Why Publish Another Case?Just last week, we published a case of classic beriberi in a 23 year old man, and now, yet another case comes to our attention. Most in the medical profession are under the false impression that beriberi, thiamine deficiency, has been eradicated in Western cultures. It has not. In fact, a number […]
Together with Dr. Lonsdale, I am proud to announce the release of our new book: Thiamine Deficiency Disease, Dysautonomia, and High Calorie Malnutrition.If you have followed our blog, Hormones Matter, for any amount of time, you’ll know that we spend a lot time writing about mitochondrial distress. Mitochondria are the engines that fuel our cells […]
A desperate mother sent me an email about her 23-year-old son and it was easy to recognize that this young man had full-blown beriberi. You may or may not know that beriberi is well known as a vitamin B1 deficiency disease. Because the medical profession is convinced that this disease never occurs in America, it […]
One of the things I most love about social media and health research is the opportunity to identify patterns of illness across different patient groups. Here is an example of finding research from one patient group, ThyroidChange, that likely spans many others (Gardasil injured, post Lupron Hashimoto’s, and Fluoroquinolone reactions – to name but a […]
What is Energy?Energy is an invisible force. The aggregate of energy in any physical system is a constant quantity, transformable in countless ways but never increased or diminished. In the human body, chemical energy is produced by the combination of oxygen with glucose. This reaction is known as oxidation. The chemical energy is transduced to […]
For some time now, we have been covering all the ways in which thiamine deficiency influences disease. The primary mechanisms are through the down regulation of mitochondrial enzymes critical for ATP production. The lack of thiamine impairs mitochondrial functioning significantly leading to complex, debilitating, chronic, and sometimes, deadly illnesses. With mitochondrial energy a requisite for […]
I recently became aware of a case of a boy who had died from a myocarditis and subsequent heart failure after he had received the Gardasil vaccination. He was reportedly completely healthy before the vaccination and the death had been directly attributed to it. The autopsy report was very striking. Examination of heart muscle had […]
As a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN), I was surprised to find out that I had a thiamine deficiency in December 2015. My diet wasn’t perfect, but it was close. I never imagined I’d spend so much time trying to treat my own deficiency, but it’s been over a year the first lab work showed the […]