re: was high sed rate now oxidative stress

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Here's the medical opinion on that... it's not alternative view at all. All the

autoimmune disorders have extreme levels of oxidative stress in common.

Many professionals are calling them oxidative stress diseases.

There's a simple way to find out -- get the doctor to request a lab test on

glutathione levels in both affected tissues and blood serum. If the levels are

low, the problem is oxidative stress. Glutathione is supposed to be there to

stop oxidative stress and if it's not you get a variety of pains and symptoms

from all the unquenched free radicals. And you age faster; aging is

primarily accumulated free radical damage. Free radicals are also linked to

cancer.

Even without doing the test to prove it to the doctor's satisfaction, the

work has already been done, and it's already been proven that if a person

is sick, glutathione levels are guaranteed to be low anyway. Here's the link:

http://members.shaw.ca/widewest/medline_links.html

The prewritten Medline links on that page turn up thousands of studies that

show low glutathione is a prerequisite for disease, and that high glutathione

levels are never found in a disease state. This is medical literature that the

doctor should be aware of.

Raising glutathione levels is simple - Immunocal and HMS-90 from

Immunotec Research is the medically approved way to increase

glutathione levels. This is in the doctors' desk reference for prescription

drugs. You can get it also without a prescription. It can be covered in

some circumstances by insurance.

What increased glutathione will accomplish is FM pain and brain fog and

CFS reduction, in other words, increased energy levels. Also if there's an

inflammation component, this is of interest because it increases Th1

responses which reduce Th2 (inflammatory) responses that are dominant

in autoimmune disorders.

hope this helps

Duncan Crow

> From what I understand it is not uncommon for people to have fibro

> and an autoimmune disease as well. Depending on you symptoms you may want

> to do some investigation into conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and

> lupus. There are so many of them I couldn't list them all. So has your

> doctor said about you sed rate and C-reactive protein?

>

> Sheshe

>

>

>

> > > My sed rate and C-reactive protein have been

> > >elevated for three years so something is going on that

> > >is probably related to an autoimmune disease.

> >

> > I'm not sure who posted this (Sheshe?), but it makes me wonder how

> many

> > others with fibro. also have elevated sed. rates? Mine has been

> elevated

> > for three years, and is getting higher, but all the doctors are

> adamant

> > about the fact that fibro. is NOT an inflammatory thing, and is

> supposedly

> > not an autoimmune disease, even though some of the alternative

> health books

> > call it that.