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A Light at the End of the Tunnel: Uncovering Thiamine Deficiency

Published on July 16, 2018

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Early Health Issues: Enuresis, Long Term Antibiotics and Gardasil

My name is Eva, I am 24 years old, I am from Spain and I would like to share my story. Since I was born I have been a very healthy and active girl. The only thing to note is that I have always had frequent urination and nocturnal enuresis until I was 12 years old. At age 13, I began having frequent bouts of tonsillitis and with each episode, I was given a course of antibiotics. Eventually, I was taking antibiotics every three months along with ibuprofen continuously. At 15 years old, they gave me the human papilloma vaccine (HPV) – Gardasil.

After the vaccine, I began having fructose and sorbitol malabsorption problems and because of the frequency of antibiotics, I developed abdominal pains. I had a very pale color on my face and I was a little more tired than usual. I kept getting sore throats and at age16 they removed the nasopharyngeal tonsil /adenoids. In spite of all of this, I was living a normal life and continued to excel in school, receiving honors degree in high school.

At 18 years old, I had another course of antibiotics. This time for three months because the pus plates of my throat did not go away. I was exhausted. In the end, it was determined that I had a staphylococcus aureus resistant infection that was resistant to penicillin. I had an antibiogram, and of all the chances of antibiotics to which I was sensitive, the doctor chose levofloxacin. I was given levofloxacin for treatment of 14 days.

A few days after the treatment, in September 2012, I moved to another city to start my university studies (2 careers at a time). After a month, I got another sore throat that continued for three months. They put me on intravenous antibiotic. The doctor proposed to me to have an operation on my tonsils and I accepted. Just before the operation, I became sick again, and since they could not operate on me with an infection, he prescribed a round of amoxicillin with clavulanic acid plus levofloxacin. It had been five months since I had taken the first course of levofloxacin. This was in February 2013. After the operation, a month later, my knee and jaw began to hurt on the left side of my body. The traumatologist told me he had nothing. The dentist took my wisdom tooth, did a root canal and made dental fillings on that side, but my pain continued. I finished the course and that summer was very stressful for different reasons.

At the end of the summer, I went back to take an antibiotic for a tooth infection. A week before the beginning of the course, in September 2013, I started to feel very tired, and one night, in the middle of the street, I got dizzy and lost my sight and I had to go to the floor for a while before recovering. That’s where the nightmare began. I began to have multiple symptoms: tachycardia, nervousness, dizziness, stomach pains, intolerances, etc. At the end. I had an analysis and they gave me a diagnosis: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. They started to treat it and at 4 months, when I was “stable” (in lab numbers), my left ankle started to hurt as if they were squeezing me with a chain. It was horrible and it started to go up to the knee, to the hip and shoulder and the pain in my mouth was worse. All on the symptoms were on my left side. The doctor said I had tendinitis, without more importance.

Over the next four months, I began to weaken. I had no strength, my legs were weak, and my mental exhaustion was increasing. I went through all kinds of doctors: rheumatologists, neurologists, internal medicine, traumatologists, and at the end, they concluded that I had fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. That’s it. That is the best they could do and they offered no help.

Taking Matters into My Own Hands: The Fluorquinolone Connection

I began to read to realize that they are catch-all diagnoses, where they put people with multiple symptoms. Eventually, I found a doctor who began to treat the intestinal microbiota, to change my diet, reduce stress, etc. This was from 2014 to 2016. While it is true that I learned to manage crises so as not to live with pain 24 hours a day, I was stuck. I was still exhausted and had neuralgia on the left side of my body. So over these last two years I have tried other doctors, I have gone to neurologists specialized in amino acid biochemistry, but nobody knows why my health has declined so much. I have tried acupuncture, antioxidant therapy, etc. At the same time, I have not stopped reading, until I came to this wonderful blog two months ago, and suddenly EUREKA! Everything makes sense. Nobody had told me until now the dangers of fluoroquinolones. It is true that there are people who notice the problems of the antibiotic while taking it and have to leave it, it started a month later, but everything fits. My symptoms include:

Chronic fatigue which is very debilitating. I have been at home for 5 years, barely able to go out. I cannot study, work, or anything.
I have neuralgia / neuropathy ONLY on the LEFT SIDE of the body (no one gives meaning to this), from the head to the left toe.
Muscle weakness and rigidity
Tendinitis
Intolerance to histamine
Polyuria, urinary frequency
Sleep problems, sleep is not refreshing. I have epic dreaming disorder that does not let me rest. This problem of dreaming and getting up very tired has been a problem since since I was 16.
Problems with noise and light; I have to sleep with plugs and mask.
Alterations of the nervous system; I startle easily. I have a lot of intolerance to stress.
Problems with basic regulation of the body
Dizziness every time I get up when I’m sitting or lying down.
Recurrent pharyngitis / sinusitis / chest pain.
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Mental exhaustion
Weight loss.
Intestinal problems, intolerances, dysbiosis, infection by chronic GERD.
Swallowing problems. (The left side of my throat is more inflamed on the inside and it is hard for me to pass the food. It gets stuck).

Surely there are more symptoms, but I forget.

At the Root of My Symptoms: Severe Thiamine Deficiency

After reading the work of Dr. Lonsdale, I measured my transketolase and the result suggests quite a deficiency of thiamine: activation TPPE 25%. So I’ll see if trying this I can improve, until now I was lost and I saw the light at the end of the tunnel.

Questions for Dr. Lonsdale: Hello doctor, first of all thank you immensely for your dedication and work, thank you for your research and your book, you are helping a lot of people. I was lost until I found Hormones Matter and read it. The activation of TPPE is at 24.98%. As I have read, this suggests quite a deficiency of thiamine. I’m going to look for a doctor who wants to help me treat my deficiency. I’ve read that you have to be careful with paradoxical reactions. But I have several questions that I would like you to answer if it is possible:

The urinary frequency since I was born could have something to do with thiamine deficiency? Would this suggest some kind of genetic problem?
Is supplementation with thiamine forever or only until the transketolase of 0? What is the time of supplementation with thiamine? When would I have to repeat the analysis of transketolase to see how it evolves?
Could it be that levofloxacin has done me irreparable damage and I always had thiamine problems? Or can it be something genetic? – What is the suggested treatment?
I have read about 50mg Allithiamine, with large doses of magnesium and a multivitamin, but how high should Allithiamine go – 200mg, 300mg?
What do I do in the face of a paradoxical reaction? Do I stop the supplementation a few days and continue again, or to endure the reaction and continue? I want to give this information to the doctor who will treat me, in addition to his book.
Does it make sense to have only neuralgia on the left side of the body? It is as if I had two bodies, the joints on the right side do not hurt, nor the nerves, only on the left side. I do not have anyone in the family with a similar background. My maternal grandfather was an alcoholic but he managed to quit. My maternal grandmother, 2 aunts and my mother have hypertension. And on my father’s side, my grandmother has always been tired from a young age, with pains and thyroid problems.

Thank you very much, Eva.

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Another Day, Another Death

by Chandler Marrs, PhD

Published on July 25, 2017

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Another Gardasil girl died last month. I didn’t know her, but her mother had written for us a few years back. My heart aches for her family and for all of the other families who have lost loved ones to pharmaceutical industry malfeasance. Sadly, her death is just one more in a long line of deaths attributable to this vaccine. For the industry that profits from this vaccine, her death means nothing.

No one, except her family and friends will suffer for her death. There will be no culpability from the industry that manufactures and distributes this vaccine, none from the governmental agencies that fail to address the safety issues of these medications, none from the doctors who push this and others vaccines and then dismiss the side effects outright leaving parents to navigate the resultant complex illnesses on their own. No one will admit responsibility. How can they? We have all have been fed a heavy diet of ‘vaccines are always perfectly safe’, that injuries and deaths are due to random chance, not the cocktail of toxicants proffered under the guise of herd immunity. Just unlucky I guess, the price to pay for the safety of others.

Vaccines are perfectly safe.

Really?

Forget, of course, that this is foolhardy and that nothing is perfectly safe.

Forget also that industry knows these vaccines are neither safe nor effective, having fudged the trials and post market research, spent billions on marketing to promote the faulty research, and no small sum on astroturfing campaigns, replete with vitriolic trolls and an echo chamber of paid ‘thought leaders‘.

Forget that 70% of major media budgets are funded by the pharmaceutical industry advertising, as are most medical associations, medical education, university and continuing, medical journals, and patient support groups. Health journalism too, receives its fair share of pharma funding.

Forget that the pharmaceutical industry spends more in lobbying politicians than any other industry, including defense.

Forget that the FDA is a revolving door to cushy industry jobs. Approve this or that drug and one is set for life once one’s government affiliation is over.

Forget too that FDA review panels are staffed with industry insiders and that FDA approves 96% of all applications. Can’t imagine how bad a drug has to be in order the FDA to reject it.

Forget that when vaccine side effects began to be recognized en masse during the Reagan administration, industry quickly colluded with governmental agencies to force vaccination and eliminate any liability for themselves. Enter the vaccine courts, where no matter the injury, no matter the negligence or malfeasance, the government foots the bill for industry. What an ideal business model; all products are always safe and if they aren’t someone else covers those costs. Liability? Responsibility? Nope.

Forget all of these things, and yes, vaccines can be considered perfectly safe, side effects ignored, and deaths considered unfortunate matters of coincidence.

Except they aren’t and we shouldn’t forget.

Young women are dying and/or are debilitated to the point of wanting to die, thousands of them, with this one vaccine alone. This is on top of the skyrocketing number of vaccine and pharmaceutical injured children. Did you know that 1 in every 68 children suffers with neurodevelopmental disorders; 1 in 68. That is a staggering statistic that should give us all pause, but mostly, it doesn’t. Neither does the fact that 70% of adults take at least one medication chronically, 50% take two or more, and 20% take five or more medications, or that toddlers represent the largest growing market for psychotropic medications – toddlers! Admittedly, toddlers can be a bit crazy, but do we really, truly believe that toddlers need antidepressants, stimulants, or worse yet, antipsychotics?

With all of these medications and vaccines, are we healthier?

Nope.

In fact, for the first time in generations, we are living sicker and dying younger. But no, we hold tight to the belief that pharmaceutical medicine is working and all of these injuries, illnesses, and deaths are flukes attributable to the vagaries of random chance.

It was a convenient dissonance while it lasted; still is for many. It allowed us to avoid the much starker reality of modern pharmaceutical medicine or modern living in general: that chemistry matters, that toxicants don’t just magically disappear once they enter the body (or the oceans), and that for all of our technological brilliance, we really have no frickin clue what the compound effects of all of these chemicals are. We really don’t. Heck, we don’t even know what most medications do. A study in the British Medical Journal found that only 50% of medications have sufficient data to suggest that they are likely effective. And since we don’t test most medications on women, we really have no idea whether any medications work or induce serious side effects in women.

Pharmaceuticals are chemical toxicants, plain and simple. They are poisons, albeit sometimes necessary poisons, but poisons nevertheless. We don’t call them poisons though. We call them medicines, but the fact remains, poisons don’t become less poisonous simply because we rename them.

Poisons, by their very nature, are designed to kill things, to block things, and otherwise usurp normal biological functions. Poisons do not ‘heal’. They supplant and they override. Neither do they become less poisonous simply because we take them in small doses. In fact, in many cases, it’s with the smaller doses, particularly when taken chronically, that we see the most devastating side effects, the complex multi-system ones that do everything but kill the individual outright. We are dissonant from these concepts, sometimes willfully. The chemistry is complicated, the disinformation dense, and if we’re truthful with ourselves, it’s easier not to know. Until it isn’t.

Knowing all of this, what do we say to the families who have lost love ones to vaccine injury or death or medication injury or death? How do we go about our daily lives knowing the science is corrupted, arguably with intention, and that more will suffer as a result?

I don’t know the answer to either of these questions. All I know is that as a mom, I feel your loss and I am sorry.

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HPV Vaccine Reactions: A Response to Walking on the Edge of a Sword

by Derrick Lonsdale MD, FACN, CNS

Published on September 4, 2014

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This post is an attempt to answer the questions raised by the extraordinary post vaccination medical history of this 16 year old girl. Of all the HPV vaccine histories that have been recorded on “Hormones Matter” this is, in my view, one of the worst. We seem to be carrying out a vicious experiment on human beings and if this is not recognized as an indictment on the HPV vaccine, I do not know what will move the powers that be. With a very detailed history like this it is easy to see the relationship of the symptoms with the HPV vaccine. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this represents massive mitochondrial dysfunction affecting the brain and nervous system, particular the autonomic nervous system. I will try to discuss each symptom as it appears in the history.

Clues in the Pre – HPV Vaccine History

First of all it must be recognized that this young lady had pervasive developmental disorder, asthma, pyelitis, a topic dermatitis, otitis media, Candida, hemolytic streptococcus, pneumonia, “wart”, periodic fever, agrochemical sensitivity and recurrent stomatitis before she received the HPV vaccine. We are not told whether these symptoms were related to previous vaccinations. This appears to be consistent with a persistent concept among parents that infancy vaccines sometimes do more harm than good in a minority of children. The history here suggests a genetic or nutritional risk factor in addition to the stress of the vaccination.

Post – HPV Vaccine Reaction

Her attitude towards this dreadful post HPV vaccine legacy was excellent since she attended school in spite of fever. She is described as athletic with a good nature prior to vaccination and there was a major post vaccination personality change. The slow pulse suggested parasympathetic dominance that made at least a partial post-vaccination switch to sympathetic dominance. I base this on the description of an average post vaccination increase in pulse rate. I believe that the timeline reported in the medical history is important. She had the usual three injections. After the first one she developed asthma and since this was an early affliction I assume that the injection was a stress factor that triggered it. Asthma is caused by an imbalance in the autonomic nervous system. After the second injection she developed urticaria. This was again a signal through the autonomic system that delivered a message to histamine releasing cells in the skin.

The worst situation arose after the third HPV vaccine injection. Symptoms described were arrhythmia, an increase in circulating eosinophils, fever, hypersomnia, aggressiveness, childish behavior, hyperpnea, muscle weakness, headache, parotitis, temporo-mandibular joint syndrome, dysphagia, stomatitis, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, photophobia, double vision, and “blood stagnation” in the hippocampus. The gradual worsening with each injection might be compared with the repeated blows of a hammer where a nail is driven in a little bit more with each blow. With this detailed description, a cause and effect relationship with each injection seems to be obvious and it would be stupid to regard this as a coincidence.

Oxidative Stress and the Brain

Let me try to explain these symptoms because I can assure you that they are all related to the brain. In particular, I am referring to the limbic system of the brain, that part of the brain that computes our adaptive mechanisms through the autonomic nervous and endocrine systems. The reference to the hippocampus makes it clear that the limbic system is involved because this is an important organ within that system. We can sum up the situation by saying that this young lady is now maladapted to her physical and mental environment.

When this part of the brain suffers from reduced energy efficiency from defective oxidative metabolism in mitochondria, it becomes erratic in the way it reacts to input signals delivered through the sensory system. This continuous process of brain and body signaling is how we adapt to our environment throughout life. We have to go back to the writings of Hans Selye whose professional career was spent in studying the effect of physical stress in animal systems. He reported his work as “The General Adaptation Syndrome” and referred to the diseases of mankind as the diseases of adaptation. I would have preferred to call it the diseases of maladaptation. What Selye emphasized throughout his writings was that it was consumption of energy that was required for adapting and its failure resulted in the syndrome that he described.

Now we know that the mitochondria are responsible for producing energy required for this, the General Adaptation Syndrome makes perfect sense. When Selye was doing his work, the biochemistry of energy metabolism was in its infancy. Now we have much more information about oxidative metabolism and energy production. Until recently, any mitochondrial dysfunction was considered to be invariably genetic in origin. We are now aware that it can be acquired as a result of environmental stress that results in insufficient energy to meet the mental or physical demand.

Diminished Oxidative Metabolism and the Limbic System: HPV Vaccine and Personality

The change in personality from a gentle to an aggressive individual is absolutely characteristic of diminished oxidative metabolism in the limbic system. In particular, the autonomic nervous system becomes extremely erratic in its behavior. It winds up by misdirecting the normal signals that go to the organs of the body and the associated symptoms are chaotic, referred to as dysautonomia. For example, the reaction to a mild reprimand might be an explosive temper tantrum and dietary indiscretion might well be an important factor in the waves of juvenile violence that seem to be otherwise inexplicable. For the past 35 years I have been seeing the personality of children change because of abnormal biochemistry in the limbic system. They have wicked temper tantrums, kick the door or the wall, are rude to parents and teachers and are generally out of control. By rescuing them from their appalling diet and giving them supplements, nearly all of them would gradually come back to being a normal child.

We are suffering from an epidemic of biochemical rather than psychological disease. Of course there is a genetic principle behind it; there always is! The smarter the child the greater the dietary risk. This should be fairly obvious to anybody because, like our cars, the better the car the better the fuel has to be. Because the brain, central nervous system and the heart are the most oxygen consuming tissues in the whole body, it is hardly surprising that they are the first to succumb. They are the organs most affected by vitamin B1 deficiency that causes beriberi. This vitamin, like a spark plug in a car, is a necessity to the oxidation of glucose, the primary fuel used by our cells, particularly in brain. Of course, it is not the only non caloric nutrient required, but its association with energy metabolism is clearly dominant.

We have seen from previous posts on this web site that some victims of post vaccination postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) were thiamine deficient and the dysfunction in the autonomic nervous system could legitimately be called beriberi. I have suggested several times that a marginal state of brain biochemistry may exist before the vaccination is given and that it acts as a stress factor. This might be from an unknown genetic risk or from a diet that does not meet the mental and physical activity required by the individual or a variable combination of both. It would explain why this HPV vaccine appears to pick off the brightest and the best.

In my opinion this young lady can only be helped by the administration of intravenous vitamins since that is the only way in which the necessary concentrations can be built up. It can be compared with changing the spark plugs in the engine of a car to improve its performance. Thiamine tetrahydrofurfuryl disulfide is available in Japan under the trade name of Alinamin, I have no doubt that this would be an important addition to the intravenous concentration of water soluble vitamins.