Polioencephalomalacia

From John at www.whale.to 

Isn't it strange that polio was linked to B1 defiency by Dr Klenner and vets call it this name. I wonder what vitamin B1 injections would do to polio--I know what it did to a lamb of mine that was almost dead--jumped up and ran off in about 3 minutes!

Stephen Cooter found that the description of an acute polio virus infection is almost identical to vitamin B1 deficiency caused damage, Beri Beri. This is commonly caused by dextrose and alcohol as well as eating white rice. Dr McCormick pointed out that the first case of polio was reported in Vienna one year after roller-mill white flour was first sold there. He calls polio the form of beri-beri that follows the use of degerminated flour.

Polioencephalomalacia, thiamine deficiency, or PEM is a neurological problem seen in ruminants that is due to a lack of thiamine (B1) to the brain resulting in brain swelling and pressure necrosis of brain tissue. Caused most often by diet changes that alter gut flora populations so that the new gut bugs produce a thiaminase that deactivates the dietary thiamine. Thiamine is indispensable for the vital functioning of the brain...if thiamine is unavailable or its required level is decreased, the brain cortex degenerates. http://www.saanendoah.com/basicme3.html

Klenner, Southern Medicine & Surgery, April, 1951

"... review[ing] the findings of McCormick in 50 confirmed cases of poliomyelitis in and around Toronto, Canada, during the epidemic of 1949... families eating brown bread who came down with poliomyelitis did not develop paralysis; whereas in those families eating white bread many of the children having poliomyelitis did develop paralysis. The point here is that brown bread has 28 times more vitamin B1 than does white bread. Obviously, then, the paralysis which complicates acute poliomyelitis appears to be due to a B1 avitaminosis." http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/

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