Re: Cystic fibrosis: a new theory

[Guest guest]

::::standing on the soapbox, waving her arms over her head,

yelling until she's blue in the face::::

Correcting this is not difficult! The difficult part is getting

doctors and researchers to stop looking at individual trees and start

looking at the whole forest. All these people are inspecting their own

special branch on the CF tree, without paying attention to what all

the other people are doing with their branches of the tree.

And all this points to the basic, second most abundant cation in the

body: MAGNESIUM!

Kim

--- In cfparents , " Torsten Krafft "

that dysfunctional CFTR causes excessive acidification of the

trans-Golgi network in CF lung epithelial cells. The features were

corrected by incubating CF respiratory epithelial cells with weak

bases.

If these findings are further substantiated, the researchers see

the potential for a new approach to treatment. `We already have ion

pump inhibitors and antacids for treating heartburn', says Vojo

Deretic (University of New Mexico). `If we can design similar

compounds to go to the lungs, we might have a simple solution to

greatly improve the health of CF patients.'