Infectious Disease Archives

Hep C and medical foods

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 0 Comments

Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Choline and phosphatidyl choline and now polyenylphosphatidyl choline are all nutritional support for your liver cells (and other cells as well, but that is another story). For Hepatitis ( “heap” = liver and “itis” = inflammation,…

Know you C’s and D’s (hepatitis and vitamin, respectively)

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 0 Comments

Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Here are some excellent articles helping us remind our infectious disease doctors to not forget the vitD3 ! “…. This study demonstrates for the first time a direct antiviral effect of vitamin D…” THE ROLE…

Antabuse for Malaria!

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 0 Comments

Dr. Weeks Comment: Off label but cheap and effective. Look what happens when the doctors for addiction talk to the infectious disease docs! Tetraethylthiuram disulfide (Antabuse) inhibits the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum L W Scheibel, A Adler,…

Liver stiffness can be measured and is predictive of failure

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 0 Comments

Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Ask your doctor about transient elastography (TE). Much safer and more reasonable than a biopsy! Liver Stiffness Predicts Liver Failure, Cancer and Mortality ScienceDaily (July 10, 2012) — Researchers from Spain established that liver stiffness, measured…

Honey for herpes

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 0 Comments

Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Since co-founding the American Apitherapy Society in 1985 with Charlie Mraz, I have continued to be astonished at the power of remedies derived from the beehive. Here is an article on herpes which was published a decade…

High Cholesterol protective in hepatitis!

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 1 Comment

Dr. Weeks’ Comment: We know that low cholesterol is predictive of higher mortality and morbidity and yet the blizzard of hard sell for statins continues. If you have hepatitis C, read about the significance of cholesterol levels. Note that the…

Lovely and lethal

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 0 Comments

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/17/bacteria-pictures-by-fernan-federici_n_1211302.html Bacteria Pictures By Fernan Federici Bacteria grow by dividing in half, their population doubling in size as fast as every twenty minutes. In a few short hours, a bacterial culture can go from a single cell to billions,…

IatroAgro

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 0 Comments

Dr. Weeks’ Comment: “Iatrogenesis”, a word they teach all 3rd medical students as we swarm out of the classrooms and into the real world of the hospitals, is rarely mentioned, except behind the closed doors of a Grand Rounds or…

Coconut and that pesky virus

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 0 Comments

Dr. Weeks Comment: Coconut oil is heap big medicine and my friend, Dr. Mary Enig, is a great pioneer! More Good News on Coconut Oil by Mary G. Enig, PhD One of the most serious and intractible medical problems facing…

The power of brown seaweed extracts. Glandregen.

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 0 Comments

GLANDREGEN CONTAINS TWO POTENT NON-TOXIC ANTI-CANCER COMPOUNDS KNOWN AS u-FUCOIDAN AND LAMINARIA SSP. THE STRENGTH OF THE EXTRACT RATIO IS 40:1 RESULTING IN HIGHLY CONCENTRATED SUBSTANCES. LAMONICA IS NOT TOXIC TO NORMAL TISSUE BUT IT IS KNOWN AS A TOXIC…