Patrick Cox 6/7/11 Article About Meeting Pt.2
This is all good, by the way. We are witnessing the beginning of a major victory against the brain-eating life-destroying zombie plague that is, in reality, Alzheimer’s disease. The existence of other, perhaps superior, AD drugs does not undercut the value of Star Scientific at all. The anti-inflammaging effects of anatabine are, as I’ve explained on numerous occasions, bigger even than a complete AD cure.
Anatabine is the closest thing to the mythical panacea, from the Greek goddess of the cure, Panakeia. I am convinced that it ameliorates aging-related auto[innate]immune disorder, the cause of accelerated telomere loss and numerous unpleasant conditions. Here, by the way, is another new study that helps verify this phenomenon, titled “Immune Responses Accelerate Aging: Proof-of-Principle in an Insect Model.” The entire paper is online.
This paper, yet again, bolsters the view that our own immune systems turn on us as we age. For some, however, inflammaging begins early in life. The classic worst example is progeria, which tragically kills children through premature senescence, or biological aging. Progeria has been linked to NF-kappaB activation. A Google Scholar search of “progeria” and “NF-kappa” will give you an overview of this scholarship.
The consequences of early and midlife auto-immune dysfunction include lupus, thyroiditis, Crohn’s and many other diseases. Later on in life, we see increases in rates of prostatitis, irritable or inflammatory bowel syndrome, arthritis and other diseases. At some point, the real killers are either triggered by or accelerated by inappropriate NF-kappa activation.
The truly odd thing about this subject is that so much of what we know has come from anecdotal evidence. Normally, of course, scientists aren’t allowed to consider first-person accounts. They rely on blinded studies, and nothing else.
Nevertheless, anatabine has generated a different class of anecdotal evidence. I’ve laughed with some of the scientists investigating the solanaceous alkaloid about the fact that so many are embarrassed to tell compelling anatabine stories about patients, friends and families. It’s funny because everybody understands the scientific taboo surrounding nonclinical evidence. When anecdotal evidence comes from surgeons who have seen inside the bodies of their patients and watched scans and biopsies demonstrate completely unexpected remissions of serious diseases, however, you have to treat it differently
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