Tag: inflammation

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Endotoxin/LPS can cause spontaneous abortion by raising nitric oxide (NO)

I am posting this study as a kind of a follow-up on the one I posted just…

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High-fat diet ups cortisol/serotonin (5-HT), hinders 5-HT deactivation, causes leaky gut and systemic inflammation

I am sure I will get a lot of hate-mail about this, but frankly this is not…

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Plasma endotoxin/LPS is a reliable predictor of mortality in hospitalized children

A great study, whose findings (I believe) can be plausibly extended to all hospitalized patients given the…

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Osteoarthritis (OA) may be caused by hypometabolism-driven cholesterol accumulation; vitamin B5 mat treat it

The role of mitochondria and oxidative metabolism in “structural” conditions such as OA is becoming more widely…

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Endotoxin/LPS-driven inflammation can cause “Mad Cow” disease by itself, no prions needed

Yet another mysterious and deadly condition may turn out to be nothing more than endotoxin/LPS overload in…

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Aspirin is a true drug for COVID-19 – it inhibits binding of the spike protein to the angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2)

Most of my readers probably still vividly remember the brutal censorship levied upon the public during the…

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Chronic stress can cause/drive liver cancer (HCC) by affecting tryptophan metabolism

Little by little, we are seeing new studies call (timidly) for a “paradigm shift” (read: euphemism for…

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“Gulf War Syndrome” likely curable; it is driven by metabolic dysfunction and inflammation, not neuron damage

Some good news just in for the holidays. For decades, military veterans with this conditions have been…

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Mitral valve disease likely caused by endotoxin/LPS-driven inflammation

This is something Ray has told people numerous time over email, but the studies are now solidifying…

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Chronic stress reliably causes depression, (bioidentical) progesterone may treat it

It looks like there is a chasm between animal and human research. In animal research, chronic stress…