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Hi fellow weggies, and happy holidays.
I was just browsing a English Newspaper website and saw this story.
It got a little bit too technical for me towards the end but what are people's thoughts on this?
Vaccine hope for sufferers of auto-immune diseases like Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis - mirror.co.uk
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
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I read this, Steph. The technology is interesting, though 1) it will not directly impact WG sufferers because of its high specificity for certain other kinds of autoimmune diseases, and 2) it sill not be clinically available for several years at best. Part of this is that it takes a long ime to prove the concept, keeping any eye on safety with minimal side effects, Nevertheless, it does suggest a non-pharmaceutical approach to a "designer therapy". Thanks for sharing the link!Originally Posted by freakyschizogirl
Al
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Sorry, Sam--I knew that. Blame it on the stress of stewing over samsaric stupification. Also, I was simultaneously striving to speak to my son Stephen. Or just that I was a sick old man sitting around, silly on Christmas day....
Al
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OK, so I looked up samsaric on my Apple dashboard dictionary. "The cycle of death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound". As for forgetting details or mixing them up, some of us are at the point where we don't know if it's our age or the Wegs or both. The younger ones can blame it on the Wegs, I guess.
Anne
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(LOL My eyes popped to see the word "samsaric" used on our forum.)
When they do come up with a vaccine for Wegs, I'll be the last one in line to try it.
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He's just being alliterative & poetic, always a creative effort from Al!! LOL...evey blog needs a poet!!! ha!
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Mmm, not sure about vaccines, BUT if they ever come up with a 'brain' insertion to control this or other diseases, I'm afraid I'd be right there asking for the implant...love electronics!! LOLWhen they do come up with a vaccine for Wegs, I'll be the last one in line to try it.
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"Just..."? C'mon, Don--I'm not nearly as dumb as I look. And there is nothing wrong with a Word of the Week. Now that the word samsaric has been used several times on this forum, we might use that we are a fine bunch to invoke the Phoenix archetype of out with the old, in with the new.
Speaking of which, the idea of vaccines is an interesting one, and possibly useful, though vaccinating against every form of autoimmune disease seems preposterous on the face of it. Better yet to deal with insults and stressed to the immune system at the source. But to do this, we need far more information than we presently have, about the role of certain triggers and exacerbating agents. I strongly suspect that many environmental agents and conditions will, in this regard, be found to stress the immune system, allowing other agents, likely bacterial, to accomplish a lot of dirty work.
As I say, we need a lot more information. But think what a game-changer it would be, in terms of funding, a least, if it can be demonstrated conclusively that certain environmental conditions are heavily involved.
Al
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First of all, 'just' implies more in my lexicon, not less...so I expect more of you!! LOL...now word of the week, how about a medical word, we're all versed there by now! And, yes, the Phoenix IS the archetype I prefer to follow now...the old didn't do it...or how was that working for me then??? LOL
Sighs, big sighs...funds...yes, funds...how to generate funds on a larger scale for all of these AI diseases...oh, we're from the NW, would mould have anything to do with our conditions? Ha! Thinking...hungry...talk later...LOL
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