Saturday, October 19, 2013
Dr. Joseph Brewer at ILADS 2013
Dr. Joseph Brewer gave a smashing talk on Mycotoxins and
ME/CFS. Dr. Brewer is an Infectious
Disease physician from Kansas City, MO, who has a longstanding interest in
chronic illness. Dr. Brewer should be included in any serious discussion of
these complex illnesses. He has great curiosity - which he backs up with
science.
Dr. Brewer began by giving a general overview about mold,
presenting a 2011 study of mold in water damaged buildings, a 2009 study of water
damaged buildings after Katrina and a recent study out of Texas Tech. He illustrated stachybotrus chartarum, one of
the most notorious forms of mold.
He presented mycotoxins as extremely toxic, secondary
metabolites. The three big ones,
measured at Real Time Lab, are Aflatoxin, Ochratoxin A and Trichohothecene.
Dr. Brewer and Dr. Hooper published a very important paper
in April, 2013 on “Mycotoxins and ME/CFS”. Amazingly, they found 93% of 104
patients tested positive for one or more mycotoxins, compared to 0% in 52
controls. Some have all three - the mycotoxins
trifecta.
The clinical associations with mycotoxins poisoning are
dysregulation of the immune system and especially dysregulation of mitochondria. Mycotoxins are potent mitochondrial poisons.
Mycotoxins produced the same symptoms as ME/CFS - and also as Lyme.
It is Dr. Brewer’s supposition that mold takes up residence
in the body, particularly in the sinuses. He cited scientific studies that led
him to this conclusion. This exposure can be current - or it can be
longstanding from living or working in a moldy environment, ten, twenty or twenty-five years ago.
Dr. Brewer presented his treatment strategy for getting at
the mold and getting rid of it. The first step is to reduce input. The second step is to enhance output. This
can be through improving glutathione, increasing sweating, using binders like Cholestyramine
or activated charcoal (his particular favorite) - and developing an antifungal
strategy.
The main approach that he uses is a mist delivery of Ampho B. The instrument of delivery is a Nasa Touch .
I asked Dr. Brewer about nasal colloidal silver. He said
that he thought that colloidal silver was a promising treatment.
It was wonderful to see Dr. Brewer drop the mold bomb on
this Lyme conference. He walks into a room and, when he is finished his delivery,
things have changed. Dr. Brewer needs to be heard in more places. Meanwhile he
goes about his work of helping patients. This clinician/researcher is among the very best.
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Thank you Chris for being there for so many that can not. You are the best patient advocate for all of us. Many many thanks!!
ReplyDeleteI've been to see Dr. Brewer. He is one of the greats. Maybe he would like to add his name to the experts. After all, he has published on ME & mycos and is a very prominent local doctor with great HIV background.Chris, can you look into this?
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment, Deborah. I am considering seeing Dr. Brewer. Does he accept insurance?
ReplyDeleteMy son sees Dr. Brewer and is on the nasal therapy for CFS. He has had to alter the program because he was having issues with the pH of the fungicide. He is doing the colloidal silver right now. In a couple more weeks we are to call and discuss the progress and potentially start a new fungicide. Dr Brewer is a very nice man and wonderful researcher. I know some patients have seen success with this treatment, I am hoping we see something soon too!
ReplyDeleteOMFG! I have been telling then that there is mold in my head and Fascia of my body for a decade. My studies tell me that the fascia in the body uses a communication system like fiber optics and that the mycotoxin are phosphorescent.
ReplyDeleteYou are an amazing Father
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