4. Do the 'bugs' make us ill?

(note: You may find it easier to follow this series of articles by using the Archive index on the right hand side of this page. I'm numbering the entries so you can 'click' each one in sequence.)

Here's a quote and a link to the larger discussion about how 'occult' bacteria may be causing illness. There is a growing body of evidence explaining how sub-microscopic bacterial forms interfere with normal cell biology. They apparently have evolved a means of insinuating themselves into the cell's chemistry for their own survival, and thereby interfere with the normal inflammatory processes - (normally inflammation is part of our healing process).

I'll post more on this later...

http://www.marshallprotocol.com/forum37/3391.html

These remissions also resolved a second issue, whether such intra-cytoplasmal bacteria were pathogenic or benign. In the case of Sarcoidosis, the coccoid bacterial forms proved pathogenic. Two recent in-vitro studies have described how a similar species of intracellular bacteria directly modulated the transfer factor Nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kB) in the cytoplasm, initiating a release of mRNA (signaling cytokine release) from the Nucleus. This is likely to be the pathogenic mechanism, and we have described how this mechanism can fuel the granulomatous inflammation of sarcoidosis, an inflammation which is not driven by normal lymphocyte-phagocyte signaling, but by a steady release of cytokines independent of any lymphocytic intervention.