Carolina Holistic Medicine

11/22/2025

More reasons why EBV can trigger, or slow recovery from other diagnosis

A major breakthrough in autoimmune research has revealed a powerful connection between lupus and the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a virus carried by more than 95% of adults worldwide. Scientists at Stanford Medicine have finally identified the mechanism that turns a common infection into a trigger for a debilitating autoimmune disease. While EBV usually remains silent after initial infection, in lupus patients it appears to transform specific immune cells into harmful agents that attack the body from within.

Researchers discovered that EBV-infected B cells in people with lupus are far more abundant—about 1 in 400 compared to fewer than 1 in 10,000 in healthy individuals. These infected cells begin functioning as abnormal antigen-presenters, activating self-reactive B cells and killer T cells. This chain reaction causes the widespread inflammation, organ damage, and chronic immune dysfunction that define lupus. For the first time, scientists can trace a direct biological pathway from EBV infection to autoimmune disease.

This finding may reshape how lupus and other immune disorders are treated. EBV has also been strongly linked to multiple sclerosis, suggesting that targeting the virus or its effects could lead to new treatments—or even preventive strategies. Although nearly everyone carries EBV, only a small percentage develop lupus, likely due to genetic predisposition or environmental factors. Understanding why could open the door to therapies that stop the disease before it starts.

11/21/2025

11/09/2025

The term adaptogen was coined in 1947 by a Russian
toxicologist and pharmacologist named Dr. Nikolai Vasilyevich Lazarev.
As the father of modern-day research into adaptogen herbs, Dr. Lazarev
set up some basic criteria that must be met in order for consideration
in this very special class of herbs:

1. It must cause only minimal disruption in the body’s physiological functions. Never being toxic at even high doses:

2. It must increase the body’s resistance to adverse influences not by a
specific action but by a wide range of physical, chemical, and biochemical factors;

3. It must have an overall normalizing effect, improving all kinds of conditions and aggravating none. And it must restore balance to the system regardless of the direction of the
illness (for example, an adaptogen would work equally well in a depleted condition as it would in a condition of excess). We are talking homeostasis here.

Herbalists believe adaptogens work by supporting adrenal function, enabling cells
access to more energy and helping them eliminate toxic metabolic
byproducts. Adaptogens also help the body use oxygen more efficiently
and improve the regulation of the body’s natural rhythms. Though they
all work in these similar ways, each adaptogen has a distinct
personality and unique medicinal qualities.

We will visit what I consider three rather remarkable yet generally lesser known of
adaptogen herbs. [back in the day when I penned this book there were maybe 25 known adaptogens, now there are upwards of 75 and growing] They are, in no particular order: Rhodiola rosea, Eleuthero (Eleutherococcus senticosus) and Jiaogulan (Gynostermma
pentaphyllum).

Intro and definition of an Adaptogen from "Wonder Herbs" book

11/05/2025

Found this site today: https://lymescience.org/ and a FB post calling me and Tom Quacks. LOL... well that is nothing new, but I have never visited this site before. Who is the real Quack? This fellow pictured in his FB page with a tinfoil hat on. Not very reassuring he is the purveyor of truth and facts. The evidence is really stacked up against this site and calling it LymeScience is a farce. They certainly are entitled to their opinion, but driving patients away from real good care from ILADS docs is a travesty for the sick CLD patient. They may find themselves being held accountable and sued if they are not careful what they say and post. I also wonder whose payroll is he on? Some anti-ILADS, anti-LLMD entity is out there funding this stuff.

The FB post can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/lymescience/posts/it-was-inevitable-that-the-anti-vax-flccc-grifters-would-start-promoting-chronic/1036508645145998/

11/02/2025

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11/01/2025

From my substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/jpsaleebymd/p/bhrt-and-other-ways-to-balance-hormones for the latest article on bioidentical hormones.

Reposting from a 2009 blog post.

10/25/2025

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10/24/2025

Here is your excuse to eat some dark chocolate this Halloween!

10/24/2025

Only a few days left to take advantage of $250 savings on first year Academy Tuition (and lock in that rate forever). This is open to licensed clinicians, health coaches and patients of the practice (CHM)

10/21/2025

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