Article - by Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.

Inflammation is a HOT topic; an Internet search on the word turns up an overwhelming 37.5 million hits. Journals of inflammation, inflammation research associations, and drug companies are all scrambling to find a drug to treat this scourge. The cover story blazing through flickering flames on a February 2004 issue of TIME magazine notified the public about "The Secret Killer: The Surprising Link between Inflammation and Heart Attacks, Cancer, Alzheimer's and Other Diseases." The lead in to the story was just as dramatic: "The Fires Within - Inflammation is the body's first defense against infection, but when it goes awry, it can lead to heart attacks, colon cancer, Alzheimer's and a host of other diseases."

How can a simple infection lead to heart attacks and cancer?

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Article - by Lynne Jennings, M.D.

It's time to re-introduce myself.

My name is Lynn Jennings, MD and I have been a physician for 22 years. I am board certified in Family Practice. I practice alternative/integrative medicine in Wichita Falls, Texas at Champions Clinic.

When Doug asked me to do a column on the symptoms of fungal infection, I thought, " The truth is that the symptoms are as varied as the people who present with them and are often mistaken for other things." We exchanged a few emails and came up with this idea. I will present the patients to you essentially as they would be presented to another doctor. I will leave out anything that might identify the individual and I will give them a new name for the sake of the discussion. In this, I hope to show you how I came upon the diagnosis of underlying fungal disease and treatment plan.

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Article - by Kyle Drew

Think back to 2003, or so. It was the "cold and flu" season, and the only thing you ever heard on TV was how important it was to get a flu shot. You'd see news reports in front of clinics where the huddled masses were standing in coats and gloves waiting for the magic elixir.

Back in that year, something interesting happened: The scientists who determine which flu "strain" was going to be active that year got it wrong! They made the wrong flu shot. It didn't work.

So, I thought we were going to hear reports

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Article by Doug Kaufmann

As our best-selling books, The Fungus Link series, goes into its 2nd edition, I find myself reviewing the chapters once again. Although the FL1 book is going on 8 years old, it amazed me at how timeless these books really are! Can you imagine being so bold in 1999 as to implicate fungus as the cause of cancer or depression? Yet imagine we did and so many have been helped because they had no idea that fungus could do that! They trusted us and the information within the books made sense. As it was 8 years ago, and remains today, our physicians clearly do not understand the fungus link to symptoms and diseases that we Americans suffer
from. Change takes a long time in medicine, but as Drs Dean and Jennings confirm in this newsletter, "the times, they are a changing!"

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