SARS PREVENTION - A letter to Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, WHO
Director-General,
By Renato Cocchi,MD.
Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, WHO
Director-General,
your words, pronounced in Rome, represent a
useless and wrong health terrorism. It seems that SARS affected people is
dieing like flies. Instead the evidence shows the contrary, and for actual
mortality nearly 6%, there are 94% persons who could defend themselves and
escape the illness. For which, differently to what you have said, or the saints
Cosma and Damian protect us, or there are yet defences against the SARS.
It is not a point of view like that on the
famous half-filled glass. Here are 94% against 6%.
The human organism then, in mostly cases,
defends from the virus and to tell the opposite is a rough medical error,
unexpected for the WHO Director-General.
Surely there are not specific defences. The
organism does not own previous antibodies because this virus is completely new.
But it works the cell-mediated non specific
immunity, which pivots on that fraction of white blood cells named lymphocytes.
If want to have an analogy with the
computer, it works as the so-called program "Firewall," which is a
not specific program against electronic viruses. It is a software that cannot
protect to 100%, but it gives a large protection, as our own non specific
immunity does against the true viruses.
You would say me: Yes, however even if they
are only 6%, they are many to die of it. That is true, and if this percentage
could be reduced, it would be better.
Now, we have two cases, or the virus chooses
at random anyone who has to die, or they die because they are more fragile. On
the 24 April of the Italian newspaper Il Giornale, among the suggestions for
the SARS prevention, the fifth one, advices to avoid stress situations, both in
general, or locally as it happens for smoking for the lungs).
These are right suggestions, because the
stress lowers the not specific immunity, via cortisol immuno suppression.
I do not need that I remember you that every
illness is always a compromise between an offence ability ( the present virus,
in our case) and a defence ability (here, the cell-mediated immunity, since we
have to do with an infection).
If is the first one stronger, the illness
will drive to death, if the second is stronger, we will have the recovery.
Today, we could not still control the virus,
both with specific antibiotics or with a specific vaccine, and this is what you
said, as WHO Director-General. But we can avoid jeopardizing the cell-mediated
immunity (suggestion for general prevention) or we can rightly strengthen one's
own not specific immunity.
This assertion doesn't have to surprise,
because in pass physicians exactly did this for the tuberculosis, already
considered an illness that did not let any escape from death.
In the pre-sulphamide and pre-antibiotic
era, there were not drugs killing the tuberculosis bacterium, and the
Calmette-Guerin's vaccine was only preventive.
When the illness was overtly doing its
course, the physicians acted on the individual resistance, with the tool of the
Sanatoria. Sun, pure air, hygiene, suitable diet, calm (that is stress
avoiding), sociability gave notable results.
Then sulphamides first and antibiotics as
second ones, both more effective, moved the application point of the therapy,
from the increase of the individual resistance to the disappearance of the
bacterium. Moreover, they costed much less, for which the sanatoria went down
and eventually were closed.
This great medical lesson has been forgotten
even from you, but it was not wrong. Today can do better in this field, in more
exact way, and with lower costs. We may increase the blood white cells'
production, with their lymphocytes' fraction.
In my pioneer work of the 1981, (Cocchi R.
Susceptibility to infective respiratory diseases in depressed children. Epidemiological
survey of 126 subjects, clinical therapeutic report of 61 cases. Acta psychiat.
Belg. 1981,81:350-365. See: www.truehope.com/disorders/depression/3_1_6_4_52.asp) I reached an evident clinical datum. There I
brought also to light the role of the glutamine, one of the drugs I used, as
the exclusive donor of atoms for the proteins and nucleic acids building.
As reported by Stryer (Stryer L.
Biochemistry. Freeman & Co., New York 1988) study text for Medical School
students, the glutamine is the exclusive donor of the nitrogen atoms 3 and 9 of
the purine nucleus, the glycine of the nitrogen atom 7, the tetrahydrofolates
of the nitrogen atoms 2 and 8, and the aspartate of the nitrogen atom 1.
The purine nucleus is in the base of nucleic
acids and then even of the nucleus of blood whit cells, which are what we are
interested in. Already the glutamine works very well by herself, in the
production increasing of blood white cells, and not only according to my over
two decades experience (see: www.stress-cocchi.org/immunity.htm, and specifically www.stress-cocchi.org/Drugs5.htm and www.stress-cocchi.org/Immunity2.htm, with many references to this topic)
If think that I am speaking about an
anecdotal experience, during the VI International Congress on amino acids
(Bonn, 1999) there was a dedicated session on the immuno modulatory effects of
the amino acids, to which I participated. The immuno modulatory activity of the
glutamine received there even many experimental confirmations (summaries in www.stress-cocchi.org/Drugs2.htm).
If you want to collect further proofs, with
the search engine Google you can look for "glutamine,immunity" or on
Medscape, look on the Medline database with the same two key words.
This means that there is information, but at
the moment this is not mainstreaming - in my case, I was not into the
mainstream since 1981-, for which information does not circulate.
As for Italy the glutamine is regularly
marketed, as tetrahydrofolates and the glycine, for which, if one wants it, one
can already start prevention by increasing the not specific cell-mediated
immunity. They are 3 substances that are taken by the oral via.
According to these reasons you dr Gro Harlem
Brundtland, WHO Director-General said a scientifically partial information but
a very health terroristic one.
Best regards
Renato Cocchi
Neurologist and medical psychologist
via Mercalli 10
42100 Reggio Emilia (Italy)
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