After being diagnosed with the deadly disease sarcoidosis, he felt as if his entire body was shutting down. But after several years on Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol this Australian geologist is feeling great and living life to the fullest. Meet Mirek Wozga.

When did you start to get sick? What happened?

In 2001, I woke up and went outside. For some reason I was extremely cold. Upon returning inside, I realized that I was running a low-grade fever. Several weeks later it was still there. Then, I started to have terrible night sweats, insomnia and severe gastrointestinal pain. I was exhausted and brain-fogged. Because my body was so burnt out, I began to lose weight – almost 15 kilos, dropping down to 65 kilos. Upon waking up every morning, I felt as if someone had beaten me up - literally, not a single muscle wasn’t aching. It was like I’d been to the gym the night before and completely pushed myself over the top. In reality, I lost the ability to exercise.

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There’s little doubt about it – the Th1 pathogens (L-form, biofilm and other metagenomic bacteria) generate inflammation, and the eye does not appear to be spared from the actions of these persistent pathogens.

In many people who suffer from eye disease, the pigmented middle of the three concentric layers that make up an eye becomes inflamed. This condition is referred to as uveitis. Other parts of the eye can also become inflamed, causing conditions such as scleritis – a disease that affects the white outer coating of the eye. These conditions are both included in the umbrella name ocular inflammatory disease.

Many cases of ocular inflammatory disease are associated with “autoimmune diseases” like Crohn’s disease and rheumatic arthritis, or with illnesses of “unknown cause” such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and sarcoidosis – all of which have been linked over the years and most recently by biomedical researcher Trevor Marshall to the Th1 pathogens. Thus, it comes as no surprise that these same cell wall deficient pathogens may also be responsible for causing the many ocular inflammatory diseases. It’s also logical that people who have acquired enough of the Th1 pathogens to develop one form of Th1 disease (and begin to suffer from decreased immune function) find that these same pathogens more easily infect other areas of the body, like the eye.

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Two years ago, biomedical Trevor Marshall attended the 2004 biennial International Congress on Autoimmunity in Budapest, where he presented the groundbreaking paper “Sarcoidosis succumbs to antibiotics - implications for autoimmune disease”

The conference will take place in Porto, Portugal.

This coming year he’ll be at the association’s next conference. But this time Marshall, who is also Adjunct Professor in the School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Murdoch University, will be running an entire session on “The Vitamin D Receptor, Vitamin D, and Immune Disease.”

“I will be chairing the session and making a presentation,” says Marshall. “Dr Greg Blaney will also be making a presentation. We will be putting an effort into getting as many of our colleagues as possible to submit papers for this scientific session.”

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This cyclist had to put away his bike in 2002 due to CFS. But today, this New York City resident, who has also conquered his depression, is psyched to be riding again thanks to Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol. Paul Albert will now take your questions.

What did you do for fun before you became acutely ill?

Starting in college, I rowed crew. I was not much of a technical rower, but I got pretty good at pulling the oar hard. Crew was just what I needed at the stage in my life.

When I graduated from school, I went on to do triathlons, which include swimming, biking, and running. One of the last biathlons (which is just running and biking) I did, I went from 30th place or so after the run to third place after the bike. It occurred to me then that I could be pretty good on the bike.

In 2001, I blew out my knee a second time, and that kind of sealed it: I would race my bike exclusively. I started to train in earnest, putting in as many miles as I could. My favorite event was the time trial. I was pretty good at putting in a consistent effort and staying just below my red line for a long period of time. One time, I got a lactate tolerance test (LTT) and my coach, who is now my friend, said that my LTT was the highest he’d ever seen. Yup, I’m really good at suffering.

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Four years ago, her eyesight and health were deteriorating. Then, after being diagnosed with sarcoidosis, this Belfast Ireland resident took action and started Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol. Today most of her symptoms are gone and she’s thrilled to have played a part in the treatment that’s revolutionizing medicine. Meet Julia Greer.

How were you diagnosed?

It would have been funny if it hadn’t been so serious.

For many months I’d had gradually worsening eye troubles - ripples of ‘light’, increasing floaters and cobwebs, a painful feeling of pressure, and sore tiredness. I had four courses of steroid drops that only gave temporary relief each time; then the uveitis would come back with a vengeance.

A baffled eye consultant passed me on to another one, and he in turn passed me on to a third. He was a tall, unsmiling Greek god, cold as marble. For weeks he carried out every test in his book, while I got steadily worse. I thought I was losing my sight.

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In 2003, this school teacher from Indiana was suffering from sarocoidosis, fibromyalgia, CFS, and myriad other symptoms. Today, thanks to Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol, she considers herself healthy and is traveling the world with her husband. Meet Carole Morgan.

What were you dealing with before starting the MP?

Before I found the MP, I was actually undergoing tests for cancer. I had originally visited the emergency room in December 2003 because my legs had become so swollen and painful that I could hardly walk. An abnormal chest x-ray revealed extremely swollen lymph nodes. My physician referred me to a pulmonologist who ordered more tests, including a CT scan for my bloated and painful stomach. He then referred me to an oncologist, feeling that I probably had cancer. More scans and tests were performed because they just weren’t sure what form of cancer I might be suffering from. First they thought it was lymphoma, then bone cancer, then finally lung cancer. While they were pondering a diagnosis, I started to do my own research on the Internet. Since the second possibility listed from the CT and PET scan reports was sarcoidosis (a disease that I had never before heard of), I started to research sarcoidosis on the web and found sarcinfo.com—a website created by Autoimmunity Research Foundation that was the predecessor to MarshallProtocol.com.

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She used to alarm others with her wheezing and now she can run up the stairs of her house and not even think about her breathing. In fact, this Texan is literally singing about how good she feels thanks to Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol. Shirley J. will now take your questions.

When were you diagnosed with sarcoidosis? How did you feel?

I was diagnosed in 2004. It was very scary to be told I had a disease that other doctors believed has no cure. My doctors told me that few people die from sarcoidosis (which is incorrect), but right around that time football player Reggie White died from sarcoidosis. I was very alarmed.

I started researching sarcoidosis on the internet and found myself at a support site. Marshall Protocol nurse moderator Meg Mangin was also a member of the site. She emailed me an overview of the treatment and also warned me not to take prednisone because it is a steroid that suppresses the activity of the immune system and allows L-form bacteria to spread more easily. Then, Belinda Fenter, another MP moderator helped me find an MP doctor (we both live in Texas).

I started reading the information on Sarcinfo.com – a site created by Autoimmunity Research Foundation that was a predecessor to MarshallProtocol.com. As I started to read and understand the science behind the Marshall Protocol, I knew that Dr. Marshall was onto something. It makes so much sense that Th1 illnesses are not genetic but due to the spread of bacteria, and that pulsing the antibiotics gives the body the opportunity to fight these pathogens. I started the MP in January of 2005.

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Greg Blaney, MD, graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1974. Following internship at Edmonton General he joined a Community Health clinic in Ottawa. From 1987 to 1990 he was a teaching assistant in the College of Osteopathy of the CME program at Michigan State University, having trained in both conventional and manual medicine during the first two decades of his career. He went on to also gain competence in Acupuncture and Homotoxicology, was a medical advisor to the LaLeche league, the Childbirth Education Association, the RCMP and the Bank of Canada. He lectured in the University of Ottawa’s Residency program, and its Masters program in nutrition. Dr Blaney is currently using Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol to save the lives of hundreds of patients with a wide variety of chronic inflammatory diseases.

How did you become aware of the Marshall Protocol (MP)?

Before learning about the Marshall Protocol my work had evolved into a chronic pain practice, where I focused on osteopathy and trigger point injections. Despite the fact that some people seemed to benefit somewhat from these therapies, I always had a certain group of patients with chronic symptoms that simply did not respond to anything I tried. I had one patient who was actually aggravated by most of these therapies and displayed multiple symptoms in different areas of her body that did not respond to treatment. At the same time, I was also treating a woman who had been diagnosed with Lyme disease ten years before becoming my patient, however her symptoms had gone into temporary remission. Although she had been told by another doctor that she was “cured”, when she was in a car accident, all of her Lyme symptoms returned. After being tested, she was once again positive for Lyme.

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She’s a Senior Principal Research Scientist and the Research Program Leader of Enzymology & Synthetic Biology for the Division of Entomology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, in Canberra, Australia. Despite her broad background in the biological sciences, and her PhD in immunology, she was unaware of the pathogens causing her son’s illness– that is until she learned about Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol. Dr. Robyn Russell will now take your questions….

When did Matt start to get sick? What happened?

Everything started in June 2004 when Matt was 12 years old. Matt started to have very painful headaches. It was in June that my husband and I first wrote one of Matt’s teachers a note saying that he wasn’t able to complete his homework because of his headache. We were concerned because a child his age should certainly not be suffering from debilitating headaches. We saw a doctor and he told us that Matt had a sinus infection. Over the next few months he was put on courses of high-dose antibiotics but the head symptoms would always return. Finally the doctor said, “I have no idea why Matt is not getting better.”

Robyn Russell and her son, Matt, who used the Marshall Protocol to recover from a variety of severe symptoms.

We were referred to an ear, nose and throat doctor but there was a three-month waiting list in order to see him. During the time we had to wait for the appointment Matt began to develop urinary tract infections as well, which is uncommon for a boy. We had a family vacation planned to Europe that was centered around a scientific conference that my husband and I were planning to attend. While on the trip, Matt continually woke up with a terrible headache. As the day wore on, we’d do everything in our power to distract him, saying “Look, the Louvre! The Mona Lisa!”, but Matt just wanted to go home and rest, and the distraction was a losing battle. During the trip Matt did find that swimming helped his headache.

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She’s a Marshall Protocol board moderator who has been with the treatment from the early days and has helped hundreds of patients down the road to recovery. Meet Belinda Fenter.

How did you first become involved with Dr. Marshall and the Marshall Protocol (MP)?

I actually met Dr. Marshall on the internet. At the time, I was undergoing testing for what was eventually diagnosed as sarcoidosis. I got online and started looking for information and treatment options. Dr. Marshall was posting online in a few forums. He seemed like the most knowledgeable person and he supported his ideas with scientific documentation. I had worked in a medical setting for several years and was researching sarcoidosis in the medical library. As far as I could tell, Dr. Marshall seemed to have the most comprehensive understanding of the disease and his views just seemed more plausible than any of the others.

I searched until I found Dr. Marshall’s email. I contacted him and we began collaborating. It wasn’t long before Dr. Marshall decided to start a new and unique website and asked me to join his efforts there. Dr. Marshall produced his model of disease pathogenesis, explaining that only undetected, persistent bacteria could provoke the granulomatous response (the formation of clumps of cells in the lungs) that is observed for no other obvious reason in sarcoidosis. Our work drew on the body of previous research by others, such as Alan Cantwell and Lida Mattman, who reported finding occult cell wall deficient bacteria in people with chronic diseases such as sarcoidosis.

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Many people who are chronically ill are given antibiotics. But are these medications working in the correct manner to kill the pathogens responsible for their disease? New molecular modeling research strongly suggests that the stealth pathogens responsible for causing a wide array of chronic diseases can only be killed if carefully chosen antibiotics are taken in a very specific manner.

In what is emerging as a new understanding of chronic disease, researchers are increasingly implicating what are often referred to as the Th1 pathogens in a wide array of illnesses previously considered to be of unknown cause or “autoimmune” in nature. “It is our contention that several diseases that are usually regarded as ‘autoimmune’ or ‘idiopathic’, including rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, sarcoidosis and psoriasis, are caused by infection with related slow-growing bacteria,” states G.A.W. Rook in the journal Immunology Today.

The Th1 pathogens are hypothesized to be an intraphagocytic, metagenomic microbiota of bacteria, meaning that they are able to persist inside the cells of the immune system as well as group into colonies called biofilms. The bacteria inside a biofilm produce a protective matrix that allows them to more effectively evade the immune system and develop resistance to antibiotics administered in a standard manner. Essentially, high-dose antibiotics fail to eliminate all the cells that form a biofilm, leaving what are referred to as persister cells behind. The persister cells are eventually able to re-create the biofilm, allowing it to thrive again. There is a tremendous number of different species of these chronic pathogens.

Many of the bacteria that compose this microbiota are in what is referred to as the L-form. For over a century, scientists have realized that classical bacteria can transform into small forms that lack cell walls. These pathogens are known as L-form bacteria. Researchers have currently identified over 50 different species of bacteria capable of transforming into the L-form, and it is likely many other bacteria also have this ability. Brown et al have found evidence of L-form bacteria in the blood of more than 60% of healthy controls. In fact, the diseases generated by L-form bacteria are far more common than currently realized, and are often only noticed as subtle signs of aging, such as osteoporosis, obesity, fatigue and arthritis.

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By 2003 she had physically hit rock bottom and was completely unable to maintain her farm. Now, thanks to Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol, she has the energy she had in college. Sue Andorn will now take your questions.

1. How long have you been on the Marshall Protocol (MP)?

I started my 4th year on the Marshall Protocol in June 2007.

2. Tell me about your symptoms before you started the Marshall Protocol? How did you get sick?

When I was a child I was quite healthy. I walked four miles to get to school and had perfect attendance. My first sign of illness occurred in college when I got a polynidal cyst on my tailbone. It burst internally before it could be removed. I now know that it was probably filled with bacteria that subsequently drained throughout my body. I graduated from college with a degree in microbiology and proceeded to work at Sterling Drug Company, where our team began doing research on a measles vaccine. Because we were working with germs, I had to get an Asian Flu vaccine. Within minutes of receiving the injection I went into anaphalactic shock. Six months later I got extremely ill with the flu despite the vaccine. Knowing what I know now, it was a vaccine contaminated with L-form bacteria. I never really recovered. That was the start of a downhill slide that lasted 50 years.

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Two years ago he was bedridden with severe body and joint pain. Now he’s back at work and feels better than he has in years. Join Ival Meyer as he talks about his experience thus far on Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol.

1. What were your symptoms like before starting the Marshall Protocol (MP)?

As I got sick, the first symptoms I felt were confusion, fatigue, and a terrible flu-like feeling. After a while I thought that maybe I’d had a stroke. Of course my doctor told me to take Prozac. Well, I knew I wasn’t crazy and sure enough after about another year my joints started to hurt as well. That is when my doctor diagnosed me with rheumatoid arthritis. Next thing I knew, my rheumatoid arthritis pain started to get very bad. I had a great deal of pain in my hands and feet. The ligaments were so stiff that my toes started to turn and bend out of shape. My hands were getting very close to doing the same thing right when I found the MP. I’ve also had severe upper and lower back pain my whole life. When I was in high school I had to quit sports because of the back pain.

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He’s a 43 year-old from Hamilton, New Zealand. First diagnosed with the lung disease sarcoidosis in 2002, he started Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol in October 2003. Guss Wilkinson will now take your questions.

1. What kind of condition were you in before starting the Marshall Protocol?

I was pretty miserable. I couldn’t take more than five steps at a time before stopping to gasp for breath. Then I had a slew of other symptoms. I was just 8-years old when I started to be plagued by psoriasis (a skin disease) and mild arthritis. Then, in the eighties I developed kidney stones and started to have frequent night sweats. I began to have terrible problems with insomnia. Around 2000 I began to experience short-term memory loss and concentration problems.

2. How did those memory and concentration problems affect your ability to work?

It was embarrassing. My boss came up to me one day and said, “Have you finished your report”? I thought to myself, “What report”!? I had absolutely no memory of my boss having asked me to write the report. But then, what was even more offsetting was that when I checked my files I realized that I had written the report, I just had no memory of writing it. I also had big problems remembering names and often confused simple terminology when I was writing.
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