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Annual Patient Workshop
Save the date:
Sunday
February 16, 2014
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Therapy Tip
Clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence (or lack of evidence). Clinicians should individualize decision making to the specific patient; taking into account diagnosis, severity of symptoms, history, potential disease course, previous treatments attempted, efficacy of conventional treatments and risk versus benefit of Inflammation Therapy. | |
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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
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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 long-term 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
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Greetings!
Our patient workshop was held Sunday, February 17, 2013 at the Hilton Dallas-Fort Worth Lakes Executive Conference Center. Attendees heard presentations on the bacterial cause of chronic disease, Vitamin D and the immune system, management of Inflammation Therapy and case recovery reports.
There was ample opportunity for in-depth questioning and social networking throughout the day. Many took advantage of the opportunity to meet physicians who attended the Seminar and talk with CIR staff during the reception Saturday evening.
We're already planning our next workshop so be sure to make plans to join us next February. We'd love to meet you!
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About Inflammation Therapy | |
Why We Don't Need a Constant Supply of Vitamin D
Vitamin D binding protein (DBP) has a high-affinity binding site for 25-D, the major circulating form of vitamin D that is generated by 25-hydroxylation of vitamin D in the liver. This site also binds 1,25-D, the active form of the vitamin, as well as the parental vitamin D itself, both with somewhat lower affinity.
DBP's primary role appeared to be the sequestration of vitamin D sterols in the serum, prolonging their serum half-lives and providing a circulating store of 25-D to meet transient periods of vitamin D deficiency. In so doing, DBP helps to prevent the development of severe vitamin D deficiency. As an adjunct to its role in conservation and optimization of vitamin D, DBP appears to minimize direct urinary losses of the sterols and to slow their entry into metabolic breakdown pathways. It would appear that evolution, in establishing high levels of DBP, has favored the need for conservation and optimal utilization of dietary vitamin D.
Osteopathy and resistance to vitamin D toxicity in mice null for vitamin D binding protein. PMID: 9916136
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"Hypovitaminosis D may be the consequence rather than cause of chronic inflammatory diseases."
Vitamin D: a negative acute phase reactant. PMID: 23454726
This study showed "that, although acute inflammatory stresses from different etiologies result in highly similar genomic responses in humans, the responses in corresponding mouse models correlate poorly with the human conditions and also, one another. Among genes changed significantly in humans, the murine orthologs are close to random in matching their human counterparts (e.g., R(2) between 0.0 and 0.1)."
Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases. PMID: 23401516
"Serum 1,25(OH)(2)D is associated with higher bone turnover and poorer bone health despite being positively related to 25(OH)D. A combination of high 1,25(OH)(2)D and low 25(OH)D is associated with the poorest bone health."
Active Vitamin D (1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D) and Bone Health in Middle-Aged and Elderly Men: The European Male Aging Study (EMAS). PMID: 23386642
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About Chronic Illness Recovery | |
CIR's mission is to inform and empower physicians to become independent and confident practitioners of Inflammation Therapy (IT). CIR will provide professional counseling services in order to help you and your doctor become familiar with managing the recovery process.
There is no cost to you for the first year of counseling if your doctor is new to CIR. Others are asked to pay a nominal fee. A discounted/sliding fee rate, based on ability to pay, is available to all who qualify. For more information or to apply for a discounted fee, send an email to donation@chronicillnessrecovery.org.
Please don't assume you can't afford our counseling program. Send for a discounted fee application; our service may be more affordable than you think (discounts range from 20-80%). Doctors do not pay any fees. For patient costs, see Fees.
Patients who are interested in our counseling program, should email us at info@chronicillnessrecovery.org and ask for an Enrollment Form.
Or call 1-888-846-2474 toll-free for a free initial consultation.
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"I probably would be in crisis mode if it weren't for your support here." Kathy
"I'm coping well as I slowly progress increasing the abxs, I can hardly believe I am the same person who was bed ridden for so long. Oh I still have the symptoms but I manage them much better. A milestone indeed, I never thought I would get here and it is thanks to you all." Safeharbour
"If I am being objective about it (and I think I am) this treatment just seems to be slowly getting to all my affected joints in a really slow (but improving) way." Flyboy
"I am so grateful for your help and this counseling site." Anne Worth Shaffer
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