Vaccines, Depression and Neurodegeneration After Age 50
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...er-age-50.aspx

By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., CCN

It has been estimated that 14.8 million Americans suffer from major depressive disorder and of this number 6 million are elderly. If we include anxiety disorders, which commonly accompany depression, the number jumps to 40 million adults. At a cost of $44 billon dollars a year just for care of the seniors, this impacts the national budget as well.

Depression later in life tends to last longer and be more severe than at younger ages. It is also associated with a high rate of suicide.

Previously, it was thought that major depression was secondary to a deficiency in certain neurotransmitters in the brain, particularly the monoamines, which include serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine. While alterations in these important mood-related neurotransmitters is found with major depression, growing evidence indicates that the primary culprit is low-grade, chronic brain inflammation.

In addition, we now know that inflammatory cytokines can lower serotonin significantly and for long periods by a number of different mechanisms.

MSG and Depression

Researchers have also discovered that most people with major depressive disease (MDD) have higher levels of the neurotransmitter glutamate in their spinal fluid (CSF) and blood plasma. This is the same glutamate found as a food additive-for example, MSG (monosodium glutamate), hydrolyzed proteins, calcium or sodium casienate, soy protein isolate, vegetable protein concentrate or isolate, etc.

Dr. Blaylock is a neurosurgeon who watched his father die with PD. He takes the subject personally and does not hesitate to challenge official dogma. Although a little long for some, this article touches on a lot more than vaccines.

Ever wonder why curcumin, NSAIDs, green tea, etc seem to help PD? Or how the BBB becomes compromised and why it matters? Or why so many seemingly unconnected factors get linked to PD - aluminum, mercury, manganese, pesticides, vaccines, the flu, etc? The answers are here.

Inflammation and stress. PD is a two-headed beast. Inflammation and the associated chemicals (cytokines) are creatures of the immune system. Your body responds to inflammation by telling the endocrine system to produce steroids (hormones) to lower the inflammation just like your doctor uses cortisone to lessen the swelling in a sprain. But the immune system is still ready to go in PD but you can't keep squirting natural steroids forever. So you back off. Inflammation increases. More hormones to fight it.

Our immune and endocrine systems are in a lifelong wrestling match and eventually something has to give. The chemical mix damages nerve tissue and also prevents its repair. So the world sees PD as a neurological problem when that is "just" a symptom of the real struggle.

This is what our occasional French dropin Anne Frobert, herself an MD and PWP, has been working on for over five years now and trying to get someone with a little power to pay attention. Michael J. Fox, are you listening?

thankyou dear rev,
I am exhausted today?

I was introduced to Dr. Blaylock through Betty Martini, as she had
the online site at the time - I was researching food additives, because it was
food & water - they were the only things all Americans had in common,
and I had been on parcopa a PD med -which to my knowlegde still contains aspartame...

and here is more info from Dr.Russell Blaylock

One should not assume that health food stores are safe havens from these excitotoxins. In fact, I have found that many products, including supplements as well as foods, contain one or more of these toxic compounds. For example, at least one product claiming to improve memory and boost brain power, contains large doses of both glutamate and glutamine.

-Russell Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills



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Enough silly humor! The fact is that gluamate, in addition to burning up your brain, can ruin your whole day as I have learned the hard way.

People's sensitivity varies and I seem to be out there on the scale. Some folks eat Chinese and get headaches. I get so "off" that a handful of sinemet has no effect. It takes six to eight hours to regain some control. This is a relatively recent problem (the last six to twelve months) too.

It shouldn't be a surprise once one thinks about it. Dopamine is inhibitory in nature ("slooow dowwwn") while glutamate is excitatory ("SPD UP!!") and dopamine is low already. So shove an egg roll in the face and zowie....