Original Post: For people who have not read the "The Polio Paradox," there are two very important facts to understand about this nasty virus:

  • POLIOVIRUSES affected our WHOLE body. You might have had one limb paralyzed – or no paralysis or muscle weakness at all -- but had damage throughout your whole spinal cord.

  • POLIOVIRUSES always affected the bulbar part of our brain, therefore we all had bulbar polio.

It took me awhile to understand this. But once I did I was able to grasp what is happening with PPS.


Dr. Bruno’s Response: The bulbar part of the brain stem controls many automatic functions (e.g., swallowing, intestinal movement, blood pressure, heart rate).

Polio survivors having abnormalities with these functions are showing poliovirus-damage to the “bulb” of the brain.

Richard L. Bruno, HD, PhD

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