© Unknown
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a key difference in the biological mechanisms by which the immune system responds to viral and bacterial pathogens.
The study, published in the journal
Nature Immunology and led by Professor Uwe Vinkemeier in the University's School of Life Sciences, centred on STAT1, a protein that can bind DNA and hence plays a vital role in regulating genes in the body.
STAT-1 responds to interferon signals, hormone-like molecules which control communication between cells to trigger defensive action by the body's immune system when pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, or parasites are detected. These powerful defensive actions are also part of the body's ability to control the growth of malignant tumours that can ultimately achieve their complete elimination.
It was previously thought that all interferons used single STAT1-containing units rather than STAT1 chains to regulate the activity of genes. However, using mice bred specially to express a mutated form of STAT1 which is limited to forming single STAT1 units, the Nottingham team has demonstrated that this abolishes the function of some interferons while leaving others largely unaffected.
They found that when the assembly of STAT1 chains was inhibited, type I interferons responsible for protecting against viruses such as vesicular stomatitis virus were unaffected, whereas type II interferons, which protect against bacterial infections such as listeria, no longer functioned effectively.
Professor Vinkemeier said: "The core of these findings is that we are revising a central aspect of what we thought we knew about how these proteins worked. The molecular mechanisms underlying type I and type II interferon functioning are actually more distinct than we previously imagined. This in turn offers new options for rational pharmacological intervention."
For example, type I interferons, involved in the anti-viral response also play a role in stopping cells from growing and replicating - and therefore inhibiting the spread of the virus throughout the body. These interferons are already in clinical use against Hepatitis virus and several cancers and in the treatment of auto-immune diseases like multiple sclerosis. Type-II interferon, in contrast, has been shown to be detrimental in some of these conditions, namely multiple sclerosis and melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer.
"In situations like these our finding offers a new target for making current treatments more effective. There is good reason to assume that an inhibitor of STAT1 chain formation could potentially block detrimental type-II interferon responses while keeping type I activities, including anti-viral protection, intact. This would avoid an important shortcoming of current STAT1 inhibitors."
The study was led by The University of Nottingham but involved international collaboration with researchers from Germany at the University of Göttingen Medical Centre and the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden; the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, and the University of Vienna in Austria.A copy of the paper can be found (after the embargo lifts) on the web here.
Please keep off my grass:
My schoolboy understanding of a Virus is a small unseen tadpole-like thingy with a long tail, wriggling around inside of me when I am sick, proliferating uncontrollably.
Today, of course, this is false but it is that, among many other falsities, which I was taught at school.
Louis Pasteur gave us the ‘theory’ of the Virus; it has never been updated or questioned since his time.
So here’s an update and a questioning.
A Virus has never been observed to move as it has no motor function and therefore doesn’t have the tools to move independently around my fluid system.
It has no respiratory apparatus.
It has no brain.
It therefore has no metabolism and following along logically, if this is the case, it cannot reproduce or multiply.
So there!
I will swear to whoever I need to swear to that I am getting this information from well recognized medical texts and I am not sucking it out of my thumb.
Guyton’s Medical Textbook acknowledges that Viruses have no reproductive system, no locomotion, no metabolism and cannot be reproduced as live entities in vitro*1.
A Virus does not possess any of the characteristics of a biological, living thing and further it has never, and I repeat never, been observed ‘alive’.
The notion that a Virus lies in wait or has an incubation period is therefore patently ridiculous, absurd and corrupt science.
It does not invade the body, as it already exists within the body and can’t jump from one species to another, as we are informed that Avian flu has.
Live Virus
The term ‘live Virus’ means only those created from living tissue cultures in vitro.
‘Live Virus’ in medical terminology does not mean that the Virus is actually alive, as I believe we have been led-up-the-garden-path to accept.
They are not in themselves ‘alive’, except being molecules of DNA and protein.
If they have no life then the words ‘dead’ Virus’ cannot be an applicable phrase but it is used fluidly by the medical profession.
Even though some laboratory tissue cultures are kept alive, there is a massive cell turnover in the process and it is from these dying cells that ‘Viruses’ are obtained.
Fraud
Videos or photo’s showing a Virus multiplying are fraudulent.
That which is most often shown is actually an ordinary physiological process of phagocytosis*2, which occurs countless times, daily within the body.
If they have these accepted un-characteristic characteristics, how do they cause so much grief and discomfort that we spend lots of money at the Doctor and Chemists trying to kill them?
"Doctors are ‘men’ who pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing."
Voltaire
Well, the first part of the answer is that we have been carefully and I add, calculatedly educated (conditioned) to believe that an anti-viral pill or inoculation (jab) is the way to kill the Virus and restore health, in order for some cartel to make obscene sums of money.
The second part of the answer is that they are perhaps not the cause of sickness but they are present in abundance when we are sick and that they are a necessary and valid production by our body as scavengers of the actual toxins that are making us sick?
In other words Viruses are friendly agents, mopping up toxins and returning the body back to health, at which point they are metabolised back into the body and rendered inert.
If I understand the ‘Medical texts’ then I propose that the idea of a Virus ‘lying in wait’ is absurd. An ‘Incubation period’, is an outright lie and ‘Mutation’ is just not possible.
It is the abundance of the Viruses that, when we are sick, that motivated ‘Science’, at face value, to accept that Viruses are the cause of sickness without any further investigation whatsoever. In more succinct terms, it is pure unadulterated dogma, a religion and is taught in Universities around the Western world as being the truth, but it isn’t the truth. It would seem!
Anti-bodies
Prior to the invention of the Electron microscope the only means that Medical Science had of detecting a Virus was by ‘tests’ which detect only anti-bodies not the Virus itself, but anti-bodies being present would suggest that the metabolism has successfully overcome the Virus and therefore the dis-ease is in the process of healing, at least in my world this is so.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ~Voltaire
It should therefore be of interest that all of the current over- the-counter tests available do not detect a Virus, actually, but only test for the Virus after the Virus has successfully been, or is being overcome by the metabolism, and has produced detectable anti-bodies.
Damn strange I say! I think that they, whoever ‘they’ are, their logic is convoluted and quite frankly corrupt, for a malevolent purpose.
I don’t know, just asking.
Now you see me, now you don’t
It has just occurred to me that as a Virus can only been seen through an electron microscope. I would like to ask the burning question, burning questions got me a good ‘switching’ many times at school:
For how many years has the commercial ‘Electron Microscope’ been available, compared to the Virus theory?
Before the advent of the commercial ‘Electron Microscope’, Viruses must have been but a notion and not a well developed theory and could not have been a scientifically established fact.
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."
― George Bernard Shaw
If Viruses were confirmed as a ‘fact’ only after the ‘Electron Microscope’ was invented and in general use about the mid 1940’s. it stands to logical reason, at least my reason, that post the invention, if we can’t see a Virus then we had better, jolly well, invent them, otherwise we are going to look quite stupid after having told the world that it is Virus’s that make us sick and we have the pill to kill them.
If I can take a plant tincture and a naturally occurring earth element in combination and within 24 hours the tickle in the throat, representing the onset of a Cold then it can’t be a Virus.
Can it?
Ditto with a Cold Sore on my lip and within 24 hours it has radically receded, then it also can’t be a Virus. Can it?
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the authorities are wrong”
Voltaire
If you were a medical scientist doing some research on Viruses, would you go to the top dogs in the medical authorities and tell them that you have discovered a massive fraud that makes disgustingly absurd amounts of boodle?
No chance.
You would be laughed at, castigated, derided and then find yourself out of work
No, you would not ‘fess up’ but I know I would, but then I am the silly sod that would loose his job, his fab’ salary, his pension and be struck off their prissy list and find myself unemployable, but then that is me.
Why would the establishment want to press-gang me into believing this most elegant Virus theory?
My answer to this question moves me to ask questions of other well-established and accepted ‘theories’ of Science.
I believe that the medical establishment, along with the pharmaceutical companies and medical aid society’ are one huge machine which has battled for our minds and money. They won the war and we are enslaved.
[Medicine is] “a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
Which pill must I take the Red or the Blue?
I take neither, preferring my own council but also I don’t get sick, well not yet.
I believe in the innate intelligence and power of Nature and I grow my own plant based medicines from whence all allopathic medications are crudely extracted in the first place.
As an example of this, Aspirin is nothing more that Weeping Willow tree bark.*3, people world wide pay many millions per annum for a slither of tree bark. I have tears in my eyes of regret that I didn’t come up with this and made myself some exciting billions.
“I believe in God only I spell it Nature”
Frank Lloyd Wright.
I say it is dangerous to extract only the active ingredient as Allopathic medication does disregarding other possible synergistic components of which may well be necessary for the magic of plants to work.
The reason that this is done? To enable patent protection of the pill (read, Money) because plants cannot be patented, well at least not until very recently, G.M.O.!
"A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he become a crank”
― Dr. Walter Hadwen, M.D. (1925)
May be all that I have written here is not reality and I am deluded, as we are all open to self delusion, at times, but those that promote something to kill a Virus which costs you money are not deluded, they know the truth.
I have nothing to gain from you by my innocent questioning of their truth, therefore my intentions are not based upon greed and they are, above all, honourable.
*1 in vi•tro
Adjective: (of processes or reactions) Taking place in a test tube, culture dish, or elsewhere outside a living organism.
*2 phag•o•cy•to•sis
Noun: The ingestion of bacteria or other material by phagocytes and ameboid protozoans.
I switch back to Engrish.
*3 White Willow not Pussy Willow
A decoction is made by soaking 3 teaspoons (15ml) of the bark in a cup of cold water for 2 - 5 hours. Then bring to the boil. Strain and let it cool. Take a mouth full 3 times per day or 4 if you have a small mouth unlike me I have a big mouth (sorry I have a lithp). The bark can be dried, powdered and stored in an airtight container.
P.S.
Can anyone explain to me the precise mechanics of a spore transitioning ( catalyze) to a bacterium? No, I didn’t think so.