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| I find this fascinating. My wife is gluten intolerant, and we know someone else with a skin related auto-immune disorder.
I also wonder why in the article about Zamboni they say his findings are contrary to MS being an auto-immune disease. His data seem to suggest that blockages occur in veins coming from the brain, that when cleared alleviate symptoms. They even draw a parallel with arteriosclerosis in the heart and the angioplasty used as treatment. This seems to me to be treatment of the symptoms, and does not really say how the blockage gets there in the first place.
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The following is from the article. This is why it is so interesting in the MS fight. A very different view that might hold the true cause. As always with disease - what is the cause and what is the result of the problem.
"What he learned in his medical detective work, scouring dusty old books and using ultra-modern imaging techniques, could well turn what we know about MS on its head: Dr. Zamboni's
research suggests that MS is not, as widely believed, an autoimmune condition, but a vascular disease."
"He found repeated references, dating back a century,
to excess iron as a possible cause of MS. The heavy metal can cause inflammation and cell death, hallmarks of the disease. The vascular surgeon was intrigued – coincidentally, he had been researching how iron buildup damages blood vessels in the legs, and wondered if there could be a similar problem in the blood vessels of the brain."