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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:16:25 EDT
Subject: Atherosclerosis and more...

CryoNet:

I wanted to recommend reading the lead article in Scientific American for 
this month on Atherosclerosis and the Heart. It's real good. For one it 
explains how Asprin does more than just thin the blood in contributing to a 
healther vascular system and heart.  (I have been taking 150 mg. of asprin & 
20 mg. of Zocor for some time and plan to continue.)  It dispels past 
erroneous thinking about the cause and explains why conventional techniques 
like angioplasty are not very effective.  It describes what is happening on a 
molecular level *inside* the vessel walls, and the mechanism behind sudden 
clotting incidents which set off many unexpected heart attacks and strokes in 
otherwise healthy people.  It rings very true to me.

I checked the website to see if the story might be posted (like TIME does), 
but it is a "pay for view" arrangement there.  However, if you go to the 
following link you will find some good information on Nanotechnology (which I 
am going to check out a bit now for a while).  You will be able to see a 
photograph of this months issue.  You might decide to buy it or download the 
article (at $5.00, I believe).

http://www.sciam.com/nanotech/
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I mentioned that I plan to post some information on Lyme Disease and its 
association with some disturbing revelations (at least to me) regarding 
Medical Politics in the States.  I will shorten the post and send it before 
long.  I think it is relevant for a couple of reasons which I will explain 
when send it.  I've been preparing for delivering some out-of-town expert 
witness testimony as an appraiser for a contested condemnation case for the 
last few days and will start in the morning, so it might be at the end of the 
week before I post.  However, if anyone has some time in the meantime and 
would like some interesting reading on one truly extraordinary and highly 
bothersome organism, go ahead and checkout the following URL.  I have notes 
from about 18 hours of studying the situation recently after someone on 
another forum mentioned that he had the disease and how nasty it is. I may 
post several exchanges from that forum and put them up on one of my websites 
and give the URL to that location here rather than clog up the CryoNet.  One 
of my interests is attempting to kick the butts of a spirochete disease or 
two.  Pipe dream?  Probably, but you never know...

Look for the following text on the URL I will list below.  I believe this 
guy, Tom Grier, knows what he is talking about.  Taking his 4 part Tutorial 
is a good starting point to get the idea.

Complexities of Lyme Disease: A Microbiology Tutorial

Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4

This series contains four excerpts from Tom Grier's
1997 version of his Lyme Disease Survival Manual.
Mr. Grier does a great job in explaining, in 'plain
English', the complex microbiology of Lyme disease. 

http://www.lymealliance.org/medical/micro/micro.php

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Doug Skrecky:  If you read this post, is it true that fruit flies have no 
cellular antioxidant mechanisms?

Regards,

DC Johnson, Raleigh, NC

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