Sometimes the disease itself doesn’t kill; the killer is the victim’s own immune system.
A growing amount of research shows that this can happen with certain infections, such as those that cause Lyme disease, syphilis, mycoplasmal pneumonia, and especially viral infections of the nervous system. Death and severe neurological damage come from an attack by our own body’s immune system and not from the damage done by the invading microorganism.
Activation of the body’s immune system triggers the release of glutamate which slowly kills brain cells by a process called excitotoxicity.
A recent study examined a viral infection of the central nervous system of mice which produced severe damage to the hippocampus area of the brain and to the spinal cord, and resulted in death in all of the mice in a little over a week. In some of the mice, researchers used an AMPA type glutamate receptor blocker, which prevented death in most of the animals and also prevented spinal cord damage.
Ironically, at the time the animals were protected from the damage by the glutamate receptor blocker, the virus concentration in the brain was actually higher than in untreated animals that died, meaning it was not the virus itself that was causing the damage and ultimate death. Instead, it was the immune-triggered excitotoxicity.
To their amazement, when the sick animals were treated with vaccination using an immune serum, the progressive degeneration of the nervous system was much worse, not better. My report "Vaccines and Brain Injuries — Are You At Risk?"will give you more information on the dangers of vaccines.
Vaccination may actually worsen brain and spinal cord damage in cases of viral and bacterial infections of the nervous systems, such as seen with bird flu, Lyme disease and measles infection. It may also explain the 200-fold increase in Lou Gehrig’s disease seen in soldiers who received the anthrax vaccine.
There are a number of drugs and natural supplements that block excitotoxicity. Unfortunately, most physicians are unfamiliar with this important research, but you can learn more by reading my newsletter ""Mystery Diseases That Baffle Your Doctor.")
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