Vit C paper by Tom Grier plus backgroundr

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Reply from Tom Grier:

As for the Vitamin-C paper I wrote almost ten years ago I merely

presented 3 case histories in which two patients died and none ever

responded favorably to antibiotics until the Vit-C was withdrawn. I

raised questions but no conclusions except to say that Vit-C should be

studied and used cautiously in Lyme patients with active neurological

infection. Being scientifically suscinct and meaningful in under 1,500

words for a newsletter with an immediate deadline for lay people is

difficult. Just try it!

More from his message:

Hi Lynn,

I will let my articles and in-paper cited references speak for

themselves ....

Also I am not self educated: I had two years of medical school at the

University of MN Duluth campus 1977-1979 as a Grad student in

Immunology/microbiology (My upper grad GPA was 3.87)

The courses I had included: Clinical Medicine, Pathology, Histology,

Immunology 1 & 2, Parasitology, Physiology, Laboratory medicine, Patient

Psych, Neurology, and Electron Microscopy (St Campus), and of

course medical microbiology Mpls.

Among other things I helped in 1977 to develop the first known

rapid-test for antibody coated bacteria that could be differentiated in

urine samples. These ACBs meant kidney involvement in a bladder

infections long before a fever could ever be detected. (This was for Dr.

Tom and Betty Hamilton MDs at UMD my paper was sent to the main U where

I showed their Med School lab my procedure which took 12 minutes instead

of their 4 hours) And could be massed produced ahead of time on " prepped

slides " (I combined buffering, washing and reagent incubation in one

step on centrifuged Urine smears)

I also worked on using T-cells to prevent leukemia in genetic

immune-compromised mice without spleens. (This was for Dr. Omelan

Lukesevizch PhD the work was not very important but I learned a lot)

My thesis work was on using the zonae pelucidae of hamster ovary as an

antigen to produce a vaccine for contraception for adviser: Dr Arthur

PhD retired) This last project is still alive and well in

Australia where they use the same techniques I helped develop (with no

funding) in 1978. It is used on Koala Bears to control populations. I

also presented a series of lectures on immunologic contraception and the

implications on fertility studies. (The techniques from

immuno-contraception made the first test tube baby possible as well as

increasing fertility by using techniques as sperm capacitation and sperm

washing.) Dr. of London, Gwatkin, and Mancini (Argentina) who

were instrumental in producing the first test tube baby corresponded

with me several times from 1977-1980 helping me with my research.)

I then worked for a short time at the McChord Air force Base in Tacoma

WA on Osteoporosis from a grant from NASA (on work that was what I

thought was worthless science) looking at fluoride concentrations

affecting osteoblasts in rat bone cell cultures, which is too far

removed from human applications to be useful. I did this in the summer

of 1980 while waiting for the PhD program at the U of WA to begin its

program in Geriatrics which was changed from the college of Biology to

the college of Sociology. Wanting to do medical research instead of

social-statistics: I dropped out of school and went to work for Ayerst

Labs.

My Adviser at that time Dr Jefferey Bland PhD (Biochem Puget Sound) who

is now somewhat famous for his television info-mercials on Protein

Supplements. He was a huge runner and had an interest in Sports

Nutrition. I probably got Lyme around this time running 10-20 miles a

week in the woods. We last lectured together at the U of Washington in

1980 my topic was that trans-hydrogenated fats and coconut oil did not

lower chlesterol or saturated fats in the blood unles calories were

severely restricted, and that atherosclerosis was a sequenced event

involving many key markers. Dr Bland lectured on sports nutrition.

The training I got in pharmacology in the pharmacology industry over the

next 10 years helped me with Lyme treatment and understanding

pharmokinetics. It was in 1989 I was first affected by severe symptoms

of MS and completely disabled by Lyme 1991. My recovery was slow and

painful and not without lingering on going sequele like atrial

fibrillation.

I'm not a doctor but then find a doctor who would take on the role of

patient advocate and write Lyme articles for patients that patients can

understand and not get paid.

My current article on Neuro-cascade events is the most technical of all

my papers except for the as yet unpublished Alzheimer's article that

Judit Miklossey won't let me print until she publishes her data. It will

blow the socks of current understanding of bacterial induced

neurocascade events.

Hope this helps clarify my so called: Pharma-Mafia past! :-)

Please feel free to use this info Lynn as I am quite pleased to have had

a science-medical background that is more than just " Self-Educated " .

Also if anyone can show that I have ever been connected to any big

corporate monies, please please let me know because I could use some

about now! As a matter of record I think I am quite generous with my

time with Lyme patients who need help, but I can't do Lyme 24/7 because

like everyone else I do have to work sometime to pay my bills and since

recovering from Lyme my productive hours each day are fewer with each

new decade that I continue to fight this illness.

Worse than the occaisional comments I hear suggesting that somehow I am

all about profiting from Lyme disease, is the fact that many of my

articles are reprinted without my permision in a piece-meal fashion,

quite often without my references. Its impossible to defend 200 websites

who use my articles so I don't do it anymore.

I don't think I have ever written a newsletter article without an

abumdance of references and the only time they are ever printed without

the attached references is when the newsletter publishes the WHOLE

ARTICLE WITH REFERENCE on their companion website. But most web sites

don't reprint the references. SInce the Lyme ALliance site disbanded

there is little communication with me about reprinting entire articles

like " Complexities of Lyme " which had 106 references.

On my hardrive for over 10 years I have over 200 peer review references

from journals that I have cited in articles. I will make these available

to the beautifully dedicated and lovely people at WILDERNETWORK to

reprint.

Here are the catagories of the 80 pages of references:

Lyme Disease Survival Manual References

Reference Categories: General Lyme Disease (1)

Lyme Tests (10)

Lyme Arthritis and Myalgia/Lupus (19)

Dermatological Lyme, EM, ACA,

(22)

Ophthalmic Lyme (24)

Persistent Infection (26)

Cardiovascular (29)

Antibiotic Therapy (33)

Alternative Therapies (37)

Neurological Lyme (39)

Epidemiology and Prevention (47)

Microbiology (59)

Veterinary Lyme (68)

Other Tick-Borne Illnesses (71)

Books (75)

Non-Lyme References (77)