Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer of Med America Research Finds Correlation Between Contaminated Food and Alzheimer’s
Could Mad Cow, Cruetzfeld-Jakob, and Alzheimer’s Diseases all be caused by the consumption of meat and/or dairy products? This may very well be the case according to Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer. While an abundance of research seems to indicate that this is a strong possibility, Congress and the mainstream medical research community are ignoring the evidence. Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer asserts that it’s high time the U.S. government demanded further research.
New York, NY (PRWEB) April 14, 2005 -- The notion that Alzheimer’s,
Creutzelf-Jakob, and Mad Cow Disease may be caused by the consumption of meat
and dairy products has, up to now, been pretty much dismissed by the medical
research community but an article written recently by Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.
of Med-America Research, is beginning to turn heads. “The possibility of the
age-related reemergence of food borne Mycobacterium bovis (bovine tuberculosis)
as a vector for Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (CJD or human Mad Cow Disease) and Mad
Cow disease itself is very real,” Broxmeyer asserts.
Broxmeyer’s article
“Thinking the Unthinkable: Alzheimer’s, Creutzfeldt–Jakob and Mad Cow disease -
the age-related re-emergence of virulent, food borne, bovine tuberculosis, or
losing your mind for the sake of a shake or burger” is a well documented
research study that is just now getting the attention it deserves partly as a
result of a report by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). .
The Center
for Disease Control (CDC) reported last May of an outbreak of CJD linked to the
consumption of meat contaminated “with the agent causing” bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) at a New Jersey racetrack between the time frame 1995-2004.
In the opinion of experts, ample justification now exists for considering a
similar pathogenesis for Alzheimer’s, Creutzfeldt–Jakob and the other spongiform
encephalopathies such as Mad Cow disease. In fact, Creutzfeldt–Jakob and
Alzheimer’s often coexist and at this point are thought to differ merely by
time-dependent physical changes. A recent study links up to 13% of all
“Alzheimer’s” victims as really having Creutzfeldt–Jakob
disease.
According to Broxmeyer, Bovine tuberculosis, which includes
Mycobacterium bovis and M. avium-intracellulare or paratuberculosis, is and has
always been the most prevalent threat to the cattle industry, and the USDA
reports that between 20% and 40% of US dairy herds are infected with
paratuberculosis alone.
The health risk for milk tainted with M. bovis
has been known for decades and there was a time not so long ago when
‘tuberculin-tested’ was printed on every milk container. “Schliesser stated that
meat from tuberculous animals may also constitute a significant risk of
infection. At the turn of the 20th century 25% of the many US deaths from TB in
adults were caused by M. bovis,” Broxmeyer goes on to say.
“Dairy
products aside, current research shows that when past and present meat
consumption are factored in, there is three times the risk of developing
Alzheimer’s in meat eaters as opposed to vegetarians. The investigation into the
causal trail for Creutzfeldt–Jakob, indistinguishable from Alzheimer’s except
for its shorter, lethal course might have grown cold where it not for Roel’s and
others who linked mad cow in cattle with M. bovis and related paratuberculosis
on clinical, pathologic and epidemiological grounds. The southwest of the UK,
the very cradle of British BSE and CJD outbreaks, saw an exponential increase in
bovine tuberculosis just prior to its spongiform outbreaks,” Broxmeyer went on
to say.
All of this brings up the unthinkable: that Alzheimer’s,
Cruetzfeldt–Jackob, and Mad Cow Disease might just be caused by eating the meat
or dairy in consumer products or feed. “It is only appropriate therefore to
explore the role of bovine TB and the atypical mycobacteria in Alzheimer’s, JCD
and Mad Cow disease and develop better serological surveillance for these
pathogens,”Lawrence Broxmeyer says.
Lawrence Broxmeyer believes it’s time
Congress take a proactive interest in additional research. “In the interest of
public health, it’s high time our Congressional leaders take an interest in
funding additional research.”
Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer, an internist
researcher, is currently working in conjunction with several large laboratory
research centers in San Francisco and Nebraska is working on a novel technique
to kill mycobacteria presently offering resistance to known antibiotics by a
novel technique using the bacteriophage. He subsequently appeared as lead
researcher in the Oct 2002 issue of Journal of Infectious Diseases in a paper
revolving around this research. He has also written two books published by New
Century Press: “AIDS: What the Discoverers of HIV Never Admitted” and
“Parkinson’s: Is Parkinson’s Disease Caused by Bacteria?” Additional information
about Lawrence Broxmeyer and his on-going research can be found at http://medamericaresearch.org. Dr. Broxmeyer can also be
contacted by phone at (718) 746-5793.
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