. Seasoned and new patients attended the Saturday evening reception and Sunday workshop. They heard presentations on the bacterial cause of disease, a basic overview of Inflammation Therapy, favorable statistical research that IT works, and several moving testimonials from recovered patients. Two experienced physicians were on hand to answer questions.
It was gratifying to see that those who felt hopeless in the morning had smiling faces at the day's end, with renewed determination to battle the bugs.
We're already planning next year's workshop so be sure to save the date and plan your budget because we'd love to meet you on Sunday, February 17, 2013.
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Patient Workshop Comments | |
"Great session. You should be very pleased. Looks like you attracted a good crowd. I thought the all the presentations were valuable. Congratulations on a very successful two days." ~James Graves
"What a WONDERFUL, INFORMATIVE and ENCOURAGING workshop presented by the CIR team. It was so rewarding to see people recovering from IT and so many doctors interested in IT at the workshop. It was done very, very well and it was quite an exciting experience. Can't wait for the next one!" ~Debbie Yeager, R.N.
"It was a fantastic workshop!" ~Kathy H.
"I found so many of the presentations at the Patient Workshop to be both inspiring and informative. I feel better and fresher and confident that this is all going to work and that I really am on the mend - also don't be worried about following a specific path to recovery, it is all individual and the med adjustments (and pace) that may be necessary to reach a normalcy for me will be unique to me." ~377flyboy
"It was even more satisfying than expected." ~Kelly F. |
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Physicians' Seminar Comments | |
Our second annual Physicians' Seminar was attended by 30 medical practitioners. Some clinicians were introduced to IT and seasoned practitioners shared their knowledge. It was a resounding success as indicated by these attendees' comments:
- Will change my treatment for these diagnoses.
- Excellent presentation.
- The best osteopathic sponsored CME I've been to. Most relevant to my practice. New tools to help my patients.
- Location=excellent. Good food. Content=eye opening and very relevant to my practice.
- Great content. Great location.
It was very gratifying to see the interest in IT expressed by the many doctors there. This means many more patients will find medical practitioners knowledgeable and able to help them recover their health. We believe our conferences make a real difference for the future of chronically ill patients and expect attendance to increase each year. |
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About Inflammation Therapy |
Low Vitamin D
Vitamin D was originally misnamed because it was discovered around the same time as vitamins A, B and C and, at that time, it was thought to be a vitamin. That misnomer still gives people an erroneous impression today, because a vitamin is, by definition, an organic compound essential for normal growth and nutrition that is required in small quantities in the diet. This is not a vitamin because 1) the human body makes plenty of vitamin D precursor when skin cells are exposed to ultraviolet light and 2) when specific immune system cells are activated to fight infection, they make an uncontrolled supply of this secosteroid hormone which can have deleterious effects on the body.
Supplementation with vitamin D to prevent or treat chronic diseases is an alarming trend based on faulty studies or faulty conclusions of clinical studies. Only studies that measure both 25-D and 1,25-D analyzed with an understanding of their relationship to each other in health and disease will yield valid, pertinent results.
Epidemiological studies touting the benefits of supplemental vitamin D, and declaring that low vitamin D causes disease, are flawed because they only measure 25-D. Doctors and scientists have misinterpreted the results because they fail to understand that levels of 25-D are probably suppressed by elevated 1,25-D due to the disease process.
Many people are not aware that vitamin D is not a vitamin. This secosteroid hormone has many important functions and there are several metabolites (forms) of vitamin D. There is no Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for vitamin D, because it's endogenously produced by humans in the presence of a few minutes of sunlight.
In other words, disease causes low 25-D; low 25-D does not cause disease. Practitioners who understand the molecular biochemistry of vitamin D metabolism will recognize the need to keep the level of 25-D low enough to avoid exacerbating inflammatory symptoms by promoting excessive production of 1,25-D. There is also scientific evidence that excess 25-D may suppress immune system function. |
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From Our Physicians' Reference Library | |
Vitamin D Metabolism
"The biologically active metabolite of vitamin D, 1,25(OH)2D3, affects mineral homeostasis and has numerous other diverse physiological functions including effects on growth of cancer cells and protection against certain immune disorders. This chapter reviews the role of vitamin D hydroxylases in providing a tightly regulated supply of 1,25(OH)2D3."
Editorial: 25-Hydroxycholesterol: a new life in immunology
"A discussion on paper by Park and Scott revealing the signaling pathways leading to the synthesis of a potent immunoregulatory oxysterol by macrophage and dendritic cells."
Nutritional Immunology: A Multi-Dimensional Approach
"over-nutrition and its associated metabolic disorders may impair immune function, disrupt the relationship with symbiotic and commensal microbiota, and increase susceptibility to infectious disease" |
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About CIR | |
Everyone at CIR is a volunteer, "paying it forward". The donations and fees we accept are used to keep our website and phones working and fund our yearly Physicians' Seminar and Patient Workshop.
We are happy to report that our website has been extended with HONcode certification another year. The HONcode certification is an ethical standard aimed at offering quality health information.
Websites that meet the high HONcode standard must comply with this code of ethics: indicate the qualification of the authors; information presented should support (not replace) the doctor-patient relationship; respect the privacy and confidentiality of personal data submitted to the site by the visitor; cite the source/s of published information; date medical and health pages; back up claims relating to benefits and performance; provide transparency via accessible presentations and accurate email contact; provide full disclosure by identifying funding sources; and clearly distinguish advertising from editorial content.
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"It is so reassuring to know you are pulling for me. My husband is also more confident knowing that Registered Nurses with personal IT experience are assisting me." ~ Cindra
"Words seem so inadequate! I am grateful every single day for the work you are doing and the help and (hope!) that you are giving all of us! Thank you Thank you Thank you!" ~ Katherine
"Thanks, for all you've done for me this year. I haven't said it to you yet, but I am so thankful for your services not just for me but for my doctor. CIR is very different from (other treatment) stuff I researched...in a good way. I anticipated being in so much pain that I put off starting the program many precious months. In hindsight.... I have made progress without much discomfort, and I wonder if my rheumatologist feels like I do -- that it's like a miracle." ~ Sue
"Thank you for holding my hand through this journey! I appreciate the wisdom and experience you bring to me as we navigate IT together!!"
~ Jeannie Bouck
"Thanks very much for your support over the past couple years. You've played a huge part in the recovery of many people, including myself, and you and the work you are all doing with CIR is very much appreciated."
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