Hi Paul, I'd be interested in hearing about the obese people with low cortisol levels. I know there are quite a few cases of thin people with high cortisol...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_74945.html. The hormone they are looking at here is placental CRH. Pituitary CRH stimulates suppresses...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_74929.html. I put a diagram on page 9 of The Potbelly Syndrome showing how the effects of inflammation and...
My friend Charlie sent the URL below. I think that many cases of Alzheimer's and type 2 diabetes are caused by Chlamydophila pneumoniae infections, so my guess...
http://www.endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/0003/ea0003S1.htm. Paul brought this abstract to my attention. It has some valuable information about how some parts of...
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/feb2009/niddk-03.htm. I'm pretty sure that infections cause inflammation that raises cortisol levels and eventually produces...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_75069.html. This article laments the limited amount of money spent on researching tropical infections. I...
http://www.sciencedaily.com:80/releases/2007/11/071106133106.htm. My brilliant daughter Letitia found this item. I think inflammation plays a major part in...
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/understandingcancer/immunesystem/allpages/print Here is a colorful tutorial on the immune system. It illustrates some...
http://microvet.arizona.edu/courses/MIC419/Tutorials/cytokines.html. In The Potbelly Syndrome I ignored most of the 100+ cytokines that "tweak" the behavior of...
http://clicks.health.harvard.edu:80/dm?id=E3AFE57D75C81EE61A5955B506DD5F17FD78496B95922BDC. Anxiety raises cortisol levels. Here are some tips from Harvard...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_75460.html. Chondroitin sulfate has some anti-chlamydial properties, and that may be why it helps arthiritis....
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_80007.html. I'm pretty sure that most hypertension is caused by chronic infections. If I'm right, then...
http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/bimped/pdfs/glaser-r2.pdf. The ideas in The Potbelly Syndrome were synthesized from thousands of research papers, and since the...
http://david.abcc.ncifcrf.gov/geneReportFull.jsp?rowids=2873857. I was Googling cytokines and stumbled onto a gene databank called DAVID. The URL above leads...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_80340.html. I think migraines and belly fat are both caused by infections. Russ www.potbellysyndrome.com...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_80341.html. Smoking and dementia have been linked to Chlamydophila pneumoniae (CPN) infections; could...