I hear that Microsoft is working on something like this. You can punch holes into their ideas of security, but they have the money to make wise choices in research.
Mozillazine said they patch some of the same security holes in Internet Explorer. So there are at least some similar design flaws. I mean, from what I know they coded the thing in C++. If they wanted to be more secure, they should have coded it in a language like Java. Too bad Java runs so slow.
I've researched archiving using PC technology. I find optical CD-R technology only to last 10-15 years at most, maybe as few as 6 months to a year in poor conditions. The dye is the killer. Just leave your CD face up under a strong light and watch the data disappear. It is evident that IOMEGA has failed too many of it's users. I would not buy anything from them. Tape Drives are mainly in use because of reliability and life-time. My dream technology would be a static chip that would store 1 terabyte of information on it yet cost at the most $100 dollars with the drive costing $400. Static chips last an estimated 50 years while providing fast seek time and have excellent reliability. The chips would be standardized and made by many companies instead of just one. All new drives would be backwards compatible with previous versions of the chip technology making the standard last a lifetime. Archivists don't want to upgrade to a new technology. They want one technology that is reliable, fast, with a long life, that will last them half a decade or more. Chip, not optical or tape, is the the only technology that I see in the future that can handle the demand. Interesting technologies like PDOT may have their place in the future, but chip technology is more promising.
Software prices are way, way too expensive. For $50 what could I get? If you just spent that much on food for one person per week, your money would be much more productive than buying a a firewall. Is a firewall really worth what you can spend on food for a week? Yes, it protects your PC, but what is the total cost of a PC and how much does it pay for itself? Is a PC really cost effective? No. It is buggy and overpriced. PC's should cost $50 and software $5 dollars a piece. Free software supports that idea and gets the major companies to notice. "Hey, software is too expensive. We need to lower our prices." Yes, of course they hate it. They get rich off of us. Look at the top ten list of the richest men on earth. Two of them were founders of a software company. Software companies are conning us out of our cash for the sake of a snazzy new toy to play with. Free software is the consumer way of fighting back and lowering prices.
Programming is littered with complexities for there not to be bugs. You have to define something just right and not misspell anything or put something just "so" or there is a bug. I know there is a reason for all these things. But in the future I see Computer Aided Programming (CAP). The processing power of the PC will be used so that the computer will know what you are programming while you are programming it. The Artificial Intelligence will make suggestions and even write some of the code for you. The AI will keep you from making disasterous mistakes by analyzing every bit of recent code in comparison with all past code looking for conflicts. He will even suggest that you put something just "so" or not do it. The AI in essence will be your companion, debugging as you go. This will produce huge programming projects with no bugs whatsoever.
My last article on slashdot got rearranged mysteriously. You are amazingly right. There is only one problem. 50 million people signed up for the no-call list because it was done by the FTC. 50 million people didn't write letters or send e-mails. Figure out how 50 million people could communicate with government easily and you'll solve this problem. This problem is why special interest groups and businesses control congress. Everyone wants an easy way to contact congress. People are lazy. Who wants to form a special interest group? My solution is convincing a congressman to put up on a web site a "Yes" to no SPAM. The "NO" would be left out so spammers couldn't spam it. Clicking on the "Yes" would vote "Yes" to no SPAM. A link would be sent to your e-mail address and clicking on that link would validate your vote. Then put this system on a site like FirstGov and get press coverage in all the newspapers. This would send a message to those interest groups and businesses that control congress. The public can rule them out. This is more of a pure democracy that I've always dreamed of.
It would be great if governments like the U. S. gave 15 million dollars to a new force to track down spammers. The penalty for spamming is now 5 years in federal jail. 50 million people signed up for the national no-call list. I bet millions would back such a SPAM squad. It is too bad the government doesn't seem to care.
When I talked about government eroding I meant trust in government. I will stick with mine through thick and thin. If there is an invasion of privacy where I live, I will join the privacy activists. Others across the world like in China might view their governments differently when they announce computer chip ID cards for everyone. That is scary. Imagine the government tracking all your movements and having to display personal information wherever you go. One thing will lead to another and then . . .,well, guess.
Soon I will be telling my grandson "Sunny, I remember the old days before these information gathering technoidiots when I could surf the internet in peace. Now you turn the PC on and it watches your every movement. Well, that was the old days . . . those sweet memories."
Your point is rather interesting, if it is true. A rapid deployment of a system that defeats spam would mask its invasion of privacy leaving the public ignorant and there would be commercial and government spying on posts in forums like these. That is if, and a big if, it tags everyone. I don't understand it all myself.
Hopefully if it actually tags everyone, there will be a public outcry similar to the RFID complaints when Walmart tried to implement them. Maybe calling up such a privacy group like the one that complained about Walmart would be an excellent thing to do.
This stuff is straight out of the book 1984. That prophetic book of the perils of technology has been in the minds of many lately. Unless people all across the world view invasion of privacy like taking away their civil rights, then nothing will happen. Microsoft and others like this company will strip away every right we have under the umbrella of "beneficial" technology. Businesses and governments will take advantage of such technology and know everything about a person. If a political or commercial figure doesn't like a citizen of his country that person would lose his job, his fame, his wealth, his friends or even his life.
When this happens, we will all be saying "I told you so!" but it may be be too late. Privacy then will be like a civil rights movement. There are many things I can say that might take place then, but I cannot say all of them. All I can say is that governments need to act now or risk losing public confidence. When public confidence erodes, so will the government. It is not wise for a government to have its people live in fear. Those type of governments have a history of being overthrown.
Now I've dragged on awhile about privacy, but if there is no invasion of privacy from this technology then I say "Go for it!"
What really matters is how much glucose it uses. If it uses a tiny amount, yes, it might have potential. But if it hogs glucose, hypoglycemia can be very dangerous.
You talk about eating more. Eating more will solve the problem if you are on a schedule and you eat a lot of protein. (Glucose tablets are only for hypoglycemic attacks. You only use them for a quick jumpstart. Then you eat long lasting protein and complex carbohydrates.) But, most people don't like to eat on a schedule or don't know when to eat to raise blood sugar. Of course technology could tell you when to eat (wirelessly). That still won't solve the problem of an unscheduled eating pattern.
Now you speculate that a weaker heart uses less glucose. Consider this: Cortisol controls heart processes as well as glucose metabolism. (This is common knowledge you can find in a physiology book.) So fluctuating cortisol levels can effect not only the heart but create hypoglycemia. So you can have a poor heart and hypoglycemia. That is why this technology is dangerous.
All I can see from this technology is more stress on the pancreas producing diabetes. Hypoglycemia many times goes into diabetes. Most doctors do not know why. If it was somehow powered by free radicals, that would be beneficial, but glucose? No way. Powering it with glucose will only harm the patient. I think many doctors would agree with me. Hypoglycemia is a logical outcome of using this technology.
Just for your information, I have nothing against the Japanese. The Japanese are so highly intelligent they have made a little island a leading economic power. Even with their stock market plunging at a 45 degree angle since the 90's they still have a strong technology background. I just think they should have studied physiology more before creating such a device. They could always create a way to turn plants into glucose then into energy, thus creating money from farmers overgrowth. That would be reasonable. I could create power from my trash.
Why I came on so strong is that an extra glucose using machine would cause hypoglycemia. You don't want to treat a disease by causing another one. Trust me. That is a major mistake of modern medicine. I view such a thing as unethical. The hypocratic oath says to do "no harm." No one wants a doctor to be hypocritical (pardon the pun).
Just eating will not work. Sorry. You'll get very fat that way. It would seem that the body would use all its energy supplies and not create fat, but it does. I haven't yet learned why.
Obesity causes you to have a high mortality rate making you 2 to 3 times more likely to develop another major health problem. Losing weight is usually the best thing you can do for your body to live a healthly life.
Hypoglycemia causes other health problems even effecting the mind with chronic disease. I have read there are 60 mental diseases that may be caused by hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia does even cause fatigue, it doesn't just make you hungry. Fatigue usually sets in when cancer and other major diseases reak havoc on your body. This proves the body is recieving phenomenal stress. Anyone that tells you that hypoglycemia doesn't cause fatigue hasn't thoroughly talked with hypogycemics. That is a chief complaint.
Surely you don't want to be hypoglycemic.
As for diabetes, there more than likely other ways to treat that without using modern drugs or this crazy device. I trully don't agree that the origin (besides genetics) is the pancreas and insulin levels. It is an oversimplification. A good rule of thumb is if the modern treatment of a disease is bad, scientists knowledge of that disease is faulty. You can treat almost anything, well, if you put your mind to it. They haven't yet so we are considering this of-the-wall device. It is kind of nuts.
What a waste of time and money! The actual application for this research is for marketing. Their knowledge of physiology is pitiful. The body wasn't meant to have the extra stress of another sythetic glucose dependant organ. People would die if they put this into practice. You want to create less stress in patients with heart disease, not more. Anyone want to die a little faster? This is stupid.
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I read an article once that hypothesized that SARS may be seasonal. I was rather struck by it because I had hypothesized myself it looked seasonal. So, if I am right, SARS is not at all dead but dormant. It will awake around fall/winter with the flu season. If it does, we may not be able to contain it this time around.
A vaccine would be nice and should be quite easy since it doesn't mutate. If there is a vaccine, we all might have to take it.
I also predict that we'll have many more new diseases like SARS every few years threatening the world population. Some may be even more deadly. It will not stop here.
Celebrate for now, but watch out!
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Pyroluria? I am familiar with that word. From what I have read, B6 deficiency does come with adrenal fatigue although I have never read why. You may want to read the book "Adrenal Fatigue - The 21st century stress syndrome" by James L. Wilson. I have yet to go the the medical library to study B6. It is was so much of a hassle with all the medical students there, but now that they are going on summer break, I might do some studying.
I suspect all the diseases you listed are caused by adrenal fatigue. My hypothesis is only in the early stages though. Autistic children have a poor stress response. Adrenal fatigue would cause that. I know for a fact, just surfing the internet that there is a symptomatic relief in Autism with super high doses of B6. There is also a definite B6 deficiency in depression. Serotonin is synthesized by B6 and tryptophan. Supplementing with both should ease most cases of depression according to Pricilla Slagle MD in her book "The Way Up From Down".
Schizophrenia may be caused by an excess of dopamine. High norepinephrine, as its precursor, may cause excessive dopamine. Hence the fact that stimulants raise both chemicals and cause schizophrenia. That is why stimulants should be declared unethical to prescribe. Abram Hoffer MD PHD verifies your statement that there is B6 deficiencies in schizphrenia.
Your reseach field of diseases coincides with the ones I am interested in. It is too bad I cannot give you an explanation of how adrenal fatigue causes B6 deficiency. All I know is that when I stablized my cortisol levels with licorice and phosphatidylserine and aided the adrenals by supplementing with adrenal cortical extract my ADD disappeared. Though, I still have other problems that remain unresolved.
If you are in the USA you might want to be treated by an adrenal fatigue doctor http://www.chronicfatigue.org.
I have done amazingly well on his therapies. You can take a saliva test in the comfort of your own home to see your adrenal function and he'll treat you accordingly. Well, it may be a she because he is having voice problems.
He specializes in chronic fatigue which has an adrenal fatigue component, but he'll treat any adrenal fatigue you have if it shows up on the test. Just convince him to order you a test and once he sees the results I bet he'll treat you even if you don't have fatigue.
As for more research in pyroluria, you could instead try to find a doctor from
As a note: Sorry I used Extrans because I didn't want to mess with html code so you will have to cut and past the links. I didn't decide until yesterday to learn html. I am learning it just for Slashdot posting. I guess I'll spend time looking at W3C pages.
Speed actually causes psychological disease. Look at the side effects. Some side effects cause psychological disease for your lifetime! If you really want to forget speed try checking cortisol levels. You may be surprised. Then read my web site. Instead of speed I used deglycerrized licorice in the mornings to raise cortisol, adrenal cortical extract during the day to cause adrenal tissue regeneration, and SERIPHOS or phosphatidylserine to low cortisol at night and aid sleep. I don't have ADD anymore.
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It has been about 4 years since I stumbled upon the answer to my ADD. I have fully recovered, or lest I actually say it, I have been cured. Well, I actually came out with it. Now will come those who slander and perscute me with malice calling me a quack.
I still think my research is worth some award. It leads to the cure of ADD and ADHD. So I will give it to you. Read it before something happens and it is deleted from the Internet or banned from all search engines . . . well the latter may have already happened.
http://www.freewebs.com/addresearch/
ADD and ADHD are probably caused by variant of ordinary adrenal fatigue. The adrenals supply the body with its energy via different chemicals like cortisol and norepinephrine. No wonder why I and my friends who have ADD have adrenal fatigue and no wonder there is hyperactivity in ADHD.
The body uses the cortisol from the adrenals to covert fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and glycogen into glucose to fuel your body including the brain. It is proven people with ADHD have low cortisol and there is a lack of glucose in the ADHD brains. Hence, the SPECT scans seem to show the lack of glucose utilization. I hypothesize, there is very little glucose to go around due to the low cortisol and instability of cortisol causing fluctuations in blood sugar. I still believe the NIH didn't know what they were looking at.
Many ADHDer's therefore have hypoglycemia and some have diabetes. Unless glucose can be measured in blood or brain more accurately the best thing to go by is fluctuations in cortisol to determine unstable blood sugar. It is my hypothesis that all persons with ADHD have unstable cortisol levels that are too low or high. More tests need to be done.
Adrenal fatigue has never tested so accurately with present adrenal stress index tests from Diagnos Techs of Washington using not blood but saliva.
Fluctuations in norepinephrine have also been studied and also effect blood sugar. Norepinephrine seems to be causing hyperactivity somehow.
Epinephrine is also low. It effects blood sugar.
Dopamine is low but it can be explained by low norepinephrine, its precursor.
The cortisol rhythm in ADD and ADHD is evidently effected. For a fact, when I made an effort to stablize cortisol rhythm it cured my ADD. I used deglycerrized licorice to raise it in the mornings inhibiting the BHOD enzyme. At night I used SERIPHOS or phosphatidylserine to lower my cortisol and also aid sleep. During the day I used adrenal cortical extract to aid regeneration of tissue. I am still using all and I have been cured of my ADD. I do not recommend nor do I promote the products I took that I suspect cured my ADD. I am not advertising anything.
If you are picky you could say I grew out of it or even that taking these supplements coincided with growing out of it. But out of the few chemicals that are low in ADD and ADHD, all that I know of including dopamine come from the adrenals in some form or fashion.
Much is still not known about these tiny adrenal glands. They are rarely ever mentioned in modern medicine, but I suspect that they effect scores of psychological diseases through the cortisol/gluconeogenesis relationship and the lack of glucose supply in the human brains of those with ADHD and other psychological diseases.
I bet the person that continues my research (if he is a Doctor with a PHD) will get a noble prize. It is here for the taking!
I, though, killed my GPA because ADD. Even after I made straight A's in college last year, I have lost years of valuable schooling because of ADD. I am too busy playing catch up to become a Doctor yet alone a PHD to write in a journal. Maybe you can do it! I am rather going into technology.
Please be polite in your responses to my hypothesis. I don't like name calling or unethical remarks.
Again, my website is:
http://www.freewebs.com/addresearch/
Please read it.
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I hear that Microsoft is working on something like this. You can punch holes into their ideas of security, but they have the money to make wise choices in research.
Mozillazine said they patch some of the same security holes in Internet Explorer. So there are at least some similar design flaws. I mean, from what I know they coded the thing in C++. If they wanted to be more secure, they should have coded it in a language like Java. Too bad Java runs so slow.
I've researched archiving using PC technology. I find optical CD-R technology only to last 10-15 years at most, maybe as few as 6 months to a year in poor conditions. The dye is the killer. Just leave your CD face up under a strong light and watch the data disappear. It is evident that IOMEGA has failed too many of it's users. I would not buy anything from them. Tape Drives are mainly in use because of reliability and life-time. My dream technology would be a static chip that would store 1 terabyte of information on it yet cost at the most $100 dollars with the drive costing $400. Static chips last an estimated 50 years while providing fast seek time and have excellent reliability. The chips would be standardized and made by many companies instead of just one. All new drives would be backwards compatible with previous versions of the chip technology making the standard last a lifetime. Archivists don't want to upgrade to a new technology. They want one technology that is reliable, fast, with a long life, that will last them half a decade or more. Chip, not optical or tape, is the the only technology that I see in the future that can handle the demand. Interesting technologies like PDOT may have their place in the future, but chip technology is more promising.
Software prices are way, way too expensive. For $50 what could I get? If you just spent that much on food for one person per week, your money would be much more productive than buying a a firewall. Is a firewall really worth what you can spend on food for a week? Yes, it protects your PC, but what is the total cost of a PC and how much does it pay for itself? Is a PC really cost effective? No. It is buggy and overpriced. PC's should cost $50 and software $5 dollars a piece. Free software supports that idea and gets the major companies to notice. "Hey, software is too expensive. We need to lower our prices." Yes, of course they hate it. They get rich off of us. Look at the top ten list of the richest men on earth. Two of them were founders of a software company. Software companies are conning us out of our cash for the sake of a snazzy new toy to play with. Free software is the consumer way of fighting back and lowering prices.
Programming is littered with complexities for there not to be bugs. You have to define something just right and not misspell anything or put something just "so" or there is a bug. I know there is a reason for all these things. But in the future I see Computer Aided Programming (CAP). The processing power of the PC will be used so that the computer will know what you are programming while you are programming it. The Artificial Intelligence will make suggestions and even write some of the code for you. The AI will keep you from making disasterous mistakes by analyzing every bit of recent code in comparison with all past code looking for conflicts. He will even suggest that you put something just "so" or not do it. The AI in essence will be your companion, debugging as you go. This will produce huge programming projects with no bugs whatsoever.
My last article on slashdot got rearranged mysteriously. You are amazingly right. There is only one problem. 50 million people signed up for the no-call list because it was done by the FTC. 50 million people didn't write letters or send e-mails. Figure out how 50 million people could communicate with government easily and you'll solve this problem. This problem is why special interest groups and businesses control congress. Everyone wants an easy way to contact congress. People are lazy. Who wants to form a special interest group? My solution is convincing a congressman to put up on a web site a "Yes" to no SPAM. The "NO" would be left out so spammers couldn't spam it. Clicking on the "Yes" would vote "Yes" to no SPAM. A link would be sent to your e-mail address and clicking on that link would validate your vote. Then put this system on a site like FirstGov and get press coverage in all the newspapers. This would send a message to those interest groups and businesses that control congress. The public can rule them out. This is more of a pure democracy that I've always dreamed of.
Oh, and you would have to get a lot of coverage in the press to advertise the web site. It would be better on the "First Gov. Site"
It would be great if governments like the U. S. gave 15 million dollars to a new force to track down spammers. The penalty for spamming is now 5 years in federal jail. 50 million people signed up for the national no-call list. I bet millions would back such a SPAM squad. It is too bad the government doesn't seem to care.
When I talked about government eroding I meant trust in government. I will stick with mine through thick and thin. If there is an invasion of privacy where I live, I will join the privacy activists. Others across the world like in China might view their governments differently when they announce computer chip ID cards for everyone. That is scary. Imagine the government tracking all your movements and having to display personal information wherever you go. One thing will lead to another and then . . . ,well, guess.
Soon I will be telling my grandson "Sunny, I remember the old days before these information gathering technoidiots when I could surf the internet in peace. Now you turn the PC on and it watches your every movement. Well, that was the old days . . . those sweet memories."
Your point is rather interesting, if it is true. A rapid deployment of a system that defeats spam would mask its invasion of privacy leaving the public ignorant and there would be commercial and government spying on posts in forums like these.
That is if, and a big if, it tags everyone. I don't understand it all myself.
Hopefully if it actually tags everyone, there will be a public outcry similar to the RFID complaints when Walmart tried to implement them. Maybe calling up such a privacy group like the one that complained about Walmart would be an excellent thing to do.
This stuff is straight out of the book 1984. That prophetic book of the perils of technology has been in the minds of many lately. Unless people all across the world view invasion of privacy like taking away their civil rights, then nothing will happen. Microsoft and others like this company will strip away every right we have under the umbrella of "beneficial" technology. Businesses and governments will take advantage of such technology and know everything about a person. If a political or commercial figure doesn't like a citizen of his country that person would lose his job, his fame, his wealth, his friends or even his life.
When this happens, we will all be saying "I told you so!" but it may be be too late. Privacy then will be like a civil rights movement. There are many things I can say that might take place then, but I cannot say all of them. All I can say is that governments need to act now or risk losing public confidence. When public confidence erodes, so will the government. It is not wise for a government to have its people live in fear. Those type of governments have a history of being overthrown.
Now I've dragged on awhile about privacy, but if there is no invasion of privacy from this technology then I say "Go for it!"
What really matters is how much glucose it uses. If it uses a tiny amount, yes, it might have potential. But if it hogs glucose, hypoglycemia can be very dangerous.
You talk about eating more. Eating more will solve the problem if you are on a schedule and you eat a lot of protein. (Glucose tablets are only for hypoglycemic attacks. You only use them for a quick jumpstart. Then you eat long lasting protein and complex carbohydrates.) But, most people don't like to eat on a schedule or don't know when to eat to raise blood sugar. Of course technology could tell you when to eat (wirelessly). That still won't solve the problem of an unscheduled eating pattern.
Now you speculate that a weaker heart uses less glucose. Consider this: Cortisol controls heart processes as well as glucose metabolism. (This is common knowledge you can find in a physiology book.) So fluctuating cortisol levels can effect not only the heart but create hypoglycemia. So you can have a poor heart and hypoglycemia. That is why this technology is dangerous.
All I can see from this technology is more stress on the pancreas producing diabetes. Hypoglycemia many times goes into diabetes. Most doctors do not know why. If it was somehow powered by free radicals, that would be beneficial, but glucose? No way. Powering it with glucose will only harm the patient. I think many doctors would agree with me. Hypoglycemia is a logical outcome of using this technology.
Just for your information, I have nothing against the Japanese. The Japanese are so highly intelligent they have made a little island a leading economic power. Even with their stock market plunging at a 45 degree angle since the 90's they still have a strong technology background. I just think they should have studied physiology more before creating such a device. They could always create a way to turn plants into glucose then into energy, thus creating money from farmers overgrowth. That would be reasonable. I could create power from my trash.
Why I came on so strong is that an extra glucose using machine would cause hypoglycemia. You don't want to treat a disease by causing another one. Trust me. That is a major mistake of modern medicine. I view such a thing as unethical. The hypocratic oath says to do "no harm." No one wants a doctor to be hypocritical (pardon the pun).
Just eating will not work. Sorry. You'll get very fat that way. It would seem that the body would use all its energy supplies and not create fat, but it does. I haven't yet learned why.
Obesity causes you to have a high mortality rate making you 2 to 3 times more likely to develop another major health problem. Losing weight is usually the best thing you can do for your body to live a healthly life.
Hypoglycemia causes other health problems even effecting the mind with chronic disease. I have read there are 60 mental diseases that may be caused by hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia does even cause fatigue, it doesn't just make you hungry. Fatigue usually sets in when cancer and other major diseases reak havoc on your body. This proves the body is recieving phenomenal stress. Anyone that tells you that hypoglycemia doesn't cause fatigue hasn't thoroughly talked with hypogycemics. That is a chief complaint.
Surely you don't want to be hypoglycemic.
As for diabetes, there more than likely other ways to treat that without using modern drugs or this crazy device. I trully don't agree that the origin (besides genetics) is the pancreas and insulin levels. It is an oversimplification. A good rule of thumb is if the modern treatment of a disease is bad, scientists knowledge of that disease is faulty. You can treat almost anything, well, if you put your mind to it. They haven't yet so we are considering this of-the-wall device. It is kind of nuts.
What a waste of time and money! The actual application for this research is for marketing. Their knowledge of physiology is pitiful. The body wasn't meant to have the extra stress of another sythetic glucose dependant organ. People would die if they put this into practice. You want to create less stress in patients with heart disease, not more. Anyone want to die a little faster? This is stupid.
I read an article once that hypothesized that SARS may be seasonal. I was rather struck by it because I had hypothesized myself it looked seasonal. So, if I am right, SARS is not at all dead but dormant. It will awake around fall/winter with the flu season. If it does, we may not be able to contain it this time around.
A vaccine would be nice and should be quite easy since it doesn't mutate. If there is a vaccine, we all might have to take it.
I also predict that we'll have many more new diseases like SARS every few years threatening the world population. Some may be even more deadly. It will not stop here.
Celebrate for now, but watch out!
Pyroluria? I am familiar with that word. From what I have read, B6 deficiency does come with adrenal fatigue although I have never read why. You may want to read the book "Adrenal Fatigue - The 21st century stress syndrome" by James L. Wilson. I have yet to go the the medical library to study B6. It is was so much of a hassle with all the medical students there, but now that they are going on summer break, I might do some studying.
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I suspect all the diseases you listed are caused by adrenal fatigue. My hypothesis is only in the early stages though. Autistic children have a poor stress response. Adrenal fatigue would cause that. I know for a fact, just surfing the internet that there is a symptomatic relief in Autism with super high doses of B6. There is also a definite B6 deficiency in depression. Serotonin is synthesized by B6 and tryptophan. Supplementing with both should ease most cases of depression according to Pricilla Slagle MD in her book "The Way Up From Down".
Schizophrenia may be caused by an excess of dopamine. High norepinephrine, as its precursor, may cause excessive dopamine. Hence the fact that stimulants raise both chemicals and cause schizophrenia. That is why stimulants should be declared unethical to prescribe. Abram Hoffer MD PHD verifies your statement that there is B6 deficiencies in schizphrenia.
Your reseach field of diseases coincides with the ones I am interested in. It is too bad I cannot give you an explanation of how adrenal fatigue causes B6 deficiency. All I know is that when I stablized my cortisol levels with licorice and phosphatidylserine and aided the adrenals by supplementing with adrenal cortical extract my ADD disappeared. Though, I still have other problems that remain unresolved.
If you are in the USA you might want to be treated by an adrenal fatigue doctor http://www.chronicfatigue.org
I have done amazingly well on his therapies. You can take a saliva test in the comfort of your own home to see your adrenal function and he'll treat you accordingly. Well, it may be a she because he is having voice problems.
He specializes in chronic fatigue which has an adrenal fatigue component, but he'll treat any adrenal fatigue you have if it shows up on the test. Just convince him to order you a test and once he sees the results I bet he'll treat you even if you don't have fatigue.
As for more research in pyroluria, you could instead try to find a doctor from
http://www.acam.org ACAM
or you could try to find books on
http://www.orthomed.org - Orthomolecular Medicine.
Those would be your best bets.
As a note: Sorry I used Extrans because I didn't want to mess with html code so you will have to cut and past the links. I didn't decide until yesterday to learn html. I am learning it just for Slashdot posting. I guess I'll spend time looking at W3C pages.
Speed actually causes psychological disease. Look at the side effects. Some side effects cause psychological disease for your lifetime! If you really want to forget speed try checking cortisol levels. You may be surprised. Then read my web site. Instead of speed I used deglycerrized licorice in the mornings to raise cortisol, adrenal cortical extract during the day to cause adrenal tissue regeneration, and SERIPHOS or phosphatidylserine to low cortisol at night and aid sleep. I don't have ADD anymore.
ADD & ADHD Research - Search for the Origin
It has been about 4 years since I stumbled upon the answer to my ADD. I have fully recovered, or lest I actually say it, I have been cured. Well, I actually came out with it. Now will come those who slander and perscute me with malice calling me a quack. I still think my research is worth some award. It leads to the cure of ADD and ADHD. So I will give it to you. Read it before something happens and it is deleted from the Internet or banned from all search engines . . . well the latter may have already happened. http://www.freewebs.com/addresearch/ ADD and ADHD are probably caused by variant of ordinary adrenal fatigue. The adrenals supply the body with its energy via different chemicals like cortisol and norepinephrine. No wonder why I and my friends who have ADD have adrenal fatigue and no wonder there is hyperactivity in ADHD. The body uses the cortisol from the adrenals to covert fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and glycogen into glucose to fuel your body including the brain. It is proven people with ADHD have low cortisol and there is a lack of glucose in the ADHD brains. Hence, the SPECT scans seem to show the lack of glucose utilization. I hypothesize, there is very little glucose to go around due to the low cortisol and instability of cortisol causing fluctuations in blood sugar. I still believe the NIH didn't know what they were looking at. Many ADHDer's therefore have hypoglycemia and some have diabetes. Unless glucose can be measured in blood or brain more accurately the best thing to go by is fluctuations in cortisol to determine unstable blood sugar. It is my hypothesis that all persons with ADHD have unstable cortisol levels that are too low or high. More tests need to be done. Adrenal fatigue has never tested so accurately with present adrenal stress index tests from Diagnos Techs of Washington using not blood but saliva. Fluctuations in norepinephrine have also been studied and also effect blood sugar. Norepinephrine seems to be causing hyperactivity somehow. Epinephrine is also low. It effects blood sugar. Dopamine is low but it can be explained by low norepinephrine, its precursor. The cortisol rhythm in ADD and ADHD is evidently effected. For a fact, when I made an effort to stablize cortisol rhythm it cured my ADD. I used deglycerrized licorice to raise it in the mornings inhibiting the BHOD enzyme. At night I used SERIPHOS or phosphatidylserine to lower my cortisol and also aid sleep. During the day I used adrenal cortical extract to aid regeneration of tissue. I am still using all and I have been cured of my ADD. I do not recommend nor do I promote the products I took that I suspect cured my ADD. I am not advertising anything. If you are picky you could say I grew out of it or even that taking these supplements coincided with growing out of it. But out of the few chemicals that are low in ADD and ADHD, all that I know of including dopamine come from the adrenals in some form or fashion. Much is still not known about these tiny adrenal glands. They are rarely ever mentioned in modern medicine, but I suspect that they effect scores of psychological diseases through the cortisol/gluconeogenesis relationship and the lack of glucose supply in the human brains of those with ADHD and other psychological diseases. I bet the person that continues my research (if he is a Doctor with a PHD) will get a noble prize. It is here for the taking! I, though, killed my GPA because ADD. Even after I made straight A's in college last year, I have lost years of valuable schooling because of ADD. I am too busy playing catch up to become a Doctor yet alone a PHD to write in a journal. Maybe you can do it! I am rather going into technology. Please be polite in your responses to my hypothesis. I don't like name calling or unethical remarks. Again, my website is: http://www.freewebs.com/addresearch/ Please read it.