Chapter 2:: What Is Balancing Life? - A Review (3b)

To continue with Jillian's deceit concerning proteins. I cant, at this point, continue to call it a mis- understanding as she has actively cherry-picks her source material and has taken her source material out of context. Jillian has intentionally altered the definitions or explanation of terms to suit her narrative.

BUT,,, bear in mind, up to this point, I have yet to determine how this (mis)information is relevant to her concoction or consuming said slop. I believe what we are seeing is a very desperate woman, who has invested 3½ years of her life attempting to defend her delusion.

Continuing,,,,

Jillian high-jacks a primer chart of the basic functions of proteins. (Her source:: https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/howgeneswork/protein). While she remains true to the information presented in said chart, she follows with this.

(Her source:: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/agglutination)

Let's break this down,,,

We have already demonstrated her notion of proteins, from earlier in the chapter, has been shown to be incorrect.

Simply put, DNA contains the information the cell requires to synthesize protein and to replicate itself. RNA, translates a gene's message into a protein's amino acid sequence.

What she then presents is a bastardization of what appears to be the Prion Hypothesis or Theory of Disease.

Take anything you learned about genetics in high school and throw it out the door. Incredibly, we may have to do so as we come to understand the prion theory of disease. Suggested to explain Mad Cow and other related diseases, prions are an earth-shaking idea, casting doubt on the status of DNA and RNA as the molecules of life. Not a bacteria, not a fungi, not a virus, but a protein, the prion is a novel infectious agent. The theory that a protein, a non-living object, can propagate disease has become a lightning-rod for controversy and has made the prion hypothesis one of the most hotly contested issues in molecular biology.

Bear in mind this is but a huge assumption on my part as Jillian removes so much context to what she presents. I highly doubt Jillian had prions in mind, although, if I remember correctly, I think she may have mentioned then in an older rambling.

Anywho,

CJD belongs to a family of human and animal diseases known as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases.  A prion—derived from “protein” and “infectious”—causes CJD in people and TSEs in animals.  Spongiform refers to the characteristic appearance of infected brains, which become filled with holes until they resemble sponges when examined under a microscope.  CJD is the most common of the known human TSEs.  Other human TSEs include kuru, fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS).  Kuru was identified in people of an isolated tribe who practiced ritual cannibalisms in Papua, New Guinea and has now almost disappeared.

It is also important to note that Jillian's notion should not be confused with amyloid diseases (accumulation of misfolded proteins) such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's .

(FYI::  the concept of an infectious protein, or prion, was highly controversial until 1982 when Stanley B. Prusiner was able to show that proteins can indeed be infectious. For this work, Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997.)

Agglutination is the clumping of particles. This occurs in biology in two main examples:

• The clumping of cells such as bacteria or red blood cells in the presence of an anti-body.

• When people are given blood transfusions of the wrong blood group, the antibodies react with the incorrectly transfused blood group and as a result, the erythrocytes clump up and stick together causing them to agglutinate.

Agglutination, due to its nature is a diagnostic tool. For example, it is commonly used as a method of identifying specific bacterial antigens, and in turn, the identity of such bacteria. Agglutination also plays an important role in typing blood.

Simply put, agglutination is useful in detecting antigen-antibody reactions. These interactions typically involve the binding of an antibody against an antigen and then further interactions between those antigen-antibody complexes with each other.

No where does it say in her source material, "antibodies agglutinate causing infection within the body." The antigen is what is causing the infections.  Jillian has no fucking clue what an antibody is or what its role in the body entails. Considering recent babbling by Jillian, I may have to do a post concerning her idiocy. It is so wrong, it is deadly.

Three recent posts concerning antibodies. Please note that without antibodies, our bodies have no means to fighting infection (ie CV-19) or foreign invaders. Without antibodies, vaccines would not work and there would be no such thing as herd immunity.

https://www.facebook.com/JillianEpp/10160377061107468

https://www.facebook.com/JillianEpperly/posts/10160377402572468

https://www.facebook.com/JillianEpperly/posts/10160377960482468

Regretfully, in some cases our own bodies will appear as foreign. And so you can have in certain instances where your own body will make antibodies against parts that are part of you. IOWs auto immune disorders.

Again, Jillian is taking a very specific issue,  auto-immunity,  and generalizing to the entire population.  Her citation, OTOH, is irrelevant as it does not support her statement.

Up next Jillian's take on viruses,,, oh, and BTW we are still in chapter 2.  Jillian's treatise on proteins, about one typed page (minus the diagrams).

 

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