Tellenbach's theory on Multiple Sclerosis and other Autoimmune Diseases: The Adjuvant Theory of MS
I'm reading Howard Weiner's "Curing MS" and a section on the background of the disease brought to mind a series of experiments performed by the brilliant Emanuel Revici on animals.
The animal model of MS is called 'experimental allergic encephalomyelitis' or (EAE). It was discovered that certain monkeys given the rabies vaccine developed symptoms similar to humans with MS. The rabies vaccine is incubated in a brain extract. This gave Thomas Rivers (in the 1930s) the idea to use brain extracts to see if he could create an animal model of MS. It worked, but the process took a long time and only a tiny percentage of the animals developed the disease.
Fast forward a couple decades and someone finds out that if you add a chemical (Shit, I've already forgotten the specific name of it.) to the brain extract, the process becomes exponentially more efficient and all the animals develop the disease when injected with the chemical + brain extract. The chemical that amplifies the immune response is called an "adjuvant".
This is exactly what Revici did using a plant extract with bits of organ tissue. Revici found that if he mashed organ tissue and then added the plant extract to it, it would elicit a powerful immune response in the same organ of the animal that received the injection. For instance, if he ground up liver tissue and added the plant extract and then injected the solution into a rat, the rat's immune system would attack the liver, resulting in liver failure and death to the rat. Btw, that's why I'm not naming the plant; this knowledge is too dangerous to share.
Here's my theory on what causes autoimmune diseases:
Foreign antigens enter the body through the diet or the environment. The foreign antigen resembles the antigens or protein markers of the host animal. In MS, this is a protein on the myelin sheath. If an antigen similar to the myelin sheath protein is introduced AND an adjuvant is also present, this will cause the immune system to rev up and start attacking both the foreign antigen and the host's antigen, just as with Revici's rat experiments. In the case of MS, the foreign antigen is likely nerve cell myelin proteins found in all meat products.
MS researchers have been looking for a viral or other infectious agent for 50 plus years with no success. What they should be looking for is the adjuvant and how it super-activates the immune system. We got a huge clue this week when a research group found that Type 2 diabetics are deficient in a regulatory protein that stops the immune system from attacking pancreatic cells. This is the strategy that should be employed in every autoimmune disease. Find the adjuvant, find out how it works, and find out how to neutralize it.
If my theory is correct, this is what I predict:
1) Young vegetarians (look for Hindu/buddhist children or chidren raised by vegans) will not develop MS later on because they haven't ingested any antigens similar to the myelin sheath protein;
2) People with MS might improve on a vegetarian diet (I'm assuming that not introducing more foreign myelin antigens will calm the immune system.); and
3) Using sodium thiosulfate/ butanol or glycerol/cholesterol (one or the other, not both) might calm the immune system since Revici discovered that the fatty acid/sterol ratio in the body regulates the immune response and the 2 sets of substances above tweaks that ratio.
That sounds so incredibly random that I'm intrigued. Do you think you'd be able to find the paper and link me to it? I can get around journal paywalls with my university.
