Ongoing research by Doctor Stratton of Vanderbilt University has found over 70% of MS patients were infected with the bacterial infection Chlamydia Pneumoniae (Cpn). Not to be confused with the STD.
UK microbiologist Dr David Wheldon has researched Stratton's antibiotic protocol that was created to rid Cpn. Wheldon's wife has SPMS and has been on this protocol for over 2 years. Since being on this Combined Antibiotic Protocol (CAP), her MS has since gone into remission.
I quote from Sarah Wheldon:
http://www.avenues-of-sight.com/Sara...MSpages-2.html
Quote:
|
"Now 2 years have passed, along with two follow up MRI scans, and soon to be a fourth before the old machine is mothballed. Both of these showed remarkable improvements unheard of for someone with established progressive disease. Some lesions on the outside edge have completely vanished and the others are greatly diminished, apart from one relatively small one in the periventricular region which is probably the very oldest one. There is no new activity at all. "
|
Cpn is a lung infection spread by coughs and sneezes. With some people, because of genetic reasons, this bug in it's spore Elementary Body (EB) form goes past the lungs and enters the blood supply where it is carried, piggyback riding on red blood cells, looking for other cells in the body to infect.
Once it finds a cell it likes, which could be an immune system microphage cell, a muscle, skin, heart, liver, thyroid, brain (it has the capacity to bridge the blood-brain barrier) etc - it enters this cell and change to the intracellular Reticular Body (RB) form. In this form it acts like a parasite, parasitically stealing energy from the cell, by using the cell's mitrochrondria (cell energy factory), it grows and reproduces creating more EB's that it throws out the cell. As the cell is depleted in ATP energy which is created by the mitrochrondria, the cell does not have enough energy to do the job it is programmed to do, giving rise to the fatigue that many people who have MS and other illnesses that Cpn is implicated in.
The Cpn bug is very good at hiding from your immune system. If it detects a threat to it's existence, like antibiotics, it simply converts to it's 3rd form, called the cryptic hibernation form which is also intracellular. In this form, it still continues to steal the cell's energy.
Because it can hide from the immune system very easily (remember, it also infects immune system cells meaning that they are unable to do their job properly), this accounts for the very varied detection rate of this bug in the testing labs.
Dr Stratton has designed a patent for Cpn testing and treatment. Dr David Wheldon also has a protocol based on Stratton's patent. This CAP consists of taking 3 different antibiotics together alongside a supplement called NAC. The reason for taking so many antibiotics, is because each one works for the different stages of the bug, including the cryptic hibernation form.
Cpn can be eliminated, but it does take a long time to eliminate it completely. The protocol can last 2-5 years, with a steady improvement of symptoms. Usually people notice the improvements increase the greatest after a year of being on the CAP.
Bear in mind that all of the above information is very cutting edge, and is mostly unknown by most of the medical establishment. Stratton's research lab at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee has recently been given further funding. He is to look into the links between Cpn and many chronic illnesses.
He found Cpn infection in 100% of patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome using his patented diagnostic test. There are also links with Alzheimers, Asthma, Rheumatoid Arthritis and many other illnesses. In the control sample studies of healthy people, he found 18-20% Cpn infection, which goes to show how wide spread this bug is.
I am simply putting this information in this forum to point people into a different direction for their own research into their illness. I was pointed into the direction of Cpn, when my partner, who has been bedridden for over 2 years with severe M.E/CFS, was diagnosed with Cpn. She has been on the Wheldon/Stratton CAP since late last year and is showing early, but small improvement in her symptoms.
Mark Hall