After having been very busy with the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt last week, I finally found some time to skim through my “Trends in Immunology”. I read this well reputed journal since many many years, and I observe since many years how reductionst biology and immunology respectively drift towards complexity science. For almost one decade I was searching for the seeds of change in immunology to support our biestmilch thought concept. I had really to scratch the surface to find those scientific groups being courageous enough to publicize against the main stream. The review article I found today really encourages me. Finally it seems that the most obvious to me – that biology needs to deal with complexity – reaches mainstream science and hopefully is going to help us in our work.
Let me quote on a short paragraph from the article in Trends in Immunology: “Immunity is not simply a product of discrete linear signalling pathways; rather it is comprised of a complex set of integrated responses arising from a dynamic network of thousands of molecules subject to multiple influences. Its behavior cannot be explained or predicted solely by examining its components. Systems biology represents a powerful and comprehensive paradigm for biology that stands in contrast to the reductionist approach that has tended to dominate. The systems biology approach regards a system as more as the sum of its parts – its behavior arises not from simply the presence of its building blocks but through the complex relationships among them. Systems display emergent properties.”
The same applies to biestmilch, and our positioning of the substance refers to these premises.
Source: Gardy GL, Lynn DJ, Brinkman FSL and Hancock REW: Enabling a systems biology approach to immunology: focus on innate immunity, Trends in Immunology, 30: 249-262,2009
Bacterial antigens have an incredible importance in inducing chronic diseases, and not only in pronounced illnesses they are in the centre of concern, but also in diffuse chronic pain induction they seem to be right in the center. This is apparent in people who are under extreme body strain like in endurance sport. Extreme motor activities have a huge influence on gut permeability, where a leaky gut is not a rare event. This is why flux of bacterial antigens through the mucosal lining into body tissues takes place and alter the activity of the immune system.
This change of immune activity can cause various symptoms like back pain, joint pains, pain in the groin, the knee or heel and other sicknesses without any concrete diagnostic findings. Patients with these problems often have a long orthopedic history with various unsuccessful treatments.
Suppressed immune activity after strenuous exercises and conditions of extreme stress like a long distance triathlon race can also make you more susceptible to infections. Which kind of symptoms you eventually may develop under extreme stress depends upon your genetic outfit. You can do a lot to support your system but you cannot change your genetic background. But if you are aware of your weaknesses you have several option of counter-balancing them. One of them are oral immunoglobulines (biestmilch). One reason why this treatment is working is that biestmilch protects the gut’s lining, and stabilizes it in the way that bacterial antigens only limited enter the body.
Since the eighties different institutes have been working on the hypothesis that the gut and the immune system that is closely intertwined with the nervous system induce pain symptoms. And since decades they have been treating diseases like neuralgia, back pain, joint pains with oral immunoglobulines without getting attention, even being ignored. That the systemic activation of the immune system can induce pain became now finally an accepted pain concept.
Only now after years of hard work Günter Sprotte from the University of Würzburg won the German pain prize for his studies in this field and successfully treating pain with biestmilch. This is – that we do hope – the first step towards a general acceptance of biestmilch as a powerful substance for treating different states of sickness.