Why does the presence of viruses mean there is lots of inflammation and an ineffective immune system in IBD? Will GcMAF help get rid of the viruses and infections?
Crohn’s and colitis are associated with Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (MAP), adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC), Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), Human Herpes Virus-6 (HHV-6), and parvovirus. All of these infections interfere with the functioning of macrophages. These infections have various mechanisms by which they do this. They may inhibit macrophage maturation, replicate within macrophages or interfere with signaling or attachment of the macrophages.
One way in which viruses interfere with macrophage function is by creating an enzyme called nagalase. This enzyme interferes with the binding of vitamin D3 on the surface of macrophages. Without the vitamin D3, the macrophages don’t work. For some reason, not fully understood, if you give GcMAF, the amount of nagalase will decrease, and the macrophages will start working again. Doctors are starting to use GcMAF injections to treat HIV, autism, Lyme, Lupus, arthritis and cancer. They have had some remarkable success with each of these problems. Unfortunately, I’ve not seen reports of GcMAF being used for Crohn’s or colitis, even though GcMAF seems like it should be very helpful here. (Note that one must be very careful with the dose. When the immune system first wakes up, you don’t want a full out war.)
With Crohn’s, there is a lot of inflammatory cytokines like TNF-alpha. There is lots of inflammation, but yet the immune system is suppressed and unable to remove the yeast and viruses. Keeping that in mind, the following quote by Dr. Bradstreet should sound very familiar.
Dr. Brandstreet says, “I suspect but cannot yet establish that TNF-alpha levels actually increase in the presence of nagalase exposed macrophages. In essence the immune system is trying to increase its response – sensing it is being ineffective. So we get a lot of macrophages and lots of neopterin but no effective activity.”
Information on GcMAF is readily available on many websites. Here are two webpages that I found particularly enlightening. One is on autism and GcMAF. The other is on Lyme and GcMAF. I didn’t find much about IBD and GcMAF, other than mention of GcMAF’s obvious applicability to IBD.
http://drbradstreet.org/page/2/?s=nagalase&blogsub=confirming#subscribe-blog
http://www.betterhealthguy.com/gcmaf
Crohn’s and colitis are associated with Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (MAP), adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC), Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), Human Herpes Virus-6 (HHV-6), and parvovirus. All of these infections interfere with the functioning of macrophages. These infections have various mechanisms by which they do this. They may inhibit macrophage maturation, replicate within macrophages or interfere with signaling or attachment of the macrophages.
One way in which viruses interfere with macrophage function is by creating an enzyme called nagalase. This enzyme interferes with the binding of vitamin D3 on the surface of macrophages. Without the vitamin D3, the macrophages don’t work. For some reason, not fully understood, if you give GcMAF, the amount of nagalase will decrease, and the macrophages will start working again. Doctors are starting to use GcMAF injections to treat HIV, autism, Lyme, Lupus, arthritis and cancer. They have had some remarkable success with each of these problems. Unfortunately, I’ve not seen reports of GcMAF being used for Crohn’s or colitis, even though GcMAF seems like it should be very helpful here. (Note that one must be very careful with the dose. When the immune system first wakes up, you don’t want a full out war.)
With Crohn’s, there is a lot of inflammatory cytokines like TNF-alpha. There is lots of inflammation, but yet the immune system is suppressed and unable to remove the yeast and viruses. Keeping that in mind, the following quote by Dr. Bradstreet should sound very familiar.
Dr. Brandstreet says, “I suspect but cannot yet establish that TNF-alpha levels actually increase in the presence of nagalase exposed macrophages. In essence the immune system is trying to increase its response – sensing it is being ineffective. So we get a lot of macrophages and lots of neopterin but no effective activity.”
Information on GcMAF is readily available on many websites. Here are two webpages that I found particularly enlightening. One is on autism and GcMAF. The other is on Lyme and GcMAF. I didn’t find much about IBD and GcMAF, other than mention of GcMAF’s obvious applicability to IBD.
http://drbradstreet.org/page/2/?s=nagalase&blogsub=confirming#subscribe-blog
http://www.betterhealthguy.com/gcmaf
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