Re: The Rosennean Modelling project

[Ayten Aydin <***>]

Dear Jack,

I tend to agree most of the things that you said in your post below,
especially those regarding the food connection of MS, as an immunity system
disorder, its symptoms are very sensitive to food, and then more
specifically on the fever management  on which you say: " fevers are a
necessary part of the healing process."

I've been studying the results emerging ( never the last words from research
made by a number of experts on  these topics, thanks to my curiosity, arisen
from my own case. You may be interested in reading the following paragraph
from my related spade work.:

"As one of the common disorders, 'inflammation' is the body's initial
response to internal or external damage to tissue or cell. The symptoms of
heat, redness, swelling and pain it causes are usual expressions of the
disorder. The suppression of the inflammation is neither a cure nor a right
thing to do. Such symptoms are, in effect, telling us that the process of
cure is taking its course. This process actually allows the immune system to
do its work abruptly and well. Thus, it is not an unwelcome event but the
primary sign that the body is starting to heal itself. What is actually
needed to do is to allow the suffering person at rest to permit the natural
healing mechanism to perform its function unsuppressed.

In the inflammatory process, in the first place, the cell or tissue is
attacked by a pathogen. As a result, chemicals are released from damaged
cells or immune cells that cause blood vessels in the damaged area to widen,
bringing more blood to its damaged area and slowing down the rate of blood
flow. Also the blood vessels become leaky allowing free flow of immune cells
and fluid into the tissues. White cells in the blood line-up along the blood
vessel walls and pass into the damaged area. In contact with foreign
particles they trigger an immune reaction.  Swelling caused by the fluid
immobilizes and localizes the damage, and the other components of the immune
system then come into play and neutralize the antigen. The debris resulting
from the immune activity is, then, swallowed up by macrophages and
neutrophilis."

In due course we may try to see how we can connect these findings with RR's
related theories or benefit from his theories. Judith is good in finding
connections or corrections as needed.

Regards,
Ayten

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Park" <***>
To: <***>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: The Rosennean Modelling project


> Judith Rosen wrote:*
> *<snip>**
>
> > *It is also known that new cases of type 1 diabetes are heaviest in
> > the cold&flu season of the areas of the planet with temperate climates
> > and much lower during warm seasons. It is also known that incidence of
> > type 1 is lowest at equatorial areas. *
> > **
>
> <snip>
>
> Here are two points made on MS [1]:
>
>     * /Geography./ Countries in the temperate zones (above 40°) such as
>       Northern Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand have
>       significantly higher incidence of multiple sclerosis than
>       countries in the tropics. In the United States, people who live
>       below the 37th parallel develop MS at a rate of 57-78 cases per
>       100,000 people. Those who live above the line have a prevalence
>       rate of 110-140 cases per 100,000 people.
>     * /Diet./ Studies have shown that populations at high risk of
>       developing multiple sclerosis tend to consume a lot of dairy
>       products and animal fats. On the contrary, in countries such as
>       Japan, people eat few dairy products but consume lots of fish,
>       soy-rich foods, and seeds, which are good sources of essential
>       fatty acids
>       <http://www.findarticles.com/g2603/0003/2603000347/p1/article.jhtml>
>       . The incidence rates in these countries are very low. Thus,
>       essential fatty acid deficiency due to excessive consumption of
>       saturated fats may contribute to the development of multiple
>       sclerosis.
>
> While those points are not made at a Website with any particular level
> of scientific credibility, they mirror some things said by an employee
> of mine who, two weeks after canceling his medical insurance to "save
> money", found out he had MS.
>
> Prior to my own diagnosis, I had always understood that reducing a fever
> was a "good idea."  After diagnosis, I began to study biology and
> medicine and soon learned that fevers are a necessary part of the
> healing process. One wonders whether the higher mean temperatures of the
> tropics implies stronger immune system response, put another way: a
> strong immune response is entailed by (or entails) elevated
> environmental temperature. One wonders if emergent models will be able
> to represent such relationships.
>
> Jack
> [1] http://www.findarticles.com/g2603/0005/2603000536/p1/article.jhtml
>