By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “Although macrophages can target transformed [premalignant] cells, cancer cells evade this defense by reprogramming macrophages so that they support tumor progression.” ~ Geeraerts et al., 2017, emphasis added It has been said that cancer is “a wound that will not heal.” (Dehne et al., 2017). But perhaps a better…
By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “If one patient can do it, there’s no reason others can’t. I realized that medicine has been studying its failures when it should have been learning from its successes. We should be paying more attention to the exceptional patients, those who get well unexpectedly, instead of staring bleakly at all…
Last revision: 07-04-23 By Eugene L., Heyden, RN “Rather than dismiss it, we should try to understand the placebo effect and harness it when we can.” ~Harvard Health Publishing, 2012 Much is said of the placebo response and its power to take something useless and turn it into something of value. People actually get well…
Last update: 06-14-23 By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “When I released The Maker’s Diet in 2004, two things happened that I never expected. One, I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams that The Maker’s Diet would become one of those word-of-mouth publishing phenomena that would propel the book to the New York Times…
Last revision: 07-11-23 By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “Progesterone is crucial for reproductive organ development and maintenance of pregnancy, and more recent studies have clearly shown its role as an important immune regulator. “Progesterone is also secreted during the nonpregnant state and has been shown to have a direct effect on immune cells.” ~Tait et…
By Eugene L., Heyden, RN “Migraine is a condition that significantly impairs patients’ quality of daily life. The Global Burden of Disease Study ranked migraine as the seventh most common disabling pathology among 289 diseases, referred to as the 7th disabler.” ~Koyuncu Irmak et al., 2019 “Verapamil has been used quite successfully in a…
By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “Isolated reports of remission during bupropion treatment of TNF mediated illnesses, such as recurrent oral aphthous ulceration and Crohn’s disease have appeared and bupropions use has been suggested in these and some cancers, such as multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, where TNF is believed to play prominent pathogenic…
Last revision: 01-21-23 By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “Immunoglobins are protein molecules that function as antibodies against many pathogenic as well as potential pathogenic microorganisms.” ~Rountree, 2002 “SBI is uniquely composed of immunoglobulins which remain biologically active throughout the GI tract and have affinity for common intestinal antigens associated with GI inflammation.” ~Detzel et al.,…
By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “Neuroinflammation plays an increasingly appreciated role in psychiatric disorders. SARS-CoV-2 is neuroinvasive and neuroinflammatory. ~Alper, 2020, emphasis added “We report that both viral RNA and/or Spike protein remain in circulation long after acute infection (more than one-year post-infection in some cases) and this persistent circulation of viral components is associated…
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