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Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization (EPD)
Allergy Indexes
Food Allergy References
Chemical Sensitivities
General Medical References
Clinical Ecology or Environmental Medicine
Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Treatment (NAET)
Diagnostics
Drugs/Chemicals Information
Thyroid and Adrenal
Gut Dysbiosis and Parasites
Mercury, Metals, and Chelation Therapy
Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization (EPD) / Low Dose Antigens (LDA) / Low Dose Immunology (LDI):
EPD is an allergy treatment. EPD has been in experimentation and use in England since the 1960's. It was in the USA, under FDA (IRB) observation for a few years. With "red tape" FDA problems, EPD is replaced by an American version known as Low Dose Antigens (LDA). This version was then expanded into Low Dose Immunology (LDI) for a wider range of immune system conditions.
EPD description found in Wikipedia.
The USA EPD/LDA Web Site is provided by the American version doctor. Includes discussions and references about EPD/LDA. Has Results of the American EPD Study: 1993-2000.
Stan Rohrer Provided References:
The EPD FAQ (see page header menu) contains frequently asked questions concerning EPD treatments and side effects, as well as mailing list subscription information and additional references. Provided by Stan Rohrer.
Stan Rohrer's Allergy Story and EPD Diary (see page header menu). My personal story as it progresses.
EPD Stories (vintage 1995-2002) (see page header menu) includes excerpts from members of the EPD Mailing List concerning their success, struggles, and failures. Provided by Stan Rohrer.
Interviews with Dr. Ty Vincent concerning EPD/LDA/LDI by Dr. Dennis Courtney on radio program Impact On Your Health. Part1, Dec 8, 2014. Part 2, Jan 15, 2015. Part 3, Feb 13, 2015. Additional programs: Aug 28,2015, Oct 31, 2015.
The Friends of EPD (dead? 5/22/2023) contain treatment references in the UK regarding EPD.
EPD Description and Practical EPD Details. Provided by UK Dr. Sarah Myhill MD BS.
EPD Description provided by www.food-allergy.org. This is a food allergy resource site provided by Nickie Dumke, author of allergy and EPD related books. Includes EPD references and gut dysbiosis information as well. Nickie also tells her, and her sons', EPD story.
MedLine Searches from HealthWorld Online. For EPD related articles try search strings of (do not use the quotes in this search engine): "enzyme potentiated desensitization","epd", "enzyme potentiated hyposensitization", "McEwen", "immunologic desensitization". Searches and hits are free, abstracts are free, charges for full text (but the abstracts are often fairly informative without the full text). This one sorts by a ranking and generally sorts your requests to the top of the list.
PubMed Searches (including MedLine) accesses citations or abstracts of medical research articles via U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). For EPD related articles try search strings of (include the double quotes): "enzyme potentiated desensitization", "enzyme-potentiated", "enzyme potentiated", "enzyme-potentiated desensitization", "epd", "e.p.d.", "enzyme potentiated hyposensitization", "McEwen", "immunologic desensitization". Searches and hits are free, abstracts are free, charges for full text (but the abstracts are often fairly informative without the full text).
Quackwatch provides a skeptics point of view on many medical and alternative practices. Even for readers who disagree with the positions, this site does provide decent descriptions of the topics it is trying to discredit. Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization (EPD) Study documents the inability to bring EPD forward as a mainstream allergy treatment.
Allergy Indexes:
ALLERGY Hot Lists at www.Mall-Net.com includes link lists to a number of related medical items. This site is focused on alternative treatments. MED Hot Lists at www.Mall-Net.com, from Robert F. Cathcart, M.D., who keeps a list of references to organizations and resources. Also for Allergies, Candida/Yeast, CFS, MCS and others.
American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) includes a searchable referral database and allergy information from the view of Environmental Medicine practitioners.
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Limited scope on food and chemical sensitivities, otherwise good.
The Medical Matrix guide to internet medical resources. Peer reviewed. Primarily conventional medicine. Requires free registration.
Allergy and Asthma resources from the Mayo Clinic. Provides some published articles and other resources.
Alternative Mental Health Online provides articles that include allergies and treatments.
Food Allergy References:
www.food-allergy.org is a food allergy resource site provided by Nickie Dumke, book author. Includes EPD references and information as well.
The On-Line Allergy Center includes some info on allergies and asthma. Brief, but good information pages.
The Gluten-Free Page - Celiac Disease/Gluten Intolerance Web Sites.
Allergy resources (including the corn page). By Ephraim Vishniac.
Gluten-Free Diet & Celiac Disease / Coeliac Sprue Support Page .
Celiac Disease and Gluten-free Diet Support Center at Celiac.com article.
Allergy Food Rotation Diet Plan provides biological food family identifications and instructions on food rotations for allergy diagnosis and survival.
ALCAT Test information for finding food and chemical sensitivity.
Chemical Sensitivities:
MCSurvivors provides links to Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Allergies resources.
MCS Referral and Resources provides links to Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Allergies resources.
Immune Web -- Support and Information Network, which is a resource site for various immune-system related ailments such as: chronic fatigue syndrome, candida, lupus, fibromyalgia, Epstein-Barr, multiple allergies, environmental illness, chemical sensitivity, etc., and the symptoms that result from any of the above, including learning disabilities, migraines, asthma, hypoglycemia, etc.
General Medical References:
HealthWorld Online. Includes alternative treatments as well as conventional medical references. Check out the Site Search. Also has MedLine Searches.
MedLine/PubMed Searches accesses citations or abstracts of medical research articles via U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Links to some publications are included.
MedicineNet.com is a site that provides and links to health topics. Most have been reviewed by medical doctors. Primarily conventional medicine. Narrow view of allergies. Includes good medical dictionary.
Healthfinder.gov is a site provides and links to health topics. Most have been reviewed. Primarily conventional medicine.
National Institute Of Health is a site provides and links to current health research topics. Includes clinical trials section and Medline and PubMed searches. Primarily conventional medicine.
The Merck Manual and other publications provides many in depth medical descriptions including diagnosis and treatment info. You may have to drill down from the Merck Homepage. Some of this is doctor level or scientist level info. May not be the industry best, but still an excellent resource for medical professionals. Merck is a large maker of drugs and health care products.
OneLook Dictionaries includes medical sources. Searches multiple dictionaries at the same time.
Doctor Finder provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including more than 650,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO).
American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) provides info on finding an Alternative/Complimentary Doctor.
ChiroWeb provides info on finding a Chiropractor.
AChiro.com provides info on finding a Chiropractor.
Quackwatch provides a skeptics point of view on many medical and alternative practices. Even for readers who disagree with the positions, this site does provide decent descriptions of the topics it is trying to discredit. Certainly an alternative view or consideration source for people considering alternative practices.
Clinical Ecology or Environmental Medicine:
American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) is an organization of environmental practitioners.
American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) provides info on finding an Alternative/Complimentary Doctor.
Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Treatment (NAET):
NAET is a very alternative approach to allergy treatment. Controversy will continue until some scientific studies are available to prove or disprove the effectiveness.
Some mailing list info and other resources may be found in the Internet Resources Section of the EPD FAQ.
NAET.COM provides practitioner locators and information. The sites are reportedly authorized by Dr. Nambudripad.
Acupuncture.Com provides a world acupuncture referral list. These may or may not do NAET.
Diagnostics:
Health and Allergy Forecasts of pollens and molds (as well as other items) from The Weather Channel.
More Weather and Environmental references.
Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory does diagnostics for parasites, leaky-gut, and many allergy related concerns.
A negative view of Applied Kinesiology and other diagnostics from Quackwatch. Even if the reader disagrees with the findings, the identifications and descriptions are worth the visit.
Drugs/Chemicals Information:
RxList - The Internet Drug Index includes drug lookup. The drug lookup returns info much like the sheets from the drug stores. Attempts to handle miss-spelled names.
"Virtual" Pharmacy Center - Martindale's Health Science Guide has an incredible listing of drug, symptom and treatment databases. The main page is huge and has lots of internal links - let it load before clicking!
Bizarre Chemical Discovery Gives Homeopathic Hint article gives a possible explanation on increasing strength of more diluted substances.
Thyroid and Adrenal problems may be implicated as underlying some allergy related situations. This might be especially true of "universal reactors" who have sensitivity to inhalants, foods and also chemicals/fumes. Here are a few references (albeit with a slant towards Wilson's Syndrome, a low body temperature issue, and towards adrenal insufficiency):
The Cold Body Page includes info on body temperature as related to thyroid and allergy response.
Wilson's Temperature Syndrome Foundation provides info on a particular cold body problem. Wilson's Syndrome would likely be considered as alternative medicine today though some conventional doctors are catching on.
Alternative Treatments For Hypothyroidism FAQ points to numerous hypothyroid resources and also to conditions which may mimic hypothyroidism.
Another Wilson's Syndrome reference.
Broda O. Barnes, M.D. Research Foundation, Inc. has done some thyroid research on which Dr. Wilson in part derived his low body temperature correction protocol.
Hypothyroidism: Screening and Subclinical Disease article from British Medical Journal.
Thyroid Guide at About.com contains many links to references and discussion groups. Includes conventional and alternative views.
Endocrine Diseases: thyroid, parathyroid adrenal and diabetes. The Endocrine Web site, from a conventional slant.
The Hypoadrenocortical State and Its Management is a research article that provides much insite into adrenal functions and problems.
Adrenal Weakness discusses symptoms and treatments. Provided by Natural Ways To Health in the section on fatigue.
Adrenal Disease Therapy Protocol article from the The Life Extension Foundation.
HAI Bulletin 96 discusses Adrenal dysfunction. From the Hypoglycemia Association.
HAI Bulletin 96: Adrenal Dysfunction article.
Lyme disease can be a fundamental reason for Low Body Temperatures. See Lyme elsewhere on this page.
Gut Dysbiosis and Parasites have been identified as interfering with EPD. Some people think that intestinal problems may be related to low body temperature as well. It is beleived that gut problems (or "leaky gut" ) may allow undigested food proteins into the blood stream and thus the body fights these intruders and produces an allergic reaction. Here is some gut related info:
AFPA - American Fitness Professionals and Associates. Search for "leaky gut" and "permeability" to see more articles.
Use the Drugs/Chemicals references section above to look up the likes of: Nizoral, Sporanox, Nystatin, Doxycycline, Amphotericin, Bismuth, or other drugs.
Yeast/Candida Related Items:
Michael Biamontes' Center for Clinical Nutrition provides Candida info.
Lyme Disease: Not much is known about the interaction of Lyme disease and EPD. However, a few people failing EPD have later been found to have Lyme Disease. Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb)) has been named the "Great Imitator" in that it mimics the symptoms of a number of other diseases. Lyme may or may not include: a bullseye rash, flu symptoms, brain fog, arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, allergies, 28 day flare pattern, 1 year flare pattern, stiff neck, Bell's palsy, Lupus, Candidiasis, chronic Mononucleosis, Hypoglycemia, stress-related illness, headache, fever, long term low body temperatures, red ears or cheeks, clumsiness, short term memory loss. Babesiosis and Ehrlichiosis are often found to be co-infections with Lyme and are thought to be transmitted by similar means.
When to Suspect Lyme covers many signs and symptoms of the disease. The Cassia site also provides discussion alternatives to antibiotics as a treatment.
The Neuropsychiatric Assessment of Lyme Disease includes Neuropsychiatric Lyme Assessment form (which is incredible in the Excel download format if you can handle it). From the Lyme section of Mental Health and Illness.com.
LymeNet includes the latest Burrascano Treatment Guidelines which are very comprehensive. See also: The Neuropsychiatric Assessment of Lyme Borreliosis.
LymeNet is a large site of news, activist, and patient information. Included is a Lyme Discussion Forum.
IGeneX, Inc. is a lab that does a urine test named LUAT (as well as other tests) which can detect Lyme. Lyme test discussions and appropriate uses are included at the site.
Lyme Links has many useful topics.
Medscape. Also search the site for "Lyme".
Lyme Discussion Forums:
Usenet Newsgroup: sci.med.diseases.lyme. See also: LYME FAQ (dead? 03/21/2011) for the newsgroup.
Roxithromycin and Co-Trimoxazole treatment research in late stage Lyme.
Roxithromycin treatment research in late stage Lyme.
American Lyme Disease Foundation is against long term antibiotics and stays on the more traditional "need proof" side. Based on the work of "scientific advisers" and in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This will provide some contrast to many of the other links found here.
Babesiosis Fact Sheet as provided by New York state.
Grapefruit Seed Extract:
Uses of Standardized Grapefruit Extract. From Immune Web -- Support and Information Network, which is a resource site for various immune-system related ailments such as: chronic fatigue syndrome, candida, lupus, fibromyalgia, Epstein-Barr, multiple allergies, environmental illness, chemical sensitivity, etc., and the symptoms that result from any of the above, including learning disabilities, migraines, asthma, hypoglycemia, etc.
Grapefruit Seed Extract provides many links and research related info. Of course they want to sell it.
Ivermectin (generic name) and Ivomec (trade name) is a veterinary drug that has been used recently on humans to eradicate parasites.
Mercury, Metals, and Chelation Therapy:
My references are currently found in the Internet Resources Section of the EPD FAQ.
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