Excerpt from Dr. Maharaj’s Lecture On Immune System Dysfunction and Infections

I want to now move on to looking at immune system dysfunction or immune senescence and chronic infections. The story is about a 22-year-old young lady who had developed Cytomegalovirus infection and Lyme disease. She developed it when she was age ten. For ten years, she received treatment from about 50 doctors. This patient heard what I was doing and she was referred to me by her infectious diseases specialist. Her previous treatments included the standard antibiotics. When she came to see me, I measured her natural killer cells function. It was really low. It was about 3% [Normal is 16 – 39%]. And so over a period of time, we worked towards rebooting her immune system and we were able to get it back to 21%.

And the results we saw were improved memory, improved recall, improved retention, improved concentration, and increased energy. Why? Because prior to coming to see me, she had become frail. She had had to drop out of school, she couldn’t finish school. Whenever she tried to do any type of activity, she had to stop and rest.

She couldn’t exercise and her social life was severely compromised. So we saw an increase in natural killer function and a decrease in the inflammatory cytokines. And we also measured for any evidence of the infection, and we couldn’t find it. And again, the test we use is looking not for antibodies, but we measured the DNA, circulating DNA particles, and the genome sequencing of that.

She’s doing very well. The update is that she’s now engaged and she is going to be married next year and she’s working and leading a normal life. She kept saying to me, “you know, Dr. Maharaj, do I have to keep coming to see you?” So I said, “no, the goal is we get you better so you lead a normal life and then you don’t have to come back to see me”. And so far, I think we’ve been successful because I’ve been seeing her fewer and fewer times.

Excerpt from Dr. Maharaj’s Lecture On Immune System Dysfunction and Infections

Another patient I wanted to talk to you about was an 83-year-old lady who had recurrent infections. She came to see me because she had recurrent bladder infections and also she was getting recurrent sinus infections.

And this is someone who every year, she would go to a medical wellness program. And what they hadn’t picked up was that her white cell count was dropping.

The patient said to me “I looked at my labs and I looked at the white cell count and the doctor and I asked them, what’s wrong with this?” And she says, they said to me, “well, there’s nothing wrong with that. A low white blood count is accepted for your age”.

So when she came to see me, I said, “well, let’s look to see where your immune function is”. When we measured her natural killer cells function it was reduced at 3.45% [Normal is 16-39%]. So you would say, well, she has immune senescence. Yes, she did. And so we corrected it.

And here are some of the things she noticed after her treatment, improved recall, improved concentration, increased energy, increased strength, increased natural killer cell activity, decreased inflammatory cytokines, decreased urinary urgency, no recurrence of infections or symptoms, and she was able to sleep throughout the night.

It was also interesting that this happened to her just about the time when COVID-19 started. She was coming back to see me to follow up at three-month intervals. And so, we corrected her immune function. She went back up north, and then she came back three months later. I said to her, “well, let’s measure your immune system,” and it was fine. And then I said, “You know, let’s look at your immunity to COVID-19, we measured her antibodies”.

Sure enough, she had antibodies and she had not been vaccinated. She had had COVID-19 infection, wasn’t aware of it, had no symptoms, and had developed immunity.